Twitter at SLA2010
Once again, a re-tweeter has been developed for this year’s SLA conference based on the Twitter API and John Eckman’s code. The hashtag is #sla2010.
What will the re-tweeter do? When a follower of @sla2010 posts a tweet with the hashtag #sla2010 in their tweet (probably best at the end of the tweet) that tweet will be posted to the @sla2010 account and circulated to all of @sla2010′s followers. The username of the person who sent the original tweet will appear at the start of the message followed by a “:”.
At conference, there will be a 2 minute delay before tweets are re-tweeted. This year twitter has been whitelisted the @sla2010 account which means there will be limits on how many tweets can be posted to the account. Yay!
Re-tweeting is helpful for:
- segregating your #sla2010 tweet stream from your other streams
- sending broadcast messages (2 minute delay at conference) to all @sla2010 followers
- finding out what others at conference are doing, seeing, hearing, eating, drinking, etc. (Author’s note: this will be especially important in New Orleans!)
- asking questions and getting answers
- experiencing the conference virtually – check out the virtual conference component as well
- creating an archive of tweets for future or live analysis
This is an opt-in service. Only your tweets with the hashtag (#sla2010) will be re-tweeted and you must be following sla2010 for it to work. Also, tweets from protected accounts won’t be re-tweeted.
Using a number of tools out there, you can also follow the #sla2010 hashtag:
The re-tweeter is brought to you by the SLA Innovation Laboratory!
