By Cesar Otero
Introduction
This article is brief introduction to using the twitter4j API, which is used for creating your own Twitter applications in Java. This API gives access to the Twitter infrastructure, and allows you to do such tasks as updating your status, getting a list of your followers, and many other useful tasks all from your Java program.
A good understanding of Java and Swing gui's is needed. Our goal is to build a basic desktop application using Swing as our view technology, that will:
- Login through a pop-up
- Display the users followers
- Display the users updates
- Allow the user to update his status on Twitter (send a tweet)
- Search for Tweets
- Send direct tweets
This will serve as a skeleton for your own applications. Use your imagination, and feel free to embellish on the example we create here. Although you could use any view technology, such as JSP, I've decided to use Swing in order to avoid entering into too many additional topics.
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