Hello all

I am fairly new to Drupal so please bear with me.
I am trying to implement a kind of shoutbox with twitter. My goal is to have a global account that twitter module uses and allows every user to post a tweet using this predefined account, without having to login. What the user posts, should get posted in twitter and also in the site like a shoutbox. I managed to install Twitter module which seems to do part of the job but I can't figure out if it is at all possible to have a simple form in the front-end which allows authenticated users to post a tweet. Does somebody think of a way to do something like that? I suppose it would involve actions but i cannot find the workflow for that.

The next step would be on every post to run the cron so the tweets get updated. Is that possible

Thanks

Theodore

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superfedya’s picture

superfedya commented

Twitter Shoutbox in block it's a great idea.

abraham’s picture

abraham commented
Version: 6.x-2.6 » 6.x-3.x-dev
Component: Miscellaneous » Code
Category: support » feature
kjholla’s picture

kjholla commented

I would love to see this feature too! Especially since now that every drupal website will need to be registered as a separate application with twitter, it will be great for branding if all tweets from the website owner can appear from that application.

This would only be possible if we have an option to tweet from the website.

Regards,
KH

Bastlynn’s picture

Bastlynn commented

subscribing - does sound like a great way to integrate the two concepts

learnstocks101’s picture

learnstocks101 commented

Would be a great addition to Drupal/Twitter compatability

michaek’s picture

michaek commented

This does sound like an interesting idea for a submodule, or for another module that uses the API provided by twitter.inc.

Taxoman’s picture

Taxoman commented
Title: Creating a Twitter Shoutbox » Twitter Shoutbox
Version: 6.x-3.x-dev » 7.x-3.x-dev
juampynr’s picture

juampynr commented
Title: Twitter Shoutbox » Twitter Shoutbox to post a message from the global account

Rephrasing title.

juampynr’s picture

juampynr commented

Forgot to mention. Patches are welcome.

This could be a sub-module called twitter_shoutbox that would use the Twitter global account to post to Twitter for authenticated users with a specific permission.

dddave’s picture

dddave commented
Version: 7.x-3.x-dev » 7.x-6.x-dev