Creating a Twitter application
Twitter is the ubiquitous microblogging social media platform with 253 million active members as of 2014. Fortunately for us, Twitter makes the service's data more open and available to third parties than just about any other social media site of similar size and standing in the tech community. Additionally, Twitter offers a rich and user-friendly RESTful API that we will make use of extensively. This recipe will show you how to create a new Twitter application, which is a required step to access Twitter data programmatically.
Getting ready
Make sure that you have a web browser installed, and open up a new browser tab or window.
How to do it...
The following steps will walk you through the creation of a new Twitter application:
Note
Note that Twitter does like to update its user interface (UI) frequently and these steps, or the web-based forms, might change accordingly
- First, make sure that you have created a Twitter account. If you have not created one, go to http...