Twitter and theregister. Why it doesn't work A while ago a very nice anonymous reader set up a feed to pump out an all our stories feed at http://twitter.com/theregister. He or she did this without asking us, but hey! This unofficial reregister feed attracted 1,951 followers. Not massive, but we weren't complaining. But then, on December 11, this Twitter stopped feeding …
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They sorted a pretty much identical problem for me, no questions asked. (It was a twitter account in my company's name, although my company has a pretty generic name; they hadn't used it for six months; twitter turned it over to me)
That's two of us heading towards the half century then! Can you imagine what the Health & Safety twonks would have to say about them these days.... acrylic shards and all that!
Ah well, thanks for taking me back to more innocent times - I can almost smell the grape bazooka bubble gum!
As for the yoof, you know how to STFW
Organise a Twitter FLASH MOB.
* Find us a Twitter employee or official Twitter site.
* Write an article showing us the specific user we should twitter and what we should twitter.
* Tell us the EXACT time/date (make sure it works reasonably well across time Zones AND it's likely to be in the receivers time zone).
Then we all obey like sheep - job done.....
This will NOT be a "Denial of Service attack", this will be a "Demand of Service" attack...
So do you, Reg.
You have a perfectly decent RSS feed for new stories, a website that lists them clearly, and stories that are broken into useful sized pages and include words and thoughts and opinions. Plus a moderatrix.
WTF are you doing touching Twitter in any "official" context? I thought we all aspired to something better than eyeballing a succession of tweets? If this is what it has come down to, I despair. Really I do.
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... you lot complaining about ElReg using twitter have obvioulsy forgotton that theregister is a business and needs to make money, when your a business working on the internet you need to attract more visitors so distrubuting your content on as many channels as possible is usually a good thing, especially when those channels are cost effective. In this case using Twitter is pretty much free bar the minimal admin time of an employee every once in a while.
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