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

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.

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/main.workflow file or amend your existing one with the content below

   workflow "Tweet on push to default branch" {
     on = "push"
     resolves = ["Tweet"]
   }
   
   action "Tweet" {
     uses = "gr2m/twitter-together@master"
     secrets = ["GITHUB_TOKEN", "TWITTER_API_KEY", "TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY", "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN",  "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"]
   }
   
   # "push" event won’t work on forks, hence the 2nd workflow with "pull_request"
   workflow "Preview and validate tweets on pull requests" {
     on = "pull_request"
     resolves = ["Preview"]
   }
   
   action "Preview" {
     uses = "gr2m/twitter-together@master"
     secrets = ["GITHUB_TOKEN"]
   }

3. After creating or updating .github/main.workflow in your repository’s default branch, a pull request will be created with further instructions.

Happy collaborative tweeting!

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 goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Jason Etcovitch 🎨 📖 💻

Erons 📖

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

twitter-together is using two workflows

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

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.

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.

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.

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