"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 :)

[bnb]

@mikeal Okay, I'm really glad. I know it would be the case for just about anybody, but I'd like to say thanks for letting me participate! I had a ton of fun doing the weekly update, and look forward to whatever comes next.

[therebelrobot]

@bnb, I am at least enjoying the energetic response. We definitely need any help we can get with this project :)

[bnb]

@therebelrobot That's a relief. I've really been enjoying trying to work things out, and also how awesome you guys are at getting things done around the project--I've never encountered a group of people who are actually on top of their... erm... shiz like you all are, and it's really, really awesome to not only find you, but be able to contribute toward a goal we share in common however I can.

[bnb]

Sorry I drew the topic off of the original purpose of the issue.

I'd like to bring it back and ask what everybody thinks about using a password manager to share account logins without having to actually share the passwords for accounts? I highly suggest LastPass, as it's really the only one that seems to take security seriously, and we know it has the feature we need.

[fhemberger]

The German i18n team shared the password to the Twitter account through keybase.io. The encrypted message was then simply posted in the GitHub issue. Unfortunately, you have to encrypt the message for each recipient individually.

To distinguish who has been answering to a mention, we added your initials at the end of the tweet (e.g. ^fh). I think that's enough for the start (no need to throw more technology at the problem). Of cause you have to trust the people to handle the the shared credentials carefully.

[bnb]

+1 to initials on tweets @fhemberger. Also see #82 for a few possible team collab solutions.

[therebelrobot]

Ooooo... Keybase looks awesome. Any chance you could send me an invite?

[ruimarinho]

@therebelrobot sent.

[bnb]

Another tool that might work: https://peer.im

[therebelrobot]

Peer.im seems like it could be a good match, though we'd have to get all the core and website team onboard.