I&#39;ve just noticed that the long, convoluted Facebook URLs that we&#39;re used to now look like this:

`http://www.facebook.com/example.profile#!/pages/Another-Page/123456789012345`

As far as I can recall, earlier this year it was just a normal URL-fragment-like string (starting with `#`), without the exclamation mark. But now it&#39;s a shebang or hashbang (`#!`), which I&#39;ve previously only seen in shell scripts and Perl scripts.

The [new Twitter](http://blog.twitter.com/2010/09/better-twitter.html) URLs now also feature the `#!` symbols. A Twitter profile URL, for example, now looks like this:

`http://twitter.com/#!/BoltClock`

Does `#!` now play some special role in URLs, like for a certain Ajax framework or something since the new Facebook and Twitter interfaces are now largely Ajaxified?   
Would using this in my URLs benefit my Web application in any way?

What&#39;s the shebang/hashbang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?

*If a picture&#39;s worth 1000 words, how much of a picture can you fit in 140 characters?*

**Note**: That&#39;s it folks! Bounty deadline is here, and after some tough deliberation, I have decided that [Boojum&#39;s entry][1] just barely edged out [Sam Hocevar&#39;s][2]. I will post more detailed notes once I&#39;ve had a chance to write them up. Of course, everyone should feel free to continue to submit solutions and improve solutions for people to vote on. Thank you to everyone who submitted and entry; I enjoyed all of them. This has been a lot of fun for me to run, and I hope it&#39;s been fun for both the entrants and the spectators.

I came across [this interesting post][3] about trying to compress images into a Twitter comment, and lots of people in that thread (and a [thread on Reddit][4]) had suggestions about different ways you could do it. So, I figure it would make a good coding challenge; let people put their money where their mouth is, and show how their ideas about encoding can lead to more detail in the limited space that you have available.

I challenge you to come up with a general purpose system for encoding images into 140 character Twitter messages, and decoding them into an image again. You can use Unicode characters, so you get more than 8 bits per character. Even allowing for Unicode characters, however, you will need to compress images into a very small amount of space; this will certainly be a lossy compression, and so there will have to be subjective judgements about how good each result looks.

Here is the result that the original author, [Quasimondo][5], got from his encoding (image is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license][6]):
![Mona Lisa][7]

Can you do better?

### Rules ###

1. Your program must have two modes: **encoding** and **decoding**.
2. When **encoding**:
  1. Your program must take as input a graphic in any reasonable **raster** graphic format of your choice. We&#39;ll say that any raster format supported by [ImageMagick][8] counts as reasonable.
  2. Your program must output a message which can be represented in 140 or fewer Unicode code points; 140 code points in the range `U+0000`–`U+10FFFF`, excluding non-characters (`U+FFFE`, `U+FFFF`, `U+`*n*`FFFE`, `U+`*n*`FFFF` where *n* is `1`–`10` hexadecimal, and the range `U+FDD0`–`U+FDEF`) and surrogate code points (`U+D800`–`U+DFFF`). It may be output in any reasonable encoding of your choice; any encoding supported by [GNU `iconv`][9] will be considered reasonable, and your platform native encoding or locale encoding would likely be a good choice. See **Unicode notes** below for more details.
3. When **decoding**:
  1. Your program should take as input the output of your **encoding** mode.
  2. Your program must output an image in any reasonable format of your choice, as defined above, though for output vector formats are OK as well.
  3. The image output should be an approximation of the input image; the closer you can get to the input image, the better.
  4. The decoding process may have no access to any other output of the encoding process other than the output specified above; that is, you can&#39;t upload the image somewhere and output the URL for the decoding process to download, or anything silly like that.
4. For the sake of consistency in user interface, your program must behave as follows:
  1. Your program must be a script that can be set to executable on a platform with the appropriate interpreter, or a program that can be compiled into an executable.
  2. Your program must take as its first argument either `encode` or `decode` to set the mode.
  3. Your program must take input in one or more of the following ways (if you implement the one that takes file names, you may also read and write from stdin and stdout if file names are missing):
      1. Take input from standard in and produce output on standard out.

                my-program encode &lt;input.png &gt;output.txt
                my-program decode &lt;output.txt &gt;output.png

      2. Take input from a file named in the second argument, and produce output in the file named in the third.

                my-program encode input.png output.txt
                my-program decode output.txt output.png
5. For your solution, please post:
  1. Your code, in full, and/or a link to it hosted elsewhere (if it&#39;s very long, or requires many files to compile, or something).
  2. An explanation of how it works, if it&#39;s not immediately obvious from the code or if the code is long and people will be interested in a summary.
  3. An example image, with the original image, the text it compresses down to, and the decoded image.
  4. If you are building on an idea that someone else had, please attribute them. It&#39;s OK to try to do a refinement of someone else&#39;s idea, but you **must** attribute them.

### Guidelines ###

These are basically rules that may be broken, suggestions, or scoring criteria:

1. Aesthetics are important. I&#39;ll be judging, and suggest that other people judge, based on:
  1. How good the output image looks, and how much it looks like the original.
  2. How nice the text looks. Completely random gobbledigook is OK if you have a really clever compression scheme, but I also want to see answers that turn images into mutli-lingual poems, or something clever like that. Note that the author of the original solution decided to use only Chinese characters, since it looked nicer that way.
  3. Interesting code and clever algorithms are always good. I like short, to the point, and clear code, but really clever complicated algorithms are OK too as long as they produce good results.
2. Speed is also important, though not as important as how good a job compressing the image you do. I&#39;d rather have a program that can convert an image in a tenth of a second than something that will be running genetic algorithms for days on end.
3. I will prefer shorter solutions to longer ones, as long as they are reasonably comparable in quality; conciseness is a virtue.
4. Your program should be implemented in a language that has a freely-available implementation on Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows. I&#39;d like to be able to run the programs, but if you have a great solution that only runs under [MATLAB][10] or something, that&#39;s fine.
5. Your program should be as general as possible; it should work for as many different images as possible, though some may produce better results than others. In particular:
  1. Having a few images built into the program that it matches and writes a reference to, and then produces the matching image upon decoding, is fairly lame and will only cover a few images.
  2. A program that can take images of simple, flat, geometric shapes and decompose them into some vector primitive is pretty nifty, but if it fails on images beyond a certain complexity it is probably insufficiently general.
  3. A program that can only take images of a particular fixed aspect ratio but does a good job with them would also be OK, but not ideal.
  4. You may find that a black and white image can get more information into a smaller space than a color image. On the other hand, that may limit the types of image it&#39;s applicable to; faces come out fine in black and white, but abstract designs may not fare so well.
  5. It is perfectly fine if the output image is smaller than the input, while being roughly the same proportion. It&#39;s OK if you have to scale the image up to compare it to the original; what&#39;s important is how it looks.
6. Your program should produce output that could actually go through Twitter and come out unscathed. This is only a guideline rather than a rule, since I couldn&#39;t find any documentation on the precise set of characters supported, but you should probably avoid control characters, funky invisible combining characters, private use characters, and the like.

