Waiting For The Moon

Twumblr Blaster

dlifson:

The Twitter integration is designed and executed very well. Unfortunately, I don’t like it.

My problem with it is that it abuses the boundaries of community. Tumblr content in people’s twitter streams screams like unwanted advertising. Tumblr content is great inside Tumblr because it’s appropriate for the community with which I participate. My twitter community ( I follow 226 and 380 follow me) is a different crowd. It’s more techno-geek, more public, more mainstream on the one hand, with a healthy mix of conversations with my close real-world friends on the other.

Tumblr is a content-based social micro-blogging site. Twitter is a news + status update social micro-blogging platform. The two are different, and the Tumblr staff who are serious Twitter users should know this. (I hope somebody on the Tumblr staff considers themselves a serious Twitter user.)

I love that the Tumblr staff are so willing to experiment and play out in the open. But I’m surprised that they chose to do this, after learning that aggregating feeds into your Tumblr was not valuable (as in, dumping the stuff you do on other sites automatically into your Tumblr feed). If the lack of context didn’t work coming into Tumblr, why would it work going out of Tumblr? It just feels spammy, doesn’t it?

Since nobody likes long posts, I’ll end here and follow up with other thoughts and suggestions.

Excellent comments from dlifson, I understand his point of view and share most of it, I played around with TwitterFeed a month ago then turned it off, it too could pipe your TUMBLR RSS right into Twitter.

What is important to me about these internet tools and interfaces is, everyone uses them differently and in ways that suits them individually. I can see how the TUMBLR Twitter integration will be very welcome by some. I like that it is switchable and you have control of which posts you want forwarded. No one uses all the tools in their tool chest, but it’s nice to have them there when you want or need them.