[Freelancer Community News]@Freelancer_MP - FL joins Twitter!

Roo Avery

Twitter as we all know is the new Social Networking tool of the masses. Businesses use it. Consumers use it. Global Enterprises use it and even celebrities. And now I would like to recommend, we use it.

To that end I have created a @Freelancer_MP twitter account and would like to invite Community Site Admins and Server Admins to submit to me their front page RSS feeds. These will be then ‘tweeted’ out to the world to follow. What better way to build recognition for all our communities at once?

The details;

Roo-Avery holds account details for @Freelancer_MP. As I am no longer associated to any one site or server, I am an unbiased community member attempting to help all Sites and Servers.
Every Community site and MP Server can submit 1 (one) RSS feed to me to be configured with the Twitter account. This will automatically then be ‘tweeted’ at intervals and at random.
Only Front Page or forum equivalent RSS feeds can be submitted. Please don’t submit a ‘RP Story forum’ RSS feed for example. We only want to be ‘tweeting’ out server or site news that would normally make your front game or important server news thread.
This post will be shared with as many community sites and servers as possible. Please do your part by passing the word along.
Any site found to be abusing the RSS to Twitter initiative will be removed. Abuse is to be considered as spamming your RSS feed and verbal attacks to other sites and communities.
Roo-Avery will be responsible for configuring the RSS Feeds to Twitter, for setting the account to follow other related Twitter users (Gaming Personnel, Sites, and Companies as well as general Gamers) in the hope they follow us in return.

Of course, there is nothing stopping every server creating their own Twitter account. But as a group, we will succeed better in spreading the word and showing the world just how large our community still is.

This idea is a personal one; therefore it is not linked to the XBLA site or TSP exclusively. All enquires should be sent to me via msn ([email protected]) or email; [email protected]

If you wish to submit your RSS feed, please email me. I will find it extremely difficult to check multiple forums for replies.

Yours,

Kris W Bennett
Aka ‘Roo-Avery’

Sion

I like where this is going - it’s probably about time that we got around to implementing an RSS feed for Procyon’s server news… this provides some good motivation to do so.

Major props for another good idea.

LancerSolurus

**I have an RSS feed on my site, don’t know if it would be of interest since most of the stuff is videos, plus about half of it is a mix of PC indie game development and sci-fi fan films

http://digitalbrilliance.com/rss.php?feed=news

BTW, hard to believe TSP started with just the 4 of us on the Universal Modding site, how time flies ;)**

Roo Avery

BTW, hard to believe TSP started with just the 4 of us on the Universal Modding site, how time flies

I was thinking exactly the same as I was writing the article. I was always remember all the conversations we had as the team grew. The indecisiveness of some of us… and then finally taking the plunge and just going for it.

We did good

Roo Avery

Currently signed up, or in the process of setting up thier RSS to send to me are the following;

The Starport - Live
Freelancer Community (Still no emailed recieved)
Topfreelancers.net
Discovery
Digital Brilliance - Live
Procyon Server

As it seems my email address may be experiencing issues please send me a PM here on TSP or just post a reply here. I will look into my email problems ASAP.

Roo Avery

The Starport - Live - Latest new feed recieved 9 clicks
Freelancer Community - awaiting on RSS Feed
Topfreelancers.net - awaiting on RSS Feed
Discovery - awaiting on RSS Feed
Digital Brilliance - Live - Latest news feed recieved 6 clickc
Procyon Server - Live - Live this morning - no feeds as yet.

Above is the stats so far.

Thanks.

Roo Avery

Updated Stats

The Starport - Live - Latest new feed recieved 19 clicks.
Procyon Server - Live - Latest new feed recieved 21 clicks.
Digital Brilliance - Live - Latest news feed recieved 12 clicks.
Freelancer Community - Live today. No active feeds as yet.

Topfreelancers.net - awaiting on RSS Feed
Discovery - awaiting on RSS Feed

@Freelancer_MP currently has 46 followers, including Gaming Review sites.

Roo Avery

The Starport - Live - Feed recieved 23 clicks across two feeds.
Procyon Server - Live - Feed recieved 28 clicks across two feeds…
Digital Brilliance - Live - Feed recieved 18 clicks across two feeds.
Freelancer Community - Live . Feed recieved 8 clicks.

Topfreelancers.net - awaiting on RSS Feed
Discovery - awaiting on RSS Feed

Roo Avery

Sorry for the lack of updates. Been a busy week whilst I revise for my first MCP award.

