From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: twitter.el, anyone? Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:35:35 +0100 Message-ID: <87zjl2b07s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878usmmcob.fsf@rss01.mhs.man.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394199350 2105 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2014 13:35:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 13:35:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org To: Matt Ford Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32564@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 07 14:35:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WLuwM-0005Wc-GW for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:35:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WLuwK-0008Mz-Pi; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:35:52 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WLuwJ-0008Ml-OX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:35:51 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WLuwI-00060M-IK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:35:51 -0600 Original-Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WLuwG-0003up-TT for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:35:49 +0100 Original-Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C15218ED for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:35:42 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:35:46 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=hJWzG6tiMYXzxMrUMU//5dg5+vU=; b=TgUhz4GzLZYfIrmAOqjvOm+wiQjR nR9ybkfb5PdhGbgaNCCySrXT84SirUi/1z4C3O699o9dUbTRHsmFmvi44ZoYNDrk OPJ1w3++DaNprUItoB7Vwer8ei5J9w2dy0ZIT/ugrD8nHPfmTAM/Kemz2fHXYs/g 9ews766ieRr2Su0= X-Sasl-enc: qI+ht0KzFQBCwQtjyOtK6oQnGKg+wAHTHdrMA7PJpXEL 1394199342 Original-Received: from thinkpad-t61 (unknown [91.67.46.66]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id ED0BBC007B1; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:35:41 -0500 (EST) Mail-Followup-To: Matt Ford , emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <878usmmcob.fsf@rss01.mhs.man.ac.uk> (Matt Ford's message of "Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:11:00 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84318 gmane.emacs.devel:170205 Archived-At: Matt Ford writes: > I happily use twittering-mode and it's GPL and everything. Ditto, although I don't use twitter that often anyhow. > An nntwit backend would be cool though. That would be interesting, indeed. However, such a mail-like backend would probably not really match the dynamic nature of twitter, e.g., you usually want to see tweets as they are posted instead of checking some group (with then dozens or hundreds of tweets) periodically. Bye, Tassilo