The Twitter API: A Presentation to Adobe

THE API Presented to Adobe Systems February 10, 2009 Tuesday, February 10, 2009

@al3x @mzsanford THE API TEAM Plus developer support, soon. Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A BRIEF HISTORY i. The incidental API. ii. Documentation begets growth. iii. The addition of search. iv. The intentional API. Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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

OUT NEXT MONTH Rough Cut available now. Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A TOUR OF TWITTER’S CURRENT API Tuesday, February 10, 2009

TWITTER API OFFERINGS REST API Search API Data Mining Feed Firehose Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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

TRY THIS RIGHT NOW curl http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/dom.xml Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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

TRY THIS RIGHT NOW curl http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=adobe Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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

COMING SOON PROJECTS IN THE WORKS Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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

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

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

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

FEEDBACK FROM OUR DEVELOPERS TO YOURS Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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THANKS! QUESTIONS? More information about the Twitter API at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/ Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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