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Twitter Plugin
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Main authors Tobias Diekershoff and Michael Vogel.
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With this addon to friendica you can give your user the possibility to post
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their *public* messages to Twitter. The messages will be strapped their rich
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context and shortened to 140 characters length if necessary. If shortening of
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the message was performed a link will be added to the Tweet pointing to the
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original message on your server.
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The addon can also mirror a users Tweets into the ~friendica wall.
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There is a similar addon for forwarding public messages to
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[StatusNet](http://status.net).
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Requirements
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------------
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To use this plugin you have to register an application for your friendica
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instance on Twitter with
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* read and write access
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* don't set a callback URL
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* we do not intend to use Twitter for login
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The registration can be done at twitter.com/apps and you need a Twitter
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account for doing so.
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After you registered the application you get an OAuth consumer key / secret
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pair that identifies your app, you will need them for configuration.
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The inclusion of a shorturl for the original posting in cases when the
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message was longer than 140 characters requires it, that you have *PHP5+* and
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*curl* on your server.
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Where to find
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In the friendica addon git repository /twitter/, this directory contains
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all required PHP files (including the [Twitter OAuth library][1] by Abraham
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Williams, MIT licensed and the [Slinky library][2] by Beau Lebens, BSD license),
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a CSS file for styling of the user configuration and an image to _Sign in with
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Twitter_.
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[1]: https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth
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[2]: http://dentedreality.com.au/projects/slinky/
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Configuration
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=============
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Global Configuration
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If you enabled an administrator account, please use the admin panel to configure
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the Twitter relay. If you for any reason prefer to use a configuration file instead
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of the admin panels, please refer to the Alternative Configuration below.
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Activate the plugin from the plugins section of your admin panel. When you have
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done so, add your consumer key and consumer secret in the settings section of the
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plugin page.
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When this is done your user can now configure their Twitter connection at
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"Settings -> Connector Settings" and enable the forwarding of their *public*
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messages to Twitter.
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Alternative Configuration
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To activate this addon add twitter to the list of active addons in your
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.htconfig.php file
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$a->config['system']['addon'] = "twitter, ..."
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Afterwards you need to add your OAuth consumer key / secret pair to it by
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adding the following two lines
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$a->config['twitter']['consumerkey'] = 'your consumer KEY here';
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$a->config['twitter']['consumersecret'] = 'your consumer SECRET here';
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Mirroring of Public Postings
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To avoid endless loops of public postings that are send to Twitter and then
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mirrored back into your friendica stream you have to set the _name of the
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application you registered there_ of your friendica node is using to post to
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Twitter in the .htconfig.php file.
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$a->config['twitter']['application_name'] = "yourname here";
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Connector Options for the User
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When the OAuth consumer informations are correctly placed into the
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configuration file and a user visits the "Connector Settings" page they can now
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connect to Twitter. To do so one has to follow the _Sign in with Twitter_
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button (the page will be opened in a new browser window/tab) and get a PIN from
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Twitter. This PIN has to be entered on the settings page. After submitting the
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PIN the plugin will get OAuth credentials identifying this user from the
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friendica account.
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After this step was successful the user now has the following config options.
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* **Allow posting to StatusNet** If you want your _public postings_ being
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optionally posted to your associated Twitter account as well, you need to
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check this box.
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* **Send public postings to StatusNet by default** if you want to have _all_
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your public postings being send to your Twitter account you need to check
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this button as well. Otherwise you have to enable the relay of your postings
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in the ACL dialog (click the lock button) before posting an entry.
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* **Mirror all posts from statusnet that are no replies or repeated messages**
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if you want your postings from Twitter also appear in your friendica
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postings, check this box. Replies to other people postings, repostings and your own
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postings that were send from friendica wont be mirrored into your friendica
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stream.
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* **Shortening method that optimizes the post** by default friendica checks how
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many characters your Twitter instance allows you to use for a posting and
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if a posting is longer then this amount of characters it will shorten the
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message posted on Twitter and add a short link back to the original
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posting. Optionally you can check this box to have the shortening of the
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message use an optimization algorithm. _TODO add infos how this is
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optimized_
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* **Send linked #-tags and @-names to StatusNet** if you want your #-tags and
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@-mentions linked to the friendica network, check this box. If you want to
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have Twitter handle these things for the relayed end of the posting chain,
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uncheck it.
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* **Clear OAuth configuration** if you want to remove the currently associated
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Twitter account from your friendica account you have to check this box and
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then hit the submit button. The saved settings will be deleted and you have
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to reconfigure the Twitter connector to be able to relay your public
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postings to a Twitter account.
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License
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=======
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The _StatusNet Connector_ is licensed under the [3-clause BSD license][3] see the
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LICENSE file in the addons directory.
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[3]: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
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