Use company's own twitter for overheard, and a twitterfeed like idea

@Firefox_Queries is the opposite of @firefox_answers, listing all the recently created threads for Mozilla Firefox. It's using Twitterfeed now, but it'd be neat if companies could set these up directly in Get Satisfaction (and using the gsfn.us links). As well, if it could extend to Overheard wherein our 'bot' would be used instead of the getsatisfaction bot to communicate with people, that would be neat.

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Cameron Walters replied on July 21, 2008 17:05

To respond to the second half of your idea: we've definitely thought about allowing the @replies to be sent (through us a a result of Overheard) using a company's "twitter bot" instead of ours (to clarify, our "twitter bot" is getsatisfaction), but I think we decided that the implementation and design cost at that time was too much, so we went with out current, simpler solution.

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@Firefox_Queries is the opposite of @firefox_answers, listing all the recently created threads for Mozilla Firefox. It's using Twitterfeed now, but it'd be neat if companies could set these up directly in Get Satisfaction (and using the gsfn.us links).
for me? I'm not familiar with either Twitter account you mention, or exactly what you have set up using Twitterfeed.

I’m a bit confused about twitter bots

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Thomas commented on July 21, 2008 17:14

Well, if you look at @Firefox_Queries, it is actually just a list of items listed for Firefox prefixed with either Firefox Question (i.e. it was in the RSS feed for questions with the product Firefox) or Firefox Problem (like above but problems). It's mostly pointless, but let's say someone at Twitter wanted to easily see when new problems were posted, and gsfn offered a service where new problems could be sent to a twitter bot like twitter_problems. This way whenever a new problem was posted, a new tweet would be tweeted, and ev or biz or whomever could follow it and get notified without having to check their e-mail. It's just a novelty thing, not that important.