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 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
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: