Automatic tweet composition from long texts

[javadch]

Is it possible to have a text area that accepts a long text (longer than one tweet length) and automatically composes a set of tweets from it? This feature can show a preview before tweeting. Can add sequencing info (e.g., 1/8 for 1 out of 8). Also, can have some text breakdown rules such as longest complete sentence, max characters, etc.

[chylex]

It is not possible right now, but I think it would be a great TweetDuck plugin, possibly an official one that could be distributed with the app.

The issue is that right now, Twitter is previewing a completely remade TweetDeck which might support this feature, but it currently doesn't work well in TweetDuck or any other app or browser extension based on TweetDeck. Since the future of this preview (and thus third party apps and extensions) is uncertain, I don't want to undertake larger features like this myself. But if someone wanted to implement this as a plugin and contribute it to the project, it could be accepted.

[javadch]

So let's create a feature list for this plugin (codename: longTweet) and then see how we can organize the development.

• [ ] automatically composes a set of tweets from a long text
• [ ] Preview the composed tweets
• [ ] add sequencing to the composed tweets (can support more than one sequencing style)
• [ ] select the breakdown rule: longest complete sentence, max characters per tweet, etc.
• [ ] tweeting mode: as a collection of standalone tweets, as a tweet and a set of replies, as a tweet and a set of quoted tweets.

[chylex]

There will be no new features.