You got your twitter in my google! You got your google in my twitter!

[thistlechaser]

I have an unending, and somewhat irrational, hatred of Twitter. If you like it, if you use it, that's 100% fine and dandy with me... I'd just rather not have to get involved with it.

So imagine my surprise when I googled something and the third result was a "live feed" from Twitter. A little window in the middle of my results with tweets updating in it.

BLAH! GAH! BLECH! Go away!

*googles (ironically enough)* Apparently this isn't new, funny this is my first time coming across it. I use Google endlessly.

Comments

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

I've somewhat fallen off the face of Twitter and LJ lately, because I live a boring life anymore. Though I'm considering making a new parody attempt on my LJ coming soon...

I've kinda been in the Facebook thing though. I have nothing to say short enough for Twitter, but nothing long enough for LJ. XD

[teslanomaly]

Oh, thank God! I'm glad I'm not the only one who's irrationally irritated by Twitter! Even the name drives me crazy. To me, it seems to imply mindless chattering - or talking just to fill up the silence. Marketing fail?

I don't rag on it much, because I don't want to upset friends who love it. I have been that person who loves Facebook and is in a room with a bunch of people irrationally badmouthing it, and it's a lousy feeling.

So for any Twitterers reading this comment, please know I don't mean this as a personal judgment on YOU. But, to share with you, Thistle: I really dislike it when Twitter feeds pop up on my LJ lists or when they get posted on Facebook status messages. (My newest irritation is that Twitter has now been optionally added to the Google Buzz feeds.)

I wish there were a way I could block Twitter messages from these venues, but so far while the sites offer an option for Twitterers to *display* posts, there seems to be no option for non-Twitterers to *omit* posts. I now have to scroll through a dozen messages that mean nothing personally: '@Thistle LOL THAT WAS GREAT' or -- I don't even know what the pound signs mean, but the point is, it's information that is often personally directed in reply to someone else. A text-message would really spare me scanning those lines!

I would politely ask that all Twitter users consider not cross-posting to Facebook, LJ, Buzz, etc - those of us who don't want to be tweety would really appreciate it!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Ya I saw this once a couple days ago, I was highly confused because it was a google on just a simple word that I was looking for some information on so I was using google to get to the wiki page and it had the twitter feed and I couldn't help but try and figure out wtf the point of it was.

@Twitter GO AWAY!

I have issues with a bunch of social networking sites as well but that's just because I'm an old man trapped in a 20 year olds body. Damn kids and their baggy pants! Get off my interwebs!