[Osmf-talk] Losing faith

[Shaun McDonald]

On 15 Jan 2013, at 16:01, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:

> On 15/01/2013 15:23, Steve Coast wrote:
>> The numbers for the other two crowd sourced maps of the world:
>> 
>> @waze 79,583 followers, 246,238 tweets @googlemaps 327,722 followers,
>> 1,806 tweets
>> 
>> Are between seven and twenty times better than our numbers.
>> 
>> @openstreetmap 13,108 followers, 980 tweets
> 
> Possibly worth mentioning that I set up @osmblogs as a RSS to Twitter bridge for the osmblogs feed (mainly so I could see this on Flipboad on iPad) which means that diary entries and blogs of interest to OSM get tweeted automatically. While it only has 233 followers because it isn't widely publicised (just mentioned in the wiki, and no doubt the occasional search on twitter finds it), it has nearly 5,500 tweets.

I've not added a follow button to the top right of http://blogs.openstreetmap.org/

Shaun