[TriLUG] Twitter-like microblogging?

[Robert Dale]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Reginald Reed <reginald.reed at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have a suggestion for an open source microblogging tool or
>  set of tools that can be deployed on a local network?  I'd love to be
>  able to implement this type of communication between a few teams.  I'd
>  use Twitter if it weren't for intellectual property issues.

You could certainly write one.  I use ROME Propono[1] to republish
news into Apache Roller[2] from a PHPNews database.
It's about 10 LoC to connect, create an entry, and save it.

[1] https://rome.dev.java.net/
[2] http://rollerweblogger.org

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Robert Dale