What is the best way to post to Twitter from a django app?

Question

What I want to do is pretty straightforward. I have a site powered by django. I want to have the site automatically post to twitter any time a new object is created and saved in the database. What is the absolute best way to do this?

Answer 1

One way is the following:

First, handle the post_save signal from Django. Note that post_save passes your handler a boolean parameter created to let you know whether it's a new object that was saved.

• http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/signals/

Then, call the python-twitter library's PostUpdate function within your handler to notify on twitter:

• http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/

Answer 2

Try using the function post_to_twitter() from this: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1339/