Twitter recently announced they will no longer support free access to the Twitter API. Everyone seems up in arms about it and I can’t figure out what an API even is. What would doing something like this actually affect?
I’ve tried looking up what an API is, but I can’t really wrap my head around it.
Edit: I’ve had so many responses to read through and there’s been a ton of helpful explanations! Much appreciated everyone 🙂 thanks for keeping this doofus in the know
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Imagine you have a TV, Cable Box, Apple TV or Andriod TV, and your stereo system DVD player.
As far as your are concerned they all work together. But they all have their own remote controls.
You want to customize how you use your home system so you buy a programmable universal remote control that that will send messages to all devices and get data from them.
You are going down to a single remote, but you can customize it to however you want it to work and behave with your TV, DVD player and Cable box and internet devices. And it will take some work to program it to you liking. But once its done you will have an experience that is best for you.
How that Universal programable remote talks to your TV, Stereo, Apple TV and Cable box is very similar to the concept of API’s.
Twitter has said that unless you want to pay us, you need to use our tools with the tools we provide you.
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