Walter on Twitter

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I've had a twitter account for 15 years now (!) and haven't used it much for anything. But lately I've decided to use it to give regular updates on D things I've been working on. You can follow me on: https://twitter.com/WalterBright I encourage other D users on twitter to do the same!

On 4/14/2023 5:54 PM, zjh wrote: > Can you create a special post in the forum? > This way, it is safer and more convenient. That is a good idea to do that as well. But I have no idea why would be safer? Anyhow, the idea with Twitter is outreach to a larger audience. Newspapers all do it, why shouldn't we? Some hashtags to follow: https://twitter.com/hashtag/dlang https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImportC

April 15, 2023

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On Saturday, 15 April 2023 at 04:46:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

On 4/14/2023 5:54 PM, zjh wrote:

Can you create a special post in the forum?
This way, it is safer and more convenient.

That is a good idea to do that as well. But I have no idea why would be safer?

Anyhow, the idea with Twitter is outreach to a larger audience. Newspapers all do it, why shouldn't we?

Some hashtags to follow:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/dlang
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImportC

Is your own forum not better than others?
There are restrictions everywhere on others platform.
Of course, it's also because I can't access Twitter, but these websites(platform) are all like this.
There is no need to seek distance from the near. Forums are already great places for communication or information.
For D, you only need to have one person dedicated to publishing information (similar to posting articles on multiple platforms) on the same account in other similar places.
Instead, you mainly work on the forum. At the same time, if you carefully collect excellent posts from the forum, these are all excellent resources for D.

At the same time, the forum is also an excellent resource gathering point.

Just like I have a website, I hope to increase the traffic for others to access me, and your forum can collect blogs related to D, so that when others need to find information, they can directly visit you site and then distribute it from you. A win-win situation.

In this way, if others say D lacks resources, you just need to give him gathering blogs site to it.
Some of the articles,I translated specifically targeted for chinese D users.
If only you could give me a link to it.

On Friday, 14 April 2023 at 15:33:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > I've had a twitter account for 15 years now (!) and haven't used it much for anything. But lately I've decided to use it to give regular updates on D things I've been working on. > > You can follow me on: > > https://twitter.com/WalterBright > > I encourage other D users on twitter to do the same! Great! I'll try starting to do that also since we most of the time we're here posting only to existing D users, being in an unfiltered platform such as twitter could help too. I've started doing that kind of work on instagram since images tells a lot there.

On Saturday, 15 April 2023 at 04:46:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > On 4/14/2023 5:54 PM, zjh wrote: >> > Newspapers all do it, why shouldn't we? Newspapers all zombies that are hoping to trade in their brand name for a pay day before boomers leave the scene. By all means fund and promote *live coding* or teaching videos if you want to outreach, but shitposting on twitter wont do anything of value

On 4/15/2023 6:49 AM, Monkyyy wrote: > By all means fund and promote *live coding* or teaching videos if you want to outreach, but shitposting on twitter wont do anything of value Mike has also suggested I do some live coding videos.

On 4/15/2023 4:12 AM, Hipreme wrote: > Great! I'll try starting to do that also since we most of the time we're here posting only to existing D users, being in an unfiltered platform such as twitter could help too. Good! > I've started doing that kind of work on instagram since images tells a lot there. Keep us posted on how it works.

On 18/04/2023 3:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > On 4/15/2023 6:49 AM, Monkyyy wrote: >> By all means fund and promote *live coding* or teaching videos if you want to outreach, but shitposting on twitter wont do anything of value > > Mike has also suggested I do some live coding videos. You're always welcome to do some live streaming on Discord :) Those video channels don't get used enough, and I haven't figured out a way to encourage their usage so it would be a help!