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The LastFM Love Tweet Twitter mashup was obviously a labour of love for Peter Weitzman, and as he says, it was born out of frustration at seeing other systems auto-generate songs being listened to by other Tweeple.

But I’d recommend not using it for two reasons.

1. Autofeeding any information is annoying. And unless you’re sharing the actual audio of songs you like, it’s pointless – which brings me to 2:

2. Blip.fm.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of last.fm and have a pretty big playlist on there. It’s generally my site of choice for listening to streaming music. But if I want to listen to Tweeple’s music, I head to Blip.fm to get an almost random selection of delights and disasters.

After all, blip.fm is like crowdsourcing John Peel. It’s fun when I’m in the mood, but stumbling across obscure German hardcore trance tends to make me run back to my own selections. And if people start bombarding Twitter with autofeeds, I can’t escape.