Updated on Fri, 2013-05-03 10:12
This page lists important upcoming dates for consumers of Twitter's APIs. The dates listed will be as specific as possible, but may not be exact for various reasons. Please continue to follow @twitterapi and the Twitter developer blog for announcements about the platform.
Upcoming changes
| Estimated date | Description | Announcement | Affected APIs |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 11, 2013 | Retirement of deprecated API v1.0. Retirement of Basic Auth support on Streaming API. | Deprecation announcement Release of 1.1 More... |
REST API v1.0 Streaming API v1.0 |
| July 1, 2013 | Support 64-bit user IDs. | Blog post | All APIs |
Recent changes
| Deployed date | Description | Announcement | Affected APIs |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 18, 2013 | Symbols entities in Tweets | Announcement | REST API v1.1 Streaming API |
| April 16, 2013 | Blackout test on API v1 traffic. 23:00 UTC (4:00PM PDT) | Announcement | REST API v1.0 Legacy widgets |
| April 3, 2013 | OAuth 1.0A compliance strictly enforced for token acquisition. See this for more info. | Tweet | OAuth 1.0 OAuth 1.0A |
| March 29, 2013 | The GET lists/ownerships endpoint is available | Tweet | REST API v1.1 |
| March 26, 2013 | lang attribute & language parameter appears on streaming | Blog post | Streaming API |
| March 26, 2013 | 10,000 following cap on Site and User Streams goes into effect | Blog post | User Streams Site Streams |
| March 20, 2013 | At 3pm Pacific, blackout tests occurred on all API v1 resources | Blog post | All API v1 resources |
| March 11, 2013 | Released Application-only authentication | Blog post | REST API |
| March 6, 2013 | lang attribute available on REST | Blog post | REST API |
| March 5, 2013 | Retirement of deprecated @Anywhere API | Original blog post Updated deadline announcement |
@Anywhere API |
| March 5, 2013 | First blackout test of API v1.0. | announcement of blackout tests | REST API v1.0 Legacy "goodie" widgets |
| February 21st, 2013 | filter_level attribute & parameter appear | Blog post | Streaming API |
| February 20th, 2013 | t.co links begin to be generated with new length | Blog post | REST API Streaming API |
| February 6th, 2013 | GET help/configuration returns new t.co length | Blog post | REST API Streaming API |
| November 5, 2012 | Sitestreams certificate change. | Blog post | Sitestreams API v1.0 Sitestreams API v1.1 |
| November 2, 2012 | Changes to withheld content fields. | Blog post | REST API v1.0 REST API v1.1 Streaming API v1.0 Streaming API v1.1 |
| October 25, 2012 | Entities in streamed DMs. | Announcement | Sitestreams API v1.0 Sitestreams API v1.1 Userstreams API v1.0 Userstreams API v1.1 |