Twitter API Profile

The Twitter micro-blogging service includes an API that gives RESTful access to the Twitter database and activity streams (users, tweets, friends, followers, favorites and more), using XML and JSON formats.

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Twitter: Highlights

Summary: Microblogging service

Category: Social

Tags: social messaging microblogging

Protocols: REST

Data Formats: XML, JSON, RSS, Atom

API home: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/

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Twitter: Specifications

Functionality

API Groups: public timeline, updating twitter, others

Example API Methods

Client Install Required: No

Service Endpoint: http://twitter.com/statuses/

Signup and Licensing

Signup Requirements: Account with service

Developer Key Required: No

Account Required: Yes

Commercial Licensing

Provider: twitter.com

Non-Commercial Lic.

Data Licensing

Usage Fees

Usage Limits: 100 requests per 60 sixty minute time period

Terms of Service

Security

Authentication Model: HTTP Basic Auth, OAuth

SSL Support: No

Read-only Without Login: No

Support

Vendor API Kits: ActionScript

Community API Kits

API Blog: dev.twitter.com/

Site Blog: blog.twitter.com/

API Forum: groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk

Developer Support

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Comments

April 19, 2009 at 10:30: Comment by: sandeepverma
Thank you for your valuable resource....
I REALLY appreciate this API..

I want to use twitter API, now i got help from here. This is amazing and very helpful for me...

Great...

Sandeep Verma
(http://twitter.com/sandeepverma)