Retrieving the tweets of a Twitter user

In this recipe, you'll learn how to retrieve the last tweets of a Twitter user from a Spring web application.

Getting ready

This recipe uses the code from the Connecting to Twitter recipe.

How to do it…

Here are the steps to retrieve the last tweets of a Twitter user:

1. In the TwitterController class, add a Model argument to the tw() method:

   @RequestMapping("/fw")
   public String fb(HttpServletRequest request, Model model) {
   ...

2. In that method, use the Twitter object to retrieve the user's tweets:

   List<Tweet> tweets = twitter.timelineOperations().getUserTimeline();

3. Pass the list of tweets to the JSP view:

   model.addAttribute("tweets", tweets);

4. In the JSP, display the list of tweets:

   <c:forEach items="${tweets}" var="tweet">
     <p>${tweet.text}</p>
   </c:forEach>