What is LoudTwitter?

Maybe I should have started by that, indeed.

So, you probably know about twitter, with all that recent buzz, maybe you even have one account there, and you give updates about «what you are doing» to a bunch of friends.

If you also have a blog, LoudTwitter is the bridge that posts to your blog your daily tweets. That way you can keep up to date a broader audience (broader because not everybody wants to follow you on twitter or because your mom don't grok twitter -- you're thankful enough she knows about your blog). Your blog will take care about the archiving of your tweets along with your other posts (which give more context).

After all, if you have a blog and a twitter, your blog is probably the core place where you want to be found, tracked, or whatever! LoudTwitter reconcile your twittering with your blogging. Hourrah!

Comments

[Kim Woodbridge]

How does this work with self-hosted WordPress? Does it send all your daily tweets as one digest post that is automatically published? Can you select the category that the post goes to? I would like to use this but want to exclude the post from appearing on my front page and could best do this through categories. I was using the Twitter Tools plugin to do this but that suddenly stopped working and I haven't figured out why.

Great idea - thanks!

Kim

[Tim S]

"Don't use it properly"?

Oh, bollocks. There is one way to use it: have LT post to your journal. You can't have it post only "good" or "meaningful" entries, you can't stop the posts, you can't put them under LJ-cuts, and you can't change the frequency to "weekly" or "monthly".

So, please: tell me what etiquette should be forced upon the unwashed masses that would make using LoudTwitter not a waste of everyone else's time?

Ultimately, it comes down to choice, and LoudTwitter doesn't give anyone else any choice except unfriending people, thus adding drama to what is already a drama-laden medium.

Thanks, LoudTwitter!

[Loudtwitter]

@tims:
> "Don't use it properly"? Oh, bollocks. There is one way to use it: have LT post to your journal. You can't > have it post only "good" or "meaningful" entries

If you tweet meaningless it will be posted that way. You can exclude @replies though.

> you can't stop the posts

don't read them?

> you can't put them under LJ-cuts,

Yes you can.

> and you can't change the frequency to "weekly" or "monthly".

Indeed.

[Tim S]

> don't read them?

Spoken like someone who doesn't understand LiveJournal at all, and thinks it's simply a blog platform.

Unsurprising, really.

[Loudtwitter]

@Tim S:
"Spoken like someone who doesn't understand LiveJournal at all, and thinks it's simply a blog platform."

I doubt you know who you are talking to

[Tim S]

Someone who thinks that spamming outside comment into LiveJournal friends feeds is easily ignored clearly doesn't understand the LJ community.

So you could be Jameth for all I care, you're directly harming LJ with LoudTwitter, not to mention giving Twitter a bad name.

[YipCoyote]

I figure I'd share this writeup I did. LiveJournal's Atom feed wasn't accepting the security tag, but the post-by-email feed appears to work. Here's how I got LoudTwitter to feed into a filtered LJ group (and saved my LJ friends):
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Under LiveJournal:
You must have a Paid/Plus/Permanent account.

http://www.livejournal.com/manage/emailpost.bml
Set up post-by-email and select a PIN:
Add noreply@loudtwitter.com as an allowed address
Select a PIN code - this is separate from your LJ password
-- if you are ONLY email posting from Twitter, you can set your default userpic and security here. More info on post-by-email here.

http://www.livejournal.com/friends/editgroups.bml
Create a custom friend group (for example "twittergroup"), add everyone, then delete anyone who wants to opt-out. Save this group.
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Under LoudTwitter: (assuming you already have an account set up. I was too lazy to write up an entire how-to-set-up LoudTwitter procedure)

http://www.loudtwitter.com/user/email
Set up Email recipient:
yourljusername+PIN@post.livejournal.com
if your LJ username has underscores, use dashes.

http://www.loudtwitter.com/user/prefs
under "text to add at the beginning of the post" add this line to the very top:
lj-security: twittergroup
(use the name of the LJ filter, or "friends" or "private")
After this line you can put your cut tag or what-not.

Set shipment preference to email.
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PS. Thanks for making LoudTwitter! a weekly LoudTwitter dump option would be nifty.

[Jen]

It would be fantastic if there were a weekly option for loudtwitter posts. Daily is too much for me and my sporadic posting/twitting.

[Casey]

I would ADORE a weekly/biweekly/monthly set of options. Daily is too much and too spammy for my tastes.

[Richard Burckhardt]

Same here. I don't want daily posts. I'd like to see a weekly option.

[Kirt Dankmyer]

Ditto. I'd rather not spam my LJ friends daily, but a weekly update might be nice, no matter how long.

[irfon]

Seriously, I have to agree with the detractors. LoudTwitter is easily one of the most obnoxious applications I've ever seen.

However, one feature could improve it a lot. Maybe it's even possible already. But could you PLEASE both make an option to disable @ messages from the reposting to LJ, and make that turned on by default?

I mean seriously, seeing people's twits posted to livejournal is obnoxious enough (if we wanted to see them, we could sign up for Twitter -- oh wait, I *am* signed up for Twitter, so now I just have to see them all twice), but to see half a conversation posted to someone's LJ? To see posts that are nothing but "@someonewedontknow Yes, I agree." It's ridiculous.

I mean, just the fact that the best name you could come up with was, "LoudTwitter" should have told you this service was obnoxious -- it's like bringing a megaphone to a party and insisting on using it all the time -- but that feature could at least filter out a good deal of the completely indecipherable crap.

[clcradio]

Yep. You really need to make it so that we have a choice of "Just my tweets", "Add friends tweets", "Add followers tweets", and finally - and most hated - "Add Public tweets"; choices that we can change whenever we feel the need. Also, you should be aware: twitter has a real problem right now with spammers, so the choice opportunities for Loudtwitter I am suggesting seem very warranted to us. You will lalso need to fix the API to allow more than one 'shipment' method AND to allow better cancel control for Loudtwitter out of LJ, et al.