Twitter launches new API to help businesses, academic build top features
Technology News Twitter has unveiled a new Application Programming Interface (API) to help businesses, academics and third-party developers build and launch new features faster.
The new Twitter "API v2" offers third-party developers an early stage access to features like "conversation threading, poll results in Tweets, pinned Tweets on profiles, spam filtering, and a more powerful stream filtering and search query language."
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There's also access to a real-time tweet stream, rather than forcing third parties to wait before serving new tweets, reports The Verge.
The API v2 is the first complete rebuild of Twitter's API since 2012. The new API system puts different products in the same platform, each with different access levels...Read more.