Hi Michael, On 12/28/2015 06:48 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Dear Folks, > > I don't use twitter much. But I noticed that debian is on twitter > ie The Debian Project <https://twitter.com/debian> @debian. > > What benefit is there in that? > > I tried tweeting a bit on twitter but I did not get much response. So > I got bored with it. > > Some exchanges on twitter can be interesting but with the 140 > character limit it would not be easy to discuss bugs etc. > > Apparently 71% of postings on twitter are ignored. That is not very > interactive. > > Comments appreciated. > > Regards > > Michael Fothergill >
Although you can find Debian accounts on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, et al, the Debian Project does not endorse the use of those services as their TOS are not in line with our beliefs as they are non-free, that being said, none of those accounts are 'official' as in recognized by the project. For those services and others, individuals within Debian have set up accounts that reference Debian in order to pass information from the project directly to the world. While not specific to Twitter there are a few benefits to having those secondary social media accounts: They generally have a large user base of people who use them, a fair amount of our own developers use them, and people who like to stay abreast of technology and software use them. Let us not forget that within the realm of social media it has become expected that people or organizations have a presence on those social platforms. The people in charge of twitter do not use Twitter for 2-way communication, only for announcements and to highlight events or happenings in the F/OSS community. Bear in mind that each one of the non-official accounts is handled by a third party and each of them may choose to do things in a different manner. Our official social media account is on Identi.ca[1] server within the pump.io social network, our official blog is 'Bits from Debian[2]', and our official newsletter is the Debian Project News (DPN)[3]. Major announcements are posted to the debian-announce mailing list[4]. Generally as information is shared from the Debian Project it will trickle onto those sources, from there those with the unofficial accounts may as well pass the information along. [1]https://identi.ca/debian [2]https://bits.debian.org/ [3]https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ [4]https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/debian-announce Hope this helps. Thank you for your support and for using Debian! Best regards, Donald Norwood -Debian Publicity Team
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