Archive for the ‘api’ Category

Twitter Preparing for Promoted Tweets in Third-Party Apps

Twitter is preparing itself and its developers for the rollout of its ad platforms, Promoted Tweets and Promoted Trends, within third-party applications, starting with desktop apps.The company has made an update to its application programming interface (API) that gives developers access to two new fields related to Promoted Tweets and ...Read More

TweetDeck and Echofon First to Get Twitter’s Real-Time User Stream

Twitter has begun testing User Streams, a new Streaming API that will finally give Twitter desktop apps real-time capabilities and streams.According to Twitter Developer Advocate Taylor Singletary, Users Streams is now in "a limited testing period for desktop clients." This is the first time that the User Streams API ...Read More

Blippy Users Streaming $1.5 Million in Purchases Per Week

Blippy, the web app that shows the world what you buy, has announced that users are sending data on $1.5 million worth of purchases each week.Taking this as a sign that consumers want to share data about their purchases, BlippyBlippy is now opening an API for developers and, to a ...Read More

Twitter Launches Countdown to OAuthcalypse

In 9 weeks, 3 days and some change, Twitter will turn off basic authentication for apps, making OAuth the only way to connect to Twitter applications. The Twitter API team has even launched a countdown to what it calls “OAuthcalypse.”Currently, there are two ways to connect to apps: basic ...Read More