Using ASP.NET MVC 2 to Query Twitter's Public API - FIFA 2010
Using ASP.NET MVC 2 to Query Twitter's Public API - FIFA 2010 If you've been living under a rock for the last few years, you might not have heard of Twitter, but for the rest of us, it is a great communication tool. I have made countless friends with it including the authors of DotNetCurry! Thankfully Twitter has a public Application Programming Interface (API) which you can use and incorporate into your site, if you'd like to add Twitter feeds to it. This article demonstrates how to do it using ASP.NET MVC. To see this in action, I'm going to create a small ASP.NET MVC 2 website. If you haven't got Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, you can download the Express edition here. To begin with, let's take a look at the Twitter's API. The documentation is here, but for a brief overview, here's what you can do: - search - trends - trends/current - trends/daily - trends/weekly I'm going to be using the search API to search Twitter. Search returns twe