Thinking of Making Some Changes to Slice Twitter; Would Like Your Input

Posted by Adam Kuban, January 15, 2009 at 9:15 PM

I know you're probably getting sick of me posting about Twitter the last couple of days, but bear with me. This one is warranted. —The Mgmt.

Since I've been twittering as @slice, followers have seen the account go through a couple different phases.

Phase One began as my own personal account, which made sense to me at the time—after all, there was little separation between the personal and the pizza in my world. For many of my friends, longtime readers, and Twitter followers, Slice and "Adam Kuban" were pretty much synonymous.

But a few months ago, I realized that the personal stuff I was tweeting could be misconstrued as the viewpoints of Slice the Blog—and, more worrisome, of Slice's parent site, Serious Eats.

So I broke up with my @slice account and got my own. Thus began Phase Two: Strictly pizza and Slice news.

Today I'm proposing Phase Three, which I'll explain after the jump.

If you're a follower of @slice, how would you feel about me turning it into a sort of crowd-sourced pizza intel log?

How It Would Work

Eater already does something like this. So does shakeshack. I can set up a bot that basically retweets anything from anyone who includes "@slice" in their message.

So, say, if you wanted to report on the line at Co. and get the message out to other Slice followers, you'd do something like this:

"@slice There's no line at Co. right now! Got right in."

That message would then be retweeted by the Slice twitter account, giving subscribing slicehounds on-the-go intel.

Pros and Cons

The pro would be, obviously, on-the-fly information.

The con would be that, depending on number and quality of reports, you might just end up with a weird stream of stupid pizza-related updates.

I'm not going to put this into effect until I get some feedback from @slice followers. So let me know here in the comments, by @reply or dm on Twitter, or, if you're a dinosaur, by email (adam@sliceny.com).

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