WiiTweet

WiiTweet
General
Author	Pedro Aguiar
Type	Other Apps
Version	0.3.2
License	GPL-2.0
Last Updated	2012/08/21
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WiiTweet is a third-party, homebrew Twitter client specifically designed for the Nintendo Wii gaming console. It allows users to access and use the popular social media service, Twitter, on their Wii system.

Note: As of April 2021 this program no longer works. This is due to Twitter API changes.

Features

• Twitter API interaction.
• HTTPS support (through IOS).
• OAuth authorization (credentials are encapsulated and saved within a profile file so you just authorize once).
• Multiple profiles support.
• Image caching system.
• Browsing history (you can go back and forth between navigated pages).
• Unicode capable, remappable keyboard.
• Content-Encoding: gzip, deflate support (tries to compensate the lack of JSON support).

User guide

Twitter API Interfaces

• Browse timelines.
• Follow/Unfollow users.
• Tweet, favorite, retweet, reply tweets.
• Browse favorited tweets.
• See followers and followed users.
• See tweets you are mentioned in.
• Search tweets and users.

Authorizing WiiTweet

WiiTweet authorizes itself using, as suggested by Twitter, PIN-based authorization. You do not need to provide your Twitter password to start using WiiTweet.

Read Using OAuth at Twitter developers site or the OAuth 2 specification for more technical information of how and why WiiTweet gets authorized by you.

There are three ways of authorizing this application: visiting an URL using an external device, visiting an URL using the Internet Channel or providing your Twitter username/password.

Using an external device

An URL appears on screen, you go there from your computer/phone/another Wii, get your PIN and enter it to WiiTweet.

Using the Internet Channel

Internet Channel is launched and you get your PIN there. You have to go back to WiiTweet and select the corresponding profile to enter the PIN.

Slow but useful to people with no access to an external device at the time.

Providing username and password

You are asked for your Twitter username and password and WiiTweet authorizes itself.

This is still PIN-based authorization but WiiTweet gets and reads the PIN automatically.

Your password is not stored and you will not need it again to use WiiTweet.

Local password support

If you set a local password it will be needed to access your profile. Use this if you want to protect your privacy from people with access to your Wii.

Encryption

Your OAuth credentials are saved at your SD/USB. If you do not set a local password they will be stored in plain text. If you set a local password your credentials will be encrypted.

These credentials do not include your Twitter password (even if you authorized WiiTweet providing your Twitter username and password).

Controls

Aim - Cursor

D=Pad Up/ Down - Scroll

A - Click button

B (held) - Show the background of the pointed unit

Minus/Plus - Go back/forward one page

Home - Show toolbar, Close the window (brief tweet window)

Home (held) - Exit to loader

Screenshots

Credits

• If there were a team behind WiiTweet its only direct member would be Pedro Aguiar.
• This would have never happened without the amazing people behind wiibrew and devkitpro.

Libraries/code:

• LibOGC.
• libwiigui.
• twitcurl.
• Mini-XML.
• zLib.
• PNGU, libJPEG, libPNG, wiiuse, libfat, libfreetype, FreeTypeGX, GifLib.
• Plenty of tantric's code.

Other:

• DejaVu Sans 2.33 TrueType font.
• Libwiigui demo's button images.

External links

• GitHub - https://github.com/paguiar/wiitweet
• WiiBrew - https://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiTweet