Increase Twitter integration

[dallasjc]

Allow confirmed voters to send messages to a special account we set up like @UVtalk, provide the bill number and say yes/no and then incorporate the rest of the message as a comment on the related bill

If other confirmed voters like/retweet the comment, that counts as an upvote on united. use some emoji to indicate opposition?

When responding to comments on united, allow people as an option to tweet people who have expressed interest in a bill

EDIT: updated specifics in response to comments

[dsernst]

Would enough people remember to do this as they're authoring the tweet? If they already want to comment on United, why aren't they there instead of Twitter? And I'm not very confident how reliable the natural language processing for this would be.

As an alternative interface, what if you could simply "Submit a URL" with commentary on a bill?

Which could include a tweet, for example, with this deeper integration around Likes and Retweets, like you're saying.

Then a United bot could reply to that bill that it's been tagged, linking people on Twitter to the United bill page.

This same "Submit a URL" tool could also be used to submit op-eds, memes (images), YouTube videos.

[dsernst]

When responding to comments on united, allow people as an option to tweet people who have expressed interest in a bill

This is a different feature idea, correct? I'm not sure I fully understand it.

[dallasjc]

Would enough people remember to do this as they're authoring the tweet? If they already want to comment on United, why aren't they there instead of Twitter? And I'm not very confident how reliable the natural language processing for this would be.

Few at the beginning, but it would grow as they see others doing it. They start on twitter as default, so we have to go to where they are.

As an alternative interface, what if you could simply "Submit a URL" with commentary on a bill?

You mean through united? definitely support, but having it on twitter will encourage growth by causing others to see our messages

[dallasjc]

Another idea:
Tweet "Proxy @dsernst" to our Twitter account to David as a proxy

Coming back to my previous idea, what if we let people retweet or reply to a comment, include the bill number and then we'll take the comment and add it to liquid under the original tweeter's name (adding that username if needed). then we can autorespond, would you like to proxy to that user?

at the same time we tweet the original tweeter to let them know and ask them to sign up

this would let anyone tag tweets as related to particular bills and they wouldn't have to remember to do it while writing it

I'm happy to test this when we're getting to a point where we can consider doing it