I've added support for Debian Maintainers to post tweets to Debian Twitter (both on Identi.ca and Twitter). Feel free to use it.

If you happen to be in the NYC area this Friday May 8th, come over to our get-together to have a few beers/club sodas at Pacific Standard in Park Slope, Brooklyn (at 8 pm, map here). We will also be holding a PGP/GPG key signing par-tay at 9 pm, so make sure you bring your government-issued ID and your printed keys. More information about it, here.

Or… for those who care about Twitter and Debian

We've setup a Twitter account for the project to use on Twitter. Go follow it, go now!

twitter.com/debianproject

Now, the interesting part about this is that any Debian developer with a GPG key on the Debian keyring can tweet to it. You basically only have to do something like this:

$ echo "Squeeze is scheduled for Winter 2014" | gpg --clearsign | lwp-request -m POST http://twitter.debian.net/post

…or, what it's the same, just send a clearsigned POST data to http://twitter.debian.net/post. If the data is signed by a Debian developer, it'll go through and post it. The Debian uid is appended on the tweet, as found on Debian's LDAP DB, so if joetheplumber@d.o is the one posting, it'll be posted with "(via joetheplumber)" on it.

If you are more interested about this, you can go to twitter.debian.net where you will find deeper information and details about this service.

I encourage you, Debian user and advocate, to start following the @debianproject account; and I encourage you, Debian developer, to communicate with our users and advocates by using and posting to this service.

More news to follow soon.

UPDATE: Support for Identi.ca has been added and now both Twitter and Identi.ca accounts are updated at once and sync'ed.