Social Networking:Twitter Integration

Overall

Create a user experience that allows for the browsing of select Twitter messages by taxonomy
Enable syncing of Microblog posts from Centricity to Twitter

Tweet: a microblog post limited to a certain length
bit.ly: a URL shortening service
Domain specific keywords are characters or phrases specified by Admins to search for when pulling content from Twitter
- For example, at secretsoftraders.com the domain specific keywords are $ OR #secretsoftraders OR @secretsoftrader, @sot_stocks, etc.

Create a user experience that allows for the browsing of select Twitter messages by taxonomy
Ability to reply and retweet at Twitter

A page which lists the main taxonomical categories of Twitter messages that will be available.
1. A unique SEO friendly URL for this page
2. 5 – 10 categories on this page
3. 5 – 10 tweets per category on this page
4. New tweets are added as quickly as possible to give the affect of real time updates
5. A link to “view more” for each category which goes to a dedicated category page
A page which lists the sub-categories for a chosen category of tweets
1. A unique SEO friendly URL for all pages of this type
2. 5 – 10 sub-categories on this page
3. 5 – 10 tweets per sub-category on this page
4. New tweets are added as quickly as possible to give the affect of real time updates
5. A link to “view more” for each sub-category which goes to a dedicated sub-category page
A page which lists all tweets a for the chosen sub-category of content.
1. A unique SEO friendly URL for all pages of this type
2. Between 1 and 100 tweets on this page at any time
3. New tweets are added as quickly as possible to give the affect of real time updates
A method for determining which categories and sub-categories are show on the site.
1. Can include twitter hash tags
2. Can include ticker symbols
3. Can include Tags or Channels
4. Can include any word or symbol which can be used to select tweets
5. Categories and sub-categories will be updated approximately once per month
6. User interface for providing updated categories and sub-categories is not required

Display separate timelines for each of:
- Messages of following
- Messages of followers
- Display @%username% messages
Display only messages that have domain specific keywords

Channels will have a list of Tags or Ticker Tags associates with it
Aggregate the feed of Twitter posts with all of the tags and ticker tags in the channel
When displaying sub-channels, aggregate Twitter posts that match the tags and ticker tags shared by the Channels that make up the sub-channel.

"from location"
- if the post is from Twitter, display "from Twitter"
- if the post was sent to Twitter from Tweetdeck, and then sent to Centricity, still show "from Twitter"
If you post on Centricity and then it is sent to Twitter, make sure not to duplicate the post when displaying

Display Twitter posts of Twitter Users who have had a post appear on a Centricity network at domain/ t /%twitter_username%

Does this require caching Twitter usernames
that have appeared in the Twitter mashups?

DO NOT display Twitter Users who have not had a post appear on a Centricity network at domain/ t /%twitter_username%
- Display a "User does not exist" message at this URL

status post URL is at domain/ t /%username%/status/%microblog_post_id%
- Only display if post has one of our desired keywords such aa a ticker symbol
- for example, domain/austinmao/status/123456789

If a User turns off Twitter syncing, do not delete previously synced Twitter posts
Stop Twitter syncing if the Centricity User no longer exists
Each domain needs a domain_twitter_name, which will be used on Twitter for any @domain_twitter_name posts
- for example: @secretsoftrader for http://twitter.com/secretsoftrader
Channels may include their own Twitter usernames
- for example, domain/channels/stocks at secretsoftraders.com may have the Twitter username of sot_stocks

Ability to sync multiple Twitter accounts to one Centricity user
If you go to domain/t/%twitter_username% and that Twitter user is synced to a Centricity user, forward to domain/%centricity_username%

Truncate with "..." if the entire post is longer than 140 characters (including URLs)
Post to Twitter with a http://bit.ly/123456 shortened URL linking back to their user page (not their individual status posting)
Anytime there is a #tag or bit.ly link, gray out the appended text and subtract from the character count.

Any reply posts from Centricity will be:
- pre-pended with @%twitter_username%
- pre-pended with @%domain_twitter_name%
- appended with #%hashtag% for each channel
  - Example: "@yelenarules @secretsoftrader Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed eget ipsum a massa sollicitudin #stocks #construction"

If you are following a Twitter-only user, then:
- Send a message that says: "@%twitteruser% @%domain_twitter_name% I would like to follow you at www.%domain%.com. Click here to confirm: http://bit.ly/123456"
  - for example: "@yelenarules @secretsoftrader I would like to follow you at www.secretsoftraders.com. Click here to confirm: http://bit.ly/123456"
  - the bit.ly link should point to a Registration page

If a micro-blog post is deleted on Centricity, then delete on Twitter
If a User account is deleted on Centricity, then do not delete previously synced Twitter posts