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Twitter module in ASP.NET for download

If you've been looking for an ASP.NET Twitter module, look no further. I've coded a C# module in order to consume a given Twitter feed. Download the Twitter module for easy use in your own project.

How to use

You can either show the latest Twitter message or any given number of Twitter messages with this module - all you have to do is to point out a Twitter username and the number of messages to show.

Here's a code example on how you can show 5 Twitter messages in a Repeater.

Code-behind:

string userName = "dileno";

List<TwitterFeed> messages = TwitterFeed.Fetch(userName, 5);

if (messages.Count>0)
{
	rptTwitterMessages.DataSource = messages;
	rptTwitterMessages.DataBind();
}

Repeater in code-front (aspx/ascx):

<asp:Repeater ID="rptTwitterMessages" runat="server">
	<HeaderTemplate><ul></HeaderTemplate>
	<FooterTemplate></ul></FooterTemplate>
	<ItemTemplate><li><%#((TwitterFeed)Container.DataItem).Message %> (<a href="<%#((TwitterFeed)Container.DataItem).Link %>"><%#((TwitterFeed)Container.DataItem).PubDate %></a>)</li></ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

Download the Twitter module

You can download the C# module with complete source code and code examples:

Download Twitter module (zip, 16 kB)

Short instructions for implementation

  • Drop the TwitterFeed.cs file into your project.
  • Use the code in Default.aspx.cs to customize the Twitter messages.
  • Update your appSettings.Config with the key TwitterFeedUrl, which you find in this project's appSettings.Config file.

Comments

1. Joel Abrahamsson on Jul 31st, 2009 09:18 AM

Great stuff Martin!

Does the module cache the latest tweets or does it fetch them for each request?

2. Martin Söderlund on Jul 31st, 2009 11:13 AM
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Thanks!

Actually, no cache is involved in this one. Maybe it'll come as an option in the future :)

I thought it was better to always fetch new items, given how often some Twitter users update their status.

3. Daniel Berg on Aug 12th, 2009 03:09 PM

Great stuff! :)

Twitter does have a limit of 150 requests per hour per user account. So after 150 requests have been made, no Tweets would be fetched. :(

So caching would be a great addition. Then you can hook up to the "remove from cache"-event (I don't remember exactly what it's called) and check if less than 150 requests have been made for the current time interval (one hour).

If so, then it is safe to remove the tweets from the cache, if not, then don't remove the cache until it is safe to make new Twitter requests. :)

Keep up the good work!

4. Martin Söderlund on Aug 18th, 2009 01:20 PM
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Daniel, thanks for your contribution!

I will definitely build a cache mechanism into this module, specially since I've seen the API calls go beyond the limit, thus not showing latest tweets.

5. James Borkin on Mar 4th, 2010 06:27 PM

I have changed the username from dileno to my username and recompiled, but it still fetches the tweets from dileno.

Am I missing something?

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