{"id":1223,"date":"2012-02-25T17:49:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T01:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2012-02-26T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T00:00:13","slug":"what-its-like-to-sign-up-for-twitter-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/25\/what-its-like-to-sign-up-for-twitter-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"What it’s like to sign up for Twitter in 2012?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just signed up for a twitter account that I am going to use for giving bits of Buddhist wisdom for coders. The twitter account is @BuddhaCoder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2007 was the year that Twitter made a huge splash at SxSW. It was the year that Facebook threw an awesome party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I thought Twitter was so cool when when Karina Longworth<\/a> followed me. Here’s a smart, geeky, beautiful film critic following me on Twitter and it was so awesome to meet her at that SxSW in 2007.<\/p>\n

It’s now 2012. I’m in LA moving out of my apartment. I’ve wondered about how life was feeling stale. Where could I find and give inspiration? I created BuddhaCoder on Twitter, and when you sign up for Twitter this is what happens:<\/p>\n

1. Sign-up is optimized with just name, email and password.
\n2. You are asked to follow a bunch of celebrities in different categories.
\n3. You are asked to have Twitter search through your contacts to find friends, but we know what that really means. *cough* Path<\/a><\/p>\n

Once this is all done you see the tweets of folks you’ve followed.<\/p>\n

Who follows you back or @ replies you?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Spammers.<\/p>\n

The magic of meeting a Karina is gone.<\/p>\n

Here is how I’d fix it:
\n1. Create Twitter ambassadors who reach out to folks as they join. Someone like Calvin Lee (@mayhemstudios<\/a>) would be great for this, or Sarah Austin of @pop17<\/a>. 3000 or so ambassadors that get special badges would be more than enough to handle the onslaught of 300k new users per day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. Pool anything spammy into a job queue for approval if it is directed at a new user. This will require something extensive in the Natural Language Processing realm<\/a> that Jacob Perkins<\/a> of Stream Hacker<\/a> would know about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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