Hello mums, dads, husbands, wives and the free & singles - come join us on twitter!

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi everyone!

We have a shiny new Community/Forum twitter account for you to follow for all things community, debate and more. You might recognise the great buttergate and work romance discussions from here plus there'll be lots more from other boards and other stuff too.

@MSE_Forum

Please do follow us, and let your friends know too. You never know, we might follow you back!

We also have a brand new @MSE_Deals account for the latest top deals, plus @MoneySavingExp, @MartinSLewis, @MSE_DanPlant and @MSE_GuyAnker

Tiddlywinks

Why? Will something happen there that doesn't over here?

Or is this another way of boosting the corporate value of the site or people to make even more money?

meritaten

No thanks - Twitter is for Twits! and I agree with Tiddlywinks!

Tigsteroonie

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

You might recognise the great buttergate and work romance discussions from here plus there'll be lots more from other boards and other stuff too.

I presume that nothing from threads on the Forum will be reproduced as Tweets without the express permission of both the OP and all respondents involved? I don't recall giving permission for my MSE rambles to be featured elsewhere ...

Person_one

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

I presume that nothing from threads on the Forum will be reproduced as Tweets without the express permission of both the OP and all respondents involved? I don't recall giving permission for my MSE rambles to be featured elsewhere ...

Hmm, true.

I'm not on Twitter, don't plan to join, and certainly wouldn't want to publicly link my account here to one in my real name!

Is the stuff I write here going to be posted elsewhere?

meritaten

This is worrying - I post on here knowing that the world and his wife can lurk or join in - But, Twitter is another matter! does this mean all those Twits get to see our posts too?

I post assuming that this forum is open only to those who find MSE. I have reservations about it being on Twitter too. whose Bright Idea was that?

Tigsteroonie

Person_one wrote: »

I'm not on Twitter, don't plan to join, and certainly wouldn't want to publicly link my account here to one in my real name!

That's kinda my worry too. I don't want to have to join Twitter simply for the purpose of reassuring myself that nothing is being re-posted on there, whether anonymously or not.

I've PM'd MSE Andrea to come back to this thread and clarify things for us.

Tiddlywinks

Let's face it, MSE joining Twitter is just a way of adding 'value' to the company... the more 'followers', the more chance of making money and getting more TV appearances etc.

This isn't for our benefit really, is it?

meritaten

I don't like this - MSE Andrea blithely comes down and announces we are on Twitter - but doesn't give any facts! doesn't say how this impacts MSE! in fact, doesn't say anything about how this affects MSE!
ARROGANT or what? I think MSE posters need more than this - because right now I am thinking - 'There are other Forum Sites out there'.

Tigsteroonie

I guess there is the thought that all our posts (except those in non-public boards like DT) are available from Google searches, so they're not private.

Looking at the Twitter feed, they do seem to cross-ref to MSE threads and also occasionally quote from usernames, eg.

benb76 on asking a colleague you like for an after-work drink: "it's a one way ticket to the friend-zone"

That's nothing that couldn't be read on MSE whether you have an account or not.

But I just wonder what the point of it is? Why bother, isn't this just creating more work for an already stretched (apparently) MSE Forum team?

Valli

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi everyone!

We have a shiny new Community/Forum twitter account for you to follow for all things community, debate and more. You might recognise the great buttergate and work romance discussions from here plus there'll be lots more from other boards and other stuff too.

@MSE_Forum

Please do follow us, and let your friends know too. You never know, we might follow you back!

We also have a brand new @MSE_Deals account for the latest top deals, plus @MoneySavingExp, @MartinSLewis, @MSE_DanPlant and @MSE_GuyAnker

Why?


(Oh - I've worked it out now - so we can have shorter answers to [STRIKE]posts[/STRIKE] tweets - such as Why?)