{"id":6531,"date":"2022-05-21T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/twitter-updates-its-api-to-give-developers-access-to-reverse-chronological-timeline\/"},"modified":"2022-05-21T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T09:45:11","slug":"twitter-updates-its-api-to-give-developers-access-to-reverse-chronological-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/twitter-updates-its-api-to-give-developers-access-to-reverse-chronological-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter updates its API to give developers access to reverse chronological timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
Twitter updates its API to give developers access to reverse chronological timeline<\/div>\n
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Twitter on Friday announced an important update to its “API v2,” which can be used to create third-party clients for Twitter. Developers now have the ability to access the reverse chronological timeline as users can via the official Twitter App. <\/p>\n

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In a post on Twitter Community<\/a> (via The Verge<\/a><\/em>), a Twitter engineer details what actually changes with the update. Previously, developers had to use an old API to get the most recent tweets and retweets from users, which resulted in a more complicated development process, not to mention the limits that the old API has. <\/p>\n

Paul Haddad, the developer behind the popular Twitter client “Tweetbot,” explained that API v1. 1 lets the app request updates to the home timeline 15 times every 15 minutes, with a limit of up to 800 tweets for each user. With today’s update, third-party apps support up to 180 requests in the same timeframe, with a limit of up to 3,200 tweets. <\/p>\n

Not only is the new API better for getting the latest tweets, but it should also make the process of developing a Twitter client less complicated, since developers now no longer need to implement support for v1. 1 and v2. <\/p>\n

The Twitter API v2 was officially released last year as a response to developers, who had always complained about the lack of access to important features of the social network in the old API. For instance, Twitter’s third-party apps had no access to things like polls, cards, and metrics with API v1.1. <\/p>\n

It ‘s worth noting that while developers can implement Twitter API v2 for free, unlocking it for a large amount of apps and tweets requires elevated access through a paid plan<\/a>. <\/p>\n

With these latest improvements to the API, it seems that Twitter has finally changed its mind when it comes to supporting developers working on third-party clients for its platform. The update to the Twitter API v2 with reverse chronological timeline is now available for all developers. <\/p>\n

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