Comments on: The270 Prods the Columbus Dispatch to Actively Twitter

By: the 270 :: Your Guide to Columbus and Central Ohio : Welcome Channel 4 to the Twitterverse

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:18:31 +0000

[...] you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Channel 4 twitters! Much like the Dispatch [...]

By: wyliemac

wyliemac — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:19:09 +0000

Aww! Don’t rain on my parade. The trouble with RSS feeds for me, is that I’ve got so many in my reader that I end up not reading them. I can live with the impersonality of the media twits.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:11:18 +0000

I’m _sure_ it was you, but…

a possible alternative scenario is that they reserved a twitter-name and started work on a script to pipe headlines to it? Notice how the first couple of tweets seem tentative and ‘hand-written’… then starting on the 17th it’s nothing but business. Tweets derived from Article head + link. Looks automated to me.

(Which, btw, is why I won’t be following. I like some personality in my twitter-stream. If all I want is headlines, I can subscribe to their RSS.)

By: wyliemac

wyliemac — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:19:09 +0000

Aww! Don't rain on my parade. The trouble with RSS feeds for me, is that I've got so many in my reader that I end up not reading them. I can live with the impersonality of the media twits.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:11:18 +0000

I'm _sure_ it was you, but…

a possible alternative scenario is that they reserved a twitter-name and started work on a script to pipe headlines to it? Notice how the first couple of tweets seem tentative and 'hand-written'… then starting on the 17th it's nothing but business. Tweets derived from Article head link. Looks automated to me.

(Which, btw, is why I won't be following. I like some personality in my twitter-stream. If all I want is headlines, I can subscribe to their RSS.)