2009-10-06 Tweeting from Google Wave
Google Wave
Google Wave is not just some ready-made web application, it is also platform that can be extended with gadgets and bots. One popular bot is Tweety. Tweety the Twitbot lets you tweet from within Google Wave.
In Wave, bots are identified by an email address.
Tweety
Google Wave does not have a add-in manager from where you can install and deinstall plug-ins like browsers do. Instead, you install bots by adding them to your contacts list. In Wave, bots are identified by an email address.
It is fairly easy to add a bot when you spot it in an existing wave; just add the bot from that wave as you would add any other contact.
If you did not spot the bot in an existing Wave, you can add it manually.
Just click the Add a new contact button at the bottom of you contact list, and
then add the bots email address.
Tweety’s email address is tweety-wave@appspot.com.
twave
To use the twitbot, you create a new Wave and add Tweety as a wave participant. As soon as you add Tweety, Tweety starts up and tries to connect to Twitter.
Notice the Please make sure you are not blocking the login popup
message. If nothing seems
to happen, it is because you are blocking popups. When you allow popups on
wave.google.com, Tweety creates a large pop-up window to log into Twitter.
Notice the twitter.com URL; Tweety logs into Twitter using Twitter’s OAuth service; you are providing your credentials to Twitter without disclosing your password to Tweety.
Once you are connected, the wave fills up with recent tweets, just like your Twitter home page
and other twitter clients. Above it are the familiar What are you doing?
question, an edit box for your tweet, and an update
button to post it.
The image above shows me ready to post the tweet #GWave Tweeting from Google
Wave using Tweety.
. After I hit the update button, the tweet showed up on
twitter as as posted from Google Wave
(Tweety)
.
The tweet from Tweety in Twitter’s real-time search results.
Keep your twaves private.
tweet privately
Keep your twaves privates. Remember that you already authenticated with Twitter, so anyone with access to your twave can tweet on your behalf!
This may seem a design mistake, but it is not. It can be used to deliberate share a corporate twitter account with several users. However, you probably do not want to share your personal twitter account with anyone.
Oh, do not add Tweety to public waves either. If you do, havoc will ensue.
conclusion
Tweeting from Wave is not hard. Tweety is an easy to use basic Twitter client. You just need to know that, like other Wave bots, you can find Tweety by its email address and activate it by adding it to a wave.
links
Google Wave
- Google Wave
- Google Wave Developer blog 2009-08-17: Tweety Sample improved with OAuth Support
- Tweety source code (in Java)
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