How to tweet from C#.NET (Tweet from C# Code)

What is tweet:

A tweet is a post or status update on Twitter, a microblogging service. Because Twitter only allows messages to 140 characters or less, "peep" is both a play on the message size as it is in the similarity of sound to Twitter.

Twitter Website:

http://twitter.com

The below code is sample to call twitter API from your own C# code. This is working code and can use to post directly to twitter account.

C# code to tweet:

 

//call twitter function

 

string  PageURL =  “URL and Message of the page”; 

PostTweet(PageURL);

 

//Twitter function

 

Code Snippet

1. public void PostTweet( string tweet)
2.     {
3.         try
4.         {
5.             string username = "User name of twitter";
6.             string password = "password of twitter account";
7.             // encode the username/password
8.             string user = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(username + ":" + password));
9.             // determine what we want to upload as a status
10.             byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("status=" + tweet);
11.             // connect with the update page
12.             HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml");
13.             // set the method to POST
14.             request.Method = "POST";
15.             request.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false; // thanks to argodev for this recent change!
16.             // set the authorisation levels
17.             request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + user);
18.             request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
19.             // set the length of the content
20.             request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
21.  
22.             // set up the stream
23.             Stream reqStream = request.GetRequestStream();
24.             // write to the stream
25.             reqStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
26.             // close the stream
27.             reqStream.Close();
28.         }
29.         catch (Exception ex) {/* DO NOTHING */}
30.     }