How can I open a Twitter tweet using the native Twitter app on iOS?

Question

A tweet can be opened by Safari with a link of this format:

http://twitter.com/1Direction_X/statuses/197752514391715842 

On iOS 5, Twitter is built-in. How can I open the above tweet using the native Twitter app called from my app?

Answer 1

This is how you access other apps from your own. Just find the proper url to send for accessing status. I've included a list that should have most of the important ones. Including status finding.

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"twitter://status?id=12345"]]; 

twitter://user?screen_name=lorenb

twitter://user?id=12345

twitter://status?id=12345

twitter://timeline

twitter://mentions

twitter://messages

twitter://list?screen_name=lorenb&slug=abcd

twitter://post?message=hello%20world

twitter://post?message=hello%20world&in_reply_to_status_id=12345

twitter://search?query=%23hashtag

Note: It can be important to make sure the user has twitter installed or this will cause a crash. So I recommend adding this in an if statement before you try to send them to twitter.

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"twitter://"]]; 

Answer 2

I would go with below approach...

NSURL *twitterURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"fb://profile/<profile_id>"]; if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:twitterURL]) {     [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:twitterURL]; } else {     WebViewViewController *secondView = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"webinterface"];      secondView.headerLabel = @"Facebook";     secondView.webPath = @"https://www.facebook.com/pages/<link_for_page>";      [self.navigationController pushViewController:secondView animated:YES]; } 

in WebViewViewController I have webview and I am opening link there...

basically its like if you don't have Twitter on iPhone, it will open in WebView...