[IPhone] Post to Twitter

Introduction

Post to twitter sample.

- (void) postToTwitter { // Since this will be launched in a separate thread, we need // an autorelease pool NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL: [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://TWITTER_ACCOUNT:PASSWORD@twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"] cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy timeoutInterval:30.0]; // The text to post NSString *msg = @"testing"; // Set the HTTP request method [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"]; [request setHTTPBody:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"status=%@", msg] dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]]; NSURLResponse *response; NSError *error; if ([NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error] != nil) NSLog(@"Posted to Twitter successfully."); else NSLog(@"Error posting to Twitter."); // Release pool [pool release]; }

[NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(postToTwitter) toTarget:self withObject:nil];