cs1520: lab 9
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Twitter REST API
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In this lab we will explore Twitter's REST API: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/


examples:
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*   The following shows a search for tweets containing "java."
    results per page (rpp) = 5. type of tweets = both popular and recent (mixed). The result format is "rss":

    http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=java&rpp=5&result_type=mixed


*   Lookup a user by screen_name or user_id. In this example, we are requesting that the return type be JSON.
    https://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.json?screen_name=DalaiLama


exercises:
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1   Get Barack Obama's 2 most recent tweets in xml format. His screenname is "BarackObama" ().

2.	Get the followers of some user (GET followers/ids).


posting updates:
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3.  To post a tweet, you will have to create a twitter account.
	Next, create a twitter application: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new
	and be sure to give your application read and write permissions.

	After that, navigate to the documentation for POST statuses/update.
	Set the message text using the "status" variable.
	Use the Oauth tool (on the sidebar) to generate a "curl" command.
	You can then execute the provided curl command on unix.	Verify that the tweet went through.