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Welcome to the twitter-backend developer wiki!

This is an incubating project undertaken by @ohbus, inspired by @championswimmer's a discussion from here

Application is intended to be developed parallelly side by side to this discussion by Scaler

Summary

A twitter-like social media site where

• anyone can post 240-character texts.
• people can reply, like, or reshare the posts.
• Users can follow each other.
• The home feed shows posts from users that they follow.
• Users will be notified when someone likes their posts, replies, or reshares them and when someone follows them.
• Users and posts can be searched.

Future Scope

• Shifting to a microservices-based architecture
• OAuth2 based login and connection
• Email notifications service
• Report posts
• User's can send personal messages to each other
• Allow accounts to be private (only visible to followers)
• Turn on notifications for a particular user
• Bookmarking posts
• Topics
• Filtering keywords on hateful and abusive texts, eventually leading to permanent blocking
• Trending Section with certain hashtags and topics based on tweets
• Add caching support using Redis
• ( Feel free to add your own wishlist, the Wikis are publicly editable )