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Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

rcanblog — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:57:38 -0000

Automattic released a new version of prologue
http://rcanblog.com/create-...

Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

YODspica — Sat, 09 May 2009 10:26:42 -0000

Great post, thanks.

http://twitter.com/YODspica

Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

ben Eadie — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:30:37 -0000

I have a site up and running thanks for the tutorial! Now I have some things I need to do, one is on the user page hide their emails and also when one clicks the link in the profile page it prefixes the url with mine.... http://SolidJott.com any suggestions? I assume I have to edit the Author.php file for this...

Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

luca filigheddu — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:33:31 -0000

Thanks for the feedback, maybe it's because my post refers to an older WP version. Thanks!

Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

ben Eadie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:10:14 -0000

I did sign in and it did not show the dialog to enter a post. I have changed the default new user roll to Author and all works fine now. Might want to keep this in mind for the newest WP install maybe that is the problem... Anyhow great tutorial and thank you!

Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

luca filigheddu — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:55:17 -0000

It's correct. What's not working? You have to sign in in order to post something

Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

ben Eadie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:49:37 -0000

I cannot seem to get the posting section to work on my site and I have followed your instructions to the letter. I suspect that "Subscriber" is the problem. am I reading "Set the “New User Default Role” as “Subscriber”." correct?

Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

omfut — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:03:32 -0000

Excellent!. I couldn’t agree more with you on this. I guess the point is not how close techtwits is with twitter, it’s more to do with how something can be built with open source software. In addition, focusing on the idea and leveraging the differentiation points are more important initially.
On a side note, I guess execution also matter's big time when you get some traction based on the idea. For an idea to succeed, you need a good ‘A’ list team to support and sustain the idea

Cheers,
omfut
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Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

luca filigheddu — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:41:09 -0000

@David Yes, it's not really apples to apples, but by installing the proper WP plugins, you can do much more. Moreover, there are plugins that let you customize the service more and do also what Aswath is mentioning here.

@Aswath I received the email about your subscribtion. In regards of what you say, I'll look into this to find the proper WP plugins to do that.

Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

aswath — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:50:38 -0000

Luca, I don't mean to dismiss your point. But the real difficulty of witter and the problem in scalability is that my tweets are shared with only the people that follow me, instead of everyone. When a follower of mine comes online, all messages shared with the people that person following and sorting in chronological order so on. Does WP platform do all that? I couldn't test it out on my own because I didn't receive confirmation email for some time.

Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

David Beckemeyer — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:00:38 -0000

I have actually setup WP with prologue and I don't know if it was less than an hour (with customization) but it was pretty easy and it is pretty neat.

Keep in mind, this is not really apples to apples, since it doesn't include any of the SMS interfacing that real Twitter has.

Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

luca filigheddu — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:32:16 -0000

I know :-) But Twits or Tweets is also widely used to refer to both twitter users or the short messages posted on Twitter. Anyway, it's just a useless example to play with.

Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

EviL — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:26:29 -0000

Twit can mean:

* A British slang word for an insignificant, foolish or annoying person.

Quindi techtwits = ...
Complimenti per il nome ;)