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Documentation for Twitter API using OAuth for C++

So i am upgrading our service to go to the new OAuth security measures. Using a single twitter account to send Direct Messages to users for an alert. I wrote up a quick app that retrieved the access token and secret using the Java library. But the kicker is that i need to send these messages via C++. and a Javascript file. (this is curre...

Finding Top Twitter Friends Using Python

What's the best way to find someone's top friends on twitter? I'm trying to figure out a way to see who they interact with the most, but I am not sure what the best way is of doing this. Also, there are obvious things to check (is the username following that person, etc etc). I imagine someone else has thought about this, so I am try...

Twitter API with urllib2 in python

I want to use the Twitter API in Python to lookup user ids from name using the lookup method. I have done similar requests simply using response = urllib2.urlopen('http://search.twitter.com...') but for this one I need authentication. I don't think I can do it through the Google python twitter API because it doesn't have the lookup ...

Skin Twitter HTML and CSS

I am building a twitter application and would like to use the structure of the their homepage. Can anyone suggest how to go about doing this, or point to a reference that does this? I do not intend to use any images that would be considered copyright, I just want to use the single column layout, with the side panel, header, footer. Tha...

how can create follow us login form without going twitter.

I have a site.and i have follow me button. I want to user follow me from my site login into mysite without going twitter.and follow me. Its like auto follower. Please help me. ...

Twitter @anywhere API problems in firefox only

I've implemented a simple example of the Twitter @anywhere api to display user hovercards. The example works great in Internet Explorer and Chrome. However, whenever I the page loads in Firefox I receive the following message in an alert window: To set up @anywhere, please provide a client ID Surely if the results are correct in ...

how to send tweet to non followers?

I have a site.and i want to tweet to non followers from my site without going to twitter site. how can do this. Please help me? ...

Which Ruby gem should I use for updating a Twitter or Facebook status along with authlogic_rpx?

Hi, My Rails webapp uses tardate's excellent authlogic_rpx gem so that users can register and sign in using their Twitter or Facebook account. Now I need to update a user Twitter or Facebook status. Which gem should I use for Twitter? and for Facebook? Or should I prefer Net::HTTP for both? Since the users authorised my app through au...

Why a wrong tweet id is returned from twitter API?

Hello. I use twitter API to retrieve the user home timeline tweets. I use json response format. Recently the tweet id (in API it is just 'id') are retuned wrong. As an example normally it should return like this: "id": 14057503720, (example is from twitter console) however at my request it is returned like this: "id": 1172601832 It ...

Windows Mobile 6 and twitter

hi, I'm trying to implement Twitter into a mobile game that I'm developing and having difficulty with using the available libraries. Could someone explain how I use a library such as nTwitter on the .net compact framework 3.5 and windows mobile 6 professional SDK Thanks in advance for any help Tom ...

How to convert Iphone:37.615319,-122.388293 In Twitter to real life location? Is there an API available?

HI, Does anyone know that how to convert IPHONE:37.615319,-122.388293 ( I am guessing that is the longitude and latitude of the location) in Twitter to real life location? Is there an API available ? Thanks very much, Ling ...

Is this application possible with the twitter api?

I have to make an application where a "sender" can send a message to a group of people and to a location. So when a member of the group reach this place (using location position with the cell phone), he receives all the messages for this location. I have thought to make the application using the twitter API, but I'm not really sure if th...

Check if twitter username exists

Is there a way to check if a twitter username exists? Without being authenticated with OAuth or the twitter basic authentication? ...

How do you set the twitter user location in JTwitter?

I'm building some basic Twitter functionality into my app, and am using the JTwitter JAR to read and set status. It looks like there is a User class that can be used to set the location, but I just can't figure out how to set it with my GPS coordinates once I've got my Twitter object. Has anyone been able to set the user.location prope...

Post "Hello World" to twitter from .NET application

My client would like me to use .NET to post to Twitter, and suggests that I use C#. Q: How do I post "Hello World" to twitter using C#? This post mentions a library called twitterizer. Isn't there a native way to do it without using a 3rd party library? (Maybe not since authentication is one of the requirements). ...

Tweets and RSS Feed for article

Hi, I am developing a blog site in asp.net 3.5 with C#. I have written few blog post in my site. Now, I want to give two icon below my article 1: "retweet" [Twitter], so that people can tweet my article 2: Subscribe RSS Feed for this article. Please let me know how to achieve it in the best way. Thanks in advance. ...

Twitter xAuth vs open source

Hi I am developing an open source desktop twitter client. I would like to take advantage on the new xAuth authentication method, however my app is open source which means that if I put the keys directly into the source file, it may be a vulnerability (am I correct? The twitter support guy told me). On the other hand, putting the key di...

How do I retrieve twitter xml for Flash site via php properly

Am I using TwitterScript to retrieve Twitter data for inside a Flash site. Due to Twitter's crossdomain policy, I need to setup a php proxy... Firstly I made a simple one <?php $url = $_GET['url']; readfile($url); ?> but I then get this error URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration which is only resolved by getting...

How do I alter the Epitwitter scripts to post to twitter from a web form?

Hello, I am trying to update my twitter status with php and outh using the Epitwitter scripts. The following is the textarea of the web form I created to allow me to update twitter. <textarea name="updatestatus" cols="50" rows="4" id="updatestatus"> </textarea> Do I change this line in my confirm.php script from $status = 'Testing ...

twitter in c# 2010

According to this page, there are sample Apps that show how to use TweetSharp. Said apps are to be in the "Demos" folder. I'm not seeing them. Q: Am I stupid? ...