#TwitterFlight: Connecting to the Pulse of the Planet

Talk presented at the inaugural #TwitterFlight mobile developer conference in San Francisco on October 22nd, 2014.

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1. #twitterflight
2. October 22, 2014 #twitterflight Connecting to the Pulse of the Planet
3. Romain Huet Developer Advocate @romainhuet
4. 271M+ 500M+ Active Users Tweets per Day 2006 2014
5. Twitter is global,
 open and real-time
6. Twitter is the shortest distance between @you and your #interests
7. Twitter is there at
 world events
8. Twitter is the pulse
 of the planet
9. How can you use Twitter Data
 to power your apps?
13. Data Platform
15. Twitter APIs deal both with the
 right now and what happened
16. Streaming APIs allow you to ingest what’s happening right now
17. Streaming APIs let you ingest what’s happening right now POST https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/filter.json Returns Tweets matching your criteria. Data follow: 3946301
 track: #twitterflight
 locations: 2.1733,41.3633,2.1933,41.4033 language: fr
18. Streaming APIs let you ingest what’s happening right now GET https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/sample.json Returns ~1% of all firehose data, statistically relevant. GET https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/firehose.json Returns all firehose data, requires business deal.
19. 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20. Anatomy of a Tweet { "created_at": "Wed Oct 02 15:53:43 +0000 2013", "id": 385432417126739968, "id_str": "385432417126739968", "text": "Learn more about the powerful #Linux container engine @docker in this video intro with @solomonstre - http:\/\/t.co\/QJLdA1762Y @TwitterOSS", "source": "web", "truncated": false, "in_reply_to_status_id": null, "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null, "in_reply_to_user_id": null, "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null, "in_reply_to_screen_name": null, "user": { "id": 1665823832, "id_str": "1665823832", "name": "Twitter University", "screen_name": "university", "location": "", "description": "Building a culture of learning for @TwitterEng and the world at large", "url": "http:\/\/t.co\/c8IHJLE1Y8", "entities": { "url": { "urls": [{ "url": "http:\/\/t.co\/c8IHJLE1Y8", "expanded_url": "http:\/\/youtube.com\/twitteruniversity", "display_url": "youtube.com\/twitterunivers\u2026",
21. "favorite_count": 25, "entities": { "hashtags": [{ "text": "Linux", "indices": [30, 36] }], "symbols": [], "urls": [{ "url": "http:\/\/t.co\/QJLdA1762Y", "expanded_url": "http:\/\/youtu.be\/Q5POuMHxW-0", "display_url": "youtu.be\/Q5POuMHxW-0", "indices": [102, 124] }], "user_mentions": [{ "screen_name": "docker", "name": "Docker", "id": 1138959692, "id_str": "1138959692", "indices": [54, 61] }, { "screen_name": "solomonstre", "name": "Solomon Hykes", "id": 9551792, "id_str": "9551792", "indices": [87, 99] }, { "screen_name": "TwitterOSS", "name": "Twitter Open Source", "id": 376825877, "id_str": "376825877", "indices": [125, 136] }] }, "favorited": false, "retweeted": true, "possibly_sensitive": false, "lang": "en" }
22. 143,199
 Tweets per second 5,700 TPS on average
23. REST APIs let you perform actions and access what happened
24. REST APIs let you perform actions and access what happened Tweets & Media GET statuses/lookup POST statuses/update POST media/upload Timelines GET statuses/home_timeline GET statuses/user_timeline GET statuses/mentions_timeline Search GET tweets/search Following GET friends/list And many more: Users, Favorites, Direct Messages, Followers, Lists, Trends, Geo, Spam Reporting…
25. Demo #twitterflight
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28. Mobile Platform
31. Fabric Sample App Cannonball Open source for iOS & Android:
 
 github.com/twitterdev
32. NodeCopter.com
34. Demo #twitterflight
35. Sign In with Twitter and Digits @IBAction func signInWithTwitter(sender: UIButton) { Twitter.sharedInstance().logInWithCompletion { (session: TWTRSession!, error: NSError!) -> Void in if session != nil { // Save any useful data from the Twitter session, // then move to the next view controller. } } } @IBAction func signInWithPhone(sender: UIButton) { Digits.sharedInstance().authenticateWithCompletion { (session: DGTSession!, error: NSError!) -> Void in if session != nil { // Save any useful data from the Digits session, // then move to the next view controller. } } }
36. Adding a Tweet View to the View Controller override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() // Request the Twitter API. Twitter.sharedInstance().APIClient.loadTweetWithID(tweetId, completion: { (tweet: TWTRTweet!, error: NSError!) -> Void in // Build the Tweet view. self.tweetView = TWTRTweetView(tweet: tweet, style: .Regular) // Add the Tweet view to the main view. self.view.addSubview(self.tweetView) }) }
37. Sharing a Tweet with the Tweet Composer @IBAction func postTweet(sender: AnyObject) { // Use the TwitterKit to create a Tweet composer. let composer = TWTRComposer() // Prepare the Tweet text with drone commands. composer.setText(droneCommands) // Present the composer to the user. composer.showWithCompletion({ (result: TWTRComposerResult!) -> Void in if result == .Cancelled { println("Tweet composition cancelled") } else { println("Tweeting commands to the drone!") } }) }
38. Displaying Tweets in a Table View override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell { // Retrieve the Tweet cell. let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(tweetTableCellReuseIdentifie r, forIndexPath: indexPath) as TWTRTweetTableViewCell // Assign the delegate to control events on Tweets. cell.tweetView.delegate = self // Retrieve the Tweet model object from the array of loaded Tweets. let tweet = tweets[indexPath.row] // Configure the cell with the Tweet. cell.configureWithTweet(tweet) // Return the Tweet cell. return cell }
39. Thank You