I haven't found such widgets to be much of a traffic getter or traffic keeper. I'm in the process of pulling them off my web sites. I put them up originally for specific purposes - during the openSUSE 11.2 beta cycle, I had one monitoring for mentions of openSUSE, during the 30 Hour Day telethon I had them up for that, etc. But it's easy to do.
On Jan 13, 9:28 pm, Ken Dobruskin <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter, just to expand on your remark, it should be straightforward to > integrate a twitter-api search thingy into the Wordpress workflow or that of > other similar CMS, to provide some control over content published on a > corporate website. By all means publish the social content, just weed out the > irrelevant, silly or gnarly stuff. > > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:33:51 -0800 > Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] How to monitor our brand by Streaming API > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Its pretty easy to build a widget, from fetching the results, parsing them, > and presenting them, twitter makes it easy to do. > > With all that extra time, your developers should be able to find global stop > lists of words that prevent displays of harassing/vulgar/racist language and > continue to add rules as you go to create a content stream that works for > your company. > > Don't get me wrong, Ken's points are very valid, however, I personally feel > if you have a company people talk about, show other people this content. 1 > page of perfectly written marketing isn't going to reach me as much as 10 > tweets saying, I really really love this product. (imo) > > Regards > Peter > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Ken Dobruskin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I don't know anything about Wordpress or plugins, but is there any moderation > workflow built into these widgets? I just had to cringe at the silly results > produced by the indiscriminate use of a twitter search feed by one colleague > from a highly respectable international organisation. It's not a matter of > censoring negative remarks about your brand - evidently you are prepared for > that. But what happens when someone says something really, really dumb, > vulgar or racist involving your searchterm? Can you handle all the world's > languages? It could be a fun opportunity for spammers or competitors! Even > assuming that your brandname is universally unambiguous and could only ever > refer to your business, you may be in for a case of 'irrelevant automated > content syndrome'. > > Have fun! > > Ken > > > > > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:31:49 -0800 > > Subject: [twitter-dev] How to monitor our brand by Streaming API > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > > Dear Developers, > > > We would like to monitor what have been tweeted about our brand and we > > would like to publish this up to minute > > > tweets on our wp based blog > > > What should be the best WP-Plugin coded by Twitter Search Streaming > > API ? > > > Thank you for your help, > > > Best Regards, > > Keep your friends updated— even when you’re not signed in. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Keep your friends updated—even when you’re not signed > in.http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-act...
