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Using TweetScan to keep up with unhappy Notes users

by Chris Miller at 01:06:00 PM on Monday, June 9th, 2008

I have been using TweetScan for some time now to poll Twitter for those that mention Lotus Notes in their tweets. What you find is amazing sometimes. Here is some excerpts. I have my scans set to email me daily..

** qrush : Lotus Notes may very well be the most over-complicated office tool ever devised by mankind. It's a UI disaster
** aaron_miller : Woo upgrading to Lotus Notes 8 tonight
** careca : lotus notes blows! give me gmail!
** ckwebgrrl : Hating Lotus Notes... I'm starting to sound like a broken record :(
** aaronmcohen : Lotus Notes works again....Oh Joy.....wait.....now I see all the meetings I need to go to.....damn!
** seanjackson : oh, lotus notes, how I hate you so....
** whitneyhess : @mariobourque Ooh you're right. There is something worse than Outlook. Lotus Notes!
** richrecruiter : Retweeting @kellsworth: Lotus should have been left to karate and plants, and stayed away from Notes and emailing.

So what you find is people that have either bad installs or badly managed environments. You could go on for days reading these as they come across but I thought others might find it interesting.

You can also expand this and make more scans for your company name, product or even yourself.

Location: St. Louis, MO

Category: Technical
Tags :Twitter TweetScan View blog reactions

1) Using TweetScan to keep up with unhappy Notes users
Created by Ed Brill at 6/9/2008 1:51:38 PM email | website

yep, you could drive yourself nuts...

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2) Using TweetScan to keep up with unhappy Notes users
Created by Kirk at 6/9/2008 2:03:46 PM email |

I think this is just the nature of all tweeting, commenting, blogging, etc... you rarely see someone posting a comment like "Well, fired up (insert product name here) again this morning and it's still working fine"

If you search for Outlook, Exchange, etc... you find plenty of negative comments there too.

3) re: Using TweetScan to keep up with unhappy Notes users
Created by Chris Miller at 6/9/2008 2:27:17 PM email | website

I didn't post this to say Notes users were all crabby, but it gives a glancing feel on wha tissues are being faced on a daily bassis from users. Sure, all of the softwares have issues, that was my oiuint in saying creatre your own scans to get interesting stuff from the public timeline. Like snowboarding? search it and scan it

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