JSON and Twitter API detailed

This is a follow up to the initial post on working with JSON. This post is inspired from reading making-web-pages-in-java-with-google , and working with JSON .

Before we get started, lets take a look at the JSON API request.

For an example, I will use the user time line of  Evan Williams (@ev) , who is one of the founders of Twitter.

Here is the json url from the user_timeline API:

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ev.json?page=1