OzBargain Twitter Delay and Notifications

I've noticed recently that the Ozbargain twitter posts are delayed by 10 minutes now instead of instantly tweeting a new post.

I follow the twitter to receive real time notifications on my pc. The delay isn't a huge deal as it is still better than RSS notifiers that only update every hour, but I would still rather my notifications come instantly.

Was this an intended change on the twitter? If so, does anyone know a way to get real time rss notifications?

Comments

  • +2

    This was an intended change so that moderators and power users can get a chance to edit the title, as many submissions have undecipherable titles. It also gives us a little headway to remove SPAM, duplicates etc before they get Tweeted out. The end result is higher quality tweets with the downside of a 10 minute delay.

    Maybe we can work on targeting the delay for new posters (L & P) and reps.

  • Does the RSS feed update hourly? I assumed it was more often than this..

    • Generally should appear as frequent as new deals but with caching sometimes it could be up to 30 minutes delay.

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