Candidate Twitter list

[jongalloway]

We had a suggestion to create a Twitter list of candidates so people can follow them more easily. I'm happy to create that list under the @dotnetfdn Twitter account.

I think there might be a slick way to parse these from the Markdown files, or it could be done by hand. I can probably do that if things cool down after the election, but if anyone wants to create a list of Twitter handles and reply on this thread, that'd be even better and fasterer.

[daveaglick]

@sh4na @andrey_akinshin @antoine_hy @ben_a_adams @daronyondem @daveaglick @dierufdavid @davidpine7 @eric_sink @erikschierboom @gep13 @gcaughey @irisclasson @tidusjar @JessPWhite @jonskeet @jguadagno @lucecarter1 @mairacw @MarcBruins @Mpdreamz @devlead @mjhutchinson @mitchelsellers @dotMorten @nata_dzen @nbarbettini @onovotny @p_mbanugo @haacked @K2Prk @robertmclaws @lakritzator @rdiazconcha @samidip @SaraJChipps @sjkilleen @sbwalker @schneidenbach @stefanov_ @stevejgordon @sahuwanya @dotnetlagos @tonerdo @xen2

If you want to do it again (I had to do a little manual cleanup to remove false positives):

var regex = new Regex("https?:\\/\\/.*twitter.com\\/([a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,15})");
string usernames = string.Join(Environment.NewLine, Directory
    .EnumerateFiles(@"C:\Code\election\_campaign-2019")
    .Select(x => File.ReadAllText(x))
    .SelectMany(x => regex.Matches(x).Cast<Match>().Select(m => m.Groups[1].Value))
    .Distinct()
    .Select(x => $"[@{x}](https://twitter.com/{x})"));

[SeanKilleen]

Edit -- @daveaglick beat me to it, with a better method too! :)

[daveaglick]

[jongalloway]

https://twitter.com/dotnetfdn/lists/candidates-2019