What is a twitter API?

Twitter allows you to interact with its data ie tweets & several attributes about tweets using Twitter APIs. You'd need to know a server side scripting language like php, python or ruby to make requests to twitter api and results would be in JSON format that can be easily read by your program.Jan 24, 2013 read more

Twitter is an information network and communication mechanism that produces more than 200 million tweets a day. The Twitter platform offers access to that corpus of data, via our APIs. Each API represents a facet of Twitter, and allows developers to build upon and extend their applications in new and creative ways. read more

Twitter allows you to interact with its data ie tweets & several attributes about tweets using Twitter APIs. You'd need to know a server side scripting language like php, python or ruby to make requests to twitter api and results would be in JSON format that can be easily read by your program. read more

Twitter bases its application programming interface (API) off the RepresentationalStateTransfer (REST) architecture. REST architecture refers to a collection of network design principles that define resources and ways to address and access data. read more