I’ve had it with Tweeterish (“Twitter’s rubbish tweets”) – again

That’s it.

I just canny do it, captinnnnnn.

I’ve had it up to here with Tweeterish — that is, Twitter rubbish. Now and again, I get absolute gold in via Twitter.

But people keep on interrupting my day with tosh about their cat looking pretty. Perfectly fine but entirely irrelevant to me.

I was talking about this with Adam Bird of Esendex earlier today. He reckons we need a lot more work done in semantics to help us deal with information flow. For example if it’s a good friend Tweeting, then it’s not rubbish to me. It’s relevant, but in a different context.

I don’t care what your cat did, or whether it is coughing up grapes in a cute fashion, I really don’t. But if your cat is typing on a Nokia N95, I will be the first to blog the QIK footage.

But until we get more semantic on your ass, we’ll need to grin and deal with it.

My strategy is this: Move Twitter to update my AOL instant messenger account name. No one talks to me on that so I can easily switch off Twitter updates.

I’ve long given up using little pop-up programs. LONG ago I gave up on SMS updates (I’m sure Twitter’s accountant is pleased to hear that) after my Nokia N73 had it’s inbox stuffed with 250 messages in half a day.

It’s far too distracting and it certainly isn’t a live ‘community conversation’ when 95% of traffic is about your cat and how it can’t swallow grapes.

I must admit though, I’d like to see that on video…

  • Ewan - its all about Yoono.com

    This allows you to filter tweets by person.

    Its an outrageously brilliant service with loads of stuff like that.

    If you want a private beta invite (or anyone else on SMStextnews) go to:

    http://test.yoono.com/privatebeta/jonathanmacdo...
  • Nice! I'll have a look!
  • good job you are not following me my facebook status updates my twitter! So you would be very board!
  • coloneltcb
    Ha! All I do is on Twitter is "Twitterish".

    I just wish my cat could swallow grapes!
  • My kingdom for a good youtube video of a cat choking on a grape ;-)
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