API Guidelines

People have been asking what the restrictions are sorrounding the API and it’s usage.  So along with the official Terms & Conditions of Use, which aren’t exactly the easiest reading we decided to put together a nice simple Do’s & Don’ts document to help and guide those of you who are looking for best practice guidelines.

Do

  1. Create fun cool applications and tools based around our API. (and tell us about them so that we can write about them over on our blog!)
  2. Integrate our re-tweet features into your applications and websites.
  3. Be sensible with the number of times you access the API – hit it too often and you’ll hit restrictions and no one wants that.
  4. Let us know if you hit the API limit.
  5. Put forward suggestions for extending the API – please remember suggestions need to be scalable.
  6. Use our documentation to help guide you in creating your applications
  7. Ask us if you have questions


Don’t

  1. Don’t re-create our button without including the (via @tweetmeme) this breaks our terms and conditions of use.
  2. Don’t go using our API to mimic our site as this also breaks our terms & conditions of use.
  3. Don’t try to hit our servers with thousands of requests per second.
  4. Don’t re-create our plugins using our api without gaining permission first (this includes the WordPress ones)
  5. Don’t re-create our widget using our api
  6. Don’t copy our artwork without permission
  7. Lets just say don’t copy what we’ve already done… or anything that we release
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