Johns Hopkins's dashboard

@higheredbuzz on Twitter tweets out everything posted to the highered group which can be a useful function, however starting the post out with my @name causes the post to be entered into my @ replies tab on twitter as well as other twitter aps. This is not a useful feature for me and likely annoying to others as well.

Naturally since I posted it, I know it's there and don't need to see it fed back into my @replies.

Naturally you need to have my name appear somewhere in the post so others know who it came from originally, so why not append it to the end of the tweet to have something like:

higheredbuzz With Pulse Pen you can lecture from your home/office and post for students to listen at their leisure. (via @JohnsHopkins)
3 minutes ago from Buzzable

or perhaps using the common RT Structure:
higheredbuzz: RT @JohnsHopkins: With Pulse Pen you can lecture from your home/office and post for students to listen at their leisure.
3 minutes ago from Buzzable

instead of the current version:
higheredbuzz: @JohnsHopkins: With Pulse Pen you can lecture from your home/office and post for students to listen at their leisure.
3 minutes ago from Buzzable

Parts of these have been mentioned by others, but here's my two cents.

When posting a reply to another person's post within buzzable, it's nice that it autoposts to Twitter, but the post to twitter leaves out the @XXX name the reply was to.

Additionally the actual post to twitter concludes with a tinyurl back to the buzzable page from which it was posted. This seems annoying, and redundant since the twitter post says it originated from buzzable (as part of the API post.) Instead of this tinyurl, it might be more worthwhile to have a hashtag for the buzzable group (let's say #HigherED) instead.

If you need to insist that a url shortener be used, kindly find something shorter than tinyurl.com: maybe bit.ly or ow.ly which allow for click tracking or http://ix.lt/ or http://is.gd/ which are simply just shorter. Generally however, I think this ending url is just spammy...