THE TWITTER API
WHERE’S IT GOING?
Presented to the San Francisco Mobile 2.0 Meetup
February 5, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009

@al3x
@mzsanford
YOUR API TEAM
Confidence-inspiring!
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A BRIEF HISTORY
i. The incidental API.
ii.Documentation begets growth.
iii.The intentional API.
iv.The future!
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DEVELOPER SUPPORT
• More than just Alex & Matt.
• Better response time to issues, inquiries.
• More documentation, better documentation.
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COMMUNITY
• Primary goal: a better way to promote your apps.
• Organize and recommend apps to users.
• Pull developer resources into one place.
• When: Q2, if not sooner.
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OAUTH
•A standard for token-based authentication.
• Defeating the password anti-pattern.
• Code is live for our internal testing today.
• Sending out documentation tomorrow.
• Private beta starts within a week.
• Help us with the mobile user experience!
Thursday, February 5, 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.
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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.
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FACTS
• 3,400+
developers in our discussion/
announcement groups.
• 2,000+ registered applications.
• Way more apps out there - and yours!
• Japaneselanguage book out, English
language book coming soon.
Thursday, February 5, 2009

THANKS!
QUESTIONS?
More information about the Twitter API at
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/
Job opportunities at
http://twitter.com/jobs
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