Sometimes I look at my feed and all I see are your tweets, so I kind of glance and move on. I feel like if you posted less you'd only post the best and the quality of the posts would go up. People might actually read them if there were less as well. Not a fan of the mass tweets from one person.
My twitter has already heavily overloaded ！！I hope SM can reduce the tweets number.
Gavin - 14 years ago
I agree with what someone previously said about having separate accounts based on categories. Then the tweets will remain super relevent to the people following them.
Maximum SM tweets are useful, but fixing in number will make it easier to follow.
Twocifer - 14 years ago
I'm a bit torn; SM does have some great stuff.... But way too many Tweets per day. I've gotten very good at skimming your Tweets and marking those that interest me as a favorite so I can come back later and read it. But checking my Twitter feed from my phone has lost some of it's convience since I started following SM. One tweet or 4-5 based on a subject would be better.
I like to get a lot of links from SmashMag but the think is I can't afford to check every of them if there are more.
but I dont want to miss a single link as every one of them are of high quality. So if the tweet is a little less, it would be fine to check all the articles in a day.
They are high quality links so I am torn! But there are so many that I can't get to them all. Perhaps subdivide? Design, tech tips,discussion?
Ri Zoldak - 14 years ago
I love Gregor's @smhottest suggestion. Your quality is always strong so I don't mind the 26 tweets daily. Breaking your topics into seperate Twitter feeds would be sad. I'm a Jack of all trades and really value SM's comprehensive variety.
I think 5-10 is more than enough. Following all your tweets is like listening to a mainstream radio for 24 hours a day. Someday you get rid of it and just stop it. I want to read all your tweets but it's just to much! I would prefer less tweets with higher quality!
As many have said quality over quantity. If you keep the quality at the current level, do keep on flooding... but please don't tweet for the sake of it!
freddy macwoozy - 14 years ago
nice idea by gregor, you should do that.
james - 14 years ago
10 should be the max really. any more and it gets very annoying.
there is lots of good stuff you post about, but people will get tired pretty quickly if you keep posting lots of mediocre stuff.
LJohnson - 14 years ago
The more tweets the better!
why not make a "SM lite" that tweets a daily digest for those who prefer to receive less?
keep them coming just as you are doing right now. For the people out there that would like to receive less, make an extra @smhottest account that only posts the top 10 or top 5 links that get clicked on the main account.
I'm very busy so it's often difficult to find time to constantly remain connected to design community in an effort stay on top of the latest trends and disciplines afforded us Web professionals. The vast majority of tweets you provide are extremely valuable and useful, which I personally really appreciate.
However, I think 10 per day is a reasonable number because as so many other have indicated there's simply not enough time in the day to wade through all of them.
Luv what you do!
Joe - 14 years ago
You said it Marc, people should organize the people they're following into lists if there are too many for them to look though. It isn't hard!
Sarah Cox - 14 years ago
quality, not quantity. i don't count your tweets and i personally don't think you should either.
I really enjoy your tweets but there really are too many, I find I automatically start to skim ones from smashing mag when lots are done in a short space of time, the channels idea was good or linking to a post. I'd say at least halving them would help increase the impact.
Since you have list in Twitter we can organise and so valuable tweets smashingmag is providing we'll happy to have more more and more :-)
Koen - 14 years ago
I agree with Mark Rodrigues. Why not make a bunch of different Twitter accounts. One for each tag you use on the website. And one for ALL the tags together.
I feel the number of tweets today is (personal for me) too much. With the idea above you give your followers a choice.
(Isn't that what social media is all about?)
Too much tweets are annoying AND difficult to follow. Who has time to read everything? Select and tweet only very important stories and links. I see that more than 50% of voters ask for no more than 10 tweets a day (which is still a lot imho).
Philippe Alves - 14 years ago
Sometimes SlodiveOnline tweets the same thing as you do... but yea, not always.
