Max De Marzi

We are getting close to wrapping up the back-end API for our Twitter clone, so thank you for sticking with this awfully long series since the beginning. One of the big community features of Twitter is the Trending Hashtags. It lets users know what is being talked about even if the people a user follows aren’t talking about it. It’s kind of weird in that way since part of the point of Twitter is following just a few hundred or thousand people to reduce the noise, and here we are bringing noise back in to our feed. Regardless, this is actually pretty easy to implement, so let’s have a crack at it.
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In part four, we continued cloning Twitter by adding hashtag and mentions functionality. Then we went beyond it by adding the ability to edit a post. So we have a social network where people can follow each other and post stuff. Today we’re adding the ability to say a user likes a post, reposts a post and the most important query of all, being finally able to see our feed or timeline.
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