MrTweet API

 

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Mr. Tweet API

Help your users discover more great folks as well as get more context about other users - all without leaving your application!  (Technical Specifications Here)   

 

Get Your Key Here

 

 

Ideas for using the API

Are you building a...  

1) Twitter Client?   Now your users can access their list of suggested users directly from your client! See the "suggestions method"

 

2) Any Other Application?   Now your users can gain much more context about other users, including their tweeting habits, recommendations received, etc!

 

 

Specifications

(Technical specifications here)

 

Method 1: Check if User is Using Mr. Tweet (is_user)

    ⁃    Description: Checks whether the given user is a MrTweet user.

 

Method 2: Mr. Tweet Statistics of User (profile)

    ⁃    Description: Frequency of updates, % of conversations, % of links, and percentiles of each, as well as the number of recommendations received on mrtweet.com

 

Method 3: Recommendations Received By User (recommendations)

    ⁃    Description: Returns the recommendations the user has received from other users

 

Method 4* : Personalized MrTweet Suggestions (suggestions)

   ⁃    Description: Returns the current MrTweet suggestions of new users relevant for the user

 

Method 5*: Who A User Pays Attention To  (user's network)

   ⁃    Description:  Returns the 3 users that for the given user pays the most attention to

 

Method 6*: Recording A New Recommendation  (Writing recommendations)

   ⁃    Description:  Allows app to record new recommendations to the MrTweet service

 

Method 7,8*:  Access to MrTweet communities (communities)

   ⁃    Description:  Returns 3 people whom a user pays attention to, based on his past interactions

 

*: Requires permission to prevent abuse. Please contact api@mrtweet.net. We are only allowing this functionalities for proven Twitter clients so far, but we are happy to hear ideas!

 

Comments (2)

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Kirk Abraham said

at 12:34 pm on May 26, 2009

wow this sounds cool and definitely interested...

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Brett Hardin said

at 7:31 pm on Dec 26, 2009

Is there a way to update the mrtweet statistics for a user through the API?

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