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____ Twitter Plugin ____
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By Tobias Diekershoff
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http://diekershoff.homeunix.net/friendika/profile/tobias
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tobias.diekershoff(at)gmx.net
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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 [[StatusNet Plugin]].
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Online version of this document: http://ur1.ca/35mml
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___ Requirements ___
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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 git repository /addon/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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__ 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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__ User Configuration __
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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 "Plugin 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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If this first step was successful the Twitter configuration will be changed
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on the "Plugin Settings" page displaying two check boxes. One to enable/disable
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the forwarding of *all public* postings to Twitter and one to clear the
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personal configuration from the Twitter credentials.
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