On Sat, 23 May 2009, 'Dragon' Dave McKee wrote: > Approximately on topic: > http://mptweets.tyoc.co.uk/ > Sets up twitter feeds based on TWFY data.
Cute. The single most useful automated twitter feed I subscribe to is one that tells me what the weather is going to be later today - ie, it talks about the future, rather than the past. Twitter's main benefit is it's real time nature; and saying "this happened yesterday in Parliament" doesn't really use it in a way that isn't just a very short RSS feed reader. What it would take to use some of the information in PW policies/TWFY speeches about upcoming bills/votes? Or even a button that says "tweet me whenever this bill is going to come up again". Or something that lets you do something, rather than find out that it would have been handy to have done something 2 days ago. Knowing what someone said yesterday is useful background information; knowing what they're going to be voting on tomorrow has direct impact on democracy. One lots of things currently ignore. Cheers Sam -- Murphy's revenge: The more reliable you make a system, the longer it will take you to figure out what's wrong when it breaks. _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
