added "auto-tweet" feature

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/askbot/utils/twitter.py b/askbot/utils/twitter.py
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+import urllib
+from askbot.deps.django_authopenid.util import OAuthConnection
+
+class Twitter(OAuthConnection):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(Twitter, self).__init__('twitter')
+        self.tweet_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json'
+
+    def tweet(self, text, access_token=None):
+        client = self.get_client(access_token)
+        body = urllib.urlencode({'status': text})
+        return self.send_request(client, self.tweet_url, 'POST', body=body)