740742 - Add 'Follow' menu item in Twitter view context menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Chat Core :: Twitter, defect)

Description

[Jb Piacentino]

It is not currently not obvious to add a new followed person in Tiwtter (add contact does not sound exactly right in Twitter). 

One way of making it easier could be to add a 'Follow xxx' to the Tweet context menu if the user right clicks on a @xxxx.

Comment 1

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

I think the most important use case for this is to follow the original author of an RT tweet. Maybe this specific case would be easier to implement.

Comment 2

[Tetsuharu OHZEKI [:tetsuharu] (UTC+9)]

I seem that this function has been implemented already.
http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/chat/protocols/twitter/twitter.js#88

"Follow" menu may appears when user click non-follow other user's tweet (e.g. RT).
However, current implementation treats a RTed tweet as the tweet of user who retweeted it. (Current implementation does not treat a RTed tweet as original user's tweet).

Comment 3

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

So to clarify:
- we already have a "Follow <username>" context menu items on tweets.
- This doesn't help for following someone who is mentioned in an @<username> mention, and it's this case that Jb wanted us to improve (I know because this bug was filed as a follow up to a discussion I had with him over the phone).
- Adding a protocol-specific context-aware menu item is difficult, but I think we can relatively easily handle the case where this would be the most useful: in the context menu of an RT tweet (rather than in the context menu of @ mentions).

Comment 4

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Just for the record (if someone is really annoyed by this), you can type "FOLLOW @<foo>" and Twitter won't tweet that and will follow that user (as if it's a text message).

Comment 5

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Bug 1445778 removes support for Twitter due to changes in their streaming API.