new to all this programming, tried perl first that didn't last long, been playing with arduino for the last couple months, thats been exciting, trying to build a project to get arduino to text message a sensor reading and be able to control a relay with a text message without the sheilds, ive been able to change my status with robotgirls example but i'm having trouble adding the directmessage command to the example, i need it to message int to a follower for the sms alert to work, please help

 

import twitter4j.conf.*;
import twitter4j.internal.async.*;
import twitter4j.internal.org.json.*;
import twitter4j.internal.logging.*;
import twitter4j.http.*;
import twitter4j.internal.util.*;
import twitter4j.api.*;
import twitter4j.util.*;
import twitter4j.internal.http.*;
import twitter4j.*;

/*

Just a simple Processing and Twitter thingy majiggy

RobotGrrl.com

Code licensed under:
CC-BY

*/

// First step is to register your Twitter application at dev.twitter.com
// Once registered, you will have the info for the OAuth tokens
// You can get the Access token info by clicking on the button on the
// right on your twitter app's page
// Good luck, and have fun!

// This is where you enter your Oauth info
static String OAuthConsumerKey = "";
static String OAuthConsumerSecret = "";

// This is where you enter your Access Token info
static String AccessToken = "";
static String AccessTokenSecret = "";

// Just some random variables kicking around
String myTimeline;
java.util.List statuses = null;
User[] friends;
Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance();
RequestToken requestToken;
String[] theSearchTweets = new String[11];

void setup() {
 
  size(100,100);
  background(0);
 
  connectTwitter();
  sendTweet("Hey from Simple Processing woop woop #RobotGrrl");
 
}

void draw() {
 
  background(0);
 
}

// Initial connection
void connectTwitter() {

  twitter.setOAuthConsumer(OAuthConsumerKey, OAuthConsumerSecret);
  AccessToken accessToken = loadAccessToken();
  twitter.setOAuthAccessToken(accessToken);

}

// Sending a tweet
void sendTweet(String t) {

  try {
    Status status = twitter.updateStatus(t);
    println("Successfully updated the status to [" + status.getText() + "].");
  } catch(TwitterException e) {
    println("Send tweet: " + e + " Status code: " + e.getStatusCode());
  }

}

// Loading up the access token
private static AccessToken loadAccessToken(){
  return new AccessToken(AccessToken, AccessTokenSecret);
}

// Get your tweets
void getTimeline() {

  try {
    statuses = twitter.getUserTimeline();
  } catch(TwitterException e) {
    println("Get timeline: " + e + " Status code: " + e.getStatusCode());
  }

  for(int i=0; i<statuses.size(); i++) {
    Status status = (Status)statuses.get(i);
    println(status.getUser().getName() + ": " + status.getText());
  }

}

// Search for tweets
void getSearchTweets() {

  String queryStr = "@RobotGrrl";

  try {
    Query query = new Query(queryStr);   
    query.setRpp(10); // Get 10 of the 100 search results 
    QueryResult result = twitter.search(query);   
    ArrayList tweets = (ArrayList) result.getTweets();   

    for (int i=0; i<tweets.size(); i++) { 
      Tweet t = (Tweet)tweets.get(i); 
      String user = t.getFromUser();
      String msg = t.getText();
      Date d = t.getCreatedAt(); 
      theSearchTweets[i] = msg.substring(queryStr.length()+1);

      println(theSearchTweets[i]);
    }

  } catch (TwitterException e) {   
    println("Search tweets: " + e); 
  }

}