I would stay away from external APIs over which you have no control. That will simply introduce a dependency into your application that is a potential point of failure, and could cost you money to use. CURL can do this quite nicely. Here’s how I did it in PHP: function unshorten_url($url) { $ch = curl_init($url); … Read more
The reason: container is 940px row is 960px with a -20px margin span4 300px with a 20px margin when screen width is <=940px, the -20px from row and the 20px margin from span4 cancel each other out, that’s why the first span4 has no left margin. The ‘twitter bootstrap’ solution: Add bootstrap-responsive.css and when the … Read more
For some reason they won’t let you use the Javascript data attributes with a custom button so you have to add them to the URL in your HTML. So for your example: You would then add &text=your%20text with your text. <a href=”http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.twitter.com%2Fpages%2Ftweet-button&text=my%20text%20here” target=”_blank”> The other codes are the same, just add &related= etc. Make sure … Read more
It looks like this is the basic setup: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet? url=<url to tweet> text=<text to tweet> hashtags=<comma separated list of hashtags, with no # on them> This would pre-built a tweet of: <text> <url> <hashtags> The above example would be: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http://www.example.com&text=I+am+eating+branston+pickel+right+now&hashtags=bransonpickel,pickles There used to be a bug with the hashtags parameter… it only showed the first … Read more
So the unsatisfying resolution appears to be that the Twitter API does not support CORS. This seems a little astonishing to me, as it means that the API cannot be used from a browser. That policy decision is probably related to their OAuth implementation, which is vulnerable to anyone with access to the calling platform. … Read more
Login in your app: http://dev.twitter.com/apps In the Settings tab, change the Application type to Read, Write and Access direct messages In the Reset keys tab, press the Reset button, update the consumer key and secret in your application accordingly. It looks like that resetting the keys force the change to your application type to take … Read more
You can use the following API endpoint, http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://stackoverflow.com Note that the http://urls.api.twitter.com/ endpoint is not public.) The endpoint will return a JSON string similar to, {“count”:27438,”url”:”http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/”} On the client, if you are making a request to get the URL share count for your own domain (the one the script is running from), then an AJAX … Read more
You need to go into the Twitter Dev App and add a website address. I know it seem silly but this will solve your problem. https://apps.twitter.com/ Go to the Settings Tab Set a CallBack URL to any website. Even if it is not real. This should solve you problem.
You need to put <!DOCTYPE HTML> in the first line of your html.
To get tweets from a specific user you will want to use the GET statuses/user_timeline API method.