Comments on: Four Months of Open Source Professorship http://dirkriehle.com/2009/12/31/four-months-of-open-source-professorship/ Dirk Riehle's blog about everything computer science, applied and more Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:23:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adrian http://dirkriehle.com/2009/12/31/four-months-of-open-source-professorship/#comment-379 Adrian Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:01:58 +0000 http://dirkriehle.com/?p=1374#comment-379 The main argument is one of politeness (and of status, as always on twitter). As a person the balance between follows and followers communicates my status. Whenever I follow someone that does not follow back, his status raises and mine falls. If it's Kent Beck, I dont mind. If it's a company, research group or open source project I feel ignored. As a company the balance between follows and followers communicates how much you value your customers, it's free for you to keep their status even. I blogged on <a href="http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~akuhn/blog/category/research20/" rel="nofollow">twitter best practices in research</a>, mebbe I should append this comment as a post scriptum. For following back I have a Ruby script (the same for unfollows ;). I'll brush it up and publish it the next days. For DMs I use a client (Seesmic) that shows me all DMs of all my accounts (12 and increasing…) in the same list. cheers, AA PS, Twitter is *the* RSS killer indeed. It has changed the way we read on the web. The main argument is one of politeness (and of status, as always on twitter). As a person the balance between follows and followers communicates my status. Whenever I follow someone that does not follow back, his status raises and mine falls. If it’s Kent Beck, I dont mind. If it’s a company, research group or open source project I feel ignored. As a company the balance between follows and followers communicates how much you value your customers, it’s free for you to keep their status even.

I blogged on twitter best practices in research, mebbe I should append this comment as a post scriptum.

For following back I have a Ruby script (the same for unfollows ;) . I’ll brush it up and publish it the next days. For DMs I use a client (Seesmic) that shows me all DMs of all my accounts (12 and increasing…) in the same list.

cheers,
AA

PS, Twitter is *the* RSS killer indeed. It has changed the way we read on the web.

]]> By: Dirk Riehle http://dirkriehle.com/2009/12/31/four-months-of-open-source-professorship/#comment-378 Dirk Riehle Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:49:23 +0000 http://dirkriehle.com/?p=1374#comment-378 Hi Adrian, good to hear from you, and happy new year! @osrgroup is mostly an RSS to Twitter feed right now. If you read RSS feeds consistently, you don't need to follow the Twitter account. However, Twitter has significantly reduced RSS-feed reading, as far as I can tell. I'm interested in Twitter best practices. Why do you say a group account should always follow back? Following (rather than watching @osrgroup tweets) allows for DMs which are much more likely to fall between the cracks than for personal accounts. Beyond that, I don't mind the follow-back. Last time I looked I couldn't find a good auto-follow-back software though. Cheers, Dirk Hi Adrian, good to hear from you, and happy new year!

@osrgroup is mostly an RSS to Twitter feed right now. If you read RSS feeds consistently, you don’t need to follow the Twitter account. However, Twitter has significantly reduced RSS-feed reading, as far as I can tell.

I’m interested in Twitter best practices. Why do you say a group account should always follow back? Following (rather than watching @osrgroup tweets) allows for DMs which are much more likely to fall between the cracks than for personal accounts.

Beyond that, I don’t mind the follow-back. Last time I looked I couldn’t find a good auto-follow-back software though.

Cheers,
Dirk

]]> By: Adrian http://dirkriehle.com/2009/12/31/four-months-of-open-source-professorship/#comment-377 Adrian Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:36:31 +0000 http://dirkriehle.com/?p=1374#comment-377 Congratulations to your good start! @osrgroup should follow back (and have a picture). Why should I follow a group that does not follow back? If you are not interested in someone's tweets dont follow with your private account, but groups should always follow back. Getting one more follower for my interest is a good deal. All the best for 2010! Congratulations to your good start!

@osrgroup should follow back (and have a picture). Why should I follow a group that does not follow back? If you are not interested in someone’s tweets dont follow with your private account, but groups should always follow back. Getting one more follower for my interest is a good deal.

All the best for 2010!

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