Mz sdl-140331

13
Twitter news for devs @socdevlon March 2014 Angus Fox Social Developers London @nuxnix This talk draws on information from dev.twitter.com but is in no way endorsed by Twitter Corporation #justsaying

description

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

Transcript of Mz sdl-140331

Page 1: Mz sdl-140331

Twitter news for devs @socdevlonMarch 2014

Angus FoxSocial Developers London@nuxnix

This talk draws on information from dev.twitter.com but is in no way endorsed by Twitter Corporation #justsaying

Page 2: Mz sdl-140331

Interesting API related newsThe 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

Social TV analytics

Page 3: Mz sdl-140331

Blink and you’ll miss it

Page 4: Mz sdl-140331

#music

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 on April 18.

“…. continue to experiment with new ways to bring you great content based on the music activity we see every day on Twitter.”

Page 5: Mz sdl-140331

WordPress content to Twitter

As each new post is published, a corresponding Tweet is automatically posted, making sharing content on Twitter a seamless part of a blogger’s everyday workflow.

Twitter Cards for greater distribution and engagement

Page 6: Mz sdl-140331

5 lines of meta data code<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>" />

Page 7: Mz sdl-140331

A richer, more compelling Tweet

Page 8: Mz sdl-140331

@certified – apps from the big guys

Lithium Social Web mines Twitter data for relevant customer discussions and uses the Twitter APIs to drive real-time customer support and marketing engagement.

ScribbleLive is a leading curation and publisher engagement tool

Follow @certified

Page 9: Mz sdl-140331

List IDs are now 64-bit integers

Making room for more lists on Twitter by expanding IDs to 64-bit integers.

If you’re using REST and Streaming APIs, 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 of Twitter List objects and related references.

Page 10: Mz sdl-140331

What happened to Retweets might happen to @ replies

Originally people typed RT at the beginning of a Tweet 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's Tweet. 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 a Tweet with all of your followers. New style Retweets are distinguished by the Retweet icon and

the name of the user who retweeted the Tweet. You don’t have to know about Twitter to Retweet

You don’t see the text ‘RT’

Page 11: Mz sdl-140331

What happened to Retweets might happen to @ replies

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 the Tweet. You don’t have to know about Twitter 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.

Page 12: Mz sdl-140331

Social TV analytics

Twitter today acquired Mesagraph, a French

startup SecondSync, a UK

startup,

Track social TV analytics.

Terms of the deals were not immediately disclosed.

Page 13: Mz sdl-140331

Thank youPresentations are available from Slideshare

Slides

http://www.slideshare.net/nuxnix