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Twitter Love Day - A Proposal « Mediaphyter - A Communications Cocktail — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:56:09 +0000

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By: Hieronymus

Hieronymus — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:01:24 +0000

Another feature I’d love to see in Twitter is for those of us who actually view all @replies, to be able to hide those @replies to people we not only don’t follow but have their profile hidden. I like to see all @replies because I find other interesting people based upon the replies of the interesting people I follow, but if their profile is hidden, don’t bother me with it.

By: Michael Beck

Michael Beck — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:24:34 +0000

“Twit-Out” is doomed for epic failure because the participation is so weak. A few “top names” will be boycotting Twitter and moving their conversation to FriendFeed, creating what will only be described as a random mish-mosh of staggered comments.
I see a website was put together, http://www.twit-out.com, and the response was so overwhelming that as of the time I wrote this, 48 people took the time to vote. Of those 48, a mind-blowing 13 people said they’d participate. My word, Twitter will have no choice but to listen to the “masses” then.
May 21st will be like any other day on Twitter to me, with the added bonus that some of my traffic may fill a void in the “noise” when some of the “A-Listers” move aside for the day.

By: ggjeffy

ggjeffy — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:08:21 +0000

‘Twitter Love Day’ would not be the opposite of the ‘Twit-out day’ proposed by some Tweeters.
The opposite of ‘Twitter Love Day’ would be something more akin to apathy.
That is, people not caring enough to speak out and simply silently moving on.

Twit-out-ers will not be turning their backs on Twitter at all.
People who participate in the ‘Twit-out’ will actually be more intently focused on Twitter.com Wednesday than they would be normally.

It will take more passion and energy for them NOT to Tweet than to Tweet as they “naturally” would.

Withdrawal is an intense thing.
I hope the 24 hrs. pass quickly for them.

By: Shey

Shey — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:45:26 +0000

Hey Jennifer,

I think Twitter Love Day is a great idea, and can be just as effective as Twit-Out.

In regards to power users and Twit-Out, I meant that the Power Users where the ones most likely to be involved since they would notice the outages the most and have the most “at stake”.

That being said, I can appreciate a different approach. I think I’ll end up participating in both Twit-Out and Twitter Love Day by generating discussion on FriendFeed in regards to possible solutions for Twitter; I’ll definitely bring up Shannon’s open-source idea. Feel free to join us :)

I think that most people on the boycott side were too busy talking about the boycott itself that we didn’t discuss the fact we actually wanted to generate new ideas.

I appreciate your regard and look forward to reading more of your ideas.