Srik, I thought it was 140? Or are you deducting 20 for the link?
Regards, Srik.
On 7 August 2010 18:53, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Excellent idea, Srikanth! Some twitter handles I could
think: IndiaFacts,
KnowIndia, DYKIndia.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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*From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>
*To:* wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
*Sent:* Sat, August 7, 2010 2:37:58 PM
*Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian DYK (trivia) from Wikipedia on
twitter.
Hi all,
I am planning to start a twitter account posting one DYK fact related to
India everyday and a link to the article using a script.There are currently
1200+ DYK articles related to India and i have wrote a script to parse the
talk pages and got around 800+ DYK hooks (my script's regex can be improved
and am working on that to get all 1200+ hooks). I need your help to further
format the hooks to 120 chars, so that it fits into twitter limit and
maintain the tweet queue(just like DYK queue), so that my script can post on
twitter without manual intervention.
I think this could give a boost to visibility and page views of DYK
articles having good content which otherwise recieve fairly low page views
which happens only through search since quite a few of them are poorly
linked.If this is successfull we could probably even use it over free sms
service.(now that GPRS is getting cheap and penetration is increasing)
People following get to know trivia and also might give some sort of
satisfaction to the DYK creators.
If you could spare some time in helping with maintaining the tweet queue,
please mail me offlist, we could work on that.
Thoughts / Suggestions on the idea is welcome. Suggestions for the twitter
account name is also welcome. :)
Regards,
Srikanth L
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