Whining about Facebook

[andrewducker]

I don't mind people bringing through interesting twitter updates to their Facebook statuses - but if they're prolific twitterers and they bring through all of their "private" @someone twits then they're really clogging up my news feed.

Is there any way to block this kind of thing from my news feed other than removing the person?

Comments

[blearyboy.livejournal.com]

If you hover over an item in the news feed it will give you a dropdown. Should be an item for getting fewer updates from that person.

[andrewducker]

But I don't want less from that person. I want none of their twitter replies. I'm actually interested in the lives of these people, just not half the conversation they're having.

Threaten to break their fingers...

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

It works for me :)

[sneerpout.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew.

I deal with it by blocking the person from my news feed. If they are so lazy and inconsiderate that they can't be arsed typing out a FB-specific update, and just cross-post tweets that make no bloody sense out of context, they aren't worth my time.

[e-halmac.livejournal.com]

I do tweet, and export it to my fb, so I did an @username reply last night to see what would happen and it didn't come in to my news feed - as far as I can tell anyway. Perhaps it is the settings for that particular person. And maybe it'd be worth harassing fb about - not that they ever reply, but you never know.

[matgb]

Aye--I was under the impression that the Twitter FB app didn't crosspost tweets containing an @person.

Andrew, is the source for that person Twitter, or are they using some other app?

[andrewducker]

Seesmic, by the looks of things.

[matgb]

Never heard of it, but if it's being annoying, best way I guess is to tell them; they might not even realize it's happening or that it annoys, and odds are it can be turned off with a tweak of settings.

[andrewducker]

Done that - cheers!