From: Pawel Szymczykowski <makenai@...>
Date: 2008-05-16T04:24:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Tracking Ruby on Twitter

Hi Piotr,

Hash tags are cool if you set out with the idea of using them to
announce something specific (like an event). The problem is that they
feel unnatural, they break the conversational tone, and the great
majority of people don't use them. In this case, I think it's much
cooler to get an overview of of the random chatter from time to time
and just tune in (click through) when something seems interesting. :)

-Pawel

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) <shot@hot.pl> wrote:
> Pawel Szymczykowski:
>
>> I was having trouble finding some
>> interesting rubyists to follow on twitter.
>
> What about polling similar stuff out of Hashtags? I'd guess it has
> better signal-to-noise ratio than simply grepping the full Twitter
> firehose (if that's what you're doing now).
>
> -- Shot
> --
> Even if you think that a lobotomized flatworm could understand
> your instructions, your luser probably won't. And we tried
> lobotomizing a few lusers to see if it would help, but it
> didn't make any detectable difference.              -- asr FAQ
>