Category Archives: Twitter API

Create Twitter Share hyperlink for specific URL

We can create a Twitter share hyperlink just like what we did for Facebook share as we mentioned before.
Create Facebook Share hyperlink for specific URL

For Twitter sharing, it can be done as follow.

http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=<tweet>&url=<url>

 

Try the following link.
http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=About+Eureka!&url=https://eureka.ykyuen.info/about
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twitteroauth – Force User Login

twitteroauth is the first PHP Library to support OAuth for Twitter’s REST API. It is developed by Abraham Williams. You can download the source code @ GitHub and the example inside is quite easy to follow.
GitHub – abraham / twitteroauth
 

Unlike the Facebook API, the Twitter API does not support logout. If you want to increase the security, you can force user login every time when he/she clicks the Signin with Twitter button. This can be down by adding the force_login parameter in the GET oauth/authenticate request.
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