2009-06-21T07:42:21-07:00 242 <p>Twitter has officially joined Facebook in my open and cordial invitation to bite me. I can't stand needing to delete a twitter-spam follower or two every time I make a post. I briefly experimented with the idea of creating another account to follow my main account so that I could make my main account private, yet still excerpt it here, but that would require passing credentials as part of the viewing process, and that's probably going to be a security hassle. I also looked at creating a Rails-based Twitter app to do the same thing, but Twitter apparently lost my app registration half-way through the process, and I just can't be bothered. I wondered how else I might use Twitter in a way that let me post publically, but only allow friends to comment. I can't find it, though I'm sure I'm not trying hard enough. Meh. What's the point of it when this is the site I want to spend my energy on? Posting from a cell phone? I could code that here, but I don't even have a data plan! Tweeting with my friends? No one I know of my generation uses it. I guess we're just too old. And frankly, I never got the whole 140-character-limit-as-an-advantage idea. I think leads to useless posts. What would this post have looked like on Twitter? "Twitter sucks. KTHXBAI!" That's not the underlying point. I think it's great that other people think it's great, but it's just not for me, and there are extenuating circumstances why that happens to be the case, but I couldn't have even posted those on Twitter. I think that last run-on sentence alone would have been too long!</p> 2009-06-21T07:42:21-07:00