The microblogging platform Twitter announces a premium product for developers that allows them to access the full Twitter archive.
What this means, developers could access every single tweet Twitter has - going all the way back to the first-ever tweet from @Jack (Jack Dorsey) in 2006.
Previously, this level of access was only available to enterprise API customers, but Twitter is changing that to make the feature available to a wider community.
Previously, non-enterprise customers could only choose from the standard (“public”) API that provides access to the last 7 days of tweets, or the more recently introduced Premium API (the Search Tweets API) that allows them to access any tweets from the last 30 days.
Here, Twitter launched what it calls "Full-archive Search," which offers access to all tweets from all time.
According to Twitter, it works similarly like the 30-day endpoint since it offers features like the ability to pull more tweets per request than the standard API. But with the addition to support more complex queries, higher rate limits, and other advanced features.
Using the Full-archive Search, customers also gain access to the premium account dashboard where they can monitor usage, manage the bill and invite other team members to collaborate.
With the ability to access everything Twitter has, businesses should be able to learn how their consumer's sentiments have changed over time or analyzing what people have been saying about their products and services spanning more than a decade.
As for Twitter, besides making revenue, the feature can also provide the company with new ways to surface historical tweets in an easier fashion than Twitter’s own advanced search features.
It's also part of a larger effort on Twitter to overhaul its API platform and vision for its developer community announced in 2017.
To get developers' attention, Twitter allows them to experiment with the API in a free sandbox environment where they can test things out with up to 50 requests per month. When they are ready, the can commit to paying the subscription package that is priced based on the number of requests per month.
The Full-archive Search endpoint is available in beta to all developers, starting February 2nd, 2018, making it the first time anyone could access this data outside of the annual contracts and pricing commitments Twitter required from enterprise customers.
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