Using Tweetinvi

Point your browser to https://github.com/linvi/tweetinvi. The description of this library says it all:

Tweetinvi, the best Twitter C# library for the REST and Stream API. It supports .NET, .NETCore, UAP and Portable Class Libraries (Xamarin)...

In other words, this library is exactly what we need to create our Twitter clone application. Tweetinvi is really well documented and has an active community that supports it.

The ASP.NET Core MVC Twitter clone application

Creating a fully-fledged Twitter clone application is a lot of work—more work than this chapter would allow me, I'm afraid. I will therefore just illustrate how to read the tweets in your main feed (the tweets of the people you follow on Twitter). I will also show you how to post a tweet from the application.

I will be dispensing with all the fancy UI elements in this application, and instead will give you a fantastic basis to carry on developing a fully-fledged Twitter clone. You can consider adding the following functionality...