Today, I needed to speak about one thing streaming-related… or quite social media presence based mostly on conversations I had with a buddy that is superb at it. I’m not good at it in any respect but it surely made me change my methods, hopefully for the higher.

This submit is about “going live” tweets and why I’m gonna cease doing them… and what I’ll do as a substitute.

While this submit (in response to WordPress) has solely a learn time of 6 minutes, I do know that a few of y’all are very busy individuals and I worth your time… which is why I’ve bought a little bit of a thingy right here the place you’ll be able to skip to particular areas of the submit in case you don’t care concerning the context or the “why”!

1. Context
2. Problem: Why are “Going Live Tweets” dangerous?
3. Solution: Going Live Thread
4. Credit
5. Conclusion

Context

So, whenever you stream on Twitch, a fantastic place to let others know that you just’re dwell or that you’ve got scheduled or particular streams, or heck, a fantastic place to hook up with different streamers and have interaction with their content material is… Twitter.

*gasp*

“TWITTER?! OF ALL PLACES?! TWITTER! How preposterous!”, I hear you scream on the display screen proper now.

And sure, Twitter. Honestly, I discovered a great bunch of individuals to look at because of Twitter… and it helps me signal-boost their particular bulletins and takes and whatnot… You can interact with others on subjects… otherwise you don’t.

Honestly, Twitter is nice – in case you do the common trim… and in case you commonly curate your feed to not make it a cesspool of twats being twats and dicks being dicks.

Anyway, what most streamers on Twitch/YT/Trovo/FBG/and many others. do after they go dwell is… principally spam.

They… They… They spam your feed with “going live” tweets and trigger you to wish to unfollow or mute them. It’s horrible, innit?!

I say “most streamers” however I imply that in a “me included” sort of method btw. I’m not as dangerous as others. I actually discovered somebody yesterday whose entire Twitter is simply going dwell tweets… my Twitter account no less than additionally options my shitty takes, my excellent weblog posts, retweets of cute animals and nice artwork, in addition to my good takes!

Problem: Why are “Going Live Tweets” dangerous?

Well,… they don’t actually do something. I imply, sure, you get the occasional click on onto your stream by it and it could work wonders in case you seldomly stream and don’t have a set schedule… however most individuals will simply scroll previous them. A buddy advised me that he simply ignores them, really.

On prime of that, in case you scroll down somebody’s profile on Twitter and it’s simply “going live on twitch dot blablabla”, then likelihood is that you just don’t wish to comply with them essentially due to the truth that that is most likely what you’ll see in your timeline as properly.

And properly, then there’s additionally the argument that numerous occasions, going dwell tweets are solely seen whenever you’re already now not dwell. I usually see these tweets method too late due to my timezone, sleep schedule, and whatnot… after which I click on on the hyperlink, and individuals are now not dwell.

In these situations, I’ve now clicked on the hyperlink however am being redirected to an offline web page of a channel I needed to look at. Frankly, I’m disillusioned and remorse clicking on the hyperlink.

At final, there’s additionally an argument for statistics however I gained’t make that as a result of fuck numbers on Twitter. Who cares about them in any case? Rather, I’d like to say that in case you tweet usually, Twitter doesn’t show all the things to everybody.

There very a lot is an algorithm of some type in place! Depending on how many individuals somebody follows, Twitter might not present them a lot of your tweets. In these situations, you don’t need them to see your going dwell tweets when you would very a lot present them a great tackle politics (that’s what Twitter is about, proper?) or a cute cat image (that’s what the web is about!) as a substitute. Right?

Solution: Going Live Thread

Going ahead, I’m going nonetheless going to publish these tweets… however as a substitute of a “Going Live” tweet each time that I am going dwell… I’ll do it in a thread.

This has two advantages:

First of all, it’s multi function place and could be muted.

Second of all, it nonetheless does what it used to do however now it may be muted.

Yes, that is technically only one profit… but it surely’s a great one so I needed to paraphrase it after which point out it once more to essentially promote my level right here! Uh, wink wink nudge nudge.

When you’re on Twitter and also you’re following somebody for his or her artwork or their superb rabbit, you don’t essentially care about their going dwell tweets, particularly after they stream throughout a time whenever you’re busy or asleep. Hell, perhaps you simply don’t watch streams however you’re nonetheless on this particular person’s tweets…

So, now you’ll be able to mute the thread, which means that you don’t see the going dwell tweets except you wish to. Easy Fix!

This just isn’t about discoverability or something like that… Rather, that is about alternative.

If you don’t wish to see the tweets, merely click on on the tweet on Twitter, go into the settings for the tweet, after which click on on “mute conversation” or no matter possibility there’s. You merely gained’t get notifications for it now.

Credit

I didn’t give you this concept.

This concept is impressed by two those who I’ve seen do that or one thing akin to this.

The first one is NinaMarie on Twitch aka @PersocomNina on Twitter. She has had a going dwell thread up to now over right here. I’m unsure if she nonetheless does make use of that thread however NinaMarie is fairly darn cool. She was (I imagine?) the extent designer for Tacoma which is tremendous good.

The second one is Krikket from NerdGirlThoughts aka @OhaiKrikket on Twitter. She has a Wordle thread on Twitter over right here that I muted just about immediately when the Wordle craze began and after I bought aggravated by my timeline getting flooded by– Anyway, I digress. Krikket is nice, go comply with her.

Conclusion

Nothing actually modifications. It’s nearly how I’ll use Twitter any further. Instead of doing the annoying little bit of pasting my Twitch hyperlink onto individuals’s timelines, my Twitch hyperlink will simply vibe in my Twitter bio. Instead of frequent “going live” tweets which might solely be escaped by way of the choices “Mute Magi” and “Unfollow Magi”, individuals now have a 3rd possibility that’s a lot, a lot simpler: “Mute this thread.”

I feel it is a good selection. I’ll strive it out and I’ll see the way it goes.

This submit was first printed on Indiecator by Dan Indiecator aka MagiWasTaken. If you want what you see right here and wish to see extra, you’ll be able to test me out on Twitch and YouTube as properly.