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Check out this collection if you are eager to work with twitter API and want to build some cool stuff with it using JavaScript!

In this lesson you will learn how to create a new twitter app to later use it for the development of the services which require communication with twitter API.

express

Create Twitter App on Twitter for Developers

In this lesson you will learn how to set the correct permissions for your twitter application and how to get the tokens you need to instantiate the twitter client from `twitter` library.

node

Set Permissions and Grab Developer Tokens From Twitter App

In this lesson you will learn how to use the tokens from twitter app in your twitter client to make the first call to the twitter api and verify that everything is set up correctly.


Launch Twitter Client in Express Server

In this lesson we will use the twitter client to get the information about the user's name and followers and check the rate limits after the call to the API.

Working with twitter API in node.js

Dimitri Ivashchuk

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