Update Wiki: howto use add buddy feature

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As requested by andresen.nils now as issue:

The plugin allows adding buddys over the Pidgin interface, but the wiki is 
missing a description how to use this feature.

My questions:
Which buddys (=Twitter users?) can be added? Is an @-sign needed? What is the 
meaning of "adding" a buddy, am I able to follow new (not followed until now) 
users? Can I add user lists/searches? What happens if I write to an user added 
this way? Are there commands?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sumeru...@googlemail.com on 6 Jul 2011 at 10:04

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regarding commands: 
There are none regarding buddies. (issue#13 requested /follow and /unfollow, 
though)

regarding Lists/searches:
Lists are currently not supported, see issue#241

regarding "add buddies" using a twitter account:
IMHO this does not much - at least it does not work in any expected way. So I 
would not do this.

Does this answer your questions?

Original comment by andresen.nils@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2011 at 9:29

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So adding buddies is a feature without any (working) function?

I thought there was a function behind this feature, searched in the source 
updates and found:
r265:
buddy type, @buddy txt added
r268:
1) Added buddy statuses, for those added by user (Add a buddy through pidgin,
buddy status will be updated)
2) Added ims to and from buddy (needs refactoring)

Original comment by sumeru...@googlemail.com on 7 Jul 2011 at 10:08

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If by "adding buddy" means "following twitter user", then right now mbpurple 
can't do that. Unless thher is some misterious patch being merged in.

Original comment by somsaks on 8 Jul 2011 at 2:00

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sumeru, 
the commits you mentioned are both from the "friends-buddylist" branch. I think 
that might have been a test in that direction, but it's not part of the current 
trunk.

Original comment by andresen.nils@gmail.com on 8 Jul 2011 at 5:34

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In Pidgin is the option via Menu "Buddys" -> "add Buddy", select "TwitterIM" to 
add some kind of "buddys" to the mbpurple account in pidgin. I simply wanted to 
know the meaning of adding a "buddy" this way. I hoped that the quoted commits 
might help describing/discovering the features - if there were any.

Sorry for misleading. My mother tongue is German so my English might not be as 
well.

Original comment by sumeru...@googlemail.com on 8 Jul 2011 at 8:03

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sumeru,
that's exactly my point: You can add buddies via Menu "Buddys" -> "add Buddy", 
select "TwitterIM", but nothing will happen (Well, obviously something will 
happen, but nothing good will come out of it.) I am unsure if the feature to 
add buddies can be disabled for microblog-purple - but I doubt it, since it is 
an essential way of how libpurple works.

Original comment by andresen.nils@gmail.com on 8 Jul 2011 at 12:18

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