“I was away on vacation for a while, which was one factor, but the bigger issue is that there's a real technical problem using Twitter.
“They have a calculation where they throttle everybody's account to a thousand Tweets per day and they also break that down into hourly chunks. If the algorithm senses that you're sending over 40-45 Tweets in an hour it assumes you're a spambot and cuts you off.
“I knew there was a throttle, I just didn't think I would reach it in such a short period of time. Originally the conversations were fast but manageable but as things started to grow and more and more fans came on to chat it became very difficult.
“The last six times I was on I got through 40 Tweets in about ten minutes so it suspended my account for an hour or an hour and a half.
“It's frustrating because you start all these conversations and then disappear. I remember the first couple of times it happened I sent a message asking Darren Parkin (Coventry Telegraph editor) and Stuart Linnell (BBC CWR presenter) if they could let people know that my account had been cut off.
“We need to be accountable and available and we're thinking of different ways to do that. Sky Blue Talk is one of the forums we may be able to use * it's not as live, as rapid-fire, but at least it allows us a form of communication where you're not suddenly going to get cut off.“
I first approached Mr Brody when he started using twitter to ask him if he was interested he said he was and had all the details but never got back to me. Since then Nick has also spoken to him and set up his very own forum. Hopefully Mr Brody will now take the time out to use SBT.
“They have a calculation where they throttle everybody's account to a thousand Tweets per day and they also break that down into hourly chunks. If the algorithm senses that you're sending over 40-45 Tweets in an hour it assumes you're a spambot and cuts you off.
“I knew there was a throttle, I just didn't think I would reach it in such a short period of time. Originally the conversations were fast but manageable but as things started to grow and more and more fans came on to chat it became very difficult.
“The last six times I was on I got through 40 Tweets in about ten minutes so it suspended my account for an hour or an hour and a half.
“It's frustrating because you start all these conversations and then disappear. I remember the first couple of times it happened I sent a message asking Darren Parkin (Coventry Telegraph editor) and Stuart Linnell (BBC CWR presenter) if they could let people know that my account had been cut off.
“We need to be accountable and available and we're thinking of different ways to do that. Sky Blue Talk is one of the forums we may be able to use * it's not as live, as rapid-fire, but at least it allows us a form of communication where you're not suddenly going to get cut off.“
I first approached Mr Brody when he started using twitter to ask him if he was interested he said he was and had all the details but never got back to me. Since then Nick has also spoken to him and set up his very own forum. Hopefully Mr Brody will now take the time out to use SBT.
