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| POST lists/members/create | Add a member to a list. The authenticated user must own the list to be able to add members to it. Note that lists cannot have more than 5,000 members. |
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| GET lists/show | Returns the specified list. Private lists will only be shown if the authenticated user owns the specified list. |
| Useful Links We Found | On using API v1.1 Using API v1.1 with the SignPost library for Scala or Java Streaming data from Twitter using the 1.1 Search API On OAuth Apigee's OAuth: the Big Picture Using OAuth for Twitter Authentication on the BlackBerry PlayBook Using Twitter API with LIFT, Scala, and... |
| Connecting to Twitter API using SSL | Currently, only SSL connections are allowed in Twitter API endpoints. Communicating over SSL preserves user privacy by protecting information between the user and the Twitter API as it travels across the public Internet. Using OAuth isn't enough While OAuth is mandated and protects the user... |
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| Twitter Certified Products Program | English | 日本語 The Twitter Certified program identifies the best products and services that help businesses thrive on Twitter. The Twitter Certified program consists of two data resellers — licensed to syndicate Tweet content — and a constantly growing list of the leading solutions from... |
| Certified Products | English | 日本語 Certified Products Product Description Badge Adobe Social Adobe Social connects the dots between social interactions and business results, enabling marketers to demonstrate social impact at every stage of the... |
| Twitter Certified Products Requirements | The terms below are requirements for all products in the Twitter Certified Products Program. Current and potential partners must fully adhere to these requirements for certification. We encourage you to audit your product against all of these terms before applying to the Twitter Certified... |
| Application-only authentication | Overview Twitter offers applications the ability to issue authenticated requests on behalf of the application itself (as opposed to on behalf of a specific user). Twitter's implementation is based on the Client Credentials Grant flow of the OAuth 2 specification. Note that OAuth 1.0a is still... |
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| Share Bookmarklet | Overview The Share Bookmarklet makes it easy for you to share any webpage on Twitter, even if there isn’t a Tweet Button. It works in all major browsers and is easy to install. Getting the Bookmarklet Share on Twitter To use the bookmarklet just drag the Share on Twitter... |
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| Why am I signed in as a different user on apps.twitter.com than on dev.twitter.com? | Apps.twitter.com uses Twitter's centralized login and session service while dev.twitter.com does not currently share sessions with twitter.com. |
| CSS for Embedded Widgets | When embedding a Twitter for Websites widget, a placeholder is pasted into your page. This takes the form of either a link to the equivalent page on Twitter (a profile, timeline, or Web Intent), or an HTML <blockquote> of the Tweet being embedded. These shallow versions of the widgets are... |
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| Why can't I create an application? | If you're having trouble fulfilling application creation requirements, please contact our Platform Operations team by using the "I have an API policy question not covered by these points" option of the contact form at https://support.twitter.com/forms/platform |
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| Obtaining access tokens | In order to make authorized calls to Twitter's APIs, your application must first obtain an OAuth access token on behalf of a Twitter user or you could issue Application-only authenticated requests when user context is not required. The way you will obtain such tokens will depend on your use case... |
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| Single-user OAuth with Examples | Please note: Most developers will find working with Application-only authentication a superior approach than what is documented below. Twitter offers the ability for you to retrieve a single access token (complete with oauth_token_secret) from application detail pages found on dev.twitter.com.... |
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| Twitter Libraries | These libraries, while not necessarily tested by Twitter, should support Twitter API v1.1. Want your library to be included in this index or need to update the details we have? Submit your library for inclusion! Libraries built and maintained by Twitter Java hbc — A Java HTTP client for... |
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| Entities in Twitter Objects | See also Entities from the Field Guide. Entities for Tweets Entities for Retweets Entities for Users Entities for Direct Messages Entities for Tweets Entities provide structured data from Tweets including resolved URLs, media, hashtags and mentions without having to parse the text to... |
| Entities | Entities provide metadata and additional contextual information about content posted on Twitter. Entities are never divorced from the content they describe. In API v1.1, entities will be returned wherever Tweets are found in the API. Entities are instrumental in resolving URLs. Read Entities in... |
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| POST account/update_profile_background_image | Updates the authenticating user's profile background image. This method can also be used to enable or disable the profile background image. Although each parameter is marked as optional, at least one of image, tile or use must be provided when making this request. |
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| Streaming API keyword matching | The way POST statuses/filter checks if a tweet includes a keyword is already explained in the track parameter documentation but explaining how every corner case works would make it look more complicated than it is, so on this page you can try interactively. Caution: This was written to be as close... |
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| POST geo/place | As of December 2nd, 2013, this endpoint is deprecated and retired and no longer functions. Place creation was used infrequently by third party applications and is generally no longer supported on Twitter. Requests will return with status 410 (Gone) with error code 251. Follow the discussion about... |