Comments on: Missing out on Twitter conversations – is the network straining at the limits? http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/445/missing-out-on-twitter-conversations-is-the-network-straining-at-the-limits/ Social web & social media, consultancy, training and advice from a flâneur of the internets. Blogger, writer, broadcaster and runner of Birmingham: It's Not Shit. I also do the odd bit of art. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Twitter Replies - jon bounds http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/445/missing-out-on-twitter-conversations-is-the-network-straining-at-the-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-1083 Twitter Replies - jon bounds Wed, 13 May 2009 11:30:32 +0000 http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/?p=445#comment-1083 [...] A good while ago I wrote a long post about problems with the Twitter @reply system — Twitter it seems have been trying to fix this, but causing problems (see #fixreplies). I may humbly suggest that the now updated post is worth a read. [...] [...] A good while ago I wrote a long post about problems with the Twitter @reply system — Twitter it seems have been trying to fix this, but causing problems (see #fixreplies). I may humbly suggest that the now updated post is worth a read. [...]

]]> By: Steve Withers http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/445/missing-out-on-twitter-conversations-is-the-network-straining-at-the-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-789 Steve Withers Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:42:36 +0000 http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/?p=445#comment-789 I've found I miss most of the messages from people I follow if hey aren't also following me. For example, I follow "PhillyD". He has over 15,000 followers, but he only follows about 150 people.....I suspect this is why I have to go to his timeline and LOOK, rather than seeing his tweets in my own stream. But it is annoying. I only get tweets from 5 sources, despite following 40. These 5 are those who followed me in reply. That's annoying. Enough to make me drop the whole thing. Too hard to use and the results aren't what I had been lead to expect. What's the point of "following" if you aren't actually following? I’ve found I miss most of the messages from people I follow if hey aren’t also following me. For example, I follow “PhillyD”. He has over 15,000 followers, but he only follows about 150 people…..I suspect this is why I have to go to his timeline and LOOK, rather than seeing his tweets in my own stream. But it is annoying. I only get tweets from 5 sources, despite following 40. These 5 are those who followed me in reply.

That’s annoying. Enough to make me drop the whole thing. Too hard to use and the results aren’t what I had been lead to expect. What’s the point of “following” if you aren’t actually following?

]]> By: Jon Bounds http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/445/missing-out-on-twitter-conversations-is-the-network-straining-at-the-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-689 Jon Bounds Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:29:33 +0000 http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/?p=445#comment-689 Threaded replies aren't quite the same thing as conversations, twitter's great strength is it's ambiency - having to subscribe to to take notice of "comments" to previous thread wouldn't sit right for me. Threaded replies aren’t quite the same thing as conversations, twitter’s great strength is it’s ambiency – having to subscribe to to take notice of “comments” to previous thread wouldn’t sit right for me.

]]> By: si http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/445/missing-out-on-twitter-conversations-is-the-network-straining-at-the-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-687 si Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:36:56 +0000 http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/?p=445#comment-687 The approach that Jaiku originally adopted and Facebook now also takes seems to work: proper post replies. If Twitter really is micro-blogging it ought to support micro-commenting. The approach that Jaiku originally adopted and Facebook now also takes seems to work: proper post replies.

If Twitter really is micro-blogging it ought to support micro-commenting.

]]> By: lwarren17 (lwarren17) http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/445/missing-out-on-twitter-conversations-is-the-network-straining-at-the-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-1082 lwarren17 (lwarren17) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59:59 +0000 http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/?p=445#comment-1082 Good post RT <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/bounder">@bounder</a>: Maybe twitter are tying to fix the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/replies">@replies</a> gaps thing I went on about// (http://is.gd/6HYH) thing in stages Good post RT @bounder: Maybe twitter are tying to fix the @replies gaps thing I went on about// (http://is.gd/6HYH) thing in stages

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