### Scoring rubric ###

As a general guide to how I will be ranking solutions when choosing my accepted solution, lets say that I&#39;ll probably be evaluating solutions on a 25 point scale (this is very rough, and I won&#39;t be scoring anything directly, just using this as a basic guideline):

  * **15 points** for how well the encoding scheme reproduces a wide range of input images. This is a subjective, aesthetic judgement
      * 0 means that it doesn&#39;t work at all, it gives the same image back every time, or something
      * 5 means that it can encode a few images, though the decoded version looks ugly and it may not work at all on more complicated images
      * 10 means that it works on a wide range of images, and produces pleasant looking images which may occasionally be distinguishable
      * 15 means that it produces perfect replicas of some images, and even for larger and more complex images, gives something that is recognizable. Or, perhaps it does not make images that are quite recognizable, but produces beautiful images that are clearly derived from the original.
  * **3 points** for clever use of the Unicode character set
      * 0 points for simply using the entire set of allowed characters
      * 1 point for using a limited set of characters that are safe for transfer over Twitter or in a wider variety of situations
      * 2 points for using a thematic subset of characters, such as only Han ideographs or only right-to-left characters
      * 3 points for doing something really neat, like generating readable text or using characters that look like the image in question
  * **3 points** for clever algorithmic approaches and code style
      * 0 points for something that is 1000 lines of code only to scale the image down, treat it as 1 bit per pixel, and base64 encode that
      * 1 point for something that uses a standard encoding technique and is well written and brief
      * 2 points for something that introduces a relatively novel encoding technique, or that is surprisingly short and clean
      * 3 points for a one liner that actually produces good results, or something that breaks new ground in graphics encoding (if this seems like a low number of points for breaking new ground, remember that a result this good will likely have a high score for aesthetics as well)
  * **2 points** for speed. All else being equal, faster is better, but the above criteria are all more important than speed
  * **1 point** for running on free (open source) software, because I prefer free software (note that C# will still be eligible for this point as long as it runs on Mono, likewise MATLAB code would be eligible if it runs on GNU Octave)
  * **1 point** for actually following all of the rules. These rules have gotten a bit big and complicated, so I&#39;ll probably accept otherwise good answers that get one small detail wrong, but I will give an extra point to any solution that does actually follow all of the rules

### Reference images ###

Some folks have asked for some reference images. Here are a few reference images that you can try; smaller versions are embedded here, they all link to larger versions of the image if you need those:

[&lt;img src=&quot;https://ephemera.continuation.org/stackoverflow/challenge/lena.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lena&quot; title=&quot;Lena&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;][11]
[&lt;img src=&quot;https://ephemera.continuation.org/stackoverflow/challenge/mona-lisa.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mona Lisa&quot; title=&quot;Mona Lisa&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;][12]
[&lt;img src=&quot;https://ephemera.continuation.org/stackoverflow/challenge/cornell-box.png&quot; alt=&quot;Cornell Box&quot; title=&quot;Cornell Box&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;][13]
[&lt;img src=&quot;https://ephemera.continuation.org/stackoverflow/challenge/so-logo-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;StackOverflow Logo&quot; title=&quot;StackOverflow logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;][14]

### Prize ###

I am offering a **500 rep bounty** (plus the 50 that StackOverflow kicks in) for the solution that I like the best, based on the above criteria. Of course, I encourage everyone else to vote on their favorite solutions here as well.

### Note on deadline ###

This contest will run until the bounty runs out, about 6 PM on Saturday, May 30. I can&#39;t say the precise time it will end; it may be anywhere from 5 to 7 PM. I will guarantee that I&#39;ll look at all entries submitted by 2 PM, and I will do my best to look at all entries submitted by 4 PM; if solutions are submitted after that, I may not have a chance to give them a fair look before I have to make my decision. Also, the earlier you submit, the more chance you will have for voting to be able to help me pick the best solution, so try and submit earlier rather than right at the deadline.

### Unicode notes ###

There has also been some confusion on exactly what Unicode characters are allowed. The range of possible Unicode code points is `U+0000` to `U+10FFFF`. There are some code points which are never valid to use as Unicode characters in any open interchange of data; these are the **noncharacters** and the **surrogate code points**. Noncharacters are defined in the [Unidode Standard 5.1.0 section 16.7][15] as the values `U+FFFE`, `U+FFFF`, `U+`*n*`FFFE`, `U+`*n*`FFFF` where *n* is `1`–`10` hexadecimal, and the range `U+FDD0`–`U+FDEF`. These values are intended to be used for application-specific internal usage, and conforming applications may strip these characters out of text processed by them. Surrogate code points, defined in the [Unicode Standard 5.1.0 section 3.8][16] as `U+D800`–`U+DFFF`, are used for encoding characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane in UTF-16; thus, it is impossible to represent these code points directly in the UTF-16 encoding, and it is invalid to encode them in any other encoding. Thus, for the purpose of this contest, I will allow any program which encodes images into a sequence of no more than 140 Unicode code points from the range `U+0000`–`U+10FFFF`, excluding all noncharacters and surrogate pairs as defined above.

