Twitter Automation/Google Ads

[techscrap]

I've been looking for ways to post images to twitter either at a random interval or when new images get uploaded. I don't like customizing things to much and why reinvent the wheel if someone has already solved this problem.

Is this possible or something sorta easy to setup?

Also is there a way to add google ads to an image hosting website?

 

[Rodolfo]

Sure is easy to add autotweet, but you have to remember that twitter API is limited so you can't send a unlimited number of tweets. Anyway, the way of doing this is by putting the tweet code when the upload is complete. Like, class.upload.php then insert the code.

 

[techscrap]

Would it be something similar to this example? I was thinking about putting this in the file you suggested around line 468.

<?php
$consumerKey = 'your-consumer-key';
$consumerSecret = 'your-consumer-secret';
$oAuthToken = 'your-access-token';
$oAuthSecret = 'your-token-secret';

require_once('twitteroauth.php');

$tweet = new TwitterOAuth($consumerKey, $consumerSecret, $oAuthToken, $oAuthSecret);

$tweet->post('statuses/update', array('status' => '$image_filename'));

?>

 

[Rodolfo]

You can do that or just a curl exec.

function postToTwitter($username,$password,$message) {
    $host = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=".urlencode(stripslashes(urldecode($message)));
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $host);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
}

Then:

postToTwitter("twitter user","twitter pass","tweet contents");

Btw, you have a limit on how many tweets you can submit each hour.