poa pilots: Twitter where you go!

TangoWhiskey

TangoWhiskey

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I've seen so many times where we all say "oh, you were in town?!! You stopped here for fuel?! I wish I'd known, I live 2 miles away--I would have come by and met you, bought you lunch!" or "You were stranded here overnight? I would have picked you up and let you sleep at my place if I'd known!"

Here's a solution for that, for all you Twitter users.

I've set up a GroupTweet account that allows anybody who follows poapilots to be notified when any user sends a direct message to the user poapilots.

Just follow poapilots, and request SMS updates if you want to notified real time of other poa pilots' messages.

To "get the message out", send a tweet like this:

Code: 
d poapilots I'm stuck at KADS, anybody around?  817-555-1212 Troy

Keep the message short! These are Tweets, limited in chars.

GroupTweet will intercept this incoming direct message and convert it to a tweet that all followers of poapilots can see.

The broadcast message will look like this followers, allowing them to respond directly to the original sender:

Code: 
[@username]: [rebroadcasted message]

I have configured GroupTweet so that direct messages sent to the group will be removed from Twitter after they are successfully converted into a tweet. This keeps the direct message inbox clean.

Likewise, the Twitter account has been configured so that only "approved" people can follow, to keep our info out of the public searchable timeline.
 
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Its some new type of poa personal communication, Troy?
Do we need a new electronic device to send/receive?
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
Its some new type of poa personal communication, Troy?
Do we need a new electronic device to send/receive?
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You can just use your computer's web browser, Dave. You also have the *option* to receive text message updates on your cell phone from SPECIFIC users. That might work good for the "poapilots" user, as the assumption is somebody needs help or info while on a trip.

Here's a visual explanation of Twitter; all I did was create a special rebroadcast-style group account that will allow poa pilots to notify other interested poa pilots specifically about trip / flight related info.

 
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Wow that video explained it, exactly at the speed I need! Thanks, Troy!
Hey, can someone 'follow' you if you do not want them to?
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
Wow that video explained it, exactly at the speed I need! Thanks, Troy!
Hey, can someone 'follow' you if you do not want them to?
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You can set up your account so you have to approve requests to follow. That's what I did with this poapilots group account, so posts with locations / phone numbers would only go to those from POA who follow the feed.

Just mark your profile as protected, per the instructions here.
 
Good idea, Troy!
 
Thanks Ted! With enough folks on POA following it, dispersed geographically, it could be very useful to someone in need.
 
So I have a Twitter account that I rarely use (I post the same thing to Facebook that I post to Twitter usually).

If I join this group, and then like normal, I tweet the Lobos score, is that going to irritate everyone in the poa group too? Because I'm pretty sure that Ted DuPuis doesn't want to get tweets saying "GO LOBOS" every 4 days or so.
 
I set up a Twitter account a year ago and almost immediately got an email that someone I never heard of was following me. It bothered me and I never used Twitter. Now I don't even remember what account name I used, but it was probably Aunt Peggy, or password. Very rarely, I get another email about someone following me, but I delete them without reading.

Now that you say I can have a private Twitter account, is there any way to re-instate the old account, and get rid of unwelcome followers?
 
SkyHog said:
If I join this group, and then like normal, I tweet the Lobos score, is that going to irritate everyone in the poa group too? Because I'm pretty sure that Ted DuPuis doesn't want to get tweets saying "GO LOBOS" every 4 days or so.
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You are correct, sir.

I was wondering the same thing, since the only Twitter account I have is the Cloud Nine account, and I suspect that if you all wanted to follow that, you'd sign up to follow it.
 
I have not and will not sign up for Twitter. If I am somewhere, people know. And if they weren't paying attention that I was in town, they probably didn't care to see me anyway. And in that case, I probably don't want to see them either.
 
SkyHog said:
So I have a Twitter account that I rarely use (I post the same thing to Facebook that I post to Twitter usually).

If I join this group, and then like normal, I tweet the Lobos score, is that going to irritate everyone in the poa group too? Because I'm pretty sure that Ted DuPuis doesn't want to get tweets saying "GO LOBOS" every 4 days or so.
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It sounds to me like this new POA account would only relay direct messages and not all tweets. So we wouldn't see all the Lobos scores, unless you were somewhat malicious and decided to DM the scores to the POA account. But under normal circumstances you can follow this account and not worry about tons of people getting irrelevant tweets.
 
