(Part 4) Tweeting with Twitter Access Token

It’s high time we get to tweeting! 🐦

TLDR 🥱!!!

You’ve got the Access Token or Bearer Token from the previous part of this series.
Now, what the fu*c are you waiting for? Just go nuts and tweet! 🫡
Check out the docs Twitter API or POST/2/Tweets for endpoints.

Posting a Tweet 📝

I’m using Insomnia to make the API requests, because I’m tired of writing code for everything. 😒

• Here’s the endpoint I’ll make a POST request to :-
  https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets

• These are the headers of the request :-

       {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>"
  }
    

  Note: Insomnia also inserts a User-Agent header, don’t worry about it, leave it as it is.

• This is the JSON payload I’ll send :-

       {
    "text": "Excited for my new website? https://rhymbit.com",
    "poll": {
      "options": ["Yes", "Definitely", "I 💗 you already!!!"],
      "duration_minutes": 10
    }
  }
    

That’s it, hit the Send button and you should see a response with the tweet details.
This is what the response for my request looked like :-

     {
  "data": {
    "edit_history_tweet_ids": [
      "1766857795331149833"
    ],
    "id": "1766857795331149833",
    "text": "Excited for my new website? https://t.co/e5VZ7DBFmE"
  }
}
  

and of course, this is the tweet that got posted :-

Deleting a Tweet 💣

All you need is id of the tweet you want to delete.
See that response above, the id is 1766857795331149833.

We’ll make a DELETE request to this endpoint :-
https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets/:id

So in my case, it would be :-
https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets/1766857795331149833

And that’s it! The tweet is gone! 🤯
You’ll see a response from the API, like so :-

     {
	"data": {
		"deleted": true
	}
}
  

Cheap As$ Twitter 😭

Mr. Elon …, he spent 44 billon dollars on Twitter and then they removed almost all the free features of the API, because they’ve got to make that money back somehow. 😒
Also Twitter API was being abused by bots and spammers, but still … 😒

Currently free tier users can only do the following :-

• Can only post 50 basic tweets a day, and delete 50 tweets a day.
• Can only do basic user lookup

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I swear to god, if one day Twitter is profitable again and they still keep these restrictions, I’mma be so mad. 😡

Conclusion 🎉

The reason I decided to make this series is :-

• I wanted to use the Twitter API for some fun 😏 stuff I was working on.
• Elon fired almost everyone at Twitter. Like the people who replied on forums, the people who wrote the documentation, the people who made the API … they’re all gone. So, it was quite difficult to figure all this out. Lots of trial and error. 🥹

I hope this series helped you out. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on … well Twitter 😆 or any of my other socials. I’m sure you can find the links to them somewhere on this website. 😅

That’s it!, thanks 🤗 for reading all the way till down here. This series is over, but there’s so much more to explore, so keep digging ⛏️.