How to update your status

Here's how to use the 'update' status method.

// Make your API calls with this.

private Twitter twitter;

// The responses from the Twitter REST API go here.

private XmlDocument xmlresponse;

// NEVER hard code your password. 

// I'm just trying to keep it simple for the example.

twitter = new Twitter("onil", "{my password}");

// Make a call to the 'update' method to post your status.

xmlresponse = twitter.StatusUpdate("Pooping.");

// Create a Status object using the XML response.

Status myStatus = new Status();

myStatus = (Status)XmlSerializerHelper.Deserialize(xmlresponse, typeof(Status));

            

// Convert the object back into XML.

// I find this useful for testing by printing the results to the screen.

xmlresponse = XmlSerializerHelper.Serialize(myStatus);

Here is a comparison of the response from the Twitter REST API against serializing the Status object:

Response from Twitter REST API

???<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<status>

  <created_at>Fri Jan 16 04:17:39 +0000 2009</created_at>

  <id>1122908409</id>

  <text>Pooping.</text>

  <source>web</source>

  <truncated>false</truncated>

  <in_reply_to_status_id>

  </in_reply_to_status_id>

  <in_reply_to_user_id>

  </in_reply_to_user_id>

  <favorited>false</favorited>

  <in_reply_to_screen_name>

  </in_reply_to_screen_name>

  <user>

    <id>13871782</id>

    <name>Onil Patel</name>

    <screen_name>onil</screen_name>

    <location>Toronto, ON</location>

    <description>

    </description>

    <profile_image_url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/50747572/me_normal.jpg</profile_image_url>

    <url>http://onil.homeip.net</url>

    <protected>false</protected>

    <followers_count>3</followers_count>

  </user>

</status>

Serialization of myStatus

???<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<status xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <created_at>Fri Jan 16 04:17:39 +0000 2009</created_at>

  <id>1122908409</id>

  <text>Pooping.</text>

  <source>web</source>

  <truncated>false</truncated>

  <user>

    <id>13871782</id>

    <name>Onil Patel</name>

    <screen_name>onil</screen_name>

    <location>Toronto, ON</location>

    <description />

    <profile_image_url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/50747572/me_normal.jpg</profile_image_url>

    <url>http://onil.homeip.net</url>

    <protected>false</protected>

  </user>

</status>

As you can see, I'm missing some elements (highlighted in red) in my Status class. Twitter probably added these after I created it. They'll be added in a future release of TwitterXML.