Integrating with Twitter

Twitter is an amazing way to share simple information with other people. You may want to use it in two ways:

• Allow the player to log in, thus providing a unique username

• Allow the player to tweet his/her high score or progression in the game

You will now see two possibilities to integrate your game with it.

Twitter for dummies

There is a very simple way to use Twitter that doesn't even require you to use any kind of API. If the user is already logged in to Twitter, you can prompt him/her to submit a prewritten tweet, simply by opening a URL. This URL is formatted as follows:

http://twitter.com/home?status=Pre written status here!

The highlighted part of this address is the status you wrote for the player. What we could do in our game is to provide a tweet this link next to the Submit button on the leaderboard screen:

$.ajax({
  dataType: "json",
  url: "highscore.php",
  data: {
    // ...
  },
  async: false,
  success: function (json) {
    var top = "";
    for (var...