A Twitter Bot that regularly tweets current top posts from the EA Forum
The EA Forum is a great place—and I come here less frequently than I would like to. I do however check my twitter feed regularly, so I thought it would be nice to have the current top posts in my twitter timeline.
To that end I created a small Twitter bot (@EAForumPosts) that does exactly that. Essentially, the bot regularly checks all posts from the last 6 days and whenever a post that it hasn’t tweeted about before reaches more than 40 karma points, the bot will make a tweet. You can find the code here.
I’m not sure whether ’40 karma’ is the best way to determine which posts to tweet. Maybe a different cutoff would be better. Or some other criteria? Maybe taking number of comments into account?
I also thought about creating one that tweets randomly selected top posts from the archives. Let me know if you think this would be useful.
Also there is now a bot (@effective_jobs) that retweets high impact job offers that may be relevant to the EA community
Would be worth trying out AutoTLDR, to see if it offers good Tweetable summaries.
This is cool! I stay away from Twitter, but I can see this increasing EA’s profile among those who use it.
I thought something like this already existed but I could be mistaken.
Yes, there is! It could make more sense to revive it.
That’s the one! OP, I think some version of this is definitely worth implementing/revival. I often share various EA articles on my personal twitter feed, and I know people (for example Stefan Schubert) who share EA articles, which captures an audience (that find the content interesting/engaging) that do not always read the EAF regularly.
Ah yes, I had seen the @ealtruist account—but as far as I can tell someone did that manually (it doesn’t look like a bot) and then stopped.
We could also merge the two—use the old account with this code or something. In principle open for that