{"id":255,"date":"2012-01-24T16:04:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T16:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2020-09-22T01:58:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:58:59","slug":"twitter-registrations-are-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/twitter-registrations-are-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter: Registrations are slow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following my last <a href=\"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=224\/\">post<\/a> (or take a look at all my Twtter posts <a title=\"Link to all twitter posts\" href=\"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?cat=88\">here<\/a>), my twitter system has been up and running for a few weeks now. Every day I switch domains and start tweeting about something else. The system seems to work well, although I have not had anybody register yet. However, I know that people are looking at the service as I can see the number of hits on my various web pages.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose, people can just search twitter, so don&#8217;t need to register. But, the beauty of the system is that people don&#8217;t actually need to follow me on Twitter. They can register and then I will send them an email when I tweet about the subject they are interested in and, optionally send them an email of the actual tweets. Of course, I&#8217;d rather that they follow me but, they can if they wish, not even go near twitter, but just register and then wait for the emails or just do a search on twitter at the end of the day to see what I have had to say.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, when I do tweet about a certain subject, that is all I do. Unless you see the <em>change domain<\/em> tweet (which happens at 6am UK time), you are unlikely to be aware of the service. So, I have a few plans to try and raise the profile of the service.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is obviously one way; blog about it.<\/li>\n<li>I have been investigating how to collect potential twitter users and then tweet them directly about the service. In fact, the twitter search API provides this type of functionality and I&#8217;ll be looking at this soon.<\/li>\n<li>I think I might do a few more general tweets throughout the day, just linking to the service, rather than having all the tweets simply about the domain.<\/li>\n<li>I might also try and interact a little more with the publishers. INFORMS were good enough to retweet quite a few tweets, but I could do with more of that from the other publishers. It&#8217;ll be interesting anyway, just to see if that has any effect.<\/li>\n<li>And, of course, I have to make the tweets as interesting as possible. That is difficult as what is interesting to one person might not be interesting to another. I think the best solution is to have really targeted domains so that it might only be of interest to a small number of people, but they will find most of the tweets useful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, in case you are interested, the domains I currently tweet about are <em><strong>Bin Packing<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Gambling<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Genetic Algorithms<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Healthcare<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Timetabling<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Vehicle Routing<\/strong><\/em>. More details are available <a href=\"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/twitter\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and I am open to suggestions for other areas of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following my last post (or take a look at all my Twtter posts here), my twitter system has been up and running for a few weeks now. Every day I switch domains and start tweeting about something else. The system seems to work well, although I have not had anybody register yet. However, I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,104,88],"tags":[90,66],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-tweeting","category-twitter","tag-automatic-tweeting","tag-php"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}