There's only 78 followers. Most of them are staff. That's not a lot of
people to leverage, so I'm not sure that's a valid point.
Why not "wmftech" ?
On 11/29/11 11:53 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Brandon Harris<bhar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Do we *have* to rename the feeds?
>>
>> We rename *everything*. I'm unsure why we can't just create a
>> different
>> account for people, rather than subvert the existing one.
>> WikimediaTechNews, maybe. I don't know.
>
> wikimediatech is shorter (which facilitates manual retweets) and
> frankly it's the name I would consider canonical for an account about
> wikimedia tech stuff (@wikitech is someone else).
>
> Plus, we get to leverage the existing readership, while at the same
> time offering the possibility to subscribe to the automated log
> notifications for people who still want to read them.
>
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