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Asked: 2026-05-23T18:33:35+00:00

I wish to send a tweet (status, update) to / from ONE PARTICULAR twitter

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I wish to send a tweet (status, update) to / from ONE PARTICULAR twitter account hourly from a mysql database. I have messed around with the twitter api & oAuth before and it is a real big headache. I just want to have one account hardwired into the code. The hourly part means automation / CRON, however i’ve never messed with CRON. I see all of the pieces of what I’m trying to accomplish I just need a little shove in the right direction. Any help / tutorials / pointers regarding this would be a great help. PHP is my main language of choice.

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    Twitter:

    1.) Go to dev.twitter.com, login with the account you want to use, create an app, then under app settings write down consumer key, consumer secret and oauth token/ouath token secret.

    2.) use this script https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth

    $client = new TwitterOAuth($consumer_key, $consumer_secret, $oauth_token, $oauth_secret);

    Then use API documentation for whatever you need https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api

    ex. Tweeting: $client->post('statuses/update', array('status' => 'tweet text'));

    Cron:

    Most shared hostings provide an easy-to-setup cron from cpanel, check it first. If it’s not available, then you need to login via SSH and use crontab -e then for once every hour add 0 * * * *

    Read up on it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

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