Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery • Hacker News Board

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#11

Post by corin_ » Mon, May 23, 2011, 5:37 PM UTC

How many people are opting in thinking "if I lose I can just unfollow straight away"?

I slightly want to opt in just to see it unfold, but frankly I don't want to follow three extra people, and I don't want a bunch of people who don't know who I am following me, so I think I'd end up annoyed with the result either way. Nice idea, though.

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#12

Post by Skywing » Mon, May 23, 2011, 5:38 PM UTC

gr366 wrote: post #10

I think they should give credit to Dave Winer for the idea. http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/15/socialMediaBubblePop...

Indeed. It's in the footer.

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#13

Post by gr366 » Mon, May 23, 2011, 5:41 PM UTC

Skywing wrote: post #12

gr366 wrote: post #10

I think they should give credit to Dave Winer for the idea. http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/15/socialMediaBubblePop...

Indeed. It's in the footer.

Ah thanks, it wasn't there when I first looked at it.

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#14

Post by davewiner » Mon, May 23, 2011, 5:51 PM UTC

gr366 wrote: post #10

I think they should give credit to Dave Winer for the idea. http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/15/socialMediaBubblePop...

They do credit me, there's a link at the bottom of the page to the piece where I describe the idea. I should probably do one of my own (but I'm busy with other stuff).

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#15

Post by gr366 » Mon, May 23, 2011, 6:00 PM UTC

davewiner wrote: post #14

gr366 wrote: post #10

I think they should give credit to Dave Winer for the idea. http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/15/socialMediaBubblePop...

They do credit me, there's a link at the bottom of the page to the piece where I describe the idea. I should probably do one of my own (but I'm busy with other stuff).

Hi Dave. They do now, but didn't when I posted my original comment.

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#16

Post by MattBearman » Mon, May 23, 2011, 6:20 PM UTC

I've joined in just out of interest, if I lose I'll follow the winners for at least a month. I never use twitter anyway, and to be honest, if I won the current 'jackpot' of 247 followers, I still wouldn't use twitter much :)

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#17

Post by muppetman » Mon, May 23, 2011, 6:26 PM UTC

Are people this desperate to be followed? I don't get it.

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#18

Post by Skywing » Mon, May 23, 2011, 6:38 PM UTC

muppetman wrote: post #17

Are people this desperate to be followed? I don't get it.

It's fun to witness the statistics, though. There have been over 1000 unique visitors over the past 2 hours, with an 11% conversion rate.

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#19

Post by simonw » Mon, May 23, 2011, 6:51 PM UTC

Alex3917 wrote: post #7

Skywing wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it will not post tweets on your behalf. It will automatically follow the three winners of the lottery, though. That is all.

"This application will be able to: * Read Tweets from your timeline. * Update your profile. * Post Tweets on your behalf."

Lanyrd is suffering from this misconception as well. Twitter recently updated the copy on their OAuth sign-in flow to specifically list the abilities that an application would have. Unfortunately, since they don't provide finely grained permissions it isn't actually possible to request just the write permissions your app needs. This leaves users thinking that our app will post tweets on their behalf, when we're actually just asking for write access so we can provide a "follow" button on our site.

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#20

Post by davewiner » Mon, May 23, 2011, 8:11 PM UTC

gr366 wrote: post #15

davewiner wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They do credit me, there's a link at the bottom of the page to the piece where I describe the idea. I should probably do one of my own (but I'm busy with other stuff).

Hi Dave. They do now, but didn't when I posted my original comment.

Then thank you!

I'd love to get some of the link love when they choose the winners. :-)