tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:/discussions/suggestions/7-twittert-account-tweet-rateRubyGems.org: Discussion 2011-04-07T20:59:26Ztag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/13137302010-03-25T23:17:58Z2010-03-25T23:17:58ZTwittert account: tweet rate<div><p>Why not use the RSS feed instead?</p></div>Eric Hodeltag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/13137302010-03-26T01:07:39Z2010-03-26T01:07:39ZTwittert account: tweet rate<div><p>I follow @RubyGems (along with 600 other accounts) so it's just
noise to me. I think the purpose of the account is to be high
volume since it really is a real-time stream.</p>
<p>I'll propose a challenge: Using the gem webhook system, can you
have a twitter account that spits out rubygem updates for every
rubygem that is updated, yet doesn't tweet as often? I'm honestly
not sure how you would do it while still making each gem release
retweetable (the original purpose of having the account)</p></div>Nick Quarantotag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/13137302010-03-26T11:51:14Z2010-03-26T11:51:18ZTwittert account: tweet rate<div><p>I agree with you Nick. The purpose of the account is to update
the followers about the gems new versions.</p>
<p>My complain is that a tweet for every update seems a little bit
too much. In the end, you don't really read all the updates,
because some gems are not that interesting (and, for some reason,
these are the ones that get most of the updates).</p>
<p>My suggestion would be creating a page in RubyGems where we
could access and see the updates of day X, split in time. For
example, I would access the page "2010-03-26 updates" and I see all
updates for this particular day. I would also have the possibility
to filter the updates by gem, author and time of the day
(considering that the updates are compiled on a time basis).</p>
<p>Finally, the Twitter account would send me this link, along with
the names of the most important gems, according to the number of
donwloads (like in my first example).</p>
<p>This, in my opinion, would make the updates more meaningful and
interesting.</p></div>William Brombal Chinelatotag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/13137302010-03-26T17:00:41Z2010-03-26T17:00:41ZTwittert account: tweet rate<div><p>That sounds like a lot of work.</p>
<p>The RSS feed seems to fulfill most of your desired features
without requiring vast qmounts of personalization work.</p>
<p>In any decent RSS reader you can search the feed by gem name and
date. (author information is not included)</p>
<p>How is the Twitter account supposed to include all the
"important" gems in 140 characters?</p>
<p>It reallysoundslikeyou want something that is already
implemented, the RSS feed.</p></div>Eric Hodel