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How can we send a tweet from a rails server?

How can we look up peoples' name

How to get data and send data to/from twitter api? Can you read twitter data you're interested in reading?

Twitter o-auth in an application (since we want people to log in with twitter). Login won't be normal password/email combo. O-auth sends back credentials.

Twitter/sinatra/o-auth challenge. "The tweet-now challenge"

Nice to have == background job that's always running, and sends the tweets when task is completed.