twitter

best method of making a tweet-this button?

It looks like there's lots of different sites/methods for doing this, is there an official twitter share button? like for facebook there's http://developers.facebook.com/tools.php?connect_wizard&wizard=stream_publish , which looks excellent ...

JavaScript OAuth sign in with Twitter

Hi, I have to integrate Sign-in-with Twitter in my app as below. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter It is browser based app developed in JavaScript I have been refering google code java script OAuth, but im confused how to use oauth/authenticate and how to get the oauth_token Can any one please help me out with some sample...

Ruby on Rails , functionalities having twitter authentication and email authentication (autlogic and 'oath)

Hi Experts, I would like to ask your guidance on how to authenticate using email add/ the basic log-in while having also a twitter log-in, twitter authentication works fine but if having an alternative log-in like using basic sign-up and email log-in part wont work.... any ideas please...? ...

MySQL UTC Date format

I am pulling data from Twitter's API and the return date is UTC in the following form: Sat Jan 24 22:14:29 +0000 2009 Can MySQL handle this format specifically or do I need to transform it? I am pulling the data using Python. ...

Twitter search API VS Operators

I've found this page about the Twitter search API and some operators : http://search.twitter.com/operators But is it possible to make a search like : All posts containing the words "ipod OR ipad" AND all posts containing the words "funny OR joke" in just one query ? Like : "happy AND hour" OR "ipod AND ipad" (in the same query) In a s...

Twitter Favorites and more than 20

Im using curl to fetch my Twitter favorites: <?php $username = "bob"; $password = "password"; $twitterHost = "http://twitter.com/favorites.xml"; $curl; $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC); curl_setopt($curl, CU...

Curl loop to fetch multiple pages

I'm trying to fetch all the 'favorited' tweets made by myself. Firstly the API only returns the last 20 favorited tweets via this URL: http://twitter.com/favorites.xml (Must be authenticated to view) I can use a URL like this, to fetch a different page: http://twitter.com/favorites.xml?page=2 Im using this code to work out the num...

How to crawl retweets of a certain user?

I studied the Twitter API Documentation today. Only find that we could use "Twitter REST API Method: statuses user_timeline" to acquire statuses of a certain user. Retweets are stripped out of the user_timeline for backwards compatibility reasons. If I want retweets included, API Documentation recommend "statuses retweeted_by_me", but re...

Selecting and inserting text at cursor location in textfield with JS/jQuery

Hello. I have developed a system in PHP which processes #hashtags like on Twitter. Now I'm trying to build a system that will suggest tags as I type. When a user starts writing a tag, a drop-down list should appear beneath the textarea with other tags that begin with the same string. Right now, I have it working where if a user types t...

Re-tweets and replies with JTwitter

I have not used Twitter enough to become familiar with its terminology or the way it works, so please help me in understanding the problem I have at hand. I am getting last 20 status updates posted by some Twitter user via RSS feed, the feed XML is parsed and the statuses are displayed in a ListView. Which means that I have the original...

iPhone Twitter Get UserId

Hi, I am looking for a way to get a twitter users userid via their username. For example take http://twitter.com/AlySSa_miLAno (yes I know her twitter page off by heart lol) on the right hand side of the page is a link to her RSS feed: feed://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/26642006.rss In this context Alyssa's userid would be 2664...

Android Twitter Application Development and Usage of TextView and Linkify

I'm on developing a twitter kind of Application where in I want that the user would be displayed the timelines and the Textview in the Lists require to perform clicks on (http://)URLs, (@)usernames, and (#)hasTags and I want to invoke custom methods over these actions, I have used the Linkify class and the actions but where of no use bec...

Realtime Twitter Replies?

I have created Twitter bots for many geographic locations. I want to allow users to @-reply to the Twitter bot with commands and then have the bot respond with the results. I would like to have the bot reply to the user as quickly as possible (realtime). Apparently, Twitter used to have an XMPP/Jabber interface that would provide this t...

twitter API problem

I am using this to get my latest Tweets <script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js" ></script> <script type="text/javascript"src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.json?callback=twitterCallback2&amp;amp;count=2"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; so i have to get the latest 2 tweets cause i set t...

Sample twitter application.

<?php function updateTwitter($status) { // Twitter login information $username = 'xxxxx'; $password = 'xxxxxx'; // The url of the update function $url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml'; // Arguments we are posting to Twitter $postargs = 'status='.urlencode($status); // Will store the respo...

sudo port install cmake trouble (for MGTwitterEngine)

I am following This Tutorial on installing MGTwitterEngine on my MAC osx 10.6.2. I am stuck on this step: sudo port install cmake it gives me the following error: dlopen(/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib, 10): no suitable image found. Did find: /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib: no matchi...

rubygem Twitter4R Issues

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get started with twitter4r but I'm having some issues: Why I can't load the gem in IRB? $ sudo gem install twitter4r Successfully installed twitter4r-0.3.2 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for twitter4r-0.3.2... Installing RDoc documentation for twitter4r-0.3.2... $ irb >> require 'rubygems' => f...

Create a new delegate class for each asynchronous image download?

First, I'm using an NSURLConnection to download JSON data from twitter. Then, I'm using a second NSURLConnection to download corresponding user avatar images (the urls to the images are parsed from the first data download). For the first data connection, I have my TwitterViewController set as the NSURLConnection delegate. I've created a...

How to see if a user is following you on Twitter using C# Twitter API wrapper Tweetsharp

I see there is a API call for Frienships/Show, but I am not sure how to parse the response to get the true/false. Here is my code so far: var twitter = FluentTwitter.CreateRequest() .AuthenticateAs(_userName, _password) .Friendships().Verify(_userNameToCheck) .AsJson(); ...

How to do a RETWEET on an iPhone twitter app (MGTwitterEngine)

How to do a RETWEET on an iPhone twitter app (MGTwitterEngine) ...