This Twitter "bridge" plugin allows you to integrate your StatusNet instance with Twitter. Installing it will allow your users to: - automatically post notices to their Twitter accounts - automatically subscribe to other Twitter users who are also using your StatusNet install, if possible (requires running a daemon) - import their Twitter friends' tweets (requires running a daemon) Installation ------------ OAuth (http://oauth.net) is used to to access protected resources on Twitter (as opposed to HTTP Basic Auth)*. To use Twitter bridging you will need to register your instance of StatusNet as an application on Twitter (http://twitter.com/apps). During the application registration process your application will be assigned a "consumer" key and secret, which the plugin will use to make OAuth requests to Twitter. You can either pass the consumer key and secret in when you enable the plugin, or set it using the Twitter administration panel. When registering your application with Twitter set the type to "Browser" and your Callback URL to: http://example.org/mublog/twitter/authorization The default access type should be, "Read & Write". To enable the plugin, add the following to your config.php: addPlugin( 'TwitterBridge', array( 'consumer_key' => 'YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY', 'consumer_secret' => 'YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET' ) ); * Note: The plugin will still push notices to Twitter for users who have previously setup the Twitter bridge using their Twitter name and password under an older versions of StatusNet, but all new Twitter bridge connections will use OAuth. Deamons ------- For friend syncing and importing notices running two additional daemon scripts is necessary (synctwitterfriends.php and twitterstatusfetcher.php). In the daemons subidrectory of the plugin are three scripts: * Twitter Friends Syncing (daemons/synctwitterfriends.php) Users may set a flag in their settings ("Subscribe to my Twitter friends here" under the Twitter tab) to have StatusNet attempt to locate and subscribe to "friends" (people they "follow") on Twitter who also have accounts on your StatusNet system, and who have previously set up a link for automatically posting notices to Twitter. The plugin will try to start this daemon when you run scripts/startdaemons.sh. * Importing statuses from Twitter (daemons/twitterstatusfetcher.php) To allow your users to import their friends' Twitter statuses, you will need to enable the bidirectional Twitter bridge in your config.php: $config['twitterimport']['enabled'] = true; The plugin will then start the TwitterStatusFetcher daemon along with the other daemons when you run scripts/startdaemons.sh. Additionally, you will want to set the integration source variable, which will keep notices posted to Twitter via StatusNet from looping back. The integration source should be set to the name of your application, exactly as you specified it on the settings page for your StatusNet application on Twitter, e.g.: $config['integration']['source'] = 'YourApp'; * TwitterQueueHandler (daemons/twitterqueuehandler.php) This script sends queued notices to Twitter for user who have opted to set up Twitter bridging. It's not strictly necessary to run this queue handler, and sites that haven't enabled queuing are still able to push notices to Twitter, but for larger sites and sites that wish to improve performance, this script allows notices to be sent "offline" via a separate process. The plugin will start this script when you run scripts/startdaemons.sh.