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- Allow a user to indicate his/her username and authenticate to Twitter
- Obtain OAuth token for a user, to be stored as an encrypted portlet preference
- Display friend status updates
- Allow user to post tweets
Technical Details
Twitter offers an OAuth-protected REST service, as documented at http://dev.twitter.com/. A Twitter portlet might be created by binding the JSON-formatted results of REST feeds to a user interface using the Fluid renderer.
Current Project Status
A Twitter portlet exists in the Jasig sandbox under the name "FlutterPortlet FluidTwitterPortlet. " This portlet is an updated version of a sample application originally developed by the Fluid community.
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