Posts Tagged 'Twitter'

A quick search on Google for the term ‘Social Media’ currently retrieves over 203,000,000 results. Just before Facebook started to make a name for itself and emerged on the scene back in late 2006 the buzz word on the internet was ‘Web 2.0,’ even then people were quick to chime in with there 10 pence worth and were happy to give you their opinion on the next best thing on the internet. This unfortunate movement also bought with it a hell of a lot of …

API Knowledge
A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out using the Twitter REST API with PHP and CURL when twitter first launched the API to basically get a users tweets, pretty simple now I look back, but at the time it was the first time i’d done such a thing. As the development of social media continues this will increasingly open up opportunities to develop more and more …

The Farbtastic colour picker is really easy to implement. Its great if your building a customisable interface for an online product in the same way that you can manipulate the design of your Twitter profile. Farbtastic uses layered transparent PNGs to render a saturation/luminance gradient inside of a hue circle. more info on the colour picker can be found here You need to include jQuery, farbtastic.js, and style sheet all of which are in the download below.

The Code

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Some of you may be wondering whats happened to my twitter account, truth is i have no idea either, i went to post a morning tweet and bang the famous suspended account page. I know twitter have been having a few problems with a dodgy phishing link going around as reported by techcrunch here so Im guessing my account got embroiled in that. I will keep you all posted on the developments, I’ve sent a message to Twitter stating my case so i’ll just have …