Table Of ContentPreface; Who This Book Is For; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; We'd Like to Hear from You; Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: Hello Twitter; 1.1 What Are You Doing?; 1.2 History of Twitter; 1.3 Creative Uses of Twitter; 1.4 A Changing Culture;Chapter 2: Twitter Applications; 2.1 Twitter's Open API; 2.2 Finding Inspiration; 2.3 Tools for Publishing; 2.4 Tools for the Information Stream; 2.5 Tools of Appropriation; 2.6 Tools for Search; 2.7 Tools of Aggregation; 2.8 Tools for Statistics; 2.9 Tools for the Follow Network; 2.10 And Many More;Chapter 3: Web Programming Basics; 3.1 XHTML; 3.2 CSS; 3.3 PHP; 3.4 MySQL; 3.5 A Place to Call /home; 3.6 Further Reading;Chapter 4: Meet the Twitter API; 4.1 Accessing the API; 4.2 Play Along at Home; 4.3 The API Methods; 4.4 Other Data Options; 4.5 Gone Phishing: A Word About Passwords;Chapter 5: Meet the Output; 5.1 User Objects; 5.2 Status Objects; 5.3 Message Objects; 5.4 Search Objects; 5.5 ID Objects; 5.6 Response Objects; 5.7 Hash Objects;Chapter 6: Application Setup; 6.1 Establishing Your Twitter Account; 6.2 Creating Your Database; 6.3 Included Functions; 6.4 CSS;Chapter 7: Sample Applications; 7.1 Meet the Sample Apps; 7.2 Administration Tool; 7.3 Tweet Publisher; 7.4 Auto Tweet; 7.5 Tweet Broadcast; 7.6 Broadcast Feed; 7.7 Tweet Alert; 7.8 Network Viewer; 7.9 Best of Twitter API;Chapter 8: Automated Tasks; 8.1 RSS to Tweet; 8.2 Aggregate Broadcast; 8.3 Scan Tweets; 8.4 Queue Users; 8.5 Collect Favorites;Twitter API Reference; Status Methods; Users Methods; Direct Message Methods; Friendship Methods; Social Graph Methods; Account Methods; Favorite Methods; Notification Methods; Block Methods; Help Methods; Search Methods;Colophon;
SynopsisThis groundbreaking book provides you with the skills and resources necessary to build web applications for Twitter. Perfect for new and casual programmers intrigued by the world of microblogging, Twitter API: Up and Running carefully explains how each part of Twitter's API works, with detailed examples that show you how to assemble those building blocks into practical and fun web applications. You'll also get a complete look at Twitter culture and learn how it has inspired programmers to build hundreds of tools and applications. With this book, you will: Explore every component of a Twitter application and learn how the API responds Get the PHP and MySQL code necessary to build your own applications, with explanations of how these ingredients work Learn from real-world Twitter applications created just for this book Discover the most interesting and useful Twitter programs--and get ideas for creating your own--with the book's Twitter application directory Twitter offers a new way to connect with people on the Internet, and Twitter API: Up and Running takes you right to the heart of this technology."Twitter API: Up and Running is a friendly, accessible introduction to the Twitter API. Even beginning web developers can have a working Twitter project before they know it. Sit down with this for a weekend and you're on your way to Twitter API mastery."--Alex Payne, Twitter API Lead"Twitter API: Up and Running is a very comprehensive and useful resource--any developer will feel the urge to code a Twitter-related application right after finishing the book "--The Lollicode team, creators of Twitscoop, This groundbreaking book provides you with the skills and resources necessary to build web applications for Twitter. Perfect for new and casual programmers intrigued by the world of microblogging, Twitter API: Up and Running carefully explains how each part of Twitter's API works, with detailed examples that show you how to assemble those building blocks into practical and fun web applications. You'll also get a complete look at Twitter culture and learn how it has inspired programmers to build hundreds of tools and applications. With this book, you will: Explore every component of a Twitter application and learn how the API responds Get the PHP and MySQL code necessary to build your own applications, with explanations of how these ingredients work Learn from real-world Twitter applications created just for this book Discover the most interesting and useful Twitter programs--and get ideas for creating your own--with the book's Twitter application directory Twitter offers a new way to connect with people on the Internet, and Twitter API: Up and Running takes you right to the heart of this technology.Twitter API: Up and Running is a friendly, accessible introduction to the Twitter API. Even beginning web developers can have a working Twitter project before they know it. Sit down with this for a weekend and you're on your way to Twitter API mastery.--Alex Payne, Twitter API LeadTwitter API: Up and Running is a very comprehensive and useful resource--any developer will feel the urge to code a Twitter-related application right after finishing the book!--The Lollicode team, creators of Twitscoop, This groundbreaking book provides you with the skills and resources necessary to build web applications for Twitter. Perfect for new and casual programmers intrigued by the world of microblogging, Twitter API: Up and Running carefully explains how each part of Twitter's API works, with detailed examples that show you how to assemble those building blocks into practical and fun web applications. You'll also get a complete look at Twitter culture and learn how it has inspired programmers to build hundreds of tools and applications. With this book, you will: Explore every component of a Twitter application and learn how the API responds Get the PHP and MySQL code necessary to build your own applications, with explanations of how these ingredients work Learn from real-world Twitter applications created just for this book Discover the most interesting and useful Twitter programs--and get ideas for creating your own--with the book's Twitter application directory Twitter offers a new way to connect with people on the Internet, and Twitter API: Up and Running takes you right to the heart of this technology. "Twitter API: Up and Running is a friendly, accessible introduction to the Twitter API. Even beginning web developers can have a working Twitter project before they know it. Sit down with this for a weekend and you're on your way to Twitter API mastery."--Alex Payne, Twitter API Lead "Twitter API: Up and Running is a very comprehensive and useful resource--any developer will feel the urge to code a Twitter-related application right after finishing the book!"--The Lollicode team, creators of Twitscoop, This ground-breaking book is for Twitter fans who want to do more than just answer the question, 'What are you doing?' In the first book about programming with the Twitter API, the barrier to entry for new and casual programmers is lowered with explanation of how each part of the API works and detailed examples of how those parts can be assembled ......