Foswiki twitters!
Hi Twitter-fans,
Twitter-buzz from Foswiki is ahead! We just revamped our Foswiki-Twitter-user to connect better with other Foswiki-users on twitter and to give better status updates on Twitter. Basically we added a couple additional RSS-feeds via Twitterfeed. That will lead to even more traffic on our Foswiki-account at Twitter. 
What we do with our twitter-account:
- We tweet every single commit in our SVN-system.
- We tweet every blog post in the official Foswiki-Weblog.
- We tweet every change on Foswiki.org’s wiki.
- We follow everybody, that follows us (via TwitterMass).
- We follow everybody, that tweets about Foswiki oder TWiki (via TwitterMass).
- We follow everybody, that tweets about “wiki” and “re”-follows us within 4 days (via TwitterMass).
- We integrate alle Foswiki-Tweets on the Foswiki.org-Homepage
If errors occur please tell us in the comments. He will be happy to help. Please note, that the Foswiki user is not based an human acitivity yet. It might be, that we have trouble with replying and adding you as a follower. But we plan to do it regularly.
What we still need:
- A decent background for our Twitter user?
- A stream of tweets on foswiki.org
Any comments or ideas how to improve that? We are looking forward to your feedback.
By the way: The growing community of Foswiki-lovers would like to warmly welcome you as a contributor for the open-source-enterprise wiki. Wanna know how? See our “How you can help” page. Why not register today on www.foswiki.org and automatically create another tweet on Twitter. 
By the way: All tweets from Foswiki go to our Facebook-Fanpage automatically: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Foswiki/63456981040
I personally think that there is far too much noise on the Foswiki twitter account. Any one else agree/disagree? I would rather it just had more meaningful updates, such as when we realise, or an important plugin is released, or a new blog post.
Still, anything that promotes Foswiki has got to be a good thing
We can have multiple Twitter-accounts also. What would be a set of reasonable tweets in your opinion?
I would say just when a new version of Foswiki is released; or a significant plugin; new blog post; a mention of Foswiki in another blog/news article. Similar to the Project Update on the home page. Things that people who have some interest in Foswiki and want to know whats happening with the project and community but who dont want to know about the SVN commits or the topic changes.
I guess we could have any number of Foswiki accounts: foswiki-svn, foswiki-changes; foswiki-support-changes etc. Obviously it all depends on how much effort it takes and if you/someone else has the time.
I would say, that your request will be fulfilled by simply subscribing to the RSS-feed of the weblog. It will cover those topics. Twitter answers on the question “What are you doing right now?”. That is quite a lot for Foswiki. And that is, what we want to show. It is a good thing if people understand, that Foswiki is a very active community.
With all due respect, I don't think you understand the fact that if a twitterer tweets too much "noise", people will stop following him or her.
You're also missing the point that twitter is supposed to be *personal* – automatic updates of "everything" is called spam.
I agree with @Andrew@ – I would love to see separate accounts. That way as an admin who still hasn't made up my mind on Foswiki, I can subscribe to the blog tweets, important news tweets … etc (that might sway me over) and stay away from bug reports and commits (which I dont care about)…
–ex twitter follower
@mseibert
I think that at least the SVN checkins should go, and leave only the important stuff: Project updates, blog posts, shared links about Foswiki, changes to the development, community and extensions web.
This leads to irrelevant noise. I cannot see why anyone would like to subscribe to the feed, or even visit the twitter page.
Foswiki communication should not be an automated job. It should be humanized. Foswiki is about people.
Cool. We have more than 90 followers up from 35 for our Twitter user now.
Fact is, that the number of followers steadily increases.
But I agree, that a more “human” twitter-behaviour would be cool. I think, that the IRC-integration with our channel is a very good idea.
The first complained about the Foswiki-Twitter-User spamming on Twitter. I think we should reduce the updating of HallofFame from every 30 minutes to once a day.
It is very interesting to see, that our Foswiki-tweets are clicked between two and six times on the average. Most requests come from USA, Canada and Poland. Maybe this is automation. But still I believe, that there are a couple of people, that actively follow the Foswiki-Twitter-User.
Dirk Riehle asked, who creates the manual tweets occasionally. That's me.
– See: http://twitter.com/Foswiki/status/2120842843
Dirk Riehle asked, who creates the manual tweets occasionally. That's me.
– See: http://twitter.com/Foswiki/status/2120842843
I just integrated the mailing list discussions via Nabble.
I just created a new twitter account: https://twitter.com/foswikirocks
Description: "Foswiki rocks is the high traffic twitter account of the Foswiki community. Here is all the buzz that makes the community rock!
"
More info on why is here: http://tr.im/qTcU
Tried out the new Twitter search widget:
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<link href="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/1/widget.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<script>
new TWTR.Widget({
search: 'foswiki OR @foswiki OR #foswiki OR @foswikirocks',
id: 'twtr-search-widget',
loop: true,
title: 'What\\'s being said about…',
subject: 'Foswiki',
width: 250,
height: 300,
theme: {
shell: {
background: '#3082af',
color: '#ffffff'
},
tweets: {
background: '#ffffff',
color: '#444444',
links: '#1985b5'
}
}
}).render().start();
</script>