Twitter @borrowbot (Pilot)

[tabshaikh]

Borrow Bot

Today we have a twitter Open Library @borrowbot that lives here:
https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-bots/tree/master/twitter-borrowbot

How it works

https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-bots/tree/master/twitter-borrowbot#usage

Here's an example of how you'd use @borrowbot https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=@borrowbot%200393310728 and here's an example reply https://twitter.com/borrowbot/status/1298219991691481088.

Issues

1. affiliate-server with queue for amz #4221 reinstate affiliate server to enable just-in-time ISBNs imports (of books not yet in catalog) @mekarpeles
2. @borrowbot should work with ISBNs
3. @borrowbot should work with goodreads URLs
4. There is an issue in which we're replying to the same tweets multiple times, possibly related to how we're processing or choosing the last_seen_id.txt timestamps -- needs issue
5. People don't really have a way to discover @borrowbot yet, so we could create a blog post which explains how to use it (once 1-4 are working)

Objective

Help more patrons/readers discover opportunities on openlibrary.org.

According to the hashtag analytics audit done on tweetbinder.com on hashtags #books #amazon using the free version the analytics show that in a 7 day period the number of original tweets(excluding retweets) was approx. 140 with a number impact of 11M. Therefore this is a great opportunity for making our bookshelves discoverable.

Whenever a user tweets out a book with the amazon link, the twitter borrow-link bot would retweet the book with the link from Open Library if it is available. The book will be tweeted only once.

The sample would look something like this:

Stakeholders

@tabshaikh @mekarpeles

[cdrini]

@mekarpeles says this is done! He's going to review the blog post today 👍