Neatorama Update: Environmental Graffiti Interview and Twitter

By Alex in Blogs & Internet, Neatorama Exclusives on Jun 22, 2009 at 4:06 pm

Environmental Graffiti Interview

Karl Fabricius of Environmental Graffiti has just posted an interview with me about Neatorama and how the blog came to be. Actually it’s a story I’ve never told anyone online – so it’s a neat exclusive for Environmental Graffiti. Here’s the interview: Link – Thanks Karl, that was a treat!

Neatorama on Twitter!

A while ago, I posted about Neatorama’s account on Twitter. Long story short, we got the account @neatorama back amicably from a fan (Thanks Mike!) … and now am wondering what we should do with it.

Should we continue displaying Neatorama’s posts (using Twitterfeed?) or should we do Twitter only content (like mini-posts)? Or both? What do you think?

The only thing we’ve decided so far is that we should do twitter-only contests – so if you’re on Twitter, here’s Neatorama Twitter page: Link


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  1. issueperson
    Jun 22nd, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    I like the idea of twitter-only mini posts. A person can get a list of the latest posts using a blog reader.

  2. Sidd
    Jun 22nd, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    no twitter posts please, its just more site to read everyday, but if you update both twitter and the site thats cool. twitter only contests sound good

  3. vonskippy
    Jun 22nd, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    So putting the account into into a shoebox, filling the box up with cement, and then tossing the boat anchor into the ocean is not one of the options?

  4. richard
    Jun 22nd, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    tweet that twitter is retarded

  5. Sammy
    Jun 22nd, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    No twitter posts! Twitter only contests are ok, though

  6. Johnny Cat
    Jun 22nd, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    Nice interview, and I love the origin story of the name, Neatorama. The mention of guest bloggers who have come and gone made me think: “Alas, poor Yayo. I knew him well.”

  7. poppedculture
    Jun 22nd, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    if your Twitter feed is just the same as the site, I’ll stick with the site. If there is something more on Twitter – comments, links that didn’t quite make it, etc., I’ll be all over it.

  8. zoomba
    Jun 22nd, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    You already have a website, why do you need a Twitter feed?

  9. Alex
    Jun 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    I’m leaning toward Twitter-only content – it doesn’t make much sense to me just to run the feed through Twitter, though that has been the way it was set-up before we got the account officially.

    I think a combo of Twitter-only content and Neatorama exclusives/particularly good posts is the way to go.

  10. squishyglobe
    Jun 22nd, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    I think neatorama is best in its current format. I am always eager to look at the latest posts every day, or a few times a day. That said, I don’t want to have to look in two places. Please don’t post exclusives on twitter. I can see how a time dependent contest would be well served by twitter, but other than that, I don’t see much of a point.

    To be fair, I dislike twitter very much. I’m all for technological progress, being 22 and all, but there are various things about twitter that rub me the wrong way.

  11. Tim Giachetti
    Jun 23rd, 2009 at 8:54 am

    Ahhh ya lost me on the Twit er.

    It’s a banal and ignorant place to be. More a flame game than the old yahoo chat rooms. Really alex, please reconsider. Twitter is for twats.

  13. xadrian
    Jun 25th, 2009 at 10:37 am

    Not a fan of sites that x-post updates AND twitter feeds. Hard enough to keep up with RSS.

    Contests? Good. Site updates w/o content? Good.


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