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Twitter does best to disseminate news instantly but when it comes to “math on twitter,” I have the problem of not knowing whom to follow so that I keep abreast of recent developments in math (both general and specialization-specific). So is there any chance a news page will be added where users add decent news and remove indecent ones? I hope moderators would give this a serious consideration.
It has a simple answer and I regret posting it.
Thanks. I'll post it again.
@Elohemahab,
probably not! Why should such a news page exist at MathOverflow rather than somewhere else on the web? Who would maintain it?
My main objection is simply that MathOverflow exists for a very particular purpose (I know, I know, half of everyone here disagrees, but still): to provide a place where technical mathematical questions can be quickly asked and answered by experts. Disseminating news is pretty tangential to that.
It's possible to do this on twitter itself. There is already the functionality of "lists", whereby somebody can bundle a bunch of twitter feeds together, and then anybody can follow the bundle. The only obstruction to being exactly what you want is that there doesn't seems to be a public/vote-based way to grow or trim such a list. A passable solution is to have a twitter account (say twitter.com/mathlist) with access shared by a group of moderators. If somebody wants a feed added/removed from the list, they could simply (re)tweet "@mathlist please add/remove @xyz to/from [list-name]".
Any takers?
I thought the easier way of disseminating decent mathematical news would be with a structure as in MO Q&A. Thanks for the replies.
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