Overview

Create a standalone tool that converts a Twitter thread into a single anonymous Write.as post, just like Thread Reader (@threadreaderapp).

Goals

Promote Write.as via an unobtrusive, independently useful tool.

Audience

Twitter / microblogging platform users.

Background

With Thread Reader, people mention them on a long Twitter thread and then it returns a URL to the thread in a nice, readable format. Write.as is great for long posts that don't fit into a tweet, so we could offer almost identical functionality and simultaneously promote our more fully-baked solution (i.e. an actual platform made for this).

Implementation

This is a simple tool that might live on a tiny little site (and maybe include a Twitter bot -- and a Mastodon bot / ActivityPub service actor).

Twitter

When triggered, we should fetch all tweets in the original thread, combine them into a single post (each tweet its own paragraph), and include the original author's information (with links), too. We then publish anonymously, and ideally save the id + modify_token locally, in case someone wants to take down the post later. Then we respond to the original tweet with a friendly message and a link to the anonymous post.

Bonus: maybe append a promotional message to the end of the anonymous post body, e.g.: "Have more than 240 characters to share? Publish on Write.as and simply share the link -- no sign up required."