I will admit - I had no idea what it meant. :) Although - I am probably not the target for this specific tweet. ;)
-greg > On Oct 18, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > > For what it's worth "the Open era" is a reasonably well known term for > followers of tennis... Though admittedly not for most other people. :) > > Joe > > On Sunday, 18 October 2015, Jeff Elder <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Thanks, James! I can tweak that tweet as suggested. > > On Saturday, October 17, 2015, James Alexander <[email protected] <>> > wrote: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Jeff Elder <[email protected] <>> wrote: > Twitter @wikimedia: > The 1st webcam was hooked up to prevent pointless trips to coffee pot in > University of Cambridge computer lab. http://buff.ly/1RhOHvX > <http://buff.ly/1RhOHvX> > > > LGTM > > Facebook: > On this day in 1954, music went portable as never before when the first > practical transistor radio made in any significant numbers was announced. One > year after the release of the TR-1 sales approached the 100,000 mark. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio> > > LGTM > > Twitter: > Happy birthday to tennis great Martina Navratilova, with records for most > singles and doubles titles in open era. http://buff.ly/1RhPvB1 > <http://buff.ly/1RhPvB1> > > Hmmmm, this one concerns me because of the "in open era" .. I had no idea > what it was talking about and in order to find out I had to 1. Click the > link, 2. search for a reference in the article to it 3. click to go to > article about the History of tennis and 4. read the section there > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tennis#Open_Era>... I worry that's > going to be really confusing for people and the number of steps would cause > many not to completely understand. > > Would people be happy with just saying "since 1968" ? (the start of the open > era) > > > Facebook: > Happy birthday to tennis great Martina Navratilova, the only player in > history to have held the top spot in both singles and doubles for over 200 > weeks. http://buff.ly/1RhPvB1 <http://buff.ly/1RhPvB1> > > LGTM > > > > -- > Jeff Elder > Digital communications manager > Wikimedia Foundation > 704-650-4130 <tel:704-650-4130> > @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> > @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> > The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> > > > -- > Sent from a device with a small keyboard with big fingers :) > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media>
_______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
