I also like sharing links and stuff on Twitter, and having my Twitter posts (but not replies) transfer to both my Facebook status and as daily digests.
I like reading others Twitter digests, ported through LoudTwitter, on my friends list. I personally dislike it when they're cut, as it stops me doing a quick scan and I'm not likely to open the cut text up as it takes too long. If I don't want to read, I can scroll past.
Given that I like having LoudTwitter posts on my friends page, I've added some code to my journal to make them look a lot better than the default. This is Good.
But I also know that some people, poor misunderstanding types that they are, dislike seeing Twitter posts, completely. Given that some people seem to insist on crossposting all their Tweets, including their halves of ongoing conversations that make little sense, I can understand this, but it's better to just get such people to turn off the option of importing replies, as
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redatt explains.But, for those of you that really don't want to read Loudtwitter posts on their friends page, and for those of you that want to enhance the Loudtwitter posts that appear on theirs, I thought I'd share some code.
My enhancement code:
And some removal code if you really want it:
Note, I coded it in twenty seconds, it's a simple CSS trick, it only removes the list of tweets, not the whole post, and it was really easy.
To use either, all you need to do is go to CustomCSS on LJ or DW and copy/paste it in
http://www.livejournal.com/customize/op
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/opt
For those of you that have got into the habit of cutting your tweet imports because some friends wanted it? If they don't want to see them, link them here. Because I'd much rather see them, and helping everyone make their tweets look pretty makes sense to me. Anyone that wants the colours changed to suit their background, feel free to comment.
ETA: As this is getting linked to all over the place (still), if you're coming here froma link, you might also like [LJ/DW] Making profile icons look cool in your layout which explains how to replace the LJ userimage with an icon of your choice.
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Love, C.
Edited at 2009-02-02 03:53 am (UTC)
I still prefer it for small thoughts and similar, and it's either tweets or nothing a lot of the time at the moment—the current fuss over Twitter as a site of itself bemuses me, I prefer it as an app that interacts with other sites first and foremost.
You could probably also use friend list filtering on Loudtwitter posts if certain people didn't want to read them, but that would have to be effort on the part of the twittererer and not the other way round.
If people don't want to read, then the page down button is their friend. If they don't want tweets on their friends page, then they can get rid of them easily. I chose what I read, and I choose who can read what I write.
If it's something some people might find triggery or offensive, I try to cut it, that's then their choice, not mine.
I've found that while you can turn off replies to other people in Loudtwitter, it still posts tweets if you were the one to start the conversation with them. It would be better if there was the option not to show any tweets that began with the '@' symbol.
One I hate, hence I prefer it if people don't want to see tweets they can turn them off. I like just scrolling past friends posts scanning for stuff I missed or links I didn't follow, if it's behind a cut I never bother opening it.
I'm afraid I'm not of the class of people who feels reading Twitter on LJ is a Good Thing, but good luck with convincing people!
I hate Twitter!
But, then...I said that about Myspace and Facebook as well a few years ago. Now I have accounts on both and I am addicted to myspace apps and facebook chat.
I am bombarded constantly with needless/useless bits of information 24/7 and for this reason I need to scale back and stop adding new stuff, like twitter.
To the OP;
Does your loudtwitter removal code work with the "original" LJ styles?
If I remember correctly, one can't edit css on the original S1 styles, only on S2 or later...
I followed a link here from my friend
As it happens, since writing this I've stopped porting my tweets publicly as I've started using the sites differently, I really like Twitter as an essentially public chatroom for when I'm online, but don't really like to 'catch up' on stuff that much, although I do read friends tweet imports if they're doing stuff like linking to posts they've made elsewhere, etc.
I probably need to do an update of this post with some new stuff, the new reading filters on Dreamwidth will berather nice for tagged Twitter posts.
Would you or any of your readers know of any special code to make LoudTwitter entries friends only without making my whole journal friends only?
(And yes, I do realize that Twitter entries are public anyway.) ;)
I know it did work for one set of posts I saw, but that was for someone who likes to tweak a lot, when I get back in the mood I'll see if I can play around a bit more.