On Dec 29, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Chris Little wrote: > > > On 12/29/2009 7:48 PM, Matthew Talbert wrote: >>> Does anyone think this is just a stupid idea? With Twitter's character >>> limit, most of our updates will be cut off to some degree, but at least it >>> gets (some of) the information out there. >> >> Not sure if you're asking about Twitter in general or twitterfeed, but >> anyway. I used to think twitter was pretty pointless, but I'm starting >> to get what it's all about now. With Google now getting into the live >> search thing, it definitely raises awareness on the web in general to >> have tweets about a project. > > Either one really. :) I'm not sure I get the point of Twitter yet myself. > > But the use of Twitterfeed was what I'm really uncertain about. I'd rather > have something semi-automated than have to watch for updates and twitter them > manually. I just changed the Twitterfeed settings a bit, so that they only > twitter the article titles, which should prevent cut off messages now. > > For modules, I'll write a modified RSS feed better suited to Twitter's > constraints. I'm not sure whether updates to beta modules should be twittered > as well.
I think that Twitter is becoming more important now that most businesses and software projects (both open-source and commercial) are posting news there. I like the article title idea much better. If people are interested, they will click the link to get the full story. Nice work Chris :) > >> I'd suggest a shorter hash tag; #sword seems fairly unused. Perhaps we >> can all use that for sword and frontend related tweets? > > Sounds good. I added a #sword suffix to all of posts coming via Twitterfeed. > > --Chris > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page Ian --------------- There's no place like 127.0.0.1 http://flynnsarcade.net/ _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
