[wp-testers] Twitter List For WP Testers

[Dion Hulse (dd32)]

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:21:10 +1100, Honey Singh <honeytech at gmail.com>  
wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Spamboy <ninodespam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If the reason for creating those Twitter lists is to enable "direct and
>> quick communication" (Honey's words), I might ask what is it about email
>> that *doesn't* already enable that?
>>
> Few reasons to prefer twitter over general emails:
>
> 1.We don't often check the emails but we usually connected with the  
> twitter
> via web and mobile.
> 2.General emails are cluttered in the mail box and not much indexable.  
> This
> is the reason why we get the mails like "where to download the nightly
> builds" and "how to check the compatibility of plugins". At least we can
> tweet about the simple issues and within a short span of time we can get
> possible solutions.


Get a better mail client. If you're willing to use a specific purpose  
application for short messages (twitter) then use a decent email client  
which supports what you want.
Mine does:
  * Allowsme access from no matter where i am (Google Apps)
  * Deliveres to my phone when i want access
  * Filters email into mailing list folders ( Ok, Thats Operas doing, but i  
have similar filter on google apps for all wordpress related stuff)
  * notifies me when someone posts a message
  * Allows simple reply straight from my desktop, phone, or remote PC.

To all you twitter fans: There are uses for it (apparantly) but many  
people do not care to update everyone else every moment of the day, and if  
they have a question, are more than likely willing to wait the 2~15mins it  
takes for a quick email/reply.

If people want to have WordPress testing discussions on twitter, Go for  
it, But please, Lets not clutter this mailing list with related crap, This  
list is for testing wordpress, lets leave it that way and focus on helping  
new testers rather than just splintering things and making it more  
complicated than it has to.
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