Twitter is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Twitter exposes some of its functionality via an API for developers who want to build tools that talk to Twitter.
Notes: An account with Twitter is necessary in order to use the API.
Clients are allowed 70 requests per 60 sixty minute time period, starting from their first request.
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