[twitter-dev] Re: Follow me on Twitter
Why don't you use the Tweetmeme follow button? It's pretty cool and uses a pop-up: http://blog.tweetmeme.com/2010/02/23/follow-button/ On Mar 5, 6:07 pm, Jaanus jaa...@gmail.com wrote: There are many ways, though, to implement the OAuth interface to sign in the user. Many sites (see getsatisfaction.com for an example) do it with a popup instead of a full page reload. This means that the main page stays whatever it is, and the Twitter stuff appears just in a small popup. rgds, Jaanus On Mar 5, 6:30 pm, AlexBeck alexbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks all, this is what i feared. On Mar 3, 3:34 pm, Jaanus jaa...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter API lets youfollowand unfollow people. But, the user needs to login, and these days the fancy way to do login is through OAuth, which means a trip to twitter.com anyway. On Mar 2, 9:58 pm, AlexBeck alexbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I am creating a project for a rather large client, and have run into a twitter api question. The client wants to create a followmeon twitter bug on the page, but they do not want to land on any page that is a twitter.com address? is it possible to create an experience in a browser where someone can choose tofollowanother twitter user without every going to the twitter site? thanks alex
[twitter-dev] Re: Follow me on Twitter
Thanks all, this is what i feared. On Mar 3, 3:34 pm, Jaanus jaa...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter API lets youfollowand unfollow people. But, the user needs to login, and these days the fancy way to do login is through OAuth, which means a trip to twitter.com anyway. On Mar 2, 9:58 pm, AlexBeck alexbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I am creating a project for a rather large client, and have run into a twitter api question. The client wants to create a followmeon twitter bug on the page, but they do not want to land on any page that is a twitter.com address? is it possible to create an experience in a browser where someone can choose tofollowanother twitter user without every going to the twitter site? thanks alex
[twitter-dev] Re: Follow me on Twitter
There are many ways, though, to implement the OAuth interface to sign in the user. Many sites (see getsatisfaction.com for an example) do it with a popup instead of a full page reload. This means that the main page stays whatever it is, and the Twitter stuff appears just in a small popup. rgds, Jaanus On Mar 5, 6:30 pm, AlexBeck alexbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks all, this is what i feared. On Mar 3, 3:34 pm, Jaanus jaa...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter API lets youfollowand unfollow people. But, the user needs to login, and these days the fancy way to do login is through OAuth, which means a trip to twitter.com anyway. On Mar 2, 9:58 pm, AlexBeck alexbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I am creating a project for a rather large client, and have run into a twitter api question. The client wants to create a followmeon twitter bug on the page, but they do not want to land on any page that is a twitter.com address? is it possible to create an experience in a browser where someone can choose tofollowanother twitter user without every going to the twitter site? thanks alex
[twitter-dev] Re: Follow me on Twitter
Twitter API lets you follow and unfollow people. But, the user needs to login, and these days the fancy way to do login is through OAuth, which means a trip to twitter.com anyway. On Mar 2, 9:58 pm, AlexBeck alexbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I am creating a project for a rather large client, and have run into a twitter api question. The client wants to create a follow me on twitter bug on the page, but they do not want to land on any page that is a twitter.com address? is it possible to create an experience in a browser where someone can choose to follow another twitter user without every going to the twitter site? thanks alex
