Sounds good, I say release it.. If you are going to add it, make a new release.. I am looking forward to testing this! Can’t wait..
sounds good, i think you should release it too, im interested in trying it out
This sounds GREATTTT!!!!!
Awesome!
1 thing I have been looking for is a plugin that displays twitter search results well. If you see my buddypress install at http://theindianstartup.com the right column has a twitter search RSS feed, which gives the right results but looks very crappy. This is because, each tweet is pulled in like a link instead of text. I have been trying to figure out a solution to this but I dont code well.
I am sure a lot of buddypress websites might want to pull in twitter search feeds concerning their niche areas and the ability for the widget to pull in twitter search results and display them as text (with hyperlinks for the actual links ofcourse) would be really awesome.
That’s great . Can you tweet from wire to twitter
Need to reply to followers
Need to group followers
add tinyurl
add twitpic api
add facebook api
this looks sweet! Looking forward to it!
@Gpo1: Not sure what you mean by all of that except your question about tweeting. Can you elaborate please?
Right now there is a separate page for sending new tweets. But we might integrate an option into the Wire screen. We’ll check into it before releasing.
As for Facebook, we might be able to add that via a different plugin since it doesn’t exactly pertain to Twitter.
@Kunal17: Search sounds cool. We could add a widget for that. Twitter search API is diverse, so we’ll have to figure out how to handle that without making a widget config overly confusing for plugin users.
We added a new feature to the plugin today: Rate limit detection. What – you didn’t know Twitter only allows X number of data downloads per hour? Ya, they do. So we’ve added code to help ensure that limit isn’t exceed (it should only happen in rare circumstances) and if it is then a friendly message shows up to let readers know that the tweet and trend content might be not entirely fresh at the moment.
Details: Twitter limits API calls to 100 per hour per user, or 100 per hour per IP address if you’re not authenticating whiile making an API call. So basically, those limits would only be exceeded if some BP user had plugins all over the planet each downloading their tweets or they were using a badly designed twitter plugin somewhere else (unlikely, but it could happen). Or, it could happen if a site is on a shared hosting account and lots of other sites on the same server are making Twitter API calls for trend or search data – again, unlikely, but it could happen.
So we try to handle those cases gracefully via code. And, so far I’ve not seen any other Twitter plugins for WP or WPMU that deal with those possibilities.
We try to be thorough (perfection is impossible
M, the plugin is sounding great. Please let us know as soon as you have something for release. Do you have an ETA for an initial release?
Would it be easier to start with if the plugin just handled RSS feeds from twitter search instead of taking the search parameters from withing the plugin itself? Maybe 2 different plugins that integrate well will make things accessible to both basic and advanced users.
This plugin does it have the same function like twitter like tweet your followers replies & group followers etc?
@Gpo1: Whatever you can do with the tweet form at Twitter, you can do with the tweet form in this plugin.
@Kunal17: It’ll be ready soon as we get the search widget created. Possibly this weekend. And no, we won’t use RSS for that. We’ll make it happen via the API because that is more flexible.
Without knowing the details, it would be nice if you could somehow ‘pull’ the post form into a custom home theme in BP. This way users could seamlessly cross-post to Twitter from the home page using one form. I’m using P2 theme as my home theme so the need is obvious, but perhaps this could be possible somehow.
Regardless, very happy to hear this is coming soon.
I’m excited about this, its almost exactly what i was looking for…
I would however really like to see tweet by wire integration (perhaps a small check box that says tweet this)
sounds awesome! will this be integrated into the buddpress status updates that will be incorporated soon?
i like the caching mechanism inclusion, better will be if it will be cached with the built in system wp_cache_set & family
@Scotm, Am interested in that also integrating P2 theme with this twitter plugin.
& tweet from wire!
Sounds really good, can’t wait to see it
Tweet from Wire added today. Working on search for a sidebar widget now. Then we’ll have a look at P2 integration needs.
Tweet search widget for blog sidebars is complete. On to P2 integration possibilities….
@Scotm : You’re using P2 as your home theme – is there way for users to get to their Settings page (as seen in the default BP theme) ? I ask because in order to tweet to Twitter a username and password is required, so a user has to configure that somewhere first.
With this plugin, it adds a new item to the Settings menu so that users can config their username and password. So if you’re somehow integrating the Settings menu into your site and users can access it to configure their Twitter login info then I can add a template tag that can be used in P2 so that you can easily add the required HTML elements to your P2 post form to cause a ‘tweet to twitter’ feature to work pretty easily.
So in short it’d work like this: You include the template tag in your post form template code and that tag will insert a checkbox that says something like “Also tweet this to Twitter”. If the user checks the box when making a post then a tweet will be sent to Twitter. And if they don’t have their Twitter login info configured then the checkbox won’t even appear in the form. Instead there would be a short message like “You can tweet this to Twitter if you configure your Twitter user name and password in your profile settings”
@M , you are good…. Can you create a page for followers avatar with tweets updates etc?
@M Sorry, I don;t have this configured, but you’ve pretty much hit on the head what I’ve been trying to do since integrating P2 with Buddypress. The best example I can find of how it might work is by somehow modding the Commentwitter plugin for use in the P2 postform versus its intended use with the WordPress comment form.
This plugin enables an ajax input form to appear below the comment form where users can add their Twitter settings if they wish to cross-post. I’ve tried to mod this for the P2 post form unsuccessfully to date but it might offer some insight.
Looking forward to helping any way I can if only testing.
Thx
@Scotm, Have you got P2 theme as a member theme ,it would look good or home page?
@M
What does the release date look like now?
@Gpo1
I have a modified member page working with my P2 theme. See:
http://blogpei.com/members/admin/
@Scotm – what’s the URL for your site so I can take a look