Has anyone looked at the WJunction Twitter Account recently? Here are a few recent examples
source: https://twitter.com/#!/Wjunction_com/status/153104444505067520
source: https://twitter.com/#!/Wjunction_com/status/152921754560495616
source: https://twitter.com/#!/Wjunction_com/status/152693927089156096
source: https://twitter.com/#!/Wjunction_com/status/152648255732326400
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The old Twitter account was suspended for what I can only presume was automated crap in which case it's only a matter of time before the current one is suspended as well. Why not just tweet the announcement topics* and then use it to post updates on the site like when the site was being DOSed over the holidays and nobody knew what was happening. The way it is currently is useless to everyone.
Another point is Google can recognize accounts. You can see this in author being displayed in search results and Matt Curtis (head of Google Web Spam) confirmed in a youtube blog a number of months ago that Google can recognize twitter accounts. This means the useless spam tweets that WJ posts on it's official account are harming the SEO as it's an official account of the site. Now I admit it's not much of an SEO influence but everything counts and I see no reason to piss of members and Google. I'd prefer to follow an account that tweets once ever 2-3 weeks than every 2-3 hours with crap.
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* The Announcement Forum has it's own RSS feed which can be used instead of the general RSS feed for the site which will still allow automated tweets.
source: https://twitter.com/#!/Wjunction_com/status/153104444505067520
source: https://twitter.com/#!/Wjunction_com/status/152921754560495616
source: https://twitter.com/#!/Wjunction_com/status/152693927089156096
source: https://twitter.com/#!/Wjunction_com/status/152648255732326400
The old Twitter account was suspended for what I can only presume was automated crap in which case it's only a matter of time before the current one is suspended as well. Why not just tweet the announcement topics* and then use it to post updates on the site like when the site was being DOSed over the holidays and nobody knew what was happening. The way it is currently is useless to everyone.
Another point is Google can recognize accounts. You can see this in author being displayed in search results and Matt Curtis (head of Google Web Spam) confirmed in a youtube blog a number of months ago that Google can recognize twitter accounts. This means the useless spam tweets that WJ posts on it's official account are harming the SEO as it's an official account of the site. Now I admit it's not much of an SEO influence but everything counts and I see no reason to piss of members and Google. I'd prefer to follow an account that tweets once ever 2-3 weeks than every 2-3 hours with crap.
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* The Announcement Forum has it's own RSS feed which can be used instead of the general RSS feed for the site which will still allow automated tweets.