dfeed

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:28:35 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 12/12/11 8:13 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:44:05 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>
>>> One idea for Vladimir's dfeed: it would be great to automatically post
>>> the tweets of D_language to digitalmars.D.announce.
>>
>> Please don't involve twitter on the newsgroups. If I wanted to follow D
>> on twitter, I'd sign up for a twitter account.
>
> The only issue is that we need to copy the same announcement to the  
> group and twitter. But then announcements aren't that frequent. I wish  
> announcement frequency would become a scaling issue :o).

This doesn't sound like a difficult problem.  Copy and paste still works  
on my PC :)

But it seems awkward to have to trim announcements for a newsgroup to 140  
chars.

Another idea is to go the opposite direction -- repost D.announce threads  
to twitter (only the first post, not replies).  Of course, you'd have to  
limit who could make this happen to avoid abuse.  But I could see people  
being interested in some of the 3rd-party announcements that are posted to  
D.announce.

My suggestion would be a button that takes the web address of the post  
(via new dfeed site), uses some url compression, and tweets that along  
with the subject of the thread.  Then at least the "work" of tweeting  
announcements gets down to a single click for Walter or whoever has  
permission.

-Steve