Thanks for the extra details Jacob. I had a bit of time and thought it was an interesting challenge so I created a Google Script based twitter bot that tweets the title and links of everything posted to the Django Announce Google group.
There may be bugs but so far it's working, you can check it out here: https://twitter.com/djangoannounce On Apr 3, 9:17 am, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Russell Keith-Magee > > <russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > > In short, no - Twitter isn't a particularly reliable source for updates. > > Someone in the core team will usually tweet about the release, but since > > it's hard to share logins to a single Twitter account, and the person who > > owns Django's twitter account won't always be involved in formally cutting > > the release, we sometimes drop the ball. > > Actually, in theory we've got hootsuite set up to automatically tweet > stuff posted to the blog. However, in practice it seems to break, and > it hasn't updated in about two weeks. I'm looking into fixing it, and > we'll try to keep a better eye on it ferm here on out. > > But yeah, as Russ says -- the announce list is going to be the most > reliable. The number of things that could break about the blog -> > hootsuite -> twitter flow make it rather unreliable. > > Jacob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
