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Twitter - Get users live tweets on my website instantly

Hello guys, I was checking out the stocktwits.com website. While signing up I provided them with my twitter username. Now whenever I tweet and if my tweet contains $ and a stock ticker symbol - it instantly appears on Stocktwits.com I am interested in implementing something similar in my website. Just wanted an understanding of how thi...

How to display twitter home_timeline with Oauth?

twitter API functions list please. I want to display twitter home_time using twitter tokens Eg: get_accountVerify_credentials(); ...

Twitter API - Display all tweets with a certain hashtag?

Hi, How would I go about displaying tweets that contain a certain hashtag using the Twitter API? Thanks ...

Customising Tweets

I have some PHP creating automatic Twitter updates, which in the small print at the bottom reads "[date/n minutes ago] via API". Is it possible to somehow change the "via API" part to something more useful and descriptive? ...

Twitter Oauth home timeline display with php

$hometime= $Twitter->get_statusesHome_timeline(); Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'SimpleXMLElement::__construct() expects parameter 1 to be string <?php include 'EpiCurl.php'; include 'EpiOAuth.php'; include 'EpiTwitter.php'; include 'key.php'; $Twitter = new EpiTwitter...

Twitter4j: How to check twitter account exists or not after getting the credentials from an User?

I am creating an application which requires twitter account , after I get credentials from an user , I want to check if that account exists or not. How can I do this with twitter4j ??? Note: I am using Google appengine ...

1-letter names for variables and functions in jQuery, JavaScript

Hi there, I was looking at Twitter's static scripts and noticed that all variables and functions where just 1 character long, why and how do they do this? Has it something to do with performance? If so, why don't they give all elements on their website these kind of short names, maybe 2 characters long instead of 1 to avoid any collisio...

How do I authenticate a Twitter user and access the API without leaving my iPhone app?

I'd like to allow users to send out Tweets from my iPhone app. That's all the functionality I need at the moment. From what I know of the Twitter API, there's a standard authentication mechanism, which allows the developer to include the user's name and password in the request string that the application sends to Twitter. This method w...

Twitter Client using JavaScript and Oauth

Is there any good tutorial or example to build a Twitter client using popup and oauth for login (Ex: http://twitgoo.com/) Also once the user logs in, the new tweets showed without any page refresh and also the ability to post a tweet without page refresh. If there is no good example, please suggest the API or libraries i need or a...

Using oauth with wordpress

I am creating a twitter plugin for wordpress and I was told that when using oauth you can't really make the plugin act natively because each time the user installs the plugin they have to add their own twitter api credentials because of the callback url. Is this correct? Or is there a workaround for this? Thanks for your help in advan...

Using Twitter OAuth for automatic status update

I want my website to automatically post status updates to a particular twitter account using OAuth in PHP. I test this using a URL www.mysite.com/update_status but it asks me for "user name" and "password", which is fine when I am testing it. But my website will not be able to insert this user name and password before posting the stat...

Android connecting to Twitter

I'm learning Android and I'm trying to connect to Twitter and upload a photo in Android. How can I do this? ...

Twitter Search API is returning weird characters - is it me or is it them?

We are building an app that accesses the Twitter search over JSONP. It mostly works fine, but occasionally the request returns a JSONP callback that consists of weird unparseable characters. Here is an example: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?result_type=recent&amp;rpp=100&amp;geocode=51.4375857,-0.1658648,1km&amp;page=5&amp;call...

Twitter API count parameter

I've got a feeling this is going to be something really simple, but anyway. I've got some code that pulls in my latest Twitter statuses - it's pretty much the standard code everyone is using. However, even though the URL I'm using has the count parameter added...it's not limiting the request to 5 statuses. The code works, well, in so muc...

Flash/Actionscript - How can I post a tweet from a swf (without using a server-side proxy such as Tweetr)?

How can I post a tweet directly to twitter without needing to use a server-side proxy script (ie, tweetr)? Can a twitter API call be made directly from a swf? ...

Update twitter profile image using OAuth

I'm trying to get twitter update_profile_image to work using OAuth. I was using curl with regular authentication and everything was working fine, but I switched to OAuth using this library, and now everything except update_profile_image works. I read something about twitter OAuth having problems with multipart data, but that was a whil...

relational databases and multicast messages

I have read that relational databases are a terrible way to do multicast messages like twitter. So twitter saves every tweet only one times and then retrieve its in every stream ? or saves every tweet in every users's stream ? I want to know why relational database ( like mysql or postgresql ) doesn't good for twitter-like application....

open source twitter?

Hello everyone, I want to add twitter like function to my site, like t.mysite.com. Any open source, stable and easy to setup/use twitter software? thanks in advance, George ...

twitter like tweet update notification in asp.net

we are adding new functionality in our application where in there would be some users posting short comments and on the other side there would be some users monitoring the activity or comments posted by the other users within the same application. my question is, what is the best way of implementing the notification of new comment availa...

Difference between Facebook and Twitter APIs

Hello, I am looking for any kind information that shows the difference between Facebook and Twitter APIs. (IE what you can retrieve via API, privacy difference etc) for my graduation thesis as a starting point. I will be grateful if you point out any source of information. ...