iOS: Get Latest Tweet Text Only From Specific User

Question

I am wanting to get the latest tweet from a specific user that will not change. So if the specific user was Joe Smith, I would always get the latest tweet from him. I've looked into Fabric which seems to only get specific tweets by ID. The Twitter API looks fairly involved when all I am wanting is the latest tweet from a user. What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

you could achive this by searching for a user and only using th first element

Using from:@tweethandle for example: from:StackOverflow and using only the first item!

You can search using TWTRAPIClient's URLRequestWithMethod

Ex: (using SwiftyJSON for parsing JSON) this should print the first tweet

let twError:NSErrorPointer = nil
let userID = Twitter.sharedInstance().sessionStore.session()?.userID
let client = TWTRAPIClient(userID: userID)
let request = client.URLRequestWithMethod("GET", URL: "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json", parameters: ["q":"from:StackOverflow","result_type":"recent"], error: twError)


if twError == nil {
    client.sendTwitterRequest(request, completion: { (response, data, error) -> Void in
    let json = JSON(data: data!)
    print(json["statuses"][0])
    })
}

More info in the docs