Twitter > Google Plus

I noticed today that Google is trying to leverage their search monopoly into social meda again: at Google News, they now show you how many circles an author is in. I took a few minutes to look at Google Plus again today.

I don't much like either Facebook or Google Plus. I essentially don't post anything at Facebook, although I have my posts from Twitter set to show up there automatically. I would do the same for Google Plus except that (as far as I can tell) they've made that essentially impossible. I did see this fabulous post that details a craptastic way to do it (via GMail via Google Voice!) I'm not willing to do that.

At Google Plus, they have a "Connect accounts to your Google Profile", which I did for my twitter account -- I thought maybe that would work. Nope -- it just adds a little link onto my profile page. Gee, thanks.

I searched quite a bit for something that will let you post at twitter and have your posts gatewayed to Google Plus. There are dozens of pages that describe ways to gateway your content from Google Plus to Twitter, but none the other way. Then, I realized I was searching (dum, dum, DUM) using GOOGLE!!! O_O I even switched to Bing to see if I got more results that way. Nope, not really.

I don't particularly love Twitter, but I much prefer to skim my Twitter feed than either Facebook or Google Plus -- mainly because I don't like to have the stream broken up by images. I like to see words and I really, really like that the posts have to be short. If someone wants to write a blog post, then they should write a blog post. Crafting a message to fit in 140 characters takes both skill and effort: I'm willing to reward people who take the time and effort to do that thoughtfully.

I'm sometimes willing to participate in threaded discussions at Facebook -- and I would be at Google Plus if my content appeared there. But I don't really care to post directly in either either of them.