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Twitter Addon
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Main authors Tobias Diekershoff and Michael Vogel.
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With this addon to friendica you can give your users the possibility to post their *public* messages to Twitter and
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to import their timeline. The messages will be strapped their rich context and shortened to 280 characters length if
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necessary.
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The addon can also mirror a users Tweets into the ~friendica wall.
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Installation
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To use this addon you have to register an [application ](https://apps.twitter.com/ ) for your friendica instance on Twitter. Please leave the field "Callback URL" empty.
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After the registration please enter the values for "Consumer Key" and "Consumer Secret" in the [administration ](admin/addons/twitter ).
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Where to find
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In the friendica addon git repository /twitter/, this directory contains
all required PHP files (including the [Twitter OAuth library][1] by Abraham
Williams, MIT licensed and the [Slinky library][2] by Beau Lebens, BSD license),
a CSS file for styling of the user configuration and an image to _Sign in with
Twitter_.
[1]: https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth
[2]: http://dentedreality.com.au/projects/slinky/
License
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The _StatusNet Connector_ is licensed under the [3-clause BSD license][3] see the
LICENSE file in the addons directory.
[3]: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
