# Anecdotes about web APIs

DevFeed: [Anecdotes about web APIs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/anecdotes-about-web-apis-27051.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://zsmb.co/anecdotes-about-web-apis/>)

Author: Márton Braun

Published: 2020-04-11T10:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [zsmb.co](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/zsmb-co.md>)

Topics: [Web APIs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-apis.md>), [X (Twitter)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/twitter.md>), [android-development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android-development.md>)

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## AI overview

A personal commentary on the importance of web APIs, illustrated through experiences with Twitter's API and an Android learning project. It focuses on the difficulty of retrieving tweet replies and following reply threads when the API lacked a direct query for replies.

## Source excerpt

I think any respectable service these days should offer a web API to paying customers, so that power users of the service can integrate it with other services, and have reliable, trustworthy programmatic access to their data. Here are some anecdotes about services and APIs.