We now have 86 followers, and a great deal of these we are not following. This means they are following us for one of three reasons. 1) They are spam bots (Boo!) - Negative
2) They are Gaming sites that follow EVERYONE - Actually a positive.
3) They have an active interest in Freelancer. - Very positive

So, lets get some stats posted. Although still only 4 sites active. The stats are fairly high.

The Starport - Live - Feed recieved 24 clicks across two tweets.
Procyon Server - Live - Feed recieved 46 clicks across three tweets.
Digital Brilliance - Live - Feed recieved 36 clicks across three tweets.
Freelancer Community - Live . Feed recieved 51 clicks across 4 tweets

That’s 157 unique visitors to 4 sites. That’s 157 visitors you might not have had previously.

I can’t assure anyone that these visitors will turn into members or players. But it should be an indication that there is a potential for this idea to grow and work as time goes on.

Thanks,

R.

Bas

Eh…without wanting to mean this badly, but could it be that some server and community adminstrators dont have the knowledge for creating RSS feeds? I, for example, don’t have (but I am no server admin so…).
I mean, is there any volunteer who is willing to help them getting such a thing installed?
Just a guess why most servers don’t use your service.

Predator

thats a good one
becouse im also stocked in it
must fill in stuff and don’t know what it means

Roo Avery

Without trying to sound too sarcastic… because it really isnt meant to be so…

Type ‘Create a RSS Feed’ into Google and you have everything you need.

The first result is;

http://www.rss-specifications.com/create-rss-feed.htm

tai

Also wrote an email, but if you haven’t got it Roo, here it is:

Hey Roo,
I’m tai from ffs-freelancer.com(France Freelancer Server) and we would like to submit out RSS Link, it leads directly to our News Forums. Here it is: http://ffs-freelancer.com/syndication.php?fid=30
I’ve got one question, what does it Tweet? The headline only? Because they may be French from time to time, text also.
Thanks, tai & FFS-Community

I also think this is an very nice PR Action, keep up that good ideas!

Roo Avery

Hi Tai,

Yes, I have been setting the Tweet to the Headlines only, so to keep the tweets simple and easy to read.

I will add your RSS feed to the account now. Don’t worry, I am sure you will see some positive feedback, even if the tweets are in French.

I also think this is an very nice PR Action, keep up that good ideas!

Thank you for your support.

cheeseontoast

Lancer Solurus wrote:
**I have an RSS feed on my site, don’t know if it would be of interest since most of the stuff is videos, plus about half of it is a mix of PC indie game development and sci-fi fan films

http://digitalbrilliance.com/rss.php?feed=news

BTW, hard to believe TSP started with just the 4 of us on the Universal Modding site, how time flies ;)**

how long ago was that now?

Roo Avery

Freelancer_MP now has 91 followers.

The Starport - Live - Feed recieved 24 clicks across two tweets. (No Updated Feeds!)
Procyon Server - Live - Feed recieved 53 clicks across four tweets.
Digital Brilliance - Live - Feed recieved 37 clicks across three tweets.
Freelancer Community - Live - Feed recieved 146 clicks across 5 tweets
FFS Freelancer - Live - Live - Feed recieved 85 clicks across 4 tweets.

Total = 345 Unique visitors across 5 sites.

Roo Avery

Bah, sorry for the lack of updates (and thanks to those that emailed me to remind me!).

I’ve been busy the last week and a bit. But I will have some new figures up and posted on Thursday for you.

R.

Roo Avery

Hi all,

I am very sorry for the lack of updates on this. I have been extrememly busy of late. I was a Steward for the Xbox Xtival Festival last month, and I have had reviews and stories backing up. However today is a catch up day and I have some figures for you.

The Starport - Live - Feed recieved 37 clicks across two tweets. (No Updated Feeds in a long time?!)
Procyon Server - Live - Feed recieved 84 clicks across various tweets.
Digital Brilliance - Live - Feed recieved 52 clicks across various tweets.
Freelancer Community - Live - Feed recieved 259 clicks across various tweets
FFS Freelancer - Live - Live - Feed recieved 137 clicks across various tweets.

I have also added a presuffix to each tweet that goes out. For instance any Tweets for Digital Brilliance now begin with (Digital Brilliance) and Procyon will begin with (Procyon). Anyway, you get the idea.

FriendlyFire

Well hey, nobody posts bloody news. What can we do?

SolCommand

I kinda got past the Twitter fever, I haven’t even checked my account in a long time …… it’s just that I find Twitter to be boring, useless, pointless … >insert more bad stuff here< … just my 2 cents.