Dev Posts = Twitter.
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Altoholic_Monkey,
Posted on: 2009-08-06 17:03 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Twitter update:
Niviene: Dev Digest we are still working on getting it up and running again.
@Golden Girl
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This is good. I miss the Dev Digest Twitter feed.
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Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
Twitter update:
Niviene: Dev Digest we are still working on getting it up and running again. |
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Originally Posted by golden_girl_eu
gr closed beta invitations will only be sent out to positron's followers on twitter.
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kkkaaaaahhhhhnnnnnnn!!!!
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Only really use facebook here personally. To me most of the social sites are full of people "looking to hook up with others", while facebook and twitter and for you and your friends really.|
Originally Posted by Mr_DJ
I see no point to Twitter...even though I use MySpace and Facebook, haven't really done anything with them...
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BTW on posi's twitter he's watching this thread!
@Damz Find me on the global channel Union Chat. One of the best "chat channels" ingame!
If anyone would like to follow the Dev's tweets without actually using Twitter I've setup a page on the w00t Radio website for it.
I've added:
Positron
CoH OCR
Niviene
Dark Watcher
Avatea
Back Alley Brawler
War Witch
Will add more as I find them. The ONLY posts that show up on this page will be from CoH Devs. I've set this up as a separate account from the normal w00t Radio twitter feed.
http://www.w00tradio.net/home/coh-tweet-tracker.html
Also its not Pretty yet, I'll work on that as I get time.
w00t Radio
By the way, Bruce Harlick cut himself shaving this morning.
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
Hey all,
I do enjoy using social sites (they're handy for high school reunions, catching up with old work-mates, networking - if you're into that - and a bunch of other things).
My Twitter account is a Personal Account and being a Dev is just one of the many parts of my life. The other aspects of being just me is the fact that I have many varied and exciting (and boring and tedious) interests which I comment on (including what I ate for lunch or why my cat is adorable).
I also get to follow some neat people and find out what they're thinking about at any given moment and some people follow me (unless I bore them to tears) and they stop following me. I just write what I feel at the time.
I also totally understand that Twitter is not for everyone and that's cool, too. Trust me, nothing City of Heroes official will ever come from my Tweets unless it's already common knowledge. That is why I don't use: @COH_WarWitch.
Thanks 
War Witch
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
(Jim Rohn)
Which is why only a select few will find out exactly what will be in Going Rogue. Only the people following you specifically.
One of the reasons I don't care for Twitter is because it seems like I'm looking at a one-sided conversation. It's like listening to someone talk on the phone without hearing the other person's responses. In order to understand the conversation, one must hop from one twitter to another, to another, to another.... *shrug* just not my idea of "fun".
If I want to catch up on current events, as one poster implied was SUCH a great use of Twitter, I usually go to various news websites (we don't get the paper, either).
I don't use Facebook or Myspace, either. If I want to catch up with a friend, I call, text, or e-mail... or, heck, just get together for lunch or a movie, or drinks, or bowling, or a hike, or......
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Don�t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. - R.W. Emerson |
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See, I can understand going all over the web to different bookmarks etc. But, then I found Twitter <3 I no longer need to have bookmark after bookmark |
Originally Posted by Impish_Kat
One of the reasons I don't care for Twitter is because it seems like I'm looking at a one-sided conversation. It's like listening to someone talk on the phone without hearing the other person's responses. In order to understand the conversation, one must hop from one twitter to another, to another, to another.... *shrug* just not my idea of "fun".
If I want to catch up on current events, as one poster implied was SUCH a great use of Twitter, I usually go to various news websites (we don't get the paper, either). I don't use Facebook or Myspace, either. If I want to catch up with a friend, I call, text, or e-mail... or, heck, just get together for lunch or a movie, or drinks, or bowling, or a hike, or...... |
Just pop it open once an hour or so... See if anything is up... Shut it down 
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It's not so much 'twitter-hate' for me, but it is just another chance for some nitwit to reveal way too much personal information, get hurt, and sue. I just don't think some folks take privacy seriously anymore. Kinda a general thing though.
