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For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

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Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

#22

According to the out of office thing, at 8:10 AM EDT these guys have lunch, and a 4 hour and 50 minute one at that. I wonder when they have breakfast.

Haha it's definitely lunch here. But our lunch is being spent spinning up more servers and load balancers! Traffic has been a little crazy...

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

#24

Seems like nobody has read up on Halloween for a while. The Wikipedia page is a good place to start. I don't think there is an event on the calendar that is so far lost-the-plot as Halloween. Nobody knows the slightest thing about the origins of it and this stunt is just a million miles away.

What particular interpretation and stopping point in history do you think is probably the correct one?

From what I see people have a party, which harkens back to the whole harvest festival thing.

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

#25

According to the out of office thing, at 8:10 AM EDT these guys have lunch, and a 4 hour and 50 minute one at that. I wonder when they have breakfast.

Haha it's definitely lunch here. But our lunch is being spent spinning up more servers and load balancers! Traffic has been a little crazy...

Have you guys had a problem with people scripting tweets? I know there are some command line twitter clients like TTYter.

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha it's definitely lunch here. But our lunch is being spent spinning up more servers and load balancers! Traffic has been a little crazy...

Have you guys had a problem with people scripting tweets? I know there are some command line twitter clients like TTYter.

We expected abuse from the beginning so we built in a 30minute cooldown on accounts. Hopefully someone doesn't have an army of accounts out there though!

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

#29

Congratulations to the team on marketing idea and technical implementation. It's really cool and fun. On the other side, I don't like the kind of message you're trying to get across which is in a nutshell: "these are our monkey engineers, have fun with them". It's a little bit too self-deprecating and demeaning. I get that it's made in fun, but it buzzed me the wrong way.

I don't think the message is at all demeaning. It's a bit tongue in cheek/British sense of humour, definitely not a put down.
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