send Twitter notification for tips to unclaimed accounts

[chadwhitacre]

We couldn't do this easily for GitHub because we don't have permission to send notices to people who haven't opted in yet (#60). Seems like for Twitter we should be able to send a public message to people, no?

Raised by @onethumb via Twitter.

[sigmavirus24]

If the user has a public email address attached to their GitHub account, we could use that, right?

[heartpunk]

@sigmavirus24 seems to be complicated. Maybe the address is out of date, and so they never get the message?

[sigmavirus24]

Some people also don't check twitter actively enough to notice and twitter's email notifications have been shoddy lately. The API call is dead simple (says the guy who wrote a wrapper and partial mock implementation).

[heartpunk]

Yeah, I get that. My point is that we need to be careful to consider how best to contact people when they haven't yet chosen a default method. I'm in favor of either/both, myself.

[sigmavirus24]

I think both is safe, enough but I guess I came up with a bigger concern that I think I've seen the answer to but am not certain of: "When a user doesn't even have an account on Gittip, what is done with the money that is theoretically accumulating for them? Does Gittip actually collect it on their behalf? Is it just a number that is pledged? If it is collected and the user opts out, how is it distributed back to the users it came from?"

I think the answer is: it isn't collected so it is just a pledged number. This should be part of the explanation without sounding like spam.

[heartpunk]

That's my understanding of the current implementation. Agreed that it
should be clear in the notifications. @whit537, is that actually how it
works now?

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Ian Cordasco [email protected]:

I think both is safe, enough but I guess I came up with a bigger concern
that I think I've seen the answer to but am not certain of: "When a user
doesn't even have an account on Gittip, what is done with the money that is
theoretically accumulating for them? Does Gittip actually collect it on
their behalf? Is it just a number that is pledged? If it is collected and
the user opts out, how is it distributed back to the users it came from?"

I think the answer is: it isn't collected so it is just a pledged number.
This should be part of the explanation without sounding like spam.

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[chadwhitacre]

+1 from @lindsayp at Voluto. :-)

[ceboudreaux]

Closed in favor of #646