By harshpalkhurana on

Hello Everyone,

I have been working on Joomla, wordpress and other opensource frame works for more than 4 years now but now one of my clients wants me to work on drupal as drupal can handle large websites . So this client of mine has a website now he wants to add twitter like functionality into his website for his organization and for his staff members only .

The bottom line is he was his own private twitter and has asked me to build it on drupal . I'm though new to drupal and I'm told a microblog module is good to make such functionality but the problem is that my client wants when user logs in he/she is taken to updates section how can this be done?

My Basic Questions are
1) What modules are required in building twitter in drupal?
2) How can i display Followers and Following?
3) How can i add profile section ?
4) How can there be recent updates page?

Lots of Questions anyone care to help me

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

Comments

whitingx’s picture

whitingx commented

A good start might be the 'Microblog' module;

http://drupal.org/project/microblog

Users can publish microblog updates, follow and be followed by other users, and reply to other users' microblog updates.

Hope this helps.

parisj13’s picture

parisj13 commented

At one of the Do It With Drupal events they built twitter using Drupal. You can watch the video of it on Drupalize.me (http://drupalize.me/videos/how-we-built-twitter-drupal-diwd-08), but it is a pay site. I have no affiliation with them, and admit that I am not a subscriber to their site yet...but do plan on it once I can carve out enough time to actually use it.

From what I remember from a lullabot podcast (if I remember correctly) was that the take away from it was that you CAN build Twitter using Drupal, but it doesn't make sense to. It would be like buying a Ferrari and de-tuning the engine to make it great on gas. Or put another way, it would be like buying an iPad and putting Windows XP on it.

I could be completely off here but I saw your headline and remembered seeing the DIWD video on the Drupalize.me site.
Good luck with your project.