Automattic built the wonderful Prologue theme for WordPress which turns it into a private Twitter. Coming soon is Prologue Projects, a powerful yet lightweight project-management/monitoring version of the Prologue theme. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could use existing Twitter-tools on a system using one of these themes? Let’s do that.

It seems like it wouldn’t really be all that big of a task to write a layer (implemented as a plugin and/or theme) for WordPress which walked and talked like the Twitter API, but on the backend, interfaced with WordPress. Then you’d just point your Twitter tools (which support specifying a different URL) to your WordPress install and you’re off and running. I could see it supporting the core functionality relatively easily:

• Public Timeline
• Friends Timeline (if you added the concept of friends, not that hard)
• User Timeline
• Show
• Update
• Replies — perhaps showing comments?
• Update

And what about the Search API? No problem. WordPress has a search system (although it could use some work). In fact most of this functionality would be easily achieved through a custom theme with a little bit of intelligence baked in so that it could output its data in different formats (JSON, Atom, etc) and intercept requests at certain URLs.

The big question is – what’s the point? Well… I dunno… it’d be kinda cool? Apart from being cool – this could also be a very powerful internal business tool, we’ll see where it all goes.