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Behind the Scenes: Twitter, Part 1

by jgnatch on 11/13/12, 5:22 PM with 6 comments

  • by huskyr on 11/13/12, 8:58 PM

    I thought this would be a 'behind the scenes' look at Twitter, the company. However, it's about using Twitter as a support channel at 37signals.
  • by ry0ohki on 11/13/12, 8:19 PM

    Interesting that they encourage Twitter as a support channel, as a user I like Twitter for support, but as a company I absolutely loathe it. It's hard to get details and follow up, and if anything requires an explanation or sensitive details you need to get an email anyway...
  • by breckenedge on 11/13/12, 8:39 PM

    Looking closely at the main screenshot, I only see one tweet related to product support. Look forward to future posts discussing their filtering methods. Raw word list? Bayesian learning? 440+ tweets is not insignificant, but experience tells me this takes about 3 or 4 hours per day just to manually identify/categorize using a sane level of effort.
  • by snowwrestler on 11/13/12, 10:42 PM

    The description of the requirements sounds like a very close match with what ExactTarget's "SocialEngage" service offers. If you checked it out and dismissed it, I'd be interested to hear why.