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The voice of the X Dev team and your official source for updates, news, and events, related to the X API.
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We are changing our Self Serve X API with new pricing options and limits. Below are the highlights. 🎉. ~ Launching Annual Subscriptions: available at discounted rates!. ~ Basic: will increase from $100 to $200 monthly with higher limits and new endpoints. ~ Free: Introducing.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵.
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if motivation != empty:. keep_coding.else:. order_coffee.
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𝕏 Developer Challenge Progress—. Loading potential future features powered by our X platform and developers!
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Now testing: NFT Tweet Tiles 🚀. Some links to NFTs on @rarible, @MagicEden, @dapperlabs and @Jumptradenft will now show you a larger picture of the NFT alongside details like the title and creator. One more step in our journey to let developers impact the Tweet experience.
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𝕏 Developer Challenge event is now in motion. Exciting day ahead!
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We have been busy with some updates to the Twitter API so you can continue to build and innovate with us. We’re excited to announce an extension of the current free Twitter API access through February 13. Here’s what we’re shipping then 🧵.
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Academics are one of the biggest groups using the #TwitterAPI to research what’s happening. Their work helps make the world (& Twitter) a better place, and now more than ever, we must enable more of it. Introducing 🥁 the Academic Research product track!.
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A new form of free access will be introduced as this is extremely important to our ecosystem – limited to Tweet creation of up to 1,500 Tweets per month for a single authenticated user token, including Login with Twitter.
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Over the years, hundreds of millions of people have sent over a trillion Tweets, with billions more every week.
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It’s finally here! 🥁 Say hello to the new #TwitterAPI. We’re rebuilding the Twitter API v2 from the ground up to better serve our developer community. And today’s launch is only the beginning.
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Twitter data are among the world’s most powerful data sets. We’re committed to enabling fast & comprehensive access so you can continue to build with us. We’ll be back with more details on what you can expect next week.
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X API New Feature Announcement!. Introducing Top Up — A new and simple way to boost your Basic or Pro subscription. Article below for more info. Start today!.
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One of the most important use cases for the Twitter API has always been public utility. Verified gov or publicly owned services who tweet weather alerts, transport updates and emergency notifications may use the API, for these critical purposes, for free.
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Wrapping up the 𝕏 Developer Challenge event with a special guest. Final Presentations with Elon!
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📣 Calling all start-ups 📣. Today we are launching our new access tier, Twitter API Pro!. Experiment, build, and scale your business with 1M Tweets per month, including our powerful real-time Filtered/Stream and Full Archive Search endpoints. We look forward to seeing what you.
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𝕏 Developer Challenge Update: .Final hour before demos & presentations! 🚨
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Announcement: Removing the 140 character limit from Direct Messages.
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Doctors: Googling stuff online does not make you a doctor. Developers:
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Today we are launching our new Twitter API access tiers! We’re excited to share more details about our self-serve access. 🧵.
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There has been an immense amount of enthusiasm for the upcoming changes with Twitter API. As part of our efforts to create an optimal experience for the developer community, we will be delaying the launch of our new API platform by a few more days. More information to follow.
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Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working.
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𝕏 Developer Challenge Day 2! . Participants have been cooking all night into the morning & ideas are coming to life. Who will win? 🏆
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Introducing a new era for the Twitter Developer Platform! . 📣The Twitter API v2 is now the primary API and full of new features.⏱Immediate access for most use cases, or apply to get more access for free.📖Removed certain restrictions in the Policy.
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Our developer conference is back! Join us at Twitter @Flight on October 21 in San Francisco: http://t.co/N1GZa2VaGL.
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Calling all emergency apps built on X via API! 🚨. Emergency and public utility developer use-cases are vital to our X platform and serving humanity. We are transforming our API platform to new modern systems and are in the process of migrating all developers to our new X API v2.
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Excited to be hosting Colorado DevFest @TwitterBoulder on Sat 10/28! Bring youngsters aged 8-14 to learn about tech!
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@xDaily To clarify, this is a legacy integration. We've reached out to explore new integrations including live-streaming. Stay tuned!.
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Users search and Trends lookup endpoints are now available in X API v2 -- exclusively on Pro & Enterprise! . Want to learn more about what these endpoints can do, visit here:
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Testing… Testing… Twitter Dev is back online! 📡. It’s been a time for change here at Twitter Dev but we have an important message to share with you. 🧵.
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Today, we're also introducing the new Tweet downloader for Academic Researchers. 📚🔎 This new tool offers a no-code solution for people with Academic Research access to more easily utilize the full-archive search endpoint. Learn more
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All systems go! Help shape the future of Twitter Spaces with the new Spaces endpoints. ✨.
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Students & researchers, we have something new for you. 🌟. Introducing a new 101 course designed to help you start with academic research using the #TwitterAPI v2. 📖 . Complete with cheat sheets and code samples in Python and R, so you can plug and play.
