Tag Archives: twitter

Setting Up Twitter Bots with OAuth

Posted on April 30, 2010 by masnun

Twitter has decided to kill Basic Authentication on the Twitter API from June 30. They have setup a nice website at http://www.countdowntooauth.com/ to let you all know and help you migrate your apps to use the OAuth OAuth is cool. … Continue reading →

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Hosting your Twitter Bots on Google App Engine

Posted on February 2, 2010 by masnun

UPDATE: Download the improved version of the application. I have made some code changes after the blog post got posted to reddit. The source code is now more readable and the app easily configurable. I am amazed to see the … Continue reading →

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Track Your Favorite Topic on Twitter: A PHP CLI Tool

Posted on January 3, 2010 by masnun

Here’s a little php utility that will let you watch the Twitter public time line for your favorite topic. This is specially helpful for those who want to build some tracking application on the basis of the twitter streaming APIs. … Continue reading →

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Twitter Streaming API with Python

Posted on January 3, 2010 by masnun

Hasin Vai has a good post about collecting tweets in real time with php. Here’s the post: http://hasin.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/collecting-data-from-streaming-api-in-twitter/ If you are a php developer look into there. Well, I am going to cover Python for the Twitter streaming API. You … Continue reading →

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Decoding Google's Tweet With PHP

Posted on September 5, 2009 by masnun

This is something for fun — nothing serious. It just happened that Google just sent a mysterious Tweet around 2 hours ago from now with an image with of the Google home page featuring an UFO. The UFO was seen … Continue reading →

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Fun with Twitter OAuth: The Source Code

Posted on August 30, 2009 by masnun

In my previous post, I mentioned about the twitter OAuth app hosted at: http://masnun.com/twitter-app/ . Here it comes, the source code. I am not going to include the Twitter OAuth Library source. You have to download it from Github. The … Continue reading →

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Twitter OAuth Fun :D

Posted on August 29, 2009 by masnun

My University is off for about a month and I am thinking of passing this huge time in some sort of productive work. I love coding and experimenting. Twitter and PHP being my favourites, I decided to check out the … Continue reading →

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Twitter Bot Earns Me Money :)

Posted on August 27, 2009 by masnun

Well, this came up as a pleasant surprise to me when I logged into my GetAFreeLancer.com account to deactivate the email notification. I have earned $34.2 in August 2009 from affiliate activity. I was puzzled first and then checked out … Continue reading →

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