Codrops » twitter api http://tympanus.net/codrops Useful resources and inspiration for creative minds Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:30:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Find Your First Twitter Follower http://tympanus.net/codrops/2010/01/09/find-your-first-twitter-follower/ http://tympanus.net/codrops/2010/01/09/find-your-first-twitter-follower/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:49:00 +0000 chadking http://tympanus.net/codrops/?p=1184 firstFollow

This application aims to show you who your first follower was in twitter. It’s done with PHP and jQuery and of course it uses the twitter API. Two of the available API methods are used : statuses/show and followers/ids. Note that the rate limit is 150 requests per hour (you can increase this) so it might happen that it stops working in some point of time :( For this reason I don’t provide a demo page, but you can download the application, and install it locally or in your web site and give it a try. Anyway, the purpose of this post is just to show you how to do it!

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My next Twitter API experiment: Get the theme’s colors from any Twitter account!

With this PHP and jQuery code you can call the Twitter API and request the RGB color and the background image from a given user. In the provided demonstration you just have to input the username and hit enter – the theme will get loaded. Hover over the color rows to obtain the hexadecimal color values.

Not much said:

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]]> http://tympanus.net/codrops/2009/12/02/tweettheme/feed/ 3 Twitter API and jQuery Showcase: Display your Followers or Friends http://tympanus.net/codrops/2009/12/02/twitter-api-and-jquery-showcase-display-your-followers-or-friends/ http://tympanus.net/codrops/2009/12/02/twitter-api-and-jquery-showcase-display-your-followers-or-friends/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:47:42 +0000 chadking http://tympanus.net/codrops/?p=952 twitterconn

Today I was playing around with the Twitter API and created this little “widget” using jQuery and PHP. I know, there are already plenty of them, but I wanted to improve some details.

Some of the features are:

  • You can get your most recent 100 followers or friends
  • Followers or friends are shown in sets of 25 per widget page
  • The images of the users are preloaded (unlike in Twitter)
  • You can navigate through the set
  • You can refresh the entire set
  • More information on the user can be seen using a tooltip when hovering over his picture

You can configure and use this in your website to show your followers or friends with some interesting information about them (name, number of followers, number of friends).

A reason why 100 followers or friends are loaded in the beginning is the restriction the Twitter API is giving in the number of results per request. So, in order not to make several requests which would take quite some time, I just get 100. However, you can always click the link to the entire list in the end of the pagination.

The tooltip is created using qTip.

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