Platform overview

Get started with the Twitter Developer Platform

Twitter's Developer Platform enables you to harness the power of Twitter's open, global, real-time and historical platform within your own applications. The platform provides tools, resources, data and API products for you to integrate, and expand Twitter's impact through research, solutions and more.

This section can help you get acquainted with the platform’s organization.

 

How the platform is organized

The Twitter developer platform is organized into three different products.

We have put together a different getting started section for each of these product pages since they have different requirements. 
 

Twitter API

The Twitter API is a set of programmatic endpoints that can be used to understand or build the conversation on Twitter. 

This API allows you to find and retrieve, engage with, or create a variety of different resources including the following:

  • Tweets
  • Users
  • Spaces
  • Direct Messages
  • Lists
  • Trends
  • Media
  • Places

 

Twitter Ads API

The Twitter Ads API is the direct connection to the Twitter Ads platform.

Integrate with the Twitter Ads API to enhance the Twitter Ads experience with additional innovation and efficiencies for your business.

  • Create, schedule, and manage ad campaigns
  • Create targeting criteria and custom audiences
  • Plan and create ad creatives
  • Pull ad analytics

To apply for Twitter Ads API access, a developer account with Elevated access is required.

 

Twitter for Websites

Twitter for Websites allows you to embed Twitter's live content into your product, direct from the source. Make the most out of Twitter on your website to increase followers, drive engagement, and grow your business

Bring your pick of content from Twitter into your website or app. Use our tools to embed Tweets in your stories and articles on the web.

Include a stream of Tweets in your website or app in a compact, linear view. Configure Tweet timelines to automatically display live updates from people, trends, and places right in your app.

Allow people who visit your website or app to engage with your Twitter account and share content with their followers. Enhance links to your website shared on Twitter with Cards and Twitter buttons.

 

 

Documentation organization

Our technical documentation has separate sections to help you work with each of these different products. In each section, you will find guides, libraries, API references, and other resources to help you get started.

The Twitter API and Twitter Ads API products share similar fundamentals, and even include some common endpoint functionality. These shared concepts are discussed in the platform fundamentals section, including the following:


For content display and Twitter actions on websites, the Twitter for Websites product consists of web embeds and tools to optimize Twitter links. You can learn more about the fundamentals of this product by navigating to the Twitter for Websites section of the docs.

The documentation also includes tutorials, integration guides, developer tools, and use case examples to help you as you integrate with the platform. We welcome you to utilize these resources and engage with the developer community to get inspired and build something new.
 

Tools and libraries

Find both Twitter-maintained and open-source community client libraries and other developer tools that can help you integrate Twitter into your system more quickly.

Tutorials

Learn how to use Twitter’s developer tools to build a solution around a use case with one of our tutorials, such as the following:

Troubleshooting and support

Community

How to stay informed

The following pages and resources can help provide you with important details on API outages, updates, and other news relevant to developers on the platform.

  • Subscribe to our API status page to receive updates on known platform inconsistencies that could affect your integration.
  • Review our product roadmap to see which new features will be coming soon.
  • Check out our changelog to see the recent changes that we've made to the platform, as well as a list of important upcoming dates.

All of these resources and more are listed on our stay informed page. 

For more information on how to get started, please visit the specific getting started page for the product that matches your use case.