Chapter 8. Social integration with Twitter and Facebook

This chapter covers

  • Accessing accounts with the Accounts framework
  • Retrieving and displaying a Twitter or Facebook feed
  • Integrating with Twitter’s API and Facebook’s OpenGraph
  • Posting content to Twitter or Facebook

Facebook and Twitter are two social networking services that have invaded the daily lives of so many of us—so much so that Apple has decided to integrate the two directly into iOS. People can share photos, videos, links, and other types of content using either service directly from iOS. Previously, developers would have to supply their own integrations or resort to using third-party libraries to include this functionality within their applications. Now it’s possible to ...

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