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You can now monitor your usage programmatically using the new Usage endpoint in the X API v2 🎉. We are working on new features that will be launched in the near future. Stay tuned!
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During these unprecedented times, what’s happening on Twitter can help the world better understand & respond to the pandemic. We're launching a free COVID-19 stream endpoint so qualified devs & researchers can study the public conversation in real-time.
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Thanks @rawsalerts! While we've given ample 1 year notice and many reminders, we understand it's not easy to always keep up to date. This is why we're staying proactive and working diligently to help all emergency & public utility apps with API access for free.
🚨#UPDATE: We have received fantastic news from X as Many of them have reached out to me. @Xdevelopers is now contacting and directly supporting the National Weather Service, ensuring all emergency and weather apps maintain free API access for critical purposes only.
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Paid basic access that offers low level of API usage, and access to Ads API for a $100 monthly fee.
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Twitter is committed to the success of our Developer ecosystem. Our previous updates still stand as we phase our roll-out over the next few weeks so that we can focus on the quality and performance of our platform. Thank you!.
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Academic research is some of the most impactful work that happens with the Twitter API. As we plan for the future of our developer platform we want to learn more from this community. (Thread👇).
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This is a new chapter for the Twitter API to increase quality, reduce spam, and enable a thriving ecosystem. We appreciate your patience as we implement these changes and we can’t wait to see what you build next!. Stay tuned for more information on continued Twitter API access.
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Over the next 30 days, we will deprecate current access tiers such as Standard (v1.1), Essential (v2), Elevated (v2), and Premium so we recommend that you migrate to the new tiers as soon as possible for a smooth transition.
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Also on February 13, we will deprecate the Premium API. If you’re subscribed to Premium, you can apply for Enterprise to continue using these endpoints.
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Last year we announced our plan to retire Site Streams & User Streams, and replace them with the Account Activity API (currently in beta). We are delaying the scheduled June 19th deprecation date.
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Today we are excited to announce a series of Fabric events worldwide: Flock! Register here: http://t.co/94u6lpk1D8
http://t.co/JGjdq8vtlq.
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🚨 If your developer account application was under review over the last few months, we kindly ask you to re-apply if you are interested in subscribing to our new Twitter API Free or Basic plans. Our new self-service process should enable you to get access in no time! 🙏.
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Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Account Activity API. Now developers can get started for free, upgrade to premium as they scale, and move to enterprise when they need even more subscriptions or enterprise functionality.
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Our developers come from all around the world. When our Black and Brown communities and Tweeps hurt, we all hurt. As such, we have a responsibility to stand with them and beside them. We are one community. #BlackLivesMatter.
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1/ Today we’re sharing our vision for the future of the Twitter API platform!.
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Today, we are deprecating our Premium v1.1 API, including Premium Search and Account Activity API.
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We’re currently hard at work to make Twitter better for everyone, including developers! We’ve decided to cancel the #Chirp developer conference while we build some things that we’re excited to share with you soon.
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X accelerates public access to real-time information! Our API enabled the first info on the NYC earthquake to be shared on @LastQuake within only 78 seconds of the event.
M4.8 New Jersey earthquake: When X accelerates public earthquake information
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Introducing a new form of Free (v2) access for write-only use cases and those testing the Twitter API with 1,500 Tweets/month at the app level, media upload endpoints, and Login with Twitter. Get started:
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Today, we’re sharing a few small improvements to make it easier for academic researchers to get started with the Twitter API. You can find resources and guidance on how to work with Twitter data on the new Twitter academic research page. ⬇️
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Calling all engineering students! 🗣️. X Developer Challenge is a great way to compete and showcase your developer abilities. Those with the best prototypes that unlock strong utility will be announced as winners with special prizes. Register & build with our v2 API suite! . More.
🚨 Attention engineering students 🚨 . Prove your dev skills at our X Developer Challenge & compete with other teams to build exciting new features on top of powerful APIs. Register below 👇.
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We are also launching a new Basic (v2) access for hobbyists with 10,000 GET/month and 50,000 POST/month, 2 app IDs, and Login with Twitter for $100/month. Subscribe now:
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What did the developer write in their Valentine’s card?. while(true) {. I = Love(You); .}.
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Reminder that someone developed the internet WITHOUT the help of the internet. 🕸️.
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Private Likes - API Update 📢. As part of the likes change on X native platform, X API will mirror Thus, 'Likes Lookup' will now be private in the API as well. Owned 'Likes Lookup' will be available for authenticated users only. Learn more about it in.
This week we’re making Likes private for everyone to better protect your privacy. – You will still be able to see posts you have liked (but others cannot). – Like count and other metrics for your own posts will still show up under notifications. – You will no longer see who.
