Twitter lists are a great way to stay tuned to what a well defined group of people are sharing, without necessarily following them yourself.To turn the lists you have created into Daily "Newspapers" really facilitates the discovery of this shared content. Give it a try.
How to create a Twitter list : Twitter support page here
How to turn a list into a newspaper : go to the "create a newspaper" section you find on paper.li page header
Good reading with paper.li
This li is such a cool thing! Love it!
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How do I delete the newspaper? I clicked "manage" but was given no options.
ReplyDeleteRay, papers deletion "feature" will be added to the next version. In the meantime, you can request it via Twitter (@smallrivers).
ReplyDeleteHi, thanks for Paper.li
ReplyDeleteI'd like to control the update times or the people that are mentioned in the tweet announcement will that ever be possible?
Thanks again!
Hi there,
ReplyDeleteIs there a way i can change the title of the paper?
i preffer to name it after my blog and not my name...
I would also like to share only the things that i've tweeted and retweeted not all the people i'm following, thanks
Maria, the purpose of paper.li is to easily browse the content your follows share with you. But we will see what we can do for you. Cheers
ReplyDeleteI'd suggest a combination of the following: a couple of hashtags (or just plain search words, as some people don't even get hashtags) and a list. Would that be possible in future? :)
ReplyDeleteI created a paper for the subject of my website based on a hashtag and it only shows my tweets and tweets of people who retweeted it.
Iva, we take your point (tags/words and lists).
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ReplyDeleteTim - we experienced some delays on certain papers this morning and are currently catching up - so it shouldn't be long before your paper is updated. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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ReplyDeleteI HATE the audio voice over ad that loads every time you open this. That is VERY annoying and a huge turn off to using your product. If this is on tomorrow, I'm out.
ReplyDelete@Maria
ReplyDeleteSet up a twitter list with just yourself on it.
Now create the paper using that list
Questions ?
ReplyDelete1 Do you have a support\suggestions site like getsatisfaction.com
2 When does paper.li put the paper together , the time influences the content ?
3 Can we change the time when the paper is produced. ?
4 Can you confirm the tweets have to have a link somewhere in the tweet , in order to be published ?
Finally , great product , creating RT's , interaction and many thank you's from my followers , some of whom are convinced I choose them to be featured.
what determines the time the paper is updated?
ReplyDeleteIgnacio - we haven't seen such ads before, and I can imagine it is annoying. We will look into this. Hope for your understanding.
ReplyDeletevamoss - here are some answers:
ReplyDelete1) working on it
2) just before the scheduled update we process 24 hours worth of tweets & associated content to publish the paper
3) not yet
4) yes, we only take tweets that have links.
Glad you like!
dublinstreams - we currently update the paper everyday on the original creation time.
ReplyDeleteSmallRivers team, thank you for taking it into consideration. :)
ReplyDeleteIgnacio: 8 years ago, there was an ad saying "I see you!" and you didn't even have to hover it, it would talk out of blue. This one at least can't traumatise you.
Little problem
ReplyDeleteWhen someone tweets the exact same tweet several times , they appear several times in the newspaper , taking up valuable column space
In this case @Lifestyle online appears 3 times
Eg http://paper.li/stevenhealey/ecademy
vamoss -
ReplyDeleteThx for pointing this out. This is a special case that will help us refine the rules we already have in place to avoid duplicate links - if you look at the urls shared, all 3 are actually different:
http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=131606&cid=638637#c638637
http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=131606&cid=638988#c638988
http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=131606&cid=638838#c638838
Unfortunately, our current checks were not able to detect the closeness and get rid of these duplicates. We will work on this.
Cheers, Iskander
Thanks for the reply Iskander.
ReplyDeleteIt makes sense now , @Lifestyle is tweeting comments on blogs .
In other news my twitter celebrity list is now attracting a readership .. the celebrities themselves :)
http://paper.li/stevenhealey/celebrity
Love the newspaper for highlighting the content produced by list members. The only problem I see is that it gives a featured list of the members RT an article when I would like the original article writer's Twitter username listed instead. Currently I do this manually for one of my newspapers.
ReplyDeleteJohn - point taken. we currently show the first user that tweeted this article in the given period of the paper's edition. If it is a retweet, then that's what we show. But we may well consider doing what you suggest. Thx for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are Amazing! You're growing so fast.
