API Model for Twitter Service
Explore how to design API endpoints for Twitter services by understanding the base URL, HTTP methods, and message formats. Learn to handle core data entities for posting Tweets and retrieving timelines, including authorization, request and response formats, and error handling. This lesson helps you grasp building real-world APIs with clarity and precision.
We are now familiar with the services involved in Twitter's API and their workflow. Let us now shift our focus to discussing the API endpoints required to fulfill our functional requirements. Moreover, we will discuss the essential data entities and the message format for each endpoint in detail.
Let's start with the base URL of our API.
Base URL and API endpoints
The following URL is used as the base URL for our Twitter services. The api.twitter.com is the host URL, and v1.0 represents the version of our API.
Users can use the following endpoints and methods to access different services of Twitter's API.
While most of the endpoints are self-explanatory, we’ll focus on the timeline service. As we can see above, the timeline is ...