The PHP internals mailing list voted on an RFC to remove links to X.com (formerly Twitter) from PHP.net. The vote failed to achieve the required 2/3 majority, so the links remain. Discussion was divided: supporters argued the @official_php account is inactive and linking to it provides no value, while opponents contended the RFC was poorly written, asked the wrong question (link removal vs. account abandonment), and that X still drives meaningful traffic to php.net (13.17% of social referrals in April 2026). Some argued PHP needs X presence to counter a 'PHP is dead' narrative, while others pointed to projects like Debian, KDE, and GNOME that have left X as precedent for community-run projects.
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