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Is it possible to create a community / multi-user Twitter?
I'm thinking about what MTV did with the VMAs: http://twitter.com/vma
Is it possible for all Twitterers to do this, or was this a special thing done for MTV? What I want is for people with a common interest or at a common event to be able to send tweets about that interest/event to a community. So, if I'm a WGA member and I'm at a WGA rally, I can send a tweet to my personal Twitter about the rally, and have that tweet included on a communal WGA Twitter. And that communal WGA Twitter could be followed by everyone interested in WGA events -- so instead of having to find & follow multiple personal Twitters, with non-rally-related tweets mixed in, they could simply follow the communal WGA Twitter, to see all the WGA tweets (and only the WGA tweets) at once.
Is this a functionality that Twitter already has? If so, how do I do it? If not, is it something we'll be able to do in the future?
Is it possible for all Twitterers to do this, or was this a special thing done for MTV? What I want is for people with a common interest or at a common event to be able to send tweets about that interest/event to a community. So, if I'm a WGA member and I'm at a WGA rally, I can send a tweet to my personal Twitter about the rally, and have that tweet included on a communal WGA Twitter. And that communal WGA Twitter could be followed by everyone interested in WGA events -- so instead of having to find & follow multiple personal Twitters, with non-rally-related tweets mixed in, they could simply follow the communal WGA Twitter, to see all the WGA tweets (and only the WGA tweets) at once.
Is this a functionality that Twitter already has? If so, how do I do it? If not, is it something we'll be able to do in the future?
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Inappropriate?You could of course create a new account for the purpose and then hand out the password to all involved parties.
I do something similar with the Sunday Salon (http://dhamel.typepad.com/sundaysalon), though it's not really what you're looking for. A bunch of us blog about books on Sundays on our respective blogs. Every Salon-related post has "TSS" or "Sunday Salon" in the title. I have a pipe at Yahoo Pipes that takes all the RSS feeds from the Salon participants and filters them for those keywords, then spits the resulting posts out into a single RSS feed. And then I plug that RSS feed into a Twitter account (@SundaySalon) via TwitterFeed. -
Inappropriate?But you can only register one mobile per account, can't you? So only one person could Twitter from an event at any given time, everyone else would have to (a) have web access on a mobile device, or (b) wait till they got home and Twitter about the event after the fact, which kind of defeats the purpose. And of course, I want to be able to tweet to my own Twitter, and have the communal Twitter pick it up automatically (perhaps through they use of @ or a keyword -- maybe I could say @communityname and that would publish it on my Twitter as well as the communal Twitter).
Your work-around might solve my problem for the time being, I'll check it out. I'd still love to be able to do this within Twitter, though -- it'd be incredibly useful not just for things like rallies and conferences, but for fans and hobbyists. You follow a communal Twitter for fans of your favorite band, and you get tweets of the setlist from the first night of their tour, or "hey, I just heard about a ticket giveaway on Z100, so turn on your radio if you're in NY!" Or you follow a communal Twitter all about biking in the Northeast, and get real-time updates and reviews of various trails from fellow cyclists, etc. -
Inappropriate?It would be very nice to do this within Twitter, yes.
I don't know anything about mobile use, since I've never done it. I wasn't aware that you could only register one mobile per account.
I love your ideas for thematic Twitters. Actually, I was trying to figure out how to do something like that for my own use. You can subscribe to searches for specific keywords on TweetScan. I have TweetScan following "kindle" right now so I can follow what people are saying about the Amazon Kindle. But I thought it would be neat if I could take the RSS feed for that search and plug it into TwitterFeed and make a Twitter account out of it. But I haven't gotten it to work. TwitterFeed says, I believe, that the Tweets don't have the right time stamp. Something like that.
If one *could* do that then you could create a Twitter account for, say, "Brad Pitt", then have anyone who wants to contribute to the group account write some code word in their tweet when they're Twittering about Brad. Use TweetScan to pick those up, plug the RSS feed into Twitterfeed and from there into the account. You could have an unlimited number of thematic Twitter accounts going and the neat thing would be that everyone could tweet from within their current accounts.
I wonder if it's possible....
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Inappropriate?@kosso has created something that's very close to what you're looking for.
You can see it at work at http://twitter.com/peaple -- the account's bio line explains how it works: "To post: follow @peaple & start tweets with PEA"
For the techies, there's a detailed explanation of how it was done on @kosso's blog: How I created a Twittergroup for Gnomedex
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