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Overview The Tweet Button is a small widget which allows users to easily share your website with their followers. Twitter Oauth on App Engine. Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under app-engine, python, twitter, coding, tech, oauth Services that consume or produce Twitter updates are popular apps these days, and there are more than a few on App Engine, too.

Twitter Oauth on App Engine

Twitter provide an extensive API, which provides most of the features you might want to access. Broadly, Twitter's API is divided into two distinct parts: The streaming API, and everything else. The streaming API is their recommended way to consume large volumes of updates in real-time; unfortunately, for a couple of reasons, using it on App Engine is not practical at the moment. The rest of their API, however, is well suited to use via App Engine, and covers things such as retrieving users' timelines, mentions, retweets, etc, sending new status updates (and deleting them, and retweeting them), and getting user information.

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