DVLUP Campaign - Tweet from @NokiaUS

Few days ago, my campaign application for a promotion tweet from @NokiaUS Twitter account was approved. Thanks DVLUP!

Here's the tweet:

Punching in numbers is so yesterday. Use Swipe to get your totals with Gestulator: http://t.co/dt4jxDLhyl pic.twitter.com/Crh5ZrG5jb
— Nokia USA (@NokiaUS) April 30, 2014

Gestulator on Lumia 520 looks great in the tweet. It has already got some Retweets and Favourites.

I'll update the post with some download stats later when I have the numbers. Let's see how much does this help with App promotion. :)

Update

Nope, didn't make a huge difference in downloads.

Twitter and Facebook app authorization process

Hi there,

I recently added Facebook integration to my app NowPlaying (was released with Twitter only). So now the users can share the music they are listening to on Twitter as well as facebook. But, before they start sharing things on their Twitter and/or Facebook accounts via the app, they need to authorize the app to access their accounts. Both the networks use different process in authorization and i'll be explaining the process below. I'll be using the app NowPlaying, but process will be similar for any other apps.

Integrating Twitter in Windows Phone App using TweetSharp

In this post we'll discuss how to integrate Twitter in your Windows Phone Silverlight App and make it more social.

I'll be discussing the Authorization part and then we'll send a Tweet.

I'll be using the Tweetsharp assemblies which is available here. It supports Windows Phone 7, and will probably support Mango too, but keep an eye there.

If you don't know how OAuth for Twitter works, visit apiwiki.twitter.com. You will also require Consumer Key and Consumer Secret from dev.twitter.com for your App, sign in there with your Twitter account, register an desktop client app and you'll get the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret.

Now following will be the OAuth workflow of App using Twitter:

1. Get OAuth Request token.

2. Get the Authorization URL and redirect user to web browser and allow User to grant access.

3. Get back the 7 digit code via User.

4. Get OAuth Acces token using Request token and the 7 digit code.

5. Authenticate Twitter Service with Accest token.

Done!