I do not believe in suing people, unless bodily harm has happened.
Or you mess up *my* car.
Other than that...
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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
I do not believe in suing people, unless bodily harm has happened.
Or you mess up *my* car. Other than that... |
You aren't everyone though.
Back when I was working at the doctors' office, this guy had something but we couldn't figure it out... so doc tells him not to worry, we'll schedule this, that and whatever needed till we figure it out. Patient says "That's ok, if you're wrong I can always sue."
After visiting patients on my own time in the hospital just to see how they were doing... that hurt.
I agree some people just naturally suck.
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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
I agree some people just naturally suck.
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Yeah... but rather than feed the need of those that suck, I'll just refrain from using the sites that, to me, are just asking stupid people to be stupid on a world stage.
I don't like reality tv either.
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Originally Posted by War Witch
I also totally understand that Twitter is not for everyone and that's cool, too. Trust me, nothing City of Heroes official will ever come from my Tweets unless it's already common knowledge. That is why I don't use: @COH_WarWitch. Thanks War Witch |
Thank you.
SI Radio has many DJs and listeners whom hold City of Heroes close to their hearts. We will be supporting many efforts to keep CoH ALIVE!!
In another thread the very talented Devian posted a tool he created
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=185634
http://cohdigest.appspot.com/
Who do I have to *&^% around here to get more Targeted AoE recipes added?
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I didn't start this thread as some personal attack on Twitter or anyone who choses to use it. How you chose to waste your time is your business, I can assure you few would approve of all the means I undertake to waste mine.
The issue addressed was my perception that we were some how expected to follow Twitter to get direct input from the devs, something I am adamantly opposed to. I understand that some of the devs and members of the community chose Twitter. I understand and respect some of you chose to follow the devs and one another on Twitter. I chose not to and frankly could careless if you understand or respect that.
It has been indicated my perception was off, which in this case pleases me. For those that enjoy it, please continue to Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, or blog to your hearts content. I will not.
SI Radio has many DJs and listeners whom hold City of Heroes close to their hearts. We will be supporting many efforts to keep CoH ALIVE!!
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If I could get a twitter page to always display the most recent tweet in "Castle Says ..." format, I might just do it.|
Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
Then I suggest you do so - we must know how GR is coming along
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Probably not, but...maybe.
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You realize that a few just took that as a challenge, don't you?|
Originally Posted by Castle
If I could get a twitter page to always display the most recent tweet in "Castle Says ..." format, I might just do it.
Probably not, but...maybe. |
--NT
They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!
If I became a red name, I would be all "and what would you mere mortals like to entertain me with today, mu hu ha ha ha!" ~Arcanaville
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Ideally, Twitter isn't supposed to be a conversation. It sort of turns into that pretty easily because there really is this "feeling" of being personally connected to the person doing the tweeting and the ease of making a response to someone else's tweet.|
Originally Posted by Impish_Kat
One of the reasons I don't care for Twitter is because it seems like I'm looking at a one-sided conversation.
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In fact, I've been pretty surprised by just HOW compelling that feeling is, even when the tweeter in question is a celebrity who doesn't know me from Adam and I know this fact intellectually. The gut feeling that "He sent this to ME!" is, I think, where a lot of the attraction of the whole thing comes from.
Whether it's your thing or not is your business. "You" being the general you, not any particular poster in this thread. I have a mild objection to the characterization of the entirety of Twitter as mindless attention-grabbing and pandering to attention-grabbers, because that characterizes ME as one of those doing the pandering and I know that it's not true. Still, I can remember that it wasn't very long ago that playing an MMO made me a person who was wasting time on frivolous and unproductive activities, and before that, playing CCG's or playing PnP RPGS's, so I'm not going to get my feelings hurt by the characterization.
And, honestly, it wasn't that long ago that I might have been one of the people who was saying "Twitter? Bah, nothing but attention-grabbers and needy people feeding the attention-grabbers." When I gave it a fair shake, I changed my mind. It's like P_P says (maybe not always diplomatically, but still true) that like every other online social experience, Twitter is whatever you make of it.You can go ahead and sign up for mindless garbage, but you'll only get that if you actively seek it out. In that case, who's to blame but yourself?
