Tag Archives: Twitter
Fetch Twitter friends or followers through REST API in Java
Posted on 16. Jul, 2010 by Tahir Akram.
I was playing around with fetching Twitter followers and friends with Twitter4J. But it was taking time to do that. So I code it with using REST urls given by Twitter. It fetches all your friends or followers. Depending upon your application that you want one list or you want to use paging. But I [...]
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Download Gravity, a Symbian S60 Twitter client
Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by Tahir Akram.
If you are an avid Twitter user and addicted to use it from your phone. Then you should try Gravity. Its Symbian S60 based Twitter client. Which has very cool and usable interface. I have also tried Snaptu and TweetS60, which are free. But Gravity gave me great experience. I am using it on my [...]
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How to use and retain Twitter4J OAuth access token
Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by Tahir Akram.
I was stuck in a problem that how to re use access token, once user has authenticated by Twitter (on call back URL). I got it working. There was problem in my understanding about request token vs access token. When user first time comes on call backed URL. I take request token and token secret [...]
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How to register an app with Twitter
Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Tahir Akram.
If you want to develop a Twitter app. You need to register your application with Twitter. That means you should have your production URL ready before you think to start your development. When you finished with registration, you will receive consumer key and consumer secret. These unique credentials will help your app to interact with [...]
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Free Twitter clients for Symbian S60 phones
Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by Tahir Akram.
Its quite a long time I was looking for a Twitter client for my Symbian S60 phone (Nokia 5320). Earlier I used JTwitter but it gone to paid application so I only left with m.twitter.com or dabr.co.uk like website to use on.
But recently a friend queried about it and I again had a search on [...]
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How to avoid DeadlineExceededException in Google App Engine
Posted on 03. Oct, 2009 by Tahir Akram.
If you are developing web application on Google App Engine for Java. And you dont know what this exception is. You can be in trouble. The container throws this exception for those requests which take time more than 30 seconds. In other words GAE wants every requests to be fullfilled within 30 seconds.
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I am developing [...]
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Tutorial: Java based Twitter App on Google App Engine
Posted on 03. Oct, 2009 by Tahir Akram.
Twitter a microblogging service is getting more and more popular these days. A lot of developers are involved to develop applications on its API.
Two weeks ago I click with a very basic idea and being as a matter of learning I started working on it. I have finished more than 80% of the work. I [...]
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Get invitation of Yahoo! Meme
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by Tahir Akram.
Yahoo has also introduced its micro blogging service named Yahoo! Meme. At first look it contains features like Twitter. It sounds that they develop their service by keeping Twitter and what its lacking in mind. They even adopt the terms “following” and “followers” from Twitter. Interface is more enriched and appealing than Twitter.
By using Meme [...]
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