How to Auto Post on Twitter with PHP

Mar 05, 2014, by admin

Manually post to social networks is probably better than to use an automated method. But, if you post many new topics every day, automated post is practically inevitable.

Twitter, as almost any social network, brings an Application Programming Interface, Twitter API, in order to communicate with it programmatically. You cannot use Twitter API directly (using your username and password), but you have to create a Twitter App. Creating a Twitter App is easy (see below). After you create your app, you get ConsumerKey, ConsumerSecret, AccessToken, AccessTokenSecret and you have to use them as credentials to communicate using Twitter API.

Additionally, you need a library for your programming language to easily use Twitter API. There are many libraries available like  Codebird-php etc