Integrating the Twitter platform

Twitter is a simple yet popular social network service that asks a simple question, "What are you doing?" Friends and followers will then have their conversation related to this topic.

We are going to demonstrate another approach of communicating with the social networking API. We will use the extension approach with the help of Java extension.

We need to set up the Twitter API by:

1. 1. Download the jTwitter.jar class from http://www.winterwell.com/software/jtwitter.php.

2. 2. Place the jTwitter.jar file in SmartFoxServer Installation Directory | Server folder.

3. 3. Edit the start.sh file in the Server folder to add jtwitter.jar into the classpath.

Publish latest virtual world news in Twitter

We are getting back to the emotion message that we used for updating the Facebook status. We are not trying to post the same emotion message to Twitter. Unlike the Adobe Facebook API, Twitter sets a more restrictive access from Flash player. Therefore, we are going to use the server...