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Show Mini-Blogs From Me and Friends Only

I'm trying to make an MySQL query that will display mini-blogs from Me and My friends. Just like Twitter. Here are my tables; --members m_id INT m_user VARCHAR (rest are other member info) --shouts s_id INT s_userid INT s_content TEXT s_posted DATETIME --friends f_userid INT f_friendid INT f_status INT // 0=pending, 1=approved f_crea...

Java/Grails library for Twitter: JTwitter, Twitter4J or Grails plugin?

I'm looking to integrate a new app (to be built, probably in Grails) with Twitter and found there are (at least) 3 libraries to use. JTwitter, Twitter4J and a Grails plugin. Any opinions on the pros and cons of each are appreciated. I'll mark this as a community wiki as there's no single answer expected. ...

scalable layout for storing and displaying user uploaded images

I am trying to figure out the best way to layout my directory structure so that I can store images from multiple users in a way that would be scalable when used in combination with a database. The database will store the absolute path to each image. So lets assume I was dealing with users' profile images each of which would have thumbn...

Twitter - automatic aggregation of replies to an account - OAuth problem

We have a company twitter account. We have 6 members. I wanted the 6 members to be able to tweet from their accounts and we aggregate it and show it at our site if the tweet is about the company (it basically shows "Whats happening"). I created a company twitter account, and members will reply to the company twitter account, when its a ...

Using oAuth to retrieve tweets of a particular ID (equivalent to a page in facebook)

I need to know as to how to implement oAuth in an iphone application. I have already gone through lot many posts but none of them shows as to How to retrieve tweets from a user profile (like we access facebook wallposts). I tried using an example named bengottlieb/Twitter-OAuth-iPhone but all it does is show the Login prompt and posts a...

Epi Twitter - reading oauth token later in ajax call?

hi, i have logged a user into the app on the site and retrieved their details using EpiTwitter/Twtitter-Async. I then want to process these and others through an ajax call and post a new tweet on success. Specificially, my problem lies with reusing the cookie, i see they are gettting set but i cannot see how to reuse them in later pages...

jQuery Twitter like ticker. How To?

Hi, I have a working ticker, but I want the text to fade out to the left and right just like on the twitter wellcome page. any ideas how to realise that? ...

MGTwitterEngine - isUser:receivingUpdatesFor: always return HTTP error 400?

I have some problem to implement the method isUser:receivingUpdatesFor: from the MGTwitterEngine in order to check if a user is following another user on Twitter. Here is my code : //Here is how I call the method (isRequestIdentifier is an NSString declare in the .h) isRequestIdentifier = [[twitterEngine isUser:user1 receivingUpdatesFor...

Getting followers from Twitter API via json results nothing in jQuery

Hey I'm trying to include list of my followers on my site. Here's my code: $.getJSON('http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.json?screen_name=username',function(data){ alert(data); }); However, nothing happens. No errors, other js still works, just this doesn't work. What is wrong? Martti Laine Ps. I'm using jQuery for this, as ...

the right way to add twitter

What is the best and efficient way to add twitter to a website? There are some scripts in the web with iframes and others don't have a caching/streaming solution (what if twitter is temp. down...). So how should I add tweets to my website the right way? By the way I just need the last x tweets and the "x minutes ago" (I want to make a cu...

Need help with basic Twitter implementation in PHP

Hello all, I once had a decent implementation of my Twitter feed on my website but apparently Twitter's authentication has changed and all my functionality is broken. All I need to do is retrieve my timeline, including tweets and retweets - nothing fancy, not an app, nothing. I'm having a terribly hard time finding any resources to he...

Install twitter gem on windows7

Trying to setup a windows development machine for a Rails project that has a dependency on the twitter gem. I get an error when I try and do gem install twitter. It needs to build native extensions and using --platform=mswin32 didn't work like for other GEMs Using ubuntu is really not an option. I need the computer I am using for too...

Twitter iPhone- is it possible to post on twitter using iphone app without providing pin number.

hello all, i am using oAuth method for login to twitter in iPhone application... it need two steps to allow me to post. first is username and password authentication after validating it, twitter provides pin number to authorize... then i copy or memorize and send to twitter for authorize me to post for each and every time i login to twi...

How to integrate twitter into iphone application using oauth

I have integrated PlainOauth from the source http://github.com/jaanus/PlainOAuth in my application. It is not working for me. it is giving the message Status posted. HTTP result code: 401 When posting the posts to the twitter. Do any one have faced this problem before. can any one suggest me how to resolve this? ...

What is the API that posts to all social networks

I was told of a service, that for a fee gives you access to an API that posts to all social networks (facebook, twitter, linkedin) etc. I was hoping someone knows who it is because I can not remember. ...

How to work around Twitter OAuth?

I've been pushing stuff from our website to our company twitter account automatically. Like some news updates, updates to some sections of our site, etc ... It's all been happening automatically using the Zend Framekwork Twitter service, or other very simple php code that uses a username/password hardcoded. Now, Twitter killed the old f...

Twitter: is it possible for user to manually request and then provide app with access_token

Hi, I've been using Twitter Basic Authentication where you simply need to enter login/password and that's enough to post tweets. But now since twitter has turned it off, I have to look into oauth. I do have experience with oauth but I always used the common way to do this - get request token, ask user to "approve app", exchanged request...

Twitter + OAuth Integration

Anybody can please help in Android + Twitter Integration using OAuth. I already worked on http://github.com/brione/Brion-Learns-OAuth and getting the error listed below, when I am posting status update... WARN/System.err(190): org.apache.http.client.HttpResponseException: Unauthorized WARN/System.err(190): at org.apache.http.impl.c...

jQuery Time Ago with Twitter Plugin

I found this function on a forum somewhere and I am using it with Tweetable to show my last tweet on my website. Unfortunately, it's not grabbing time correctly. For the first hour, it says "less than a minute ago", then a couple hours go by then it changes to "less than an hour ago", then two days go by and it changes to "less than a da...

Parsing twitter media in Python

Hello, can anyone tell me, is there any kind of python library, that parses a tweet (text data), and takes out links to popular media sharing services, like, twitpic, tweetphoto, and so on. I know, it's pretty easy to do it myself, but I think that existing tools might know more services, and maybe have API to access those services as w...