The Twitter REST API
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architecture created to provide a simple communication channel between different applications over the Internet using mainly the HTTP protocol. It is the hottest data technology nowadays. Facebook, Google, Twitter, and a lot of huge companies have adopted REST applications. With REST APIs, you can read, post, and delete data.
Twitter has a specific format to spread its data on the Web in order to create great integration with different kinds of applications that consume its service. According to Twitter Developers Documentation available at https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public, Twitter REST APIs provide programmatic access to read and write Twitter data. You can author a new Tweet, read an author profile or follower data, and more. The REST API identifies Twitter applications and users using Oauth, and the responses are available in JSON.
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