Hi, 2009/5/24 Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk>: > John Pinner wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> 2009/5/24 Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk>: >> >>> >>> John Pinner wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> 2009/5/24 Christian Scholz <c...@comlounge.net>: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Zeth wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> Who was running the Europython twitter account? It seems woefully out >>>>>> of >>>>>> date. >>>>>> >>>>>> http://twitter.com/europython >>>>>> >>>>>> If someone shares with me the password, I will write some new posts >>>>>> there. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yes, I am. It should be fed by the blog RSS feed automatically but I >>>>> wil >>>>> send you the password later today. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Is the account working? It claims to be following me, and I've tagged >>>> a couple of things #europython, but my (rare) tweets do not appear on >>>> it. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Unless it is setup as an auto-retweet bot (which it shouldn't be IMO) >>> then >>> it wouldn't repeat your messages. It should be tweeting new posts to the >>> EuroPython blog. >>> >> >> Well I'll leave all this stuff to you modern young social networking >> whipper-snappers, but to my simple mind: >> >> * Christian says it's taking new blog posts and tweeting them, the >> reverse of what you say, >> > > Sorry - my meaning was unclear - parentheses or better punctuation would > have helped. I meant that new posts to the EP blog would be tweeted. > >> * If I follow you, I see your tweets, so why is this not the same with ep, >> > > If you were logged in as the ep twitter you would see your posts. If I > follow you I don't see posts from everyone you follow. > >> * With how it is no, it seems pointless! >> > > Unless it is used to send messages it is pointless! > > There was a PyCon twitter account which was setup to retweet messages sent > directly to it which was very useful during PyCon. > > If you sent a message like: > > @pycon Birds of a feather starting in Runcorn room in five minutes. > > It would tweet the following message (seen by anyone following it): > > Birds of a feather starting in Runcorn room in five minutes. (From > @someone) > > This was driven by a Python script which may be available somewhere. Should > I look into it?
Please! Of course, after EP we should all know about because of Andreas Schreiber's talk. Thanks, John -- _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list Europython-improve@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
