Re: When should we tweet?
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 8:34 PM, Sriram Ramkrishnawrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 4:52 AM Allan Day wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Andreas Nilsson >> wrote: >> ... >> >> Is there an easy way to track visibility, impact etc. of twitter posts? >> Apart from the obvious counting the number of favs and retweets? >> >> >> There are a bunch of tools that can calculate the best time to tweet. >> Most of them require that you give them access to your account. Would we be >> happy to do that? (I did try one that didn't require access to our account, >> but it told me we didn't have enough posts/retweets for it to be able to >> work.) >> > > Possibly? It would be nice to be able to come up with tools ourselves > like this and possibly help other projects who might want to do the same > thing. > > >> >> Either way, I think we'd have to try posting at different times of the >> day prior to running any analytics, in order to have some data to work >> from. This could be an argument for being a bit more random in the times of >> day that we tweet (ie. three posts a day, eight hours apart, but varying >> the "base" time). >> >> > We really need a tool that will allow us to schedule posts on twitter. > That way, you can write 3 versions of the same tweet on the spot and them > schedule them for tweeting. Otherwise, you have to be more focused about > the tweeting which I feel will be harder to accomplish. > You can schedule posts on twitter via tweetdeck. > > sri > > >> Allan >> >> >> >> ___ >> engagement-list mailing list >> engagement-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list >> > > ___ > engagement-list mailing list > engagement-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list > > -- Rosanna Yuen Director of Operations GNOME Foundation, Inc. ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
Re: When should we tweet?
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 4:52 AM Allan Daywrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Andreas Nilsson > wrote: > ... > > Is there an easy way to track visibility, impact etc. of twitter posts? > Apart from the obvious counting the number of favs and retweets? > > > There are a bunch of tools that can calculate the best time to tweet. Most > of them require that you give them access to your account. Would we be > happy to do that? (I did try one that didn't require access to our account, > but it told me we didn't have enough posts/retweets for it to be able to > work.) > Possibly? It would be nice to be able to come up with tools ourselves like this and possibly help other projects who might want to do the same thing. > > Either way, I think we'd have to try posting at different times of the day > prior to running any analytics, in order to have some data to work from. > This could be an argument for being a bit more random in the times of day > that we tweet (ie. three posts a day, eight hours apart, but varying the > "base" time). > > We really need a tool that will allow us to schedule posts on twitter. That way, you can write 3 versions of the same tweet on the spot and them schedule them for tweeting. Otherwise, you have to be more focused about the tweeting which I feel will be harder to accomplish. sri > Allan > > > > ___ > engagement-list mailing list > engagement-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list > ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
Re: Tweeting from events
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Tobias Muellerwrote: ... > On Mi, 2016-11-30 at 12:46 +, Allan Day wrote: > > One option might be to give temporary access to @gnome for the duration > of an event > There is Tweetdeck or whatever it's called. With that, you can give > other Twitter accounts access to a then shared account. > ... Indeed. We recently started using that for @gnome, and it provides a fairly straightforward way to grant temporary access to someone. Allan ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list