Madrox

Distributed Twitter implementation built on Git using content-less commits as tweets.

Madrox needs an existing repository with at a single initial commit. "Tweets" are simply commits in a user-specific branch. Use git to push/pull these branches with remote git repositories. Create custom timelines by merging them locally.

$ cd madrox-sample
$ git init
$ touch README
$ git add README
$ git commit -m "initial"

$ madrox rick --email=rick@whatever.com --msg="Hi"
@rick: Hi
8578cec211388123e071eccb1fda2024a44ac4c5

$ madrox bob --email=bob@whatever.com --msg="@rick: sup?"
@bob: @rick: sup?
002e1e01517ef2e5486b696814146d5cca4c07a2

$ madrox rick --email=rick@whatever.com --msg="@bob: nada"
@rick: @bob: nada
178f84a58ab1878d1a995ba9ce16ad11e5e58808

$ git branch
  bob
* master
  rick

# Create a new branch
$ git checkout -b timeline
$ git merge rick
$ git merge bob

$ madrox rick
@rick: @bob: nada
@rick: Hi

$ madrox timeline
@rick: @bob: nada
@bob: @rick: sup?
@rick: Hi

TODO

• Twitter pushing support
• Git Notes for Twitter (or other) metadata.
• Better importing.

Requirements

gem install grit