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Getting started with Twitter APIs


Twitter is as much a delight for tweeple (people using Twitter to tweet) as it is for data scientists. The APIs and the documentation are well updated and easy to use. Let us get started with the APIs.

Overview

Twitter has one of easiest yet most powerful set of APIs available of any social network out there. These APIs have been used by Twitter itself and data scientists to understand the dynamics of the Twitter world. Twitter APIs make use of four different objects, namely:

  • Tweets: A tweet is the central entity that defines Twitter itself. As discussed in the previous section, a tweet contains far more information (metadata) than just the content/message of the tweet.

  • Users: Anybody or anything that can tweet, follow, or perform any of Twitter's actions is a user. Twitter is unique in its definition of user, which need not necessarily be a human. @MarsCuriosity is one such nonhuman popular Twitter handle with over 2 million followers!

  • Entities: These are structured...

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Published in: Mar 2016Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781784390846