Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID10045480.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: New Epcot Info Board Features Live Twitter Feed with "Interesting" Tweets</b></a> <p>Epcot has unveiled its new information board near Pin Central. Rather than a large, digital board as it used to be it's a large computer screen (or perhaps multiple screens) which allows for much more flexibility. The only downside is you have to walk up to it to see wait times and FastPass availability (the old board was so large the info could be seen from a distance). One interesting thing ... there was some items on the Twitter feed that I wouldn't normally expect to see on a Disney info board. I can't imagine Disney doesn't monitor it, but I still found one of the tweets (which I snapped a picture of), not particularly Disney like.</p>
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Yea, the twitter feed is a terrible idea for Disney. And by terrible I mean amazingly hilarious and idiotic. I've heard reports of multiple inappropriate tweets, tweets complaining about the poor state of some attractions, as well as tweets hyping Forbidden Journey.
Originally Posted By PotNoodle "Having a drunken discussion about mean, median, and mode." Sounds like someone has a "skewed" sense of fun. :|
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Must have been a gathering of Stanford grads. I'm more surprised at the nerdy topic of the discussion than I am at the fact that they were drunk at EPCOT.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 ", tweets complaining about the poor state of some attractions, as well as tweets hyping Forbidden Journey." ah, I see some of our LP posters were visiting... ;-)
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Usually live feeds like this have a filter and I can't imagine Disney doing this without having someone or something moderating.
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>Usually live feeds like this have a filter and I can't imagine Disney doing this without having someone or something moderating.<< I can.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt There has to be a filter. Has anyone seen swear words (or worse) appear on any of those boards? If so, then maybe they aren't monitoring it, but I'd be shocked if they weren't. Tweeting to a public board at EPCOT that you're drunk while having a conversation about statistics isn't that offensive is it?
Originally Posted By hopemax They may have an automated filter that searches for specific words. But "drunk" has many contexts so they can't filter that out. That's when you need a real person. They just need to whip out the VMK filter won...too...tree...for
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper I'd imagine if it was monitored we wouldn't be seeing tweets about Forbidden Journey and Butterbeer.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "I'd imagine if it was monitored we wouldn't be seeing tweets about Forbidden Journey and Butterbeer." Or perhaps Disney is simply being generous and isn't as concerned about this stuff as you think they are. The bigger worry for management would be people purposely sending inappropriate or offensive messages. Texting that you like a competitor's product in an open forum, specifically where technology is being showcased, seems in line with the spirit of EPCOT to me.
Originally Posted By leobloom Hopefully this is a sign of things to come with NexGen. And by that, I mean I hope we get more unintentional interactive stupidity. The tweets are bad enough, but now you have to walk right up to the board to see the wait times? Whose brilliant idea was that? What's the point of the tweets anyway?
Originally Posted By DlandDug "Cause tweeting is all... current and... stuff. You know. Interactivitiness. It's now. And stuff.
Originally Posted By Manfried Interactivity is here to stay. What would be interesting would be to get back to an opening day EPCOT Concept, dealing with issues. They had a thing for a while that was like a continuous poll on issues of the day. Maybe there's a way to introduce that back into the park.
Originally Posted By Boardwalkbum I think that perhaps a tweet filter test is in order this coming week. Any suggestions?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer I think it's a great addition to the park, especially one that shows communications and technology, perfect for EPCOT. But yeah, needs to be edited...
Originally Posted By ChiMike I think it shows that the folks now in charge of what gets put on stage have no clue how everything ties together. Also, no common sense in relation to typical guest behavior. Whoever pointed it out earlier, hit the nail on the head. They took a solution towards broadcasting wait times (a notion I always thought was a little over the top to begin with), and implemented a worse version. Absolutely astounding. Whereas a guest could see the information board, clearly, from 40 yards away, now they have to walk right up. Silly. All in the name of technology for technology's sake. The twitter is even more banal. I think if used right it would be a great repurposing of the original EPCOT Center polls, however the way it is setup now they might as well put up the Disney Parks Blog on it.
