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Try refinements to the twitter bots #78

Open crowbot opened 8 years ago

crowbot commented 8 years ago

Q: Is our implementation of twitter bots ineffective, or is the idea not a good one

Ideas from @MyfanwyNixon for improvement:

– better wording in the twitterbot bio – perhaps with a link to a page explaining ‘what is this?’ for absolute FOI beginners;

– better wording in the automated tweets – although I do see there’s a limit to how much you can do with the existing material, so maybe the solution is actually a human-maintained feed, sifting out the most interesting requests.

Additionally, if hashtags could somehow be introduced, then the tweets might get in front of new people with a particular interest in the topics under discussion.

Measure as in #3