SharePoint 2010

In Visual Studio, go to the Tools menu and click the External Tools menu item. replicate the following settings shown in the picture below.

Then just choose tools -> Get SN token and the result is shown in the Output Window in Visual studion.

Here is a simple C# exampel of how to retrive information from the Twitter API search in atom format.

Create  a class to host the properties in a tweet.

 

class Tweet

{

public string Id { get; set; }

public DateTime Published { get; set; }

public string Link { get; set; }

public string Title { get; set; }

public string Author { get; set; }

public string Uri { get; set; }

}
 

 To load the twitter search in atom format use the folling code:

XDocument feed = XDocument.Load(http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=sharepoint); 

A method to parse the xml data using LinQ to XmL, and return it as a List<Tweet>.

XNamespace atomNS = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";  

           m_tweets = (from tweet in feed.Descendants(atomNS + "entry") 

                 select new Tweet 

                        { 

                            Title = (string)tweet.Element(atomNS + "title"), 

                             Published = DateTime.Parse((string)tweet.Element(atomNS + "published")), 

                             Id = (string)tweet.Element(atomNS + "id"), 

                             Link = tweet.Elements(atomNS + "link") 

                                 .Where(link =&gt; (string)link.Attribute("rel") == "alternate") 

                                 .Select(link =&gt; (string)link.Attribute("href")) 

                                 .First(), 

                             Author = (string)tweet.Element(atomNS + "author").Element(atomNS + "name"), 

                             Uri = (string)tweet.Element(atomNS + "author").Element(atomNS + "uri"),  

                        }).ToList<Tweet>(); 

then its just to bind the List<Tweet> as a datasource to eg. a DataGridView or what ever suits your need.