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The Follow Button is a small widget which allows users to easily follow a Twitter account from any webpage.

The Follow Button is a small widget which allows users to easily follow a Twitter account from any webpage.

Following someone on Twitter means:

  • You are subscribing to their Tweets as a follower.
  • Their updates will appear in your Home tab.
  • That person is able to send you direct messages.

Followers are people who receive your Tweets. If someone follows you:

  • They'll show up in your followers list.
  • They'll see your Tweets in their home timeline whenever they log in to Twitter.
  • You can send them direct messages.
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Twitter follow Url

Hitting the url http://twitter.com/home?status= takes us to the twitter login page and once logged in, the status is already filled in the input box, ready to be tweeted. Is there a similar url for following somebody on twitter…
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Twitter follow button causes console warnings about using dppx

I've added a Twitter Follow button to my site, using Twitter's instructions But in the Chrome console I see this warning: Consider using 'dppx' units, as in CSS 'dpi' means dots-per-CSS-inch, not dots-per-physical-inch, so does not correspond to the…
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Follower count number in Twitter

How to get my followers count number with PHP. I found this answer here: Twitter follower count number, but it is not working because API 1.0 is no longer active. I have also tried with API 1.1 using this URL:…
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Twitter style following-follower table in SQL

I have a basic follower/following table in mySQL which looks like this. id user_id follower_id 1 userA userB 2 userC userA 3 userA userC 4 userB userC 5 userB …
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How to add twitter follow button in my iPhone app?

Am developing an iPhone app. From my app user can to follow my twitter account. I want to add the Follow twitter button in my app. When the user press the button make the user to follow my twitter account. Before i didn't used any twitter api and…
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How to check if a user is following you on twitter?

I know how to create a "Follow me" button on Twitter, but I only want to display it if the user is not already following me. Is there a way to do this properly?
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mysql follow and retweet-like functionality

This is a bit challenging but fun question. Consider having these tables tweets tweet_id | retweet_of_id | user_id follow user_id | followed_user_id So we store each "retweet as a separate tweet" pointing to the original tweet's id…
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iFrame twitter follow button callback

I am not able to get the callback to work for the twitter follow button using the iFrame version. Here is my code: