Getting Started with the Twitter API

Twitter's API lets you read and write Twitter messages with minimal coding in nearly any programming language. In fact, you can use this Application Programming Interface without doing any programming.

by Bob DuCharme

December 18, 2008

When I first heard about twitter.com, a service that lets people publish messages of up to 140 characters at a time and subscribe to other twitterers' message feeds, I wasn't too excited. My second "tweet," as its users call individual messages (and my last message for four months after posting it) was "I don't twitter. I barely have time to follow my friends' blogs. I just signed up to grab the name bobdc in case I ever do want to use it." If I don't have time to stay caught up on blogs, why would I care who's on their second cup of coffee or has too many meetings today?

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Getting Started with the Twitter API

Twitter's API lets you read and write Twitter messages with minimal coding in nearly any programming language. In fact, you can use this Application Programming Interface without doing any programming.

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