Twitter, has a rich API and it allows you to deal with many things. In this example we are going to learn how to use jQuery to get the latest tweet of a user.
Twitter API
Get the last tweet of a user, simply by changing “username” in the following url:
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from:username&rpp=1
For example, in order to get my latest tweet from my twitter:
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from:panay_georgiou&rpp=1
1. jQuery Ajax
We use Jquery .ajax() function to get the last tweet of the user and display it.
$(‘#last-tweet’).click(function(){
$(“#tweet_result”).text(“Loading……”);
var username = $(‘#username’).val();
$.ajax({
type: “GET”,
dataType: “json”,
url: “http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from:”+username+”&rpp=1&callback=?”,
success: function(data){
$(“#tweet_result”).text(data.results[0].text);
}
});
});
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