EDIT on 14 July 2012 21.30 IST. The project is abandoned by the Creator and is no more usable due to changes in Facebook APIs. I contacted the Dev and he is not going to maintain it anymore. I will post any updates. Until then the best option would be to use intents. Thank you.. … Read more
This answer was written in 2010. The API it uses has since been retired. It is kept for historical interest only. Search for it. Make sure include_entities is set to true to get hashtag results. See Tweet Entities Returns 5 mixed results with Twitter.com user IDs plus entities for the term “blue angels”: GET http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=blue%20angels&rpp=5&include_entities=true&with_twitter_user_id=true&result_type=mixed
It was actually “account/verify_credentials” as seen here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/manage-account-settings/api-reference/get-account-verify_credentials.html
This is now possible by filling out a form to request elevated permissions: Go to https://support.twitter.com/forms/platform Select “I need access to special permissions” Enter Application Name and ID. These can be obtained via https://apps.twitter.com/ — the application ID is the numeric part in the browser’s address bar after you click your app. Permissions Request: “Email … Read more
Another great library which solves this problem At.js (deprecated) Source Demo They are now suggesting the Tribute library https://github.com/zurb/tribute Example
Writing something like this should convert a twitter date to a timestamp. import time ts = time.strftime(‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S’, time.strptime(tweet[‘created_at’],’%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y’)) UPDATE For Python 3, as per 2020, you can do it in this way: from datetime import datetime # dtime = tweet[‘created_at’] dtime=”Fri Oct 09 10:01:41 +0000 2015″ new_datetime = datetime.strftime(datetime.strptime(dtime,’%a … Read more
Fill up the “Callback URL” field in your Twitter settings dev account.
Look into twitter cards. The trick is not in the button but rather the page you are sharing. Twitter Cards pull the image from the meta tags similar to facebook sharing. Example: <meta name=”twitter:card” content=”summary_large_image”> <meta name=”twitter:site” content=”@site_username”> <meta name=”twitter:title” content=”Top 10 Things Ever”> <meta name=”twitter:description” content=”Up than 200 characters.”> <meta name=”twitter:creator” content=”@creator_username”> <meta name=”twitter:image” … Read more
I don’t know if that’s what you mean but you can use the Android built-in sharing menu… You can share a URL to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and more (as long as the apps are installed on your device) using Intents: Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND); i.setType(“text/plain”); i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, “Sharing URL”); i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, “http://www.url.com”); startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, “Share URL”)); If … Read more
After struggling with this issue for a while, found a solution which works on mobile: https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=XXX Source: https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/3386