Twitter

[Flighty]

Ceres I agree, and was against it at the outset!

[Flighty]

[betula]

Is this April the first or maybe some should get out more .

[Squash64]

I vote for remove them.

Me too. We can't stop people taking what we wright & randomly sticking it around the place, but we shouldn't give them buttons to do it with!

My thoughts exactly!

[pumkinlover]

I would like to see them go, I was one of the members who did not like it when they went up and do not feel any different now.

[ACE]

So what are you going to put instead of buttons. A zip! ???

[Unwashed]

I choose to post on A4A. Someone else thinks it's OK to take what I have said and post it in a forum I have not chosen to post in. It's a kind of theft of intellectual property.
It probably isn't in the least sinister but why would anyone knowingly do it without asking first?

Me too. I very much approve of A4A and I'm completely happy to be associated with it and the members who post here, but that doesn't extend to Twitter.

[saddad]

For my penn'orth you can get rid off them too..
Ace... I much prefer lacing to zips...  :-*

[Nigel B]

I vote for remove them.

Me too. We can't stop people taking what we wright & randomly sticking it around the place, but we shouldn't give them buttons to do it with!

Me too!

Oh, and burn the witches if we've any left over from halloween. I like the smell.

[Melbourne12]

May I just point out that removing the Twitter button (and Facebook and Delicious) won't stop anyone setting up a script to scrape postings from here and publish them elsewhere.

This particular prank had nothing to do with the Twitter button.

[Admin aka Dan]

Hi All,

I've just been alerted to this and while I do some research and investigations I've removed the buttons.

When added it was to try and increase visibility of A4A to help bring members into the site and increase the size of the comunity, obviously some members do not want contributions on A4A being easily distributed across other social media sites (which I understand).

Will do my investigations and update.

Thanks

Dan

[betula]

As the contents of this forum can be easily distributed anyway I can not see the point of removing them.

[shirlton]

If its for the benefit of A4A then I think it should be removed

[1066]

But if it means more visitors and traffic for A4A and Dan then isn't that a good thing?



Maybe I should get me coat........

[Garden Manager]

Hmmm, yes I just checked this and the latest 'tweet' on there is MY post on the small polytunnels thread.  I am not happy about this as I left Twitter last year, along with many other social network sites, and vowed not to return  >:(

Is there a way of opting out so our forum posts are not available externally?

This was what i found. I had just started a thread on the forum then when i found this twitter account the topmost tweet was my last posting. Rather spooky but i havent a big problem with it. Just wonder how they manage to put so many posts on twitter. When i tried the button all it did was copy the address of the topic as a tweet not the posting. Would be quite handy from time to time to tweet forum posts but not nessesarily direct non members from twitter to A4All.

[betula]

Well the danger seems to have passed now............gosh, hope I have not spoke too soon. :D

[ceres]

Just wonder how they manage to put so many posts on twitter.

The posts are put there by an automated feed - there are approx. 5000 A4A posts on there.  Those appear to have stopped but an A4A member's image has just been posted.  Not usre how that works.

[betula]

Where Ceres,I can't see it?

[BarriedaleNick]

They were probably using an automated process to post the tweets.  There is an RSS feed - http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss2
and there are programs that will take that feed and repost them to twitter.  Useful for bloggers as you can automate your twitter direct just by posting a article on a blog.
Nothing really wrong with it but in this case around 5000 a4a topics had been tweeted which seemed a little unusual!!

Oops double posted with Ceres - cant see a pic either tho..

[Squash64]

I spoke to the person concerned and was told that they had set up an automated feed of our posts to Twitter.  I still have no logical explanation as to why the page was set up in Walsall Road Allotments' name in the first place but  I do know that it was not done maliciously.

They told me they  have now switched off the feed so hopefully there will be no more of our posts on there.  

[Flighty]

Squash no there haven't been any more. They're now tweeting BBC News items and show a link to the BBC Gardening website!
I'll keep an eye on it when I'm on Twitter just in case.