Handing your twitter account to your most avid community member

When I started Gamestonk Terminal I had no idea of the reach and impact it would have. From getting over 3.5k stars on GitHub on the first single day alone, to trending on Reddit and receiving overwhelming feedback, to receiving a message from an ex-colleague based in Switzerland about my name being top 1 on Hackernews… As if this wasn’t enough, a couple of days later the project got featured by VICE Magazine and Daily Fintech.

As a result, my social life was impacted and had little time to even cuddle my puppy, due to the amount of feature requests, issues… the usual somehow ungrateful life of an open-source maintainer… I’m not complaining though, as I live for this.

Moving forward a couple of weeks, it became clear to myself that I was building a strong community around what can/will/should be a leading product in the emerging fintech industry and Internet 3.0. Therefore, I knew that github issues and discussions wouldn’t be enough to interact with all members of the community, so Discord turned out to be the best option going forward (let’s be honest: mostly because of the convenience that Discord offers to share memes, feel free to check my creations on our Discord, you can thank me later).

My next rookie mistake was thinking I could use Discord announcements and @ everyone, as a…