[OSM-talk] twitter handling

[SteveC]

Chris

* Remote searches aren't guaranteed to be accurate. Therefore you're 
probably missing posts. I do all the time.
* There are lots of search terms, OSM, openstreetmap, #openstreetmap, 
open streetmap, open street map ... Therefore you're probably missing posts.
* Chicken and egg. No OSM answers supplied today - so why would there be 
lots of questions?

Personally I want the OSM attitude to be "that's a fun idea, let's try 
it". This costs us basically nothing, if it doesn't work we can kill it. 
With a bit of luck though, it will result in more mapping.

Steve

On 9/8/2011 8:43 AM, Chris Fleming wrote:
> 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
>