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Twitter client with JQuery not working in Firefox

Hey guys, I've got a little script that fetches my latest tweets... I use JQuery's getJSON method to fetch my tweets. The script works well with Chrome and Safari but when it comes to Firefox, nothing appears! here's the code: $.getJSON('http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=lpdahito&count=3&callback...

How to show only last tweet of mine using PHP?

How to show only last tweet of mine using PHP, without javascript? I want to show my own last tweet on a web page. in this output <p>Add a comment to your closing DIV tag – it could save you hours <a>http://ping.fm/venna&lt;/a&gt; <span>8:25 AM Apr 15th</span> </p> ...

twitter API - web application

How can i use twitter API for my web application? ...

Code to Display Stacked Button

have the tweetmeme button on my site (http://SweatingTheBigStuff.com) and I want to add a facebook button BELOW it. Right now the tweetmeme settings show: float: right; margin-left: 10px; What's the best Facebook plugin for this and what settings do I need? I think the Simple Facebook Share Button should be good but I'm not sure the...

Twitter Authentication on Android question

I am consuming Twitter's REST APIs on Android to get a user's status timeline and for updating a user status. I am using Apache's HTTPClient class for this that is bundled with Android SDK. The user enters his/her credentials and I am saving it in String variables. Everytime I need to invoke an API that require authentication, I pass th...

Curl, twitter oauth problem

Does anyone see a problem with the following Curl call / how the Oauth request is built? (i am trying to get a correctly setup request so i can finish my app) So i am calling the following CURL call: C:\>curl -v -k --data-urlencode "status=Testing2" -H "Authorization: OAuth realm='', oauth_nonce=1276107867blah, oauth_timestamp=1276107...

What's the shebang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?

EDIT [10/15]: added an example from the new Twitter too to make this question easier to search for. I've just noticed that the long, convoluted Facebook URLs that we're used to now look like this: http://www.facebook.com/example.profile#!/pages/Another-Page/123456789012345 As far as I can recall, earlier this year it was just a normal...

reading Twitter API with JSON framework

Hi, I'm building a twitter reader into an app. I'm using the JSON framework library from Stig Brautaset (v2.2.2) to parse the twitter API. I'm seeing some odd results on certain messages. I know that the Twitter API returns results in UTF8 format. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong when reading the JSON parsed fields. My code i...

Twitter OAuth question

Hi there, I'm making a Twitter client in Java, and I've came to a problem I don't know how to solve it. How the hell I store open auth for twitter? I mean it doesn't make very sense for a person to allow an application every time he wants to use the client. I've been look at the Twitter documentation, but I must say, it's really poor in...

How to get the trending topics of twitter with php?

Can you give me a php script who return the firts 3 trending topic of twitter? thanks ...

jQuery plugin to post updates on Twitter?

Is there a plugin for jQuery to post a update on Twitter that uses Twitter OAuth? And if possible I would like a Hello World example. ...

Upload picture to twitter from iPhone

Is it possible to programmatically upload a picture to twitter from iPhone? Can this be done through twitter directly, or do I need to use a third-party service like Twitpic? ...

RSS Feed to Twitpic

I'm curious to what is required to translate an xml feed of images to TwitPic. Is it possible? Can it be done with Ruby on Rails? Is it against TwitPic's Terms of Service? What is the best method of getting pictures on twitter automatically? (Established services like TwitPic, yFrog, etc are preferred because most twitter apps display th...

can't get the twitter status updates from jQuery

why is the code below showing 'got the result null' alertbox ? while the request seems to be sending a proper json. $(function(){ $.getJSON('http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=twitterusername', function(data) { alert('got the result '+data); }); }); ...

Twitter json output

$(function(){ $.ajax({ url:'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=user_name&amp;callback=?', //dataType:'json', success:function(data){$('body').append('the data is' +data);} }); }); the above code with dataType line prints ou...

Track unicode words from Twitter using Ruby and the Tweetstream API

I am trying to track a set of keywords from Twitter by using the Streaming API (can't post the link here because of spam limitations: google twitter streaming API). I am doing this inside Ruby, using the TweetStream gem: http://bit.ly/cODAWI The problem I have is that I want to track keywords that contain some unicode/UTF-8 character...

Twitter timeline with PHP?

I want to do something very simple, but it seems the way of doing this simple task is impossible. I need to pull my twitter home timeline. NOT all my recent tweets, but the tweets of the people I follow. I'm hoping this can be done with PHP, but I have no idea. Any help is appreciated, and please, talk to me like I'm a noob - be thorough...

Twitter authentication without authorization

I wish to get the tweeter usename of a visitor to my site. I do not wish to post statuses or access any other information. I'd be happy to use OAuth, possibly with a 'Sign in with Twitter' button, but this then takes the user to a page which requests authorization for the application, that I wish to avoid. Is there a way to get the ...

HTML Character Identities in Twitter

I'm developing a twitter app, and when I submit a new tweet from php with abrahams twitteroauth and with any special character it submits it to twitter as the HTML identity. I've tried all the html_entity_decode() and the htmlspecialchars_decode() but nothings working. Thank you :) edit: heres some code as by request (after logging in w...

Twitter and Facebook on iPhone - save sessions across app launches?

Hi I am using OAuth for twitter and fb-connect for facebook authentication in my iPhone app. Is it possible to save the user sessions across app launches? i.e. if the user logs in once, the next time they launch the app, we log them in automatically from some state saved the last time the app closed? For Twitter would it work if I ju...