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The New Twitter Developer Site
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Today we're launching the new version of our Twitter Developer Site. With over 1,000,000 registered applications and 750,000 developers building on the platform today, we needed a new home to support the Twitter community better. So, we listened to everyone and gathered your ideas. The new site enhances communication channels, offers improved reference material and... more »
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The new permission model (R / RW / RWD) is now in effect
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Hey Developers, As planned, the new three-tier permission model is now officially in effect. Please remember that you don't have to make any changes if your application or service doesn't need to read or delete Direct Messages. Key points: - Existing oauth_tokens have not (and will not) be invalidated, even if you... more »
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New permission level enforcement happens this Thursday (30th June)
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Hey everyone, Just a quick reminder that we'll be enforcing the new permission level this Thursday, 30th June. When we enforce the new permission level Read (R) and Read & Write (RW) access tokens will be unable to use the following API methods: /1/direct_messages.{format} /1/direct_messages/sent.{forma t}... more »
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New Photo upload feature: What's new & coming on the API side
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Hey developers, We have just announced a couple of new exciting features at the All Things D conference, one of which is the ability to upload photos to twitter.com. Uploading photos to Twitter is currently available on the twitter.com desktop version, and its access is initially limited to a very small number of... more »
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Introducing the Follow Button
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Hey developers, Today we're launching the Follow Button! Similar to the Tweet Button, it's a new widget that lets users easily follow a Twitter account from any web page. The Follow Button has a single click follow experience, simple implementation model, and is configurable to fit the needs of your website.... more »
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DM enforcement date has been extended to the end of June
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Hey everyone, We wanted to say a big thank you to the developers who have been sending us debug information, and details of steps to follow to reproduce device specific issues. An especially big thank you to those of you who have shared the changes you made to your applications on the mailing list. All of this information has helped us to improve the OAuth flow for you and... more »
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TweetDeck joins Twitter
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Hey everyone, Today we announced on the Twitter Blog ( [link] ) that the TweetDeck team has joined Twitter. When Tweetie became part of the Twitter family the user growth was huge, creating more opportunities for developers to build applications for the growing audience. With TweetDeck now joining us we expect to see even more... more »
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A new permission level
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Hey everyone, We recently updated our OAuth screens to give users greater transparency about the level of access applications have to their accounts. The valuable feedback Twitter users and developers have given us played a large part in that redesign and helped us identify where we can do more. In particular, users and developers have requested greater granularity for... more »
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HTTPS profile and profile background image URLs are being added to user objects
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Hey everyone, Later this week we'll start to add two new fields to the user object responses from the Streaming and REST APIs (not Search). Due to caching, not all objects will have these fields immediately so you should check they are present in the response before using them. The two additional fields are the SSL versions of the profile_image_url and... more »
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Visual refresh of the OAuth screens
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Hey Developers, Some of you may have noticed already that earlier today we deployed a redesign of the OAuth screens. We know both you and your users have been asking for better clarity about what an application can see and do with an account and these screens are a step towards doing that. One of the areas we wanted to improve is showing the details of your... more »
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