Using the Twitter REST API

Explore the Twitter REST API for automated Web 2.0

Brian M. Carey (careyb@triangleinformationsolutions.com), Information Systems Consultant, Triangle Information Solutions

Brian Carey is an information systems consultant who specializes in the architecture, design, and implementation of Java enterprise applications. You can follow Brian on Twitter at http://twitter.com/brianmcarey, and his tweets are publicly available.

Summary:  Twitter is undoubtedly one of the most recent and successful examples of social networking to appear on the World Wide Web. Twitter provides an API so Web developers can enable their users to access the various features that the Twitter site provides. In this article, learn the basics of using the Twitter REST API.