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Upcoming changes to Tweets
Introduction
This document outlines the set of changes to Tweets so that people can express even more in 140 characters: 1) to allow for richer public conversations that are easier to follow on Twitter and 2) to ensure people can attach media to Tweets without sacrificing the characters they have to express themselves.
These changes touch many aspects of the Twitter platform. To that end, we have prepared these technical materials to help you transition your products and applications to the new Tweet format. The following sections will step through the planned technical changes.
Recent revisions:
Additional JSON sample payloads
Additional information added on the compose options (specifically the attachment_url, auto_populate_reply_metadata and exclude_reply_userids parameters)
Additional information on error codes associated with the new scenarios
Overview
The following chart and sample JSON demonstrate the differences between Tweet JSON objects in the various API endpoints (REST, streaming and Gnip), once the API changes described above are active. (If the formatting is difficult to read, please see the documentation and samples on our corresponding Github repo). Additional samples are available on Github and also via the Gnip support documentation.