Aggregating and displaying facebook and twitter status updates on Coldfusion Page

Question

Hello All,

As an experiment I'd like to set up a coldfusion page that will pull and display the status updates from my own facebook account and twitter accounts that fall within an input date range; similar to tools like

http://orsiso.com/

http://www.threadsy.com/

and http://www.davidcramer.net/lifestream

I assume this will involve working with the facebook and twitter apis, which I have some experience with when working with mobile apps; but I've never tried to do something like this with a coldfusion page before. Eventually I'd like to pull other things like images and such, but for a first test just status updates is fine. Does anyone have sample code and/or pointers that could assist me in this endeavor? Thank you very much in advance.

Edit: I'm interested in a variant of this idea involving a database, and I've opened up a new question regarding such: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3495719/pulling-facebook-and-twitter-status-updates-into-a-sql-database-via-coldfusion-pa

Answer 1

For Twitter see this.. http://www.stephenwithington.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/4/Use-ColdFusions-CFFeed-to-Display-Your-Twitter-Tweets-and-more-on-Your-Blog-in-30-Seconds

Answer 2

In addition, you should check out RIAForge, which has CF code to handle both Twitter and Facebook APIs.

Answer 3

Have a look at this coldfusion wrapper for the twitter API here, really easy to set up and grab the data from your twitter feed.

I also use the twitter4j library to access my twitter account on my coldfusion site, I followed the tutorial here to get started.