Accessing Tweets and More With the Twitter API The Twitter API lets you access tweets, users who tweet, metadata, manipulate lists, and more. Let's check it out!
What is an API? An API is an Application Programming Interface, but what's that really mean? In a more practical sense, it's one programmer hiding the (possibly messy) details of their own code behind a nice veneer, in order to make it easier for another programmer to consume it in their own program.
