Best way to integrate Twitter into Emacs? reddit / emacs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nonreligious · 2022-05-03 14:53 I suspect that the right answer from the point of view of productivity is "don't integrate Twitter and Emacs", but if you'll humor me I'd like to try. A bunch of packages I've found have all been abandoned or haven't been updated in a while, with the implied cause being changes to the authentication method. Here are a few methods I've seen: - [Twittering mode](https://github.com/hayamiz/twittering- mode/tree/master): Sounds like this was the [best way](https://www.red dit.com/r/emacs/comments/35qs7a/favorite_twitter_setup/) to use Twitter a few years ago, but looks unmaintained. Does anyone still use it? - [nntwitter](https://github.com/dickmao/nntwitter): Uses gnus, with every user you follow becoming an individual feed. I've tried it, and while it kind of works, I follow ~200 people, so it takes 30 minutes or so to refresh. Plus I want to create a single time-ordered feed to read, and haven't worked out how to create a [virtual group](https:// www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/gnus.html#Virtual-Groups) to do this yet. - [gnus-twit](https://github.com/larsmagne/gnus-twit): From larsmagne, which also uses `gnus`. Has anyone else tried it? Is it secure now that it uses `Nitter`? I found [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ugb9rk/how _i_use_powershell_twarc_and_emacs_org_mode_to/) from yesterday when I did a search of the subreddit, haven't gone through it yet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- publicvoit · 2022-05-03 15:01 As always: to answer your question, we would need your set of requirements as stated on https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool- choices/ For example, I assume you don't care about Twitter surveys because I don't think that any of the three options you've mentioned do support advanced Twitter features like that. My next question would be: what else you don't care for. And so forth. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jacmoe · 2022-05-03 15:04 Doom-Emacs uses twittering-mode. It's pinned to a certain commit: [https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/modules/app/twitte r/packages.el](https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/modu les/app/twitter/packages.el) ​ Not using it myself. Twitter screwed us years ago when they made their API really awkward to use when you are not an official partner.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nonreligious · 2022-05-03 18:00 How about this for a specification: - Able to read tweets automatically pulled from my timeline, going back e.g. to the previous 24 hours, with the ability to pull older tweets if desired - Tweets listed in the order they are posted (or at least, how they appear on my timeline) - Pictures included in tweets are automatically displayed, including profile pictures, with link previews optional - Optional: being able to "Like"/"Retweet" and save to Bookmarks -- not necessary but it would be a great help - Can live without: Twitter surveys, video/multimedia previews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nonreligious · 2022-05-03 18:02 Thanks! I use `use-package`, do I have to use something like `quelpa` to pin a certain commit? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jacmoe · 2022-05-03 18:29 I don't know anything about that. But I've heard that that's what `straight` is for -> https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/emacs-straight-use- package/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XCapitan_1 · 2022-05-03 19:50 I'm using RSS Bridge and elfeed. Just following individual people I like that way. Because in the end, I feel like of all social networks the Twitter algorithm and its structure do the best job of screwing my mental health. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 505baker · 2022-05-03 21:12 i've just started using twittering mode and so far so good. but i'm more of a lurker so i can't really say how anything other than retweeting and liking tweets works ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nonreligious · 2022-05-03 21:26 Fair enough! I mostly follow news/politics people plus science people, which is mostly bearable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nonreligious · 2022-05-03 21:26 Thanks! Good to hear that it has that functionality. Hopefully it's not vulnerable security wise. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nnreddit-user · 2022-05-03 21:43 > If I stole your identity, I'd [****] myself The [inimitable David So](https://youtu.be/GpH4hrV38J0?t=125) Not that I think emacs users generally have anything worth stealing, but [disguising credentials in ascii art](https://github.com/hayamiz/twittering- mode/blob/114891e8fdb4f06b1326a6cf795e49c205cf9e29/twittering- mode.el#L13203-L13228) is weak sauce indeed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nonreligious · 2022-05-03 21:59 Lol, not seen that before. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- deaddyfreddy · 2022-05-03 22:40 sure you can