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Quick Post to Twitter Example Code

3/1/2010 1:20:00 PM

I've been getting a lot of questions on how to quickly post a message to Twitter from an application and have decided to post a quick example.

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Update:Fixed a missing colon in the string for the username and password.

The following code quickly posts an example message to twitter. It can be used within an application to send a status update for a particular action within an Objective-C application.

- (void)postToTwitter:(NSString *)messageToTwitter:(NSString *)username:(NSString *)password
{
    BOOL status;

    NSString *myTwitterString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http:%@:%@@api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.xml?status=", username, password];
   
    // Needed to make the string URL friendly
    messageToTwitter = [messageToTwitter stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];


    NSURL *url = [NSURL initWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@", myTwitterString, messageToTwitter];
 
    NSMutableURLRequest *urlRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];

    if (urlRequest)
    {
          urlBody = @"";
          [urlRequest setHTTPMethod: @"GET"];
          [urlRequest setHTTPBody:[urlBody dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];   
          [urlRequest setValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
              forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];

          NSData *result = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:urlRequest returningResponse:&response error:&error];
       
      }

}           

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