WiFi shield to send Twitter Post

Hello,

As a lot of posts, I am new and somewhat inexperienced, but need some help.

I am making a project for school, which is a temperature controlled fire alarm with sprinkler system, controlled with an Arduino Uno. I have all the components and most of the coding figured out, but I cannot seem to understand nor get my set up to actually send a twitter message or even an email. This is big part of our alarm and all I can find is how to configure this with an ethernet shield, but I have to have wireless, and work independent of any computer. I use a 20X4 LCD screen for display notifications.

I can connect my setup to my WPA network and have no problems there, I just cant get a working code that will send either email or twitter update to notify someone that the system has been activated.

I have tried “Arduino quick start guide” examples, instructables.com examples, several forum posts and the list continues, but I just can’t get the correct code for my application. I do not need my whole project coded, I just need to know how to send the notification after connecting to the network.

Thank you sooooooo very much,

David