I also find it a useful tool to follow other projects...there may be a
good replacement for it at some point but in the meantime I would love
to see releases + blog posts tweeted (or retweeted by) the official
account.

-dewey

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 6:01 AM Raúl Cumplido <raulcumpl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> El lun, 29 ene 2024 a las 20:24, Felipe Oliveira Carvalho
> (<felipe...@gmail.com>) escribió:
> >
> > > I have found Twitter an extremely effective way for an open-source
> > project to communicate with the “exo-community” — people who are interested
> > in the project but not so invested that they join the email list. An open
> > source project needs to perform pretty much all of the functions of a
> > for-profit company, and Twitter fulfills the marketing function. Clearly
> > Twitter is not what it used to be, but I don’t know what, if anything, has
> > replaced it.
> >
> > +1.
>
> I also agree with this view. I find it a very good communication tool
> for lots of users that are interested in the project but not that
> close.
>
> I am happy to tweet about the releases of Arrow, blog posts, etcetera
> on the official account.
>
> Raúl
>
> >
> > Unfortunately, all the alternatives to Twitter haven't reached the tipping
> > point yet. Saw some people trying to push tech content on Threads but the
> > audience is simply not there yet. @ApacheArrow has 12K followers on Twitter
> > making it a great tool for spreading news and getting people excited about
> > the project.
> >
> > --
> > Felipe
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 4:07 PM Julian Hyde <jhyde.apa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The easiest thing is to share the Twitter credentials with any PMC member
> > > who is interested in sending tweets (which is usually a very small 
> > > number).
> > >
> > > To answer Antoine’s point. I have found Twitter an extremely effective way
> > > for an open-source project to communicate with the “exo-community” — 
> > > people
> > > who are interested in the project but not so invested that they join the
> > > email list. An open source project needs to perform pretty much all of the
> > > functions of a for-profit company, and Twitter fulfills the marketing
> > > function. Clearly Twitter is not what it used to be, but I don’t know 
> > > what,
> > > if anything, has replaced it.
> > >
> > > Julian
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Jan 29, 2024, at 10:50 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is there a different tool other than TweetDeck available that can
> > > > synchronize posts that go out on different social channels (LinkedIn,
> > > > Twitter, Mastodon, etc.)? I've heard of things like Hootsuite but that's
> > > > pretty expensive and definitely overkill for an open source project, but
> > > > perhaps there is a more modest tool that would help with mirroring
> > > content
> > > > onto different platforms.
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 5:39 PM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> My 2 cents : I don't understand what an open source project gains by
> > > >> publishing on a microblogging platform.
> > > >>
> > > >> As for Twitter specifically, its recent governance changes would be 
> > > >> good
> > > >> reason for terminating the @ApacheArrow account, IMHO.
> > > >>
> > > >> Regards
> > > >>
> > > >> Antoine.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Le 27/01/2024 à 23:06, Bryce Mecum a écrit :
> > > >>> I noticed that the @ApacheArrow Twitter account [1] hasn't posted
> > > >>> since June 2023 which is around the time of the Arrow 12 release. When
> > > >>> I asked on Zulip [2] about who runs or has access to post as that
> > > >>> account, Kou indicated the account was managed using TweetDeck [3] and
> > > >>> that this may no longer be an option due to subscription changes.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I'm writing to get a sense of who currently has access and how the
> > > >>> community would like to move forward with using the account. I'm also
> > > >>> volunteering to help manage it.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> My questions are:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> - Who has access to @ApacheArrow [1]?
> > > >>> - Is the community still interested in engaging on Twitter?
> > > >>> - Is the community interested in other platforms, potentially just
> > > >>> engaging with them through cross-posting?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Thanks,
> > > >>> Bryce
> > > >>>
> > > >>> [1] https://twitter.com/ApacheArrow
> > > >>> [2]
> > > >>
> > > https://ursalabs.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/180245-dev/topic/ApacheArrow.20Twitter.20account/near/418346643
> > > >>> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweetdeck
> > > >>
> > >
> > >

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