Secret Sets is there just 1 single twitter account

[marathonsteve]

Is there just one single twitter account I need to look at or do you need several to know when theses sets are on, which I am not keen to do because of charging my phone.

[Joshuwarr]

Only one I know of is Secret Glasto: https://twitter.com/secretglasto

You can set alerts for whenever it tweets and maybe even text alerts too

 

 

 

[incident]

9 minutes ago, Joshuwarr said:

Only one I know of is Secret Glasto: https://twitter.com/secretglasto

You can set alerts for whenever it tweets and maybe even text alerts too

I still get text alerts through from Zapier every time that account tweets, having set it up years ago - I don't use Twitter beyond that, and have no interest in installing a dedicated app.

I assume it's still possible to do so, and wouldn't be surprised if instructions posted here in the past still broadly work.

[marathonsteve]

11 minutes ago, Joshuwarr said:

Only one I know of is Secret Glasto: https://twitter.com/secretglasto

You can set alerts for whenever it tweets and maybe even text alerts too

 

 

 

Cheers that’s exactly what I was looking for

[stuartbert two hats]

31 minutes ago, incident said:

I still get text alerts through from Zapier every time that account tweets, having set it up years ago - I don't use Twitter beyond that, and have no interest in installing a dedicated app.

I assume it's still possible to do so, and wouldn't be surprised if instructions posted here in the past still broadly work.

We really wish people would move off SMS, tweets need to be so short for you lot!

[mr flow]

1 minute ago, stuartbert two hats said:

We really wish people would move off SMS, tweets need to be so short for you lot!

THIS! Having to send the crows nest line up over two tweets is a right pain!

 

Edited April 12, 2022 by mr flow

[stuartbert two hats]

And lack images.

[incident]

10 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

We really wish people would move off SMS, tweets need to be so short for you lot!

But Twitter is fucking awful (and SMS is more reliable if data is struggling).

[marathonsteve]

So are we saying that we shouldn’t rely on twitter then. 

[stuartbert two hats]

7 minutes ago, marathonsteve said:

So are we saying that we shouldn’t rely on twitter then. 

No, it means you can set up Secretglasto to text you whenever it tweets and we* still take great pains to ensure that it gives a good experience for SMS during the festival(no reliance on images, usually fits in one text message)

But it would make life much easier if everyone just used the Twitter app.

To be clear, the Twitter experience is a superset of  SMS alerts. It's usually faster, can cope with images/videos and longer messages.

To be fair, I've been on EE for years, so don't know if other networks have problems, but for me relying on text messages is in every way worse.

 

*95% @mr flow

[marathonsteve]

Brill 

 

[stuartbert two hats]

25 minutes ago, incident said:

But Twitter is fucking awful (and SMS is more reliable if data is struggling).

Doesn't SMS struggle more than 4G?

[gfa]

9 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

No, it means you can set up Secretglasto to text you whenever it tweets and we* still take great pains to ensure that it gives a good experience for SMS during the festival(no reliance on images, usually fits in one text message)

But it would make life much easier if everyone just used the Twitter app.

To be clear, the Twitter experience is a superset of  SMS alerts. It's usually faster, can cope with images/videos and longer messages.

To be fair, I've been on EE for years, so don't know if other networks have problems, but for me relying on text messages is in every way worse.

 

*95% @mr flow

Its beneficial to have wifi off for battery life -  i think texts are still quite helpful

[incident]

7 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Doesn't SMS struggle more than 4G?

Not in my experience - SMS should work regardless of what type of signal is available.

[the wonderwhy]

Might be worth checking out if there's scope/interest for a Whatsapp broadcast list or Telegram channel or something? 

Think there might be limits on how many people can be in one but would get round the length/image issues 

[am00]

8 minutes ago, the wonderwhy said:

Might be worth checking out if there's scope/interest for a Whatsapp broadcast list or Telegram channel or something? 

Think there might be limits on how many people can be in one but would get round the length/image issues 

Interested! 

 

BUT a WhatsApp wouldnt work. There would be hundreds of people posting rubbish, making up rumours, messaging their lost friends in the wrong group 🤣

Edited April 12, 2022 by am00
I thought about it some more

[gfa]

8 minutes ago, the wonderwhy said:

Might be worth checking out if there's scope/interest for a Whatsapp broadcast list or Telegram channel or something? 

Think there might be limits on how many people can be in one but would get round the length/image issues 

Surely this makes the account less public and therefore way less accessible. Twitter is public facing, a whatsapp group or telegram not so much

[stuartbert two hats]

11 minutes ago, the wonderwhy said:

Might be worth checking out if there's scope/interest for a Whatsapp broadcast list or Telegram channel or something? 

Think there might be limits on how many people can be in one but would get round the length/image issues 

Twitter limits are fine though. It's just SMS that's a pain.

[incident]

13 minutes ago, the wonderwhy said:

Might be worth checking out if there's scope/interest for a Whatsapp broadcast list or Telegram channel or something? 

Think there might be limits on how many people can be in one but would get round the length/image issues 

The main potential reasons for using SMS over Twitter are if someone is taking a non-smartphone to the festival, or if they don't trust their data connectivity at the festival - in my case the latter - unfortunately in those respects WhatsApp and/or Telegram wouldn't be any different to Twitter.

[danssol]

I only take a dumb phone into the festival because I like to have a few days off. Anyway turned on the zapier thing. Good tip

[Leyrulion]

1 hour ago, am00 said:

Interested! 

 

BUT a WhatsApp wouldnt work. There would be hundreds of people posting rubbish, making up rumours, messaging their lost friends in the wrong group 🤣

You can set it up so only the admin posts can be seen. 

To answer the first post, the secret glasto account is shared amongst some users on here who reliably find out/get told the secret sets. So you can be sure the information is accurate, there might be others but I'm not sure how reliable they might be.