Twitter API Wiki / FAQ

Basics What's an API? The acronym "API" stands for "Application Programming Interface". An API is just a defined way for a program to accomplish a task, usually retrieving or modifying data. In Twitter's case, we provide an API method for just about every feature you can see on our website. Programmers use the Twitter API to make applications, websites, widgets, and other projects that interact wi

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Twitter API Wiki / FAQ : How do I get “from [MyApp]” appended to updates sent from my API application? We now recommend developers use OAuth to perform authentication with the API. When applications use OAuth, Twitter automatically knows the source of status updates. We are therefore able to ap