Today, we’re introducing 11 new Twitter Certified Products. Since we introduced the program last summer, our goal has been to help businesses find tools and services that make them more successful on Twitter. To date, Certified Products have been largely U.S.-focused; this new group includes companies from Europe, Japan and Latin America –– extending the program’s global footprint and empowering brands and publishers around the world.Read more…

Today we’re releasing Hosebird Client, a Java-based client for Twitter’s Streaming APIs. While Twitter has open-sourced a considerable amount of software, this is the first API client library we’ve developed in-house and are releasing to the world.Read more…

Today we’re happy to announce a big update to our streaming documentation on dev.twitter.com. We’ve improved the organization of the streaming docs and added supplemental information to better explain the Streaming APIs. If you are new to these APIs, the new introduction page is a great place to start. Developers who are already familiar with streaming concepts will still get a lot out of new pages such as a comprehensive list of query parameters and an explanation of the data formats you’ll see in a stream.Read more…