"Share" the Social Love: process for helping to empower 3rd party postings

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• Facebook Group admins
• Google+ Group admins
• Twitter (ugh, any way to share access short of the password?)
• Other...?

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As discussed during #59

[bnb]

I just did some searching, and it seems every project that handled multiple users has died or been acquired. I found a single self-hosted PHP script that allows you to do it through a shitty interface.

However, I found a few old articles (latest: 2012) that said Twitter for Business have the option to have multiple "Contributors." I went through every page I thought might be relevant on the Twitter Business site, but couldn't find any mention of it.

Can someone send a query to Twitter to see if this is still a feature/if we could get in on it?

[mikeal]

Ya, I've been struggling with this. There's no way that I can keep up with all the social stuff myself but I've tried more than one tool and none of them really work that well :(

[bnb]

Here's a probably stupid idea:

How hard would it be to create an app that a user can log into with a private Twitter account, and @iojs follows/it follows @iojs (whichever is needed to see the private acc's tweets), and then @iojs pulls every tweet the private accounts make, which only it can see?

If it's relatively easy, I could give it an attempt, though I'm pretty inexperienced as a programmer. It'd probably be better if someone else wanted to give it a shot, as they'll make a better program than I would. It'd be pretty cool if we could get that working.

[mikeal]

@bnb that only solves part of the problem, you also have to remember that multiple people are watching the feed and trying to reply to people using io.js :(

[bnb]

@mikeal Dang. You'd need to add a buffer or confirmation or something. Then you'd need to do something else. And something else. After a bit of discussion it becomes a huge project. What are our options that could actually work? How do other organizations and companies handle this?

[bnb]

BAM! I just figured it out. I just installed LastPass the other day to up the security of my accounts, and just found something...

I went into the manager to sort out some settings I had with the iojs EchoJS and HN accounts (I set them to auto-login instead of my personal accounts by accident), and I noticed a "Share" button. I clicked it, and low-and-behold you can share site login without sharing the password.

Does this sound like it would work? Can elaborate if needed.

[mikeal]

@bnb not at all, keep it coming, I just won't always be able to respond that quickly. This is one of 4 working groups that are very active that I'm trying to keep up with :)

[bnb]

@mikeal I emailed you about it before I saw this. I don't want to get in anyone's way if that's how I'm being perceived. I realized how I worded it there made it seem like I expected a response right away and deleted it--that's my bad. I just realized that I might be coming off that way in this Issue.

[mikeal]

@bnb I love the work you've been doing. Your help with the weekly update was particular great :)