scheduled tweets?

[travi]

I really like this idea of this bot. This sounds like a really nice approach. I can't believe something like this isn't available directly from Twitter, but I could certainly see this as useful for the user group that I co-lead.

What’s missing?

The first thing that comes to mind (mostly because I haven't found the time to solve it in another way yet) is scheduled tweets. Is that even possible with an action like this?

Why?

the process of reviewing a PR as a team lends itself nicely to planning ahead about what will be tweeted. when planning that far ahead, merging immediately may be earlier than you actually want the tweet to go out. remembering to merge later could mean missing the window that you want to target.

Alternatives you tried

i've considered buffer, but the free tier is limited to a single user, so we're left with the same limitation of a shared account

[gr2m]

Thanks for the issue Matt 👍

I totally want this myself. We can keep track of the feature here. One idea I have for the future is to build a GitHub App companion for the action that could provide tweeting (or merging a twitter draft) based on a scheduled date.

An alternative would be something like a cron event that GitHub Actions could be triggered by. I asked for this and if you have other use cases when this would be helpful, please let the Support team know, the Actions team is listening closely right now :) You could also link to this issue as a valid use case.

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[JasonEtco]

@gr2m I don't think closing this in 2127bf3 was intended - shall we reopen?

[gr2m]

oopsie doopsie. I wish though lol

[gr2m]

Scheduling tweets is now possible with this separate action:
https://github.com/gr2m/merge-schedule-action

I think that should work? A more seamless integration might be nice, but composability ability of actions is what makes them great. Let me know what you think!

[gr2m]

I've also learned that it's possible to schedule tweets using twitters ads api:
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/ads/creatives/guides/scheduled-tweets-guide

[gr2m]

Please see this issue for further discussion: #166 💖

[kaslin]

Looks like this is missing the last update on this. I remember there was a comment on this from July.

[gr2m]

Scheduled tweets are tricky, see #177 (comment)

[MattIPv4]

👋 So I ended up not implementing scheduling as part of #177, as you couldn't schedule a poll in advance using the Ads API from what I could tell.

My gut honestly says that the best course of action for folks looking to schedule tweets would be to use a secondary action like merge-schedule-action that can merge a tweet into a repo at a given time.

Relying on the Ads API to schedule tweets looks to be problematic, as the Ads API only supports a limited subset of standard tweet functionality (essentially just plain-text tweeting).

[gr2m]

if anyone knows someone from @twitter who might be able to share some thoughts, that'd be great. I'll try to reach out to folks myself, but if any of you know someone, please ping them