Twitter?

[bakercp]

How can we creatively hook twitter into our flow? I certainly don't want to manually tweet things. I can barely tweet my own stuff.

Maybe we could automatically tweet new posts in the project or event category?

Or maybe we could tweet anything that is posted by a user with sufficient trust?

If a twitter isn't twittering seems like it should not be there at all.

Perhaps we think of this as a way to reach out to random people on the "outside" ... so it would need to really be a super filtered down version of only the most essential bits ... ?

[manzalena]

I say auto-tweet events, opportunities that get a like, and projects.

Also if any members are interested in tweeting you can give them the password. for example, the @ffnewsmagazinehttps://twitter.com/ffnewsmagazinesatellite account is co-run by the fnews design staff. It's kind of a fun joke mess but the model works, we all have the option of tweeting from that account.

I guess for OpenLab anyone that wants access should verbally agree to not abuse the account. This will add variety to the posts mmmaybe so that it's not just a robo-account that is only followed by other bots.

thoughts?

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Christopher Baker < notifications@github.com> wrote:

How can we creatively hook twitter into our flow? I certainly don't want to manually tweet things. I can barely tweet my own stuff.

Maybe we could automatically tweet new posts in the project or event category?

Or maybe we could tweet anything that is posted by a user with sufficient trust?

If a twitter isn't twittering seems like it should not be there at all.

Perhaps we think of this as a way to reach out to random people on the "outside" ... so it would need to really be a super filtered down version of only the most essential bits ... ?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/olab-io/olab-io.github.io/issues/31 .

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[bakercp]

Yeah, since events and projects are already "protected" categories, they should definitely be tweeted.

I want to automagicify as much as possible and rely on the discourse trust algorithms (take a look at the links I posted earlier today to read about how all of that stuff works) to make some of these things easier. I wonder if it would be possible to make a discourse plugin that would allow a user to tag a post as one to be tweeted? Then it would check their trust level and tweet it if they are a trusted user?

[bakercp]

Check out the last few posts here for some approaches:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/app-to-post-to-discourse-twitter-and-facebook/9165/10

[manzalena]

That all sounds good.

I was adding in a vote for the possibility of a non-forum human component in addition to the automagic stuff, since it is possible for an account to have multiple users and twitter is also about starting conversations w other ppl etc. But if thats more trouble than its worth bc of trust/permissions etc then I take my vote back.

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Christopher Baker <notifications@github.com

wrote:

Check out the last few posts here for some approaches:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/app-to-post-to-discourse-twitter-and-facebook/9165/10

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/olab-io/olab-io.github.io/issues/31#issuecomment-35165419 .

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[bakercp]

I'm not at all opposed to giving people access. I just want to avoid administrating that stuff and for fairness reasons, I want to defer to our "openness/trust" algorithms to reduce the appearance of special treatment. I acknowledge, of course, that I am awkwardly (hopefully?) straddling the border between our reality and utopia here.