Recipe: Posting Social Updates

The Social framework offers a unified API for integrating applications with social networking services. The framework currently supports Facebook, Twitter, and the China-based Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo. As with mail and messaging, start by testing whether the service type you want to support is supported:

[SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook]

If it is, you can create a composition view controller for that service:

SLComposeViewController *fbController = [SLComposeViewController     composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];

You customize a controller with images, URLs, and initial text. Recipe 8-9 ...

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