January 2010
Build an OAuth-enabled desktop Twitter client
OAuth is an open protocol that enables users to share their protected resources among different Web sites, without risking exposure. OAuth is an ideal candidate for mashing up today's social networking Web sites like Twitter.
June 2009
Knee deep in the Twitter REST API
Twitter provides an API so Web developers can enable their users to access the various features that the Twitter site provides. In this article, learn the basics of using the Twitter REST API. Get started with a simple examples, then build your Twitter API skills. The ability to pull specific information from the Twitter Stream is endless.
May 2009
Scala and Twitter becomes Scitter
Learn how Scala's functional nature, which aligns well with Twitter's RESTful nature, and its extremely good XML processing features, makes it easy to build a Scala client library to use Twitter API to query its public timeline of tweets. This article shows you by example, how to use Scala to build the basic framework for a client library for accessing Twitter.
Display realtime Twitter Tweet stream with QueryPath
The new QueryPath library, a PHP cousin of the jQuery JavaScript library, offers an efficient API for working with XML, HTML, and HTTP. In this article, Walk through a simple example and build a small script that workes with the Web services API of the popular Twitter microblogging service, to execute a specific search on Twitter's server and print the results as HTML. Such a tool can be added to an existing Web site to show recent Twitter activity on a topic of interest.
April 2009
Why utilizing social tools is good business
Empower your employees to share information that strengthens your company's brand, image, and corporate identity. Explore business-oriented Social networking tools such as LinkedIn, CrunchBase, YouTube, Twitter, SlideShare and the Web services and APIs that many of these tools offer.
March 2009
Use PHP to convert Twitter to RSS
This article explains the underpinnings of Twitter - specifically, what the REST API exposes, and shows PHP developers how to use public libraries to extract status from their own and their friends' timelines and convert it to other formats, most notably RSS. After reading this, you will have the skills to build your own Twitter and PHP applications and utilities.
February 2009
Socially mixing Groovy, Twitter, Google, and a bit of Ajax
In this article, learn how to build a social network with Google Maps, Twitter, Groovy, and Ajax. By combining a Google Map with location information that Twitter exposes, you can create a mashup that allows people to view Twitter in light of a particular location. The simple application this article builds with open APIs, and a bit of imagination, will open yourself up to a whole new world of social applications development. The possibilities are endless. The rest is up to you.
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