Norpig wrote: BoltonTillIDie wrote:@BWFCBWFC is a good one to follow
i thought you ran the Nuts twitter feed? I'll follow yours as well.
The original reason we set up the Nuts Twitter (and Facebook) accounts were to advertise the site by tweeting threads from here - particularly Nat's Behind the Enemy Lines.
The idea was that people would like what we were about, become a member and post on here.
I think it was Keegan who set up our first Twitter account.
Unfortunately no one around at the time really did other social media than forums and so our accounts were never much used.
I can't quite remember why we developed the current Twitter account we now have but again no one much was really bothered about running it.
I took it on to build up the Twitter 'followers' from just a handful to well over a thousand by simply using the strategy of following anyone who had Bolton Wanderers/BWFC in their twitter intro (I did something similar for our Facebook site too).
Once I built up the membership by those people following us back in return I then began to unfollow people simply because of the volume of tweets going through our timeline I couldn't follow any breaking news as it was simply drowned out by all the chatter.
We lost a few who unfollowed us back but at least we could now see quite quickly what breaking news there was and be able to report it on Nuts for all others to see.
When BTID came on board he kindly took on our Twitter account but by then it was clear that although we had gained many followers it did not lead to people joining up on here and taking part - as we had hoped for.
I also don't believe that the personal views of individuals should be made on social media sites representing a fan group such as ours - I believe we should be seen to be neutral in all things and let people believe what they want rather than us lead them.
Funnily enough a 5 minute game by a Cambridge Professor has just been invented to help people spot Fake News on social media which underlines how people flock more readily to 'emotional' views rather than 'rational' ones.
If you want to play it the link is here -
https://www.goviralgame.com/books/go-viral/It also shows how and why social FILTER bubbles evolve where people seek out others with same views as their own form and basically reinforce those beliefs by excluding all others and basically lose all sense of any unbiased prospective.
You can clearly see examples of people like than on here.
BTID felt the need for more editorial freedom to follow who he wanted and express his personal views so took the decision to step back from running our Twitter account a year or two ago and develop his own instead.
If you or he want to build a large following I suggest you play the game above a learn how to do so.
Nuts however won't be going down that path.
We just use Twitter now to bring news back to the forum as we know there is no crossover from Twitter users wanting to become forum posters.