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Twitter API

Twitter is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Twitter exposes some of its functionality via an API for developers who want to build tools that talk to Twitter.

Provider: Twitter Submitted By: APIFinder.com Staff
License: Open (free) Email: Email this contributor
Price: 0 Connection Protocols: REST
Notes: An account with Twitter is necessary in order to use the API. Clients are allowed 70 requests per 60 sixty minute time period, starting from their first request.
Functions: Communications
Languages/OS: Web Service

Articles for this API:

An Interview with Evan Prodromou, the Developer Behind the Open Source Twitter Clone
The author of Laconica, an open source tool that lets anyone set up their own Twitter clone, discusses the technical challenges of microblogging and why it's not a fad. Read more
Submitted by: API Contributor

Getting Started with the Twitter API
Twitter's API lets you read and write Twitter messages with minimal coding in nearly any programming language. In fact, you can use this Application Programming Interface without doing any programming. Read more
Submitted by: API Contributor

Building an Application with the Twitter API
Twitter API libraries are available for most popular programming languages, and they're opening up new possibilities for publishing information. Explore a short Python script that tweets when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (or any stock or index you like) makes a big jump. Read more
Submitted by: API Contributor

Writing Your own Twitter Application Using Java, Swing, and Twitter4j
Want to build your own Twitter app? Read on to figure out what it takes to get started. Read more
Submitted by: Brad Jones

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