Ages ago I created a Twitter account to get some free app. I figured some nobody was following me I didn't have to feel like a guilty spammer. For some odd obsession to honesty probably I did use my proper name and sooner or later people started following me despite me having only put out a single spam message. So on very few occasions I tried out tweeting (still feels weird using that word) since then, obviously I have never used it to get a free app again by spamming. Anyways I have now decided that for small blurps about technical stuff I will from now on use Twitter, thereby sparing my Facebook friends from such gibberish. In turn my developer friends on Facebook that do not care about what I have to say about Frisbee, DJing or politics can start removing me from Facebook. Actually I might just do this myself, because its FUCKING ANNOYING that so many people multi spam their status messages to Twitter and Facebook.
Anyways the choice for how to split things up was obvious seeing that the bulk of my friends on Facebook are not developers and the bulk of my friends/followers on Twitter are developers. I guess this is my way of fishing for some more Twitter followers so that I have a decent audience to communicate with, since right now I still have more developer connections on Facebook than on Twitter. You can expect to see some random PHP, MySQL, Solr etc. tidbits to start appearing on my Twitter account from now on like ZF wtf's or a reminder that we now have a replacement for @fopen hacks in our autoloaders.
By the way, the account name "dybvandal" originates from my QuakeWorld gaming days. My friends actually just got active again playing as Clan Dybbuk. My nick was Vandal inspired by a character in a pen and paper adventure, Shadowrun to be exact. Vandal was the name of a timid elf and I just thought it was a funny combination "timid" and "vandal". Heh, that website runs on some ancient code, that is probably quite embarrassing if I would read it. Definitely before I started using mod_rewrite to create nice URLs.
I hate what you call 'multi spam'. Also what bugs him is when people use FB as a Twitter client. As it always links back to FB for no reason.
It may be effing annoying (I do it) but those of us actually doing this use Facebook pretty loosely. I rarely login to FB if I can help it (I'm borderline just removing it) but there are people who will only respond/interact over FB and don't use Twitter.
Sorry for the spam in those cases ;)
Well I have long said that the next big thing is going to be meta social networks that give you an aggregated view of duplicate content from various social networks. Meaning it will aggregate also the comments, hide differences (like facebook has wall posts, direct comments and the like button, facebook has the @ messages and retweets) and will let you choose where to send your answers and where to view the original content etc.
I do the same thing. And use the facebook app "selective twitter" to automagically add certain tweets to facebook (by appending #fb or a custom string to tweets). Rarely, but sometimes it's good to do.
P.S. Web 2.0 communication sucks. Wish things like threadsy and friendfeed were better. One day ....
I think ur point of view is right. Even I've noticed a lot of discussion on solr, php on facebook. But I still feel that if a product is genuine it's worthwhile giving it a try. Recently I've noticed Solr contributing it's bit in the technological world. I came across it's complete reference guide at http://www.lucidimagination.com/Downloads/LucidWorks-for-Solr/Reference-Guide
Lol...
To each his own. Facebook is the no. 1 site overall but Twitter does serves its purpose and is doing good too.
Cheers, Lagone, fr. - silver coins
