Is there a twitter widget to let users on a website tweet at you from a form field on a webpage?
I'm wondering if I could replace a contact form with just a text area field that lets users tweet to my account if users have a twitter account and are logged in.
I don't see any widgets on Twitter website that allow this:
https://dev.twitter.com/web/overview
Apologies if this is not the right forum to post this question.
Thanks!
Jon
You can't present the text field on your site unless you first take the user through the authentication flow to get an access token. For a simple "contact me" situation, it's unlikely many users will want to allow your site to tweet on their behalf.
You can use the Tweet button to popup the Twitter interface with a pre-populated mention using a URL like this:
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=#username
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I can currently read the newsfeed from http://facebook.com/RelayForLife, however I don't know how to post to this page (or other similar named pages that allow posting) as the logged in user. All examples I see out there are for posting to the user's page or an app page.
Obviously, I can't use the built-in SLComposeViewController to accomplish this.
you can only post to facebook page if user (Profile posting), using graph api and facebooksdk. You need to get user first to like that page then you can post to that page
I'm developing a personal project in which many users join a certain project and are able to view the information on it. Besides that, I'd like to be able that a user could tweet to the other users, warning he is online.
E.g.: user1, user2 and user3 share a project. If user1 is online, but user2 and user3 aren't, user1 would then click a button that would send a tweet (e.g., "#user2twitteraccount User1 is online!") to user2 and user3. The tweet sender would be an account of the website, not user1's Twitter account.
Is that possible to be done? 'Cause, from what I've seen so far, there are two options that are mainly used:
1) The "share button" option (Requires authentication): there is a share button, which sends a tweet on the user's timeline. It prompts a screen so the user can write whatever he want to tweet.
2) The "authorization-required" option (Requires authentication and application authorization): an application tweets on behalf of the user on his timeline.
Besides the things that I have stated, the main thing that bothers me about these options is that they tweet on behalf of the user on his account. As I am looking for a solution on which, instead of using the user's Twitter, the user would tweet throughout my site's Twitter, they doesn't work for me.
Am I missing to see something quite obvious in here, or what I want to achieve isn't quite usual? Do you know any ways that I could achieve this solution? Thanks.
I believe your best bet would be to use the Twitter web intents
You could then tweet to #user2 and #user3 from the account of #user1 adding a via #appname to the tweet text.
NOTE: #appname should be the twitter account of your app.
If this is unsatisfactory, then you should do what sarnold says as that would be the best option
(Only suggested the intents thing because you want to avoid requesting authorization)
You'll want to use the REST API.
Register your application and then POST tweets as you want to send new messages.
I am new to Twitter API and in twitter in general so I have some questions. I have a web site and I want to add a button for sharing a message (for example "Hello World", taken from my site) to a user's twitter page.
First of all I have created an application in twitter, call myTwitterApp and I want to post through this. When the user clicks the button I want to see the authentication page, for login, and then after login I want to see my message inside the editable input, being able to be changed my the user. And finally I want the user to post it by clicking the tweet button, but continue saying that the post was "via myTwitterApp".
Does anyone have an idea how to do it or how to search about it?
Thanks in advance.
I have some experience with the twitter api lately, but not comprehensively. so I can only give you some kind of direction, and hopefully this will help you. So the idea is that you should understand how the Oauth protocol works, steps like requestToken->accessToken->api calls. there is a tutorial for beginners here http://oauth.net/documentation/getting-started/, you shold take a look. if you have manage to go through the oauth authentication, then you should be able to call the POST method which you can post contents to Twitter. you can search for Twitter oauth api, there are a bunch of them online. grab one and use it.
How to post to a page's wall using FaceBook Graph API for iPhone?
Should I need to prompt for any permission for that?
Is it possible or not?
Thanks in advance.
You can using the Post method. It requires the publish_stream permission. The user needs to have "liked" the page in question.
To publish a wall post, POST the
message and optional attachment to the
feed/wall of the user, page or group,
i.e.,
http://graph.facebook.com/PROFILE_ID/feed.
Annoyingly, the one thing that Graph API will not allow, is to let the user "like" a page through it. The user must already have "liked" the page. (catch-22)
Graph API Page documentation
I have a textbox on my site where people can enter a tweet
when submitting if the user is not already logged in he will be redirected to twitter's page to login
however after this the original tweet that the user typed is lost. is there a way to keep this info?
is it true that with oauth I must redirect the user to twitter's login page? i can't have a popup? or put it in an iframe?
i would do it with $_SESSION if you are using php?