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Results from Developer for: August 2011

Streaming API turning SSL only on September 29th

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 | By Arnaud Meunier (@rno) [07:39 UTC]
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All our Streaming API products are now supporting SSL and we’ve just updated the Site streams, User streams and The Streaming APIs documentation pages accordingly. As we’re planning to sunset HTTP support in about a month, we strongly encourage you to switch to SSL (HTTPS) as soon as possible, especially if you’re still authenticating your Streaming API requests with Basic Auth. Read more…

Changing the trends API

Thursday, August 25, 2011 | By Jason Costa (@jasoncosta) [11:00 UTC]

We’re looking to make some changes to our trends API very soon, and wanted to run our planned changes past you before we did. There are a number of different methods for trends, some of which return the same data in the same format, others return the same data in a slightly different format. So, it’s time for a little spring cleaning, albeit in the fall. Read more…

Bootstrap from Twitter

Friday, August 19, 2011 | By Mark Otto (@mdo) [10:19 UTC]

We are happy to announce Bootstrap, a front-end toolkit for rapidly developing web applications. It is a collection of CSS and HTML conventions. It uses some of the latest browser techniques to provide you with stylish typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation and everything else you need in a super tiny (only 6k with gzip) resource. Check out Bootstrap on Github. Read more…

A Photo Upload API

Monday, August 15, 2011 | By Jason Costa (@jasoncosta) [13:51 UTC]

Photos are a fundamental way that people share context, information, jokes, and personal moments on Twitter. Following last week’s wider release of photos to Twitter.com users, we’re ready to share our media upload API, which will allow developers to conveniently attach an image to a Tweet.Read more…

Next steps with the t.co link wrapper

Friday, August 5, 2011 | By Taylor Singletary (@episod) [08:00 UTC]

Since June of last year, Twitter has been preparing to wrap links submitted in all Tweets and Direct Messages. Link wrapping helps us understand how users engage with the tens of millions of links shared daily on Twitter while also giving us a means to protect users from malicious sites and scams. After wrapping links from the Tweet Button and twitter.com for the past few months, we’re now ready to wrap links with t.co throughout the service.Read more…