improve Twitter #ILoveWP hashtag link on WP.org Testimonials page

[ixmati]

Issue: The current link (​https://twitter.com/hashtag/ILoveWP) to explore the #ILoveWP hashtag on the WP.org Testimonials page (​https://wordpress.org/about/testimonials/) leads to "Top" tweets for that hashtag, which shows mostly older tweets.

Solution: Change the link to lead to the "Latest" tweets on the #ILoveWP hashtag to see more current tweets. Proposed new link: ​https://twitter.com/hashtag/ILoveWP?f=live

[ixmati]

I was going to attach a pull request, but didn't yet see the latest changes from https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11337 already in GitHub at ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress.org/commits/master/wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-main/page-about-testimonials.php

[ixmati]

I was looking in the master branch in GitHub rather than trunk, so now I see latest changes. PR coming ASAP.

[ixmati]

patch to address 5958

[dd32]

Linking to the Top rather than new was a bit intentional here unfortunately - anytime that a hashtag is used like that it tends to attract spam and unsavoury responses, so linking to the "latest and greatest" backfires often.

That's also why the page doesn't simply embed a river of all/recent tweets with the hashtag, as it's easy for things that we don't want to showcase to be shown.

[ixmati]

View of "Top" tweets for the #ILoveWP hashtag as of 22 Nov 2021

[ixmati]

I had that concern too about "Latest", but the first post under "Top" (at least for me) is totally unrelated to WordPress (something to do with West Palm Beach) and there are more down the "Top" list: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5958/ILoveWPTwitterTop.png

On the other hand, "Latest" does have a lot of tweets by KitchensinkWP.

Maybe the solution is not to link to the stream at all, but instead update the curation, which as per our discussion in Slack is likely a topic for the Marketing team to take up.

I'm ok with my patch here not moving forward as neither solution is great...

[dd32]

Replying to ixmati:

I had that concern too about "Latest", but the first post under "Top" (at least for me) is totally unrelated to WordPress (something to do with West Palm Beach) and there are more down the "Top" list: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5958/ILoveWPTwitterTop.png

On the other hand, "Latest" does have a lot of tweets by KitchensinkWP.

Annoyingly, it looks like Twitter has a different set of tweets show up depending on the referrer being twitter or not.. The Top set of tweets included ILoveWPTwitterTop.png​ but in 3rd position for me (After Yoast and Josepha) and scrolling was a lot of relevant tweets. The latest was primarily hashtag spam at the time for me.

Looking at it now though, clicking through to Twitter from w.org (or pasting the URL in a browser, so there's no referrer info) shows ​a singular tweet for me under to which is at least WP related. Heading to ​the latest tab just shows a singular KitchenSink tweet..

More I try, it seems that about 25% of the time, Twitter loads more than 1 tweet, rest of the time just a singular one.

So yeah, neither situation is great.. Getting updated testimonials however would be brilliant and definitely something that would make the linked tweetstreams to be more useful again.

[ixmati]

I see inconsistencies too, so I vote we just leave it as you have it then. Sorry to have opened this can of worms... I'll try to bring keeping testimonials more current up with the Marketing team.

Should we resolve this as wontfix?

[ixmati]

Oops, I think I accidentally applied a resolution. Maybe fine as "invalid".

[dd32]

Yeah, I'm good closing this as wontfix :)

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to dd32:

Looking at it now though, clicking through to Twitter from w.org (or pasting the URL in a browser, so there's no referrer info) shows ​a singular tweet for me under to which is at least WP related. Heading to ​the latest tab just shows a singular KitchenSink tweet..

More I try, it seems that about 25% of the time, Twitter loads more than 1 tweet, rest of the time just a singular one.

I might be missing something here, but ​https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ILoveWP&src=typed_query seems to work as expected for me, and consistently shows multiple tweets. Could that be the preferred option here?

[ixmati]

The inconsistent results are a bit maddening. I'm now seeing different results for various query structures than I saw before, and depending on whether I'm logged in to Twitter or not.

However I can confirm that I do see consistent results for the same query @SergeyBiryukov shared under all circumstances I've tried.

It does still however retunrn posts about West Palm Beach, but every modifier I add to remove such posts (eg, "-palm", "-palmbeach", etc) is maybe a bit too greedy (what if there were a West Palm Beach WordPress meetup?) or flip the view into chronological order so it surfaces the oldest results first, which seems unsatisfactory.

So I'm a +1 to changing the link to: ​https://twitter.com/search?q=(%23ILoveWP)&src=typed_query

[coffee2code]

In the intervening years since there was last discussion on this ticket, it has been made moot. The testimonials page now redirects to the ​"community" category archive on the News blog. That page has no link to Twitter (asides from the global footer) and makes no mention of the ILoveWP hashtag.