Twitter Protocol Discussion

[dentist]

The chat module may also be considered at some point (tabSRMM has some enhancements to it, AFAIK, such as clickable nicks). A tabbed interface would be more suited to Twitter anyway, IMHO.

Chat seems like a workable way to display all your friends' status updates. I don't think it's something I'd use, but I'd definitely prefer it to having one pseudo-contact a la the XMPP gateways.

Currently, I'm just finishing cleaning up the code and fixing some obvious bugs, but I should be able to release an alpha version (along with source, of course) in a couple days.

A picture will give a better summary of where things are at (the SRMM window is a conversation via direct messages): http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/1924/twitterd.png

[dentist]

For those who are interested, I've uploaded source/binaries to Google code here: http://code.google.com/p/miranda-twitter/

Note that I make no promises that this works in any way, shape, or form. Note also that there WILL be breaking changes, so don't go getting mad when you can't upgrade from this version to a later version. :)

In general, here's what works:

• Sending tweets
• Replying to users (not tweets)
• Viewing tweets
• History
• Sending/receiving direct messages
• Searching for, adding, and removing contacts

Here's what doesn't:

• Decent rate limiting when logging on repeatedly (Twitter only allows 100 requests/hour)
• Replying to tweets
• Tweets are stored as status message changes. This is probably bad.
• Avatars, user profiles, etc.
• @replies from people you aren't following
• Decent error handling for bad responses from Twitter

[Jenson_P]

here's how Adium is going to handle Twitter-contacts:

http://adiumx.com/blog/2009/03/birds-of-a-feather/

maybe it's interesting for you ;)

edit:
i just had a look at your plugin, it really looks nice! keep up the great work!

[donkEE]

Hi dentist,

i'm interested, too. Is there any plan for a miranda 0.7.x(stable versions) support?

[Nergali di Cuthah]

Love it thank dentist :)
BTW I made you a Proto icon (WOOT)
http://drop.io/9fjouar#
As you Tinker, Perhaps (when you get to the Options Stage) a seperate Pop-Up option (a la ICQ, and weather) so we can set the length a tweet appears on the screen.
Also what (if any) is the service call for tweet so we can create TopToolBar Buttons for it :)
Also mayhaps a View Webpage (a la Weather) that opens the Followed's Twitter page (can be done according to http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+...rmationelement) Same place for Avatar

[dentist]

Hi dentist,

i'm interested, too. Is there any plan for a miranda 0.7.x(stable versions) support?

Not likely. By the time I have a stable version of the Twitter plugin, 0.8 will be released. 0.8 is already (almost) at RC1, and the only big thing missing is multi-account support for Yahoo.

Love it thank dentist :)
BTW I made you a Proto icon (WOOT)
http://drop.io/9fjouar#
As you Tinker, Perhaps (when you get to the Options Stage) a seperate Pop-Up option (a la ICQ, and weather) so we can set the length a tweet appears on the screen.

Options will be coming eventually. I haven't even tested the plugin with the common addons people use (except for History++ because the default history viewer makes it hard to get info about the messages).

Also what (if any) is the service call for tweet so we can create TopToolBar Buttons for it :)
Also mayhaps a View Webpage (a la Weather) that opens the Followed's Twitter page

It should be ModuleName/Tweet (usually Twitter_1/Tweet).

[Nergali di Cuthah]

Thanks (I edited a little above while you typed)
TopToolBar button Works Thank you :)
P.S. Obviously, I'll Happily be a Guinea Pig For Beta Testing :)

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[dentist]

Thanks (I edited a little above while you typed)
TopToolBar button Works Thank you :)
P.S. Obviously, I'll Happily be a Guinea Pig For Beta Testing :)

Just as an FYI, the "url" node of the userinfo is actually that user's homepage. Figuring out the user's Twitter page is trivial though.

By way of example, NASA's "url" is nasa.gov: http://twitter.com/users/show/nasa.xml

[Kildor]

Hello.
Thanks for plugin.

There is a problem with non-ansi symbols, when I write «Тест…», I`ve got «òòñðû».

And please:
— can you make twitter messages as normal messages, to see it in dialog and correct showing in new event notify?
— can you add ability to set contacts as offline when protocol is offline?

PS: I recompile it for myself in msvc7 to portablilty and independency from 8`th runtimes.

[dentist]

There is a problem with non-ansi symbols, when I write «Тест…», I`ve got «òòñðû».

I don't think I've even turned on UTF messaging yet. I've had bigger issues, like random data loss (which appears to be Twitter's fault now).

can you make twitter messages as normal messages, to see it in dialog and correct showing in new event notify?

Twitter's direct messages are normal messages (and I plan on keeping it like that). When I add in the group chat stuff, Twitter status messages will be normal messages if you turn on the chat mode. Without using chat, status messages will always be their own event type. Currently, that's a status message change event, but that's just temporary while I wait for 0.8 to be released and for there to be decent support for the new event API functions. The status messages need to embed the Twitter message ID to support @replies to individual statuses, and the easiest way to do this is with the new custom event code in 0.8.

— can you add ability to set contacts as offline when protocol is offline?

Yeah, that's planned. I meant to do it, but had other priorities at the time.