All Paper.li needs is one recommendation from a Social Media Influencer for people to stop hating it. I don’t see the difference between a re-tweet that credits the author and a tweet from a Paper.li daily. Did you know that the people who sign up for these dailies don’t choose the content? The content gets pulled into the newspaper-style site much like any RSS reader, and the names that are tweeted are chosen by Paper.li’s algorithm. Do you use Google Reader? Do you RT other people’s content? Do you look for updates from an influencer’s blog just to send it through Twitter via a “Amazing post from @someone on how to be awesome”? I took a sample of my own Twitter timeline. It includes approximately 2000 tweets spanning a 40 minute time period. I suggest those who “hate” the dailies do the same to see just how many re-tweets show up in their timeline because it’s, essentially, the same idea. At least this site allows you to go to one place to look at all the content.
Here are some things to consider:
- A tweet from Paper.Li often connects you to people who you may not know
- A tweet from Paper.Li likely features content that you’re associated with through a similar hashtag or follower. It might be worthwhile to check it out.
- If you use a third party application such as TweetDeck, you.can.filter.it.out. Just use the global filter and filter “paper.li” as a source.
- You can stop the mentions by sending a tweet to @NewsCrier
People are entitled to like what they like. You’re entitled to complain. What is the use of complaining, though, if you don’t find a solution to your problem? I don’t like seeing certain trending topics or words showing up in my timeline, so into the global filter they go. I don’t offend the people who might actually like following me and sharing my content by ranting about something that, ultimately, helps aggregate all the great links that are tweeted on a daily basis.
Oh. One more thing for people who are fans of “do follow” links: Try checking your Firefox or Chrome SEO extension to see if any of the links in Paper.li are no follow.
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Apologies, but was this blog post written in response to something specific that people have said about Paper.li? I think I am missing a bit of context of this debate, and this seems particularly evident after reading the penultimate paragraph. Would you be able to summarize the key points of those opposed to Paper.li, since you appear to be on the pro-Paper.li side?
Thanks.
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Hey there. Thank you for the comment. The arguments I’ve seen from people who don’t like it include: it’s spammy, it seems arrogant, etc….I have yet to see someone say they don’t like being included in the paper itself or suggest why there is something wrong with it other than those few listed.
Well said Chanelle, while they’re far from perfect, I’m a fan of paper.lis. If nothing else it’s a good way to catch up on posts you don’t normally get time to read from your timeline.
I handpick who I mention in my tweets, try to spread the love & attention, it’s a good way of getting onto people’s radar. I just wish the tweet it generates applied sensible length of intro text, I always have to cut mine down so it says Today’s posts from: instead of the stupidly long winded option it gives by default!
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Thank you, Jools! I like the time saving aspect of it, so I let it do the automated tweet first. I go back and read through the content, then tweet what I like afterwards. I am, however, not using it on my personal account but on my genychat account because I knew from the start that it was a more focused group of people with similar interests.
I didn’t realize that people were having an issue with the paper.li dailies. I like them. I’ve created two. They show up in my feed just as any other tweet does, so not sure why it would be considered spam. Though I opted for auto-posting for time reasons, I did prefer when I manually posted only so that I could choose who would be mentioned. Since I have some people in my feed who tweet excessively (if that’s possible) they tend to show up often and since a lot of people don’t realize that we don’t curate the content, paper.li does, it seems as though I am always choosing to highlight the same people. Still, nothing’s perfect, so I’m ok with it.
I tried manually choosing people to tweet, as well, but I chose the paper.li newspaper because it curated the content for me. I love to read the tweets I get on a daily basis, and I thought other people enjoyed it, too. Lol. Can’t please all the people all the time, I guess.