A view into the Twitter Platform roadmap.

1. Twitter API 2.0
A VIEW INTO THE PLATFORM ROADMAP
Alex Payne
Twitter Platform Lead

2. Agenda
‣ Where we’re at.
‣ Where we’re going.
‣ Where you think we should be.

3. The Platform: Numbers
28,000 registered applications.
30,000 developers keeping up with changes.
Hundreds of millions of requests per day.
$23+ million invested in Twitter-powered startups.

4. The Platform: Team
@al3x @rsarver
@noradio
@raffi

5. The Platform: APIs
The Twitter Platform is a suite of APIs:
1. REST
2. Search
3. Streaming

6. REST API
Do everything a user can do, and more:
‣ Post tweets.
‣ Get timelines of tweets.
‣ View and manipulate the social graph.
‣ Send and retrieve direct messages.
‣ Modify account settings.

7. Search API
Discover trends, view historical trends.
Search for tweets:
‣ by term (ex: “CRV”)
‣ by user (ex “from:jack”)
‣ by location (ex: “near:SF within:15mi”)
‣ much more...

8. Streaming API
Push tons of data to partners in near-realtime.
Currently streaming:
‣ samples of the set of all public tweets
‣ search results
‣ just tweets by specified users
‣ more coming soon...

10. The New Stuff!

11. Geolocation
‣ Per-status geolocation: new lat and long
parameters.
‣ More accurate “near:” search results.
‣ Room to grow into more complex geodata via
GeoRSS and GeoJSON standards.

12. Apple Push
‣ Developers have implemented Apple Push on
their own, and that’s cool!
‣ But we want to handle it for you.
‣ Working prototype, ready for production soon.

13. api.twitter.com
‣ A simple change that helps us better serve you.
‣ Isolates API traffic so we can direct it within our
cluster.
‣ Live for testing right now.

14. Versioning
‣ Another way we can keep your apps working
better.
‣ http://api.twitter.com/2/example/method.xml
‣ Additions say within a version, modifications and
removals bump to a new version.
‣ Each version supported for at least six months.

15. Search API Cleanup
‣ Right now, Search API results deviate from the
main (REST) API.
‣ We’re going to fix it, and move the Search API
methods into the new api.twitter.com domain.

16. More Streams
‣ The Streaming API has been a big success.
‣ We need to know what else you want streamed...
‣ Changes to the social graph?
‣ Favorites?
‣ Retweets?

17. More OAuth
‣ Helping push the standard forward.
‣ Mechanism for a one-time exchange of
username:password credentials for a token
(“guns for cash”).
‣ More “Sign in with Twitter”.

18. Address Book API
‣ A way to find Twitter users given email addresses.
‣ Secure and spammer-hostile.
‣ Familiar if you’ve used similar APIs from webmail
providers.

19. Support
‣ Building out a team just for developer support.
‣ Faster responses to your questions.
‣ More documentation, more example code.
‣ A better developer community site and
experience.

20. More...
‣ More Platform Engineers on staff at Twitter to
build the tools you need.
‣ More ways for users to discover your apps.
‣ API monitoring available publicly.

21. Thanks! Questions?