Twitter opens the reverse chronological home timeline to app developers

New Delhi: Entangled in a bitter takeover battle Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Twitter gives third-party app developers more access to its reverse-chronological timeline so they can get the latest tweets and retweets posted by authenticated users and the accounts they follow.

In an update, the microblogging platform shared that the reverse chronological home timeline is now available on the Twitter Application Programming Interface (API) v2.

“This functionality is important for numerous developer use cases, and we will continue to prioritize innovations and features that allow you to build with the core elements of the Twitter experience,” the company said late Friday.

Twitter API v2 is an interface that developers use to get data from the platform.

“v2’s increased rate and pagination tweet limits will be a tangible benefit for our users. Given the importance of this call, it really underscores Twitter’s ongoing commitment to modernizing its API,” said Paul Haddad, one of Tweetbot’s developers.

All developers building with the Twitter API v2 can start using the new endpoints immediately, Twitter said.

“Using Tweet annotations and vice versa chronological home timelineyou can build an application that shows you many tweets per top topic that you have in your home timeline based on each tweet’s annotations,” the company said.

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