Dev Posts = Twitter.

Honestly, I thought it pretty obviously was a reply to the, "I think we might actually get ahead this issue." comment myself.

That said, I'm not really the biggest fan of twitter myself, but I've seen it used fairly effectively as another sort of update service for some websites.

I don't know if I could disagree more with your OP, AmazingMoo. I mean, hypothetically speaking, there has to be a point where it's simply impossible to keep adding disagreement.

Like so many things, I just ignore Twitter.

Honestly there is nothing the Devs could possibly twit about, that I care enough to read, that won't be regurgitated on these boards in one form or another.

I'm going to admit that I stay away from almost all social networking sites. Basically, If I have something to say, I say it here, on my SG's private forums, or talk directly by phone, SMS, Steam messenger or e-mail. And given my join date as compared to my post count, you can see I don't typically have a lot to say here.

Basically, it boils down to a lack of interest. My deviantart site hasn't been updated in forever, since I just don't care to write up what's going on in my life. I've had the occasional desire to try out Facebook, or Twitter, but realistically I know that I'll tweet once or twice and then promptly forget about it. And you know, I'm fine by that. I'm not James Bond, or Malcolm Reynolds, I don't have interesting things happening in my life on a daily basis. When it boils right down to it, I'm not far off from this guy:



(Let me just state for the record here that unlike that guy, I am fluent in French)

And you know what? I'm fine with that. If I have something important to say, the people who need to know get called. Or e-mailed, or whatever. The people who don't, well, don't. I don't hate Twitter. I don't even dislike Twitter. I am completely and totally ambivalent about Twitter, and it'll take one heck of a lot more than being able to know that War Witch had Chef Boyardee for lunch, or that Paula Abdul quit American Idol to get me off this fence. Somehow, this makes me a luddite.

Whatever.

(Oh, and as for the "newspaper" issue, I'm all about digital newspaper subscriptions. All the news, none of the paper.)

Putting my web developer hat on for a moment, (Which is partially how I make money to play this silly game!) I'm not a fan of twitter either. I mean what does it do, really, that RSS, SOAP and Atom don't already do in much better more decentralized way?

If I'm a famous person and I have some news to share with the world about my book signing or public appearance, I can just update the blog on my website and everyone who's subscribed to my atom feed will know about it within 10 minutes to an hour. I don't have to be technician in order to do that. Most blog tools these days are user-friendly enough that I can do all that from a mobile phone.

How does twitter do that better, really?

I'm an old codger but when I got on the Internet it was all about breaking out of the walled gardens of closed, proprietary third party services. It was about "do it yourself." Twitter takes a step back from that in my opinion.

But if CoH devs want to use this as news service, whatever. I still ain't gonna read it.

you know moo, i dislike twitter, but you have skipped over the line to full on curmudgeon here. Disliking the information diffusion is one thing, but turning it into an entirely personal diatribe about how you don't think people should be wasting our time with the minutia of their inner thoughts carries a greater amount of irony than you may be fully aware of.

the dev digest is begin worked on, it is irrational to think it isn't, soon we will have the one stop area to check for relevant info once the appropriate tech-work is done. Now may be the time to pull upon the maturity we have accumulated from becoming adults and just learn to wait a few days. Really, it is just a video game, you know?

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I'll be glad when we get out Dev Digest back...

Maybe it's just a sign of "Dev Digest Withdrawal". I'm really pretty surprised that multiple people have this perception that Twitter has somehow replaced the Dev Digest and, conversely, that City of Heroes is logically the only thing that any dev team member should ever post a tweet about.

Twitter isn't a forum. It isn't really even a conversation, although conversations have a way of getting started anyway.

It's a gossip network. Complaining that a gossip network is full of gossip is a little unrealistic.

Let the devs have thier twitter.

Don't need community approval to have your own goram blog.

I care little for that hyped up thing, as long they post the same news on the normal ways too.. on the forums.

I believe the first news of I16 was also from twitter (i call it twatter btw), aint that a bit 'weird' to read the news not on the forums, not on the website, but on some stupid twitter thing?

I've gone on and off twitter from time to time. I got myself an app that's constantly updating the people I follow. It's not the only tool I use, but I've come to appreciate it.

(1) Twitter encourages informality. My most recent twitter is "I love my Harmony 510 remote. One remote controls my desk TV for either Dish Sat watching or AppleTV, and living room TV for Dish Sat! " Now, I may do up a full blog entry of my experiences with my new remote, but this was a fast and easy way to tell people I liked it.

(2) Twitter DOES work with conversations. The site could do a better job showing the full conversation, or an app could do that too, but it's there.

(3) There is some interaction with people who for one reason or another don't do normal blogs. I liked a little note of "OK, I16 closed beta is later today" (or even "now"). And it's really instantaneous.

I've got no interest in people tweeting about the minutiae of their life. I've got a few friends I follow, some company reps (@Syfy is a fairly interesting read, with not too much marketing spoodge), and a few creative types whose tweets I find interesting. (There are creative types whose tweets I find completely uninteresting, but that's where the choice comes in.)

Oh, and things do happen that would never happen in blogs. Like the funny custom license plate examples that showed up on Positron's list: "PLAN AHE", A VW-Bug with the plate of "FEATURE", and a red car with "FF0000"

Are the old folks having lawn trouble again?

Twitter is a promotional tool and like any tool, it can be helpful or useless.

Good Twitter: keeping us in the loop about the forum migration.

Bad Twitter: Positron telling us what he's wearing under the armor today.