All Elgg.com networks come with the ability to connect to Twitter. As a network admin you can let new users sign in and create an account using their Twitter credentials and let existing users sync their elgg.com network account to their Twitter account, if they would prefer to use Twitter for login.
It is also possible for users to pull their tweets into Elgg’s conversation tool (our version of microblogging). This can be all tweets or only those containing a specific hashtag. For example, you might be a member of a physics research network and only want your tweets that contain the hashtag #physics to be pulled in and displayed to other members of the network.
You can also push content out from Elgg’s conversation tool to your twitter account. This is useful if you are participating within a niche network but also want to keep your wider network of followers on Twitter informed.
Elgg also makes use of Twitter’s ‘hovercard’ feature, so it’s easy to find out more about users who come in via Twitter by hovering over their username when it is displayed in a conversation.
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