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Introducing the Periscope Producer API - a new way to go LIVE! 🎥
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Announcing our new Message button. Now people can easily slide into your DMs from your website. Get yours now!
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In November, we gave people the ability to hide replies to their Tweets. Starting today, we’re opening this feature up to developers! . ✨Introducing a new Labs endpoint so developers can help people hide replies they find irrelevant, off-topic, or toxic.
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If you use R code to do research with the #TwitterAPI, you won't want to miss this. We’re hosting @cbarrie and @justin_ct_ho who built the academictwitteR package: #rstats . Tune in next Thursday the 20th at 10am PT on 👀.
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📣We’re launching Twitter Developer Labs in the coming weeks so we can build the future of our API together with those who use it most. Want to learn more about how you can join us? 👉
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🎁 'Tis the season for opening packages. Today we're making all of Twitter Kit for iOS, Android and Unity open source, and inviting you to contribute and build on our work. 🌍📲 Check out our blog post to learn how.
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Introducing Xurl, a new tool that simplifies API testing for X developers, which now supports OAuth 2.0. Try it out now!.
Announcing xurl!. xurl replaces twurl as a curl-like CLI for the X API, with built-in app-auth and user-auth support (OAuth 1.0a & 2.0). Now open-source:
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👀 Don’t sign off for the holidays just yet. We’ve got something else coming your way later this afternoon. .
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We planned to launch the new #TwitterAPI today, but given the security incident yesterday we're pressing pause. There's no evidence the incident involved our API, but we decided to move the launch date to a more appropriate time.
We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter. We are investigating and taking steps to fix it. We will update everyone shortly.
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Introducing new X Developer Platform docs! 📄✨ . This update includes updated API reference pages and an interactive API playground. Check it out now 👇.
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These changes are now live! 🚨 . Note, all Self Serve developers will now have access to the following brand new endpoints! . - community search .- community lookup .- personalized_trends .- reposts_of_me.
We are changing our Self Serve X API with new pricing options and limits. Below are the highlights. 🎉. ~ Launching Annual Subscriptions: available at discounted rates!. ~ Basic: will increase from $100 to $200 monthly with higher limits and new endpoints. ~ Free: Introducing.
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📄 Finally, @dara_tobi, the developer behind @QuotedReplies, built an app that automatically hides replies that are more likely to exhibit abusive behavior. Learn more 📖
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Verified followers count now available in X API! 🚢.
Now available via developer APIs too!. Example: .twurl '/2/users/me?user.fields=verified_followers_count'.Note: this only works for the authenticating user who at least has a premium subscription on X.
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Better believe it, OAuth 2.0 is nearly here! . We’re releasing OAuth 2.0 into beta on the Twitter API v2, and you're all invited to request access today. Let us know what you think and learn more in the forum post 👇.
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Twitter Ads API Challenge: Build great advertising tools for a shot at $250,000 $API.tw
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🎺 da-dada-DAH! We’re introducing the first Twitter Developer Labs endpoints: . ✨GET/users and GET/tweets ✨. Labs is now open to all developers to start experimenting today 👉
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Today we’re introducing a new home and format for all Twitter developer resources.
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Valentine’s Day is approaching! 💙. Over the coming weeks, we’ll celebrate some outstanding developers who love to build for everyone:. @ThreadReaderApp. @flocknet. @AviaryTheApp. @ThreaderApp. @firetalkteam. Developers, you’re our Valentine, now and every day 💙.
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For Academia, we are looking at new ways to continue serving this community. In the meantime Free, Basic and Enterprise tiers are available for academics. Stay tuned to @TwitterDev to learn more.
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The first of many deploys to improve the Twitter Developer experience. Explore the new
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You may have seen the recent announcement about following Topics on Twitter. Today, we’re excited to provide API support for this new feature. We're adding annotations to the payload, so you can discover new details about the Tweets that matter. 🧵
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In this new chapter of Twitter, we will continue to invest in our Developer Platform, especially our Twitter API. Our goal is as important as ever: to ensure our entire ecosystem’s success. 🎯.
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Feedback from hundreds of researchers around the world helped shape what’s launching today:. • The full history of public conversation data ⌛.• A higher Tweet cap 📈.• Advanced filtering ability 🔍.• Technical resources 🧑💻 .• And all available for free 🎉.
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Come hangout with @TwitterDev on May 29th at 1PM PDT and ask your API and syndication questions! http://t.co/KMuvnNOCgw.
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Thank you to our amazing developer community around the world. We love working with you #LoveTwitter.
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New media count metrics in X API v2 🚢.
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Today in Twitter Developer Labs we’re releasing a new way to filter Tweets in real-time. This is one of the most popular features of our API. It allows developers to listen to hashtags, @mentions, and study what’s happening.
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