About

Twitter is a public social media that presents a newsfeed.

Search API

Twitter has a search API:

• http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=twitter
• http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3Agerardnico (from a user)
• http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=twitter until:2009-03-01 (Until a date. You may also use from: date)

Limitations: most 100 for each call

Tweet

Characteristics:

• limited to 140 characters of text
• Language: The frequency of misspellings and slang in tweets is much higher than in other domains.
• Domain (variety of topics such as movie reviews) are much higher

Retweet

Retweeting is the process of copying another user's tweet and posting to another account. This usually happens if a user likes another user's tweet. Retweets are commonly abbreviated with RT.

Implementation

https://github.com/ept/newsfeed

HTML Meta

HTML meta documentation: Twitter

<meta name="twitter:site" content="@wordpressdotcom">
<meta name="twitter:text:title" content="Categories">
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
<meta name="twitter:app:name:iphone" content="WordPress">
<meta name="twitter:app:id:iphone" content="335703880">
<meta name="twitter:app:name:ipad" content="WordPress">
<meta name="twitter:app:id:ipad" content="335703880">
<meta name="twitter:app:name:googleplay" content="WordPress">
<meta name="twitter:app:id:googleplay" content="org.wordpress.android">

Documentation / Reference

• Data Structure of a tweet:
• Field Guide
• Dev Application Properties