[wp-hackers] Proposal: Twitter Support in Core

[Austin Matzko]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
> So I suggest we develop and implement Twitter support in core. Twitter support would include a robust API and repository for supporting all the future (updated) Twitter plugins.

There is Twitter support in core, more or less.  You can make RESTful
queries using the HTTP API.  Almost everything else involves details
of implementation that are specific to a proprietary service and so
would not be appropriate for WordPress core.