For those of you who use Twitter, do you like seeing people you subscribe to tweet a link to each post on their blog? Or does that annoy you? (e.g., if you wanted to be notified of their blog entries, you'd subscribe to their blog's RSS feed)
Personally, I've assumed the latter and thus have avoided tweeting a link to every new post of mine on my blog. But I'm noticing that the former seems to be the norm... and if people really appreciate such notifications (maybe they don't use a feed reader?) then I'm happy to accommodate.
- Adam Lasnik
For me, it's really easy for me to unfollow people who fill their twitter stream with redundant information. FriendFeed aggregates RSS feeds, if I really wanted that.
- John μller
It depends on the percentage if their tweets that a self-links. If it's almost all they do, it's annoying.
- Brett Kelly
I don't really mind that. What is annoying, though, is if people post their location (via Brightkite etc.) every couple of minutes.
- Horst Gutmann
fact is that tweeting brings more readers... since I have 10 times more followers than subscribers
- Ihar Mahaniok
Twitter is also much more spam-bot friendly than your RSS feed == Twitter is better ;-)
- Horst Gutmann
It is helpful if I am a reader of their blog, and know that they will respond to @replies on the topic.
- Mike Chelen
if they post all the blog entries on twitter, I drop their RSS feed and follow only the tweets.
- righini riprova
Adam - If it's not overdone, think it's fine. Just more ongoing 'in-the-moment' discovery. Have even been known to do it myself .. occasionally :)
- Charlie Anzman
I think it is cool in moderation. You have to mix it up. I respect when people post things from their blog and other sources in the same space. I am much more inclined to click their links if that is the case.
- nickgs
I auto-tweet from my personal blog. Then again I don't blog every five minutes.
- Ian May
It does not annoy me if the tweets are on the edges of the blog and not necessarily in the main body.
- Lester Greenberg
Isn't that the whole point of social media site - to share interesting content?
- Dilip Dand
I don't mind if it's in reference to something else, or even something really interesting, but yes, that's what Google Reader is for!
- Californian
I really don't mind all that much. As long as it isn't spammed too often I can live with it.
- John Ford
from Nambu
Don't mind, not as annoying as the same re-tweets by 10 people your following
- Stuart Evans
It's annoying if they send too many posts and if they don't give a good comment about the link.
- Anurag Nigam
Depends on the context for me. If the subject of the post complements the views of the tweeter, that's fine by me, but too many irrelevant or offtopic and I'll unfollow without a second thought.
- Stuart Gray
It doesn't really bother me. In fact, there have been times when I missed a post on RSS but then caught it on twitter. Typically if I see a blog tweet I'll read it I have time, but if not I know I can catch it later on RSS.
- Alex Hellstrom
Wow, the diversity of opinions here surprises and intrigues me. Thanks, everyone, for the thoughtful input. I'm still undecided on what to do, but leaning towards tweeting more of my posts now (particularly given that I don't blog that often AND I do tend to tweet at least daily).
- Adam Lasnik
I don't mind it at all. I have some friends who have set their blogs to auto-tweet whenever they have a new entry but also use twitter for comments and @replies. It is just one of many different pieces of content and, since it is under 140 characters, easy to ignore in its redundancy with my GReader. I say go for it!
- Miss Elle
Agreed with Anurag too, the tweet should contain substantive context to help determine if the post will be interesting to me.
- Mike Chelen