In this chapter, we will have a look at how easy it is to create a basic Twitter clone using ASP.NET Core MVC. We will be performing the following tasks:
- Creating your application on Twitter using Twitter's Application Management
- Creating an ASP.NET Core MVC application
- Reading your Home Timeline
- Posting a tweet
As you can imagine, Twitter functionality does not come as standard in .NET (let alone in .NET Core).
Please be aware that you will need to create a Twitter account in order to perform the tasks in this chapter. You can do this by going to https://twitter.com/ and registering.
Luckily for us, there are many dedicated and passionate developers out there who give their code away for free. You will usually find their code hosted on GitHub, and that is just the place that we will be looking at for a bit of code to integrate into our ASP.NET...
