On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 16:12, Nicholas S<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I would very much appreciate the groups help on this. I work for a > local city government in Florida and we are trying to look into using > Twitter to help make government more transparent and engaged with our > community. BUT I need very technical information on how messaging is > handled in twitter, to understand what needs to be retained for Public > Records laws. > > 1. Senerio set-up: User2 is "replying" to User1. When User2 replies to > User1 using the message {...@user1 thats a great idea} is there any > message sent (similar to how email is sent) where the message actually > travels to User1?
By default no. User1 could have SMS delivery setup and any messages would get sent to their cellphone. > -or- > Does User1's twitter program search User2's twitter posting looking > for @User1 and then if found directs User1 to User2's content? Similar > to a search engine where it (twitter) would run a search finding the > content @User1 and then saying "Here is a reply go here or get it from > here". This is one way of doing it. User1 could have an application that pulls the content to a desktop application, cellphone application or some other kind of integration. > > --- To get into it further if I reply to @noname and noname isnt a > valid acount/ it doesnt exist. Does that message get transmitted > anywhere. > It depends on the type of message. If it is a DM/PM Twitter will refuse to accept the DM. If it is an @-reply anyone following your account could have the tweet delivered to them in a number of ways. > Lets start with that as its confusing enough. Basicly if a message is > transmitted to a government on twitter they are public record and need > to be retained. > Hope this clarifies some. Abraham -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
