Professional Twitter® Development With Examples in .NET 3.5

Introduction

Since Twitter launched in March 2006, it has grown steadily into one of the simplest, most popular, and most powerful social networking platforms. Perhaps more compelling than Twitter itself is the growing community of developers building applications for the service and taking it far beyond its roots as a simple messaging service. This book will teach you how to get the best out of Twitter to build your own applications for this exciting new technology, as well as provide some guidance on using some of the latest developer evolutions in the .NET Framework, like Silverlight and Windows Azure.

After spending a great deal of time building TweetSharp, an open source Twitter library, as well as a prototype for a commercial Twitter client application, it was clear that many developers would find a single resource on consuming RESTful services, and Twitter's RESTful API in particular, a valuable addition to their capacity to build applications on this new and exciting service. With Twitter's growth exploding and already enjoying major mainstream adoption, application developers need a timely resource to prepare to build applications for this new and lively audience. Twitter has many millions of users and this book can help you support that growth in the developer community.

Who This Book Is For

The primary readers for this book are web or Windows developers who are pursuing Twitter application or client development, or are developing part of a system that integrates core Twitter ...