gomods/athens

Add a GH action to publish a tweet to the @gomodsio Twitter account when we publish a new GitHub release

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#1,460 opened on Nov 13, 2019

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Not related to a problem

Describe the solution you'd like

We opened #808 to discuss how we might use GitHub actions. At the time, this repo didn't have actions enabled. Now that it does, we should try them out for some of the things in that thread.

Edit from @arschles - we have focused this issue to just the twitter publishing action after discussion in https://github.com/gomods/athens/issues/1460#issuecomment-573896109

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We could do nothing!

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Investigate existing GitHub Actions for tweeting releases, such as the 'tweet action' or 'twitter notify' actions. Look into the repository's existing workflow files to understand how releases are handled. Draft a workflow that triggers on release, uses a Twitter API token stored as a secret, and posts a formatted tweet.
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gogithub actions
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releasedevops
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2
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