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Ethan Allen
Ethan Allen

Reputation: 14835

How to "follow" people with the new Twitter API in iOS 5?

Is it possible "follow" people on Twitter using the new Twitter API in iOS 5?

If so, how? I can't seem to figure out which way to go here.

Can someone post an example using TWRequest please? Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3524

Answers (2)

Webdevotion
Webdevotion

Reputation: 1243

You can do it using the existing Twitter API.

Here is a blogpost describing all the details ( article 2 in a series of 2 ): http://iosdevelopertips.com/core-services/ios-5-twitter-framework-part-2.html

Upvotes: 2

Razvan
Razvan

Reputation: 4122

Add Twitter and Accounts frameworks, and use the following method:

- (IBAction)tweet_action
{        
    ACAccountStore *accountStore = [[ACAccountStore alloc] init];

    ACAccountType *accountType = [accountStore accountTypeWithAccountTypeIdentifier:ACAccountTypeIdentifierTwitter];

    [accountStore requestAccessToAccountsWithType:accountType withCompletionHandler:^(BOOL granted, NSError *error) {
        if(granted) {
            // Get the list of Twitter accounts.
            NSArray *accountsArray = [accountStore accountsWithAccountType:accountType];

            // For the sake of brevity, we'll assume there is only one Twitter account present.
            // You would ideally ask the user which account they want to tweet from, if there is more than one Twitter account present.
            if ([accountsArray count] > 0) {
                // Grab the initial Twitter account to tweet from.
                ACAccount *twitterAccount = [accountsArray objectAtIndex:0];

                NSMutableDictionary *tempDict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
                [tempDict setValue:@"numerologistiOS" forKey:@"screen_name"];
                [tempDict setValue:@"true" forKey:@"follow"];

                TWRequest *postRequest = [[TWRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://api.twitter.com/1/friendships/create.json"]
                                                             parameters:tempDict
                                                          requestMethod:TWRequestMethodPOST];


                [postRequest setAccount:twitterAccount];

                [postRequest performRequestWithHandler:^(NSData *responseData, NSHTTPURLResponse *urlResponse, NSError *error) {
                    NSString *output = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"HTTP response status: %i", [urlResponse statusCode]];
                    NSLog(@"%@", output);
                    if (urlResponse.statusCode == 200)
                    {
                        UIAlertView *statusOK = [[UIAlertView alloc]
                                                 initWithTitle:@"Thank you for Following!"
                                                 message:@"You are now following us on Twitter!"
                                                 delegate:self
                                                 cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
                                                 otherButtonTitles:nil];
                        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                            [statusOK show];
                        });
                    }
                }];
            }
        }
    }];
}

Upvotes: 6

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