A short while, ago, @daniel_ernston sent the following challenge to @StackCodeGolf on Twitter:
@StackCodeGolf Your task is to build a program that uses the API of your choice to tweet its own source code. Shortest code wins, of course.
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1\$\begingroup\$ What about reading the source code and other quine cheats? \$\endgroup\$– Martin EnderMar 7, 2015 at 3:06
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\$\begingroup\$ All permissible. I want to see how short you can get it, and I have a suspicion it may not be possible if I don't open those up. \$\endgroup\$– Joe Z.Mar 7, 2015 at 3:08
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\$\begingroup\$ If you can come up with a solution that doesn't use that cheat, though, then by all means I'll give you an honourable mention (and maybe even a bounty). \$\endgroup\$– Joe Z.Mar 7, 2015 at 3:08
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\$\begingroup\$ Hm, won't this depend quite heavily on the chosen user name and credentials? (Both whether it fits in the tweet and the actual score.) \$\endgroup\$– Martin EnderMar 7, 2015 at 3:15
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13\$\begingroup\$ I don't have a twitter account and while I could create one, I have to give them my phone number to get an api key, maybe someone could post api keys from a throwaway account for everyone to use. This would also make the challenge fairer since they would be the same length. \$\endgroup\$– MaltysenMar 8, 2015 at 19:25
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JavaScript, 38 characters
window.open("http://tinyurl.com/erjk34");
Here is the tweet, in all its glory: https://twitter.com/kevinaworkman/status/575425948562014209
And here is my previous entry at 95 characters:
function q() {
window.open("https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text="+encodeURIComponent(q+";{q();}"));
};{q();}
And if that's not cheating...
HTML, 22 characters
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\$\begingroup\$ It this what was meant by tweeting or was it referring to the REST API dev.twitter.com/rest/public? \$\endgroup\$– MaltysenMar 10, 2015 at 20:51
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\$\begingroup\$ @Maltysen It sends a tweet, so I'm counting it as fair game. It might be cheating, but hey, OP said that cheating was allowed! :p \$\endgroup\$ Mar 10, 2015 at 20:56
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1\$\begingroup\$ Well, uh, the TinyURL should post the tweet entirely by itself, without requiring you to press the "Tweet" button... \$\endgroup\$– Joe Z.Mar 10, 2015 at 23:48
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1\$\begingroup\$ @JoeZ. I went into this knowing that it was probably cheating- especially my last update, haha. I just figured it would be fun to try, especially since you didn't have any answers after 3 days! \$\endgroup\$ Mar 11, 2015 at 0:00
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Python 2, 118 bytes
import webbrowser,urllib
webbrowser.open("https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text="+urllib.quote(open(__file__).read()))
(Can't) Try it online! (Run locally)
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