Get started with the Twitter developer platform
Twitter's Developer Platform enables you to harness the power of Twitter's open, global, real-time and historical communication network within your own applications. The platform provides tools, resources, data and API products for you to integrate, and expand Twitter's impact through research, solutions and more.
This section can help you get acquainted with the current platform organization, explains how to get access to the different tools and endpoints, and provides supporting code and learning resources.
How the platform is organized
The Twitter developer platform is organized into four different products, based on use case, versioning, and access model.
We have put together a different page for each product to help you get started, which you can access below:
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Twitter API |
The Twitter API is a set of programmatic endpoints that can be used to learn from and engage with the conversation on Twitter. This API allows you to find and retrieve, engage with, or create a variety of different resources including the following:
We recently released Twitter API v2: Early Access with new versions of several endpoints. With v2, you can listen to and analyze the public conversation with the search Tweets, Tweet and user lookup, and timelines endpoints, just to name a few. You can also manage your following relationships, and hide replies to Tweets that you've posted. You can access the v2 endpoint using either the Standard or Academic Research product tracks, which offer tailored support, access levels, and pricing to better serve different groups of developers.
The Twitter standard v1.1, premium v1.1, and enterprise APIs are still available, including endpoints that can be used to listen to, analyze, publish to, and engage with Twitter. |
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Twitter Ads API |
The Twitter Ads API allows you to programmatically integrate with the Twitter Ads platform. The API enables you to build and maintain Objective-based campaigns, select the targeting for that campaign, and track that campaign’s analytics. |
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Twitter for Websites |
Twitter for Websites allows you to embed Twitter's live content into your product, direct from the source. Use our tools to embed Tweets in your stories and articles on the web. Configure Tweet timelines to automatically display live updates from people, trends, and places right in your app. Enhance links to your website shared on Twitter with Cards and Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). |
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Labs |
Twitter Developer Labs is a program that invites our developer community to partner with us in shaping the next generation of our API. Labs releases allow developers to test previews of new API products and features and share feedback and suggestions for the future of the platform. |
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Documentation organization
Our technical documentation has separate sections to help you work with each of these different products. In each section, you will find guides, libraries, API references, and other resources to help you get started.
The Twitter API, Twitter Ads API, and Twitter Developer Labs products share similar fundamentals, and even include some common endpoint functionality. These shared concepts are discussed in the platform fundamentals section, including the following:
For content display and Twitter actions on websites, the Twitter for Websites product consists of web embeds and tools to optimize Twitter links. You can learn more about the fundamentals of this product by navigating to the Twitter for Websites section of the docs.
The documentation also includes tutorials, integration guides, developer tools, and use case examples to help you as you integrate with the platform. We welcome you to utilize these resources and engage with the developer community to get inspired and build something new.
Tools and libraries
Find both Twitter-maintained and open-source community client libraries and other developer tools that can help you integrate Twitter into your system more quickly.
Tutorials
Learn how to use Twitter’s developer tools to build a solution around a use case with one of our tutorials, such as the following:
Troubleshooting and support
Community
How to stay informed
The following pages and resources can help provide you with important details on API outages, updates, and other news relevant to developers on the platform.
- Subscribe to our API status page to receive updates on known platform inconsistencies that could affect your integration.
- Review our product roadmap to see which new features will be coming soon.
- Check out our changelog to see the recent changes that we've made to the platform, as well as a list of important upcoing dates.
All of these resources and more are listed on our stay informed page.
For more information on how to get started, please visit the specific getting started page for the product that matches your use case.
