>>Any way with VFP to post messages to Facebook and Twitter?
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>>For example I'd like to have an EditBox in a form and a button where the caption would be "Post Now"
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>>When the user clicks on the PostNow button Id like the text that was entered in the edit box to be posted to the predefined Facebook and Twitter account.
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>>You have sample code to do that?
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>>If not easy or possible with VFP what alternative would you suggest?
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>I see there's a twitter restful API which allows sending of a tweet using statuses/update : https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/statuses/update.
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>I'm guessing the awkward part in VFP would be getting the oAuth token set up. May be simpler using a .NET COM component ? ( I see at least one library that may make that simpler : https://github.com/DWRoelands/TwitterVB/releases )


The OAuth stuff is already available via a Codeplex project. http://vfpoauth.codeplex.com/

The problem with the Twitter code is that it only supports v1 of their API and Twitter has deprecated it (so it no longer works).