The document discusses using Twitter as a platform for the Internet of Things (IoT). It describes how objects like plants, ferries, houses, and sensors can tweet data from the physical world. It outlines Twitter's streaming and REST APIs, which allow applications to ingest real-time tweet data through streaming or access past data. The APIs can be used to build IoT applications that analyze sensor data tweets and respond accordingly.

1. Combining signals with context
in the Internet of Things
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Developer Advocate
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2. The Internet is made of people
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3. … and: objects, services, sensors
the Internet of Things
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4. The Internet of Things is
broadcasting, analyzing, responding
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5. @TwitterAds | Confidential
255M+
500M+
77%
Active users
Tweets per day
of users are
outside the US
2006 2014
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6. Twitter is global,
open and real-time
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7. Twitter is the shortest distance between
you (@) and what interests you most (#)
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8. Twitter is there at
world events
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10. Twitter is the pulse
of the planet
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11. Using the Twitter Platform
for the Internet of Things
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12. Many objects tweet
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13. from plants… to ferries…
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14. to houses…
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15. to sensors…
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to animals…

17. Smart environments
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18. Objects bring Tweets to
the physical world
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22. Twitter is a great I/O channel
for the IoT
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24. Twitter APIs deal both with the
right now and what happened
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25. Streaming APIs allow you to
ingest what’s happening right now
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26. Streaming APIs allow you to
ingest what’s happening right now
POST https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/filter.json
follow: 3946301
track: #WorldCup
locations: 2.1632,48.7429,2.5051,48.9679
Data:
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27. GET https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/sample.json
Returns ~1% of all firehose data, statistically relevant.
Streaming APIs allow you to
ingest what’s happening right now
GET https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/firehose.json
Returns all firehose data, requires business deal.
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28. 143,199
Tweets per second
5,700
TPS on average
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29. REST APIs let you perform actions
and look at what happened
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30. Tweets GET statuses/show/:id
Timelines GET statuses/home_timeline
GET statuses/user_timeline
GET statuses/mentions_timeline
POST statuses/update
Search GET search/tweets
…
Users, Favorites, Direct Messages, Followings & Followers,
Lists, Saved Searches, Trends, Geo, Spam Reporting
REST APIs let you perform actions
and look at what happened
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31. Let’s see a demo! :)
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32. Streaming APIs
t.co/streaming
Developer Resources
REST API
t.co/rest
Create Apps
t.co/apps
Open Source @Twitter
t.co/opensource
Demos
t.co/apidemos
Certified Products
t.co/certified
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33. #ThankYou
Romain Huet
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romain@twitter.com