Tonight I found a code snippet (not a Druapl snippet) that allows followers of a Twitter account to post to that Twitter account if they include a designated word in the content of the post.

Combined with the Drupal Twitter module functionality as it currently stands, it would allow a lot more flexibility on the sitewide twitter, enabling Twitter users to post to that sitewide Twitter without having to come, via the web, to the Drupal site.

I've thought up other solutions like Mailhandler's ability to post content to a site via email. Most SMS users can send email. But I'd prefer a Drupal implementation that integrates the strategy of the code I saw.

Check out the guy's blog post at:
http://www.3greeneggs.com/wp/web-dev/create-a-group-twitter-account/

The code is there.

Shai

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Shai commented
Title: Integrate ability to allow Twitter users to post to sitewide feed without coming to Druapl site » Integrate ability to allow Twitter users to post to sitewide Twitter without coming to Drupal site

Fixing title of this feature request.

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summit commented

Subscribing, wouldn't this issue not be better on Drupal 6?
greetings, Martijn

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yngens commented

subscribe

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abraham commented
Version: 5.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-3.x-dev

Let me see if I understand the request properly.

You are looking to find tweets with a specific keyword and have those posted to a single Twitter account. Correct?

I don't see this as being supported by the Twitter module out of the box but everything needed should be included to do with a little bit of code.

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yngens commented

I am not sure if the original poster still is interested in this, since it dates back to 2008. What I am trying to achieve is to enable registered users of my Drupal installation to create nodes via e-mails (http://drupal.org/project/mailhandler takes care of this) and so that nodes automatically be tweeted.

Currently, only nodes created on the site are tweeted. Nodes created remotely (through sending e-mails) are not.

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yngens commented

This one is related: http://drupal.org/node/503972

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mrf commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

I don't think this is really in the scope of this module. You should be able to post nodes to the drupal site via SMS using other modules and then have Twitter module post those for you to the site wide account that receives updates.

If you do implement this you would really want to think about locking this down to the appropriate people every step of the way.