CPCwiki down ?

[gerald]

Isn't bookmarking Themis Papassilekas (@krakout) op Twitter enough ? Just look there when you have a doubt, and you do not need to have an account.

[Gryzor]

@AMSDOS : what are you talking about mate? Just because you don't want to use a Twitter client you want Twitter to turn into the largest (by far) sender of emails on the internet? Twitter is Twitter, it's not an email service. There's too much dribble everywhere, what does that mean?

@mr_lou : not going to implement a new platform when there are several already out there. As @gerald said (thanks mate), there's already a service that can notify users. You want to use RSS (I'm a big fan of RSS feeds, but very few people use mailers with RSS functionality), be my guest: TwitRSS.me - rss of twitter user feeds by screenscraping with perl , twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter , How to add Twitter feeds to Feedly or how to add RSS feeds to Hootsuite [QUICK .

The farthest I would go would be to create a separate twitter account for CPCWiki status updates, since on my main Twitter account I tweet about lots more stuff than the Wiki itself.

[AMSDOS]

@AMSDOS : what are you talking about mate? Just because you don't want to use a Twitter client you want Twitter to turn into the largest (by far) sender of emails on the internet? Twitter is Twitter, it's not an email service. There's too much dribble everywhere, what does that mean?

Not a deliver of Tweets from everyone, a deliver of Tweets from people you follow, which is what they already do via the phone. Otherwise what's the point of not receiving Tweets from people you follow?


If they cannot manage sending vast emails then they should at least bulk up what followers having been posting each day so we can see what's been going on.

[Gryzor]

Argh, that's what I mean man... do you know how many tweets there are? 500 million per day. Send each one of them to the followers of the accounts where the tweets originated and you get billions and billions of emails on a daily basis.

Just get a twitter client and get done with it.

[AMSDOS]

I wouldn't be getting 500 Million a day from people I follow, which is my point. I'm only referring to people like you who send stuff out. Personally I haven't moved to this new phone technology which in ables me to have a "client", if I decided to get one of those "i" devices I guess it would be a pad, though I'm not even sure if those things are available.

[Gryzor]

For the love of god, mate, it's not that complicated! *YOU* would not be getting 500 million per day, you could maybe get 50 emails, but that total of 500 million tweets would have to be delivered to EACH FOLLOWER of the originating account!!!

Also, there are Twitter clients for Windows and Mac (and presumably Linux too), AND you can just log onto Twitter and see your timeline in a browser. Things are simple enough, and no need to keep hammering on a totally impractical idea.

[AMSDOS]

For the love of god, mate, it's not that complicated! *YOU* would not be getting 500 million per day, you could maybe get 50 emails, but that total of 500 million tweets would have to be delivered to EACH FOLLOWER of the originating account!!!

Also, there are Twitter clients for Windows and Mac (and presumably Linux too), AND you can just log onto Twitter and see your timeline in a browser. Things are simple enough, and no need to keep hammering on a totally impractical idea.

It wouldn't be a impractical idea if it was a single email which consisted of tweets from your followers, if you got lots of tweets in the hour then perhaps an email with all those messages in them, every once in a while I get an email like that from the CPCWiki telling me what the latest posts are on it, if your site could do that, then a big conglomerate like Twitter could easily do that. That's if Twitter want my business, instead of sending out some stupid "We noticed you haven't visited us in a while" pointless email.

[Gryzor]

With almost 300 million active users and hundreds of milions more of inactive ones it would still mean hundreds and hundreds of millions of emails daily. The Wiki sends a few dozens per month . And again: WHY on earth do it that way? Again: Twitter is NOT an email service. Just visit them.

[mr_lou]

@mr_lou : not going to implement a new platform when there are several already out there. As @gerald said (thanks mate), there's already a service that can notify users. You want to use RSS (I'm a big fan of RSS feeds, but very few people use mailers with RSS functionality), be my guest: TwitRSS.me - rss of twitter user feeds by screenscraping with perl , twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter , How to add Twitter feeds to Feedly or how to add RSS feeds to Hootsuite [QUICK .

I wouldn't go as far as to call it a new platform, since it's really just editing of an XML file that is online somewhere.

Of the 3 RSS-converters you linked to, the first one doesn't work for me, and the 2 others seems to be a service that the twitter account owner (meaning you) has to set up?
But even if it worked, it would mean that I'd be getting all of your tweets, which (no offence) isn't that interesting to me.
(Although the "Diary of an 80's Computer Geek" was a bit interesting since it reminds me a bit of my own current RetroMag project).

Anyway, I can settle for bookmarking your Twitter page and looking if/when I'm curious why CPCwiki is down, and when it might be up again.

The farthest I would go would be to create a separate twitter account for CPCWiki status updates, since on my main Twitter account I tweet about lots more stuff than the Wiki itself.

No need to do that on my account, since I will only be looking when there are issues with the CPCwiki anyway.

[MaV]

The farthest I would go would be to create a separate twitter account for CPCWiki status updates, since on my main Twitter account I tweet about lots more stuff than the Wiki itself.

Uh, not needed. Real men scroll down your page and look for the juicy bits.

[mr_lou]

Uh, not needed. Real men scroll down your page and look for the juicy bits.

....exactly how many real men do you think we are in this community?

[MaV]

....exactly how many real men do you think we are in this community?

I wasn't thinking about anyone in particular. Take it as a general statement that a second twitter account is completely unnecessary.

[MacDeath]

...1000 tweets...

that's about 2357 characters at best (according to ridiculously low tweet character limit), not even close to my average in 1 multiple-time-edited-while-drunk posts here...   

and not even as offensive.

[AMSDOS]

With almost 300 million active users and hundreds of milions more of inactive ones it would still mean hundreds and hundreds of millions of emails daily. The Wiki sends a few dozens per month . And again: WHY on earth do it that way? Again: Twitter is NOT an email service. Just visit them.

The social media network I use has around 3 Million, it wouldn't be at it's peak now, but when it was there were a lot of people using it and I was literally getting heaps of emails from it as well as emails of people sending stuff to me which was of stuff from various users all gathered together and sent only to me, sure it may not be the same scale as twitter, but I've never heard of these sites complain because there was too many users, it must be possible to automate and if twitter simply made it an option which were initially disabled , they would probably find a few of those hundred million/billion wouldn't be bothered turning it on.

[Gryzor]

Yeah, but you're not explaining why the fuck they would do it. As I said time and time again, it wouldn't be twitter any more.

You can stay with the social medium you mentioned...

[Neil79]

Hello guys,

That's why you can follow me on Twitter, I always send out updates there

You're that annoying Krakout bloke that retweets my stuff 

[Gryzor]

Yup, I lack creativity

[AMSDOS]

It would still be twitter because you would still have to get on it and post a tweet, the only difference being there would be an email with a list of all the tweets on it, instead of having no idea what's being written, and then when I finally get on having to sort through a needle in a haystack of tweets, some are funny, others seem personal and others get missed.

[Gryzor]

So don't follow those who don't post enough signal/noise. Simple. But I guess it's "simpler" getting the list of tweets in an email instead of using the client/web page. Yeah, right.

Ok, I'm done with this discussion, I'm sorry but just try to start a social medium that delivers content through email and watch how much engagement you get. I can't say anything else.