Twitter bases two of its APIs off the REST architecture so that way the service works better with different Web syndication formats. Twitter works with two Web syndication format known as RSS(Really Simple Syndication) and Atom(Atom Syndication Format), both are ways to receive data from one source and send it to another. Twitter allows third party developers partial access to its API, so people can can easily use Twitter's service in the application that they are building. Twitter has three different types of API's:
- REST API
- Search API
- Streaming API
The REST API and the Search API are the two API's that are based off the REST architecture, while the Streaming API is based of another architecture. In my next few entries I will breakdown the 3 different types of twitter API's, and how they are used.
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