Symbiont{s} | Twitter Outreach Initiative (Experimental)

Greetings!

There is no doubt that there is a lot of good content that is being posted on Steem, several initiatives though not fully optimized have permitted the creation of several thriving communities that are doing their best to enforce a certain level of quality and take part in creating value and user retention. Yet, there is no doubt that there is a huge problem with outreach, and our situation PR-wise is not ideal. Hence We started lately working on a tool that would allow direct dissemination of the Steem content on Twitter. Reaching the intended goal of having a tangible effect would require more than using a tool that shares Steem posts on Twitter, however, it is a small step forward and a way that users could leverage once we hopefully open the tool for everyone to use.

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While building the tools, a few things were kept in mind. For higher usability, we made sure that the tool can track specific accounts, specific communities, or specific tags. This way, Users or POs will have the freedom to share things they are related to or interested in. In addition to this, specific tags, communities, and accounts can be blacklisted or filtered out as well. The ability to filter out posts would also make it easier to manage the API rate limit (which we reached pretty quickly) that Twitter is enforcing, without mentioning the fact that some consideration needs to be given to avoid being flagged for spam or shadow banned by Twitter. As of now, only posts that contain the tag steem in them will be shared on Twitter by the tool. But this could change as we have already faced some issues because the interval was just too high which lead to the app being restricted by Twitter several times.

The tools can be used to scale operations as the features needed to use authorized accounts to posts are already implemented to maximize the utility of the tool.

If you are interested in following this experience and helping us build an algorithmic reputation, please consider following the Twitter account Steem_Insight and throw some likes if you find something that interests you.

Thank you for your continuous support,

The Symbionts Team,