You must have heard about Twitter. If not — Twitter is a social service for posting short messages that other people can subscribe to. It is being used by millions of people worldwide, which makes it one of the largest information distribution networks.
Last week we introduced a feature that allows associating a Twitter account with a wiki and posting selected activity information directly to Twitter. The mechanism is dead simple, but we can already see users find it useful, especially for wikis with community-generated content.
Not only it might help your users keep up-to-date with your site, but can enormously help promoting your site through yet another social tool.
In order to activate this amazing feature, you need to go to Site Manager panel on a site you wish to post updates from. Find the "Tweet My Wiki" panel.
You need to choose a Twitter user that will post updates. Sign in either with the Twitter user you choose, or create a new, dedicated Twitter account just for your site (it is a good idea!).
After you create a new account or sign in with one you already have allow Wikidot to use this account and the configuration is complete! Congratulations!
In this early implementation there is no configuration, and the feed of associated Twitter user will be updated whenever a new page is created on your site.
Now let us try if it works as advertised. I have just created a Tweet My Wiki is awesome. Now Check the feed on Twitter:
Feel free to create other pages on this wiki and see how the information about it appears on Twitter in less than a minute!
Later we plan to add more configuration options, e.g. choosing page categories, disabling notifications for hidden pages and notifying about page comments. Now only information about a new page (no matter what category it is in) make a tweet.
As with any new feature, we are eager to hear your feedback.
The "Follow Me on Twitter!" image comes from Flickr
This seems like a cool feature, but I'm reluctant to use it until we have the ability to limit tweets to specific categories and especially hide tweets related to hidden or administrative pages. It looks easy enough to turn on and off, so there is a workaround for a single or a small group of admins. That might be one way to use it now for a single author who wants to turn it on for the next blog post or two and then turn it off while editing other pages that he doesn't want to float around in the Twittersphere.
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After playing with this for a few minutes, I find it is very usable as it is as long as you don't mind toggling it on and off. For active sites with many members creating new pages, I still think it needs the planned features to be added before it's really useful for spreading the word.
Community Admin
Yes, particularly when every forum post or chatroom message is a new page ;-)
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This can be easily converted to spam. Why would anyone want to know about each and every page I create on my site? Maybe if limited to certain categories that an admin can define…
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Because it's being sent to a Twitter account… it's not quite as bad as receiving several e-mails. People sign up to follow a twitter account intentionally, and can see previous tweets before they do so, so they will know what they are getting in to.
Twitter is more like RSS than it is like e-mail. People only see the posts when they decide to intentionally look at them. So it works similarly to the system:recent-changes page on a wiki.
Therefore, I don't think this is too bad. But certainly not usable for anything I'm doing at the moment…
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How about a "Tweet this edit" -checkbox next to the save -button?
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I've started using the tweet my wiki since the first day it was available I think, and its been very useful to me! I'ts making everything a lot easier when combining rss feeds. Now the only thing left to do is in the feed module, I wish someone can let me know how to use my tweet counter in my feeds. I'm also going to fill out a wish report for it, also If we all can use the tweet my wiki in our feeds as well that would be very nice, unless that already exists? Example, see how at the top of this new thread post (top of the page) it has the tweet button, If someone can just show me how to do that, you have no idea how much that will help with my sites.
Edit: I would also love to help design an "add this" button for everyones wikidot, example: you can add any site to your wikidot, Instead of "add this" to other sites.
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Using the Wikidot API, that should be possible. It would be a very useful feature for any social-networking type sites built at Wikidot.
tsangk built the Wikidot Package Installer so he may know how to build something like this. Maybe you could ask him if he's interested?
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
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Its really simple I just have to create a .xrd for wikidot, however I need access to some pages at wikidot first before I can create it. I did it with Console Zoom, I'm just awaiting approval for the one I made with 'add this'.
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Nice done!
Nice to know about the tweet your wiki feature. In fact, I was using a third party web service (http://twitterfeed.com/) to tweet about my wiki sites in wikidot for the last 6 or 8 months in the absence of this feature. These services take the rss source links in your wiki and convert them into tweets. This way i have the choice to tweet about per-page-changes, forum-post-updates, forum-thread-updates etc happening in the wikidot site.
I guess now I can remove all these and chose to use wikidot's own feature. It would be a good idea if we have more finer control over what to tweet about, such as, selecting only some of the pages in your wiki and allowing to tweet about page-changes in these pages only while restricting some other pages from being tweeted about.
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