[wp-hackers] Proposal: Twitter Support in Core

[Mike Schinkel]

Joost:

This proposal was to make the point that some things that have value shouldn't be in the core but for which there is also benefit of a community process and community recommendation of shared use.  Can I assume you didn't follow the "Optional Modules" thread completely?

-Mike Schinkel
http://mikeschinkel.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joost de Valk" <joost at yoast.com>
To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 3:42:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Proposal: Twitter Support in Core

Agree 100% with Aaron.

On 3 feb 2009, at 18:54, Aaron Brazell <emmensetech at gmail.com> wrote:

> -1
>
> WordPress is not in the "business" of supporting Twitter. This is 100%
> plugin territory (and there are many fine ones out there).
>
> --  
> Aaron Brazell
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>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Mike Schinkel
> <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>wrote:
>
>> There are tens of Twitter plugins and after a survey I've found  
>> that none
>> of them are fully reliable nor do they store their content in ways  
>> that is
>> accessible or robust.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>> -Mike Schinkel
>> http://mikeschinkel.com/
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