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PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 11:09 am    Post subject: Suggestion: Subscribe to Forum via Twitter Reply with quote

In the last year or my internet habits have moved to "feeds" like Twitter, and I don't really visit websites on a daily basis.

My suggestion is to subscribe to a forum via following a twitter account for that forum. Anytime there's a new topic in the forum, the URL for the forum is broadcast via twitter. (not really updates, just new topics). I can then "watch for replies" and the email-system takes over the notification.

Example:

@TheSamba-VanagonEurovan #thesamba #vw #vanagon #eurovan
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=478468


We might even see an uptick of traffic as a result. I know change is hard, but IMHO, it already went this way a couple years ago...

I'm a developer and I can help. But no idea who'd be responsible for this.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would be in charge of this.

I have never used Twitter but it seems straight-forward enough to automate messages to a Twitter account.

Quote:
@TheSamba-VanagonEurovan #thesamba #vw #vanagon #eurovan
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=478468

What you described sounds like you want a single Twitter feed/Twitter account for new* Vanagon threads, which basically means in order to do this there would be a Twitter account for every Forum section rather than an overall Samba feed? Am I understanding that correctly?
~40 accounts & feeds rather than one feed seems a little ridiculous, is this how your other Forum feeds function?

* You are correct there is no way I would do updates for threads, that would be hundreds/day overall.

Overall:
I would like to know if anyone else would be interested in this feature.
More input from other members wanted.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

EverettB wrote:


Quote:
@TheSamba-VanagonEurovan #thesamba #vw #vanagon #eurovan
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=478468


What you described sounds like you want a single Twitter feed/Twitter account for new* Vanagon threads, which basically means in order to do this there would be a Twitter account for every Forum section rather than an overall Samba feed? Am I understanding that correctly?
~40 accounts & feeds rather than one feed seems a little ridiculous, is this how your other Forum feeds function?


Yes. That's the initial idea. I count 31 topics. It does seem a little dumb to do an account for each one of them, I agree.

Twitter Restrictions:
Handle: 15 char
Tweet: 140 char

Samba URLs appear to be 51 characters (minus the www.) Obviously, a url shortener would go a long ways (goo.gl)

Code:

http://thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=123456
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901


Which leaves 89 characters left for the #hashtags.

I went through the topic list and it looks like the longest title is 20 characters (after taking out spaces 19).. and there might be some illegal characters in the verbatim/current topic titles...

So a tweet could look like at 96 characters (leaving 44 left for post-title)

Code:

@thesamba #Performance-Engines-Transmissions http://thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=123456
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456



Full Example at 116 characters (24 left)

Code:

@thesamba #Vanagon-Eurovan WBX power steering pump fitment issue http://thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=604081



Twitter API
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That was one of my questions. Could you follow @thesamba and then follow particular hash tags or would there need to be 31 different @samba accounts?

There is already a URL shortener for all topics.

Example - The shortened URL for this topic is:
http://thesamba.com/t604039
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 12:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

EverettB wrote:
That was one of my questions. Could you follow @thesamba and then follow particular hash tags or would there need to be 31 different @samba accounts?


Just one account. I was batty when I suggested multiples accounts. After flushing it out more...

...you'd follow the handle @thesamba and that would stream out all of the tweets ... and/or you save a search of "@thesamba #vanagon-eurovan" and that would present a list of all tweets that matched the handle and the hashtag.

So the tweet in this scenario would be ...

"@thesamba #vanagon-eurovan http://thesamba.com/t604039 Suggestion: Subscribe to Forum via Twitter"

"[handle] [#hashtag-for-topic] [http://shortened.url] [Posting-Subject]"

Kind of neat extension, I wonder if it already exists in phpBB.

EverettB wrote:
There is already a URL shortener for all topics.
Example - The shortened URL for this topic is:
http://thesamba.com/t604039


Perfect!
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