What is the best way to embed a user's tweets and mentions into a website?

Question

I need to embed a specific user's recent tweets onto the home page of a website. The website is built in ASP.NET.

I've looked at the Twitter REST API and have tried using the user_timeline. It works but does not include mentions for the user. I want to include mentions but the only way to do it seems to be by using APIs that require authentication. I would prefer not to use authentication as it seems it would start to make things more complicated. I also do not want to get the current user to authenticate.

What is the best way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Use the GET search API instead. Search for statuses containing the user's @username, but in this case it will not return mentions from private/locked accounts since there's no authentication.

For example, if you want to search mentions for @stackexchange, call this.

GET http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=@stackexchange

Answer 2

You could do a search for @username using the REST Search api. There's a good chance that would work :)