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ICSOC
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Sitting on a panel at ICSOC to talk
about @twitterapi and Social Media
APIs8 Dec via Twitter for iPhone
from Hilton San Francisco Financial District Hotel
750 Kearny Street
San Francisco, CA
View Tweets at this place
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Twitter has a
data model.PUBLIC
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
@ladygagamother mons†er7.2 million followers
@justinbieberJustin Bieber6.2 million followers
@BarackObama44th President of the United States6.0 million followers
@raffime!5.6 thousand followers
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“Protected” users
Opt-in by users to be public
Extremely small percentage have done so
Have to approve follower requests
Tweets are not distributed via any means except to approved followers
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How do they get out?
6B REST APIcalls
per day
70,000 callsper second≈
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REST APIXML/JSON API over HTTP
Poll-based system / pseudo real-time
hosebirdStreaming APILong poll HTTPNear real-time delivery of Tweets
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0ms
100ms
200ms
Latency
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Questions? Follow me attwitter.com/raffi
Tuesday, January 4, 2011