Proposal: Twitter/X Account Link
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I think it could be good to include an option to add a checkmark next to your username linking to Twitter/X for easy back and forth between platforms, given how interconnected the community is.
Just a thought, interested to hear what people think.
I think it would be useful to connect.
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@nate hi Nate
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@nate bump
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Cool idea, I have no idea how to implement it. I think we could make a thread of "intros" where people link their twitter accounts. If anyone has an idea how we could add some kind of custom link in our handles I'm all ears.
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@brad An obvious way to do this without delving into the forum software would be to just put e.g. "@nate on bioenergetic.forum" in your Twitter bio, and link to Twitter in your forum bio.
Other than that, it should be possible to edit the forum's source code in the following way:
- Add a user settings field in which the user can input a tweet ID.
- The referenced tweet should contain something like "I am @pilky on bioenergetics.forum" and nothing else
- To display the checkmark/@, the forum software can follow the link to the tweet, verify the contents and put a checkmark next to the forum profile. How often to do this and where to display it is a design tradeoff... might not want to call the Twitter API all the time.
Nostr, for instance, does something this: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/39.md
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@nate Nate the Philosopher.
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maybe we could shove it into user settings since it looks like more of an open key/value store https://docs.nodebb.org/api/write/#tag/users/paths/~1users~1{uid}~1settings/put we'd probably have to write a plugin to watch for settings changes and then poll twitter to find the tweet if wanted to really "verify" it.
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@arthyn This seems like a simpler fix than having a bot constantly running. If someone wants to write a plugin I'd be glad to install it.
