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I'm trying to set up a twitter account to Tweet alerts for stolen bikes. The theory being that people who follow http://twitter.com/stolenbikeuk can receive alerts about stolen bikes and perhaps be on the look out for them.
There is a similar project which has just been set up in the US in Boston (http://www.stolenbikesboston.com/index.html) however this relies on a separate web page for aggregating information. Whilst I think this is a great idea and would be achievable with the right kind of backing, I wanted to try and get something going right away.
The best idea I have come up with so far is for people to Tweet their loss to @stolenbikeuk with the tags #stolenbike and #makeandmodelofbike * and then to add any further info or links to where further info can be found. It would then be up to me to copy and paste the info and re-post it on http://twitter.com/stolenbikeuk which would then send out the alert to people following @stolenbikeuk.
The drawback to this is that it relies on me being at my computer all day or having a handheld device to repost the tweet - neither of which is the case at the moment.
Useful idea? Crap idea?
If it doesn't seem like a bad idea does anyone have input to make improvements?