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Let’s Make Ubuntu a Trending Topic

by | Wed 28 Apr 2010

On Thursday we release Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and I have one simple dream for that day:

I want to make Ubuntu a trending topic on Twitter.

…I know, I know, we should all use [identica.ca](https://www.identi.ca/), and indeed, [I do](https://www.identi.ca/jonobacon). Twitter though represents a huge opportunity to socialize the new Ubuntu release with a huge demographic of new users. I don’t just want to see us becoming a *trending* topic, but I want to see **Ubuntu mentioned everywhere**. We can do this, but we will need to unite as a community to pull this off.

To do this we need to not only tweet about the new release ourselves but to also encourage all of our friends to do so too. This is all about encouraging as many people as possible to spread the word, encouraging people to re-tweet, and thus getting tweets in everyone’s timelines. All you need to know is **`#ubuntu`**: just make sure you add `#ubuntu` to your tweet to make the love happen.

We can do this, friends.

Rock and roll.

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