For reasons too long and complicated to go into, I currently control the QT3 Twitter account. I’ve noticed several people have started to follow it in recent weeks, so I think it’s time we figured out what to do with it.
I did email Tom about this a couple of times, but it doesn’t seem to be very high on his priority list right now so I’m asking you. My initial thought would be to make it a curated stream of interesting post excerpts, with a link to the thread in question. People could submit them via an @QT3 message, and a moderator would post the best ones.
Any other suggestions?
Oh, and Tom, just ping me if you decide you want to take control of it after all.
A) Especially interesting Bargains & Hot deal highlights
B) Get-together reminders/announcements for multiplayer games like LoTR:Online, City of Heroes, Demigod etc
C) ???
D) Profit
I like the idea of highlighting interesting posts threads as well as good bargain thread updates. Updates when Tom has a new article/review posted at Figit/Crispy/Whatever would also be logical.
Can you use it as a meta-notification system for all the folks that are trying to organize a game in Steam, Impulse, Live, Wow, LOTRO, etc? Maybe we can make a thread for that stuff and in some magical way use RSS to push it to the Qt3 twitter account?
…either that, or tweet a new LOLcat image every 3 hours.
Twitter isn’t nearly as bad as a lot of people here may think. As someone who’s always been resistant to social networking options like Facebook and Myspace, I find Twitter to be a wonderful outlet for short bursts of creative writing.
Even though I hate a lot of Twitter-stuff, I thought of a good use for this: How about someone posting E3 nuggets as they are discovered/announced next week? A quick blurb and a link would do wonders for monitoring E3 stuff during my workday.