The 10k Twitter Target

[Joakim]

On Thursday, 19 April 2018 at 06:53:05 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Monday, 16 April 2018 at 08:39:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Lately, we've seen a steadily increasing trend of new 
>> followers on Twitter. We're closing in on the totally 
>> arbitrary yet emotionally significant number of 10,000. I was 
>> just thinking how cool it would be to hit that number before 
>> or during DConf.
>>
>> Now that my move is behind me and I'm settling in to my new 
>> house, I have more time to stay on top of things (note that 
>> "more" does not necessarily equate to "enough"). I'll try to 
>> keep the tweet stream more active than usual over the coming 
>> two+ weeks, even while I'm bopping around Germany in the week 
>> prior to the conference.
>>
>> If you have a Twitter handle, it would help us out to retweet 
>> anything interesting you see on @D_Programming. If you aren't 
>> following us, it would help us out even more for you to become 
>> a statistic! Let's see if we can turn that 9,781 (as I write 
>> this) into 10,000 before the Hackathon.
>
> Each time i register to tweeter i got locked for no reasons. 
> This happened yesterday again WHILE writing the first message. 
> This is a problem when you don't own a smart-phone...
>
> I think people should seriously stop using this service, they 
> don't realize but there are probably a bunch of psychos at the 
> top of hierarchy of this company.
> These abusive lockings are a direct representation of their 
> madness.

I agree, which is why I never even bothered to sign up and last 
year stopped checking the 3-4 people's streams I used to follow.

However, like it or not, it is a popular platform, just like 
reddit, so it would be irresponsible for D and Mike not to market 
and publicize there. When they go out of business, we won't have 
that problem anymore.