1. Application program interface Skills: none Concepts: Application program interface (API) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

2. Where does this topic fit? • Internet concepts • Applications • Technology • Implications • Internet skills • Application development • Content creation • User skills

3. I want to share this post http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/21/cuba-generacion-y-and-voces-cubanas-unblocked-in-cuba/

4. This popped up automatically. I reworded it.

5. Acknowledgement

6. The tweet

7. How they did it -- the API http://twitter.com/share?_=1298645244098&count=horizontal&original_referer=http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/21/cuba-generacion-y-and-voces-cubanas-unblocked-in-cuba/&related=ellerybiddle:Post%20author&text=Cuba:%20Generaci%C3%B3n%20Y%20and%20Voces%20Cubanas%20Unblocked%20in%20Cuba&url=http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/21/cuba-generacion-y-and-voces-cubanas-unblocked-in-cuba/&via=globalvoices

8. Add a Tweet button

9. Summary http://twitter.com/share?_=1298645244098&count=horizontal&original_referer=http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/21/cuba-generacion-y-and-voces-cubanas-unblocked-in-cuba/&related=ellerybiddle:Post%20author&text=Cuba:%20Generaci%C3%B3n%20Y%20and%20Voces%20Cubanas%20Unblocked%20in%20Cuba&url=http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/21/cuba-generacion-y-and-voces-cubanas-unblocked-in-cuba/&via=globalvoices

10. Self-study questions How does Twitter benefit from Global Voices using their API? How does using the Twitter API benefit from Global Voices? Find a Web site that uses the Google Maps API to include a map as part of their service. What is Google’s incentive to provide this API? What is the advantage to the developer of the site you found?

11. Resources The form for automatically generating the code for a simple Tweet button: http://twitter.com/about/resources/tweetbutton Full documentation of the Twitter API: http://dev.twitter.com/doc