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Now if you guys could make your iPhone app better, that would be fabulous. :) If anyone had iBus Van (which I can’t seem to get anymore), that was a wicked app. I could search bus routes, and then they would display. It loaded quickly (I can load the translink app in the same amount of time it takes me to walk to my bus stop, about 3 minutes, which is far far far too long and completely useless). Also, just showing the stop number when you’re searching for nearby stops is really unhelpful unless you’re standing underneath the sign. And indicating which direction the bus you’re searching for is headed is a MUST. Is there a place I can send my feedback for the app?

I hope you will integrate real-time bus tracking into the app. It’s really helpful to know where my bus is and whether I need to book it to my stop or not. :)

I like having all the translink alerts on one place. It takes 2 milliseconds to scan and scroll past the ones you don’t care about (or skip them all together if you’re not transiting that day). You could add tags for parts of the city.

Cheers!!

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Are you finding personally that you would prefer to have separate accounts for each region or just that you think it would be a good idea in general? From the backend, the challenge for us on those fronts is largely workflow—CI staff would have to monitor/feed multiple accounts instead of 1, which might make things a bit more difficult.

The other thing is that Twitter isn’t meant to be our only channel for alerts info. For specific routes, you can subscribe to customized alerts and just get the info about what you’re interested in. As mentioned above, those subscription alerts are getting way more info owing to the Twitter pilot, so you should be just as up to date, and only on the routes you have subscribed to.

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None of this seems to have come to light? Does TransLink have any plans to ever get customer facing things like that together? About the closest thing is the Next Bus display screens on Main Street. In an ideal world I’d love to just call up that info on my smart phone at ANY bus stop, given that TMAC already has all the data.

Having a Twitter account is great, but it can be very hard to filter out the relevant information from the noise – 1,153 messages in a month is probably more than all the other people I follow on Twitter combined. Really I’m only going to want to know about one or two bus routes in a day.

It probably wouldn’t hurt to have the Twitter feeds divided up a bit – IE a few different accounts that target specific areas. For instance a UBC student probably wants to know about Broadway reroutes, but may not really care about what is happening up SFU. If there were a selection of regional accounts – Burnaby, Vancouver, Surrey, Richmond, etc that someone could choose to follow that would probably help filter things out quite a bit. So someone who say works in Richmond and commutes from Burnaby could just follow those two regions.

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Btw, Sally: initially you had said there were too many tweets on the account and you’ve unfollowed. Do you still think there’s too many tweets there? After looking at the numbers, the first day of Nov 1 had like 80+ tweets, but we seem to have settled into a pattern of about 30-ish tweets a day.

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It’s been a lot of fun following the tweets from over here on the other side of the globe! Sometimes I relay the info to my Facebook statuses to alert my friends back home, and they’re always appreciative of how they can receive news faster from me in Istanbul than from, say, the news networks or SFU, haha.

Here’s to its continuation in January!

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Hope this becomes permanent!

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