I will *prefer* solutions that use only assigned characters, and even better ones that use clever subsets of assigned characters or do something interesting with the character set they use. For a list of assigned characters, see the [Unicode Character Database][17]; note that some characters are listed directly, while some are listed only as the start and end of a range. Also note that surrogate code points are listed in the database, but forbidden as mentioned above. If you would like to take advantage of certain properties of characters for making the text you output more interesting, there are a [variety of databases of character information][18] available, such as a [list of named code blocks][19] and [various character properties][20].

Since Twitter does not specify the exact character set they support, I will be lenient about solutions which do not actually work with Twitter because certain characters count extra or certain characters are stripped. It is preferred but not required that all encoded outputs should be able to be transferred unharmed via Twitter or another microblogging service such as [identi.ca][21]. I have seen some documentation stating that Twitter entity-encodes &amp;lt;, &amp;gt;, and &amp;amp;, and thus counts those as 4, 4, and 5 characters respectively, but I have not tested that out myself, and their JavaScript character counter doesn&#39;t seem to count them that way.

### Tips &amp; Links ###

* The definition of valid Unicode characters in the rules is a bit complicated. Choosing a single block of characters, such as CJK Unified Ideographs (U+4E00–U+9FCF) may be easier.
* You may use existing image libraries, like [ImageMagick][22] or [Python Imaging Library][23], for your image manipulation.
* If you need some help understanding the Unicode character set and its various encodings, see [this quick guide][24] or [this detailed FAQ on UTF-8 in Linux and Unix][25].
* The earlier you get your solution in, the more time I (and other people voting) will have to look at it. You can edit your solution if you improve it; I&#39;ll base my bounty on the most recent version when I take my last look through the solutions.
* If you want an easy image format to parse and write (and don&#39;t want to just use an existing format), I&#39;d suggest using the [PPM format][26]. It&#39;s a text based format that&#39;s very easy to work with, and you can use [ImageMagick][27] to convert to and from it.



  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/891643/twitter-image-encoding-challenge/929360#929360
  [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/891643/twitter-image-encoding-challenge/904874#904874
  [3]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/in/set-72057594062596732/
  [4]: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8lwmw/guy_encodes_an_image_in_a_single_tweet140_chars/
  [5]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/
  [6]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en
  [7]: https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3346/3518306770_1de2bc2970.jpg?v=0
  [8]: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php
  [9]: http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
  [10]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB
  [11]: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/lena_std.tif
  [12]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Mona_Lisa.jpg
  [13]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Cornell_box.png
  [14]: http://ephemera.continuation.org/stackoverflow/challenge/so-logo.png
  [15]: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch16.pdf
  [16]: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch03.pdf
  [17]: http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
  [18]: http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/
  [19]: http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Blocks.txt
  [20]: http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/PropList.txt
  [21]: http://identi.ca/
  [22]: http://www.imagemagick.org/
  [23]: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
  [24]: http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/unicode.html
  [25]: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
  [26]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format
  [27]: http://www.imagemagick.org/


Twitter image encoding challenge

I&#39;ve been playing around storing tweets inside mongodb, each object looks like this:

    {
	&quot;_id&quot; : ObjectId(&quot;4c02c58de500fe1be1000005&quot;),
	&quot;contributors&quot; : null,
	&quot;text&quot; : &quot;Hello world&quot;,
	&quot;user&quot; : {
		&quot;following&quot; : null,
		&quot;followers_count&quot; : 5,
		&quot;utc_offset&quot; : null,
		&quot;location&quot; : &quot;&quot;,
		&quot;profile_text_color&quot; : &quot;000000&quot;,
		&quot;friends_count&quot; : 11,
		&quot;profile_link_color&quot; : &quot;0000ff&quot;,
		&quot;verified&quot; : false,
		&quot;protected&quot; : false,
		&quot;url&quot; : null,
		&quot;contributors_enabled&quot; : false,
		&quot;created_at&quot; : &quot;Sun May 30 18:47:06 +0000 2010&quot;,
		&quot;geo_enabled&quot; : false,
		&quot;profile_sidebar_border_color&quot; : &quot;87bc44&quot;,
		&quot;statuses_count&quot; : 13,
		&quot;favourites_count&quot; : 0,
		&quot;description&quot; : &quot;&quot;,
		&quot;notifications&quot; : null,
		&quot;profile_background_tile&quot; : false,
		&quot;lang&quot; : &quot;en&quot;,
		&quot;id&quot; : 149978111,
		&quot;time_zone&quot; : null,
		&quot;profile_sidebar_fill_color&quot; : &quot;e0ff92&quot;
	},
	&quot;geo&quot; : null,
	&quot;coordinates&quot; : null,
	&quot;in_reply_to_user_id&quot; : 149183152,
	&quot;place&quot; : null,
	&quot;created_at&quot; : &quot;Sun May 30 20:07:35 +0000 2010&quot;,
	&quot;source&quot; : &quot;web&quot;,
	&quot;in_reply_to_status_id&quot; : {
		&quot;floatApprox&quot; : 15061797850
	},
	&quot;truncated&quot; : false,
	&quot;favorited&quot; : false,
	&quot;id&quot; : {
		&quot;floatApprox&quot; : 15061838001
	}



How would I write a query which checks the *created_at* and finds all objects between 18:47 and 19:00? Do I need to update my documents so the dates are stored in a specific format?

Find objects between two dates MongoDB

Because of the Twitter API 1.0 retirement as of [June 11th 2013](https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-date-extended-to-june-11), the script below does not work anymore.

	// Create curl resource 
	$ch = curl_init(); 
	// Set url 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, &quot;http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/myscreenname.json?count=10&quot;); 
	// Return the transfer as a string 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
	// $output contains the output string 
	$output = curl_exec($ch); 
	// Close curl resource to free up system resources 
	curl_close($ch);
	
    if ($output) 
    {
        $tweets = json_decode($output,true);

        foreach ($tweets as $tweet)
        {
            print_r($tweet);
        }
    }

How can I get the user_timeline (recent statuses) with the least code possible?

