Hello, I am developing a website (a.com) that will allow people to connect their existing account (on a.com) to their Twitter account. My site will use the Twitter API to scan peoples twitter friends looking for friends already on my site (a.com) and some status updates will occur. I am writing this in PHP.
What I am struggling with, is how I can save a users twitter information so the user doesn't have to be logged into Twitter.com each time my site needs to post a status update. Like for example, Yelp.com I authorized Yelp.com to post to me feed, now when I rate a business, I can post that review to Twitter regardless of if they are logged into Twitter.com. Or, like foursquare, when I checkin, I can tweet that checkin and it will show up on my feed whether I am logged into Twitter.com or not. Are these sites saving my actual login credentials, or is there a way to save the oauth tokens in a database and just present them to the API when I need to post a tweet or get a list of that users twitter friends? I hope this makes sense. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