SkyHog said:
So I have a Twitter account that I rarely use (I post the same thing to Facebook that I post to Twitter usually).

If I join this group, and then like normal, I tweet the Lobos score, is that going to irritate everyone in the poa group too? Because I'm pretty sure that Ted DuPuis doesn't want to get tweets saying "GO LOBOS" every 4 days or so.
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No, only if you send a direct message to poapilots will it get rebroadcast. Normal tweets will not be forwarded with this method.

AuntPeggy said:
I set up a Twitter account a year ago and almost immediately got an email that someone I never heard of was following me. It bothered me and I never used Twitter. Now I don't even remember what account name I used, but it was probably Aunt Peggy, or password. Very rarely, I get another email about someone following me, but I delete them without reading.

Now that you say I can have a private Twitter account, is there any way to re-instate the old account, and get rid of unwelcome followers?
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Yes, if you log in with the old username/password you should be able to get to a Settings page where you can reinstate the account and click an option to 'Protect my Tweets'. You will receive emails when people request to follow you, and deny the ones you do not know. You can also go to your 'Followers' list and Block people who are already following you whom you do not know.

EdFred said:
I have not and will not sign up for Twitter. If I am somewhere, people know. And if they weren't paying attention that I was in town, they probably didn't care to see me anyway. And in that case, I probably don't want to see them either.
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Hey, if you don't want to use Twitter, that's your choice and that's fine. We choose to recognize it as a potentially valuable tool and would like to start using it accordingly. No need to be so negative about it... if you don't want to participate, nobody's forcing you to.
 
This (POA) is about my limit for "interface". Not Twittering, Facebooking or Dancing with the Stars. Nada, Zp, nothing.
 
SkyHog said:
So I have a Twitter account that I rarely use (I post the same thing to Facebook that I post to Twitter usually).

If I join this group, and then like normal, I tweet the Lobos score, is that going to irritate everyone in the poa group too? Because I'm pretty sure that Ted DuPuis doesn't want to get tweets saying "GO LOBOS" every 4 days or so.
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Nope, that won't happen unless those people follow YOU. They just need to follow (and hopefully, subscribe to SMS messages for) poapilots.

When you send a message (via web or phone) from your own twitter account, thusly:

"d poapilots stuck at kmci, i need help guys"

...that's a direct message to poapilots. If "poapilots" were a person viewing their twitter account, it'd appear as a private message. What GroupTweets does is pick up that private direct message, and posts it as tweet FROM poapilots, reformatted thusly:

"nick: stuck at kmci, i need help, guys"

So, if people subscribe to YOU (Nick) and you post "go LOBOS!", they'd get that message.

If all they are following is poapilots, they're never going to see your LOBOS post. They'll only see the ones you "d poapilots <message>" send for help.
 
AuntPeggy said:
I set up a Twitter account a year ago and almost immediately got an email that someone I never heard of was following me. It bothered me and I never used Twitter. Now I don't even remember what account name I used, but it was probably Aunt Peggy, or password. Very rarely, I get another email about someone following me, but I delete them without reading.

Now that you say I can have a private Twitter account, is there any way to re-instate the old account, and get rid of unwelcome followers?
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Correct. Just login to your existing Twitter account, go to Settings, and protect your profile per the instructions here. After that, you'll get to approve who follows you.
 
EdFred said:
I have not and will not sign up for Twitter. If I am somewhere, people know. And if they weren't paying attention that I was in town, they probably didn't care to see me anyway. And in that case, I probably don't want to see them either.
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Well, that's not a fair assumption! I sometimes get so busy with work and life, I don't get on POA for a week or more; then I find out somebody was here in Fort Worth or Dallas and they all went to lunch and I missed it! ;-) If they tweeted a "d poapilots" message, I'd get instant notification, and so would all other POA pilots that followed poapilots on Twitter... :-)
 
And after posting all that, I get through the rest of the thread and find I've regurgitated PJ's fine and correct replies. :-)
 
TangoWhiskey said:
And after posting all that, I get through the rest of the thread and find I've regurgitated PJ's fine and correct replies. :-)
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Maybe you should have set it up so your twitter account followed this thread. :D :rofl:
 
Hmmm.

All I've done is register, and I also don't know whether I even recall my username. I have received several messages that ____ is following me; each has worked out to be a porn girl. Glad they think I am worthy.
 
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