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How to get twitter to work on my local server

I want to host the Twitter service on my server and configure it for my own purposes. I have no idea how it works.

My goal is to communicate with your own Twitter server, not the original Twitter server, and serve my purpose.

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You should check: StatusNet . It is an open source micro-blogging platform. From their site, you can download the source and deploy it to your own server. After installing it, you can customize it to your liking.



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Twitter is not an open source project - they do not provide server code.



In my experience at another company deploying very widely distributed systems, the chances are that it will first need the full infrastructure required to run - a complete overload for a single server solution, but vital for a global service with many millions of users. In other words, even if Twitter provided their code, it probably won't be the right solution for your situation.

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The actual service Twitter ( twitter.com ) is proprietary, you cannot run it yourself.

There are many open source clones out there. A more general name is "microblogging". Pinax , for example, has basic microblogging. Try google for ' open source microblogging' for other projects.

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I don't believe the Twitter platform is freely available to the general public. If you want to create your own "Twitter server", you will have to clone the service yourself.

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You cannot run Twitter on your own server, but you can write your own application that talks to Twitter via the Twitter API .

It all depends on what you mean by "customizing" Twitter. There are many applications such as Twitpic and TweetDeck that are built on top of Twitter. They add their own functionality, leaving Twitter to climb hard.

For example, I wrote a personal project to moderate the flow of tweets. This app is running on my local server, but it gets its data by requesting the Twitter API.

There are two main benefits to expanding rather than rebuilding Twitter:

  • Much less effort is required because you can reuse all of Twitter's core functionality.
  • You can take advantage of Twitter's huge user base. Even if you manage to clone Twitter, it will be much less interesting than the original, because Twitter is powered by numbers.
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You can use Wordpress and get the twitter developer add and then get the api code from them and there users will be able to use your site and vice versa, Twitter apps will run on your site.

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Wow. This is a very ambitious request that you have. Twitter is not like Wordpress, there is no .org version to download and run locally. Twitter is a highly scalable service designed to run on large servers.

Sorry for not knowing much about him.

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