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Updated! This post is now old and out-of-date, I’ve updated the sourcecode and it can be seen at my-implementation-of-a-twitter-clone-in-django-take-2

This is my first ever django app so any feedback would be greatly appreciated.  I worked on something simple like this so I can learn the ins and outs of django nice and quickly while still producing something that is of some use in the actual site itself.

As athe.la will be very community-based, I thought it would only be appropriate to have my own kind of twitter so people can post their thoughts and reply to each other.

Further Reading:
A simple ‘Twitter’ clone in Django
s-o-l sourcecode

Specifications

• On the homepage people can see the posts written by their friends (including their own).
• Another page should allow the user to see posts written by their friends’ friends.
• Friendships are one-way. [a] can be a friend of [b] but the vice-versa isn’t necessary.
• Posts will have a required content and an optional title.
• People can reply to posts. (The posts are called Chirps, the replies Whistles)
• These whistles are not themselves chirps and are only seen when the chirp is viewed in detail.

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