Developing for @twitterapi (Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon)
- 1. Techcrunch hackathon!
- 2. At the Techcr unch Disrupt Ha ckathon - giving a talk about @twitte rapi & watching people hack! 21 May via Twitter for iPhone from Pier 94 755 12th Avenue New York, NY View Tweets at this place
- 3. >660K Developers on @twitterAPI
- 4. >900K applications + The Officially Owned and Operated ones
- 5. The opportunity Analytics Content Interpreting user information (for Filtering valuable data data signals Creating rich(real-time) to convey Surfacingreal-time experiences (for the Helping users publish the right content into actionable information for relevant, meaningful conversations ecosystem) in exchange for greater to enterprise users) to facilitate target at the right time to optimize resonance. Curation industries audiences.or interests. reach and growth. engagement and manage reputation. Publishing Enterprise
- 6. Every tweet that comes from quora to twitter results in 30 clicks per tweet. ⇢ Charlie Cheever, Co-Founder
- 7. Flipboard sees 50-80% lift in retention from users who have signed into Twitter versus those who have not.
- 8. Twitter is just three things: Tweets,relationships between those three And the users, anD Timelines
- 9. What is the @TwitterAPI? REST API ⇢provides Twitter functionality ⇢read / write / read DM (Tweet, Follow, DM, etc.) Search API ⇢real-time search index Streaming API ⇢HTTP long poll connection ⇢Tweets in real-time
- 10. Using the system 13B API calls 150,000 calls per day ≈ per second
- 11. Three main objects Status Objects → the Tweet (text, author, and metadata) User objects → username, screen name, avatar Timelines → orderings of Tweets
- 12. The tweet's unique ID. These Text of the tweet. IDs are roughly sorted & Consecutive duplicate tweets developers should treat them are rejected. 140 character as opaque (http://bit.ly/dCkppc). max (http://bit.ly/4ud3he). DEPRECATED {"id"=>12296272736, "text"=> "An early look at Annotations: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/fa5da2608865453", Tweet's "created_at"=>"Fri Apr 16 17:55:46 +0000 2010", creation "in_reply_to_user_id"=>nil, The ID of an existing tweet that date. "in_reply_to_screen_name"=>nil, this tweet is in reply to. Won't "in_reply_to_status_id"=>nil be set unless the author of the The author's The screen name & "favorited"=>false, user ID. user ID of replied to referenced tweet is mentioned. "truncated"=>false, Truncated to 140 characters. Only tweet author. "user"=> possible from SMS. The author's {"id"=>6253282, user name. The author's "screen_name"=>"twitterapi", The author's biography. "name"=>"Twitter API", screen name. bedded object can get out of sync. "description"=> "The Real Twitter API. I tweet about API changes, service issues and The author of the tweet. This happily answer questions about Twitter and our API. Don't get an answer? It's on my website.", "url"=>"http://apiwiki.twitter.com", The author's "location"=>"San Francisco, CA", URL. The author's "location". This is a free-form text field, and "profile_background_color"=>"c1dfee", there are no guarantees on whether it can be geocoded. "profile_background_image_url"=> "http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/59931895/twitterapi-background-new.png", Rendering information "profile_background_tile"=>false, for the author. Colors "profile_image_url"=>"http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/689684365/api_normal.png", are encoded in hex "profile_link_color"=>"0000ff", values (RGB). "profile_sidebar_border_color"=>"87bc44", The creation date
- 13. Timelines user → a the Tweets a given user has authored home → the main timeline you would see in a client Mentions → all the Tweets that @mention a user
- 14. Causing change Tweeting → a POST to status/update Following → a POST to friendships/create DM-ing → a POST to direct_messages/new
- 15. Authentication OAuth 1.0a ⇢ signature based requests ⇢ user driven access to the API ⇢ client differentiated access to the API Applications don’t have passwords ⇢ applications store tokens for their users ⇢ users can change passwords, but tokens still work OAuth 2.0 ⇢ coming soon!
- 16. Limits 350 OAuth calls / user / hour / IP ⇢ authenticated calls goes against calling user ⇢ unauthenticated calls goes against calling IP “Natural” limits ⇢ limits on number of Tweets / DMs sent ⇢ limits on number of follows / unfollows a day Status Limits ⇢ can’t send “duplicate” tweets
- 17. Streaming API Persistent connections ⇢get pushed a tweet, in real-time, that matches your predicate ⇢“push” version of search ⇢read-only User streams / Site streams ⇢re-create the client experience using streams ⇢great for “client” experiences
- 19. Streaming API’s Sample hose http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.json use curl ⇢uses basic authentication ⇢one connection per username
- 20. Streaming API’s Track and follow http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json Track ⇢watch a particular keyword ⇢up to 200 can be sent as CSV with track parameter Follow ⇢get all the tweets (RTs, etc.) from a particular user ⇢up to 400 can be issued as CSV with follow parameter
- 21. Search API Real-time search index ⇢Tweets indexed in <10 seconds ⇢1.5 billion requests a day Search Corpus ⇢index goes back 7-10 days depending on traffic ⇢contains the best quality Tweets
- 22. Querying the Search API http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q= ! Use Curl ⇢ unauthenticated ⇢ rate-limited by IP address Parameters ⇢ just put your query in the q parameter ⇢ use from to restrict to a particular username ⇢ OR to combine queries (q=techcrunch+OR+disrupt) ⇢ - to negate (q=techcrunch+-from=%3Araffi)
- 23. Tools of the Trade dev.twitter.com ⇢ documentation central ⇢ create and register new applications twurl ⇢ OAuth enabled version of curl ⇢ allows you to manually test authenticated and unauthenticated REST Twitter for Mac ⇢ built in “developer console”
- 27. Tweet button Implementing ⇢simple JavaScript to drop onto your site ⇢allows you to share URLs, and to recommend people to follow Back-end ⇢high speed URL counting API
- 28. Follow me at Questions? twitter.com/raffi