Hi, I don't think we need to delete the account.
Outside of the USA, Twitter is still very active, I use it for arts (Twitter and Instagram are the best for that IMO), several Python devs & projects are there, my company (EU/Spain) uses it to for sharing jobs and news, as well as many climate researchers I work with or follow are still there. The interns I mentored from GSoC and Outreachy (Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Nigeria) all seem to use it in their communities to share news over Twitter, and in Brazil the Java news is shared mainly through Twitter and Linkedin. Twitter has always been big in Japan, and at least in sports like Sumo and Baseball, and for media and news it still seems very active. If there is an option to mark it as inactive that may be an option IMO. But deleting seems unnecessary as there are still communities active there, and maybe (very long shot) it could improve someday. I agree it is hard to know what's going to happen next, but I think we can wait and take action if anything is announced (although I accept something could happen without warning too). No objection to removing it from our website though, +1. And +1 that it would be great to automate it, but I think now you have to pay for that option. And I had this bot you said, Gary: https://twitter.com/asf_releases. I ran it for a few years to stay up to date with the releases, and there is an INFRA ticket to donate it to ASF (it pre-dates all the mess with Twitter/X/etc.), but the code is on GitHub: https://github.com/tupilabs/asf_releases_aggregator Bruno On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 at 14:56, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Too bad it's a hassle to log in, post, and log out manually. I know > Twitter has an API but that makes the release process longer. It's > almost like we need a bot that takes anything emailed to annouce@a.o, > extracts the subject, and posts that to Twitter. > > Gary > > On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 3:54 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Indeed, well remembered! > > > > There is a file with the password. > > > > The intro to the file says: > > > > "Apache Commons has a twitter account that can be used > > to post news about community activity, such as new > > releases and so on." > > > > The last post was May 2019, and the one before Sep 2018, so it is not > > exactly busy. > > As such, I don't think it is worth promoting. > > Whether it should be closed is another matter. > > > > Sebb > > > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2023 at 13:19, Bruno Kinoshita <brunodepau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > I think the password is in svn? In the pmc or private folder if I > recall > > > correctly. > > > > > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2023, 12:35 Gary Gregory, <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > I can't recall how we (PMC) access that account or if we even can, > maybe > > > > it's a marketing/PR account? > > > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 5:53 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > AFAICT https://twitter.com/ApacheCommons is no longer active, and > > > > > links to it should be dropped. > > > > > > > > > > Note that it is not visible without a login. > > > > > > > > > > Sebb > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
