• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Anyone on here use Twitter?

Ex HVUK

Ex HVUK

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm interested to know if anyone on Cafe Husky uses Twitter?

I've started using it to send out Husqvarna news info and without any promotion other than 6 or 7 'tweets' the followers are slowly growing. I so far have issued news story headlines and refer people back to our website or to Cafe Husky if I've posted the story on here too.

What I don't know is why some of these these people are following, some I think do it in the hope you'll follow them in return and increase their apparent 'popularity' but I could be wrong... (often have been before!)

So I'm guessing there will be some users on here as to be a forum subscriber you have to be reasonably IT friendly but is Twitter a good medium for getting headline news out fast to the Husqvarna (or general dirt bike) customer?

All opinions gratefully received.


Thanks...Dave
 
Husky Sport;41395 said:
What I don't know is why some of these these people are following, some I think do it in the hope you'll follow them in return and increase their apparent 'popularity' but I could be wrong... (often have been before!)
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I haven't seen Twitter yet and probably won't bother having a peek at it. I got onto Myspace because I was bored and it was kind of fun at first to make some cyberpals. I have noticed that a lot of people over at that website seem to make friends with almost anybody and I am guessing that your observation about perceived popularity is on target. I've pretty much lost interest in it, because I have CH and SDAR which are more focused websites and I actually get to interact with some of the people on these sites, especially SDAR, because it's local. I actually "made friends" with a couple of folks over at Myspace that joined SDAR and I have ridden with them.
 
Husky Sport;41395 said:
I'm interested to know if anyone on Cafe Husky uses Twitter?

I've started using it to send out Husqvarna news info and without any promotion other than 6 or 7 'tweets' the followers are slowly growing. I so far have issued news story headlines and refer people back to our website or to Cafe Husky if I've posted the story on here too.

What I don't know is why some of these these people are following, some I think do it in the hope you'll follow them in return and increase their apparent 'popularity' but I could be wrong... (often have been before!)

So I'm guessing there will be some users on here as to be a forum subscriber you have to be reasonably IT friendly but is Twitter a good medium for getting headline news out fast to the Husqvarna (or general dirt bike) customer?

All opinions gratefully received.


Thanks...Dave
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Twitter is a *really* hot marketing scheme right now. In the near future (1 year?) it will be diluted to the point of being not so useful with all sorts of not so good stuff.

Kinda creepy having people following you around the internet isn't it?

I've not used twitter but it is my understanding that it can be used for one way communications. If they follow you then they may buy a bike from you so I'd say keep using it.

If you would also like to drive people to your site then another excellent approach is youtube and other video hosting places.
 
Isn't this site good enough? I mean twitter might be get for those who don't have a forum, such as this one, to communicate with their "peeps". ( I think I'm going to start "Peeper" where you can leave "Peeps" for your "Peeps". )
 
Coffee;41401 said:
Twitter is a *really* hot marketing scheme right now......
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That’s what my wife says and she uses it for marketing reasons
If it works for the business then all is good

It blows my mind that some use it for general nonsense, tweeting like birds about this and that and what they’re doing right now….talking just for the sake of making noise….like my wife sometimes……crazy……:bonk:

For me, between CH, SMJ, TT, ADV
and all the “other” stuff that make my computers and laptops crash
I just don’t have time for anything else

:busted:
 
MOTORHEAD;41416 said:
Isn't this site good enough? I mean twitter might be get for those who don't have a forum, such as this one, to communicate with their "peeps". ( I think I'm going to start "Peeper" where you can leave "Peeps" for your "Peeps". )
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Or possibly "Pooper" where you can find all the "poop d'jour".:D
 
Husky Sport;41395 said:
I'm interested to know if anyone on Cafe Husky uses Twitter?

I've started using it to send out Husqvarna news info and without any promotion other than 6 or 7 'tweets' the followers are slowly growing. I so far have issued news story headlines and refer people back to our website or to Cafe Husky if I've posted the story on here too.

What I don't know is why some of these these people are following, some I think do it in the hope you'll follow them in return and increase their apparent 'popularity' but I could be wrong... (often have been before!)

So I'm guessing there will be some users on here as to be a forum subscriber you have to be reasonably IT friendly but is Twitter a good medium for getting headline news out fast to the Husqvarna (or general dirt bike) customer?

All opinions gratefully received.


Thanks...Dave
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I use it. What's your handle Dave?
 
I'm not even sure what twitter is but if it has the ability to track and follow you I'm going to stay away from it. I don't need to give the guys in the black sedan at the end of my street yet another avenue to persue me.:D
 
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