I really appreciate your efforts on Twitter. I find relevant quality articles every day this way but I also find some of your tweets irrelevant for me personally. If you can limit yourselves to 15 high quality tweets a day that would be absolutely perfect.
More info will never hurt but quantity should not sacrifice quality. Besides too many HQ tweets are hard to digest:)
Abbe - 14 years ago
Totally agree with Arnór. The only disadvantage of getting so many high grade tweets from smashing mag is that i don't have the time to read them all :(
Stuff - 14 years ago
More than 26 day? Seriously? I can only imagine that if your into HTML5 and want to bash Flash.. lol
I can't remember, in the last month anything related to flash in this magazine.
On in the other hand, I already saw more than 5 tweets relating HTML5 as a saviour and anoher good bunch of them related to how Flash is bad.
I even saw smashingmagazine tweet one very ridiculous article about flash on the Nexus One that was complelty BS and with no content at all...
I guess to a magazine that can reach so many viewers, you should really try to stay neutral, thing that you just can't do.
Thanks Bye
Mark Rodrigues - 14 years ago
Smashing tweet on so many different topics (of which I am only interested in a few).
Maybe set up a couple of different twitter accounts so we can subscribe to the sub-domain we are interested in.
An absolute +1 on Arnor's point. You guys may be the only one, but in your case - I want to get quality tweets you've been producing, as often as possible. No need to slow down.
I love all your links... but it is spamming my timeline and hard to catch up. Why don't you write one post a day containing all those links with short descriptions as a regulary blog entry?
Personally, I like getting a lot of smashingmag tweets. I don't like it when people tweet too much, but in your case it's just high quality links, usually, so I don't mind at all.
You still tweeted 31 tweets last 24 hours...
Sometimes I look at my feed and all I see are your tweets, so I kind of glance and move on. I feel like if you posted less you'd only post the best and the quality of the posts would go up. People might actually read them if there were less as well. Not a fan of the mass tweets from one person.
Thanks for the poll!
My twitter has already heavily overloaded ！！I hope SM can reduce the tweets number.
I agree with what someone previously said about having separate accounts based on categories. Then the tweets will remain super relevent to the people following them.
Maximum SM tweets are useful, but fixing in number will make it easier to follow.
I'm a bit torn; SM does have some great stuff.... But way too many Tweets per day. I've gotten very good at skimming your Tweets and marking those that interest me as a favorite so I can come back later and read it. But checking my Twitter feed from my phone has lost some of it's convience since I started following SM. One tweet or 4-5 based on a subject would be better.
Agree with Mark Rodrigues. Tweets are excellent but only a few topics are of interest to me.
One or two of the best per day is good for me. Otherwise, it fills my twitter box and gets lost in the shuffle!
Could you wrap some of the proposed links into a daily links package or something like that?
Less is more! I prefer a small amount of quality tweets so I can actually read through everything.
I like to get a lot of links from SmashMag but the think is I can't afford to check every of them if there are more.
but I dont want to miss a single link as every one of them are of high quality. So if the tweet is a little less, it would be fine to check all the articles in a day.
They are high quality links so I am torn! But there are so many that I can't get to them all. Perhaps subdivide? Design, tech tips,discussion?
I love Gregor's @smhottest suggestion. Your quality is always strong so I don't mind the 26 tweets daily. Breaking your topics into seperate Twitter feeds would be sad. I'm a Jack of all trades and really value SM's comprehensive variety.
I'm with stefan on this one. 10 should be the max. Recently I find myself just skipping most of the Smashing tweets because there's so many.
I totally support the idea of different channels!
I think 5-10 is more than enough. Following all your tweets is like listening to a mainstream radio for 24 hours a day. Someday you get rid of it and just stop it. I want to read all your tweets but it's just to much! I would prefer less tweets with higher quality!
As many have said quality over quantity. If you keep the quality at the current level, do keep on flooding... but please don't tweet for the sake of it!
nice idea by gregor, you should do that.
