Re: [libreoffice-website] Twitter widget not working on libreoffice.org home page?

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 12:28 -0500, drew wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 16:54 +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> > Hi *,
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 3:45 PM, David Nelson <commerce@traduction.biz> wrote:
> > > Did anyone notice that the Twitter widget has stopped working on the
> > > libreoffice.org home page?
> >
> > It didn't "stop working" - there just were not results returned from
> > the twitter-search....
>
> Right - and was in doubt actually. I want to raise another point here
> however - and I hope this doesn't come off wrong, but...
>
> A couple days of blank space followed by 3 tweets from the
> docufoundation status net account, all of which are re-tweets of
> Florian's personal account and all of which have real interest only to
> the German team/community, not the best use of this space IMO.
>
> Meanwhile there is a linux.com articles out today, getting tweets, but
> no play on the front page. Italo's persentaton from FOSDEM is available
> and being tweeted by a few people and these are only two quick examples.
>
> This is the international site, and of course the German specific
> information has a place, but not to the exclusion of what else is going
> on - and there is plenty going on - if we are open and transparent then
> lets be transparent good and bad.

[sorry lost a paragraph in the last edit]

One solution would be to base the widget search on hash tags and not
just a single control account. 

> If this is more openness then the SC can support then at least broaden
> out the re-tweets - The docufoundation account follows zero others,
> zero. I think I've seen the docufoundation account re-tweet once from an
> account other then Florian's. (atually I'm not even sure about that, it
> might be zero also)
>
> IMO this is _too_ much central control over information flow for an
> healthy open community.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Drew



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