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Twitter Bridge Plugin
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This Twitter "bridge" plugin allows you to integrate your StatusNet
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instance with Twitter. Installing it will allow your users to:
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- automatically post notices to their Twitter accounts
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- automatically subscribe to other Twitter users who are also using
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your StatusNet install, if possible (requires running a daemon)
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- import their Twitter friends' tweets (requires running a daemon)
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- allow users to authenticate using Twitter ('Sign in with Twitter')
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Installation
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OAuth 1.0a (http://oauth.net) is used to to access protected resources
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on Twitter (as opposed to HTTP Basic Auth)*. To use Twitter bridging
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you will need to register your instance of StatusNet as an application
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on Twitter (http://twitter.com/apps). During the application
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registration process your application will be assigned a "consumer" key
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and secret, which the plugin will use to make OAuth requests to Twitter.
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You can either pass the consumer key and secret in when you enable the
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plugin, or set it using the Twitter administration panel.
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When registering your application with Twitter set the type to "Browser"
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and your Callback URL to:
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http://example.org/mublog/twitter/authorization
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(Change "example.org" to your site domain and "mublog" to your site
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path.)
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The default access type should be "Read & Write".
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To enable the plugin, add the following to your config.php:
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addPlugin(
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'TwitterBridge',
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array(
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'consumer_key' => 'YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY',
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'consumer_secret' => 'YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET'
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)
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);
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* Note: The plugin will still push notices to Twitter for users who
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have previously set up the Twitter bridge using their Twitter name and
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password under an older version of StatusNet, but all new Twitter
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bridge connections will use OAuth.
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Administration panel
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--------------------
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As of StatusNet 0.9.0 there is a new administration panel that allows
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you to configure Twitter bridge settings within StatusNet itself,
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instead of having to specify them manually in your config.php. To enable
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the administration panel, you will need to add it to the list of active
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administration panels. You can do this via your config.php. E.g.:
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$config['admin']['panels'][] = 'twitter';
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And to access it, you'll need to use a user with the "administrator"
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role (see: scripts/userrole.php).
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Sign in with Twitter
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--------------------
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With 0.9.0, StatusNet optionally allows users to register and
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authenticate using their Twitter credentials via the "Sign in with
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Twitter" pattern described here:
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http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter
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The option is _on_ by default when you install the plugin, but it can
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disabled via the Twitter bridge administration panel, or by adding the
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following line to your config.php:
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$config['twitter']['signin'] = false;
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Daemons
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For friend syncing and importing Twitter tweets, running two
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additional daemon scripts is necessary: synctwitterfriends.php and
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twitterstatusfetcher.php.
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In the daemons subdirectory of the plugin are three scripts:
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* Twitter Friends Syncing (daemons/synctwitterfriends.php)
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Users may set a flag in their settings ("Subscribe to my Twitter friends
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here" under the Twitter tab) to have StatusNet attempt to locate and
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subscribe to "friends" (people they "follow") on Twitter who also have
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accounts on your StatusNet system, and who have previously set up a link
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for automatically posting notices to Twitter.
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The plugin will start this daemon when you run scripts/startdaemons.sh.
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* Importing statuses from Twitter (daemons/twitterstatusfetcher.php)
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You can allow uses to enable importing of your friends' Twitter
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timelines either in the Twitter bridge administration panel or in your
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config.php using the following configuration line:
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$config['twitterimport']['enabled'] = true;
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The plugin will then start the TwitterStatusFetcher daemon along with the
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other daemons when you run scripts/startdaemons.sh.
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Additionally, you will want to set the integration source variable,
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which will keep notices posted to Twitter via StatusNet from looping
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back. You can do this in the Twitter bridge administration panel, or
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via config.php. The integration source should be set to the name of your
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application _exactly_ as you specified it on the settings page for your
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StatusNet application on Twitter, e.g.:
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$config['integration']['source'] = 'YourApp';
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* TwitterQueueHandler (daemons/twitterqueuehandler.php)
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This script sends queued notices to Twitter for user who have opted to
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set up Twitter bridging.
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It's not strictly necessary to run this queue handler, and sites that
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haven't enabled queuing are still able to push notices to Twitter, but
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for larger sites and sites that wish to improve performance the script
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allows notices to be sent "offline" via a separate process.
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StatusNet will automatically use the TwitterQueueHandler if you have
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enabled the queuing subsystem. See the "Queues and daemons" section of
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the main README file for more information about how to do that.
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