English Chess Forum

Since we appear not to have won the web site of the year award again, I am now pushing out a twitter feed from the forum as well

It's here for those interested:

http://twitter.com/thechessforum

I don't know much about Twitter - it's not my scene.

However, does this "Twitter Feed" mean that anything I post on the Forum will automatically appear somewhere else as well, whether I like it or not?

If so, is that really appropriate?

Regarding the ECF Website of the Year Award, I thought you were adamant you didn't want to be nominated.

David Sedgwick wrote:However, does this "Twitter Feed" mean that anything I post on the Forum will automatically appear somewhere else as well, whether I like it or not?

If so, is that really appropriate?

I have similar concerns (and yes, I think posting this does mean my name will appear on Twitter - oh noes!! )

David Sedgwick wrote:I don't know much about Twitter - it's not my scene.

However, does this "Twitter Feed" mean that anything I post on the Forum will automatically appear somewhere else as well, whether I like it or not?

If so, is that really appropriate?

Regarding the ECF Website of the Year Award, I thought you were adamant you didn't want to be nominated.

Never used it before either

I had not considered privacy to be honest, do you feel that Twitter exposes us (and you...) more than Google trawling the entire forum so it appears in most searches?

The idea was more just to increase presence rather than anything sinister although I happy to turn it off if people have concerns

I was being a little sarcastic on website of the year

Carl Hibbard wrote:

David Sedgwick wrote:However, does this "Twitter Feed" mean that anything I post on the Forum will automatically appear somewhere else as well, whether I like it or not?

I already use the RSS feed from the Forum to generate posts in Facebook, and it drives people back to the Forum as a result. As Carl points out the bottom line is that Google and Yahoo robots are scanning and indexing the text, virtually as you type. Try it out with a post, and see how long it takes for you to find that post on Google - I reckon one minute should do it?

David Sedgwick wrote: However, does this "Twitter Feed" mean that anything I post on the Forum will automatically appear somewhere else as well, whether I like it or not?

I think what everyone is trying to say, is "yes".

David Sedgwick wrote:If so, is that really appropriate?

It's no more a privacy problem than, say, Google. Nothing to worry about at all.

however, it does have the problem of rarely reaching the subject matter in 140 characters. Idk if this is just because it is an automated feed, but it gives links and it's often hard to work out what the links are actually about

Carl Hibbard wrote:Since we appear not to have won the web site of the year award again

I seem to recall a wise fellow declaring that http://www.ecforum.org.uk/ wasn't a web site but, in fact, a forum.

How many entries were there for ECF web site of the year?

Rob Thompson wrote:however, it does have the problem of rarely reaching the subject matter in 140 characters. Idk if this is just because it is an automated feed, but it gives links and it's often hard to work out what the links are actually about

This is absolutely true, and there may be a way of configuring the RSS feed from the Forum or the Twitter Feed (Google it to see what I use) to make it more readable.

However it takes a bit of digging.

Alex Holowczak wrote:It's no more a privacy problem than, say, Google. Nothing to worry about at all.

Oh, OK. As long as no-one tries to claim that I've joined Twitter or anything like that...