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Twitter Toolkit for LabVIEW
Creating a Public Tweeting Console
How easy would it be to use this toolkit to create a small application (Windows Executable) that performs a very simple function: allows random visitors to enter their Twitter username and password and have a pre-configured tweet sent using their credentials?
I ask because I may need to create an application that does just this. One that asks a passerby to enter their Twitter details, it would then send a tweet from their account with some predermined content.
It would need to be quick, slick and simple. For example, two string controls on a front panel for the Username and Password, then a simple button that says "Tweet!". Nothing more. No further interaction needed. Is this possible?
ok, so I went ahead and tried this, and it works.
I now have a simple VI that displays an embedded webpage asking a visitor to enter their username and password and it then sends one tweet on their behalf. Sweet.
So now I want to taking this further. The tweet that will be sent will include a number of hashtags and usernames, primarily @name.
I see from the examples that there's a Search Tweets function which accepts a query. Presumably I can formulate a query that returns tweets with @name in them?
Secondly, this function requires a Twitter Handle, which from the examples is typically stored in a shift register to prevent needing to repeatedly login. However, I'm not sure I can store this as I will be asking visitors to enter their own credentials to allow for sending of tweets. Will this be a problem?
