The easiest thing is to share the Twitter credentials with any PMC member who is interested in sending tweets (which is usually a very small number).
To answer Antoine’s point. I have found Twitter an extremely effective way for an open-source project to communicate with the “exo-community” — people who are interested in the project but not so invested that they join the email list. An open source project needs to perform pretty much all of the functions of a for-profit company, and Twitter fulfills the marketing function. Clearly Twitter is not what it used to be, but I don’t know what, if anything, has replaced it. Julian > On Jan 29, 2024, at 10:50 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a different tool other than TweetDeck available that can > synchronize posts that go out on different social channels (LinkedIn, > Twitter, Mastodon, etc.)? I've heard of things like Hootsuite but that's > pretty expensive and definitely overkill for an open source project, but > perhaps there is a more modest tool that would help with mirroring content > onto different platforms. > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 5:39 PM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > >> >> My 2 cents : I don't understand what an open source project gains by >> publishing on a microblogging platform. >> >> As for Twitter specifically, its recent governance changes would be good >> reason for terminating the @ApacheArrow account, IMHO. >> >> Regards >> >> Antoine. >> >> >> Le 27/01/2024 à 23:06, Bryce Mecum a écrit : >>> I noticed that the @ApacheArrow Twitter account [1] hasn't posted >>> since June 2023 which is around the time of the Arrow 12 release. When >>> I asked on Zulip [2] about who runs or has access to post as that >>> account, Kou indicated the account was managed using TweetDeck [3] and >>> that this may no longer be an option due to subscription changes. >>> >>> I'm writing to get a sense of who currently has access and how the >>> community would like to move forward with using the account. I'm also >>> volunteering to help manage it. >>> >>> My questions are: >>> >>> - Who has access to @ApacheArrow [1]? >>> - Is the community still interested in engaging on Twitter? >>> - Is the community interested in other platforms, potentially just >>> engaging with them through cross-posting? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Bryce >>> >>> [1] https://twitter.com/ApacheArrow >>> [2] >> https://ursalabs.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/180245-dev/topic/ApacheArrow.20Twitter.20account/near/418346643 >>> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweetdeck >>
