Chapter 6. Getting Your App Ready for Social Messaging

The hardest part about understanding this chapter is using Facebook and Twitter enough to understand what's going on here on the front end. It's crucial! Once you understand this stuff, you can go ahead and connect to the APIs.

We're guessing you've used Facebook and Twitter if you're reading this book. Chances are, however, that you haven't used them enough.

In this section of the book, we'll go into more detail about how to get your iOS app connected with Facebook's Graph API and the Twitter API. Then we'll discuss how to publish information from your app onto the social Web: Tweets, messages, wall posts, and so forth.

But before we go any further, let's explore the vaguely insulting assertion ...

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