As of March 2011, the current average number of “Tweets” the world sends per day is 140 million. This tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom Twitter widget from scratch that uses the Twitter API, Web Intents and @Anywhere. Using the Twitter platform to create a fun, interactive tool for your website can be beneficial both in the learning and promotion departments!
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Last week, Twitter released @Anywhere, which, with only a few added lines in your code, can bring all of Twitter’s platform functionalities into your website. @Anywhere can allow for anything, ranging from converting a simple @username into a clickable link, to even creating new tweets directly from your personal site. I’ll show you exactly how to do so in this tutorial!
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Twitter’s astonishing growth is rivaled only by its intuitive, developer friendly API. In this second part of the series, we are going to learn more about Twitter’s API and how to work with it.
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In this tutorial, we will look at using jQuery to call Twitter’s API and then use the results to create a widget for a blog or personal website that shows what hours during the day we tweet at the most.
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