I think I either set those up or encouraged them to be set up a couple years ago.
Most likely we would be better off with human updates in there, but we may need some designated tweeters to make sure it happens reliably when there are issues to report, new features to mention, or upcoming stuff we want feedback on.
-- brion On Nov 29, 2011 11:25 AM, "Guillaume Paumier" gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
We've had @wikimediatech accounts on twitter & identica for some time now:
that basically broadcast every single action that is logged to the server admin log:
The account has 78 followers on identica and 430 on twitter (probably counting the spammers).
I'm wondering if there are actually people reading all the stuff that's pushed through these channels.
My gut feeling is that the few people reading these feeds are also those that would know to check the SLA if they encountered an issue, or know how to use the RSS feed of the SLA page if they really wanted the information in real time.
Meanwhile, we don't really have social media channels dedicated to Wikimedia tech stuff, i.e. channels where we can actually post stuff, links, blog posts, outage info, etc and engage with a larger community of people interested in our tech operations. I feel that the accounts would be much more useful if we reduced the amount of semi-random information we post there.
So, I'm basically proposing to repurpose the @wikimediatech accounts for this.
Thoughts? Good idea? Bad idea? You don't care?
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