[LINK] USDAFoodSafety is using Twitter.

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Crispin Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Stilgherrian <stil at stilgherrian.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 30/03/2009, at 10:36 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>>> The <http://www.usda.gov> seem to have chosen Twitter in preference
>>> to providing
>>> an RSS feed. Perhaps it says more about the Governance of ICT within
>>> the
>>> organisation - than suitability of Twitter. Maybe Twitter was
>>> achievable by
>>> bypassing the organisation. Certainly Youtube, Facebook and Myspace
>>> have been
>>> used as "free" options.
>>
>> The thing about using Twitter is that by adding your links via a tweet
>> into the one messaging system, you get a whole raft of access methods
>> -- web, Twitter clients, RSS, API calls into the Twitter database, SMS
>> and then through third-party add-ons email etc etc.
>>
> 
>>From a government services delivery perspective, twitter has another
> advantage for organisations like the USDA.
> And that is that management of an RSS environment can be cumbersome,
> complex and fraught with vulnerabilities.

Does Twitter allow you to provide a feed of data or does a human user have to
type it in - if the latter, that would be problem for government agencies. What
audit trails does Twitter provide?

> 
> I have recently done security application/code/service audits for a number
> of commercial web-site frameworks, and was particularly unimpressed with the
> capabilities of the RSS engines in most of them.
> 
Did you look at Confluence?
<<http://wiki.list.org/dashboard/configurerssfeed.action>

> The twitter.com environment also manages your historical data without any
> input from you...

Do you mean like a mailman mailing list?

W3C is now offering RSS Feeds from the HTML5 public mailing list
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/>

Marghanita
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