Twitter Integration (and more)

[willzeng]

@davidfurlong We could build a growth strategy that leverages twitter slickly. Here's the idea:

Users are initially prompted (and highly encouraged) to log-in with a twitter account. Then, whenever they use an @ mention in a node or a connection description on a public cograph, it will autocomplete based on who they follow on twitter and tweet a summary (with link) of the node/conn to that person. (this feature is on by default, but could be turned off in settings)

On signup there will still be an 'opt-out' option to log-in with a cograph only account. However for these, mentions will be disabled. If you later connect a twitter account to that cograph account, mentions will be enabled.

Pros

• Grassroots advertising at its best. One of the easiest things to in a cograph becomes sharing it word of mouth with your friends and followers. This allows people to notify non-cograph users about what they are doing.
• We don't have to write an internal notification system. Though, we could write one later that just duplicates the notifications in the cograph account affiliated with that twitter (should there be one).
• We don't have to deal with the redundant process of having people, once again, go through the process of selecting who to follow on a new social platform.

Cons

• There aren't notifications for non-twitter connected accounts.
• Giving the option of having people opt out of twitter integration, means that they could block your twitter username with a non-connected account. This would be bad. We never want to prevent signups.

Reflective Pros

• This setup makes more obvious some candidates for 'Premium features', such as
  • collaborators on private graphdocs that can be privately mentioned
  • basically we treat them similarly to how github treats private repos

tl;dr Growth is the most important thing, thus we should integrate with twitter. The problem is username blocking if we allow non-twitter signups as well.

Thoughts?

[davidfurlong]

Lets not do anything without the users permission. But we can autocomplete @ symbols with either twitter, facebook, or cograph users by having icons next to them. If you choose twitter or facebook the first time it will let you know that it is sending them the stuff.. I've already added facebook and twitter on the design branch using passport.js

[davidfurlong]

But we can autocomplete @ symbols with either twitter, facebook, or cograph users by having icons next to them

As in if I type @willze it might give me the suggestion of your twitter handle if it matches, your cograph handle etc. Could be pretty dope

[willzeng]

:100: this will be sweet, that's exactly how we should do it. Let's go for twitter integration first and facebook integration second. I think twitter integration should be part of the v0.2 milestone, while facebook could be a little later.

[willzeng]

How do we get access to the friend list for facebook mentions and the following list for twitter mentions?

[almereyda]

There is also the issue of yet non-integrated, cited Tweets. We'd expect to see those networks similary regular RTs.