Overview

Please note

We have released a new compliance tool to Twitter API v2 called batch compliance. This new tool allows you to upload large datasets of Tweet or user IDs to retrieve their compliance status in order to determine what data requires action in order to bring your datasets into compliance.

In addtion, both the batch compliance and the compliance firehose have been updated to support Tweet edits. For the compliance firehose, a new 'tweet_edit' event was added. See the Compliance Data Objects documentation for more details. Learn more about how Edit Tweet metadata works on the Edit Tweets fundamentals page.

Overview

Enterprise

One of Twitter’s core values is to defend and respect the user’s voice. This includes respecting their expectations and intent when they delete, modify, or edit the content they choose to share on Twitter. We believe that this is critically important to the long term health of one of the largest public, real-time information platforms in the world. Twitter puts controls in the hands of its users, giving individuals the ability to control their own Twitter experience. We believe that business consumers that receive Twitter data have a responsibility to honor the expectations and intent of end users.

For more information on the types of compliance events that are possible on the Twitter platform, reference our article, Honoring User Intent on Twitter.

Any developer or company consuming Twitter data via an API holds an obligation to use all reasonable efforts to honor changes to user content. This obligation extends to user events such as deletions, modifications, and changes to sharing options (e.g., content becoming protected or withheld). This also includes when users edit their Tweets. Please reference the specific language in the Developer Policy and/or your Twitter Data Agreement to understand how this obligation affects your use of Twitter data.

Twitter offers the following solutions that deliver information about these user compliance events and whether a specific Tweet or User is publicly available or not. A brief overview of the solutions and their general integration patterns is detailed below:

GET statuses/lookup and GET users/lookup

  • Format: REST API’s See: GET statuses/lookup and GET users/lookup.
  • These endpoints always return the latest version of any Tweet edits. All Tweet objects describing Tweets created after the edit feature was introduced will include Tweet edit metadata. This is true even for Tweets that were not edited. 
  • For all Tweets, requests for Tweets more than 30 minutes after they were created will represent the final state of all Tweets. 
  • Deliver availability information for specific Tweets or Users as defined by the caller as part of the API request.
  • May be used for ad-hoc spot-checking on the current availability state of a specific group of Tweets / Users.
  • Ideal for customers who need a way to check the current state of a specific Tweet or User at a given moment in time.
  • These API’s provide a helpful mechanism that may be used by customers who need to check the availability of a piece of Content, for instance when:
    1. Displaying Tweets
    2. Engaging with a Tweet(s) or User(s) in a 1:1 way
    3. Distributing Twitter Content to a 3rd party through an allowed file download
    4. Storing Tweets for extended periods of time

Compliance Firehose (enterprise only)

  • Format: Streaming API See: Compliance Firehose.
  • Delivers realtime stream of Compliance activities on Twitter. These activities include when Tweets are edited. 
  • May be used to maintain compliance state across a set of stored data as new compliance events happen on the platform.
  • Ideal for customers consuming and storing large quantities of Twitter data for extended periods of time.