Open Water Foundation / Learn Twitter
This documentation provides resources to learn about Twitter and the standards for using Twitter in a professional manner, as well as how to use Twitter API to post tweets either through writing custom code or by using a library. Libraries are available for several coding languages, but most of the examples in this documentation will be using the library TwitterOAuth since this library is simple to understand and can be used to show basic examples. Examples can easily be applied to other libraries.
This documentation has been written based on research on Twitter and Twitter API done at the Open Water Foundation, in order to share information related to water.
About the Open Water Foundation
The Open Water Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit social enterprise that focuses on developing and supporting open source software for water resources, so that organizations can make better decisions about water. OWF also works to advance open data tools and implementation. OWF has created this documentation to educate its staff, collaborators, and clients that intend to develop an online presence through Twitter, or have the need to develop using Twitter's API.
See also other OWF learning resources.
How to Use this Documentation
The documentation is organized in order of information and tasks necessary to set up Twitter accounts and send tweets and direct messages. Advanced topics and resources are listed at the end.
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License
The OWF Learn Twitter website content and examples are licenses under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Source Repository on GitHub
The source files for this documentation are maintained in a GitHub repository: owf-learn-twitter.
Release Notes
See the commit history in the GitHub repository for update history.