I found this: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/user_timeline
but I get the following error:

    &quot;{&quot;errors&quot;:[{&quot;message&quot;:&quot;Could not authenticate you&quot;,&quot;code&quot;:32}]}&quot;

There are a lot of classes out there but after trying several none of them seem to work because of these updates at Twitter, plus some of them are pretty advanced classes with a lot of functionality that I don&#39;t really need. 

What is the simplest/shortest way to get the recent user statuses with PHP?


Simplest PHP example for retrieving user_timeline with Twitter API version 1.1

I&#39;m pulling in the XML from Twitter via OAuth.

I&#39;m doing a request to http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml, which returns the following XML:
&lt;!-- language: xml --&gt;
    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;
    &lt;user&gt;
      &lt;id&gt;16434938&lt;/id&gt;
      &lt;name&gt;Lloyd Sparkes&lt;/name&gt;
      &lt;screen_name&gt;lloydsparkes&lt;/screen_name&gt;
      &lt;location&gt;Hockley, Essex, UK&lt;/location&gt;
      &lt;description&gt;Student&lt;/description&gt;
      &lt;profile_image_url&gt;http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/351849613/twitterProfilePhoto_normal.jpg&lt;/profile_image_url&gt;
      &lt;url&gt;http://www.lloydsparkes.co.uk&lt;/url&gt;
      &lt;protected&gt;false&lt;/protected&gt;
      &lt;followers_count&gt;115&lt;/followers_count&gt;
      &lt;profile_background_color&gt;9fdaf4&lt;/profile_background_color&gt;
      &lt;profile_text_color&gt;000000&lt;/profile_text_color&gt;
      &lt;profile_link_color&gt;220f7b&lt;/profile_link_color&gt;
      &lt;profile_sidebar_fill_color&gt;FFF7CC&lt;/profile_sidebar_fill_color&gt;
      &lt;profile_sidebar_border_color&gt;F2E195&lt;/profile_sidebar_border_color&gt;
      &lt;friends_count&gt;87&lt;/friends_count&gt;
      &lt;created_at&gt;Wed Sep 24 14:26:09 +0000 2008&lt;/created_at&gt;
      &lt;favourites_count&gt;0&lt;/favourites_count&gt;
      &lt;utc_offset&gt;0&lt;/utc_offset&gt;
      &lt;time_zone&gt;London&lt;/time_zone&gt;
      &lt;profile_background_image_url&gt;http://s.twimg.com/a/1255366924/images/themes/theme12/bg.gif&lt;/profile_background_image_url&gt;
      &lt;profile_background_tile&gt;false&lt;/profile_background_tile&gt;
      &lt;statuses_count&gt;1965&lt;/statuses_count&gt;
      &lt;notifications&gt;false&lt;/notifications&gt;
      &lt;geo_enabled&gt;false&lt;/geo_enabled&gt;
      &lt;verified&gt;false&lt;/verified&gt;
      &lt;following&gt;false&lt;/following&gt;
      &lt;status&gt;
        &lt;created_at&gt;Mon Oct 12 19:23:47 +0000 2009&lt;/created_at&gt;
        &lt;id&gt;4815268670&lt;/id&gt;
        &lt;text&gt;&amp;#187; @alexmuller your kidding? it should all be &amp;quot;black tie&amp;quot; dress code&lt;/text&gt;
        &lt;source&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://code.google.com/p/wittytwitter/&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;nofollow&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Witty&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/source&gt;
        &lt;truncated&gt;false&lt;/truncated&gt;
        &lt;in_reply_to_status_id&gt;4815131457&lt;/in_reply_to_status_id&gt;
        &lt;in_reply_to_user_id&gt;8645442&lt;/in_reply_to_user_id&gt;
        &lt;favorited&gt;false&lt;/favorited&gt;
        &lt;in_reply_to_screen_name&gt;alexmuller&lt;/in_reply_to_screen_name&gt;
        &lt;geo/&gt;
      &lt;/status&gt;
    &lt;/user&gt;

I am using the following code to deserialize:
&lt;!-- language-all: c# --&gt;
        public User VerifyCredentials()
        {
            string url = &quot;http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml&quot;;
            string xml = _oauth.oAuthWebRequestAsString(oAuthTwitter.Method.GET, url, null);

            XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(User),&quot;&quot;);

            MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml));

            return (User)xs.Deserialize(ms);
        }

And I have the following for my `User` class:

     [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true)]
    public partial class User
    {

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;id&quot;)]       
        public long Id { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;name&quot;)] 
        public string Name { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;screen_name&quot;)]       
        public string ScreenName { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;location&quot;)]       
        public string Location { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;description&quot;)]      
        public string Description { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;profile_image_url&quot;)]      
        public string ProfileImageUrl { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;url&quot;)]       
        public string Url { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;protected&quot;)]      
        public bool Protected { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;followers_count&quot;)]      
        public int FollowerCount { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;profile_background_color&quot;)]       
        public string ProfileBackgroundColor { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;profile_text_color&quot;)]       
        public string ProfileTextColor { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;profile_link_color&quot;)]       
        public string ProfileLinkColor { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;profile_sidebar_fill_color&quot;)]       
        public string ProfileSidebarFillColor { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;profile_sidebar_border_color&quot;)]      
        public string ProfileSidebarBorderColor { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;friends_count&quot;)]     
        public int FriendsCount { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;created_at&quot;)]     
        public string CreatedAt { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;favourties_count&quot;)]      
        public int FavouritesCount { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;utc_offset&quot;)]      
        public int UtcOffset { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;time_zone&quot;)]       
        public string Timezone { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;profile_background_image_url&quot;)]        
        public string ProfileBackgroundImageUrl { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;profile_background_tile&quot;)]        
        public bool ProfileBackgroundTile { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;statuese_count&quot;)]        
        public int StatusesCount { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;notifications&quot;)]       
        public string Notifications { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;geo_enabled&quot;)]       
        public bool GeoEnabled { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;Verified&quot;)]        
        public bool Verified { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;following&quot;)]
        public string Following { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = &quot;status&quot;, IsNullable=true)]
        public Status CurrentStatus { get; set; }

    }

But when it&#39;s deserializing the above XML the application throws the following:

&gt; $exception {&quot;There is an error in XML document (2, 2).&quot;} System.Exception {System.InvalidOperationException}

&gt; InnerException {&quot;&amp;lt;user xmlns=&#39;&#39;&amp;gt; was not expected.&quot;}	System.Exception {System.InvalidOperationException}

Now I have searched around and the best solution I can find is to add blank namespaces to the serializer when you serialize the content, but i&#39;m not serializing it so I can&#39;t.

