Stefaner then queried the Twitter API for users either following five of the seed accounts, followed by five of them, or some combination thereof.
Anil Dash has posted his version of how the Twitter API announcement could have read if they had cared about not alienating developers.
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Or look at Twitter: API access gave birth to thousands of third-party apps, which transformed Twitter into a dominant communication platform.
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The BOS ice tea robot, called BEV, connects to the Twitter Streaming API and registers the configured hashtag as a filter.
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Twitter has had API changes before, but nothing like this.
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Interestingly, the Twitter "Find Friends" feature has been yanked in the latest build due to Twitter shutting off its API to the company last month.
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In Q4 Twitter will release an API for large advertisers to automate and publish ads in bulk directly onto the service, starting with Promote Tweets and Promoted Accounts, Reuters reported.
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Facebook bought Instagram which has now moved to cut off API access to Twitter for the second time.
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These research requests were perhaps heightened by some of the changes that Twitter has made to its API and firehose access.
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When Twitter put out its strict new API guidelines, there was some doubt as to whether or not third-party clients like Tapbots' Tweetbot for Mac would even make the cut -- the user caps and other curbs on unofficial apps potentially made it tough to develop competition around a different (and possibly better) experience.
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For the big players (Google, Salesforce, Twitter), you simply launch an API and everyone starts playing with it.
The turnkey API from Ooyala automatically generates the necessary Twitter tags so that a video can be inserted onto a video landing page to enable Twitter Cards.
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While this information is more comprehensive than what third-party providers have, Twitter is also making this data available via an API to these third-party providers to use.
According to Caldwell, a self-described Twitter groupie, there was a point when Twitter considered building a business around its real-time API, but instead opted to focus on advertising.
Costolo then went on to imply that the reason behind the tighter ( and unpopular) API controls was ensuring quality -- stating that Twitter would reach its full potential now there's more control over how tweets are delivered.
They have limited the API calls which will keep any given app from growing too large without explicit arrangement with Twitter.
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Inspired by a bit.ly API competition, Punchfork founder Jeff Miller aggregates the recipe mentions of participating recipe publishers from across Twitter, Facebook, and Stumbleupon, and then rates recipes according to the number of shares.
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Twitter took another big step in making its platform brand-friendly through its announcement of a new Ads API today, which will allow partners to manage marketing campaigns much more fully on the site.
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