Twitter is already used by thousands of commuters every day. Today, we’re announcing a new partnership with Transport for NSW to pilot a new, Australian-first service that will automatically alert customers about delays or disruptions while travelling on the suburban and intercity train network in NSW.

The public pilot launching in December is the latest in a series of services and features that make Twitter more useful for businesses and their customers.

This August we announced the general availability of our new Gnip 2.0 APIs and laid out the plan to sunset all Gnip 1.0 endpoints on December 1, 2016.

We’re happy to report that many Gnip customer are now using the 2.0 endpoints, and enjoying the enhancements that come with them.

Four companies recognized for building the most innovative Twitter advertising tools during the #Promote Ads API Challenge.

Want to understand consumer reaction to the launch of the iPhone 6 when it came out 2 years ago? Looking to understand the evolution of public opinion in Brazil about the Olympics since Rio won the bid back in 2009? Need to analyze the last 3 years of marketing campaigns around Black Friday? The full archive of public Twitter data has 10 years of conversations around almost any topic you can imagine. By analyzing this incredibly rich data set, businesses can uncover key insights to make better decisions.

In December, we announced that we were building Gnip 2.0 — enhanced versions of our core Gnip APIs built with rich new data available in Twitter systems. Today we are excited to announce that 2.0 versions of our full suite of real-time and historical Gnip products are now generally available and ready for all customers to start using.

Gnip’s new Audience API is now GA and incorporates a number of customer-requested updates that ease the creation of custom audiences while maintaining a high degree of protection for individual user privacy.

Audiense has continued to integrate features of the Twitter platform — including Gnip and the Ads APIs — to help build their business. Learn how they help companies turn insights into action.

Introducing our developer series on how to implement the Twitter Ads API.

Emoji keyword targeting is now available via the Ads API.

This post explores how we worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and created a sample Engagement API client to better measure - and improve - the performance of the organization’s campaign efforts on Twitter.