Comments on: The Plot (Not) To Annoy Eric Meyer

By: DL Byron

DL Byron — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:24:34 +0000

You know Eric loves me, right?

http://texturadesign.com/blog/2005/01/eric_meyer_loves_me.htm

By: Stephanie Sullivan

Stephanie Sullivan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:48:33 +0000

I agree that a twitter feature giving us that control would be nice. I considered doing a SXSW account, but after polling my followers yesterday, only one actually said, “Yea, do it” and even she said, “But let me know where it is so I can read when I want to.” Everyone else either said they’d like to live vicariously or that it’s what I’m doing so it’s part of life and to keep it as is.

To be honest, the bigger reason I didn’t go ahead and do it is that last time I checked, if your phone number (for forwarding DMs) is already used on one account, you can’t put it in the admin for another. Thus, I could only get DMs from one account in real time. If my friends missed the tweet giving them my new SXSW name, I would miss half my communication.

What it boils down to I suppose is, I’m going to annoy Eric Meyer. I’m pretty sure I do that anyway, so there’s really nothing new under the sun. (I’ll miss you there Eric!!)

By: Erinn Kurtz

Erinn Kurtz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:35:47 +0000

Great idea, I’m going to copy you.

If you don’t mind the shameful plug, my colleagues and I at Substance created a little web site to collect tweeted inspirational moments at SXSW (or not so inspirational moments) all together in one place. Tag your tweets with #sxswlesson and they will show up here: http://sxswlesson.com/.

Again, forgive the web site plug. We’re not trying to profit from this. We just enjoyed the conversations we had with people we met last year so much that we wanted to create a way for people to share what they learned outside their friends list.

Thanks!

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:34:07 +0000

@Eric 100% agreed. I figure if we keep trying workarounds, one will catch on, and then maybe Twitter will implement it. (Although the whole #fixreplies thing doesn’t make me optimistic.)

@Peter Oh, smart! Easier than a separate account. Hmmmmm.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:32:08 +0000

You’ve inspired me to create an account called @shhxsw — follow and @ it to use it as a public but sxsw-specific channel.

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:22:04 +0000

Aw. I’m a little teary over here. Kiss kiss!

I’m totally with you regarding subsetting on Twitter. I think it would work about as well if it went the other way. It would be nice to have a way for me to mark everyone who’s at a massive event I’m not attending or live-tweeting a TV show I don’t care about (Oscars, World Series, Lost) or whatever and temporarily mute them. I could even follow people in order to let them DM me but keep them perma-muted so I don’t have to see their 540 daily tweets of Foursquare checkins and biofunction updates. I had thought lists would do that, but they just turned out to be another way to shove more tweets at people, not fewer.

Anyway, there really should be a way to do this in Twitter without having to set up a whole separate account. But I really appreciate the effort you’re making on my behalf! Oh, now I’m all verklempt again.