Getting Tweet ID of a particular tweet

Question

On my site I\'ve added a Tweet button. What I want to do is whenever user clicks on that button and the tweet gets posted on user\'s twitter account, I want to catch the unique

Answer 1

When calling the REST API (http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json -- or whichever format), you get back the ID string. However, it also implies that you must route everything through your server using oAuth.

Alternatively, you could use the JavaScript API, along with one of the official Twitter JS widgets, and create an event listener to catch the tweet event. From there, you should have appropriate information in the data field of the event (something like evt.data), which you could pass to your server through AJAX.

JS Docs: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/intents/events

REST Docs: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api