Getting started with a twitter application

[albana]

Hi everybody!

I am about to develop a twitter application and I am stuck with
starting the development of the application.How should I connect my
application with a twitter api?

[ryan alford]

You can use one of the many libraries for most of the more popular languages(and some for the less popular), or you can create your own library to communicate to the API.

Ryan

[mycr...@lifewithindustry.com]

I  was in the same boat as you a few months ago when an associate asked me to develop a twitter appllication and I had never even seen twitter. I was able to use the supplied documentation and produce a working test application with no help. I believe the documentation is the best place to start. I uses C# and accessed the twitter API directly for a standalone Windows application. I looked into some of the third party tools such as Twitterizer but in the end did my own. That was just a personal decision because there are some good things in the twtter world. I have been following this group since I started the project even though I had to abandon it after financing fell through. The  Twittwer API and the related tools are rapidly evolving. Be prepared to spen a lot of time chasing changes.

 

Good Luck

DRP

[Andrew Badera]

no need to chase changes if you take a dependency on a solid library.

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[Harshad RJ]

There are two broad types of Twitter APIs: authenticated and non-authenticated. The type is mentioned in the API docs.

If your application is lucky enough to need only non-auth APIs then all you need to do is make HTTP requests and parse the result, in your favourite language.

Authenticated APIs need more work (especially with the move to OAuth). As others have replied, you should look at existing libraries as a starting point. They are all linked in the wiki. Dispatch wasn't listed, http://databinder.net/dispatch/About which is great for working with Scala.

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