• Peter Alexander (26/26) Aug 23 2018 I follow a number of official programming language accounts on
• Seb (18/37) Aug 23 2018 Fair point. Thanks for bringing this up!

Peter Alexander <peter.alexander.au gmail.com> writes:

I follow a number of official programming language accounts on 
Twitter. It is a good way to keep up to date with what's 
happening in those communities and I imagine many people do the 
same thing.

Something I've noticed is that D is relatively silent on this 
front. At least on Twitter, it gives an impression that the D 
community is less active than it is.

For comparison:

 rustlang:
32.7k followers
12.7k tweets

 D_Programming:
10.1k followers
1k tweets

10,000 is a lot of people to reach, and 1k tweets over 8 years is 
too little to seem engaging.

Some suggestions:

* Post everything that happens from the Announce forum. 
https://twitter.com/dlang_ng does this, but it has effectively no 
followers. A bot could do this.
* Subscribe to #dlang on twitter and retweet anything good. Not 
only does this highlight interesting D-related content, but also 
gives others incentive to discuss #dlang there.

I don't know who runs the account, but I think both of these 
should be quite easy to achieve with little effort. Of course, it 
is easy to be generous with others' time :-)

Seb <seb wilzba.ch> writes:

On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 22:49:32 UTC, Peter Alexander 
wrote:
 For comparison:

  rustlang:
 32.7k followers
 12.7k tweets

  D_Programming:
 10.1k followers
 1k tweets

 10,000 is a lot of people to reach, and 1k tweets over 8 years 
 is too little to seem engaging.

Fair point. Thanks for bringing this up!
It's worth noting that Rust has full-time paid people working on 
"community engineering".

 Some suggestions:

 * Post everything that happens from the Announce forum. 
 https://twitter.com/dlang_ng does this, but it has effectively 
 no followers. A bot could do this.

It's already automated and doing this automatically with the 
trusted account is risky as everyone can post to NG.annouce. 
However, every new blog entry does get posted on Twitter and 
Facebook (not sure whether that's automated).

BTW we also have  dlangbot (https://twitter.com/dlangbot) which 
tweets about every merged PR, but I think somehow no one knows 
about this.

 * Subscribe to #dlang on twitter and retweet anything good. Not 
 only does this highlight interesting D-related content, but 
 also gives others incentive to discuss #dlang there.

AFAICT this is already been done and the official Twitter account 
regularly retweets important #dlang tweets.

 I don't know who runs the account, but I think both of these 
 should be quite easy to achieve with little effort. Of course, 
 it is easy to be generous with others' time :-)

Mike Parker (aka aldacron) is the person who currently runs it 
and while I agree that things could be better (they always can) I 
do think he does a very good job at his one-man fight for D's 
outreach.