What’s Next for Twitter API?

Although Twitter’s homepage gets a tremendous amount of traffic, it hardly compares to daily amount of queries its API receives. According to Alexander Barbara, the founder of EasyTweets, www.Twitter.com got around 86.5 million pageviews last month, but the API gets hundreds of millions of queries each day. In addition, Twitter did an analysis and found that the majority of tweets posted come from the API instead of the website.

Many people do not realize that it is actually the API that allows them to do multiple tasks such as managing lists, following others, pulling profile data, and managing accounts and reputations. The good news is that Twitter is continuing to improve and perfect the API. For this reason, Barbara expects even more from Twitter’s API in the coming months.

Twitter is already adding functionalities that would make threading conversations easier. Also, they recently added geolocation features which display where a tweet originated and includes geotagging. What’s more, Twitter is starting location-based trends that show top trends on a localized basis.

Barbara said Twitter has embraced the development community by allowing it to build upon their platform. They have even incorporated some of the applications directly into their homepage. He said that by embracing third party developers, Twitter has not only enhanced the overall platform that the company is based upon, but it has also added value for everyone.

What do you think is next for Twitter’s API?