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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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llSuccess = .F.

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

loHttp = createobject("CkHttp")

loHttp.OAuth1 = .T.
loHttp.OAuthVerifier = ""
loHttp.OAuthConsumerKey = "my-consumer-key"
loHttp.OAuthConsumerSecret = "my-consumer-secret"
loHttp.OAuthToken = "my-access-token"
loHttp.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.

loReq = createobject("CkHttpRequest")
loReq.AddParam("status","Maybe he'll finally find his keys. #peterfalk")

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

loResp = createobject("CkHttpResponse")
llSuccess = loHttp.HttpReq("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json",loReq,loResp)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    release loHttp
    release loReq
    release loResp
    return
endif

if (loResp.StatusCode = 200) then
    // Display the JSON response.
    ? loResp.BodyStr
else
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
endif



release loHttp
release loReq
release loResp