Things about the devs I have learned thanks to their Tweets:
Positron has a son. (Colour me ignorant...)
War Witch tortures herself by doing Pilates (and likes 'funky' pizza).
Dark Watcher has jury duty (and was reduced to helpless laughter by Hero 1).
Horatio is apparently kicking people's butts at Dominion during lunch hour.
Niviene reduces PS employees' efficiency by making them laugh.
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Those were purely the unconscious, out of habit clicks. I hadn't realized it, but every time I have to restart the game or mapserver while working, I automatically tried to open the forums.|
Originally Posted by FreckledAvenger
This happened during the forum outage:
We know BABs, at least, isn't going anywhere! |
Easily another two dozen intentional "Are they back yet?" clicks on top of those.
Why?
I've avoided Twitter up until very recently when there appeared to be a lot of real news coming out over it. I'm typically distrustful of 'Web 2.0' tech because so very much of it makes the assumption that:
a) You neither want nor value personal privacy
b) You're willing to run Javascript or take other security risks whilst web browsing
c) You're willing to be tied to an internet connection for things that might not really require them (I'm looking at you, Google Docs)
However, over the last few weeks, I've been reading the devs' Twitter pages simply as I would used to glance at the Dev Digest. I was curious if they were talking about this game or if they had any new information to share.
Twitter is certainly not as 'Web 2.0' as some of the other more intensive websites out there. However, it introduces pretty serious annoyances. I'm not talking about the 160 character limit associated with Twitter posts, although that has some serious implications for the health of the internet.
The first is the the tendency for users to not only not care about their privacy, but assume that others are interested in the boring minutia of their lives. The problem infests not only the 'blogosphere' where discussions of interesting topics have to be winkled out of what are essentially the pages of personal diaries, but also covers Twitter like a fungus. People don't have ROOM to post anything interesting.
The more serious problem, and the one that annoys me most, is that Twitter obliterates one of the most useful features of the internet: Context. It's full of replies to statements that are meaningless to individuals who aren't part of the conversation. For example, one of Positron's latest posts reads:
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The last several posts from Back Alley Brawler read:| @CoHBABs You've jinxed yourself now. |
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# Mila Kunis has grown more attractive over the years. Reminds me of Kristen Kreuk, minus the fangs # "Everything is beautiful because dragons love birthdays." William Bruce, Age 5 # Bug fixing on I16 progressing at feverish pace. I think we might actually get ahead this issue. Fixed a *lot of legacy bugs so far. # http://backalleybrawler.blo... # http://bit.ly/qag43 Totally called it. # http://www.vimby.com/video/... Nate, one of our concept dudes. # http://tinyurl.com/mrtt4u . I'm convinced author is one of our forum users, seen same 'points' there. |
Devs: Get back on the message boards and fix the dev digest already!
To Slick Riptide: Yeah, there's the error in absolutes. Rephrased: "However I see Twitter, SPECIFICALLY, as mindless information spam and/or glory hounding."
As for Twitter being a source of news, I certainly would NOT ever claim it was somehow superior to other sources. It's basically the world's biggest gossip network. The only question is "who's gossip are you listening to?"
It can be more immediate than some other sources. I knew that Paula Abdul was leaving American Idol before you did, because she told me PERSONALLY. Well, me and 500,000 of her closest friends...
Yes, that is a semi-facetious example so let's not get bogged down in the frivolity of it. I get tweets from our devs here, from musical artists whose activities interest me, from comedians whose work I find amusing and from sources like the "Richard Castle" feed I mentioned earlier in the thread that are doing interesting things with Twitter itself. First and foremost, Twitter is entertainment.
I have also examined the tweet streams of interesting people who, as it turned out, spent their time making boring and inane tweets of just the sort that you're complaining about. It's true that a huge part of Twitter is, in fact, inane and meaningless glory-hounding. Anyone is free to use that fact to condemn the entire thing as useless, but doing so is ignoring the signal that exists amongst the noise.