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Getting email addresses from OAuth login

January 17, 2013

For years now there has been a steady stream of requests, demands, pleas, and threats over the issue of getting user email addresses from the Twitter API. This thread is just one of many on the subject. The simple fact is that it ain’t gonna happen. No way, not ever. It’s pretty funny to see […]

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Picking up the pieces after 1.1 breaks client-side code

January 17, 2013

I’ve been having some Twitter discussions with devs about the breakage version 1.1 will cause for client-side Twitter apps. The simplest way to say it is that every page that uses direct Javascript calls to the Twitter API will break when version 1.0 is turned off in March. The only way you will be able […]

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Twitter API Ebook: Single-user Twitter OAuth Programming

January 11, 2013

This free ebook covers everything you need to use OAuth from a single Twitter account. It is available as a free PDF download on our members page. You can also get the source code for all the examples in the ebook there as well. Here are the topics covered: Create your first Twitter application Set […]

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Aligning our Twitter code with our politics: UniteBlue.com

September 12, 2012

For the last couple of years we’ve been helping clients with a wide range of Twitter engagement tools. We’ve helped non-profits, political campaigns, and businesses identify and engage with the best Twitter accounts to help spread their message. Now we’ve committed our efforts to a free site that helps progressives unite for political action. UniteBlue.com […]

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Follower engagement is the whole point

July 31, 2012

My latest ProgrammableWeb.com column is up, and it discusses the difference between follower quality and quantity. It’s time that the race for high follower count change into a desire for more engagement.

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Trust could be the Achille’s heel of apps in tweets

July 18, 2012

I’ve been writing a series of posts that emphasize the huge potential of Twitter allowing developers to place apps in tweets, but they all hinge on a critical issue: trust. Apps in tweets eliminate the need for click-throughs, because everything is now already in Twitter. If Twitter is the portal for a new generation of […]

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Is this the end of the click-through?

July 17, 2012

A fundamental barrier for all online advertising has been the click-through. Whether a link is attached to a banner ad or is displayed in a tweet, it has no value unless users click on it. The percent of clicks per display of the link is called the click-through rate, and in every medium and genre […]

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But how do apps get into tweets?

July 16, 2012

One thing that puzzles me about apps in tweets is figuring out how to get them there. I understand how Twitter apps in websites or on mobile work. A developer builds a website or mobile app, and adds code that interacts with the Twitter API and probably a database on their server as well. That […]

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Twitter docs are improving

July 14, 2012

I’ve been using the same database schema for recording Twitter user information for a couple of years. I recently agreed to do a training session on Twitter follow programming for the Boston PHP Meetup group, so I decided to check out the Twitter API docs to see if they have gotten any better. I found […]

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FUD, Day 15

July 14, 2012

It’s now been 15 days since Sippey’s FUD bomb. There have been dozens of news stories and blog posts by developers trying to determine the meaning behind this message. The one thing we know for sure is that Twitter HQ has not said a single word in additional explanation. Anyone find any irony in the […]

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OAuth without the dance

July 14, 2012

One benefit of running an app within Twitter.com is that it will eliminate the need for the OAuth dance. That is the complex exchange that goes on between a website and the Twitter API when the user logs into Twitter through the website. This communication is necessary to deliver a set of authorization keys that […]

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Ecommerce in tweets will transform the web

July 13, 2012

Now that I’ve relaxed and decided to embrace the idea of apps in tweets, the possibilities are amazing. What it all comes down to is ecommerce from within a tweet. That is the game changer. Right now tweets are only a pointer, not a destination. I can tell someone about a great restaurant, or book, […]

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