Timeline for Would allowing moderators to update their Stack Exchange sites' Twitter accounts improve visibility and offer more value?
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| Aug 11, 2011 at 10:13 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | related request, perhaps support this meta.stackexchange.com/questions/101847/… | |
| Aug 8, 2011 at 22:20 | comment | added | Rahul | @Jeff amazonmp3 isn't a bot though, there are clearly human tweets in there. I get your point - that there are successful bots on Twitter - but it's still primarily a communication platform for people talking to other people (as opposed to RSS, which is meant for software to interpret). Amazonmp3 is a good example of how I would envision mixing bot behaviour with a human touch, though - the odd retweet, comment and link here and there helps balance things away from a constant stream of deals. | |
| Aug 8, 2011 at 21:30 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @rahul twitter is indeed for bots; I follow @amazonmp3 and it's just a listing of great deals on music through Amazon. As a person who has aggressively used Twitter since 2006, I can say with some authority it's useful for both purposes. | |
| Aug 8, 2011 at 17:51 | comment | added | Rahul | I think the problem with that thinking is that you're still relying on a bot to do a human's job, and Twitter isn't for bots. It's for people. As long as StackExchange has bots auto-tweeting links to stuff, we're doing it wrong. I recognise that having humans do it doesn't scale as well as bots, but there has to be some solution that satisfies both requirements. | |
| Aug 8, 2011 at 17:44 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | Maybe the 'bot accounts could RT if specific Twitter accounts used specific #hashtags as well? Just an idea, I'm not sure if this adds anything more than looking for the Twitter account + SE link combo. It might make it easier to identify relevant tweets when URL shorteners are used. | |
| Aug 8, 2011 at 17:26 | history | answered | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 3.0 |