Add twitter field to user profile on drupal.org

I don't see any reason why the field could not be added.
Instead of having a different field for each possible social network, it would be probably better to have a single form field the users could use to insert their ID for any for the social network they have an account in.

I just expressed my opinion, but that is not enough for the change to happen. Even if I can add that field, it is necessary other webmasters, or administrators chime in to report if it is desirable to add that profile field.

Alternatively, we could use a single textfield generic enough for the users to use it for any social network IDs they should have. In such case, they should prefix the ID with the identifier of the social network (in example, twitter:, facebook:, icq:, skype:).

I'm very much in favor of allowing d.o. users to share their twitter usernames.

However, I think we should not restrict this to just twitter. There are all kinds of social networks for which a user might want to share their moniker (Facebook, LinkedIn, ...), and after all, Drupal is all about community, right? So I think kiamlaluno's suggestion of making this a free-text profile field is the best way forward.

As suggested by mr.baileys, the field now used for the IRC nick can be extended to include other IDs (including social network IDs). This would allow to use http://drupal.org/search/drupalorg/ to search them too. In this case, the search tab should be renamed from IRC nicks to something more suitable.

As the code of the module handling that search tab is written, users could get the list of all users who reported a twitter account by searching for twitter. I think it could be useful, and it is not different from the actual situation, where users can find all users with an IRC nick starting with k, in example.

we've got facebook, linkedin and twitter profile fields now.

Where?

It is in your profile, under "Personal information."

Oh my bad, you are talking about the website... I was talking about a field for Drupal!

Issues in this queue are always about Drupal.org, and its sub-domains.

Yeah, I'm sorry... I completely missed the headers!