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a minimal view of your social networks (twitter today, tomorrow, the world!)
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wrbl

(say: "warble")

The most minimalist of minimalist Twitter clients.

purpose

The idea for wrbl came out of a conversation with @anthonyongaro, @pyry, and @experimat about ways we could be more intentional about our use of social.

wrbl picks one tweet for you every half-hour, and will not reload until a half-hour has elapsed.

instructions

First, clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/skylineproject/wrbl

Ensure you have Node.js installed on your computer. If you do not, install it from the Node.js website.

In a terminal, open the directory created when you cloned this repo. Run the command: npm install to install the required dependencies.

Then, find your Twitter App Credentials:

  1. Open the Twitter Application Management page
  2. Click Create New App
  3. Enter whatever name and info you like (note that a website is required. For "oauth callback URL," enter twitter.com -- this part of wrbl is not yet implemented, so we won't be using that parameter until Issue #1 is resolved)
  4. Switch to the Keys and Access Tokens tab
  5. Add your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret into config.json.
  6. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and generate an Access Token.
  7. Add your Access Token and Access Token Secret into config.json.
  8. Save and close config.json

Back in that terminal window you used before, run npm start and open a web browser to http://localhost:8080. A more intentional twitter experience awaits!

There is a known bug where one needs to reload the page one more time after first launching the app. We're working on it. :) If you have ideas for how to fix this, add them to the Issue record.

status

wrbl is under active development. You're currently looking at release 0.0.0.

next steps

  1. Implement OAuth. Signing into wrbl should be as easy as logging in with your Twitter username and password. I simply haven't figured out how to do that yet. Twitter has some good info on their dev site, but I haven't yet been able to dig deep enough to feel good about the aspects of the implementation I could get running. See Issue #1 for more info.

  2. Make tweet selection smart. Right now, wrbl picks one tweet at random from the past hour's tweets. See Issue #2 for more info.

  3. Add inline reply, retweet, fav logic. This depends on Issue #1's resolution.