The document discusses Twitter's role as a real-time platform with over 271 million active users and 500 million tweets per day. It provides information on how to utilize Twitter data for application development, including features like tweet buttons and web embeds, along with API details for streaming and data ingestion. Additionally, it references the use of Vine embeds and Twitter cards to enhance user engagement.

1. Connecting to the Pulse
of the Planet
December 10, 2014 #phphants

2. Andy Piper
Developer Advocate
@andypiper

4. 271M+
Active Users
500M+
Tweets per Day
2006 2014

5. Twitter is global,
open and real-time

6. Twitter is the shortest distance
between @you and your #interests

7. Twitter is there at
world events

8. Twitter is the pulse
of the planet

9. 143,199
Tweets per second
5,700
TPS on average

10. How can you use Twitter Data
to power your apps?

14. @andypiper

15. @andypiper

16. Web Platform

19. Twitter for Web
• Tweet button
• Follow button
• Tweet embeds
• Embeddable timelines
• Web Intents
Driven by widgets.js

20. @TwitterAds | Confidential

21. @TwitterAds | Confidential
@chabotc | platform overview

22. <a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-via="andypiper">Tweet</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=^http:/.test(d.location)? ’http' :
'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+’://platform.twitter.com/
widgets.js'; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script>
@TwitterAds | Confidential
@chabotc | platform overview

23. @TwitterAds | Confidential

25. Vine embeds
GET https://vine.co/oembed.json
Returns oEmbed JSON data matching your query.
Data id: OvjwJIWQV2t
maxheight: 600
maxwidth: 600
omit_script

26. Vine embeds
{
"version": 1.0,
"type": "video",
"cache_age": 3153600000,
"provider_name": "Vine",
"provider_url": "https://vine.co/",
"author_name": "Andy Piper",
"author_url": "https://vine.co/u/906305068322660352",
"title": "ROBOT is awesome!",
"thumbnail_url": "https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/
9B03025B6B1152337046950596608_3c86180121b.
1.1.13598183071119429391.mp4.jpg?
versionId=RK2EE1Qgw6r0EqeovdUlKOVHWAMhNVdC",
"thumbnail_width": 480,
"thumbnail_height": 480,
"html": "<iframe class="vine-embed" src="https://vine.co/
v/OvjwJIWQV2t/embed/simple" width="600" height="600"
frameborder="0"></iframe><script async src="//
platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js"></script>",
"width": 600,
"height": 600
}

27. Vine embeds
{
"version": 1.0,
"type": "video",
"cache_age": 3153600000,
"provider_name": "Vine",
"provider_url": "https://vine.co/",
"author_name": "Andy Piper",
"author_url": "https://vine.co/u/906305068322660352",
"title": "ROBOT is awesome!",
"thumbnail_url": "https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/
9B03025B6B1152337046950596608_3c86180121b.
1.1.13598183071119429391.mp4.jpg?
versionId=RK2EE1Qgw6r0EqeovdUlKOVHWAMhNVdC",
"thumbnail_width": 480,
"thumbnail_height": 480,
"html": "<iframe class="vine-embed" src="https://vine.co/
v/OvjwJIWQV2t/embed/simple" width="600" height="600"
frameborder="0"></iframe><script async src="//
platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js"></script>",
"width": 600,
"height": 600
}

28. Cards

29. Cards
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@nytimes">
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@SarahMaslinNir">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Parade of Fans for Houston’s Funeral">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="The guest list and parade of limousines ..”>
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/02/19/us/
19whitney-span/19whitney-span-article.jpg">

30. Photo Card
Player Card
Summary Card
Large Image
Summary Card
App Card
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31. Data Platform

32. Twitter APIs deal both with the
right now and what happened

33. Streaming APIs allow you to ingest
what’s happening right now

34. Streaming APIs let you ingest
what’s happening right now
POST https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/filter.json
Returns Tweets matching your criteria.
Data follow: 3946301
track: #phphants
locations: 2.1733,41.3633,2.1933,41.4033
language: en

35. Streaming APIs let you ingest
what’s happening right now
GET https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/sample.json
Returns ~1% of all firehose data, statistically relevant.
GET https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/firehose.json
Returns all firehose data, requires business deal.

36. Streaming APIs let you ingest
what’s happening right now
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38. Anatomy of a Tweet
{
"created_at": "Wed Oct 02 15:53:43 +0000 2013",
"id": 385432417126739968,
"id_str": "385432417126739968",
"text": "Learn more about the powerful #Linux container engine @docker in this video intro with @solomonstre -
http://t.co/QJLdA1762Y @TwitterOSS",
"source": "web",
"truncated": false,
"in_reply_to_status_id": null,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
"in_reply_to_user_id": null,
"in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
"in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
"user": {
"id": 1665823832,
"id_str": "1665823832",
"name": "Twitter University",
"screen_name": "university",
"location": "",
"description": "Building a culture of learning for @TwitterEng and the world at large",
"url": "http://t.co/c8IHJLE1Y8",
"entities": {
"url": {
"urls": [{
"url": "http://t.co/c8IHJLE1Y8",
"expanded_url": "http://youtube.com/twitteruniversity",
"display_url": "youtube.com/twitteruniversu2026",
"indices": [0, 22]

39. "favorite_count": 25,
"entities": {
"hashtags": [{
"text": "Linux",
"indices": [30, 36]
}],
"symbols": [],
"urls": [{
"url": "http://t.co/QJLdA1762Y",
"expanded_url": "http://youtu.be/Q5POuMHxW-0",
"display_url": "youtu.be/Q5POuMHxW-0",
"indices": [102, 124]
}],
"user_mentions": [{
"screen_name": "docker",
"name": "Docker",
"id": 1138959692,
"id_str": "1138959692",
"indices": [54, 61]
}, {
"screen_name": "solomonstre",
"name": "Solomon Hykes",
"id": 9551792,
"id_str": "9551792",
"indices": [87, 99]
}, {
"screen_name": "TwitterOSS",
"name": "Twitter Open Source",
"id": 376825877,
"id_str": "376825877",
"indices": [125, 136]
}]
},
"favorited": false,
"retweeted": true,
"possibly_sensitive": false,
"lang": "en"
}

40. REST APIs let you perform actions
and access what happened

41. The Twitter API
Over 100 REST API endpoints
• Tap into Twitter data
‣ GET /search/tweets
• Engage users socially
‣ POST /statuses/update

42. REST APIs let you perform actions
and access what happened
Tweets & Media GET statuses/lookup
POST statuses/update
POST media/upload
Timelines GET statuses/home_timeline
GET statuses/user_timeline
GET statuses/mentions_timeline
Search GET tweets/search
Following GET friends/list
And many more: Users, Favorites, Direct Messages, Block/Mute, Followers, Lists, Trends, Geo…

43. Mobile Platform

46. TwitterDev

47. TwitterDev
• Encourage, enable & engage
with the community
• Write code
• Advocate for the Twitter developer

48. Build awesome open-source
applications
t.co/code

51. Open Source libraries
50+ open-source client libraries
10+ languages & platforms
t.co/libs

52. +t.co/libs

53. Communicate fearlessly to build
trust
t.co/forum

54. @andypiper
#ThankYou
Andy Piper
andypiper@twitter.com