Made my own TwitterClient and I think it's better than the example one

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Hi,

It's nice you want to use my code, Thanks. So, because you're new to Arduino, you probably will have to read a lot about coding and stuff.

For your question, I'll give you some guidance. Want you'll need to do is combine the code for the Twitter client with the code for showing it on a DOT matrix. It is possible (I did this in an other project of mine: CastDuino, google it, if you want, but CastDuino is way more complicated).

My Twitter client get's the tweet and puts it in a buffer for show it on the serial monitor. You can use the same buffer to show the tweet on an LCD or DOT-Matrix. It isn't that hard to accomplish.

This is only a part of the code, but you should put instead of the part: Serial.println(tweet);

// show tweet buffer
  wd = HT1632.getTextWidth(tweet, FONT_7X5_WIDTH, FONT_7X5_HEIGHT);
  HT1632.drawTarget(BUFFER_BOARD(1));
  HT1632.clear();
  HT1632.drawText(tweet, 2*OUT_SIZE - i, 0, FONT_7X5, FONT_7X5_WIDTH, FONT_7X5_HEIGHT, FONT_7X5_STEP_GLYPH);
  HT1632.render();
  
  HT1632.drawTarget(BUFFER_BOARD(2));
  HT1632.clear();
  HT1632.drawText(tweet, OUT_SIZE - i, 0, FONT_7X5, FONT_7X5_WIDTH, FONT_7X5_HEIGHT, FONT_7X5_STEP_GLYPH);
  HT1632.render();

  i = (i+1)%(wd + OUT_SIZE * 2);