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- ashishbharthi 17y agoMay be RT some good tweets from YC members, News, updates.
- andrewljohnson 17y agoI would like to hear quality PG essays, or rather similar new content condensed to Twitter format. Also, it's always good to retweet interesting things the people you follow say, or things that get said over the course of YC presentations and the like.
- philwelch 17y ago"I would like to hear quality PG essays, or rather similar new content condensed to Twitter format." Not impossible! pg's written one-sentence essays--he just noted once in this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554907 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554907) that "you have to attribute them to someone else". Oddly enough there is a http://twitter.com/taraploughman http://twitter.com/taraploughman I think this might be one of the best uses of Twitter, personally--one sentence essays. Isn't that what shitmydadsays boils down to?
- andrewljohnson 17y ago@shitmydadsays is my favorite twitterer :) I also like @kurt_vonnegut... he is a bot my friend set up that tweets quotes from the dead author. Other good people are @ev, @kn0thing, @raganwald, @jwc, @jeresig... people you might expect would be good. @kn0thing keeps me on top of my reddits :)
- prawn 17y agoCheck out @fireland and also read his past tweets. Probably not to everyone's tastes, but I think he's hilarious. You can check out some of his best efforts at FavStar: http://favstar.fm/users/fireland http://favstar.fm/users/fireland
- pierrefar 17y agoClickable: http://twitter.com/ycombinator http://twitter.com/ycombinator
- maxklein 17y agoIf I would chart the timedate of when various yc people or companies get followed by the ycombinator account, I bet I would have a lot of information about what is currently happening at the office. But I'm too lazy and I don't really care.
- adrianwaj 17y agoSwitch on Posterous auto-tweet into that stream. - Also, I'd switch on commenting on the Posterous blog, or else place a link under each article to the HN entry.
- vaksel 17y agoI would like to hear announcements of new YC company launches. That way people can see a list of all companies YC funded by following the twitter feed.
- jedc 17y agoI second this, and would include major follow-up launches, too.
- notauser 17y agoIt would also be good to see some announcement of launches by HNers (not just YC funded). Set a cap of 2-3k karma or something to keep the volume down - a bit of promotion would be a nice reward for those who do a lot to keep the community going. (Plus it'd be interesting.)
- hendler 17y agoIf the twitter YC account follows mostly YC Alumns, that's pretty useful in itself for keeping up with the brands and people that have graduated.
- adrianwaj 17y agocan just setup a few lists: companies / founders / current batch companies / current batch founders
- BerislavLopac 17y agoIt would be helpful if they created Twitter lists, separating alumni by the year and season when they joined...
- pkaler 17y agoCurate lists of YC companies, founders, VCs, etc.
- bradgessler 17y agoYes, I'd like to see a /ycombinator/founders list and a /ycombinator/companies list.
- riklomas 17y agoOn a slightly related note, the @newsycombinator bot hit 10,000 followers yesterday: http://twitter.com/newsycombinator http://twitter.com/newsycombinator
- twidlit 17y agoI would like minute details and stream of thoughts during key YC moments. :) also what PG is having for breakfast - everyday.
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- blasdel 17y agoI would enjoy that unironically — play to the strengths of the medium, don't just syndicate stuff from elsewhere. Post pithy commentary, triumphant twitpics of shit you're doing, praise/respond/slam others on the web talking about you (via RT where sensible) selectively respond to @repiles, etc.
- twidlit 17y agoexactly!