Find Your First Twitter FollowerJanuary 9, 2010

Find Your First Twitter Follower

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

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TweetTheme: Color Theme Inspiration from Twitter ThemesDecember 2, 2009

TweetTheme: Color Theme Inspiration from Twitter Themes

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 - t

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Twitter API and jQuery Showcase: Display your Followers or FriendsDecember 2, 2009

Twitter API and jQuery Showcase: Display your Followers or Friends

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

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jMaxInput: jQuery Twitter-Like TextareaNovember 8, 2009

jMaxInput: jQuery Twitter-Like Textarea

jMaxInput allows you to limit the input size of a textarea like it is done in Twitter. The number of characters left to type are shown while typing. The user can write as many characters as he wants (negative value is shown) but the text can only be submitted if the size of the input is below th

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