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

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Twitter has a

data model.PUBLIC

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@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

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