Editorial: Web/Tech: Twightsizing

Earlier today, I coined a sniglet: Twightsizing = to "unfollow" people on Twitter in an effort to make one's use of the service manageable, while agonizing over the possible offense caused thereby.  A week ago, I'd decided to kill my Twitter account, but now want to keep it for possible future use.  Which puts me in an awkward position.  Some follows gotta go.  (If you're reading this, you're not likely to be affected--not that I presume you care!)

Further adding to my frustration with the service is that I just discovered that I'd been failing to check my @mkecoffee replies.  The home page doesn't indicate when new messages arrive, nor does it forward them to my e-mail as it does with direct messages.  Shee-yit!  Now I have to face the prospect of writing a bunch of messages saying, "Sorry I didn't reply to your message...because I didn't see it...because I'm a moron.  Yeah."

I already have to check my spam boxes for my various e-mail accounts for the inevitable misdirected e-mails.  One of my reasons for liking Facebook it that is doesn't have any nooks or crannies where messages can be lost.  And isn't it ironic to be setting up all of these avenues for people to communicate with me, only to thereby create more such traps in which communication can fall into oblivion?

Comments

[Suzanne]

Mike, I love you like a brother, but I really take offense at the use of the R-word.
http://www.r-word.org/
Maybe you really felt like a schmuck? or a putz?

But yeah. There is just too much to keep track of.

[Michael Miller]

I'm very much resisting this one. In this context, I really find it hard to see how anyone could take it that way. But I changed it to the "m-word".

[d1willis]

have you tried tweetdeck or the iphone/ipod touch twitterfon? both are much more organized than the twitter main page. Listen to me, hah, I am just a total newbie.

[Michael Miller]

Thanks for the tip! I'd investigated TweetDeck, but now will probably give it a try.

[ノースフェイス]

ノースフェイス彼は私に以下の恥ずかしがり屋の少し知って見えた。彼はいつも、ノースフェイス
父親を喜んで表現することはできません知っていると私は目に紡績された涙の息子について話しています。