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March 7, 2013
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GET lists/subscribers/show Check if the specified user is a subscriber of the specified list. Returns the user if they are subscriber.
GET lists/subscribers Returns the subscribers of the specified list. Private list subscribers will only be shown if the authenticated user owns the specified list.
GET lists/show Returns the specified list. Private lists will only be shown if the authenticated user owns the specified list.
GET lists/members/show Check if the specified user is a member of the specified list.
GET lists/members Returns the members of the specified list. Private list members will only be shown if the authenticated user owns the specified list.
GET help/tos Returns the Twitter Terms of Service in the requested format. These are not the same as the Developer Rules of the Road.
GET help/privacy Returns Twitter's Privacy Policy.
GET help/languages Returns the list of languages supported by Twitter along with their ISO 639-1 code. The ISO 639-1 code is the two letter value to use if you include lang with any of your requests.
GET help/configuration Returns the current configuration used by Twitter including twitter.com slugs which are not usernames, maximum photo resolutions, and t.co URL lengths. It is recommended applications request this endpoint when they are loaded, but no more than once a day.
GET friends/list Returns a cursored collection of user objects for every user the specified user is following (otherwise known as their "friends"). At this time, results are ordered with the most recent following first — however, this ordering is subject to unannounced change and eventual consistency issues...
GET friends/ids Returns a cursored collection of user IDs for every user the specified user is following (otherwise known as their "friends"). At this time, results are ordered with the most recent following first — however, this ordering is subject to unannounced change and eventual consistency issues....
GET followers/list Returns a cursored collection of user objects for users following the specified user. At this time, results are ordered with the most recent following first — however, this ordering is subject to unannounced change and eventual consistency issues. Results are given in groups of 20 users and...
GET followers/ids Returns a cursored collection of user IDs for every user following the specified user. At this time, results are ordered with the most recent following first — however, this ordering is subject to unannounced change and eventual consistency issues. Results are given in groups of 5,000 user...
GET favorites/list Returns the 20 most recent Tweets favorited by the authenticating or specified user.
March 5, 2013
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Implementing Sign in with Twitter Overview The browser and mobile web implementations of Sign in with Twitter are based off of OAuth. This page demonstrates the requests needed to obtain an access token for the sign in flow. For information on implementing Sign in with Twitter for iOS, see Integrating with Twitter on iOS. To...
March 1, 2013
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Tweet Entities See also Entities from the Field Guide. Why Tweet Entities? Tweet text can potentially mention other users or lists, but also contain URLs, media, hashtags... Instead of parsing the text yourself to try to extract those entities, you can use the entities attribute that contains this parsed...
February 22, 2013
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Embedded Tweets Overview Embedded Tweets make it possible for you take any Tweet and embed it directly in to the content of your article or website. Tweets display with expanded media like photos, videos, and article summaries, and also include real-time retweet and favorite counts. When embedded, Tweets are...
February 20, 2013
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Twitter Ads API The Twitter Ads API gives partners a way to integrate Twitter advertising management in their product. Selected partners have the ability create their own tools to manage Twitter Ad campaigns while easily integrating into existing, cross-channel advertising management solutions. You can read...
I want to partner with Twitter; how do I reach the business development team? Our business development team is small and selective in the partnerships they pursue. If you're interested in partnering with Twitter, send a detailed email to partner@twitter.com -- due to volume of requests, we can't respond to all inquiries. For many, the best path forward is to build...
February 18, 2013
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POST favorites/create Favorites the status specified in the ID parameter as the authenticating user. Returns the favorite status when successful. This process invoked by this method is asynchronous. The immediately returned status may not indicate the resultant favorited status of the tweet. A 200 OK response from this...