In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
Creating a Facebook app
Creating a test Facebook app and test users
Connecting to Facebook
Retrieving a Facebook user's profile
Retrieving the list of friends of a Facebook user
Posting a Facebook status update
Posting a link to Facebook
Posting a custom object to Facebook
Creating a Twitter application
Connecting to Twitter
Retrieving a user's Twitter profile
Retrieving the tweets of a Twitter user
Posting a tweet to Twitter
Sending a private message to another Twitter user
Introduction
In this chapter, we will make a Spring web application access Facebook and Twitter accounts in order to:
Retrieve user data, such as name, e-mail, tweets, posts, and so on
Create ...
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