Dear Twitter Chat Participants
Dear Twitter Chat Participants,
First, I want to say that I admire the engagement you produce on Twitter. You develop a conversation and exchange thoughts with people you probably would have never had contact with in real life. Kudos to that.
However, I do not want to see the million tweets regarding chats. They take up my whole feed and it becomes overwhelming. The thought of unfollowing crosses my mind.
There is a simple antidote to remedy this situation–put @[insert chat name] in front of every tweet. Why will this make things better? Well, the only people who will see that tweet will be those who follow the chat’s handle AKA the people interested in the conversation in the first place. Since you also put the hashtag in the tweet too, nothing will change with those participating (if they do not follow the handle).
Have some tweespect for the rest of the Twitter community; excessive tweeting is never good.
Hope you take this advice and I welcome anyone’s critique of my tweeting.
Thanks and happy tweeting!
@danchiz
Jan 20, 2011 @ 15:32:37
HALLE-freakin-LUJAH!
Jan 20, 2011 @ 17:41:28
Dan, I totally hear your concern.
However, a core function to the way chats attract new people and grow is the fact that chats are extremely public. What you’re suggesting is that Twitter chats take place essentially in an private chatroom. But that raises the question as to why these chats don’t take place in private chatrooms in the first place. Here’s why: If Twitter chats don’t take place in the public sphere, they can’t attract new and interested users. Only the people who know where the chatroom is, or in your case already follow @[chatname] will take part in the chat.
That said, whenever people tell me I tweet too much, I just tell them I don’t take offense if they unfollow me. And I truly don’t. People use Twitter in a million different ways, and if you don’t want to use it the same way I do, that’s fine with me.
Jan 26, 2011 @ 22:18:23
Twitter chats are the stupidest things invented. If you cared so much, you would in fact go and find a chatroom or place to discuss. If you can’t find it, you obviously aren’t that skilled. Or the chat is poorly marketed to the public. It’s an awareness or stupidity problem.