I’ve been getting feedback for some time that this checkbox in StatusNet’s Twitter connect settings is confusing:
People tend to think this should mean that this’ll pull all your Twitter friends’ updates into your timeline on the SN site… which is actually a separate checkbox, when enabled (sorry, it’s still disabled on identi.ca):
I suspect we could come up with clearer wording for both of these… let’s start the bidding!
[x] Subscribe to my Twitter friends’ accounts on %%site.name%% automatically.
[x] Show my friends’ tweets here on %%site.name%%.
Any other ideas?
Good suggestions.
I would probably add an “if they have an account on %%site.name%%” to the first, but your idea is still much better than the one used now.
BTW: Do you know why “Import my friends timeline.” is disabled on identi.ca ?
The system we’ve currently got can only pull updates by polling Twitter’s API, user by user. Ok for a small site but not very pleasant for a larger one; it’d just take too long and might end up tripping too many requests from Twitter. ;) We hope to do this more cleanly with real-time push updates if we can get something working cleanly…