[wp-hackers] Proposal: Twitter Support in Core

[Mike Schinkel]

"Lynne Pope" <lynne.pope at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are the forums (Request and Feedback) and Ideas:
> http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/

Thanks for the note. Unfortunately those forums are a poor substitute for a mailing list.  They are too much effort to participate in and hence don't generate the free flow of discussion that a mailing list would (at least not the forum software used by Codex.) 

Minimally, why not a plugin issues mailing list added to here?  http://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists

Am I the *only* one that sees a need for this?  If you are reading this and you concur but don't want to jump in the frey can you please email me off list so that I know that there are others who feel the need to collaborate on functionality that is not right for the core?

> ... especially since Twitter makes changes to its 
> own API that impact those developing with it.  

Not a problem. The important part of the API would be how WordPress users would be isolated from Twitter.

-Mike Schinkel
http://mikeschinkel.com/