Timeline for MO Twitter presence?
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| Aug 29, 2017 at 9:41 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | @JoelDavidHamkins: Additional low-quality comments would be unlikely anyway, since commenting requires 50 points. | |
| Aug 29, 2017 at 8:52 | answer | added | Martin Sleziak | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 15:01 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | @JoelDavidHamkins : Thanks. Your experience trumps my speculation. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 14:06 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | @StevenLandsburg I often share MO posts on twitter, which evidently produce traffic (frequently resulting in the announcer badge), but I haven't especially noticed low-quality answers or comments on those posts. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 14:02 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | My experience is that there is an active community of knowledgeable mathematicians on twitter, and I expect that an MO twitter presence would be very welcome for them. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 5:59 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | BTW if you search a bit in Google or on Twitter or using #mathoverflow you can find some tweets MO-related tweets. In fact, JDH tweeted about this meta question (and it seems that he has many tweets related to MO posts.) | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 2:51 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | I think a Twitter presence would be very likely to attract a lot of low-quality posts and comments. | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 15:06 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Well, I guess that some users consider it an advantage if a question does not appear in hot questions list. My personal preference that if omitting LaTeX would lead to a less clear title, it's better to sacrifice the possibility to have a hot question than to sacrifice clarity of the title. (Anyway, it seems that we digressed from the original topic a bit.) | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 15:00 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @MartinSleziak: Gee, I didn't know that. I will use TeX in titles sparingly when possible. Thanks! | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 14:59 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | If the choice of questions to tweet were based on hot network questions list, then questions containing MathJax in the title would never appear there. Still, I guess it is possible to calculate for such questions whether question is hot or not (they are just not picked in the networkwide list.) | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 12:15 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @MartinSleziak Interesting, thanks. So the writing of the tweet is automated as well? Also it's probably good that the criterion is based more on bounties than on page views, although I'd imagine some human oversight might be desirable in any case. | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 11:21 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | There already is a mechanism provided by SE to select the "top new questions this week," which get linked in the "MathOverflow Weekly Newsletter." | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 7:33 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak |
BTW in site analytics it is possible to see traffic sources. (It is accessible only for users with sufficient reputation, so I do not see MO stats.) From this we could see how much traffic actually comes from twitter. On math.SE I see currently 3.4% for t.co (which, AFAIK means links from Twitter).
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| Aug 27, 2017 at 6:00 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @ToddTrimble Looking at twitter accounts of other SE sites (such as math.SE. TeX.SE, academia.SE, ...) it seems that the questions are picked by an automated process, not by a specific person. This answer summarizes what I know about the rules how they are chosen. (It is possible that more details can be found in meta.SE questions tagged twitter.) | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 4:57 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | Same reasons that just about anyone will tell you if they tell you why they dislike Twitter. This seems fairly representative: rcpmag.com/blogs/lee-pender/2011/03/… But there is no shortage of people who will try to argue against such points, and I'm not much interested in going down that road, certainly not here. | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 4:07 | comment | added | silvascientist | @ToddTrimble Just out of curiosity, why so Twitter-averse? | |
| Aug 26, 2017 at 21:48 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Somewhat related older post (now deleted): Does MO have an official twitter account? The discussion under this question seems a bit related, too: Why do we link to Twitter, Facebook or Google+ below every question? | |
| Aug 26, 2017 at 21:46 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | One question is who would be responsible for tweeting out messages. I'd hate to be that person. Then again, I have a pronounced aversion to Twitter. | |
| Aug 26, 2017 at 20:53 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | I think there used to be Twitter bots on SE sites, but that was phased out a couple of years ago. | |
| Aug 26, 2017 at 20:51 | history | asked | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |