Twitter API + OAuth - Automatically send status update & follow someone

Question

How would I get a web app (for example, @Example) to do the following for an authenticated user?

1. Send a status update (send a new tweet, ie. "I just used the new @Example app!")
2. Follow @Example

In one click... Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks! ♥

Answer 1

If you don't mind little $ use tweetapart.com it's the easiest tool I found, it supports auto hashtagging too.

http://tweetapart.com/tweet?api_key={API_KEY}&status={YOUR_STATUS}

Answer 2

Using the REST API, you could call statuses/update with your tweet text, and then (after receiving a 200 response code denoting a successful update) you could call friendships/create to then follow @Example using the screen_name parameter.

Answer 3

Check this out:: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/followers

Answer 4

REST API provides simple interfaces, that perform all integrations with Twitter. Document describes REST API Resources such as: Timelines, Tweets, Search, Direct Message, Friends & Followers etc.

Twitter OAuth with .NET describes how to implement Twitter OAuth and send Twitter status update.