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A couple of new LWN features

Posted Apr 27, 2009 17:52 UTC (Mon) by mikov (guest, #33179)
Parent article: A couple of new LWN features

What's the point of using Twitter here, really? How is it different/better from an RSS feed, except of course the (unnecessary) message length limitation?

I am not complaining, just asking.

A couple of new LWN features

Posted Apr 27, 2009 18:33 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (4 responses)

Why, you get to follow Jake Edge! Let us hope our esteemed grumpy editor joins this nonsensical 2.0 troupe soon. I want to follow Corbet!

A couple of new LWN features

Posted Apr 27, 2009 19:25 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (3 responses)

That sounds kind of creepy if you read it without knowing what 'follow'
means in twitspeak.

Following Corbet

Posted Apr 27, 2009 20:54 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (1 responses)

Hmmm, true. Still, you have to admit that "reading Corbet's feed" does not sound much better either unless you know a bit of rssspeak.

Following Corbet

Posted Apr 28, 2009 0:02 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

All it means is that you're secretly intercepting Jon's breakfasts and
practicing divination on them. Not creepy at all.

A couple of new LWN features

Posted Apr 28, 2009 2:50 UTC (Tue) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link]

"Follow" on twitter means *exactly* that creepy thing.

Twitter is for stalkers and for people who get off on being stalked.