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A few months ago, I create 2 Twitter feeds: http://twitter.com/applelinks http://twitter.com/applelinks and http://twitter.com/applestuff http://twitter.com/app
by nir 17y ago
A few months ago, I create 2 Twitter feeds:
http://twitter.com/applelinks http://twitter.com/applelinks and http://twitter.com/applestuff http://twitter.com/applestuff
Each of these based on an RSS mix of the same 8 or so Apple-centered websites.
@applelinks tries to filter them for quality, by posting only links that appear in more than one feed or link from one feed to another. Also, it runs the URLs past delicious.com to add a few relevant #tags.
@applestuff does none of that. It just posts every item that appears in every feed, prefixed each with the same #apple tag.
Both of these started on the very same day. None of them was promoted etc. Current results: 229 subscriber for @applestuff, 66 subscribers for @applelinks.
- ankeshk 17y agoInteresting. But maybe - thats not a spam / poor quality issue. Maybe thats a higher quantity = higher frequency on search.twitter.com issue which is leading to more followers.
- nir 17y agoAbsolutely. The thing is, if the system rewards frequent posting, by definition this harms the average post quality. (In fairness, I think the same is true for blogs etc. I used to think RSS readers could fix this, but Twitter is basically an RSS reader - you don't have to visit someone's page to see their new tweets - yet it's at least as spam-rewarding)
- onreact-com 17y agoAutomated RSS aggregator Twitter bots are boring and annoying. I never follow them.
- nir 17y agoI know, that's why I was surprised to get 229 followers on that bot :)
- onreact-com 17y ago229 other bots autofollowing whenever the apple keyword gets mentioned.
- nir 17y agoNot unlikely..
- paulgb 17y agoIt looks like a lot of the followers of each are spam accounts. They are probably bots that follow anyone who searches for a certain topic. For some reason @applelinks creates its own bit.ly links while @applestuff re-uses them, so unfortunately we can't use clicks to see if either feed is read more by real people.