twitter

Purpose of module:

This module will implement Twitter-style following functionality for Drupal community websites. On Twitter you follow people you find interesting and people who find interesting follow you. People you are following show up on your home page in a river-of-news format. My proposed module would do the same thing for a Drupal community site. You follow people who's post you find interesting and are followed by people who find you interesting.

I wrote a bit here about how the twitter model is useful.

(Note: This proposal has been submitted)

// Idea Summary

The idea is to improve, and implement a feature-rich XMPP API (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) in Drupal 6. Such an API will allow communication between Drupal and other XMPP clients. This will give an alternative on how Drupal systems can notify users of changes/updates. Users might also remotely interact with Drupal, using IM. A generic API will also benefit the Drupal universe as other modules can hook into XMPP when needed.

While Drupal already has many of the tools necessary to implement social networking techniques on a community site, I haven't found anything that works like the personalized central "News Feed" system in Facebook or Twitter.

I'm curious whether anyone has done any development work, planning or merely thinking about how this might be done in Drupal, and about the implications.