Twitter Streaming Streaming API
From Website: The Twitter Streaming API allows high-throughput near-realtime access to various subsets of public and protected Twitter data. The Streaming API contains public statuses from all users, filtered in various ways: By userid, by keyword, by random sampling, by geographic location, etc. User Streams provides Public statuses from all users, filtered in various ways: By userid, by keyword, by random sampling, by geographic location, etc.

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Specs
Yes
Active (supported, scheduled for retirement)
Yes
Web/Internet
Single purpose API
No
Streaming
URI Query String/CRUD
CSV, GeoJSON, JSON, XML
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Yes
Yes
Followers (116)
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Related Articles (10)
Twitter Delays Shutdown of Legacy APIs, Makes Account Activity API Generally Available
Twitter has announced that it is delaying the shutdown of legacy APIs as its new Account Activity API is now generally available to all developers. The legacy APIs, namely the Site Streams and User Streams APIs, as well as Direct Message endpoints, were slated to be turned off on June 19.
API History Repeats Itself as Recalibrated Twitter Dev Strategy Forces Shutdown of Favstar
Favstar, a service that helps users "find great tweets and interesting people to follow", has announced that it will be shutting down next month because of changes Twitter is making to its APIs. Favstar's creator, Tim Haines, was left with no choice but to shut his service down due to API changes.
Emojitracker Plans to Shutter After Twitter Revokes API Access
Twitter has cut Emojitracker's access to its Streaming API, causing its creator, Matthew Rothenberg, to announce that he will shut the service down in April. Emojitracker provides a real-time visualization of emoji symbol usage on Twitter and has tracked some 14 billion emoji tweets.
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