#TwitterFlight: Connecting to the Pulse of the Planet

October 22, 2014 #twitterﬂight
Connecting to the Pulse
of the Planet

Romain Huet
Developer Advocate
@romainhuet

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

Twitter is global, 
open and real-time

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

Twitter is there at 
world events

Twitter is the pulse 
of the planet

How can you use Twitter Data 
to power your apps?

#TwitterFlight: Connecting to the Pulse of the Planet

Twitter APIs deal both with the 
right now and what happened

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

Streaming APIs let you ingest
POST https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/filter.json
Returns Tweets matching your criteria.
Data follow: 3946301 
track: #twitterflight 
locations: 2.1733,41.3633,2.1933,41.4033
language: fr

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.

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948825632,"in_reply_to_user_id_str":"948825632","in_reply_to_screen_name":"DM_Minions","user":{"id":
404024178,"id_str":"404024178","name":"emilyjade","screen_name":"_emilyjade","location":"","url":null,"description":"'what is essential, is invisible to the
eye'","protected":false,"followers_count":156,"friends_count":287,"listed_count":0,"created_at":"Thu Nov 03 10:18:49 +0000 2011","favourites_count":
379,"utc_offset":null,"time_zone":null,"geo_enabled":true,"verified":false,"statuses_count":
8506,"lang":"en","contributors_enabled":false,"is_translator":false,"profile_background_color":"EBEBEB","profile_background_image_url":"http://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme7/
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[],"bounding_box":{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-1.4601689999999998,51.133537999999994],[-1.4601689999999998,51.383949],[-0.9748119999999999,51.383949],
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[{"screen_name":"DM_Minions","name":"DespicableMe Minions","id":948825632,"id_str":"948825632","indices":[1,12]},{"screen_name":"CourtneyLouu","name":"coourts","id":
43456930,"id_str":"43456930","indices":[73,86]}],"media":[{"id":407263303325335552,"id_str":"407263303325335552","indices":[33,55],"media_url":"http://pbs.twimg.com/media/
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666,"resize":"fit"},"thumb":{"w":150,"h":150,"resize":"crop"},"medium":{"w":599,"h":417,"resize":"fit"}},"source_status_id":
407263303405023232,"source_status_id_str":"407263303405023232"}]},"favorited":false,"retweeted":false,"possibly_sensitive":false,"filter_level":"medium","lang":"en"}
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407263944844533761,"in_reply_to_status_id_str":"407263944844533761","in_reply_to_user_id":210579473,"in_reply_to_user_id_str":"210579473","in_reply_to_screen_name":"DannyArratoon","user":
{"id":495068253,"id_str":"495068253","name":"eleanor","screen_name":"ell_eysselinck","location":"london","url":null,"description":null,"protected":false,"followers_count":
430,"friends_count":345,"listed_count":0,"created_at":"Fri Feb 17 15:23:34 +0000 2012","favourites_count":3934,"utc_offset":
0,"time_zone":"London","geo_enabled":true,"verified":false,"statuses_count":
7800,"lang":"en","contributors_enabled":false,"is_translator":false,"profile_background_color":"000000","profile_background_image_url":"http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/
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{"created_at":"Sun Dec 01 21:44:59 +0000 2013","id":407264087085953025,"id_str":"407264087085953025","text":"@brontemaria22 #firstin","source":"u003ca href="http://twitter.com/download
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238,"listed_count":0,"created_at":"Tue Dec 20 19:13:40 +0000 2011","favourites_count":563,"utc_offset":null,"time_zone":null,"geo_enabled":true,"verified":false,"statuses_count":

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",

"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"
}

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

REST APIs let you perform actions
and access what happened

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, Followers, Lists, Trends, Geo, Spam Reporting…

Fabric Sample App
Cannonball
Open source for iOS & Android: 
 
github.com/twitterdev

Sign In with Twitter
and Digits
@IBAction func signInWithTwitter(sender: UIButton) {
Twitter.sharedInstance().logInWithCompletion { (session:
TWTRSession!, error: NSError!) -> Void in
if session != nil {
// Save any useful data from the Twitter session,
// then move to the next view controller.
}
}
}
@IBAction func signInWithPhone(sender: UIButton) {
Digits.sharedInstance().authenticateWithCompletion { (session:
DGTSession!, error: NSError!) -> Void in
if session != nil {
// Save any useful data from the Digits session,
// then move to the next view controller.
}
}
}

Adding a Tweet View
to the View Controller
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Request the Twitter API.
Twitter.sharedInstance().APIClient.loadTweetWithID(tweetId,
completion: { (tweet: TWTRTweet!, error: NSError!) -> Void in
// Build the Tweet view.
self.tweetView = TWTRTweetView(tweet: tweet, style: .Regular)
// Add the Tweet view to the main view.
self.view.addSubview(self.tweetView)
})
}

Sharing a Tweet with
the Tweet Composer
@IBAction func postTweet(sender: AnyObject) {
// Use the TwitterKit to create a Tweet composer.
let composer = TWTRComposer()
// Prepare the Tweet text with drone commands.
composer.setText(droneCommands)
// Present the composer to the user.
composer.showWithCompletion({ (result: TWTRComposerResult!) -> Void
in
if result == .Cancelled {
println("Tweet composition cancelled")
} else {
println("Tweeting commands to the drone!")
}
})
}

Displaying Tweets in a
Table View
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath
indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
// Retrieve the Tweet cell.
let cell =
tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(tweetTableCellReuseIdentifie
r, forIndexPath: indexPath) as TWTRTweetTableViewCell
// Assign the delegate to control events on Tweets.
cell.tweetView.delegate = self
// Retrieve the Tweet model object from the array of loaded Tweets.
let tweet = tweets[indexPath.row]
// Configure the cell with the Tweet.
cell.configureWithTweet(tweet)
// Return the Tweet cell.
return cell
}

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