Create Your Own Twitter-like service with PHP and Laconica
In the last two years microblogging tools knew a great expansion, mainly Twitter service which turned quickly into a giant communication platform with only 140 characters. If you are interested to run your own Twitter-like platform for your company or your community, Laconica is a great open source communication platform which provides a similar service to Twitter, Jaiku and Plurk. Laconica is written in PHP and uses a set of PHP packages from PEAR in addition to other open source solutions such XMPPHP, PHP-OpenID, OAuth, Markdown, PECL Mailparse, in addition to the free open-source SQL full-text search engine Sphinx. Laconica support plugins and API. Their API is compatible with Twitter API which make it possible to use with any of the software already available for Twitter such Gwibber, Twhirl, Witty, … in addition to many online services including ping.fm, twitterfeed.
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Create Your Own Twitter-like service with PHP and Laconica
