Comments on: Live-blogging, Live-Tweeting or What?

By: Deana Goldasich

Deana Goldasich — Tue, 04 May 2010 02:04:37 +0000

Ugh… I always worry about “spamming” followers when I’m on TweetChats. I wish there was a way to LIMIT tweets to ONLY be “seen” the by those viewing hashtag! That would make live Tweeting so much more tolerable — for everyone!

By: PXLated

PXLated — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:15:46 +0000

I have an old friend (@graemeThickins on Twitter) that’s been tweeting events for a couple of year – I turn him off when he’s doing it – even live blogging – I’d much rather have his & your “studied” opinion in a blog post summary/review than a live blow-by-blow.

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Tue, 04 May 2010 00:18:34 +0000

Sounds complicated, Dan — but I like the general approach.

I suspect Twitter and third-party developers will, over time, make this much better for all users.

By: Dan Bricklin

Dan Bricklin — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:07:14 +0000

Dan, why don’t you live tweet, if you do, using another Twitter account that we shouldn’t follow (or that you create and then delete), and tweet that people can temporarily follow you there. In any case, the hash tag will ensure that it gets added to the tweet-flow. Also, in any case, you should be saving your observations into a blog post of some sort, either at the same time (cut and paste into another window?) or after the fact (by copy/pasting your tweets to that account). Does that work?

By: sure is hard to post a comment up in here

sure is hard to post a comment up in here — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:00:38 +0000

I find it really embarrassing when adults use the term “tweet.” Twitter is a micro-blogging platform and, as such, you post to it, same as any blog. If people are going to insist on this baby talk we should start calling blog posts like this “bleats.”

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:38:20 +0000

Clearly a good feature for a third-party developer to add to a Twitter client.

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:37:38 +0000

Ah, will do- thanks.

By: Adam Gaffin

Adam Gaffin — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:33:58 +0000

I’ve livetweeted several hearings and candidates’ nights, then used that as notes to build a blog post.

Some folks really appreciate it, but others hate it with the blinding fury of 10,000 suns. So I’ve set up a separate account just for livetweeting and will use hashtags for “threading” it all. Then I’ll let followers of my regular account know where to find me and those that really want to drink from the firehose will be able to.

By: kpc@minnpost.com

kpc@minnpost.com — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:08:54 +0000

Good post. Agree with your conclusions re: live blogging instead. However, sometimes, live tweeting just… happens and isn’t as planned out. Which is good when there is some really good stuff to share. I follow you and I didn’t mine your live-tweeting. Some of it was interesting.

In regards to the unfollowing someone who is live-tweeting… I’d like to see a “Mute” or “Pause” button on someone’s profile so their tweets stop showing up in my timeline for (maybe) 24 hours. Then after that (and, after the convention) their tweets are back. This would be helpful during twitter-fights, too.

By: Steve Wildstrom

Steve Wildstrom — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:08:40 +0000

I know that Harry McCracken has used CoverItLive to feed WordPress-based Technologizer. He probably knows more about it than most., You might check with him.