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|Changes to our twitter account
Monday, July 11th, 2011
We’ve been tweeting the top, most active KTN’s news stories (and the second most active KTN’s for that matter) for sometime now. The system was scheduled to tweet news stories at specific times of the day, only if they hadn’t been tweeted before.
This worked well to a point, but on occasion duplicate tweets were sent out due to some poor coding, and the way the system was designed meant that the account could have long gaps of not tweeting anything.
Today, that’s all changed. We’ve been improving the code, and from now our account will tweet slightly differently.
- Firstly, the frequency of tweets have been increased – however they’re still spaced evenly throughout the day so you get the best, latest news as soon as possible.
- Every news story which is tweeted is now logged on our own systems, which is checked before we send a tweet – preventing any more duplicate tweets from being sent out.
- If the most active KTN, or second most active KTN, haven’t posted a new news story by the time we’re ready to tweet again – rather than not tweet at all, we’ll now tweet the latest news story on the site at the time (again, only if it hasn’t been posted before), by whichever KTN has posted it. Hopefully, this will also increase the amount that smaller KTNs get their news stories tweeted by our service.
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Changes to how we collect stats
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
After implementing our stats package the other month, we quickly became aware of a potential issue which could cause individual KTN’s to gain an unfair advantage over a short period of time, and then become ‘Top KTN’ for the rest of the week.
To help give other KTN’s a better advantage and to make the system more equal, we have implemented a change which will come into affect immediately. From today, the KTN’s which are tweeted from our account, and the Top KTN which is featured on our homepage, will be calculated on a rolling daily basis as opposed to weekly.
This should help improve the content on the site, allowing us to retweet a much better range of KTNs, and making our homepage more fresh, by featuring a greater amount of different KTNs.
We’ll monitor how these changes work over the next few weeks, if you have any suggestions or comments, do leave them below.
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A picture is worth a thousand words
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Taken by Axel Bührmann
We like photos; they help to show people what is happening in the world and can put your message into context far greater than just plain old text. That’s why the KTNs site is ready and waiting for your next photo spree!
Any images posted using Twitpic via Twitter will be automatically displayed along with your tweet in the steam on both the homepage and your individual KTN page!
Or why not upload all your photos from your latest event to your very own Flickr account? As well as being a perfect outlet for your members to recap on the events of the day, if your Flickr account is linked to your ktns.co.uk account – your latest photosets will be published right along side your tweets and blog posts!
If your KTN has a Flickr account, or you have any comments – just post a link or message below or email hello@ktns.co.uk
Posted in Flickr, Hints & Tips, Services, Twitpic, Twitter | 2 Comments »