So nicely said Guillermo , I could not agree more with you. Anyone can create an account with random tweets , but to filter out all the bs of the internet to something really important takes a lot of skill and a lot of time.
I have seen some people following thousands while I manage to follow 72. So the real questions is not if you are popular or not but how many people actually bother to notice your tweets. Pharo is already doing a very good job in promoting itself, what matters the most and this where I agree with you and with the other people mentioning this , is to contribute and produce code that is worth tweeting. On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Guillermo Polito <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 4:47 AM, horrido <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You want to know something funny? Most of the Twitter accounts listed here >> show that most tweets are actually retweets. If you subtract the retweets, >> the real number of original tweets is quite small, and spread far apart >> over >> time. >> >> The *Smalltalk Renaissance* Twitter account has had 16 original tweets in >> *one week*. And no retweets at all. >> >> By this measure, my Twitter account is far more active than anybody >> else's! >> >> I'm looking at Marissa Mayer's Twitter account (she's the Yahoo CEO). >> She's >> had 17 tweets over the last 3 months, but 12 of them are retweets! Of >> course, she has over 861,000 followers and I only have 11, but I'm a more >> active Twit than she is. >> >> > But she has the same impact with a retweet than with an "original" tweet. > Doesn't she? She touches 861 thousand people... > > I don't want to dispute, but I'd like to understand what is it to learn > from your statement... > > - is a retweet less important than an "original" tweet? I never thought > so... I follow somebody if his/her tweets (retweets or not) are interesting > to me. > > Also, do not understimate retweets as It means activity in another way. > You're reading and following other people and selecting/filtering what is > interesting for your followers. That's a lot of effort and thus activity :). > > - does the amount of followers do not count? I think they do... :/ as > with them you have an idea of the impact of a tweet. > > > I mean, this email looks like you're trying to justify what you're doing > with some random facts :)... You should do it if you actually feel/believe > it, do not look for our approval! This "smalltalk renaissance" thing should > not be for us, but for people from outside the community, isn't it? > > And now I go back to work on my stuff ^^, > Guille > >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/On-Twitter-tp4797177p4797698.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at >> Nabble.com. >> >> >
