# mattgemmell/MGTwitterEngine

Objective-C Twitter integration library for Mac OS X and iPhone. Official repository.

Repository: https://github.com/mattgemmell/MGTwitterEngine
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mgtwitterengine
Homepage: http://mattgemmell.com/source
Language: Objective-C
License Family: other
Last push: 2010-09-04T14:10:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6015, "days_push": 5842, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1125, forks 161 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:41.128265+00:00)

## What it is
MGTwitterEngine is an Objective-C/Cocoa library that adds Twitter integration to Mac OS X and iPhone apps via the Twitter REST API. It provides delegate-based callbacks for statuses, direct messages, and user info, with optional LibXML parsing.

## Use cases
- post tweets from a mac app
- fetch twitter timelines in an iphone app
- integrate twitter into a cocoa application
- send direct messages via twitter api from objective-c
- parse twitter api xml responses on ios

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy Objective-C app targeting old iOS/macOS SDKs that already uses this engine

## When to avoid
- starting any new project - Twitter API v1 and basic auth are long dead
- you need OAuth or current Twitter/X API features
- you need a maintained or supported library

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-client, sdk
- domain: apis, social-media, mobile-development, developer-tools
- platform: cpp
- tags: twitter, objective-c, cocoa, rest-api, legacy, macos, ios

## Member repositories
- mattgemmell/MGTwitterEngine (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:41.128265+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:39:32.520339+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mattgemmell/MGTwitterEngine (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:41.128265+00:00, sha 9e6e1ed37dda)
  - homepage: http://mattgemmell.com/source (fetched 2026-08-29T12:43:52.341452+00:00, sha c7f7e8520af4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.