Posting to Twitter from Cumulus

[Solorize]

What would be the best interval to have Cumulus
post data to twitter?

As I guess if it is too frequent, it will end up flooding
tweets to people who are following.

I currently have mine set to 10mins. But am thinking
maybe putting it to 30mins?

Just out of interest what do others have their
interval set to?

[robynfali]

ermm, 20 mins on mine i think it is

[daj]

I would have thought every few hours

[mcrossley]

I would find it very annoying to follow anyone who tweeted the current conditions more than a few times a day.

[robynfali]

I must admit, i had it linked to my fb profile and did it maybe 3 times a day, then turned that off, i might just redo it, and drop it down significantly, but then again one i am following does it every 15 i think

[daj]

I can't think why i would need a weather update every 15 minutes. My poor twitter account would be full and I would get bored reading/flicking past them

I guess it depends on your audience

[Sunfish]

One way or another, Twitter overflows with messages, etc. How does anyone find the time to read the posts--never mind compose them?

Cumulus does not appear to include 'wind speed' in the upload--the WU feed does include that.

@moorparkweather

[robynfali]

Well, i tried this afternoon linking facebook back to twitter, and it bleedin failed!

[Solorize]

I've decided to go for a 4hr interval.


Hopefully that will be frequent enought and
not seen as flooding

[steve]

This thread prompted me to look at the default in Cumulus; it's 10 minutes, which is what I would have used for testing. I've changed it to 60 minutes, which I think is a reasonable compromise. Bear in mind that I don't actually use Twitter (I post every 30 minutes using Cumulus simply for ongoing testing purposes) so I have no idea about the effect on 'following' or anything else!

[steve]

Cumulus does not appear to include 'wind speed' in the upload--the WU feed does include that.

This is the default Cumulus 'tweet':

SandayWeather (sandayweather) on Twitter - Mozilla Firefox_2011-06-16_08-53-33.png

As you can hopefully see, it includes the wind speed. But in any case, you can configure it to tweet anything you want (within the limitations of Twitter and the data available via web tags).

[Sunfish]

Thanks.