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Twitter OAuth -- Tweet to Your Own Account

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Demonstrates how to send a tweet (status update) to your own Twitter account using pre-known credentials, which includes:

1. Consumer Key
2. Consumer Secret
3. Access Token
4. Token Secret

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Dim success As Boolean = False

'  This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim http As ChilkatHttp
http.Initialize("http")

http.OAuth1 = True
http.OAuthVerifier = ""
http.OAuthConsumerKey = "my-consumer-key"
http.OAuthConsumerSecret = "my-consumer-secret"
http.OAuthToken = "my-access-token"
http.OAuthTokenSecret = "my-token-secret"

'  Send the same status update as shown in this example:
'  https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/statuses/update

'  IMPORTANT: Make sure this app has read/write access.  
'  Otherwise it cannot post an update (i.e. tweet) to the Twitter account.

Dim req As ChilkatHttpRequest
req.Initialize
req.AddParam("status", "Maybe he'll finally find his keys. #peterfalk")

req.HttpVerb = "POST"
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

Dim resp As ChilkatHttpResponse
resp.Initialize
success = http.HttpReq("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json", req, resp)
If success = False Then
    Log(http.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If




If resp.StatusCode = 200 Then
    '  Display the JSON response.
    Log(resp.BodyStr)
Else
    Log(http.LastErrorText)
End If