#rubynlp: Twitter account for this repo ?

[solyarisoftware]

Hi all (twitter experts and lovers of this github repo),
Hi Kevin (BTW, this is not a issue of course, just a method to share ideas, please label the issue as "no-issue" :) )

I previous "issue" nr. 14 I proposed to make a twitter account just to publicize this directory.

In fact i sadly realized is not so easy to make up a twitter account detached from the personal one, I mean a second account, possibly a "group" account, where many people could post, by example, about this repository. In facts there are "group twitter account" solution as third party solution not-for free. Otherwise there is a twitter free way that require a special client (tweetdeck), see:

https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169956?lang=en

I'm not so expert on twitter tricks.
Welcome here Any idea / suggestion about!

As workaround i'd propose to post on twitter using hashtag

#rubynlp

as I just done:
https://twitter.com/solyarisoftware/status/690435599833153536

it make sense ?

giorgio

[diasks2]

Thanks! The hashtag sounds like a good idea. I'll leave this open so other people can see it.

[solyarisoftware]

OK, looking forward other people proposal. thanks Kevin for your work too!

[maia]

Sharing Twitter accounts will get your account banned quickly. Using a hashtag is the way to go, with three caveats: a) using a hashtag hardly anyone else does will not change much, b) using more than 2-3 hashtags in a tweet is a quick indicator of marketing-spam (my suggestion: use 140 chars wisely, more content, less hashtags), and c) you'd need to have an account with high reputation (= many and "relevant" followers) to get anyones attention.

If one wants to increase ruby's reputation in the fields of NLP, one would need to identify people with high reputation in either fields and get them to write/blog/tweet/… about this repo, especially in comparison with other languages that are used more common in this field. This might get interesting with Ruby 3 on the horizon, as it's considered to be much faster (slow speed is probably a big reason why not many people use Ruby for processing data).