Is there a way to get an user’s email ID after verifying his/her Twitter identity using OAuth?

The user’s email address can not be retrieved via the API. This is a deliberate design decision by the API team. UPDATE 2015.08.18: It is possible to request an email address from users, but it requires your app to be whitelisted. See https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/account/verify_credentials for details of the API call and this form to request whitelisting … Read more

What’s the shebang/hashbang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?

This technique is now deprecated. This used to tell Google how to index the page. https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/ This technique has mostly been supplanted by the ability to use the JavaScript History API that was introduced alongside HTML5. For a URL like www.example.com/ajax.html#!key=value, Google will check the URL www.example.com/ajax.html?_escaped_fragment_=key=value to fetch a non-AJAX version of the contents.

Find objects between two dates MongoDB

Querying for a Date Range (Specific Month or Day) in the MongoDB Cookbook has a very good explanation on the matter, but below is something I tried out myself and it seems to work. items.save({ name: “example”, created_at: ISODate(“2010-04-30T00:00:00.000Z”) }) items.find({ created_at: { $gte: ISODate(“2010-04-29T00:00:00.000Z”), $lt: ISODate(“2010-05-01T00:00:00.000Z”) } }) => { “_id” : ObjectId(“4c0791e2b9ec877893f3363b”), “name” … Read more

How to send Twitter updates from C#

The officially supported means of sending a tweet via a third party application is by using the REST API twitter provides. This does require clients to use OAuth to authenticate. If you don’t want to deal with the API directly you might consider using a library which wraps the official API. I can’t personally recommend … Read more