New Gateways: Twitter and Google Talk via Google Apps

Two new gateways! Well, one new and one upgraded.

• Twitter. Every once in awhile, someone asks about Twitter integration. We tried this before with a gateway that worked via direct messages, but it proved too cumbersome in practice as direct messages require reciprocal following. The new one released today works on mentions (@username messages). The setup is like any other LibraryH3lp gateway.
  
  Your librarians can identify these messages when they arrive because they'll start with @username. Librarians can simply reply to these; they do not need to start the message with @ since the gateway will take care of this. The next version of the librarian's webchat client will provide a character countdown for twitter messages.

• Second, Google Apps. Google Talk for Google Apps users works with our standard Google Talk gateway now. For your username, use your full address. Example: my.name@myschool.edu. The gateway will take care of the rest.

All code available on github.

Enjoy!