My Twitter Application Project with Tweepy and PyQt6

Twitter is a social media platform that allows users to post short messages, called tweets, of up to 280 characters. Users can follow other users, and tweets can be liked, retweeted, and replied to. Twitter also has a feature called a hashtag, which allows tweets to be grouped together by topic. The platform is widely used by individuals, organizations, and businesses for communication, news sharing, and networking.

I am also a user of twitter but have not been active lately so I decided to create this application to at least simplify the user interface based on how will it suite my need. Here is an overview of my project:

This application will have the following features:

1. Display user information including profile picture(just the url)
2. Display tweets from the user's timeline
3. Display the user's tweets
4. Display the user's followers and following
5. Post a tweet
6. Retweet a tweet
7. Display direct messages (DMs)
8. Reply to DMs
9. Display user profile picture(it should be the image)
10. Count the retweets of a tweet
11. Display mentions

As a first step, I created a Twitter developer account and create a new app to get my API keys and access tokens. Once I have obtained these, I can use them to authenticate with the Twitter API using Tweepy.

To display the user's information, I use the get_user() method to retrieve the user's information, and then access the name, location, description attributes to get the user's name, location, and description respectively.

To display the user's profile picture, I use the profile_image_url attribute to get the URL of the user's profile picture.

To display tweets from the user's timeline, I use the home_timeline() method to retrieve the tweets. I can then use a QListWidget or QTableWidget to display the tweets in a list or table.

To display the user's tweets, I use the user_timeline() method to retrieve the tweets. I can then use a QListWidget or QTableWidget to display the tweets in a list or table.

To display the user's followers and following, I use the followers() and friends() methods respectively to retrieve the user's followers and following. I can then use a QListWidget or QTableWidget to display the followers and following in a list or table.

To post a tweet, I use the update_status() method and pass in the text of the tweet as a parameter.

To retweet a tweet, I use the retweet() method and pass in the tweet's ID as a parameter.

To display direct messages, I use the direct_messages() method to retrieve the DMs. I can then use a QListWidget or QTableWidget to display the DMs in a list or table.

To reply to a DM, I use the send_direct_message() method and pass in the user's screen name and the text of the reply as parameters.

To display user profile picture, I use the QPixmap class to create a pixmap from the image data and then use a QLabel widget to display it.

To count the retweets of a tweet, I use the retweet_count attribute of the Status object returned by the API

To display @ mentions, I use the mentions_timeline() method to retrieve the tweets with the user's @ mention. I can then use a QListWidget or QTableWidget to display the mentions in a list or table.

to be continued...