Twitter API to get recent tweets of a particular user

Question

Which API would I need to use to get 'n' recent tweets of a particular user with a public account?

Answer 1

To get tweets from a specific user you will want to use the GET statuses/user_timeline API method.

Answer 2

As of May 7th, 2013, Twitter's already deprecated v1.0 is being retired and v1.1 is the only method of accessing the API, using authenticated requests via OAuth.

This means you won't be able to use PHP's file_get_contents() entirely on it's own to grab this sort of thing - you need to write a script that utilises OAuth and Twitters v1.1 API.

I recently wrote a Stack Overflow answer to help out newbies to the twitter v1.1 API, and I wrote a class to make this easier for you.

You need to create a developer account, grab yourself a set of developer keys to use within your application, and make authenticated requests using OAuth. If you read the post above, you'll see I created a simple class to allow you to do this.

TLDR: Can't use v1.0 any more, use 1.1 and this class for simplicity: https://github.com/J7mbo/twitter-api-php