Twitter, together!

For Open Source or event maintainers that share a project twitter account, twitter-together is a GitHub Action that utilizes text files to publish tweets from a GitHub repository. Rather than tweeting directly, GitHub’s pull request review process encourages more collaboration, Twitter activity and editorial contributions by enabling everyone to submit tweet drafts to a project.

• Try it
• Setup
• Contribute
• How it works
  • The push event
  • The pull_request event
• Motivation
• License

Try it

You can submit a tweet to this repository to see the magic happen. Please follow the instructions at tweets/README.md and mention your own twitter username to the tweet. This repository is setup to tweet from https://twitter.com/commit2tweet.

Setup

1. Create a twitter app with your shared twitter account and store the credentials as TWITTER_API_KEY, TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY, TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN and TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET in your repository’s secrets settings.

2. Create a .github/workflows/twitter-together.yml file with the content below. Make sure to replace 'master' if you changed your repository's default branch.

   on: [push, pull_request]
   name: Twitter, together!
   jobs:
     preview:
       name: Preview
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
       if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
       steps:
         - uses: gr2m/twitter-together@v1.x
           env:
             GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     tweet:
       name: Tweet
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
       if: github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
       steps:
         - name: checkout master
           uses: actions/checkout@v2
         - name: Tweet
           uses: gr2m/twitter-together@v1.x
           env:
             GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
             TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
             TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET }}
             TWITTER_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_API_KEY }}
             TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY }}

3. After creating or updating .github/workflows/twitter-together.yml in your repository’s default branch, a pull request will be created with further instructions.

Happy collaborative tweeting!

Contribute

All contributions welcome!

Especially if you try twitter-together for the first time, I’d love to hear if you ran into any trouble. I greatly appreciate any documentation improvements to make things more clear, I am not a native English speaker myself.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information on how to contribute. You can also just say thanks 😊

Thanks to all contributors 💐

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Jason Etcovitch 🎨 📖 💻

Erons 📖

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

How it works

twitter-together is using two workflows

1. push event to publish new tweets
2. pull_request event to validate and preview new tweets

The push event

When triggered by the push event, the script looks for added *.tweet files in the tweets/ folder or subfolders. If there are any, a tweet for each added tweet file is published.

If there is no tweets/ subfolder, the script opens a pull request creating the folder with further instructions.

The pull_request event

For the pull_request event, the script handles only opened and synchronize actions. It looks for new *.tweet files in the tweets/ folder or subfolders. If there are any, the length of each tweet is validated. If one is too long, a failed check run with an explanation is created. If all tweets are valid, a check run with a preview of all tweets is created.

Motivation

I think we can make Open Source more inclusive to people with more diverse interests by making it easier to contribute other things than code and documentation. I see a particularly big opportunity to be more welcoming towards editorial contributions by creating tools using GitHub’s Actions, Apps and custom user interfaces backed by GitHub’s REST & GraphQL APIs.

I’ve plenty more ideas that I’d like to build out. Please ping me on twitter if you’d like to chat: @gr2m.

License

MIT