Twitter API Engagement Programming with PHP and MySQL (Adam Green's Guide to the Twitter API)

"Glad to see such a focused book filled with useful recipes like this. The approaches to using PHP should be flexible and reusable for those continuing to work with the platform as it evolves."

Taylor Singletary (@episod), Platform relations at Twitter

"Adam Green's down to earth, no-BS style reflects the difference between a writer who has been assigned to write about the Twitter API and a developer who's used Twitter's API for years, warts and all, and has put in writing that hard earned knowledge."

John Musser (@johnmusser), Founder, ProgrammableWeb.com

Adam Green draws on five years of Twitter application consulting work and an additional 25 years of software development experience to create a unique blend of strategy and code in this book. Twitter API Engagement Programming is fully compatible with the latest API version 1.1, and is built around a set of time-tested source code for:

Over the years Green refined a Twitter engagement methodology called "Collect, Identify, and Engage," and used it to grow client accounts many times over in follower and retweet counts. The source code for this process is now made available here for anyone who can program in PHP with MySQL.

Green leads you through the reasoning behind all of the working code, explains how each script fits into the strategy, and why it will increase any account's size and influence on Twitter.