@twitterapi meetup at paypal town hall
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Presented 08 September 2010 at the Paypal Town Hall, San JoseTRANSCRIPT
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#tmeetup @themattharris @mccv @paypalx
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About us
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The team
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dev.twitter.comThe developer portal
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Creating an appYour own small playground
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Browsing docs
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The Streams
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What is Streaming?‣ Push delivery of tweets, as opposed to the REST (pull) API
‣ Implemented as HTTP long poll, aka the web page that never ends
‣ JSON (preferred) or XML content
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Streaming “Products”‣ hoses - slices of the entire tweet corpus‣ firehose‣ filter‣ sample‣ users - focused on specific users’ content‣ user streams‣ site streams
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Getting Started‣ cURL is your friend
‣ twurl is an even better friend
‣ Many libraries available
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User Streams‣ Goals
‣ Support single-user connections (e.g. desktop applications)
‣ Reduce dependency on polling
‣ Provide a true real time experience to users
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Data Delivered‣ All data is delivered as a JSON message on a single line
‣ First message - your friends
‣ Statuses
‣ Direct Messages
‣ Events
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‣ Events represent user activities that are not message delivery
‣ This includes
‣ favorites
‣ follows
‣ profile updates
What are Events?
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‣ event - indicates the type of event
‣ source - the user who initiated the action
‣ target - the user who owns the affected object.
‣ target_object (optional) - the affected object
‣ created_at - the time this happened
Event Schema
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Site Streams‣ Goals
‣ Like User Streams
‣ But for “services”, not desktop apps.
‣ Multiplex many users’ events onto a single connection
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Data Delivered‣ Just the same as user stream
‣ But every message is wrapped with a “for_user” tag, which gives the ID of the user to whom this message applies
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Keys to Success‣ Use OAuth
‣ Use JSON
‣ Process messages asynchronously
‣ Make sure you have adequate bandwidth
‣ Be prepared for additional message types
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More Info! Follow us attwitter.com/jkaluckitwitter.com/mccvhttp://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api
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Tweet Button
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TMSource: http://twittercounter.com/compare/YouTube/3month/followers
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TMSource: http://twittercounter.com/compare/YouTube/3month/followers
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Basic Example<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script><a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a>
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Customising‣ url - URL of the page to share
‣ via - Screen name of the user to attribute the Tweet to
‣ text - Default Tweet text
‣ related - Related accounts
‣ count - Count box position
‣ lang - The language for the Tweet Button
‣ counturl - The URL to which your shared URL resolves to
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Customised Example<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script><div> <a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button" data-via="twitterapi" data-text="Checking out this page about Tweet Buttons" data-related="anywhere:The Javascript API" data-count="vertical">Tweet</a></div>
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Customised Example with Short URL<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script><div> <a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="http://bit.ly/twitter-api-announce" data-counturl="http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce" data-count="vertical">Tweet</a></div>
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More Info!http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button
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Stay Informed... Joinbit.ly/twitter-anywhere-talkbit.ly/twitter-dev-talk
Important [email protected]/twitter-api-announce
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Help... Check outdev.twitter.com
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Join the Flock! Find out morejobs.twitter.com
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Questions? Follow us attwitter.com/twitterapitwitter.com/themattharristwitter.com/mccv
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