Overview

Our Twitter integration is live today; it allows kachingle.com, each Medallion, and every Kachingler to tweet automatically.

Users need to link their Twitter accounts to their Kachingler account and Medallion(s).  Details below.

These principles guided our design and implementation:

  • tweet conservatively – e.g. at the beginning err on the side of fewer tweetable events rather than bombard Twitterville with automated tweets
  • use the Kachingler’s @twitterusername when available
  • integrate just enough to be interesting and give us a platform from which we can learn and get your input on how we should enhance the functionality
Kachingle’s Twitter Integration in one slide!

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The Kachingle Online Community Meeting on September 16, 2010 will be devoted to a discussion of our Twitter integration.

Twitter integration: Three different types of Twitter streams

KachingleCom Tweets @BunnyK9 Tweets

  • @kachinglecom – our own Twitter account for the website Kachingle.com
  • the Twitter account for any Medallion (but first must be turned on by the Medallion owner in the Manage section of “Sites I Own”)
    [Example: @bunnyk9]
  • the Twitter account for any Kachingler (but first must be turned on by the Kachingler in the Settings page)
    [Example: @typaldos]

@Typaldos Tweets

Quick overview showing these tweets all together: Twitter search on “kachingle“.

Note that each connection to Twitter can be done to a different Twitter account. For instance, a user who has both a Kachingler account and has two Medallions could connect each to a different Twitter account (e.g. 3 different Twitter accounts).

Twitter bird

@kachingle.com (two types of tweets):

  1. when a new Medallion is verified (e.g. when a new site or blog or application signs up for Kachingle)
  2. when a Kachingler turns on any Medallion (unless done anonymously)

Any Medallion (two types of tweets):

Note: Tweeting must be turned on by the Medallion owner in the Manage section of “Sites I Own”

  1. when a Kachingler turns on this Medallion to support it
  2. when this Medallion’s monthly payment is made (and the total amount of payments is equal or greater to $3.35 — the price of a grande iced latte at Starbucks in Silicon Valley, CA)

Any Kachingler (two types of tweets):

Note: Tweeting must turned on by the user in the settings page

  1. when this Kachingler turns on a Medallion to support it
  2. when this Kachingler’s monthly payment is distributed

Lots more information on the blog page titled Kachingle’s Twitter Implementation.