Twitter - Simple way to show tweets using the API?

Question

User-29703693 posted

I want to display the last 4 tweets on my website.  I've done the following below which works fine but I'd like all of the urls and twitter names in the title to be hyperlinked.  Is parsing the title the best option or is there another approach I should take?

Sub GetTweets()
        Dim xmlDoc = New System.Xml.XmlDocument
        xmlDoc.Load("http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=asp.net&rpp=4")

        'create the select the nodes
        Dim root As System.Xml.XmlElement = xmlDoc.DocumentElement
        Dim nodeList As System.Xml.XmlNodeList = xmlDoc.GetElementsByTagName("entry")

        lblTweets.Text = ""
        Dim uri = ""
        Dim name = ""
        Dim title = ""
        For i As Integer = 0 To nodeList.Count - 1
            name = nodeList.Item(i).ChildNodes(9).ChildNodes(0).InnerText
            name = name.Substring(0, name.IndexOf("("))
            uri = nodeList.Item(i).ChildNodes(9).ChildNodes(1).InnerText
            title = nodeList.Item(i).ChildNodes(3).InnerText

            lblTweets.Text += String.Format("@<a style='color:#01a54e;' href='{0}' target='_blank'>{1}</a> {2}<br />", _
                                            uri, name, title)
        Next

    End Sub

Answer 1

User-29703693 posted

After I posted, I realized that there's a content tag in the rss file that does what I'm looking for.

Answer 2

User108882801 posted

The following article contains a class in C# which not only makes it easy to load the latest x tweets, it privides all the additional information associated with the tweets along with an option to turn urls into anchors.

http://www.bytechaser.com/en/articles/k24dz6au23/integrate-twitter-into-aspnet-applications.aspx