How to tweet in C#

Question

So I am very new to C#, I started learning it a few days ago and I would like to know how you can tweet with C#. I have searched google a lot, looked at some YouTube videos, but they are all old. I found Twitterizer.net, which has this code:

OAuthTokens tokens = new OAuthTokens();
tokens.AccessToken = "XXX";
tokens.AccessTokenSecret = "XXX";
tokens.ConsumerKey = "XXX";
tokens.ConsumerSecret = "XXX";

TwitterResponse<TwitterStatus> tweetResponse = TwitterStatus.Update(tokens, "Hello,         #Twitterizer");
if (tweetResponse.Result == RequestResult.Success)
{
    messagebox.Show("Message Tweeted!");
}
else
{
   messageBox.Show("cannot tweet");
}

I put this code in a button, 'button1', but it doesn't seem to work it pops up a messagebox saying cannot tweet. I have no idea why this is happening. I put this at the top using twitterizer;. I also got my consumer key, consumersecret, token and tokensecret. So I don't know what is the problem, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You!

Answer 1

You should use the Twitter Callback. Set that up in the Developer section of Twitter.

Try the following

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using TweetSharp;
using Hammock.Authentication.OAuth;

public static string Token = "XXX"
public static string TokenSecret = "XXX"
public static string ConsumerKey = "XXX"
public static string ConsumerSecret = "XXX"
public static string Callback = "XXX"

private static TwitterClientInfo TwitterClientInfo = new TwitterClientInfo()
{
    ConsumerKey = ConsumerKey,
    ConsumerSecret = ConsumerSecret,
};

private static TwitterService TwitterService = new TwitterService(TwitterClientInfo);

public static bool SetUpTwitter()
{
    var OAuthCredentials = new OAuthCredentials
    {
        Type = OAuthType.RequestToken,
        SignatureMethod = OAuthSignatureMethod.HmacSha1,
        ParameterHandling = OAuthParameterHandling.HttpAuthorizationHeader,
        ConsumerKey = ConsumerKey,
        ConsumerSecret = ConsumerSecret,
        CallbackUrl = "",
    };

    OAuthRequestToken requestToken = TwitterService.GetRequestToken(Callback);
    Uri authUrl = TwitterService.GetAuthorizationUri(requestToken, Callback);

    Process.Start(authUrl.AbsoluteUri);

    DateTime currentTime = DateTime.Now;
    DateTime endTime = currentTime.AddSeconds(30);
    while (currentTime < endTime)
    {
        currentTime = DateTime.Now;
    }

    OAuthAccessToken accessToken = TwitterService.GetAccessToken(requestToken);
    return SendMessage(accessToken.Token, accessToken.TokenSecret, "Send Sample Tweet");
}

public static bool SendMessage(string token, string tokenSecret, string message)
{
    Token = token;
    TokenSecret = tokenSecret;

    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(token) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(tokenSecret))
        return SetUpTwitter();

    try
    {
        TwitterService.AuthenticateWith(token, tokenSecret);
        TwitterService.SendTweet(message);

        return true;
    }

    catch
    {
        return false;
    }
}