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Add voice to your twitter account using KooKoo and Twitter API

For users who just want to try twitter voice instead of building one, you can visit http://www.kookoo.in/twittervoice and try it out.

  1. Go to twitter apps page http://twitter.com/apps/new and register a new application.Enter application name, description and choose Client as the application type. Also choose Read & Write as the Default Access Type and choose to use twitter for login.
  2. Note down ConsumerKey and ConsumerSecret
  3. Download TwitterAuth java application,unzip and run java -jar TwitterAuth.jar [ConsumerKey] [ConsumerSecret]
  4. Follow on screen prompts and enter pin and get the [Access token] and [Access token secret]
  5. Download Twitter OAuth PHP library and extract it in your web root. The original version of this library is at https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth. This is the awesome Twitter OAuth library developed by Abraham.
  6. Create KooKoo page kookoovoice.php in your web root with the following content
require_once("twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php");//include twitter library
require_once("response.php");//include KooKoo library

$r=new Response(); //create a response object
if($_REQUEST['event']=="NewCall") //when a new call comes...
{
$r->addPlayText("Please record your voice tweet after the beep and Hangup"); //tell KooKoo to play some text
$r->addRecord("test"); //tell KooKoo to record some content
$r->send();
}

else if($_REQUEST['event']=="Hangup") //once a user hangs up the call,do the following
{
$url=$_REQUEST['data']; //store the URL of the recorded file
//get a connection to your twitter account
$connection = new TwitterOAuth([ConsumerKey], [ConsumerSecret],[Access token],[Access token secret]);$connection->post('statuses/update', array('status' =>"$url")); //post the URL of the recorded file
}
Login to your KooKoo account and update your URL to point to kookoovoice.php.

Call the KooKoo developer number 91-40-39411020 and record your tweet. Your tweet should appear in your twitter stream.

Let me know if you have any more creative ideas to mashup telephone with twitter.

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