Twitter on Friday announced a major update to its “API v2” that can be used to build third-party clients for Twitter. With the latest update, developers can now access the same reverse chronological timeline that is available to users through the official Twitter app.
In a post on the Twitter community (via The Verge), a Twitter engineer details what’s actually changing with the update. In the past, developers had to use the old API to get the most recent tweets and retweets from users, which made development difficult, not to mention the limitations of the old API.
Paul Haddad, developer of the popular Twitter client “Tweetbot”, explained that API v1.1 allows the app to request home timeline updates 15 times every 15 minutes, with a limit of 800 tweets per user. With today’s update, third-party apps support up to 180 requests in the same time frame, with a limit of 3,200 tweets.
The new API is not only better for getting the latest tweets, but it should also make the development process of the Twitter client easier, as developers no longer need to implement support for v1.1 and v2.
The Twitter API v2 was officially released last year as a response to developers who always complained about the lack of access to important social networking features in the old API. For example, third-party Twitter apps weren’t able to access things like polls, cards, and metrics with API version 1.1.
It’s worth noting though that developers can implement the Twitter API v2 for free by unlocking it for a large number of apps and tweets. requires increased access through a paid plan.
With these latest API improvements, it seems like Twitter has finally changed its mind when it comes to supporting developers working on third-party clients for their platform. The Twitter API v2 update with reverse chronological timeline is now available to all developers.
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