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By: Owen

Owen — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:42:00 +0000

I recognised the problem caused by the sheer number of music tweets I generate some time ago – they would totally swamp my other tweets on most days when I’m at home (@clocsen).My solution is to have a separate twitter account which streams my music listening for anyone who cares to watch (@clocsen_fm). It does get some subscribers, but I don’t analyse them so can’t say whether they’re would-be spammers or so.Having said that, I’m not totally sure what benefit it gives anyone by doing this in twitter. On balance, I would prefer people who are interested to follow my listening habits on my chosen music service last.fm (http://www.last.fm/user/clocsen) or its rss feed. We can also become friends there.I still tweet commentary on particular music items in my main account.

By: Sheamus

Sheamus — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:38:00 +0000

I agree that Blip.fm tweets, if overused, can feel like spam. I wrote an article about it a while back, and stopped doing it myself because I didn’t like it from others. It’s at its worse on a Friday or Saturday night, when three-sheets-under-the-wind folks often do nothing but tweet song-after-song-after-song. Although it takes two seconds to filter out these tweets in TweetDeck, it’s still pretty irritating.As for the spammers/marketers/self-promoters, I agree to a point, although virtually everybody on Twitter is promoting something. I share an enormous amount of great content but also link to my own new pieces once a day, too. That’s pretty common for every blogger on the network. Everybody has something to sell on the internet, even if it’s only themselves. As long as that’s not all you do (as per your guy above), then it’s fine.Two other kinds of folk on Twitter who seem to get an enormous amount of followers are those who tweet nothing but ‘motivational’ quotes, and those who tweet nothing but stuff like ‘Today is the greatest day of your life! Seize the opportunity!’ and that kind of meaningless crap. But as said thousands seem to love this stuff. It defies logic. I guess the only explanation is as Twitter matures and grows it will increasingly reflect ‘real world’ society, much like the internet itself, and therefore be as chock-full of the mentals and delusional as anywhere else.Incidentally, according to Twanalyst I’m a spammer AND a celebrity. http://twanalyst.com/status.php?search=SheamusWhich probably says all you need to know about the accuracy of their algorithm.

By: Assaf

Assaf — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:54:00 +0000

Unfortunately, the “don’t read” argument doesn’t work. How do you know which tweets to not read, without reading them? In a medium like Twitter, the title is the content, skimming is reading.When I skim through five tweets in a row, each one starting with song name, ending with note symbol and blip.fm link, I process it as machine generated spam. Blame it on years of doing e-mail in the pre-gmail days If I actually took the time to read these tweets, they’re all personalized commentary, they’re ham not spam. It’s just that skimming through them triggers my spam reflex.I follow other people who tweet about music/bands/shows, that I don’t care for, but don’t have a problem skimming past. So I think it’s the format, not the interest.

By: Kent

Kent — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:51:00 +0000

Yes, I stay on my home page. My policy generally is to follow anyone who isn’t an obvious spammer who follows me, and then weed out from there. So my feed is probably not as clean as yours.About the music. You know I respect your opinion, so I’ll think about it.Here’s my question, though. If you enjoy a lot of different stuff (let’s say for an easy example, 70% techy stuff and 30% music), there’s no current way to avoid sharing the 30% with those who are only interested in the 70% and vice versa.There are a lot of things in my feed- even from my friends- that don’t really interest me. I just ignore that stuff, and it rolls off the page pretty quickly.It seems impossible to find a group of people who closely mirror all of your interests, so it seems that some amount of static is unavoidable.Do you see it differently?

By: Assaf

Assaf — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:25:00 +0000

If you enable auto login, then every time you visit twitter.com, it will redirect you to http://twitter.com/home. Home is what you make of it. Mine is full of friends, fellow geeks, interesting people and a couple news sources.Twitter is not TV, you’re not forced to a few channels. It’s not school, you get to choose who you hang out with. It’s not LinkedIn, you don’t have to follow your coworkers. It’s exactly what you decide you want to read. The only people in your timeline are the ones you invited into your timeline.And yes, blip.fm tweets feel like spam. One person’s spam is another person’s ham, I’m not surprised other people like it, I’m just not that into discovering new music. Comparing them to MLM is strawman, and I’m quite surprised you went there.There is zero MLM in my timeline. There are no get rick quick or persistent linkers or content-free posters for that matter (though, a few of these follow me). So in my timeline, these blip.fm tweets stand out.For now, they’re balanced by the quality links that I do enjoy reading.