These are the ways I will end up seeing your article or link more than once: - In my aggregator, I saw your blog post before you tweeted about it
- Using Readtwit (the only web service integrated with Twitter I could get excited about in 2009), I saw your blog post through the Readtwit RSS feed before I saw the tweet about it, which I already saw in the Readtwit feed item's initial paragraph
- you syndicate your Facebook status updates to Twitter, or the other way around
- Using my iPhone-based Twitter client, I saw your tweet, then saw it again in my desktop-based Twitter client, then another time in my web-based Twitter client
Either way, I saw your post and/or tweet at least twice, and usually more times. I only need to see it once, usually. So how do I accomplish that? Ideas: - central messaging service where everything goes, synchronized with my mobile device du jour
- unsubscribe from notifications (see below)
- simplify, use only one consuming client for each messaging stream (Twitter especially)
- multiple messaging clients that all talk to each other showing only the messages where I left off
Direct messagesIn part this is bad setup on my part, but here are the amount of times I see a direct message, each time it's flagged as unread before I have to "read" it. - usually as an email, since I seem to get that first thanks to Exchange on my iPhone (using a Microsoft protocol on an Apple device to access a Google service...)
- then as a push notification thanks to Boxcar
- then in Tweetie 2 for the iPhone
- then, likely, in Tweetie for the Mac
I could: - turn off email notification, but that's the last resort of direct messages to make sure I see it
turn off Boxcar notifications, but I like seeing it in the notification flow- just deal with the unread status in Tweetie 2 for iPhone
- just deal with the unread status in Tweetie 2 for Mac
Matt Haughey suggests that a read status in Twitter's database could help. http://twitter.com/mathowie/status/7096785779 |
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