[Distutils] PyPA Announcements & Twitter

[Randy Syring]

On 01/26/2015 02:12 PM, Jannis Leidel wrote:
>> On 26 Jan 2015, at 20:08, Randy Syring <randy at thesyrings.us> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/26/2015 01:27 PM, Jannis Leidel wrote:
>>>> On 25 Jan 2015, at 21:03, Marc Abramowitz <msabramo at gmail.com>
>>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Actually, they do:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://twitter.com/ThePyPA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But I don't know if they are in the habit of thinking to use it every time something worthy happens.
>>>>
>>> Currently this is a one man operation that could probably be hooked up with a RSS feed to be honest. So not something that you should rely on for anything important.
>>>
>>> But I'm +1 on pypa-announce, so I just created it over here:
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pypa-announce
>>>
>>>
>>> Jannis
>>>
>> I think it's important that the twitter account be used for to promote announcements on pypa-announce.  Twitter can be shared/retweeted much easier and you are going to see a better spreading of messages that way.  That was why I suggested we figure out a way to link the list to the twitter account automatically.
>>
>> Who "owns" the twitter account?  Are they ok with having pypa announcements show up there?
> I do, and yeah, I'm okay for it to show up there. I'll set up a feed2twitter thing. I asked around a few months ago when I registered it if others in the PyPA team want access to it for the occasional manual announcement, but I agree that having a mailing list may be less controversial for the receiving parties. I didn't get many positive responses from the others anyway :)
>
> Jannis
>

It seems this discussion might now be more appropriate on the pypa-dev 
list.  I'll pick it up with you there.

*Randy Syring*
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