How to Authenticate Users With Twitter OAuth
“Beginning August 16th, Twitter will no longer support the basic authentication protocol for its platform. That means the only way to authenticate users will be through a Twitter application. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Twitter as your one-click authentication system, just as we did with Facebook.”
How to Build a Simple Twitter Widget with ASP.NET
“In this tutorial, I’ll be walking you through how to a write a Twitter widget for ASP.NET in the form of a reusable server control complete with nice things such as automatically turning URLs into links, and caching to speed up page load times.”
Using Twitter’s @Anywhere Service in 6 Steps
“Last week, Twitter released @Anywhere, which, with only a few added lines in your code, can bring all of Twitter’s platform functionalities into your website. @Anywhere can allow for anything, ranging from converting a simple @username into a clickable link, to even creating new tweets directly from your personal site. I’ll show you exactly how to do so in this tutorial!”
Diving into the Twitter API
“Twitter’s astonishing growth is rivaled only by its intuitive, developer friendly API. In this second part of the series, we are going to learn more about Twitter’s API and how to work with it.
“In this Web 2.0 era, web applications which have an easy to use, intuitive API have a distinct advantage as it lets developers exploit and build for the platform and thus capture more users. As we move towards the social web and mashups, a good API is not a nice addition anymore: it is downright necessary. And remember, too much abstraction is never a good thing. While there are a number of API kits out there to simplify working with the API in question, wouldn’t it be cool to know what is actually going on under the hood? Wouldn’t it be exciting to deconstruct the actual voodoo going on between the kit and the API? Yeah, I thought so!”
