I am not able to find a link to the twitter account of Academia SE (https://twitter.com/StackAcademia), for example, in the Academia SE main webpage.
Why are twitter links not included on the main site page of each Q&A site in SE?
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Sign up to join this communityI am not able to find a link to the twitter account of Academia SE (https://twitter.com/StackAcademia), for example, in the Academia SE main webpage.
Why are twitter links not included on the main site page of each Q&A site in SE?
Update: Twitter bots for all Q&A sites have been shut down. See here for more details.
Not all sites have Twitter accounts. We stopped creating them for all public beta sites by default because a) Twitter sees very little engagement for us; b) Twitter-the-company started blocking new accounts for us (probably because it thinks we're bots?) and fighting that got too annoying and time-consuming.
Having said that, both Twitter accounts and blog links are available on https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list.
probably because it thinks we're bots
well... aren't most of them bots?
Aug 31, 2015 at 23:50
Based on Adam's answer, I extracted all twitter accounts from the sites list.
Currently there are 110 twitter accounts for SE sites:
Languages:
Money/Finance/Economics:
Maths/Statistics:
Stack Overflow:
Religion:
Hobby/Enthusiast:
Computers:
Natural science, computer science, engineering:
Social Science, Humanities:
Others:
For those interested, I've used the following code to extract the links:
var twitters = [];
$(".lv-site-resources").each(function() {
var curItem = $(this);
if ($.trim(curItem.text()) == "twitter") {
var site = $.trim(curItem.parents(".lv-item").first().find(".lv-info").find("h2").text());
var link = curItem.find("a").first().attr("href");
if (site.length > 0) {
twitters.push({Site: site, Link: link});
}
}
});
if (twitters.length > 0) {
console.log("Found " + twitters.length + " twitter accounts:");
console.log(twitters.map(function(t) {
return "- [" + t.Site + "](" + t.Link + ")";
}).join("\n"));
} else {
console.log("No twitter accounts found");
}