Twitter Developer Changelog

This page tracks recent changes to the Twitter enterprise API platform. Please check back here for updates, announcements, and other API platform changes.

August 20th, 2018

• Today we are launching a new version of the Usage API. With this update, we’re making the API more stable by moving to a new system.
  
• With the system update, users will experience a data "hole" as developers will only be able to pull data back to May 1, 2018. Therefore for the upcoming year, they will be missing out on a few months of historical data (until June 2019).
• A product name is changing within the Usage API from Historical PowerTrack Subscription to Historical PowerTrack 2.0 which will make the product naming consistent with the rest of our user-facing wording. Customers will receive the exact same data in the same format with the update. You will see this change within the products.type JSON object.
• If you have any questions, please reach out to your account manager.
   

August 16th, 2018

• The Account Activity API DM Beta product was fully retired today.
• The following services and endpoints will experience degraded service starting today:
  • User Streams
  • Site Streams
  • GET direct_messages
  • GET direct_messages/sent
  • GET direct_messages/show
  • POST direct_messages/new
  • POST direct_messages/destroy
• User Streams and Site Streams will be fully retired on August 23rd.
• The legacy Direct Messages endpoints will be fully retired on September 17th.
• You can learn more about this update via our forum announcement.
   

July 24th, 2018

• As of today, you will no longer be able to create new Twitter apps via apps.twitter.com. You will now be redirected to either your developer portal account or, if you don't have a developer portal account yet, to the page where you can apply.
• We also announced that we will be implementing new app-level rate limits to the following POST endpoints on September 10th, 2018. 
  
  • POST statuses/update
  • POST statuses/retweet:id
  • POST friendships/create
  • POST favorites/create
  • POST direct_messages/events/new
• Finally, we are introducing a new option for people to report suspected violations of our platform policies to you for review.
  
  
• You can learn more about all of these updates via our blog post.
   

June 21st, 2018

• If you have a developer portal account, you can now create and manage your Twitter apps. Please read our forum post for more details.

June 12th, 2018

• Today, we started requiring that you whitelist the callback URLs that you use with the Sign in with Twitter process. You can read more about this update here.
• We also announced the addition of the tweet_delete_events activity to the Account Activity API. This new activity will be sent for those corresponding deleted events to enable developers to more easily provide a compliant experience for their customers and application users. You can read more about this new activity in our forum post or on our documentation.
   

May 25th, 2018

• Today, we made some changes to our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Twitter Developer Agreement that include privacy, security, and data protection updates. Please read our forum post for more details.
   

May 23rd, 2018

• Today, the timezone values in Twitter user objects became private fields. From here on out, all* time_zone and utc_offset data objects will return as null. Please read our forum post for more details.
  * They will continue to be available on the account/settings endpoint, for authenticated users only.
   

May 21st, 2018

• Today, we removed all Klout data from Tweet payloads as part of our GDPR updates.
   

May 14th, 2018

• Today, we are changing all instances of profile_background_image_url and profile_background_image_url_https to their default values. Please read our forum post for more details.
• In addition to the above change, we are adding a new field to the Account Activity API payloads to reference which subscription the activity was delivered for. This JSON object is called for_user_id and will include the subscribed user's ID who produced that activity as its value. You can see some examples of this new JSON object in our account activity objects page.

May 10th, 2018

• Today, we are announcing a change to the way that URLs will be rendered in the Quote Tweet payload.
• We’re adding a new entity called the "quoted_status_permalink" entity to ensure the quoted Tweet can be referenced and we will be removing the t.co link from the quoted Tweet "text" field.
• With the new format, the t.co link is no longer appended to the "text" field of the quoted Tweet in the "quoted_status" object.
• Further, we will no longer put the quoted Tweet t.co url, expanded_url, and display_url in the ‘urls’ entity. Instead, these will be added to a new "quoted_status_permalink" object with "url", "expanded", and "display" URL attributes. This means that the "quoted_status_permalink" object will be reserved for the t.co link back to the quoted Tweet, whereas the "entities.urls" array can be used to identify any links shared within the original Tweet or Quote Tweet.
• Please read our forum post and updated documentation for more details.

April 24th, 2018

• Today we announced several updates to the platform related to GDPR. Please read our forum post for more details.

March 1, 2018

• The addition of a new object to the Tweet payload – additional_media_info object – and also restricting some video details (video_info) for promoted Tweets where advertisers have requested we limit video playback to Twitter owned clients. You can find additional information about this change at the following link: Extended Entities Objects > Tweet with native video.

December 15, 2017

• Version 2.0 of twitter-text is now available on GitHub. This update addresses the change in our character limit that was rolled out on November 7th, 2017. To learn more about this update, please visit our forum.

November 7th, 2017

• Official launch of 280 character Tweets in languages where cramming was an issue. Please see our forum announcement or official blog post for further reference.

October 11th, 2017

• A change was made to Twitter’s backend OAuth API endpoints which altered the behaviour of the /oauth/authenticate endpoint to match that of the /oauth/authorize endpoint. Read more about this update on our forum.

September 26th, 2017

• The response payload for 280 character tweets will be treated the same way as long tweets. Read more about this update on our forum.

August 7, 2017

• 30-Day and Full-Archive Search ended support for url_contains: operator. Deprecation of this operator was announced as part of the Gnip 2.0 migration in August 2016. Any Search query using the url_contains: Operator will be rejected as invalid.

July 6, 2017

• The enterprise Search API (both 30-Day and Full-Archive) will no longer support the url_contains: operator beginning 30 days from today, or after August 4, 2017 (Support of url_contains: will actually end with the first deploy after that date). Deprecation of this Operator was announced as part of the Gnip 2.0 migration in August 2016. When Operator support is ended, any query using the url_contains: will be rejected as invalid.

April 25th, 2017

• Rules with emojis are now available in the enterprise Search APIs

February 22nd, 2017

• New Enrichment! Poll Metadata is now available through our enterprise APIs. See the documentation for more details.
• New payload field: Image Alt-Text (decription) field may be present in the entities.media[] and extended_entities.media[] section of the payload if a user chooses chooses the "Add description" option when adding a photo to a Tweet. This is available in enriched native format only.
• Default payload format: Newly created streams on Gnip products will now default to orriginal format JSON.

January 23rd, 2017

• Historical PowerTrack API & Replay API
  • Quote Tweet filtering is now supported
  • Quoted Tweets are now fully rehydrated within HPT and Replay Tweet payloads

January 17th, 2017

• New payload fields: quote_count and reply_count are now available in native enriched format payloads across Realtime and Historical APIs

December 20th, 2016

• Full-Archive Search API (FAS):
  • Added support for additional geo operators:
  • place:
  • place_country:
  • has:profile_geo:
  • profile_country:
  • profile_region:
  • profile_locality:

December 5th, 2016

• Rule management (GET and DELETE) by Rule ID is now available for PowerTrack 2.0 and PowerTrack Replay 2.0

November 10th, 2016

• 30-Day Search API:
  • Added support for additional geo operators:
  • place:
  • place_country:
  • has:profile_geo:
  • profile_country:
  • profile_region:
  • profile_locality: