From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72615 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Twitter and Facebook Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:18:17 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87pqvon5gm.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286284817 27913 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2010 13:20:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 13:20:17 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20987@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 05 15:20:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P37RF-0002kL-Te for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:20:14 +0200 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 1P37RD-0007Zg-Tf; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:20:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P37RC-0007ZG-BS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:20:10 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P37R8-0000TG-6r for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:20:10 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P37R7-0007HV-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:20:05 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P37R5-0002fW-5e for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:20:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dLjPTezC97OXaLsoFrumN6bA0qE= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72615 Archived-At: On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:04:02 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Somebody asked me whether Gnus was ever going to support Twitter and LMI> Facebook. So I though: Perhaps? LMI> I've looked at the Facebook API very quickly. It seems to me that LMI> there's no way for a "desktop app" (i.e., Gnus) to actually get at a LMI> user's data? Is that true? That seems really weird. I wouldn't bother with this. RSS can handle most of the data collection. LMI> There's a "twitel.el" package out there that lets you read Twitter LMI> streams, so that seems more likely to implementable. But there's LMI> nothing of interest in Twitter (that I've seen) anyway, so... It would be useful to implement a personal stream in a group, like the gnus-read-ephemeral-bug-group does. But I hope that's really low on your priority list. Ted