Twitter Integration
Love it or hate it, Twitter exists. As a mobile application developer, it is becoming more and more common for clients to ask for social media integration in their apps. On the short list of everyone's social services is Twitter. Twitter provides a very nice and useful REST service that can be used to tweet on behalf of a user. New to iOS 5 is a feature where a user can do a sort of single-sign on with their Twitter account, making it simple for application developers to request access to this global account. This feature is great for users, because they only have to authenticate once with the device, and still have control over which applications are allowed to tweet for them.
This feature is also great for developers. It ...
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