Hello. I'd like to learn how to program my own Twitter bot from scratch. I'd like to start simple, maybe a bot that picks up a word and sends a response to anyone that says that certain word. Then, I'd like to be able to build a bot up that will automatically post things, maybe 2 times a day. Finally, I'd like to be able to build bots th...
Hi, I'm trying to get the number of subscribers to a specific Twitter users feed. I know that you can get the number of subscribers to a specific Twitter list, but haven't found anything on the Twitter users feed? Thank you for your answers! ...
I am new to OAuth and have been playing around with the Twitter API. I am able to fetch the credentials of an user after authentication by making a request to http://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.xml. The response contains the user id, screen name etc. but not the email ID. Is it possible at all to retrieve the email ID ...
Hi Guys Hope you are having a good time. I am creating a website where when users Tweet a wordpress blog entry then they get points on the websites. So basically, if a user Tweets that entry on his Twitter then we would give him some points to use on the website (not money). Although this thing is plausible with Facebook but not with T...
I have groups on my website, and would like users to follow groups, and groups to follow users. I was wondering how does the following/follower works, in terms setting out in a MySQL table and referencing users? I'm very confused!! ...
Hello All, I am creating an Android app that uses Twitter4J to read some user info. This was all working fine, but this evening when I start the app and the user logs on to Twitter I get an exception: Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance(twitterID,twitterPassword); u = twitter.verifyCredentials(); This throws t...
How does one use oauth in a FLOSS app where we can't keep a secret key? If other see the secret and the key, can't he use it to use the user account as if he where me? ...
I have an application that runs on a server, listens for various tweets using the streaming api, and then occasionally sends tweets out. This worked fine using the old twitter authentication system, but using OAuth has complicated things a bit. I can successfully start the application up and my browser opens Twitter's OAuth page. If I...
Hey guys Just a quick question, I'm currently working through a tutorial on making a Twitter client for iPhone, nothing special just trying to figure out a bit more about xcode before buying books etc to learn about it http://www.yousendit.com/download/UFVxQ3Q1TlFTSUJFQlE9PQ That is a link to my current file, it is saying that I have ...
Hi,i need to create my own twitter widget in my asp.net-c# website.How to get tweets from Twitter and Clear concern about the authorization properties. ...
A site I manage uses the my_twitter.php class simply to receive tweets from one certain account. As of a few hours ago this has stopped working, it displays a wrong username / password message while the credentials are correct. On various websites I am reading about API problems but I'm not sure if the my_twitter class needs to be repla...
I'm interested in adding to some of my sites the official Tweet button which Twitter have recently released. For those unaware, the tweet button is a simple bit of JS which you can drop in to a page and it allows your users to easily tweet about the page in question, much like the facebok "share" button. There are 3 different styles ...
Hello , Please forgive this question if its a bit dumb, but I am new to php and slightly lost. I am trying to write a little twitter client, where the user's timeline updates come from the Twitter Streaming API (it is not complete but for the sake of design it will do). The process would be: User signs up-> I add him to the list of u...
Since Twitter won't use basic authentication (login, password) anymore, I'm converting my app to using twitter with oauth authentication. In my code this was ok, but I also use Elmah to tweet the errors on a specific twitter account. But it seems Elmah only works with basic authentication. Is it true? Any workaround? Thanks ...
I was using basic auth to send tweets from a server every time a song changed. Now they have blocked basic auth and I am not sure how to incorporate it. I have a server at home that updates an html file on the webserver and then calls the following script to tweet out from that file. Any ideas on how to accomplish this simply? <?php /...
Assuming that you already have created an oauth client app in twitter, you can go to http://twitter.com/apps to manage them. When I viewed the source of the HTML pages, I see that they use a hidden form parameter called an authenticity token in their form definitions. <form method="post" id="sign_out_form" action="/sessions/destroy" sty...
Hello friends I am developing web based application in Java [GWT] I am facing problem with TwitterException. I used valid credential. Twitter twitter = new Twitter(myTwitterId, myTwiterPwd); when I call twitter.getFollowers() method I got following Error Message twitter4j.TwitterException: 401:Authentication credentials were missin...
Hi Just recently I stumble upon a strange url encoding problem. I'm trying to encode (using php urlencode) this test title: Quiz: Are The'se Com!!ments Ab_+=&out the 2001 iPod or 2010 iPad? and then submit it to twitter using following url (user clicks 'share this content' link on my website): http://www.twitter.com/home/?status=htt...
Using twitterauth to try to post status updates. This is my code (which returns a 403 error from twitter when I try to post it): $fact = "This is a status update. http://onth.is/iss" ; $parameters = array('status' => $fact); However, if I do this: $parameters = array('status' => "This is a status update. http://onth.is/iss"); It po...
I was wondering if you could change the text and link of the "sent via" information on each tweet? The default value is "sent via web" and then if you use 3rd party application is could say "sent via TweetDeck", etc. But I know that this can be set and changed but I don't know how? Thanks! ...