Re: Boost Twitter is Blowing Up!!!

From: Bo Persson (bo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-06-21 17:59:11

On 2022-06-21 at 16:12, Vinnie Falco via Boost-users wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 7:48 PM 😉 Good Guy 😉 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. If you don't already have a Twitter account, there is
> not going to be much benefit to creating one just to like, follow, and
> retweet the Boost account, as you will have no followers and thus no
> reach. Although you might consider creating an account if you want to
> become more involved in C++ Twitter in general.
> 
> 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.
> 

Isn't the rule that when the seniors see a platform as mature enough to 
actually register and use it, the juniors have already desiced that it 
is un-cool and have moved somewhere else?