social networking and twitter

Mon Mar 30 22:48:11 PDT 2009

Yup...the tag counts, but Twwetdeck, the software I use to twitter has
several handy ways for shortening posts and links, so it's still usually
plenty of characters for a tweet.

c

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Michael Herman
<michael at michaelherman.com>wrote:

> thanks, chris.  that helps.  if even a small group of tweeters start doing
> this, it seems that it starts to establish or claim the tag for our use and
> also create some content for pulling into the website.  i'm glad to do
> what's needed to have that content show up, and it seems best to wait until
> you tweeters tell me that there's a enough volume there to make it worth
> doing.
>
> curious though, do the #openspacetech characters count in the 140 (or
> whatever) limit per tweet?
>
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> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Chris Corrigan <chris.corrigan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Michael:
>>
>> So basically in twitter, the tagging convention is to add a hash mark in
>> front of a word.  So if you make a tweet talking about Barack Obama and you
>> tag it with #obama, it will show up in a query on that tag (here for
>> instance
>> http://twitter.com/search?q=%23obama&source=navbar&category=search)  That
>> query page also produces an RSS feed, same as the other tags we use at
>> flickr and around the blogosphere (openspacetech).  Wordpress has plug ins
>> that will publish twitter feeds on a blog sidebar so if we ever wanted to
>> show Open Space practitioner tweets on the osw sidebar (tagged with
>> #openspacetech for example) it shouldn't be too hard.
>>
>> That's the theory anyway.  Question is really whether enough people are
>> using it or see utility in using it, and I guess that remains to be seen.
>> Perhaps those of us that do tweet OST related stuff could start using the
>> #openspacetech tag (#OST is already in use) and we could see what happens.
>> So I'll start tagging tweets that way.  Here's the first tweet on the new
>> query page: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=openspacetech
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Michael Herman <
>> michael at michaelherman.com> wrote:
>>
>>> maybe it's listserve randomness, or pilot error here... but i didn't see
>>> anything about tweetfeed and osw?  and being a non-tweeter, i don't
>>> understand even now that it's mentioned.  explain what it is and how it
>>> would work, raffi?  and what is required to set it up?  thanks,m
>>>
>>>
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>>> Michael Herman
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>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks all for this rich and passionate conversation!
>>>>
>>>> To those who use tweet:
>>>>
>>>> what do you find to be the benefits of using Twitter? What's different?
>>>> How
>>>> has it enriched your life, your work?
>>>>
>>>> I looked on your blog, Holger, a little. If you think there are any
>>>> posts
>>>> that communicate the value and benefits of Twitter, perhaps you could
>>>> share
>>>> them?
>>>>
>>>> I've been on Facebook for a couple of months and, well, it's nice...
>>>>
>>>> I like the way you framed the value of such applications michael
>>>> (herman).
>>>>
>>>> Thus far, I'd say, that my experience has been that for my tribe, OSlist
>>>> has
>>>> been the most valuable tool. Indeed, I've  made some connections just
>>>> from
>>>> the list that have flowered into full-blown real life friendships.
>>>>
>>>> Also, like Chris's idea of adding an ost tweetfeed to OSW...
>>>>
>>>> warmly,
>>>> raffi
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