20100224 Twitter Api

Using the Twitter API February 24 th 2010 Arnaud Coomans (@acoomans)

Twitter API or APIs?
“Classic” API
Standard actions
Same set of features as web interface
Search API
Search Tweets
Previously Summize
Small differences with “classic”!
Streaming
Partner feed (phasing out)
Firehose

“ Classic” and Search Twitter API
Interact with twitter
Update status
Send DM
Show timeline, mentions
Friend/Show/Block user
Search statuses
...
Roughly same set of features as web interface

Twitter API: Streaming
Alpha
Changes (very) often!
QoS
Best-effort
Unordered
Generally at-least-once
Firehose, Retweets, Links
Not broadly available
Sample
“small firehose”
Filter

Twitter API: Rate limiting
Account- and IP-based
Default: max =150 reqs/hour
Call to check remaining reqs
Whitelisting
Caching!!

Twitter API: Authentication
Basic Auth
Insecure
Easy to setup
Only method for Streaming
Oauth
Redirect to Twitter
Token, not the password!
Revocation

Twitter API: Real-life applications Enough talking, show us something! http://www.tweetag.com (dead) http://www.europatweets.eu http://libetwitt.liberation.fr

Twitter API Arnaud Coomans [email_address] @acoomans http://www.europatweets.eu http://libetwitt.liberation.fr API doc: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/

20100224 Twitter Api

by Arnaud Coomans on Mar 01, 2010

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