Once again, a re-tweeter for has been developed for this year's SLA conference based on the Twitter API and John Eckman's code. Many thanks to John and our own Karen Huffman for improving on last year's code!
Starting on Saturday May 2, 2009, the sla2009 Twitter account will become a re-tweeter. What's a re-tweeter you ask? It's simple. When a follower of sla2009 posts a tweet with the hashtag #sla2009 in their tweet (probably best at the end of the tweet) that tweet will be posted to the sla2009 account. The username of the person who sent the original tweet will appear at the start of the message followed by a ":".
At conference, there will be a 3 minute delay before tweets are re-tweeted. Leading up to conference the delay will begin at 30 minutes and decrease as we get closer. If you are following sla2009, you will see all of the tweets that are being re-tweeted.
Re-tweeting is helpful for:
- separating out your sla2009 related tweets from your other tweets
- sending broadcast messages (3 minute delay at conference) to all sla2009 followers
- seeing what sla2009 followers are tweeting about without necessarily having to go to the sla2009 page
- creating an archive of tweets on the sla2009 page for future or live analysis
This is an opt-in service. Only your tweets with the hashtag (#sla2009) will be re-tweeted and you must be following sla2009 for it to work. Tweets from protected accounts won't be re-tweeted.
Using a number of tools out there, you can also follow the #sla2009 hashtag:
The re-tweeter is brought to you by the SLA Innovation Laboratory!
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