+Twitter Bridge Plugin
+=====================
+
This Twitter "bridge" plugin allows you to integrate your StatusNet
instance with Twitter. Installing it will allow your users to:
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OAuth 1.0a (http://oauth.net) is used to to access protected resources
-on Twitter (as opposed to HTTP Basic Auth)*. To use Twitter bridging
-you will need to register your instance of StatusNet as an application
-on Twitter (http://twitter.com/apps). During the application
-registration process your application will be assigned a "consumer" key
-and secret, which the plugin will use to make OAuth requests to Twitter.
-You can either pass the consumer key and secret in when you enable the
-plugin, or set it using the Twitter administration panel.
+on Twitter. To use Twitter bridging you will need to register your
+instance of StatusNet as an application on Twitter (http://twitter.com/apps).
+During the application registration process your application will be assigned
+a "consumer" key and secret, which the plugin will use to make OAuth requests
+to Twitter. You can either pass the consumer key and secret in when you
+enable the plugin, or set it using the Twitter administration panel.
When registering your application with Twitter set the type to "Browser"
and your Callback URL to:
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-* Note: The plugin will still push notices to Twitter for users who
- have previously set up the Twitter bridge using their Twitter name and
- password under an older version of StatusNet, but all new Twitter
- bridge connections will use OAuth.
+or if you want to set the variables from the website's administration panel:
-Admin panel
------------
+ addPlugin('TwitterBridge');
-As of StatusNet 0.9.0 there is a new administration panel that allows
-you to configure Twitter bridge settings within StatusNet itself,
-instead of having to specify them manually in your config.php. To enable
-the administration panel, you will need to add it to the list of active
-administration panels. You can do this via your config.php. E.g.:
+After saving your configuration file, please run 'php scripts/upgrade.php'
+and also restart the background daemons if they are active on your instance.
- $config['admin']['panels'][] = 'twitter';
+Administration panel
+--------------------
-And to access it, you'll need to use a user with the "administrator"
-role (see: scripts/userrole.php).
+To access the administration panel, you'll need to use a user with the
+"administrator" role (see: scripts/userrole.php).
Sign in with Twitter
--------------------
-As of 0.9.0 you StatusNet optionally allows users to register and
-authenticate using their Twitter credentials via the "Sign in with
-Twitter" pattern described here:
+GNU social optionally allows users to register and authenticate using their
+Twitter credentials via the "Sign in with Twitter" pattern described here:
- http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter
+ https://dev.twitter.com/web/sign-in
The option is _on_ by default when you install the plugin, but it can
-disabled via the Twitter bridge admin panel, or by adding the following
-line to your config.php:
+disabled via the Twitter bridge administration panel, or by adding the
+following line to your config.php:
$config['twitter']['signin'] = false;
It's not strictly necessary to run this queue handler, and sites that
haven't enabled queuing are still able to push notices to Twitter, but
-for larger sites and sites that wish to improve performance, this script
+for larger sites and sites that wish to improve performance the script
allows notices to be sent "offline" via a separate process.
StatusNet will automatically use the TwitterQueueHandler if you have
-enabled the queuing system. See the "Queues and daemons" section of the
-main README file for more information about how to do that.
+enabled the queuing subsystem. See the "Queues and daemons" section of
+the main README file for more information about how to do that.
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