I also have some code for receiving Statuses, which works fine.

So can someone explain to me why the error is happening? As well as a possible solution?

{&quot;&lt;user xmlns=&#39;&#39;&gt; was not expected.} Deserializing Twitter XML

A project for class involves parsing Twitter JSON data. I&#39;m getting the data and setting it to the file without much trouble, but it&#39;s all in one line. This is fine for the data manipulation I&#39;m trying to do, but the file is ridiculously hard to read and I can&#39;t examine it very well, making the code writing for the data manipulation part very difficult. 

Does anyone know how to do that from within Python (i.e. not using the command line tool, which I can&#39;t get to work)? Here&#39;s my code so far:

    header, output = client.request(twitterRequest, method=&quot;GET&quot;, body=None,
                                headers=None, force_auth_header=True)

    # now write output to a file
    twitterDataFile = open(&quot;twitterData.json&quot;, &quot;wb&quot;)
    # magic happens here to make it pretty-printed
    twitterDataFile.write(output)
    twitterDataFile.close()

**Note** I appreciate people pointing me to simplejson documentation and such, but as I have stated, I have already looked at that and continue to need assistance. A truly helpful reply will be more detailed and explanatory than the examples found there. *Thanks*

**Also:**
Trying this in the windows command line:

    more twitterData.json | python -mjson.tool &gt; twitterData-pretty.json

results in this:

    Invalid control character at: line 1 column 65535 (char 65535)

I&#39;d give you the data I&#39;m using, but it&#39;s very large and you&#39;ve already seen the code I used to make the file.


Pretty-Print JSON Data to a File using Python

I&#39;m trying to put a Twitter share link in an email.  Because this is in an email I can&#39;t rely on JavaScript, and have to use the &quot;Build Your Own&quot; Tweet button.

For example, sharing a link to Google:

    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twitter.com/share?url=http://www.google.com/&gt;Tweet&lt;/a&gt;

This works fine.  The problem I&#39;m having is when the URL has a query string.

    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twitter.com/share?url=http://mysite.org/foo.htm?bar=123&amp;baz=456&quot;&gt;Tweet&lt;/a&gt;

URLs with query strings confuse Twitter&#39;s URL shortening service, t.co.  I&#39;ve tried URL encoding this in various ways and cannot get anything to work.  The closest I have gotten is by doing this.

    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twitter.com/share?url=http://mysite.org/foo.htm%3Fbar%3D123%26baz%3D456&quot;&gt;Tweet&lt;/a&gt;

Here I&#39;ve encoded only the query string.  When I do this, t.co successfully shortens the URL, but upon following the shortened link, it takes you to the encoded URL.  I see `http://mysite.org/foo.htm%3Fbar%3D123%26baz%3D456` in the address bar, and get the following error in the browser

&gt; Not Found
&gt;
&gt; The requested URL /foo.htm?bar=123&amp;baz=456 was not found on this server.

I&#39;m at a loss as to how to solve this problem.

**Edit:**  Re: onteria_

I&#39;ve tried encoding the entire URL.  When I do that no URL shows up in the Tweet.

Sharing a URL with a query string on Twitter

I am working on a Twitter project where I want to use OAuth but I don&#39;t know where to get the consumer and secret keys.

How can I get these?

Getting new Twitter API consumer and secret keys

Is anyone else having a difficult time getting Twitters oAuth&#39;s callback URL to hit their localhost development environment.
Apparently it has been disabled recently. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=534#c1

Does anyone have a workaround. I don&#39;t really want to stop my development

Twitter oAuth callbackUrl - localhost development

I am trying to call following Twitter&#39;s API to get a list of followers for a user.

http://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/ids.json?cursor=-1&amp;screen_name=username

And I am getting this error message in response.

    {
        code = 215;
        message = &quot;Bad Authentication data&quot;;
    }

I can&#39;t seem to find the documentation related to this error code. Anyone has any idea about this error?

Twitter API returns error 215, Bad Authentication Data

Is there a way in the Twitter API to get the replies to a particular tweet? Thanks

Replies to a particular tweet, Twitter API

I am required to extract the time of the day from the [datetime.datetime][1] object returned by the *[created_at][2]* attribute, but how can I do that?

This is my code for getting the datetime.datetime object.

    from datetime import *
    import tweepy

    consumer_key = &#39;&#39;
    consumer_secret = &#39;&#39;
    access_token = &#39;&#39;
    access_secret = &#39;&#39;
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)
    api = tweepy.API(auth)
    tweets = tweepy.Cursor(api.home_timeline).items(limit = 2)
    t1 = datetime.strptime(&#39;Wed Jun 01 12:53:42 +0000 2011&#39;, &#39;%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y&#39;)
    for tweet in tweets:
       print (tweet.created_at - t1)
       t1 = tweet.created_at

I need to only extract the hour and minutes from `t1`.


  [1]: https://docs.python.org/3.3/library/datetime.html#datetime-objects
  [2]: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/data-dictionary/object-model/tweet

How can I extract hours and minutes from a datetime.datetime object?

I have some Javascript that uses Twitter API to get tweets. I parse the data and use jQuery to generate HTML for the DOM. 

An aspect of what I want to display is a &quot;View this tweet&quot; link -- yeah, sorta sounds silly, but it allows a user to get a URL for a specific tweet.

