Posted by j0k3z on August 31, 2007 at 2:37pm
Would it be possible to build a site pretty much identical to Twitter using Drupal?
The basic concept is micro-blogging. 150 character "blog posts" without titles aggregated on each users page. How would you go about making this?
Comments
- option 1) write a module
- option 1) write a module for it
- option 2) use the "CCK" & "Automatic Nodetitles" (existing modules)
http://www.kvaes.be - http://www.artistiku.com - http://www.snuffelkoopjes.be
http://www.logitouch.be/
Dodge module
Hi j0k3z,
I have developed a module which mimics the functionality of Twitter in a basic way.
You can download it at...
http://drupal.org/project/dodge
http://www.davyvandenbremt.be
http://www.drupalcoder.com
http://twitter.com/davyvandenbremt
readme / documentation
Hi Davy Van Den Bremt,
Can you provide a simple readme / documentation on the module?
Cheers,
yeeloon
- yeeloon
kini.my
*bump* Any plan to push this
*bump*
Any plan to push this to 6.x?
See also
See also http://ken.therickards.com/2008/10/02/kdi-proposals-generate-178000-for-... and http://drupal.org/project/openmicroblogging
yes, and messaging supports an SMS gateway
that's what makes twitter so useful - sms integration...without it, what's the point?
drupal aside, take a look at yonkly.com - that's an open source twitter clone written on msft technology...clever and a bit more well thought out thatn twitter itself (thread replies, etc)...
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i love to waste time: http://twitter.com/passingnotes
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i love to waste time: http://twitter.com/passingnotes
also, title without body!
just omit body from a content type, set max title length to 150 characters and voila, a twitter clone - you can then use views to make it super cool...
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i love to waste time: http://twitter.com/passingnotes
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i love to waste time: http://twitter.com/passingnotes
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The only thing needed out of the box would be the character counting... Could Drupal work with Laconi.ca, or something like that?
Rosamunda
Buenos Aires | Argentina
We've already begun to build
We've already begun to build microblogging using CCK and views. We decided to leave commenting and titles on. We also added photographs. I wanted differentiate the functionality from twitter because well...twitter rocks. The site is here:
http://microskirts.skirt.com/
I'm looking now for a way to integrate a user's twitter posts into MicroSkirts!. I want to do this so twitter users don't have to post twice. Tried the Activity Stream module but it may not be robust enough for a lot of users.
**Bump** on the character counter I'm going to have to find a solution there .
~nik
There is / was a character
There is / was a character counter in Classifieds module. have a look at that ?
I like what you've done with microskirts
I like what you've done with microskirts, how you have microblogging designed the speech bubbles and the user picture. Was this hard to create? I'm looking at doing something similar.
Wow, that is really groovy.
Wow, that is really groovy. Plan on writing a tutorial on how you did it? I'm still at the very beginning stages of learning CCK and Views.