How can you direct a user to add their twitter account to twitter settings using Twitter.framework?

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On iOS5 is it possible to prompt and direct a user to the Twitter Settings.app area so they can add their twitter account to the phone? If so how do you do it?

As a work around I can direct them to open Settings.app but thats about it.

Turns out somebody else figured out how to do it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7843317/open-twitter-settings-in-settings-app/7956610#7956610 — Shizam, Nov 05 '11 at 02:41

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 24 '12 at 13:50

I just pop a browser if they don't have the twitter account on the device on an app where the budget was not large enough to implement more complex functionality, this may be useful to some people:

if([TWTweetComposeViewController canSendTweet]){ 

   ...

}else{
    NSString *tweet = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?source=SourceApp&text=%@", [tweetText substringToIndex:140]]; 
    tweet = [tweet stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    NSURL *webLink = [NSURL URLWithString:tweet];
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:webLink];

}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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I found the solution in another SO Post:

Open Twitter settings in Settings app

Short answer is:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"prefs:root=TWITTER"]];

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered Jan 24 '12 at 18:19

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This no longer works in iOS 5.1 and later. This was an undocumented API and Apple has disabled this capability. – Don Wilson May 08 '12 at 05:21
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I recently figured out another way that works in 5.1 - http://goto11.net/programmatically-open-twitter-settings-on-ios-5-1/ – nrj Aug 22 '12 at 18:32

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 27 '12 at 11:58

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As noted in a comment here, this is now default behavior in iOS since 5.1. Just open one of those widgets and if the user hasn't input an account into iOS the user will be prompted to do so.

answered Aug 27 '12 at 11:58

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 04 '11 at 05:44

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Tweetsheet did this by itself if tweetsheet found that if there is no account in twitter under setting then it pops an AlertView that will automatically guide user to log in on the native setting for twitter for more refer to this link http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47726728/tweet%20sheet.swf download this file and open it in jing or drag it on your browser

answered Nov 04 '11 at 05:44

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for that you need to go through the api docs or the tutorials provided by the Apple itself and instead for launching the settings you can also make user to login from your app by using Accounts framework provided by apple for more help go to the apple's tutorial videos if like the answer kindly accept the answer – Iphone Developer Nov 07 '11 at 09:28

How can you direct a user to add their twitter account to twitter settings using Twitter.framework?

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