Tweet out links to votes

[MyfanwyNixon]

After this tweet https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1312717870619557889 which explains that the HoC Twitter account can no longer tweet votes, there have been some tweets expressing a belief that TWFY would be an alternative (and then surprise that we don't).

Related: #177

[RichardTaylor]

A key issue here is timeliness of the process of data from Parliament being imported to PublicWhip, manually describing the votes and then getting the material on to TheyWorkForYou. There is some related discussion at #605

Once a vote has been described there are already single sentence summaries available describing the effect of voting each way in a vote, and there is also a short summary of the impact of the majority vote. Currently these summaries are not tweet sized.

I've personally tweeted some summaries of my own MP's votes, showing it is often possible to summarise a vote in a tweet:

https://twitter.com/RTaylorUK/status/1092354575783288832 https://twitter.com/RTaylorUK/status/936043628824354817 https://twitter.com/RTaylorUK/status/933420604648288259 https://twitter.com/RTaylorUK/status/124841995612065793

While those relate to an individual MP's vote, similar tweets could be written describing how the majority of MPs voted.

See also PublicWhip issue https://github.com/publicwhip/publicwhip/issues/14 "RSS Feed of Single Sentence Vote Summaries for an MP" which suggests automated contraction of vote summaries to make them more likely to fit in a tweet. Also related is https://github.com/publicwhip/publicwhip/issues/13 which proposes a feed which only shows votes once they've been manually described (and therefore suitable/safe/appropriate for dissemination).

Also closely related is #1162 "Better coverage of particular votes in which there is significant public interest". Tweeting all votes might not be appropriate, but if we could identify certain votes as being of significant public interest more resources could be put into working on those in a timely manner. Caution is needed to remain impartial as selecting certain votes to highlight could introduce bias, we've previously made significant efforts to ensure voting description efforts have been targeted in a justifiable way (based on turnout corrected for whole party abstentions) though now we comprehensively describe votes (though with a time delay).

One further related point, if the feature proposed #1405 "Make it easy to view and share a list of MPs who've rebelled on a vote" was implemented, and the publication process was speeded up, that would often provide newsworthy material to tweet.