Re: When should we tweet?

[Rosanna Yuen]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 8:34 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna  wrote:

>
>
> 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.


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> sri
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Re: Tweeting from events

[Allan Day]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Tobias Mueller 
wrote:
...

> 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
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Re: When should we tweet?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

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.

sri


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