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July 4, 2011
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POST oauth/request_token Allows a Consumer application to obtain an OAuth Request Token to request user authorization. This method fulfills Section 6.1 of the OAuth 1.0 authentication flow. It is strongly recommended you use HTTPS for all OAuth authorization steps. Usage Note: Only ASCII values are accepted for the...
GET oauth/authorize Allows a Consumer application to use an OAuth Request Token to request user authorization. This method fulfills Section 6.2 of the OAuth 1.0 authentication flow. Desktop applications must use this method (and cannot use GET oauth/authenticate). Please use HTTPS for this method, and all other OAuth...
POST account/update_location This method is deprecated and has been replaced by POST account/update_profile. Please update your applications with the new endpoint. Sets the value of the profile location field for the authenticating user.
GET statuses/friends This method is deprecated as it will only return information about users who have Tweeted recently. It is not a functional way to retrieve all of a users followers. Instead of using this method use a combination of GET friends/ids and GET users/lookup. Returns a user's friends, each with current...
GET statuses/followers This method is deprecated as it will only return information about users who have Tweeted recently. It is not a functional way to retrieve all of a users followers. Instead of using this method use a combination of GET followers/ids and GET users/lookup. Returns the authenticating user's followers...
DELETE :user/:list_id/members This method is deprecated and has been replaced by POST lists/members/destroy. Please update your applications with the new endpoint. Removes the specified member from the list. The authenticated user must be the list's owner to remove members from the list. Usage Note: clients who can not issue...
About Geo Place Attributes Geo Place Attributes Place Attributes are metadata about places and allow any user or application to add arbitrary metadata to a place. An attribute is a key-value pair of arbitrary strings, but with some conventions. Well-known attributes There are a number of well-known place attributes which...
March 1, 2011
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Geo Developer Guidelines Introduction Tweeting With Location is the next version of the geotagging feature in the Twitter API. We now convert lat/lon coordinates into actual places (in particular, neighborhoods and cities). This helps provide a more meaningful experience for users by making tweets more contextual. For...
January 24, 2011
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Security Public Key If you've discovered a security issue that directly affects Twitter, please email security@twitter.com. If you'd like to GPG encrypt your email, please use our public key. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) ...
Streaming API Response Codes Overview Most error codes are returned with a string with additional details. For all codes greater than 200, clients should wait before attempting another connection. See Connecting section, above. 200 Success 401 Unauthorized. HTTP authentication failed due to either:...
@Anywhere Release Notes Version 1.1.2 - July 6th 2010 Fixed a XSS Vulnerability in hovercards Version 1.1.1 - June 16th 2010 Fixed linkifyUsers so it no longer linkifies words preceded by punctuation or a non-breaking space when the charset for the page is not UTF-8. Fixed @Anywhere in...