How to update Twitter status from my ASP.NET page with C#.NET?

Question

This my button click code, but the status is not updating in Twitter. Please help me out.

protected void btnTwitt_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string twitterMsg = txtShout.Text;
    OAuthTokens tokens = new OAuthTokens();
    tokens.AccessToken = "xxxxx";
    tokens.AccessTokenSecret = "yyyy";
    tokens.ConsumerKey = "tttt";
    tokens.ConsumerSecret = "hhhh";
    TwitterResponse<Twitterizer.TwitterStatus> tweetResponse = 
    Twitterizer.TwitterStatus.Update(tokens, twitterMsg);
    lblTwitMsg.Text = "Your have shout successfully on http://twitter.com/" + "";
}

Answer 1

i think you are following this website http://www.twitterizer.net/

follow the following links for detailed information.. i have not tried yet but these have detailed information about the implementation..

http://www.dougv.com/2009/07/01/posting-status-updates-tweets-to-a-twitter-profile-via-asp-net/

http://dotnetguts.blogspot.com/2010/05/tweet-posting-from-aspnet-using-oauth.html

why do you not try this??? this is twitter widget code this will also do the same.. you have to login once then you are able to post/share with it...

<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button"
data-url=""
data-text="testing tweet post" data-count="none" data-via="niranjankala" data-counturl="">
Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js">
</script>

and it is working..

hope this help..

Answer 2

In thye place of "tttt" you need to enter you consumer key and "hhhh" you need to insert your secret key.I think you have updated else update them with yours.Or else you can get one from here https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new

Here is the entire code you can just copy and paste it as I have done it vb and you can convert with C# converter from here:C# Converter

First download twitterizer.dll from here http://www.twitterizer.net/downloads/ Add a new class file I named it as (BasPage.vb)

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System
Imports System.Collections
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports Twitterizer

Public Class BasePage
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

    Protected Sub DisplayAlert(ByVal msg As String)
        ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(Me.GetType(), Guid.NewGuid().ToString(), String.Format("alert('{0}');", msg.Replace("'", "\'").Replace(Constants.vbCrLf, "\n")), True)
    End Sub

    Protected Function GetCachedAccessToken() As OAuthTokens
        If Session("AccessToken") IsNot Nothing Then
            Return CType(Session("AccessToken"), OAuthTokens)
        Else
            Return Nothing
        End If
    End Function

    Public Function GetCachedUserId() As ULong
        If Session("GetCachedUserId") IsNot Nothing Then
            Return Convert.ToUInt64(Session("GetCachedUserId"))
        Else
            Return ULong.MinValue
        End If
    End Function

    Protected Sub CreateCachedAccessToken(ByVal requestToken As String)
        Dim ConsumerKey As String = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("ConsumerKey")
        Dim ConsumerSecret As String = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("ConsumerSecret")

        Dim responseToken As OAuthTokenResponse = OAuthUtility.GetAccessToken(ConsumerKey, ConsumerSecret, requestToken)

        'Cache the UserId
        Session("GetCachedUserId") = responseToken.UserId

        Dim accessToken As New OAuthTokens()
        accessToken.AccessToken = responseToken.Token
        accessToken.AccessTokenSecret = responseToken.TokenSecret
        accessToken.ConsumerKey = ConsumerKey
        accessToken.ConsumerSecret = ConsumerSecret

        Session("AccessToken") = accessToken
    End Sub

    Protected Function GetTwitterAuthorizationUrl() As String
        Dim ConsumerKey As String = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("ConsumerKey")
        Dim ConsumerSecret As String = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("ConsumerSecret")

        Dim reqToken As OAuthTokenResponse = OAuthUtility.GetRequestToken(ConsumerKey, ConsumerSecret)
        Return "https://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=" & reqToken.Token
    End Function
End Class

And next add a button and paste this code:

 Protected Sub ibSignInWithTwitter_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.ImageClickEventArgs) Handles ibSignInWithTwitter.Click
        Response.Redirect(MyBase.GetTwitterAuthorizationUrl())
  End Sub

And last in your web.config file you need to add this:

        <add key="ConsumerKey" value="you consumer key"/>
        <add key="ConsumerSecret" value="you consumersecret key"/>
        <add key="Twitterizer2.EnableStatisticsCollection" value="false"/>

If you have any problem let me know.Hope it helps you.

Answer 3

In order to determine what is wrong with your code, you should check the result status.

protected void btnTwitt_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
     string twitterMsg = txtShout.Text;

    OAuthTokens tokens = new OAuthTokens();
    tokens.AccessToken = "xxxxx";
    tokens.AccessTokenSecret = "yyyy";
    tokens.ConsumerKey = "tttt";
    tokens.ConsumerSecret = "hhhh";
    TwitterResponse<Twitterizer.TwitterStatus> tweetResponse = Twitterizer.TwitterStatus.Update(tokens, twitterMsg);
    if (tweetResponse.Result == RequestResult.Success)
    {
        lblTwitMsg.Text = "Your have shout successfully on http://twitter.com/";
    }
    else
    {
        lblTwitMsg.Text = string.format("The tweet could not be posted: {0}", tweetResponse.ErrorMessage);
    }
}

The tweetResponse.Result property will also give you an idea as to what happened, too.

If you have additional questions, you should contact Twitterizer support (it's actually me) on the forums: http://forums.twitterizer.net/.

Answer 4

 try getting oauth token first using this.sorry if it doesnot help ..   

var consumerKey = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["consumerKey"];
     var consumerSecret = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["consumerSecret"];
     //Step 1: Get Request Token
      string callbackAddress = "http://xxx.co/folder/Twitter.aspx";
     OAuthTokenResponse RequestToken = OAuthUtility.GetRequestToken(consumerKey, consumerSecret, callbackAddress);
    //  Step 2: Redirect User to Requested Token
            Response.Redirect("http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=" + RequestToken.Token);