Reputation: 8613

Tweeting from iPhone App

I was wondering if anyone had any success with creating an application and being able to post to Twitter from within the application. I have been looking at dev.twitter.com and am a bit confused about OAuth and how I would get this to work in my app.

I am currently trying to create an application on twitter's website, but it is asking me about a callback URL. I thought you simply could put in AppName:// and this would be okay. I know you then have to add some stuff to the plist. I just am not finding the right documentation for this.

I want to simply post using HTTP POST methods, but I need the authorization part.

Can someone send me in the right direction or send me a link to an example of this. Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it!

Upvotes: 0

Answers (4)

Warren Burton

Reputation: 17378

If you only wish to make outbound tweets you can use the API which is being introduced with iOS 5 to send them. You can find it in the Xcode 4.2/iOS 5 beta.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110806023302/http://www.apple.com:80/ios/ios5/features.html

This does have the disadvantage of being only available to devices running iOS 5 and probably will not be out for a month or two. But this may fit with your schedule.

Upvotes: 0

dtuckernet

Reputation: 7895

Apple has also publicly announced Twitter support in iOS 5. However, I can't go into any of the specific about that (since iOS5 is still under NDA). If you have an Apple Development account - check this out:

Upvotes: 1

Peter

Reputation: 1

Callback URL is important only for web application. It has not meaning for iOS apps according to twitter docs.

A drop in solution is using ShareKit It supports twitter plus some other social networks.

Upvotes: 0

Jack

Reputation: 3878

You will need to implement a custom URL scheme for your app before the AppName:// link will work. Documentation for this is here.

The alternative is to use a framework such as ShareKit to do a lot of the leg work for you.

Upvotes: 1

Tweeting from iPhone App

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