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1The Twitter module implements Twitter support for BarnOwl. It also
2supports automatic mirroring of some subset of Zephyrs you send to
3Twitter.
4
5To configure it, first
6
7* Add your twitter credentials to ~/.owl/twitter as a JSON hash, e.g.
8{"user":"nelhage", "password":"sekrit" }
9* Load the module (cp Twitter.par into ~/.owl/modules and :reload-module Twitter)
10* Set the twitter:class, twitter:instance, and twitter:opcode
11  variables to the destination you want messages to be mirrored
12  from. By default, they are -c $YOUR_USERNAME -i status -O twitter
13  Setting twitter:opcode to "" will cause "normal" (i.e. no opcode)
14  messages to that class/instance to be mirrored. A value of '*'
15  works as a "match-anything" wildcard for any of the fields.
16
17Twitter.par will also receive twitters and inject them into barnowl as
18messages of type 'twitter'. It polls for normal messages once a
19minute, and direct messages every other minute. To disable polling,
20you can unset the 'twitter:poll' variable in BarnOwl.
21
22Twitter.par now supports other Twitter-compatible microblogging
23services, like identi.ca. To enable this, set the 'service' parameter
24in your config hash to the API URL of your service. You will likely
25also need to set 'apihost' and 'apirealm'. See Net::Twitter or your
26blogging service's documentation for more information.
27
28Twitter.par also supports using multiple Twitter and Twitter-compatible
29microblogging accounts from the same instance.  To enable this, add
30additional hashes to your ~/.owl/twitter file as a JSON list, e.g.
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32[
33  {
34   "account_nickname": "twitter",
35   "user": "nelhage",
36   "password": "sekrit",
37   "default": true,
38   "publish_tweets": true
39  },
40  {
41   "account_nickname": "identica",
42   "service": "http://identi.ca/api",
43   "user": "nelhage",
44   "password": "sekriter",
45   "publish_tweets": true
46  }
47  {
48   "account_nickname": "sipb",
49   "user": "sipb",
50   "password":"m0ars3krit",
51   "poll_for_tweets": false,
52   "poll_for_dms": false,
53  }
54]
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56
57Outgoing tweets sent via ":twitter" without an explicit sender, or
58mirrored from zephyr, go to every account with "publish_tweets" set.
59
60Outgoing direct messages and @-replies without an explicit sender come
61from whichever account has "default" set. If no account has "default",
62the first account is assumed to have "default" set. It is an error to
63have more than one account with "default" set to true.
64
65There are several account-specific parameters that control the
66behavior of Twitter.par when using multiple accounts:
67
68* account_nickname (string, required if multiple accounts are in use)
69    Specify a short name by which you can refer to the account, eg.
70    "identica" (eg. :twitter-direct nelhage identica would send a
71    direct message to @nelhage on identi.ca from your account
72    nicknamed "identica").
73
74* default (boolean, default false)
75    If true, @-replies or direct messages you send without specifying
76    an account will be sent using this account.  If no account has
77    this parameter, such messages will be sent using the first account
78    listed.
79
80* poll_for_tweets (boolean, default true)
81    If true, tweets sent by users this account follows will be
82    displayed in your BarnOwl message list.
83
84* poll_for_dms (boolean, default true)
85    If true, direct messages sent to this account will be displayed in
86    your BarnOwl message list.
87
88* publish_tweets (boolean, default false)
89    If true, tweets you send without specifying an account (either
90    with the :twitter command or mirrored from a zephyr class) will be
91    published to this account.
92
93* show_mentions (boolean, default true)
94    If true, BarnOwl will show all tweets that mention this account's
95    username, regardless of whether or not this account is following
96    the sender. Has no effect if poll_for_tweets is false.
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