Rebuilding Twitter’s public API

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Twitter builds a GraphQL-based multi-tenant platform (Scala, OpenAPI Spec, thrift) to host v2 endpoints, consolidating fragment-driven field configs and persistent queries so endpoints are generated from reusable resource fields and selections. Business logic lives in StrataQL-managed columns or thrift services, optional fields (e.g. public_metrics) are included via GraphQL includes, and SLOs with PagerDuty/Grafana monitoring enforce ownership. This replaces scattered HTTP services and enables faster, consistent API rollout across many endpoints.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 12:40Selection Config
3. 12:53Selection: Single Tweet
4. 14:39Selection: Search Tweet
5. 17:16Generated Platform Tweet Fragment
6. 18:19Tweet By Id W/ Public Metrics
7. 18:55Tweet Search W/ Public Metrics

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