What's the best way to make a multi-user microblogging website? [closed]

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I've an idea of Twitter like website which I am implementing on my own. I'm new to web development so I don't know much about the available tools which can make the work faster. I tried many free twitter clones like status.net but so many changes had to be done in their scripts that I got back to coding the back-end on my own from scratch (using PHP). But are their better ways than coding (the back-end) from scratch?

Answer 1

You can try Elgg. It has a micro blogging plugin, user profile system and all the basic requirements for social networking. You can see an elgg demo of the default micro blogging plugin here

Drupal also is a good solution. But you have to customize it for the same result offered by Elgg out of box.

Answer 2

WordPress Network (formerly known as WordPress Multisite or MU or WPMU) could be an option, you should give it a try if you want many sites with the same back-end and still not 50 updates to do on 50 sites but only one. They won't "see" each other easily (other tutorial for installation).

Or P2 theme with its interface close to a microblogging site, if all users have to communicate.

If you want to code it in PHP, then a framework like Code Igniter is definitely a time-saver (and more).

Answer 3

you can use Drupal-7.1 for php and another thing is if you want use java you can use liferay-6.1 this is also better option...