ReplyDeleteI've set up 2 papers from 2 of my favorite twitter lists. Fun. I need to edit the name of one so I imagine I need to
ReplyDelete1. delete the paper
2. rename the twitter list
3. relaunch
Is it possible now, or do you plan in the future to allow us to select sections. For instance, I would prefer not to have a politics section on my page. It's a topic I normally avoid on-line.
@LindaSherman
Linda - if you change your list name on Twitter, it will be taken into account on the next update of the paper.
ReplyDeleteWe are looking into ways to customize a paper. Stay tuned...
I guess I don't understand how using a Twitter List should work.
ReplyDeleteI expected that when I created a "paper" based on my Twitter List of 418 employers who recruit using their Twitter accounts that I would see some of those employers and their postings on the "paper." I don't.
Instead, all I see are TweetMyJOBS postings, and, believe me, TweetMyJOBS is NOT an employer and is MOST DEFINITELY NOT on my employers-recruiting List!
I'm not interested in promoting TweetMyJOBS as an employer recruiting. It would be appropriate for my job-listings list, but that's not the one I tried to make into an LI Paper.
Not sure what's going on, but we need to kill that paper. Either it's not working correctly or it's working in a way that I don't understand, and I don't want my Twitter account associated with it.
jobsearch pro - any paper.li based on a Twitter list takes into account only links shared by Twitter users on that list - if this is not the case, as you seem to imply, we would need some more information on your account and list paper so that we can take a look - would you be so kind to send us an email: [email protected]?
ReplyDeleteIf I add more Twitter users to my Twitter lists, will the newspaper recognise them? I've just added about 30 new accounts to my list and it still says "Shared by 27 people" when I now have 57 on my list.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking the time to read.
ncerbolles - the paper is updated once a day, so the new users added to your list will be taken into account in the next update. Trust this answers your question.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much!
ReplyDeleteGuys, this is great. Thumbs up for your hard work :). I could only wish that someday, paper.li will also publish tweets (not only the links) even tweets without any link. I believe that it's also interesting to read the discussion over some issues with or without links. Would you consider about that?
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree that a paper.li's newspaper based on a combination of words, hashtags, users, and lists would be fantastic :). Looking forward to seeing this :).
That's a great service! It makes the reading of good articles in Twitter much more easier for me. Greetings from Italy. I made today a newspaper for Italy. :-) Saluti e tanti auguri, Silvia http://paper.li/italienlinks/italien
ReplyDeleteWould be great if papers based on Twitter lists would feature the list description as a sub-title
ReplyDeleteHow about a Twibe feature in addition to the list?
ReplyDeleteA good one, Cas. We take this point.
ReplyDeleteHenrik, we will implement this. Thx for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI've set up a twitter list and tried to get a paper to publish using that list. I keep getting the message that I've either used an invalid name or that the list is not public. Neither of which is true. Can you help. http://paper.li/~/papers/settings/517509
ReplyDeletealso on twitter @PatMacKay. The input form for custom newspaper is not clear. In one place it say use @username/list name...then in another is says it needs @twitter_username/list name.
Also for #tags. What if any is the spacing or punctuation between the #tag list...
Pat,
ReplyDeleteYour On the Record looks like it is publishing fine. If a paper does not get viewed within 48 hours it switches from automatic update, to manual update. You will know this has happened when you see the green update button at the top of your paper. Click it , and you are good to go!
For your Design Files paper, try your search like this #archeology OR "#stolen art" OR "#looted art"
Trying to set up a hashtag paper #ncramsss, but my paper isn't populating with any tweets, even though I am Tweeting them. Why? Also I can't edit my settings even though I created the paper
ReplyDeleteHi Michelle,
ReplyDeleteOne thing that helps when creating new papers is to test the #tag of query first using Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com/
You will see the content that is being tweeted with that tag.
If this project is for a class, I would suggest creating a Custom Paper using a #tag focus. Why? Because you can own the paper, customize the title, add an editors note, and very soon, have the ability to remove or promote content.
If you create a standard #tag paper you will not "own" it. It will be populated daily with content around the #tag and will remain on our newsstand for everyone to enjoy.
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