[OSM-talk] twitter handling

[Chris Fleming]

On 08/09/2011 00:20, SteveC wrote:
> There are a bunch of people asking things on twitter about OSM that we 
> miss. Or people saying nice things that we should be retweeting.
>
> I'm looking for a solution. Mozilla has this:
>
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/army-of-awesome
>
> and I'm in touch with them to see if the src is available.


I have a saved openstreetmap twitter search and keep an eye on it. I 
think only twice I've actually replied to people looking for help on 
opensteetmap most of it's people talking about osm or various bots.

Have I missed something here?

Although I can't see setting up the mozilla army of awesome doing any 
harm, although excluding various OSM bots will be needed. Helping people 
into the community isn't a bad thing; most people won't signup the first 
time they land on the openstreetmap page, and once they've signed up it 
may be some time before they edit. One regular at our Edinburgh meetups 
signed up after seeing a talk I did, but didn't start to edit for 2 years.

So, using channels to remind people and about OSM and give them a gentle 
push in the right direction won't do any harm; and a professional use of 
twitter is just part of that.

The @OpenStreetMap account has over 6000 followers (although a good 
number are certainly spam) and I would like to see a bit more posting 
than when there is a blog posting and the occasional retweet. So 
interesting press coverage or uses of OSM, etc.



Cheers
Chris

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