Now that the switch to the Twitter API version 1.1 is getting closer, I’ve been asked if it will break the 140dev Framework. The requirement to switch to OAuth for API requests won’t affect the Streaming API, so version 1.1 won’t have any immediate impact on the the 140dev framework. Twitter has assured us that [...]
140dev Source Code
Free open source code for Twitter API programming with PHP and MySQL
This is a great starting point for custom Twitter applications. The plugin architecture makes it easy to extend.
Our work with Twitter and politics has now moved beyond the 2012 election. We just set up a tweet collection database to track the Occupy Wall Street movement. It uses the 140dev framework to collect all tweets containing #ows, #occupy, and #occupywalllstreet. This will be used to document our tools and methodology to automate a [...]
Twitter has finally converted the Streaming API over to SSL connections only. This means that your copy of the 140dev Framework will stopping connecting until you upgrade to the latest version of the Phirehose library. You can do this in two ways. You can either download the entire 140dev Framework file for the DB Server [...]
The next release of the 140dev Twitter framework will introduce a set of tweet display themes. There will just be 4 at first, but I intend to have about a dozen by the following version. I know people love pre-built themes. Refined Business Colorful Minimalist
I’ve been making a lot of changes in the 140dev code as a result of my son’s testing. It is great to get someone who isn’t an experienced PHP coder to test this. He blocks on things I’d just write around. I modified the scripts in the Twitter database server module to eliminate the need [...]
The first day has gone well. I announced the code on the Twitter dev list, and got 16 visitors to the site. The good thing is that the average pages per visitor was 7, and they spent an average of 11 minutes on the site. So people who get to the code are giving it [...]
I just opened up access to version 0.10 of my free Twitter source code library. At first it just has modules for a tweet aggregation database and a tweet display plugin. My next module will be a WordPress display plugin. I also have a lot of tutorials planned that can use this source code as [...]
I’ve been cleaning up the code the last few days. I finally got around to switching to tweet entities. They’ve been around for a while, but every time people complained about a problem Twitter HQ said that developers should code for their occasional disappearance. I don’t have time to code for a major data component [...]
I rebuilt the code for the 104dev system using a WP-style architecture. As expected the messiest part was getting the directory paths right. I think the idea of putting most of the functionality into separate plugin directories will be a big win. There will be a very small core of tweet collection code and general [...]
I’ve been thinking about how to prepare the tweet aggregation code used for the dev tweets page. I know that I want to add multiple modules to the system, and make it easy to customize the appearance of the tweet list. This sounds a lot like the WordPress model with plugins and themes, so I’m [...]
