There's now an early Twitter investor on board with StackOverflow: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/05/stack.html
Do you think this gives more weight to the idea of Twitter officially pushing developers towards a StackOverflow tag for Q&A? Jon. On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Jonathan Markwell <j.l.markw...@inuda.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm sure that many of you have seen the rise of Stack Overflow as the > source for developer questions and answers over the last year. Many > members of this group's community are active there with over 400 > questions already tagged as being related to Twitter development: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/twitter > > It strikes me that this might be a much more effective environment > than this Google Group for much of the discussion that happens here: > > 1) It will be much easier for people to find previous answers to > questions both via Google and when they start asking a question. > > 2) Questions that the community deems to be most important will rise > to the top and will gain attention of the team at Twitter. > > 3) Answers that the community deems to be correct will rise to the > top saving people from trying all the suggestions in a thread. > > 4) Members of the community that add most value will be recognised here: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=twitter&sort=stats&pagesize=15 > > I'm confident that the new developer site being built by the platform > team is going to be a dramatic improvement for the community. However > I do not believe Twitter have the resources to recreate the success of > Stack Overflow for Q&A purposes. Even Google has recently opted to use > Stack Overflow as the official site for Android developer Q&A: > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/stackoverflow-android-support.php > > What are your thoughts on this? For this to work best, with a critical > mass of participants, it would need to be endorsed by the Twitter > Platform team. Do you think Stack Overflow should be named as the > place for Twitter developer Q&A? > > Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, > > Jon. > > -- > Jonathan Markwell > Engineer | Founder | Connector > > Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK > > Web application development & support > Twitter & Facebook integration specialists > http://inuda.com > > Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community > http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com > > Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton - > http://theskiff.org > > Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com > > mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 > skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot > -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development & support Twitter & Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot
