Twitter puts new API for developers online

Twitter has put a first version of its api v2 online. The new API, the biggest change since 2012, will eventually replace API v1.1. For the time being, Twitter still calls access to the API ‘early access’. A lot changes in the api.

While it is now difficult to switch between the various paid options for API access, the new API makes it much easier. Instead of three platforms, the api from version 2 is one platform with different ‘product tracks’: standard, academic research and business use. In those three ‘tracks’ there are three types of access: standard, ‘elevated’ and custom.

The standard version is and will remain accessible for free, says Twitter. The access that that gives should be enough for the vast majority of developers. The limitation is a maximum on the number of API calls that a developer project can make. The paid versions have no maximum. The price of the paid version is not yet known. One of the things that returns in the api is real-time streams of tweets. Twitter has also put its roadmap online.