I am generating an a tag with an href. The URL is of the form:

    http://twitter.com/{twitter-user-id}/status/{tweet-status-id}

where the content in curly braces is actual data extracted from the tweet (no, I am not including the curly braces). For example:

    http://twitter.com/Atechtrader/status/57432099984130050

What happens in operation is that this works for some tweets, but not others. For the ones that fails, the Twitter server responds with content that says the requested page does not exist.

Am I doing something wrong?

URL for a link to Twitter for a specific tweet

I am new to OAuth and have been playing around with the Twitter API. I am able to fetch the credentials of an user after authentication by making a request to `http://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.xml`. The response contains the user id, screen name etc. but not the email ID. 

Is it possible at all to retrieve the email ID of the user? 


**Update** 

I believe Facebook provides this information if you specifically request for [extended permissions][1]. Is there something similar for Twitter?


  [1]: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissions

Is there a way to get an user&#39;s email ID after verifying his/her Twitter identity using OAuth?

I am trying to store a tweet in my MYSQL table.  The [tweet](https://twitter.com/wendygomezz_/status/408709587735310337) is:

&gt; quiero que me escuches, no te burles no te rias, anoche tuve un sue&#241;o que te fuiste de mi vida &amp;#x1f3b6;&amp;#x1f3b6;

The final two characters are both [&#39;MULTIPLE MUSICAL NOTES&#39; (U+1F3B6)](http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f3b6/), for which the UTF-8 encoding is `0xf09f8eb6`.

The `tweet_text` field in my table is encoded in `utf8mb4`.  But when I try to store the tweet in that column I get the following error message:

&gt; Incorrect string value: &#39;\xF0\x9F\x8E\xB6\xF0\x9F...&#39;  for column &#39;tweet_text&#39; at row 1.

What is going wrong?  How can I fix this?  I need to store multiple languages as well and this character set works for all languages but not for the special characters like emoticons and emojis.

This is my create table statement:

    CREATE TABLE `twitter_status_data` (
      `unique_status_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
      `metadata_result_type` text CHARACTER SET utf8,
      `created_at` text CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL COMMENT &#39;UTC time when this Tweet was    created.&#39;,
      `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL COMMENT &#39;Unique tweet identifier&#39;,
      `id_str` text CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL,
      `tweet_text` text COMMENT &#39;Actual UTF-8 text&#39;,
      `user_id_str` text CHARACTER SET utf8,
      `user_name` text COMMENT &#39;User&#39;&#39;s name&#39;,
      `user_screen_name` text COMMENT &#39;Twitter handle&#39;,
      `coordinates` text CHARACTER SET utf8,
      PRIMARY KEY (`unique_status_id`),
      KEY `user_id_index` (`user_id`),
      FULLTEXT KEY `tweet_text_index` (`tweet_text`)
    ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=82451 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4;


Incorrect string value: &#39;\xF0\x9F\x8E\xB6\xF0\x9F...&#39; MySQL

why text field value is truncated and how can i get complete value.
As of now i am trying to get text field value like below

    do {
           if let responseObject = try NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(response, options: []) as? [String:AnyObject],
               arrayStatuses = responseObject[&quot;statuses&quot;] as? [[String:AnyObject]] {
                   let arrTweets:NSMutableArray = NSMutableArray()
                   for status in arrayStatuses {
                       let text = status[&quot;text&quot;]!
                       print(status[&quot;text&quot;]!)
                   }
           }
    }

**output is**

RT @WarfareWW: #Russia/#India may hold launches of BrahMos cruise missiles from Su-30MKI vs sea/grnd trgts at the end of this year https://…

three dots at the end of line. i need to print complete text without truncation.

Twitter sample search result JSON Data

    {
          &quot;created_at&quot;: &quot;Mon Aug 01 08:07:43 +0000 2016&quot;,
          &quot;id&quot;: 760024194079916032,
          &quot;id_str&quot;: &quot;760024194079916032&quot;,
          &quot;text&quot;: &quot;RT @khalidasopore: #KEXIT #KASHEXIT #KashmirKillings #Inida #Pakistan Just trend it my dear Indians to save #Kashmir from Pak Goons https:/…&quot;,
          &quot;truncated&quot;: false
    }

Twitter api text field value is truncated

I was looking for some way to launch Twitter app and open a specified page from my application, without webview.
I found the solution for Facebook here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10788247/opening-facebook-app-on-specified-profile-page?answertab=active#tab-top

I need something similar.

**EDIT**
I just found a solution:

    try {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
	    Uri.parse(&quot;twitter://user?screen_name=[user_name]&quot;));
        startActivity(intent);
    } catch (Exception e) {
	    startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
	    Uri.parse(&quot;https://twitter.com/#!/[user_name]&quot;))); 
    }

Open page in Twitter app from other app - Android

I&#39;m looking for any solid current information on creating custom share icons for the following.

 - Facebook
 - Twitter
 - Google +
 - LinkedIn
 - Pinterest

All the documentation I keep getting to seems to be about using THEIR social like  / share buttons - which most of the time I think are not very appealing.  Things like socialite.js help to deal with some of the other issues that arrise when using the &quot;native&quot; like / share buttons (sorry not sure what else to call them), but they&#39;re not very pretty to be honest.  

Any reference material / tutorials or guidance would be awesome.

Cheers.

Social Share Links with Custom Icons

I started getting this error recently when trying to login using twitter- any idea why?

