If someone posts a tweet with a link, and Twitter pulls and image from that site, for example: https://twitter.com/MTCBATA/status/960972071890165760 is it possible to fetch that image via the Twitter API? It doesn't seem to be showing up in entities.
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Is there a way to get profile pictures of users who comment on my Instagram Business Account page?
I have Page access token, but I couldn't find a way to do this via official API.
our requirement is like we want to showcase the Twitter live feeds(Timeline Post) in tableau dash-board. we had tried many things but its not give us the live post from twitter.
We try to embed the link generated from twitter that doesn't show me the the image or anything, same with if URL as well
can anyone provide me any help regrading this
We have a facebook account. That account 'Liked' 3 open facebook pages. When you login to that facebook account from your browser you can ofcourse see all the posts from those 3 pages on your news feed.
What I want to know is - can I somehow fetch all the data I see on my accounts news feed?
Im not asking how to do it, just is it possible.
I was doing some research, and on facebook.developers they do mention about nodes, which can be users or groups, but it is unclear to me are those groups that I made, so when I login to my mobile app i Actually login with that group account, or they meant that I can get data or other groups out there ?!
Facebook has documentation using FQL queries to GET the users news feed, take a look here
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql
What you are looking for is called stream...
I currently have an iOS app with facebook integration that allows users to post their photos to facebook.
I want to add twitter integration as well, but I couldn't find any information about it. I read somewhere that it's now possible to upload photos directly to twitter, without an external site, such as twitpic.
Does twitter provide an iOS API in the same manner that facebook provides their APIs?
I looked over ShareKit, but it has tons of features that I don't need and the workflow of uploading a photo is customized in my app. Worst case, I'll copy-paste some code from ShareKit, but I'm not sure it even has the ability to share a photo to twitter.
Twitter doesn't provide it's own photo sharing API. You have to upload your photos somewhere (on your own server, twitpic, etc.) and get the link and post the photo's link along with the tweet text.
I haven't used twitpic before but it looks like they have their own API that you can check out here.
If you're uploading them to your own server, you should use bit.ly's api to shorten the URL's of the photo links to provide more tweet text space. Info on bit.ly's API is here.
I've noticed that some recent tweets have media associated with them, for example photos from TwitPic or Flickr and videos from Youtube. You can see them on the Twitter website directly, so it's more than just a link. My thinking is that Twitter has formed these partnerships with these select suppliers of media, being Flickr, Twitpic and such.
I'm looking to automate some tweeting from an image gallery. Yet, I do not wish to upload these photos to another place. I want to host them myself and then embed/refer to them from a tweet. Yet, they should also be seen inline.
Is such a thing possible?
2017 edit: Looks like you can get a media_id via POST media/upload and then pass the id into POST statuses/update.
2014 edit: You can add media to tweets using POST statuses/update_with_media.
Original 2011 answer: No, you can't embed media into a tweet, nor can you upload photos to Twitter.
The "embedded" media you see is just Twitter scraping the URL for the photo or video, and showing it directly within Twitter, saving users from needing to click on the link to view the media. And Twitter only scrapes media for certain popular sites.
If you want Twitter.com users to see your images inline, you'll need to upload images to one of the popular image sites you mentioned, and have its URL in your tweet.
If you still want to drive traffic to your site, you could also include your gallery's URL within the same tweet.
But keep in mind that not everyone uses Twitter via Twitter.com; there are a plethora of Twitter clients available, and I doubt many feature inline media scraping.
I'd suggest just linking to your gallery/images, and not worry about uploading them elsewhere.
You can do all this and more. (and Twitter DOES allow you to upload images). Look at the documentation for Twitter cards.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards