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AusGamers Twitter Reminder
Post by Steve Farrelly @ 02:33pm 07/12/10 | 32 Comments
Just a friendly reminder to all visitors of AusGamers that we know how to tweet up your day with posts from our very own Twitter account, all you need to do is follow us on Twitter.

You can also find us on Facebook and we've integrated a lot of Facebook 'Like' buttons across the site, so if you happen to read or see something you like, it would be awesome for you to just click that little thumb, because every bit helps and we're a Mom and Pop gaming site at heart, but want to grow to evil, dark proportions like so many Azeroth-destroying Deathwings (or similar).

Click here to find us on Twitter.


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Dan
Posted 02:35pm 07/12/10
If you're the mom, I sure as hell am not the pop.
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Steve Farrelly
Posted 02:40pm 07/12/10
it's term and trog
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Pirroh
Posted 02:49pm 07/12/10
Why is the text such a terrible shade of grey against white?
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Dan
Posted 03:00pm 07/12/10
Because it was neglected. How's that looking now?
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Sc00bs
Posted 03:01pm 07/12/10
haha on the twitter and fb bangwagon eh

- will the sites colourscheme change to pastels and fluro colours soon?
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Pirroh
Posted 03:02pm 07/12/10
Much better :)
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Hogfather
Posted 03:06pm 07/12/10
Is a twitter user referred to as a twit?
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greazy
Posted 03:10pm 07/12/10
No, they're referred to as retards.
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Hogfather
Posted 03:14pm 07/12/10
Oh, my bad.
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Steve Farrelly
Posted 03:15pm 07/12/10
or people who just utilise another part of the internet to socialise and get their information
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trog
Posted 03:16pm 07/12/10
Every time I put twitter stuff on a page, I die a little inside

so I drink the blood of a kitten to make up for it. Don't worry, the kittens are unharmed.
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infi
Posted 04:27pm 07/12/10
twitter is played out. everyone's moved on. only spammers are left.
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Steve Farrelly
Posted 04:29pm 07/12/10
It's an awesome tool when following dev studios, specific games or Conan O'Brian
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exo
Posted 04:50pm 07/12/10
Meh, if you're using it as a glorified RSS feed I don't see the point. I'm not about to go on a new-media douchebag rant about "AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT" or "LEVERAGING CROWDOURCED SYNERGIES", but if you're using Twitter as a quasi-RSS feed, why not just use an RSS feed?

Links to interesting to forum threads, new videos added to the site, game updates/downloads or other articles around the web which the editors have come across in their travels I feel are a better use of Twitter.
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Pinky
Posted 04:53pm 07/12/10
If you're using Twitter as a quasi-RSS feed, why not just use an RSS feed?

Because my mates don't know how to setup RSS feeds. If anything, it's RSS that is dead rather than the other way around.

What do I win?
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Dazhel
Posted 05:09pm 07/12/10
but if you're using Twitter as a quasi-RSS feed, why not just use an RSS feed?


Because ausgamers managed to whack two birds with one stone?

Also, pfft Pinky. RSS is dead! Long live RSS!
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infi
Posted 05:21pm 07/12/10
you have to be kidding, RSS is awesome.
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Steve Farrelly
Posted 05:25pm 07/12/10
rss is news feeds though, devs don't always have their updates or reveals attached to any such thing - I get a tweet regarding new s*** from them, usually to a specific site for twitter AND I get RSS feeds news - they can co-exist. Kind of like consoles and PCs co-existing
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infi
Posted 05:28pm 07/12/10
ok so now i am subscribed to johnny depp, justin bieber, ashton kutcher AND Ausgamers. ARE YOU HAPPY???
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Hogfather
Posted 05:29pm 07/12/10
Consoles and PCs can't co-exist, they are in a state of total war! PC gaming will reign triumphant over the shattered remnants of console wankery.

You'll be first up against the wall when the revolution comes you dirty, dirty console sympathiser.
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exo
Posted 05:30pm 07/12/10
rss is news feeds though, devs don't always have their updates or reveals attached to any such thing - I get a tweet regarding new s*** from them, usually to a specific site for twitter AND I get RSS feeds news - they can co-exist. Kind of like consoles and PCs co-existing

I completely agree. Given I can't see any RTs from game devs in the @ausgamers feed - just links back to the news posts on AusGamers.com...isn't that entirely the same point I'm making?
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E.T.
Posted 06:23pm 07/12/10
it's term and trog


So thats what happened at over night lans.
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Whoop
Posted 06:39pm 07/12/10
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HeardY
Posted 09:13pm 07/12/10
twitter is s*** fyi
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infi
Posted 01:18am 08/12/10
whoop WTF
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kr0wb4r
Posted 01:46am 08/12/10
Nothing wrong with twitter, whiners ITT.
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myWhiteWolf
Posted 09:42am 08/12/10
Kind of like consoles and PCs co-existing
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
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trog
Posted 10:11am 08/12/10
I completely agree. Given I can't see any RTs from game devs in the @ausgamers feed - just links back to the news posts on AusGamers.com...isn't that entirely the same point I'm making?
I don't know what point you're making - are you mad at us because we do have a Twitter feed, or because we don't post enough frivolous junk to it, or that you're a Twitter user?
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Hogfather
Posted 11:39am 08/12/10
I don't know what point you're making - are you mad at us because we do have a Twitter feed, or because we don't post enough frivolous junk to it, or that you're a Twitter user?

No, just that the AGN twit feed seems to be redundant if you use the RSS.

C/D?
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trog
Posted 11:43am 08/12/10
No, just that the AGN twit feed seems to be redundant if you use the RSS.

C/D?
Well... they're identical, generally (although I did do a test Twitter post last night about 3d mark).

Atm we don't really have the resources to devote to making a bunch of Twitter posts about other things. Anything we think is interesting, is posted on the news page (where it is distributed down to RSS and Twitter and sometimes Facebook).

I realise the point of Twitter is to do forfty billion more posts of less interesting things that might not classify as "news" but we simply don't have the time to do that at the moment.

I would rather (personally) create an 'ausgamers blog' where we post non-news stuff that we think is still interesting (development stuff, challenges, insights, etc). I think a brief post about stuff we do (like the recent work we've done in getting HD videos going or our recent upgrade to PHP 5.3) is a billion times more interesting than a 140 character thing where we link to the latest cat doing something funny
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exo
Posted 07:32pm 08/12/10
I guess it's a combination of:
No, just that the AGN twit feed seems to be redundant if you use the RSS.


and the "PLEASE FOLLOW US, PLEASE, PLEEEEAASE" news post. I don't care either way - but I'd argue why bother with a twitter account at all if you don't have time for it?
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groganus
Posted 07:43pm 08/12/10
Whats with the haters, Im pretty sure a website is allowed to self promote itself on its own website. Just be glad its not obnoxious.

I enjoy the ausgamers twitter, im often not watching my rss all day, but i check twitter a few times a day and it's good to see when new content is added to the site.

Thanks for making the effort to post this stuff to twitter.
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