In Chapter 9, Twitter and Drupal, we integrated the popular social networking application Twitter with our Drupal site using multiple contributed modules. This allows us to post our Drupal nodes and content out to Twitter using our Drupal site as a web service; and also taking our Twitter content and automatically consuming that content into our Drupal site.
To follow along with the examples in this chapter, you need to sign up for a Twitter account at: http://twitter.com/.
Project page and URL: http://drupal.org/project/twitter
Maintainers: eaton, walkah
Usage statistics: http://drupal.org/project/usage/twitter
Drupal modules page: http://drupalmodules.com/module/twitter
Current version: 6.x-2.6
The Tweet module also allows for posting Drupal content to your Twitter account.
Project page and URL: http://drupal.org/project/tweet
Maintainers: IceCreamYou
Usage statistics: http://drupal.org/project/usage/tweet
Drupal modules page: http://drupalmodules.com/module/tweet
Current version: 6.x-4.0
In order to use shortened URLs with the Tweet module and format your URLs specifically to your liking, you'll also want to install and enable the Shorten URLs and Short URL modules.
Project page and URL: http://drupal.org/project/shorten
Maintainers: IceCreamYou
Usage statistics: http://drupal.org/project/usage/shorten
Drupal modules page: http://drupalmodules.com/module/shorten-urls
Current version: 6.x-1.9
Project page and URL: http://drupal.org/project/shorturl
Usage statistics: http://drupal.org/project/usage/shorturl
Drupal modules page: http://drupalmodules.com/module/short-url
Current version: 6.x-1.2