Re: [ANN] @LuaLang looking for a new owner

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 9 October 2013 12:23, liam mail <liam.list@googlemail.com> wrote:
> The account originally started as @luanews had somewhat of a following yet
> never really made any tweets. Now after two years, over 1800 tweets and with
> a following of 840; it has still failed to get people to talk about Lua, The
> account also failed to gain the interest of the Lua team members who had the
> opportunity to take over the account at the last Lua Workshop, which to me
> was a massive disappointment. I now feel it is now time to move on.
>
> The twitter account also comes with a bit.ly account in which the link
> archive has always been public, a dlvr.it account with automates the
> re-tweets of announcements and a paper.li account where a Monday weekly
> paper of the best Lua stories/releases for the previous week were published.
> Personally I also used Zite, Google Alerts, along with trawling twitter
> search, looking at github projects etc.
>
> I have already spoken to a member of this year's organising team who does
> wish to take it over for the Workshop and I would hope this would be
> respected.
>
> So is anybody willing to take the helm or should it just continue with
> automated tweets?

For the record, I'm not super active on Twitter but I feel you've been
doing an awesome job with @LuaLang. I've learned of a lot of stuff
related to Lua through it. Thank you!

-- Hisham
http://hisham.hm/