Technology

Why businesses should love social media?

Why businesses should love social media? Did you know that there are more devices connected to the internet than there are people on the entire planet? • One out of every seven minutes spent online is on Facebook. • 340 million tweets are sent each and every day. • Pinterest is the social network that […]

Mansi Dawar
Mansi Dawar
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Grails

Get recent twitter followers using Twitter4j

Hi, In the previous blog we saw how to fetch twitter users based on some search criteria using the Twitter4j library, a java wrapper available for Twitter API calls. In the same grails project, i had the requirement to display the recent twitter followers of authenticated twitter accounts. Twitter4j library provides a way to get […]

Vishal Sahu
Vishal Sahu
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Grails

Posting status update on twitter using Twitter4j

Hi, In the previous post, we saw how to Retweet any user’s tweet from our application. In the same project, i needed to post a new tweet on behalf of the authenticating user from the application using Twitter API. Posting a new status update is quite easy using Twitter4j library. For making any twitter API […]

Vishal Sahu
Vishal Sahu
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Grails

Mark tweet as ‘Favorite’ using Twitter4j

Hi, In one of my grails project, i worked on integrating twitter API with the application. The requirement is such that we need to display all of the tweets to any user and provide the basic functionality such as reply, retweet, favorite etc using the API calls. I used Twitter4j (a java wrapper for twitter […]

Vishal Sahu
Vishal Sahu
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