There are two reasons why Twitter feeding doesn’t work at Buzz. First and foremost, Buzz doesn’t capture tweets live, one at a time. Buzz grabs them in groups which can flood everyone’s Buzz stream, where you can’t see anything BUT one person’s tweets – pages of them sometimes. Collapsed groups of these tweets sometimes show up, but then if we open the group, we flood our own stream if it hasn’t already been.

Secondly and maybe even more important, though is that tweets are most times, short (character limited) conversations, out of context, on another service (twitter) which make no sense when fed to any other social site. (Not just Buzz). And Buzz is all about engaging conversations. While posting at another social site, you aren’t actually at Buzz to carry on an impending conversation.

While posted links might be of interest (from Twitter), those links generate conversations (and not just “rebuzzes”). And when someone is tweeting, they aren’t at Buzz, minding their posts to participate in these initiated conversations. And those are the people we love to follow. Those that don’t just post, but participate in what they and others post.

I hope this helps explain Buzz a little more to your readers that are just starting to use the service.

While I have Twitter linked to my profile at Buzz, I have my Twitter profile (designated as such), and not my actual Twitter feed. Now that you can certainly do with no feed issues there. I highly recommend using other services for posting to more than one site. I use toolbars, bookmarklets and Google Reader which makes for quick posting, and the ability to quickly decide which post is better suited for each individual service.

Thanks for your post, and bringing attention to how Tweets can sometimes be perceived on other services.