Microblogs, twitter and identica

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I went through a list of 86 twitter related modules and put them all in the spreadsheet for now:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Artnr_Y-70ZjdE9hbkgtQnV0RmZ...

"Usage principal" means "Main use" as the key is here (in English):

  • 1 read + display
  • 1a read
  • 1b display
  • 2 publish
  • 3 encourage visitors to tweet this article
  • 4 login (connect)
  • 5 find friends
  • 6 link to our account, encourage to follow
  • 9 other: dependencies, etc.

My plan is to have separate reviews for main usages, although http://groups.drupal.org/node/28680 is already a good start to 3 and 4.

Last updated: 2012-02-06


New Modul: http://drupal.org/project/anywhere
New Modul: http://drupal.org/project/twitter_pull to use Twitter without API-key
http://drupal.org/project/twitter usage: more than 8000
http://drupal.org/project/dailytwitter usage: less than 10
http://drupal.org/project/tapatio (new commits since august 2009) only D5 in the moment
http://drupal.org/project/microblogs
http://drupal.org/project/identica

i placed a support request on all these modules, pleasing the programmers to join forces.

Q. (Thomas) Does anyone knows how laconica fits into the picture of all these microblogging sites?

A. (Boris) Laconica is the open source software that powers identica.

Last updated: 2009-06-14

Comments

microblogs was deleted

Gerhard Killesreiter's picture

microblogs was deleted today, as requested by the author. There was no code anyway.

situation has cleard up: use twitter!

Thomas_Zahreddin's picture

identica module seems to be abendoned:
'Identica uses the same API as Twitter, and Drupal has a twitter module which has support for Identica.' you can read in the module description.

dailytwitter has about 65 reported sites http://drupal.org/project/usage/dailytwitter compared with nearly 5000 for twitter.

so a nobrainer ;-)

dailytwitter and twitter

mradcliffe's picture

dailytwitter and twitter seem to be modules with quite different scope and application. It doesn't really make sense to compare their functionality.

Twitter Module way too much for simple sites.

cbovard's picture

Hello,
We have found the Twitter module way to heavy for a basic sites with one user or only one twitter account. What we ended up doing was dropping some custom php code into a block and got a way faster alternative.
I am not here to cut up the twitter module but a simpler alternative needs to be available.

So we have been working on a Simple Twitter module. It only stores your Twitter Username and Password in the Variables table. If you do not provide your password it will only pull your tweets.
It is a small module but works well.

Like I said above there should always be a simplier alternative not a one box fits all solution.

Thanks for your interest.

chris bovard

If all you want to do is list

Garrett Albright's picture

If all you want to do is list tweets, the core Aggregator module or contrib Feeds module, pointed at your Twitter feed's RSS feed, could do the job - though they themselves can feel a bit "heavy" when all you want to do is show a list of feed items from a single feed.

We created the module

cbovard's picture

Hello,
We created a module for this. I posted it here: http://drupal.org/node/702984

I had a few people request it so there is a need.

Thanks for your input.

chris bovard

www.chrisbovard.com
www.ventureweb.net

Table to compare twitter-related modules

Robin Millette's picture

I've added this related page to the group: http://groups.drupal.org/node/209343