Connecting to the Pulse of the Planet with the Twitter Platform

December 10, 2014 #phphants

Connecting to the Pulse of the Planet

Andy PiperDeveloper Advocate

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Twitter is global,open and real-time

Twitter is the shortest distance between @you and your #interests

Twitter is there atworld events

Twitter is the pulseof the planet

143,199Tweets per second

5,700 TPS on average

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Vine embedsGET https://vine.co/oembed.json

Returns oEmbed JSON data matching your query.

Data id: OvjwJIWQV2tmaxheight: 600maxwidth: 600omit_script

Vine embeds{ "version": 1.0, "type": "video", "cache_age": 3153600000, "provider_name": "Vine", "provider_url": "https://vine.co/", "author_name": "Andy Piper", "author_url": "https://vine.co/u/906305068322660352", "title": "ROBOT is awesome!", "thumbnail_url": "https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/9B03025B6B1152337046950596608_3c86180121b.1.1.13598183071119429391.mp4.jpg?versionId=RK2EE1Qgw6r0EqeovdUlKOVHWAMhNVdC", "thumbnail_width": 480, "thumbnail_height": 480, "html": "<iframe class=\"vine-embed\" src=\"https://vine.co/v/OvjwJIWQV2t/embed/simple\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script async src=\"//platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js\"><\/script>", "width": 600, "height": 600}

Vine embeds{ "version": 1.0, "type": "video", "cache_age": 3153600000, "provider_name": "Vine", "provider_url": "https://vine.co/", "author_name": "Andy Piper", "author_url": "https://vine.co/u/906305068322660352", "title": "ROBOT is awesome!", "thumbnail_url": "https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/9B03025B6B1152337046950596608_3c86180121b.1.1.13598183071119429391.mp4.jpg?versionId=RK2EE1Qgw6r0EqeovdUlKOVHWAMhNVdC", "thumbnail_width": 480, "thumbnail_height": 480, "html": "<iframe class=\"vine-embed\" src=\"https://vine.co/v/OvjwJIWQV2t/embed/simple\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script async src=\"//platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js\"><\/script>", "width": 600, "height": 600}

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Twitter APIs deal both with the right now and what happened

Streaming APIs allow you to ingest what’s happening right now

Streaming APIs let you ingest what’s happening right nowPOST https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/filter.json

Returns Tweets matching your criteria.

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Streaming APIs let you ingest what’s happening right nowGET https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/sample.json

Returns ~1% of all firehose data, statistically relevant.

GET https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/firehose.json

Returns all firehose data, requires business deal.

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"favorite_count": 25, "entities": { "hashtags": [{ "text": "Linux", "indices": [30, 36] }], "symbols": [], "urls": [{ "url": "http:\/\/t.co\/QJLdA1762Y", "expanded_url": "http:\/\/youtu.be\/Q5POuMHxW-0", "display_url": "youtu.be\/Q5POuMHxW-0", "indices": [102, 124] }], "user_mentions": [{ "screen_name": "docker", "name": "Docker", "id": 1138959692, "id_str": "1138959692", "indices": [54, 61] }, { "screen_name": "solomonstre", "name": "Solomon Hykes", "id": 9551792, "id_str": "9551792", "indices": [87, 99] }, { "screen_name": "TwitterOSS", "name": "Twitter Open Source", "id": 376825877, "id_str": "376825877", "indices": [125, 136] }] }, "favorited": false, "retweeted": true, "possibly_sensitive": false, "lang": "en"}

REST APIs let you perform actions and access what happened

The Twitter APIOver 100 REST API endpoints

• Tap into Twitter data ‣ GET /search/tweets

• Engage users socially ‣ POST /statuses/update

REST APIs let you perform actions and access what happenedTweets & Media GET statuses/lookup POST statuses/update

POST media/upload

Timelines GET statuses/home_timelineGET statuses/user_timeline

GET statuses/mentions_timeline

Search GET tweets/search

Following GET friends/list

And many more: Users, Favorites, Direct Messages, Block/Mute, Followers, Lists, Trends, Geo…

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