{"id":89767,"date":"2009-12-19T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Twitter-API-Set-to-Become-an-Industry-Standard-130248.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-19T06:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T11:27:00","slug":"twitter-api-set-to-become-an-industry-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/89767","title":{"rendered":"Twitter API Set to Become an Industry Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> There have been a couple of new developments in the past week regarding the Twitter API and, surprisingly, they don&#8217;t really have anything to do with Twitter at all. Rather they have to do with &#8216;old school&#8217; blogging platforms WordPress and Tumblr adopting the Twitter API as their own. What this means is that people using third-party Twitter apps can now use them for WordPress as well, for example, to some degree as the implementations aren&#8217;t complete yet. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve enabled posting to and reading of WordPress.com blogs via the Twitter API. Any app that allows you to set a custom API URL will work,&rdquo; WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg wrote about a week ago. &ldquo;I see the Twitter API as one of the new de facto standards that as many applications should support as possible.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/news2\/\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/>It didn&#8217;t take long for Mullenweg&#8217;s words to take heed and up and coming blogging platform Tumblr also rolled out a similar feature. &ldquo;Inspired by WordPress&rsquo; seriously clever use of Loren Brichter&rsquo;s new Tweetie options, we&rsquo;re launching our own Tweetie and Twitterrific compatible API. This Twitter-like API should make it easy for a lot of existing Twitter clients to start supporting Tumblr,&rdquo; Tumblr wrote. <\/p>\n<p>The support isn&#8217;t complete, for WordPress you can read and even write posts and you can geotag it as well, but more advanced fu&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Twitter-API-Set-to-Become-an-Industry-Standard-130248.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a couple of new developments in the past week regarding the Twitter API and, surprisingly, they don&#8217;t really have anything to do with Twitter at all. Rather they have to do with &#8216;old school&#8217; blogging platforms WordPress and Tumblr adopting the Twitter API as their own. What this means is that people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}