2WHERE TO GET YOUR DATA
When we use social media, our actions leave a trace. A like on Facebook, a retweet on Twitter, a heart on Instagram—each of these actions represents a data point that is recorded on the internet somewhere. By agreeing to these companies’ terms of services, we allow them to store this data, which they in turn may make available to the public.
Companies allow third parties to tap into these data troves via an application programming interface (API). An API is like a middleman between the social media platform and the developers who wish to access information from it.
In this chapter, I’ll explain in more detail what APIs ...
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