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    1. THE API Presented to Adobe Systems February 10, 2009 Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    2. @al3x @mzsanford THE API TEAM Plus developer support, soon. Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    3. A BRIEF HISTORY i. The incidental API. ii. Documentation begets growth. iii. The addition of search. iv. The intentional API. Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    4. FACTS • 3,500+ developers in our discussion and announcement groups. • 2,400+ registered applications. • Way, way more apps out there. • Japanese language book release last year. Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    5. OUT NEXT MONTH Rough Cut available now. Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    6. OUT NEXT MONTH Rough Cut available now. Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    7. A TOUR OF TWITTER’S CURRENT API Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    8. TWITTER API OFFERINGS REST API Search API Data Mining Feed Firehose Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    9. REST API • 36 methods mirroring nearly all of Twitter’s user-facing features. • Returns XML or JSON for all methods, RSS and Atom for methods that return timelines. • Supports JSON callbacks, a variety of parameters to slice ‘n dice. • Meaningful use of HTTP response codes, plus explanatory error messages in the requested format. Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    10. TRY THIS RIGHT NOW curl http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/dom.xml Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    11. SEARCH API two methods: search and trends. • Just • Parameters to create advanced searches: location, language, tweets to/about/from specific users, more. • Retrieve trends, find out what’s hot on Twitter programmatically. Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    12. TRY THIS RIGHT NOW curl http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=adobe Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    13. DATA MINING FEED •A service for researchers and hobbyists. • Returns 600 recent public tweets every sixty seconds. •A statistically significant sampling of Twitter’s traffic. • Being used right now for PhD research! • Completely free. Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    14. COMING SOON PROJECTS IN THE WORKS Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    15. THE FIREHOSE •A way to move the stream of all public tweets from our servers to our partners. • Previously XMPP, now HTTP. • Private beta starting soon. • No cost, just some paperwork. Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    16. OAUTH •A standard for token-based authentication. • Defeating the password anti-pattern. • Code is live for our internal testing today. • Rails walkthrough on the API Wiki right now. • Private beta starts ASAP. Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    17. COMMUNITY • Primary goal: a better way to promote apps. • Organize and recommend apps to users. • Pull developer resources into one place. • When: Q2, if not sooner. Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    18. TWITTER API 2.0 • Unifies Search API and REST API. • More RESTful: intuitive & consistent URLs and parameters. • Versioning: http://api.twitter.com/1/method.xml • New backend: better response time, less rate limiting. Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    19. FEEDBACK FROM OUR DEVELOPERS TO YOURS Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    20. “A generic R / ac.com EST librar y o erfl.kay f some nd ttp://wo sor t would b h e good.” to URLLoader with a “Synchronous calls uld be a great solution.” timeout wo “Show AIR JavaScript developer s some love!” in pain!” ssdoma “Cro “Flex needs better es are documentation.” r y issu “Memo e from ging m iscoura d g AIR.” usin updater s, bloat, cost.” “Installer s, “Foster community participation.” Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    21. THANKS! QUESTIONS? More information about the Twitter API at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/ Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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