[Taxacom] FW: TAXACOM on Twitter @taxacom

[Jason Mate]

Great, that way we can get pummeled two ways. Can we possibly get back to the 2 posts a day before we supply other avenues of expression?



Jason

> From: r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk
> To: Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:35:06 +0000
> Subject: [Taxacom] TAXACOM on Twitter @taxacom
> 
> Readers of TAXACOM like me who have no life, sorry, who are "down with  
> the kids" and do the social media thing might like to know that  
> TAXACOM is now on Twitter as @taxacom. I figured that there's no such  
> thing as bad publicity.
> 
> I've still a few bugs to iron out, but the Twitter feed is based on http://taxacom.markmail.org 
> , so each tweet has a link to the conversation thread on that site.
> 
> If you don't use Twitter you might be surprised to find who (and what)  
> is using it. In addition to several regular contributors to TAXACOM,  
> journals such as Systematic Biology, Zootaxa, Zookeys, and Phytokeys,  
> as well as projects such Wikispecies, BHL, EDIT, and ViBRANT all post  
> regular updates to Twitter.
> 
> One feature I could add is replacing people's names with their Twitter  
> user name. If anybody would like this please send me an email with  
> their name and Twitter user name.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rod
> 
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