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 <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> 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 <jelder@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Thanks, James! I can tweak that tweet as suggested. 

On Saturday, October 17, 2015, James Alexander <jalexander@wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Jeff Elder <jelder@wikimedia.org> 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

 

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

LGTM

 

Twitter:

Happy birthday to tennis great Martina Navratilova, with records for most singles and doubles titles in open era. 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... 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

LGTM  

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