Hi,

this is about trying something that we haven't really done so far, but
which is a fairly usual practice: sending several tweets for one post.
(For example, @creativecommons does this regularly and strategically,
on different times of the day with the idea that this will help to
reach different timezones. It can become slightly evil and spammy
especially when merely repeating the same tweet, so I would propose to
for now only do it with different tweets that include new
information.)

We decided on Friday that the Ward Cunningham post might make a good
case for this, with the first tweet
(https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/470828724985008128 , drafted by
Carlos and reviewed on-wiki) focusing on the birthday, and the second
highlighting some interesting bits from the actual interview. For
that, I'm proposing:

Why @WardCunningham edited anonymously on the first ever wiki (his
own), and how wikis changed how we react to typos
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/26/happy-birthday-ward-cunningham-inventor-of-the-wiki/

- rrom @wikipedia, repeated by @wikimedia, and using the same still
from the video as in the blog post:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Ward_Cunningham%2C_Inventor_of_the_Wiki.webm/600px-seek%3D11-Ward_Cunningham%2C_Inventor_of_the_Wiki.webm.jpg

Please review this one, and also give your thoughts on using that kind
of doubling-down tweets in general.

--
Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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