Automated tweets for Politeia activity

[xaur]

Pros:

• inform more people early
• increase Politeia engagement
• more Twitter "churn" around Politeia
• extra discussion on Twitter (which has large audience)
  • more about generating awareness and interest rather than making good decisions

Cons and concerns:

• spam: A lot of automated Politeia tweets may upset some and lead to unfollows
  • esp. for bad proposals
  • esp. for people who already subscribed via email
• abuse: Fully automated tweets via decredproject accounts may be abused to get visibility for promotion
• confusion: People may mis-interpret mere proposal submission as that Decred is going to implement all the crazy stuff

Implementation and considerations:

• bot is necessary, doing it manually is tedious
• use dedicated account over decredproject?
  • will need promotion to boostrap, else it fails the main goal of informing wide audience
  • allows opt-in subscription for close followers
  • allows more flexibility and more detailed updates, compared to decredproject
• tweet text
  • format must be standard for all to avoid any bias
  • use proposal title and/or special summary field (Proposal summary field decred/politeia#569)
• events:
  • new proposal published, proposal edited (significantly), vote started, X days left for vote, vote finished
  • mid-vote and post-vote tweets can include intermediate and final stats
  • if post-voting stages are formalized in proposal lifecycle, can tweet those too

Discussions:

• 2018-11-28
• 2019-02-05
• 2019-02-08: pi_crumbs Twitter account

[xaur]

Experimental Twitter account, for now in manual mode: https://twitter.com/pi_digest

[xaur]

• Twitter account renamed to @pi_crumbs https://twitter.com/pi_crumbs
• Draft of rules here
• Discussion (2019-02-08)

[xaur]

Consider select great comments for tweeting. For example, when something collects 10-15 upvotes.

[0xmzz]

If we do this lets automate updates to the Linkedin Pi page as well https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/decred-politeia/?viewAsMember=true

[xaur]

Besides to-be-automated pi_crumbs we also have manually composed slices_of_pi now.

@RichardRed0x do you think pi_crumbs should also RT slices automatically, to act as a full resolution, never miss anything, single subscription point?

[RichardRed0x]

@xaur, I hadn't considered that. I think they should be separate, as one is just simple template tweets and the other is not bound to be neutral in the same way. It is free to follow as many twitter accounts as one likes. I am not a twitter expert though so curious to hear what anyone who is thinks.

[RichardRed0x]

Regarding the automation of @pi_crumbs, I think I can probably get something working in R now, but not in the immediate future.

[xaur]

Politeia needs some notification mechanism that can send events to Twitter and Matrix, not just email.