Introduction

Twitter4J is a Java library for TwitterAPI.
With Twitter4J, you can easily integrate your Java application with the Twitter service.

Twitter4J is featuring:
✔ 100% Pure Java - works on any Java Platform version 1.4.2 or later
✔ Works on Android platform
✔ Zero dependency : No additinal jars required
✔ Built-in OAuth support
✔ Out-of-the-box gzip support for faster performance

System Requirements

OS: Windows or any flavor of Unix that supports Java.
JVM: Java 1.4.2 or later

How To Use

Just add twitter4j-2.0.10.jar to your application classpath.
If you are familiar with Java language, the JavaDoc should be the shortest way for you to get started.
twitter4j.Twitter class is the one you may want to look first.

Download

twitter4j-2.0.10.zip

Source Code

The archive contains jar file along with source code.
You can also browse the project repository at:

Fisheye: http://yusuke.homeip.net/fisheye/browse/svn/twitter4j/trunk

Or you can check out the latest source code anonymously with a subversion client as follows:

svn checkout http://yusuke.homeip.net/svn/twitter4j/trunk twitter4j

git clone git://github.com/yusuke/twitter4j.git

Maven Integration

You can integrate Twitter4j easily by including following lines into your pom.xml.

   <dependencies>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>net.homeip.yusuke</groupId>
           <artifactId>twitter4j</artifactId>
           <version>[2.0,)</version>
       </dependency>
       ...
   </dependencies>

Mailing list

Any comment, bug report, feature request or patch is highly welcomed.
Feel free to post your comments to the mailing list.

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Known bugs and feature requests will be filed to the Jira site.
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License

Twitter4J is released under a BSD-style license.

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SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Twitter4J includes software from JSON.org to parse JSON response from the Twitter API. You can see the license term at The JSON License.

Donation

Twitter4J is an opensourced software and free of charge.
You can use Twitter4J freely for any commercial and non-commercial projects.
If you feel Twitter4J makes your life easier, please do consider making a donation!

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