Roll your own Twitter with Prologue

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Roll your own Twitter with Prologue

by Jason Harris Jan 29th 2008

If you've used Twitter, you've probably wondered what it would take to have Twitter-like functionality either 1) on your own blog or website or 2) inside your own company or organization. If so, your wait is over.

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has released Prologue, a smart theme for WordPress weblogs that allows you to roll your own Twitter. As you can see on the screenshot above, Prologue is structures much like Twitter with a basic window to allow you to enter in some text, along with a submit button and an option to tag your submission.

Automattic has wisely included RSS feeds for many aspects of Prologue including RSS for specific authors, comments, tag, or the entire prologue itself.

To get going with Prologue, download the theme files and apply the theme in your WordPress instance. If your blog is hosted on WordPress.com, simply specify Prologue as your blog theme of choice in the "Presentation" section of your WordPress options.

Prologue is perfect for organizations who would like to have their own Twitter-like conversations or for individuals who want the same!

Tags: prologue, twitter, wordpress

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Todd said 9:35AM on 1-29-2008

Twitters value is in its neutrality - SMS from ANY phone, IM from ANY client, tweet from ANY browser. While this plug-in seems cool, and I am add it to my blog for its novelty, it is not and never will be a "Twitter killer".

FYI - anytime you see "________ killer" in your RSS you know its click bait. Thanks journalists desperate for clicks!

Daniel said 11:08AM on 2-15-2008

Not really keeping to its original intention, but Prologue’s clean, white, iPhone friendly creative inspired me to build a Jakarta bar listings & review site:

http://www.jakartabar.com/

Innovative use of various WP comments plugins allow users to not just submit their reviews, but also ratings, as well as rate the reviews of other users.

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