[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris on Twitter

[Ben Rockwood]

Eric Boutilier wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Ben Rockwood wrote:
>> In an effort to incorporate more and hipper avenues of communication and
>> collaboration I've created an OpenSolaris "channel" on Twitter:
>> http://www.twitter.com/opensolaris/
>>
>> Twitter doesn't actually have channels, so here's how it works:
>>
>> There is now an "opensolaris" user account on Twitter (opened by me).
>> This account is to be considered community owned, I'll give the password
>> to anyone trustworthy.  It is not a Sun  corporate asset.
>>
>> As the "opensolaris" user updates can be made just like any other
>> Twitter user, which is a good avenue for interesting happenings,
>> releases, announcements, etc.  I've pre-seeded several.
>>
>> Here's where it becomes fun, by utilizing Twitter's "With Others"
>> feature anyone designated as a "Friend" (of the opensolaris user
>> account) is included in the following page:
>> http://twitter.com/opensolaris/with_friends
>>
>> To become a "Friend" and be included in the "With Friends" page people
>> need to "Follow" the opensolaris user and then the opensolaris user
>> marks followers as a friend.  (Sorr if that seems confusing.)
>
> Help, I must be missing something... doesn't this mean that the number of
> "followers" and the number "following" should be the same? (Currently 
> they're
> 33 and 21.) If not, then getting oneself added to the "following" list 
> is done
> how? ... By request/approval?
>

Right.  Currently it means that someone needs to log in as the 
"opensolaris" user and tag new followers as "following".  There is no 
way to automatically follow new followers.

I'll send you the login info privately.

benr.