[Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:45:07PM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <Richard.Murnane at internode.on.net> flavor, containing:
> Hi all,
> 
> Perhaps a less contentious approach would be to write a separate app  
> that uses the Twitter and aprs.fi APIs to create tweets from the APRS  
> data.

The original post in question *was* a python script that used the APRS-IS
and Twitter interfaces to do the job.  It looked for messages from one callsign
and sent it to a single configured twitter account.  

It was possibly the most innocuous script I've ever seen, and could be run by
any individual who saw a point to running it.  The handful of people who
would do so would not bring down APRS, ham radio, or the Republic.

Personally, I think adding a general-purpose twitter gateway to Xastir
(similar to the general purpose email gateways that already exist) is a bad
idea.  The script provided was simple and would allow the few people who want
to do it a simple means.  A really motivated individual could beef up that
script and make it more robust.  But I see no real benefit to using Xastir
as the code to do it.

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