    Stack Trace: 
    
    
    [AuthenticationException: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure.]
       System.Net.TlsStream.EndWrite(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +230
       System.Net.PooledStream.EndWrite(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +13
       System.Net.ConnectStream.WriteHeadersCallback(IAsyncResult ar) +123
    
    [WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.]
       System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +6432446
       System.Net.Http.HttpClientHandler.GetResponseCallback(IAsyncResult ar) +64



Owin Twitter login - the remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure

I have the following Json gotten from Twitter

 

         +		token	{[
      {
        &quot;trends&quot;: [
          {
            &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Croke Park II&quot;,
            &quot;url&quot;: &quot;http://twitter.com/search?q=%22Croke+Park+II%22&quot;,
            &quot;promoted_content&quot;: null,
            &quot;query&quot;: &quot;%22Croke+Park+II%22&quot;,
            &quot;events&quot;: null
          },
          {
            &quot;name&quot;: &quot;#twiznight&quot;,
            &quot;url&quot;: &quot;http://twitter.com/search?q=%23twiznight&quot;,
            &quot;promoted_content&quot;: null,
            &quot;query&quot;: &quot;%23twiznight&quot;,
            &quot;events&quot;: null
          },
          {
            &quot;name&quot;: &quot;#Phanhattan&quot;,
            &quot;url&quot;: &quot;http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Phanhattan&quot;,
            &quot;promoted_content&quot;: null,
            &quot;query&quot;: &quot;%23Phanhattan&quot;,
            &quot;events&quot;: null
          },
          {
            &quot;name&quot;: &quot;#VinB&quot;,
            &quot;url&quot;: &quot;http://twitter.com/search?q=%23VinB&quot;,
            &quot;promoted_content&quot;: null,
            &quot;query&quot;: &quot;%23VinB&quot;,
            &quot;events&quot;: null
          },
          {
            &quot;name&quot;: &quot;#Boston&quot;,
            &quot;url&quot;: &quot;http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Boston&quot;,
            &quot;promoted_content&quot;: null,
            &quot;query&quot;: &quot;%23Boston&quot;,
            &quot;events&quot;: null
          },
          {
            &quot;name&quot;: &quot;#rtept&quot;,
            &quot;url&quot;: &quot;http://twitter.com/search?q=%23rtept&quot;,
            &quot;promoted_content&quot;: null,
            &quot;query&quot;: &quot;%23rtept&quot;,
            &quot;events&quot;: null
          },
          {
            &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Facebook&quot;,
            &quot;url&quot;: &quot;http://twitter.com/search?q=Facebook&quot;,
            &quot;promoted_content&quot;: null,
            &quot;query&quot;: &quot;Facebook&quot;,
            &quot;events&quot;: null
          },
          {
            &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Ireland&quot;,
            &quot;url&quot;: &quot;http://twitter.com/search?q=Ireland&quot;,
            &quot;promoted_content&quot;: null,
            &quot;query&quot;: &quot;Ireland&quot;,
            &quot;events&quot;: null
          },
          {
            &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Everton&quot;,
            &quot;url&quot;: &quot;http://twitter.com/search?q=Everton&quot;,
            &quot;promoted_content&quot;: null,
            &quot;query&quot;: &quot;Everton&quot;,
            &quot;events&quot;: null
          },
          {
            &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Twitter&quot;,
            &quot;url&quot;: &quot;http://twitter.com/search?q=Twitter&quot;,
            &quot;promoted_content&quot;: null,
            &quot;query&quot;: &quot;Twitter&quot;,
            &quot;events&quot;: null
          }
        ],
        &quot;as_of&quot;: &quot;2013-04-17T13:05:30Z&quot;,
        &quot;created_at&quot;: &quot;2013-04-17T12:51:41Z&quot;,
        &quot;locations&quot;: [
          {
            &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Dublin&quot;,
            &quot;woeid&quot;: 560743
          }
        ]
      }
    ]}	Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JToken {Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JArray}

Problem is I can&#39;t seem to access any of the elements. I have tried foreach loops and normal for loops and can never seem to access individual elemets it always ends up accessing the whole area.

Any idea how I access the individual elements in this Json JArray?

How to access elements of a JArray (or iterate over them)

The twitter API site lists 4 java twitter libraries.


- [Twitter4j][1]
- [java-twitter][2]
- [jtwitter][3]
- [twittered][4]


  [1]: https://github.com/yusuke/twitter4j
  [2]: http://code.google.com/p/java-twitter/
  [3]: http://www.winterwell.com/software/jtwitter.php
  [4]: https://github.com/redouane59/twittered

Do you know others? What are your experiences in support, ease of use, stability, community, etc.

Best java twitter library?

A tweet can be opened by Safari with a link of this format:

    http://twitter.com/1Direction_X/statuses/197752514391715842

On iOS 5, Twitter is built-in. How can I open the above tweet using the native Twitter app called from my app?

How can I open a Twitter tweet using the native Twitter app on iOS?

Is it possible to show a list of applications (with `intent.createChooser`) that only show me my twitter apps on my phone (so htc peep (htc hero) or twitdroid). I have tried it with `intent.settype(&quot;application/twitter&quot;)` but it doesnt find any apps for twitter and only shows my mail apps.

Thank you,

Wouter

Android Intent for Twitter application

I need to develop an app that has the share function. I have to share on Facebook, twitter, email and maybe other services. 

How can I do this? There a library on the net? For the iOS development there were ShareKit, but for Android?

Thanks :)

Android - Share on Facebook, Twitter, Mail, ecc

Can I fetch the tweet from Twitter if I know the tweet&#39;s id?


I have followed the steps required to create a new application and getting consumer key, secret pairs and also the token access details. Now I would like to make calls to [Twitter Rest API][1], using chrome Postman client.

How should I pass the customer key, secret, token etc details to the request? I have tried to pass them as headers and also tried to pass them by selecting OAuth1.0 option in postman client but I am getting errors:

    {
      &quot;errors&quot;: [
        {
          &quot;code&quot;: 32,
          &quot;message&quot;: &quot;Could not authenticate you.&quot;
        }
      ]
    }


  [1]: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public

How to make calls to Twitter API using Postman client

Is there anything similar to getsharekit.com for Android? It allows to share URL&#39;s to social networking sites. Is there anything similar to this or do I need to code separately for facebook, Twitter and email?





Sharing URL to Facebook, Twitter and email in Android?

This is similar to to [this question][1] which doesn&#39;t have any answers. I&#39;ve read all about how to use cursors with the [twitter][2], [facebook][3], and [disqus][4] api&#39;s and also [this article][5] about how disqus generally built their cursors, but I still cannot seem to grok the concept of how they work and how to implement a similar solution in my own projects. Can someone explain specifically the different techniques and concepts behind them?


