Twitter API: Up and Running: Learn How to Build Applications with the Twitter API - Softcover

Makice, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596154615 ISBN 13: 9780596154615

Publisher: O'Reilly Vlg. GmbH & Co., 2009

Synopsis

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 application and learn how the API responds
• Get the PHP and MySQL code necessary to build your own applications, with explanations of how these ingredients work
• Learn from real-world Twitter applications created just for this book
• Discover the most interesting and useful Twitter programs--and get ideas for creating your own--with the book's Twitter application directory

Twitter offers a new way to connect with people on the Internet, and Twitter API: Up and Running takes you right to the heart of this technology.

"Twitter API: Up and Running is a friendly, accessible introduction to the Twitter API. Even beginning web developers can have a working Twitter project before they know it. Sit down with this for a weekend and you're on your way to Twitter API mastery."--Alex Payne, Twitter API Lead

"Twitter API: Up and Running is a very comprehensive and useful resource--any developer will feel the urge to code a Twitter-related application right after finishing the book!"--The Lollicode team, creators of Twitscoop

About this title

Product Description

Explains the importance of the Twitter culture and how it has inspired programmers to build their own tools and games. This book offers a basic understanding of how applications are built and hosted on the Web. It explains the PHP and MySQL code necessary to the construction of the example applications.

Synopsis

This ground-breaking book is for Twitter fans who want to do more than just answer the question, 'What are you doing?' In the first book about programming with the Twitter API, the barrier to entry for new and casual programmers is lowered with explanation of how each part of the API works and detailed examples of how those parts can be assembled into practical and fun web applications. This book also explains the importance of the Twitter culture and how it has inspired programmers to build their own tools and games. The prerequisite for this book is a basic understanding of how applications are built and hosted on the Web. The PHP and MySQL code necessary to the construction of the example applications will be provided and explained.This work is suitable for IT professionals in small organizations (potential integration for services or products) and Twitter members wishing to learn programming using something familiar (e.g., to detect a specific function that doesn't yet exist). The history chapter will be attractive non-programmers who want to understand the phenomenon.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Vlg. GmbH & Co.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0596154615
• ISBN 13: 9780596154615
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 391