Using R to send tweets

Question

I saw a cute demonstration of tweeting from R in a presentation some months ago. The scratch code used by the presenter is here:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/twitter-f

Answer 1

The easiest way to tweet in R through the Twitter-API is to use the twitteR Package. You can set your Twitter-API-APP here: https://apps.twitter.com/

First step is to authenticate:

consumer_key <- "yourcredentials"
consumer_secret <- "yourcredentials"
access_token <- "yourcredentials"
access_secret <- "yourcredentials"
setup_twitter_oauth(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_secret)

And just tweet (limit per day:2400 tweets):

tweet("Hello World")