Currently our approach on social media is that "Social media websites aren't useful for spreading news and reaching out to potential users and contributors." [1] I challenge this though. Is it really true? Twitter has 254 million active monthly users, with 500 million tweets sent per day [2], Facebook has 1.35 billion active monthly users users. [3]
I know there are many active Wikipedians who frequent both of these sites. Should we be more actively encouraging people to share?
The history of the Social Media page indicates this was added as an ‘initial dump’ back in November of 2011. [4] But I wonder if it might be worth revisiting or refreshing this decision in light of the current world we live in.
What do others think? What would the reaction be to a sharethis.com type service where any site could engage ? Would this be more valuable on mobile than than desktop?
1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Social_media
2: https://about.twitter.com/company
3: http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info
4: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Social_media&diff=1318877&am...