[Wikimedia-l] "Tweet this page" from some or all sites???

[Samuel Klein]

It's a fine idea, certainly good enough and popular enough to be worth
testing -- say, on logged-out readers.  Once we have some data on how
much this is used, we can decide how and where to include it.

As with any new feature, it might make sense for the first tests to be
on a community most friendly to it.  So for instance spanish wikinews
has a significant (80k followers) twitter presence: we should clearly
be able to offer a "tweet this" option that they could turn on in
their interface.

And  on general principle, I think we should be able to run any such
tests at 0.01% density on the largest projects -- so as to get
statistically interetsing results with minimal visibility or impact on
active community members.

SJ

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Thomas Morton
<morton.thomas at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> If you mean publish something on tweeter while browsing a WMF project, I
>> can't see the point. I'm sure most users know they can have more than one
>> tab/window at a time.
>
>
> Weren't you asking for evidence to back up similar assertions a minute ago?
> :D
>
>
>> Those said, I don't use Twitter in the first place, so I really have no
>> idea what kind of gap you would like to fill with your feature.
>>
>>
> *rolls eyes*
>
> Sorry, I don't mean to be snippy but this discussion always frustrates me.
> It's the sort of elitest tech snobbery (anti-social-networks, lack of
> understanding of how 90% of the world use the web, etc.) we suffer from.
>
> Of course sharing buttons would be wonderful for our readers - that is the
> whole point of the internet, facilitating the building of the web of links!
>
> Tom
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