Social Developers London - Twitter Talk - Whats new and interesting for developers using Twitter

1. Angus Fox
Social Developers London
@nuxnix
This talk draws on information
from dev.twitter.com but is in
no way endorsed byTwitter
Corporation  #justsaying

2. The first place to start is at dev.twitter.com
#music
WordPress content
distribution to
Twitter
5 lines of code,
richer more
compelling tweets
@certified
program
List IDs are now 64-
bit integers
What happened to
Retweets might
happen to @
replies
SocialTV analytics

4.  Twitter just announced that it
will be removing its #Music app
from the App Store “21 March.”
 For those who have already
downloaded it, the app will stop
working onApril 18.
“…. continue to
experiment with new
ways to bring you great
content based on the
music activity we see
every day onTwitter.”

5.  As each new post is
published, a
correspondingTweet is
automatically posted,
making sharing content
onTwitter a seamless
part of a blogger’s
everyday workflow.
 Twitter Cards for greater
distribution and
engagement

6. <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@postaday" />
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Two Seconds to Better Photos: Try the Rule of
Thirds" />
<meta name="twitter:description" content="We're constantly taking photos, from
Instagrammed images of that really good sandwich at lunch to posed, just-so portraits of
family gatherings. It's easy: look through the viewfinder, center the s..." />
<meta name="twitter:image:src" content="<a
href="http://dailypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/2013-xmas-henry.jpg?w=640"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://dailypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/2013-xmas-
henry.jpg?w=640</a>" />

8.  Lithium SocialWeb minesTwitter data for
relevant customer discussions and uses the
TwitterAPIs to drive real-time customer
support and marketing engagement.
 ScribbleLive is a leading curation and
publisher engagement tool
 Follow @certified

9.  Making room for more lists onTwitter by
expanding IDs to 64-bit integers.
 If you’re using REST and StreamingAPIs, you
should confirm that your database, server-
side and client-side code consume the safe
string-based identifiers represented in
“id_str” fields instead of the integer-based
identifiers found in the “id” field ofTwitter
List objects and related references.

10.  Originally people typed RT at the beginning of aTweet to
indicate that they are re-posting someone else's content.
This wasn’t a twitter feature, it was created by users to
signify that they are amplifying another user'sTweet.
 Old style RT is arcane, required you to know the command
 People subvert it with ‘MT’ for modifications, as adding text
shortens the available text for the tweet.
 Twitter's Retweet feature makes it easier by helping you
quickly share aTweet with all of your followers.
 New style Retweets are distinguished by the Retweet icon and
the name of the user who retweeted theTweet.You don’t have
to know aboutTwitter to Retweet
 You don’t see the text ‘RT’

11.  Originally people typed an @reply as an update posted by clicking the @
and a username as the first characters in a tweet.
 Old style @ reply is arcane, required you to know the command
 People subvert it with .@username to be a reply all
 Twitter don’t want it to be called a reply, they prefer ‘mention’
 Twitter's Reply feature might make it easier by helping you quickly
mention a user to all of your followers.
 New style Replies are distinguished by the Reply icon and the name of the
user who retweeted theTweet.You don’t have to know aboutTwitter to
Retweet
 You don’t see the @username
 Twitter are believed to be testing such functionality, with the objective of
removing some of the plumbing from the eyes of the end-user.
 Developers take note – you can expect more of this as twitter drives up
from the commmand line to apps.

12.  Twitter today acquired
 Mesagraph, a French
startup
 SecondSync, a UK
startup,
 Track socialTV
analytics.
 Terms of the deals
were not immediately
disclosed.

13. Presentations are available from Slideshare
Slides
http://www.slideshare.net/nuxnix