Published on Sunday, September 27 2009
A few weeks back I created a little plugin that works with Alex King‘s Twitter Tools, using an API it provides to also post your notices to a StatusNet instance (Identi.ca, Twit.tv, etc).
You can find that plugin here: Twitter Tools StatusNet (and should be able to find it soon on wordpress.org).
What I hadn’t realized at the time was just how Twitter Tools itself worked, and what that meant about the StatusNet plugin.
Twitter Tools follows all of your tweets, not just those which you enter via WordPress or generate as new blog post notifications. What this means is that using Twitter Tools in combination with the StatusNet plugin, everything you post on Twitter gets also posted to the StatusNet instance you’ve configured.
Everything you post on Twitter, regardless of it’s source: desktop client, SMS, web client, etc.
This means you’ve got to be careful. If you use Identi.ca, for example, and have your Identi.ca account configured to cross post to Twitter (which is a popular option) you’ll create a loop. You post to Identi.ca, which cross posts to Twitter, where Twitter Tools finds it and (with my plugin in place) cross posts to Identi.ca, which cross posts to Twitter, and so on (repeat until someone tells you your account has gone crazy).
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Published on Thursday, September 10 2009
When Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin was in its 1.x days, I published some directions on how to change the API endpoints to point to Identi.ca.
Now that Twitter Tools is at 2.x, Alex has provided an API for enabling additional posting.
So I wrote a plugin for his plugin: Twitter Tools – StatusNet.
It leverages the API he provided to post your tweets (on new blog post creation or via the sidebar form) to a StatusNet instance (default is Identi.ca but it can be easily changed to another). (In case you missed the announcement, the software formerly known as Laconica, which powers Identi.ca but also other sites, is now known as StatusNet).
Given that many StatusNet instances also already cross-post to Twitter, my plugin enables you to suppress the actual posting to Twitter that Twitter Tools does. (You can have notices posted to both Twitter and your StatusNet instance, or just your StatusNet instance without Twitter).
What it doesn’t do is provide all the functionality Twitter Tools provides – digests of your notices, a sidebar widget containing latest notices. If you cross-post to twitter you can use all that functionality from Twitter Tools natively.
If you’d like to replace Twitter throughout Twitter Tools with your favorite StatusNet instance, you can hack away at Alex’s plugin directly – the same basic concepts I outlined before would still apply.
Published on Sunday, January 25 2009
Alex King‘s Twitter Tools is a great little WordPress plugin for integrating your Twitter presence with your blog. It can show your latest tweets in a sidebar widget, create a “digest” post daily / weekly with a list of your tweets, and announce your blog posts to your twitter account.
In this post I’ll show you what changes are necessary to make it work with identi.ca instead of Twitter.
Why would you want to do that?
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