However I know a lot of people are like yourself and are now using RSS less, relying on links in twitter to provide posts worth reading. Funnily I am doing a lot less bookmarking with del.icio.us due to twitter and Google Reader.

Hi Amy – can totally see your issue with twitter and the number of characters. It is so frustrating that is there is no quick fix to storing resources and links with twitter.

Hi Sarah – twitter is definitely one of those applications you can’t judge from the outside. Each person is individual. Some really love it and appreciate the value while for others it doesn’t suit them. Most the people in my twitter stream I didn’t know until they started following me but now they are an important part of my community ; freely offering help and support. Twitter doesn’t have to be a distraction if you learn to use it effectively.

Hi David – glad you liked the pictures of tweetscan. I did think about including screenshots of the email system but was being lazy.

Hi Beth – glad you like the idea of TweetScan but as you point out in your later post it’s not an easy solution. But nothing seems to be a quick fix to this issue.

Another thought I had is to tackle it another way – set up a twitter account called Nptech. Get all NPtech people to follow this account but NPtech account doesn’t follow people back. Use the NPtech account to only send important links and get all followers to send information to it using @NPtech this way only the most important information will be shared. The only problem will be that everyone will need to subscribe to feed from the twitter account.

One other thing is if you don’t like rss all that much, like Allison above, you can save up to five tracking terms in Tweet Scan’s settings and run through them whenever you want with the Click >> button. I modeled it after Google’s Next button which I found to be a cool way to read posts in rss feeds.

- Amy Gahran

I’ve find through twitter (http://twitter.com/theother66) that I’m now reading lots more blogs – which have been recommended by others – so they’re worth reading. No feeling of ‘too many feeds to read’ anxiety either.

I’ve also found since joining the twitter community that I’ve actually done a lot more bookmarking into del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/imillera) – again with all the great websites fellow twitters have been recommending.

Thanks for another great blog post Sue.