public class TwitterOAuthHelper {
public String httpQueryToApi(String url) {
        HttpGet get = new HttpGet(url);
        HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
        HttpProtocolParams.setUseExpectContinue(params, false);
        get.setParams(params);
        String response = null;
        try {
            SharedPreferences settings = context.getSharedPreferences("my_app", 0);
            String userKey = settings.getString("user_key", "");
            String userSecret = settings.getString("user_secret", "");
            consumer.setTokenWithSecret(userKey, userSecret);
            consumer.sign(get);
            DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
            response = client.execute(get, new BasicResponseHandler());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            displayToast("Failed to get data.");
        }
        return response;
    }

}

String result;
public String httpQueryToApi(String url) {
    new AsyncTask<String,Void,String>(){

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
            HttpGet get = new HttpGet(String.valueOf(params));
            HttpParams param = new BasicHttpParams();
            HttpProtocolParams.setUseExpectContinue(param, false);
            get.setParams(param);
            String response = null;
            try {
                SharedPreferences settings = context.getSharedPreferences("my_app", 0);
                String userKey = settings.getString("user_key", "");
                String userSecret = settings.getString("user_secret", "");
                consumer.setTokenWithSecret(userKey, userSecret);
                consumer.sign(get);
                DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
                response = client.execute(get, new BasicResponseHandler());
            } catch (Exception e) {
                displayToast("Failed to get data.");
            }
            result = response;
            return response;
        }
    }.execute(url);
    return result;
    }