{"id":543,"date":"2012-08-21T06:26:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2020-09-22T01:58:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:58:46","slug":"informing-publishers-of-my-tweeting-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/informing-publishers-of-my-tweeting-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Informing publishers of my tweeting activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my previous posts<\/a> on twitter I have been describing (in general terms, I will do some posts on some of the more technical aspects soon) how I have automated some of my tweets. The system, in brief, tweets scientific articles on a random basis – doing about twenty tweets a day. Each 24 hours, I change the topic so that if people are interested they can just follow me when I am tweeting about a topic that interests them.<\/p>\n

INFORMS<\/a>, in particular, have been very kind to retweet some of my tweets. I have not checked but, I suspect that the articles they retweet are those that are published in INFORMS journals!<\/p>\n

This made me think that I should be a little more proactive in telling the publishers what a good job I am doing for them. As I update my database with articles that I tweet, I have started to add a field which indicates which publisher they come from. At the moment, the publishers I have on file are IEEE, INFORMS, Taylor & Francis, Science Direct and Wiley. All of these also have a twitter account, with the exception of Wiley. Well, maybe they do, but I cannot find it.<\/p>\n

Over the past couple of days I have been implementing a system that chooses one of these publishers at random and also chooses a time interval to query. For example, it might be the last 3 months, the last 7 days, the last 11 months etc. It is now a simple matter to run an SQL query from PHP to extract how many tweets I have done for that publisher over the relevant time period. I can then format a tweet so that it says something like<\/p>\n

@TandFRef You may have noticed us tweeting your papers? We have tweeted 147 of your papers in the last 29 days<\/p>\n

I can then use my automatic tweeting system to post the tweet to twitter. To try and keep things looking fresh<\/em>, the format of the message I post is randomly selected from a number of templates I have defined. Along, with the variation of the intervals I use, I hope that the publishers will find it useful and not too repetitive.<\/p>\n

Of course, one of the ideas behind this is to raise my profile with the publishers, and also on twitter generally but, in doing so, I hope that people find the information useful. I am conscious that it could become intrusive though, so I only do a couple of these tweets a day. Hopefully the publishers will not mind. If they do I can, of course, remove them from the service.<\/p>\n

In the future, I am thinking of extending the system so that I can tell people how many tweets I have done on (say) vehicle routing in the past n<\/em> days\/months. I could even combine it with the publisher information so that I can tell the publishers how many of their articles I have tweeted over the past few days\/months on a given topic. But I’ll let this new system bed in first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my previous posts on twitter I have been describing (in general terms, I will do some posts on some of the more technical aspects soon) how I have automated some of my tweets. The system, in brief, tweets scientific articles on a random basis – doing about twenty tweets a day. Each 24 hours, […]<\/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":[66,71],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-tweeting","category-twitter","tag-php","tag-sql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}