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Twitter O-Auth Callback url

I am having a problem with Twitter's oauth authentication and using a callback url. I am coding in php and using the sample code referenced by the twitter wiki, http://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth I got that code, and tried a simple test and it worked nicely. However I want to programatically specify the callback url, and the examp...

Access Twitter or Facebook API from Java ME app?

I'm developing a Java ME app and I want to give it social features. Is it possible to connect to Facebook or Twitter directly from the app, without an intermediate server? ...

PHP get date as Unix Epoch time

I just got some tweets using their XML feed, and have gotten the date/times like so Tue Sep 29 22:30:51 +0000 2009 I tried using strtotime() on this, but it wasn't producing the correct results. I later on use echo date($dateTimeFormat, $twitterUnixTime); I know I could use a regex, but from the looks of it it will be complica...

Duplicate Insertions in Database using sqlite, sqlalchemy, python

I am learning Python and, through the help of online resources and people on this site, am getting the hang of it. In this first script of mine, in which I'm parsing Twitter RSS feed entries and inserting the results into a database, there is one remaining problem that I cannot fix. Namely, duplicate entries are being inserted into one o...

Twitter feedback widget for web pages?

For a web app I want to write/obtain an embeddable widget that will show visitors all the recent tweets with #myproduct. I'd like an input box where users could give their feedback, hit submit, then be taken to twitter.com where they would see a prepared message their feedback + "#myproduct", ready for them to hit 'send' to send the twe...

Social Login class in Php mysql using Social Api (facebook connect,yahoo, etc)

hello frnds I want to create a login class which will allow user to login with my site login details or any 3rd party Social Networking sites like Facebook connect ,google friend,twitter oauth,open id,yahoo. how to start with it i dont want to use rpx. ...

Displaying Twitter stream on webpage?

I want to display a twitter feed of a user on my website. What is the simplest way to do this? I guess Javascript. What I want specifically is for the last 5 tweets to load & then, when another tweet is made, for that to automatically appear at the top of the Tweets. It needs to cover pretty much the whole website, apart from the hea...

Django and python-twitter error

Hi guys, im trying to send my title post to twitter, in my local machine is working great!!!, but in remote i have this error from the snippet file: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Api' im Using python-twitter and this snippet, i dont know why the error, i tested the python-twitter with commands like import twitter a...

Filtering and routing twitter messages

I normally use twitter both as a communication chat and as a short blog service. On my wordpress blog, I import the twitter messages timeline from one twitter account (specific for the blog-visible messages). For communication and chatting, I use another twitter account. Having two account is a solution, but my geeky nature would prefer...

Twitter API - Validating Twitter is actually Twitter

I've been looking around at various APIs, and since twitter seems to be a common discussion point, I'll use it as an example. A lot of APIs are implementing oAuth which is great for allowing the service to authenicate and authorize the application connecting to it, however, from what I have seen there doesnt seem to be a way for the ap...

Recommended method to download tweets based on search terms and store

I would like to download tweets based on certain search terms. I'm aware of HTTP GET and such techniques, but I'm not sure the best way to create a simple executable that downloads the tweets and saves them for subsequent analysis. Any ideas? I'm a basic programmer - if you say "use curl" I know roughly what you mean but not how to set...

Identifying twitter user's longitude and latitude

As per my requirement in need to search twitter and display user's location on map. Can anyone help me identifying longitude and latitude from search api result? ...

How to use MGTwiiterEngine in iphone view Based Application ?

I required to develop a Tweeter Application for iphone. I was trying to use MGTwitterEngine in my iphone app but can’t figure out how to put it together with my iphone View-based Application. If anyone has done it and willing to share info or a demo version implementing MGtwitterEngine in their Iphone app. I would appreciate it. I have g...

Twitter Api for .NETApplications

Can any one suggest me to best C# twitter api for developing application with twitter api?. I want all the advance functionality of twitter in my application. ...

{"<user xmlns=''> was not expected.} Deserializing Twitter XML

So im pulling in the XML from Twitter via OAuth So Im doing a request to http://twitter.com/account/verify%5Fcredentials.xml Which returns the following XML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <user> <id>16434938</id> <name>Lloyd Sparkes</name> <screen_name>lloydsparkes</screen_name> <location>Hockley, Essex, UK</location>...

how twitter passes query variables?

I notice that when I browse pages in Twitter. Instead of having some like twitter.com/home.php?var1=2&asjfaj...etc. (the most common way), the link is just Twitter.com/#home or twitter.com/inbox or twitter.com/followers. my guess is, they use sessions variables to pass information across pages/ links. is it a good way to do it? w...

For Wordpress, Is there a Twitter plugin shows twitter updates from people I follow?

Hi, does anybody know if there is a Wordpress plugin that allows me to show Twitter updates from people I follow? If someone knows about it, please share with me. Thanks in advance. ...

Should I use the Twitter API or just the RSS Feed?

Hey guys, simple query Company I work for has set up a twitter handle, and on our website we're just gonna display like, the last 2 tweets. As we're only displaying, is there any advantage of using the API over just the RSS Feed from our profile page? I know the API has a number of calls restriction...does the RSS Feed? Cool, cheers ...

LINQ to Twitter library comparisons

What LINQ providers exist for Twitter and how do they compare? Are there any that let you query tweets, following, and followers in addition to publishing tweets? What about relational support? e.g. from user in my-followers where user.name.contains("drew") and user.followers.count > 10 from tweet in user.tweets where tweet.message.leng...

OAuth for Internal Twitter Feeds

Still trying to wrap my noggin around OAuth, but I have a question. I have some twitter accounts that are solely for internal use, build server output, etc. and I have some little bash and python scripts that let me publish updates from jobs and stuff. For this type of use case, does OAuth make sense? I ask because part of the OAuth pr...