Overview

Please note:

We've recently released the following endpoints within the Twitter API v2.

v1.1 endpoints	Corresponding v2 endpoints
GET statuses/lookup GET statuses/show/:id	Tweet lookup	Migration guide
POST statuses/update POST statuses/destroy/:id	Manage Tweets	Migration guide
GET favorites/list POST favorites/create POST favorites/destroy	Likes	Migration guide
GET statuses/retweets/:id GET statuses/retweeters/:ids POST statuses/retweet/:id POST statuses/unretweet/:id	Retweets	Migration guide

Please use the migration guides to see what has changed between the standard v1.1 and v2 versions.

Important note:

This endpoint has been updated to include Tweet edit metadata. Learn more about these metadata on the "Edit Tweets" fundamentals page.

Overview

The following API endpoints can be used to programmatically create, retrieve and delete Tweets, Retweets and Likes:

Tweets	Retweets	Likes (formerly favorites)
POST statuses/update POST statuses/destroy/:id GET statuses/show/:id GET statuses/oembed GET statuses/lookup	POST statuses/retweet/:id POST statuses/unretweet/:id GET statuses/retweets/:id GET statuses/retweets_of_me GET statuses/retweeters/ids	POST favorites/create/:id POST favorites/destroy/:id GET favorites/list

For more details, please see the individual endpoint information within the API reference section.

Terminology

Tweet/Status - when a status message is shared on Twitter. Also see Introduction to Tweet JSON

Retweet - when a Tweet is re-shared by another specific user. Also see Introduction to Tweet JSON

Like - when a Tweet recieves a 'heart' from a specific user, formerly known as favo(u)rite or 'star'

Rate limits

As part of our effort to reduce the distribution of spam through our APIs, we enforce App-level rate limit on some of our POST endpoints:

There is a 300 requests per three hours shared App-level rate limit for the POST statuses/update (post a Tweet) and POST statuses/retweet/:id (post a Retweet) endpoints. This means that you can only post either 300 Tweets or Retweets across all of the authorized users of your developer App during a three hour time period.
There is a 1,000 requests per 24 hours App-level rate limit for the POST favorites/create/:id endpoint. This means that you can only like 1,000 Tweets across all of the authorized users of your developer App during a 24 hour time period.

Please note that you must also consider the user-level rate limits for these endpoints, as they limit the number of posted Tweets or liked Tweets a specific authorized user can make over a given time period.

You can review each endpoints' rate limits via their API reference page.