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17234203/building-a-pagination-cursor
  [2]: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/misc/cursoring
  [3]: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/pagination/
  [4]: http://disqus.com/api/docs/cursors/
  [5]: https://cra.mr/2011/03/08/building-cursors-for-the-disqus-api

How to implement cursors for pagination in an api

I am writing python to crawl Twitter space using Twitter-py. I have set the crawler to sleep for a while (2 seconds) between each request to api.twitter.com. However, after some times of running (around 1), when the Twitter&#39;s rate limit not exceeded yet, I got this error.

    [Errno 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.

What are possible causes of this problem and how to solve this?

I have searched through and found that the Twitter server itself may force to close the connection due to many requests.

Thank you very much in advance.

python: [Errno 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

Literally I am looking for something like this:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ 

But for Twitter Cards.

I put something wrong on my pages and I need them to be refreshed asap. But after google I only found this post:

https://dev.twitter.com/cards/troubleshooting

It seems Twitter only offers a weekly update. Is there any manual way to purge the wrongly cached pages?

Thanks

How to force cache purge of Twitter Card&#39;s bots?

I want to use regular share button like on this page https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons#tweet but to add an embedded image from my site, not just link. 

I know all about 1.1 api and uploading, but making an tw application and then ask visitor on my site **to give permission to write on his timeline** just to share one pic from my site is not likely scenario, so I think about alternatives. 

I&#39;ve noticed when just paste links of pic that are already uploaded on twitter into tweet, if you paste link like `https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BPpk_KUCMNBXsPN.jpg` that is not going to be embeded, but if you paste link like this `pic.twitter.com/NuDSx1ZKwy` it will be embeded. So I think if I make profile and app that will call `https://upload.twitter.com/1/statuses/update_with_media.json` and upload pic, and then paste link in share button I will get tweet with pic embeded. Or there is better way? I use php.

Twitter - share button, but with image

I want to have a link to my twitter page that references it with my twitter ID and not twitter name. This is because I want to build the link into an app and the twitter name for the account may change in future. 



URL link to Twitter user with ID, not name

I&#39;m trying to authenticate with OAuth on NodeJS and I&#39;m getting this error: 

&gt; Error getting OAuth request token : { statusCode: 401, data: &#39;\n\n Desktop applications only support the oauth_callback value \&#39;oob\&#39;\n /oauth/request_token\n\n&#39; }

Here is my code (server.js)

    var express = require(&#39;express&#39;);
    var util = require(&#39;util&#39;);
    var oauth = require(&#39;oauth&#39;);
    
    var app = express.createServer();
    
    // Get your credentials here: https://dev.twitter.com/apps
    var _twitterConsumerKey = &quot;1&quot;;
    var _twitterConsumerSecret = &quot;2&quot;;
    
    var consumer = new oauth.OAuth(
        &quot;https://twitter.com/oauth/request_token&quot;, &quot;https://twitter.com/oauth/access_token&quot;, 
        _twitterConsumerKey, _twitterConsumerSecret, &quot;1.0A&quot;, &quot;http://127.0.0.1:8080/sessions/callback&quot;, &quot;HMAC-SHA1&quot;);
    
    app.configure(&#39;development&#39;, function(){
        app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true }));
        app.use(express.logger());
        app.use(express.cookieParser());
        app.use(express.session({ secret: &quot;very secret&quot; }));
        
        app.use(function(req, res, next) {
            res.locals.user = req.session.user;
            next();
        });
    });
    
    app.get(&#39;/sessions/connect&#39;, function(req, res){
        consumer.getOAuthRequestToken(function(error, oauthToken, oauthTokenSecret, results){
            if (error) {
                res.send(&quot;Error getting OAuth request token : &quot; + util.inspect(error), 500);
            } else {  
                req.session.oauthRequestToken = oauthToken;
                req.session.oauthRequestTokenSecret = oauthTokenSecret;
                res.redirect(&quot;https://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=&quot;+req.session.oauthRequestToken);      
            }
        });
    });
    
    app.get(&#39;/sessions/callback&#39;, function(req, res){
        util.puts(&quot;&gt;&gt;&quot;+req.session.oauthRequestToken);
        util.puts(&quot;&gt;&gt;&quot;+req.session.oauthRequestTokenSecret);
        util.puts(&quot;&gt;&gt;&quot;+req.query.oauth_verifier);
        consumer.getOAuthAccessToken(req.session.oauthRequestToken, req.session.oauthRequestTokenSecret, req.query.oauth_verifier, function(error, oauthAccessToken, oauthAccessTokenSecret, results) {
            if (error) {
                res.send(&quot;Error getting OAuth access token : &quot; + util.inspect(error) + &quot;[&quot;+oauthAccessToken+&quot;]&quot;+ &quot;[&quot;+oauthAccessTokenSecret+&quot;]&quot;+ &quot;[&quot;+util.inspect(results)+&quot;]&quot;, 500);
            } else {
                req.session.oauthAccessToken = oauthAccessToken;
                req.session.oauthAccessTokenSecret = oauthAccessTokenSecret;
                
                res.redirect(&#39;/home&#39;);
            }
        });
    });
    
    app.get(&#39;/home&#39;, function(req, res){
        consumer.get(&quot;http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.json&quot;, req.session.oauthAccessToken, req.session.oauthAccessTokenSecret, function (error, data, response) {
            if (error) {
                res.redirect(&#39;/sessions/connect&#39;);
                // res.send(&quot;Error getting twitter screen name : &quot; + util.inspect(error), 500);
            } else {
                var parsedData = JSON.parse(data);
                
                // req.session.twitterScreenName = response.screen_name;    
                res.send(&#39;You are signed in: &#39; + parsedData.screen_name);
            } 
        });
    });
    
    app.get(&#39;*&#39;, function(req, res){
        res.redirect(&#39;/home&#39;);
    });
    
    app.listen(8080);

Thanks in advance.

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