Twitter is rapidly moving up the social networking food chain and is currently outranked by only Facebook and MySpace. It features a programming API that allows you to build Web sites and applications (both desktop and mobile) for reading and posting to Twitter, finding other Twitter users, aggregating Twitter content, and other uses. This book walks you through the process of combining many programming tools in order to build exciting, useful, and profitable applications. You'll begin with a look at RESTful services and examine how to structure your queries, handle asynchronous...

The hands-on, step-by-step guide to building Twitter apps and integrating Twitter into existing sites, services, and applications Shows what can be done with the Twitter API - including non-traditional examples By the creator of the popular Twitterfilter app Covers API basics, REST, calls, replies, components, displays, classes, errors, credentials, search, downtime, etiquette, and more Quick, easy examples deliver results fast, and handy reference sections help programmers for years to come Finally there's a practical guide to developing new Twitter applications and...

If you want to start working with the rich data stream that comes out of Twitter, here's how. 21 recipes to get you started. A great companion to Mining the Social Web....

Get the guide to planning, developing and monetizing apps for Twitter! Twitter is the one of the hottest trends in social networking. With several million users, Twitter's popularity is growing everyday. Twitter will continue to increase user base while third-party companies keep popping up all over to make money building Twitter apps for phones, advertising tools, analytics/management tools and more. Some of the most popular Twitter apps include TwitPic, Twhirl, TweetDeck, and FriendorFollow. With this book, author Dusty Reagan uses one of his unpublished Twitter app ideas and takes you...

This groundbreaking book provides you with the skills and resources necessary to build web applications for Twitter. Perfect for new and casual programmers intrigued by the world of microblogging, Twitter API: Up and Running carefully explains how each part of Twitter's API works, with detailed examples that show you how to assemble those building blocks into practical and fun web applications. You'll also get a complete look at Twitter culture and learn how it has inspired programmers to build hundreds of tools and applications. With this book, you will: Explore every component of a Twitter...