Who: Jon Bulava @jbulava Date: July 21, 2016 Event: API-Craft NYC Meetup Reloaded w/ Twitter & Mailjet http://www.meetup.com/API-Craft-NYC/events/232621548/ Demos based on: https://github.com/jbulava/twitter-api-examples https://github.com/twitterdev/twitter-streaming-blink1

1. Jon Bulava
@jbulava
Editor-in-chief, Developer Relations @Twitter. Master of
web technology. Top it off with some photography and
video production.
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2. - Why is Twitter important?
- API overview
- Organization
- Rate limits
- Versioning
- Demos
- Open discussion
AGENDA

3. - Connect your users with their interests
- Distribution on a global scale
- Open and real-time
WHY IS TWITTER IMPORTANT?

4. Streaming APIsREST APIs
API OVERVIEW
Ingest what’s
happening
right now
Perform
actions
Access what
happened

5. Public API
Media API
Collections API
TON API
API ORGANIZATION
Streaming APIsREST APIs
User streams
Site streams
Public streams

6. API ORGANIZATION
Streaming APIsREST APIs
POST statuses / filter
GET statuses / sample
GET statuses / firehose
User streams
Site streams
Public streams
GET site
GET user
Public API
GET statuses/user_timeline
GET statuses/show/:id
POST statuses/update
GET search/tweets
GET followers/list
GET trends/place
Media API
POST media/upload
POST media/upload (INIT)
POST media/upload (APPEND)
POST media/upload (FINALIZE)
POST media/metadata/create
GET media/upload (STATUS)

7. API RATE LIMITS
Streaming APIsREST APIs
Reasons for limiting:
• Backoff strategy not
implemented
• Frequent breaks and
reconnecting
• Too many connections
Limit notices
{
"limit":{
"track":1234
}
}
15 minute windows
Most limits are either:
• 15 calls / 15 minutes
• 180 calls / 15 minutes

8. Streaming APIsREST APIs Ads APIs
API VERSIONING

9. Ads APIs
API VERSIONING
• Frequent updates means aggressive versioning
• MAJOR and MINOR numbers used (e.g. 2.3)
• Backward incompatible increases MAJOR
• Backward compatible increases MINOR
• Only need to specify MAJOR number in call
Example:
https://ads-api.twitter.com/1/accounts/abc1/tailored_audiences

10. DEMO

11. Documentation
dev.twitter.com
Streaming API
t.co/streaming
REST API
t.co/rest
DEVELOPER RESOURCES
Create App
t.co/apps
Open Source Libs
t.co/libs
Code Examples
t.co/code

12. TwitterCommunity.com

13. Thank You
@jbulava