10 should be the max really. any more and it gets very annoying.
there is lots of good stuff you post about, but people will get tired pretty quickly if you keep posting lots of mediocre stuff.
The more tweets the better!
why not make a "SM lite" that tweets a daily digest for those who prefer to receive less?
Love them all, keep them coming.
What mark roderigues said
here is my suggestion:
keep them coming just as you are doing right now. For the people out there that would like to receive less, make an extra @smhottest account that only posts the top 10 or top 5 links that get clicked on the main account.
I'm very busy so it's often difficult to find time to constantly remain connected to design community in an effort stay on top of the latest trends and disciplines afforded us Web professionals. The vast majority of tweets you provide are extremely valuable and useful, which I personally really appreciate.
However, I think 10 per day is a reasonable number because as so many other have indicated there's simply not enough time in the day to wade through all of them.
Luv what you do!
You said it Marc, people should organize the people they're following into lists if there are too many for them to look though. It isn't hard!
quality, not quantity. i don't count your tweets and i personally don't think you should either.
it's terrible to get more then 10 tweets.
I really enjoy your tweets but there really are too many, I find I automatically start to skim ones from smashing mag when lots are done in a short space of time, the channels idea was good or linking to a post. I'd say at least halving them would help increase the impact.
One useful tweet is more than enough
Since you have list in Twitter we can organise and so valuable tweets smashingmag is providing we'll happy to have more more and more :-)
I agree with Mark Rodrigues. Why not make a bunch of different Twitter accounts. One for each tag you use on the website. And one for ALL the tags together.
I feel the number of tweets today is (personal for me) too much. With the idea above you give your followers a choice.
(Isn't that what social media is all about?)
Too much tweets are annoying AND difficult to follow. Who has time to read everything? Select and tweet only very important stories and links. I see that more than 50% of voters ask for no more than 10 tweets a day (which is still a lot imho).
Sometimes SlodiveOnline tweets the same thing as you do... but yea, not always.
love your tweets and links it makes our life way easier
For me quality is much more important than quantity, too many tweets from someone and I generally just stop reading them.
I would like to see no more double-tweets to get attention for a post.
I really appreciate your efforts on Twitter. I find relevant quality articles every day this way but I also find some of your tweets irrelevant for me personally. If you can limit yourselves to 15 high quality tweets a day that would be absolutely perfect.
Thank you for a great service!
Hi...
personally i like up to 10 tips a day.
Bring em on! If they are high in quality and I miss a couple because I am to lazy to read them all its my own fault.
More info will never hurt but quantity should not sacrifice quality. Besides too many HQ tweets are hard to digest:)
Totally agree with Arnór. The only disadvantage of getting so many high grade tweets from smashing mag is that i don't have the time to read them all :(
More than 26 day? Seriously? I can only imagine that if your into HTML5 and want to bash Flash.. lol
I can't remember, in the last month anything related to flash in this magazine.
On in the other hand, I already saw more than 5 tweets relating HTML5 as a saviour and anoher good bunch of them related to how Flash is bad.
I even saw smashingmagazine tweet one very ridiculous article about flash on the Nexus One that was complelty BS and with no content at all...
I guess to a magazine that can reach so many viewers, you should really try to stay neutral, thing that you just can't do.
Thanks Bye
Smashing tweet on so many different topics (of which I am only interested in a few).
Maybe set up a couple of different twitter accounts so we can subscribe to the sub-domain we are interested in.
An absolute +1 on Arnor's point. You guys may be the only one, but in your case - I want to get quality tweets you've been producing, as often as possible. No need to slow down.
I love all your links... but it is spamming my timeline and hard to catch up. Why don't you write one post a day containing all those links with short descriptions as a regulary blog entry?
Personally, I like getting a lot of smashingmag tweets. I don't like it when people tweet too much, but in your case it's just high quality links, usually, so I don't mind at all.
Thanks