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From: John McCabe (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-06-21 14:27:50
On 21/06/2022 15:12, Vinnie Falco via Boost-users wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 7:48 PM ð Good Guy ð via Boost-users
> <boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> The problem with Twitter is that it requires an account to read the posts.
> Yeah, so... my assumption when I made this post is that most folks
> have a Twitter account. I see that is not the case, even for long-time
> Boost authors.
I suspect that a lot of people may be abandoning Twitter, as it's rubbish.
> That said, Twitter and the other socials might not be important to the
> senior engineers, authors, and maintainers here but collectively,
> Boost needs to catch up in terms of courting the younger generations
> of developers. We need fresh blood for library submissions, reviewers,
> and review managers. Our efforts on social media are aligned with this
> goal.
Younger generations are using TikTok, Instagram and Discord as far as I
can see. My late teen/early 20s kids rarely touch Twitter unless someone
on TikTok has posted a link!
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