{"id":29515,"date":"2020-07-17T16:46:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T20:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29515"},"modified":"2020-07-17T16:46:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T20:46:28","slug":"a-new-and-improved-twitter-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/a-new-and-improved-twitter-api\/","title":{"rendered":"A New and Improved Twitter API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/developer\/en_us\/topics\/tools\/2020\/introducing_new_twitter_api.html\">Twitter<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=23869349\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/developer\/en_us\/topics\/tools\/2020\/introducing_new_twitter_api.html\"><p>With this new foundation, developers can expect to see:<\/p><ul><li>A cleaner API that&rsquo;s easier to use, with new developer features like the ability to specify which fields get returned, or retrieve more Tweets from a conversation within the same response<\/li><li>Some of the most requested features that were missing from the API, including conversation threading, poll results in Tweets, pinned Tweets on profiles, spam filtering, and a more powerful stream filtering and search query language <\/li><\/ul>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In the past, the Twitter API was separated into three different platforms and experiences: standard (free), premium (self-serve paid), and enterprise (custom paid). As a developer&rsquo;s needs expanded, it required tedious migration to each API. In the future, all developers &mdash; from academic researchers to makers to businesses &mdash; will have options to get elevated access and grow on the same API.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/16\/twitter-company-email-addresses-why-its-breakingmytwitter\/\">Twitter Company Email Addresses Why It&rsquo;s #BreakingMyTwitter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter (via Hacker News): With this new foundation, developers can expect to see:A cleaner API that&rsquo;s easier to use, with new developer features like the ability to specify which fields get returned, or retrieve more Tweets from a conversation within the same responseSome of the most requested features that were missing from the API, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-07-17T20:46:31Z","apple_news_api_id":"f4d1ee84-fe4e-49a4-b0d1-f068115efd17","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-07-17T20:46:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A9NHuhP5OSaSw0fBoEV79Fw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,96,50],"class_list":["post-29515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-twitter","tag-web","tag-webapi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29516,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29515\/revisions\/29516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}