Thanks to the new Twitter API v1.1, it is now impossible to query the API using pure JavaScript code! So, in this quick tutorial will see how to use PHP to do Application-only authentication and forward the API result of the required resource to JavaScript, plus caching API results to prevent rate-limit errors.

Here we are at the end of another month, so it's time to get an overview of the most popular jQuery plugins from July 2012. No matter what kind of project you are developing, some of these plugins will definitely come in handy.

Ever wondered who is behind jQuery? Are you looking for jQuery geek to follow on Twitter? check out this extensive list. It includes jQuery team members, project contributors, book authors, bloggers, speakers, entrepreneurs, web developers and designers.

Since Twitter only allows you to pull the last 3200 Tweets, people are using many online services to archive their Tweets. However, if you are interested to do it yourself in .Net, this tutorial would be a good kickstart.

Last month, many great jQuery plugins were created and new versions were released too. Now, lets go through some of the most popular plugins in February 2012.

A new version of my most popular jQuery plugin -Twitter Friends widget. This version aims to be better looking and easier to setup.

It often happens that I do my reading of blog posts late at night or very early in the morning. Sharing the best pieces I find then via Twitter then isn't very useful though I found. It often puts my efforts to waste and no one sees them.

Twiends is a remarkably innovative mechanism to get you more Twitter followers, Facebook page fans and Youtube viewers. Twiends is a seed-based; When you follow others you earn seeds from them, which you can offer as an incentive for others to follow you and promote your profile. You can also set number of seeds you are offering per follow and whom you want to follow.

Twiends claims 500,000 members and I believe it could be more than that as I'm a big fan of the service. Now, let's see how you will grow your social network..

This is my second take on "Twitter Score Bookmarklet" but this time using Klout instead of Topsy to quickly display online influence score of Twitter accounts.

Klout uses many variables to provide overall influence score, true reach, amplification probability, and network score.

Inspired by Twitter Hovercards, this bookmarklet was made to help me quickly view the data of Twitter accounts plus their Topsy influence score before I decide to follow them.

Powered by Topsy API, I created this rank checker prototype to calculate the Twitter rank of your website which indicates your realtime search visibility.

This is a simple jQuery tutorial to display Twitter trending stories of your website and their Twitter trackbacks by combining 2 of my jQuery plugins - Popular on Twitter Widget & Twitter Trackbacks Widget.

bit.ly -The intelligent URL shortener- offers realtime statistics about the clicks on shortened links and this button takes advantage of that information. This jQuery button gives you a uniform click count button -tall or wide- that people can also use it to retweet your post.

When you use a short link to tweet your post, it may get 100 retweets but in terms of bit.ly stats that could mean 1000 clicks coming from the whole twitter ecosystem which makes another interesting measure of how popular is your post!

This plugin displays avatars of people who have recently followed your twitter account and tweeted your link. It would be useful when you have a new project launch and you need to encourage people to follow & tweet it by showing their Twitter avatars!

The plugin is a mix of two of my favorite plugins: Twitter Friends & Followers Widget and Twitter Trackbacks Widget. It first queries Topsy API to get tweeters and compares them with followers returned from Twitter API.

This is a jQuery widget for the brand new social network -Google Buzz- that you can embed anywhere to integrate your buzz stream into your page.

Google Buzz is a new social network based on Google profiles and built right into Gmail. It was launched last Tuesday, and in 2 days over 9 million buzzes and comments were created!

As of my ongoing preparation for the 1K tweet :) I was interested to see the 1000th tweet from some friends timeline. And when I didn't find an existing method, I thought I could write few jQuery lines to solve this..

Another Topsy-enabled jQuery plugin to list the most popular posts on your website, from your Twitter timeline or for some keyword within a selected period of time.
Links are displayed with number of tweets and score -which is calculated by the influence of the people talking about them and affects on sorting those links.

I took the Topsy retweet button and jQuery-fied it, then added the "Who" part to it using the awesome Topsy API. to create this fancy share count button for your stories on twitter. that's it!

Highly customizable Twitter trackbacks widget to integrate tweets that mention your post into your blog. Each tweet comes with reply & retweet links to get more readers engaged in your story conversation.

Topsy has just released a Wordpress plugin that gives you another retweet button. But, what if you can only work with a JavaScript widget? here is a small hack..