Twitter Tweets in Asp.Net C#

I’ve been working on the twitter feed in one of my recent project where tweets getting updated on a regular interval time (say for every 30 minutes or 1 hr). I am creating this as a ASCX control so that I can reuse for multiple projects.

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I am dropping a ListView control in the ASCX page which render the Twitter Profile name along with  Title, Description and Published date for the latest tweets.

Couple of properties need to configure to use this control

TwitterProfileName – Your twitter profile name or screen name

TweetsCount – No of tweets you want to return (default is 10).

<asp:ListView ID="lvTweets" runat="server">
<LayoutTemplate>
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td height="30" runat="server">
<a href="http://twitter.com/<%=<span class=&quot;hiddenSpellError&quot; pre=&quot;&quot;>TwitterProfileName</span>%>" target="_new"></a>
<%= TwitterProfileName%>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:PlaceHolder ID="itemPlaceholder" runat="server" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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</td>
</tr>
</table>
</LayoutTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<tr>
<td>
<a target="_new" href='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Link")%>'>
<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Title")%></a>
<br />
<div>
<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "PublishedDate", "{0:h:mm  tt MMM d}")%>
</td>
</tr>
</ItemTemplate>
<EmptyDataTemplate>
<div>
<h3>
No tweets available.</h3>
</div>
</EmptyDataTemplate>
<ItemSeparatorTemplate>
<tr>
1px solid lightgrey;">
</td>
</tr>
</ItemSeparatorTemplate>
</asp:ListView>

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public partial class TweetsControl : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
private static DateTime? lastUpdated = null; //holds last updated time

private static XDocument xDoc = null; //static variable to store the result xml.

//Updates latest Tweets for every 10 minutes in page refresh.
private static Double Interval = 10;

//Determine its time to get the new tweets
private static Boolean IsTimeForUpdate
{
get
{
if (lastUpdated.HasValue && DateTime.Now > lastUpdated.Value.AddMinutes(Interval))
{
return true;
}
return false;
}
}

//Hold no of tweets default set it as 10.
public Int32? TweetsCount { get; set; }

//Twitter profile name or screen name.
public String TwitterProfileName { get; set; }

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!IsPostBack)
{
GetTweets();
}
}

private void GetTweets()
{
var xml = LoadXML();
IEnumerable query = null;
if (xml != null)
{
query = from e in xml.Descendants("item")
select new
{
Title = e.Element("title").Value,
Link = e.Element("link").Value,
PublishedDate = Convert.ToDateTime((e.Descendants("pubDate").First().Value)),
};
}
lvTweets.DataSource = query;
lvTweets.DataBind();
}

private XDocument LoadXML()
{
if (xDoc != null && !IsTimeForUpdate)
{
return xDoc;
}
else
{
try
{
TweetsCount = TweetsCount.HasValue ? TweetsCount : 10;
var url = string.Format("http://api.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name={0}&count={1}", TwitterProfileName, TweetsCount);
xDoc = XDocument.Load(url);
lastUpdated = DateTime.Now;
return xDoc;
}
catch
{
return null;
}
}
}

}

Refer more api information on Twitter API

You can Download the complete source code from here

Hope this helps

Thanks
Deepu