<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:36 PM, David Nalley <<a href="mailto:david@gnsa.us">david@gnsa.us</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Ian Weller <<a href="mailto:ian@ianweller.org">ian@ianweller.org</a>> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:05:50PM +0800, Yuan Yijun wrote: >> You will not believe how easily a twitter account get suspended. They >> suspended mine without a reason, and no response to support tickets so >> far. > How is that relevant? > >> Since every fedora people has an account on <a href="http://identi.ca" target="_blank">http://identi.ca</a> or >> <a href="http://status.net" target="_blank">status.net</a> (AGPL) why bother using twitter? >> > Because it's about marketing. We happen to market to people who aren't > yet interested in free software as those who are. We want to get new > users and more importantly more ambassadors and contributors. To do > that, you need to cover all the angles. > But aren't we supposed to do everything using only F/LOSS?? -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list</a> </blockquote></div> I'm a microblogging fan, and moved from Twitter to Identi.ca exclusively a month or two ago, but I agree that crossposting would be helpful for marketting reasons. There are plenty of Fedora users that use Twitter, and I think we shouldn't stay away from sites like Youtube when making videos to help get the message to more people. Just my 2 cents. -- Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos Sitio: <a href="http://proyectofedora.org/mexico">http://proyectofedora.org/mexico</a>