Twitter Application Development For Dummies

Contents at a Glance
Introduction ................................................................ 1
Part I: Catching Up to Twitter and App Development ...... 5
Chapter 1: Catching Twitter’s Coat Tails ........................................................................ 7
Chapter 2: Web Development Refresher Course ......................................................... 13
Chapter 3: Setting Up to Create Twitter Apps ............................................................. 39
Part II: Ideation — Coming Up with an Idea ............... 45
Chapter 4: Getting to Know the Twitter Application Ecosystem .............................. 47
Chapter 5: Introducing the Twitter API ......................................................................... 63
Chapter 6 : Logging In and Managing Your Account ................................................... 79
Chapter 7: Managing Users and Their Relationships ................................................ 105
Chapter 8: Communication Through Tweets ............................................................. 179
Chapter 9: Selecting an Idea ......................................................................................... 241
Part III: Creation — Developing Your Application ...... 249
Chapter 10: Selecting Libraries, Design Patterns, and Frameworks ....................... 251
Chapter 11: Hosting In the Clouds ............................................................................... 255
Chapter 12: Coding Your Application ......................................................................... 269
Chapter 13: Making It Pretty Makes It Credible ......................................................... 309
Chapter 14: What You Need to Know to Grow ........................................................... 315
Part IV: Monetization — Making Money
with Your Application .............................................. 321
Chapter 15: How Twitter Makes Money ...................................................................... 323
Chapter 16: Advertising ................................................................................................ 327
Chapter 17: Monetizing with Other Models................................................................ 335
Chapter 18: Promoting Your Application ................................................................... 345
Part V: The Part of Tens ........................................... 355
Chapter 19 : Ten Traits of a Respectable Twitter Developer ................................... 357
Chapter 20: Ten Twitter API Tips ............................................................................... 361
Appendix A: Twitter API Reference............................ 365
Appendix B: Gallery of Twitter Applications ............... 395
Index ...................................................................... 413

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Contents at a Glance
Introduction ................................................................ 1
Part I: Getting Started with Facebook ........................... 7
Chapter 1: The Many Faces of Facebook ........................................................................ 9
Chapter 2: Adding Your Own Face to Facebook .......................................................... 29
Chapter 3: Finding Your Way Around Facebook ......................................................... 41
Chapter 4: Finding Facebook Friends ............................................................................ 51
Chapter 5: Privacy and Safety on Facebook ................................................................. 67
Part II: Sharing Your Life on Facebook ........................ 83
Chapter 6: Building Out Your Pro le ............................................................................. 85
Chapter 7: Social Stories ............................................................................................... 107
Chapter 8: Filling Facebook with Photos, Videos, and Notes................................... 117
Chapter 9: Keeping Up with Your Friends .................................................................. 141
Part III: Getting Organized ....................................... 161
Chapter 10: Creating and Joining Groups on Facebook ............................................ 163
Chapter 11: Scheduling Your Life with Facebook ...................................................... 183
Chapter 12: Creating a Page for Your Business ......................................................... 197
Part IV: Delving Further into Facebook ...................... 231
Chapter 13: Facebook and the Web ............................................................................. 233
Chapter 14: Facebook on the Go .................................................................................. 259
Chapter 15: A Different Kind of Advertising ............................................................... 275
Part V: The Part of Tens ........................................... 291
Chapter 16: Ten Great Third-Party Applications ....................................................... 293
Chapter 17:Ten Ways Facebook Uniquely Impacts Lives ......................................... 297
Chapter 18: Ten Questions That Leah and Carolyn Get a Lot.................................. 305
Chapter 19: Ten True Facebook Tales ........................................................................ 313
Index ...................................................................... 319

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