Twitter APIs

REST

Representational State Transfer (REST)
150 queries per hour
20000 queiries per hour with whitelist request

  1. Tweet/List/Retweet/Favorite/Block/Follow
  2. Tweet Timeline
  3. Social graph
  4. DM (Direct Message)
  5. Account management

Search

150 queries per hour
no whitelist maintained
  1. Search by words, hashtags (#)
  2. Search by users (to, from, @ )
  3. Location based search

Streaming


Some example

http://apps.asterisq.com/mentionmap/#user-csyfamily :
Mentionmap loads each user's Twitter status updates (tweets) and finds the people and hashtags they talked about the most. The data is displayed using Constellation Framework, a graph visualization library for Actionscript. In this data visualization, mentions become connections and discussions between multiple users emerge as clusters. -- this may not be a proper method to study diffusion of message.
http://collecta.com/
http://twittorati.com/
http://stocktwits.com/symbol/GOOG
http://beta.twittervision.com/
http://www.we-love-the.net/Stweet/
http://twitonair.com/
http://picfog.com/search/shinhseok

Methods

The API supports the following methods to send and receive Twitter data.

Search API Methods

  • [http]search(http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search)
  • [http]trends(http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-trends)
  • [http]trends/current(http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-trends-current)
  • [http]trends/daily(http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-trends-daily)
  • [http]trends/weekly(http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-trends-weekly)

REST API Methods

Timeline Methods

Status Methods

User Methods

List Methods

List Members Methods

List Subscribers Methods

Direct Message Methods

Friendship Methods

Social Graph Methods

Account Methods

Favorite Methods

Notification Methods

Block Methods

Spam Reporting Methods

Saved Searches Methods

OAuth Methods

Local Trends Methods

Geo methods

Help Methods

Retrieved from http://wiki.commres.org/wiki.php/Project~TwitterApi
last modified 2012-05-08 14:46:26