Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Mar 19, 2020It is really weird how undervalued twitter is given that it's clearly the crisis communication and coordination line of this thing1623232
steven@_StevenFan·Mar 19, 2020Replying to @vgrTwitter isn't close to the action in terms of coordinating open source engineering efforts, most of it is in slack groups.
steven@_StevenFan·Mar 19, 2020Replying to @MikeWamungu and @vgrI'm probably talking about a different thing than @vgr then. This comment is more about where coordination in my sphere is happening. I get a feeling more coordination is happen off twitter than on it.1
steven@_StevenFan·Mar 19, 2020Replying to @_StevenFan @MikeWamungu and @vgrThere's a 12,000 person slack and an 11,000 person facebook group around open source engineering for Covid-19. I see almost none of it on twitter.12
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @_StevenFan and @MikeWamunguI suspect a lot of them originally met on twitter and then went off to slack to coordinate6:50 AM · Mar 19, 20201 Like
steven@_StevenFan·Mar 19, 2020Replying to @vgr and @MikeWamunguI feel there is an earnest, looking-to-help type that isn't cruising twitter. Also twitter can be so fragmented and search is meh. The 11k group is a top-5 result searching for covid in facebook groups.11