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Requirements of the Twitter API

Learn to identify and analyze the core functional and non-functional requirements of the Twitter API. This lesson guides you through the key design considerations for handling tweets, timelines, searches, and user interactions while ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and low latency in the system.

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Introduction to the Twitter API

Twitter is a social media platform where millions of users share their TweetsA Tweet can contain text, images, or videos.The tweet can consist of text, images, or videos. and billions of other users react to those Tweets on a daily basis. Twitter provides users with an interface where they can perform different operations. However, behind the scenes, many services and components interact to create a Tweet, generate a timelineThe timeline includes a stream of Tweets and various recommendations based on the user's interests and followers' activity (such as their Tweets, Retweets, likes, etc.)., and perform other relevant tasks.

Designing an API for a platform like Twitter requires an in-depth understanding of the back-end system. In this chapter, we provide an overview of the workflow of the Twitter system and then move on to designing an API for it.

Let's establish the expectations from our API by defining some requirements.

Requirements

This section discusses the functional and non-functional requirements that the Twitter ...