Starship Asterisk*

When I saw the post from EDG that the Twitter feed had stopped (thanks EDG!), I looked on the "About APOD" page for the name and email address of the person who has been running the APOD Twitter feed and emailed him (Stuart Lowe) that the feed had stopped. It seems that he has now restart...

First, thanks for replying RJN. I know I sounds like I'm being demanding but I seem to be getting a lot of noise about this here from other people. As for "not having the knowhow", here's how to set up a twitter page: Go to twitter.com. Click the Signup link. Pick a username. Follow the in...

Astrostu - it appears that the APOD twitter feed has started again (I got today's and yesterday's update). Hopefully it'll stay updated, but I wanted to say thanks for restarting it!

I'm not the one insisting they have time to do this; I'm not telling them what to spend their time on, as you are trying to do. No, you're just making excuses for them. No offense, but I'm not really interested in hearing from anyone else about this, I'd like to get responses from the people who ac...

You can think what you want, but I think it's hubris on your part to decide what the editors have time to do and what their jobs are! Well, you were the one who started off by saying they probably don't have time and who told me what their jobs were... ;) Having an official facebook and twitter gro...

That doesn't explain why APOD can't post links to the site on Twitter or Facebook themselves though. APOD is a small part of the editors' jobs. I'm pretty sure they aren't paid to post links on Twitter or Facebook (because if they were, they'd be doing so). Dr. Bonnell is a research scientist at Go...

I think you miss the point. It is not the responsibility of APOD or the Asterisk* to enforce copyrights on Facebook, rather it is up to the facebook user to observe copyright law. That doesn't explain why APOD can't post links to the site on Twitter or Facebook themselves though. Let's be clear - t...

Have you actually consulted a lawyer about this? It seems that you're making a lot of statements of belief there, wouldn't it be an idea to check for yourself (if you're involved with APOD)? Either way, links alone can be posted on Facebook. For images they do tend to make a little thumbnail too, bu...

If anyone wants to set this up, please feel free. Please read the above posts about image copyrights, though. - RJN Why are copyrights an issue? If a facebook page just consists of status updates with links to the APOD page, why is that a problem? If necessary, credits can be added to the caption s...

Now I don't yet completely see the need for a Twitter feed since all it does is provide a link to that day's APOD. But different mediums have different user bases and who am I to tell anyone how they should access APOD. Personally I found the Twitter APOD account to be really useful, and I'm surpri...