[OSM-talk] twitter handling

[Steve Coast]

I don't think you're part of the twitter generation then Fred :-)

It turns out a lot of people use it, and Facebook, and there will be more. To ignore them is silly.

Steve

stevecoast.com

On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:40, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 09/08/11 01:20, SteveC wrote:
>> There are a bunch of people asking things on twitter about OSM that we
>> miss.
> 
> I don't think that we should encourage that. Call me old-fashioned but to me this is as if you were saying: "There's a lot of people asking things in pubs about OSM that we miss. I'm looking for a solution."
> 
> The solution is getting people to ask the questions they have not in the pub but on the lists, in the forums, on IRC, or on help.osm.org, instead of spreading our limited capacities even thinner.
> 
>> Or people saying nice things that we should be retweeting.
> 
> Why should we? "RT JoeRandomStudent: OSM rulez!!!!" - I don't see how this should do anything but waste time.
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 
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