General Twitter-Development MCQs

1. What does API stand for?

2. There is a limit to how many calls and changes you can make in a day.

3. Twitter servers prefer to respond in JSON format.

4. What is the purpose of embeddable timelines?

5. How should you Check CRLs and the OCSP status?

6. What action can help avoid rate limits?

7. When consuming the API using JSON, it is important to always use which field instead of 'id?'

8. An entity result has the value for the 'hashtag' property: 'hashtags':[{'indices':[32,36],'text':'lol'}] What does this value mean?

9. What does it mean to 'tweet' a blog article?

10. the API only allows for one, Twitter approved, Tweet Button design.

11. Twitter was originally developed using what programming framework?

12. How should connection errors be handled?

13. Which API allows access to the nouns and verbs of Twitter such as reading timelines, tweeting, and following?

14. What purpose does twitter.com/intent/retweet serve?

15. What is CURL frequently used for?

16. What does GET search/tweets return?

17. Which is not APIs that Twitter offers?

18. What is an Embedded Tweet?

19. Which parameter, when set to the string true, will cause periodic messages to be delivered if the client is in danger of being disconnected?

20. What does REST stand for?

21. How do I walk a timeline by date or time?

22. When do Twitter's OAuth 1.1A access tokens expire?

23. Twitter API uses signatures for some forms of authenticated requests. Signatures must maintain compatibility with what ?

24. Which is NOT an example of a Twitter card?

25. How are rate limits determined on the Streaming API?

26. What does the field 'created_at' denote, in regards to tweets?

27. Which parameter is a comma-separated list of longitude,latitude pairs specifying a set of bounding boxes to filter Tweets by?

28. It is a best practice to always store user passwords?

29. Search queries need to be authenticated in version 1.1.

30. Rate limits are what?

31. What are Twitter Cards

32. The Twitter API is not meant for use in mobile/smart phone applications

33. The 'page' parameter begins on 1, not 0.

34. If you want to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your content, which Twitter Platform tool do you use?

35. In what format does the API return error messages?

36. What does Twitter use for character encoding?

37. What does the field 'possibly_sensitive' denote, in regards to tweets?

38. What types of character-encoding is accepted by the Twitter API?

39. What is the Search API limit?

40. After validating your network and code, what should you do before anything else if you are having connection difficulties?

41. How do you count favorites?

42. Non-space separated languages, such as CJK and Arabic, are supported by the Streaming API

43. What is the Twitter supplied cipher default?

44. How can you prevent SQL injection attacks?

45. When storing a numeric Twitter user id in an 3rd party database, what type should the value be?

46. What are endpoints ?

47. When are links wrapped with t.co?

48. What does the REST API enable?

49. Site Streams does NOT offer the ability to track real-time 'searches' on public tweets, mixed in with the 'me feed.'

50. Authenticating using signatures means using what kind of encryption?

51. What is a Player Card?

52. What does in_reply_to_user_id_str do?

53. Do web intents require JavaScript?

54. How can a developer solve the redundant API call problem when fetching Tweets in a timeline?

55. What must occur for every occurance of a Twitter stream?

56. What purpose does twitter.com/intent/favorite serve?

57. Which is NOT supported Web Intent languages?

58. Using asynchronous JavaScript is an advantage in which situation?

59. Why wont results containing the withheld_copyright property set to true deliver the contents of any tweet?

60. Where does streaming occur?

61. When reconnecting to a streaming endpoint, elevated access clients may include the _______ parameter to attempt to backfill missed messages which occurred during the disconnect period.

62. Which part make up the Twitter API?

63. Opening more than one connection to a public endpoint will cause what to happen?

64. Using synchronous JavaScript is an advantage in which situation?

65. What is Snowflake?

66. What does PHP use for SSL communication?

67. Whic parameter is a comma-separated list of user IDs, indicating the users whose Tweets should be delivered on the stream?

68. Which is not property of tweet box may access?

69. Which parameter controls the types of messages delivered to User and Site Streams client

70. What is cursoring?

71. Which is not part of the REST API?

72. The Twitter API v 1.1 requires all applications to authenticate all of their requests with OAuth 1.0a

73. What is the query parameter for the share tweet url that, if set to true, will prevent twitter from returning tailored content to your users?

74. When a user authenticates, which logic applies?

75. What is the string 'source'?

76. Twitter Platform objects include

77. How do you get Whitelisted?

78. What will the parameter NOT return

79. What does the current_user_retweet object do?

80. Which is NOT Streaming API request parameters?

81. What standards does the Twitter API 1.1 support?

82. If the 'suppress_response_code' parameter is present, how will all responses be returned?

83. Why would you want to connect to the API through SSL?

84. When should HTML be filtered out?

85. What are public streams?

86. How long are t.co links?

87. Which parameter is a comma-separated list of phrases which will be used to determine what Tweets will be delivered on the stream?

88. Which method could you employ to avoid being rate limited?

89. The Twitter API is entirely based on which protocol?

90. To ensure a website is accompanied by a Twitter Card when tweeted, developers must what?

91. How do I properly navigate a timeline?

92. How do you add the 'Tweet This' button to your website?

93. When should you get a user's permission for using tweet content?

94. Embedded objects are stale and inaccurate.

95. Which function you will use to mark a status as un-favorite?

96. What will API call return? http://twitter.com/friends/ids/john.xml

97. There is no API call method available to an authenticating user for unblocking a specified user.

98. Twitter requests return data in the following formats:

99. What will the test function of the help method return?

100. Does the Twitter API provide a method for the authenticating user to get a notification from a specified user?

101. Which HTTP Status code will be returned by the Twitter API if the client exceeds the rate limit of sending requests?

102. Which method will you use to enable notifications for updates from the specified user to the authenticating user?

103. Which is not a parameter of the update_profile account method?

104. What does the friends_count element describe?

105. Which API call will you use to return the authenticating user's friends in the order by which the user followed them ,most recently followed first?

106. Supposing that in your direct message box, you have 25 messages, and you want to display the messages after the twentieth message. What will be the requesting API call?

107. What functions will API call perform? http://twitter.com/friendships/create/karl.json?follow=true

108. Twitter applications are not allowed to be hosted on sites having personal data or blogs.

109. What will be the API call to return the IDs of the authenticating user's followers?

110. What will the search API call return if the search parameter 'q' is provided with the keyword 'movie:('?

111. What will be returned by API call? https://api.twitter.com/1/direct_messages.format

112. By default, how many API requests can a client send per hour?

113. Suppose you want to use the Search API for returning results pertaining to the keyword 'French'. The results should be returned in German and there should be 50 results per page. Which API call will you use?

114. What is the data type of the recipient_id data element?

115. What is the maximum number of results per page that can be displayed by the Search API?

116. What is the data type of the favorited data element?

117. The Notification Methods require the authenticated user to already be friends with the specified user otherwise the error 'there was a problem following the specified user' will be returned?

118. What will the API call return? http://twitter.com/blocks/destroy/john.xml

119. You can update the status of the authenticated users using the update status method. What is the maximum length allowed for the text for your status update?

120. What API call return? http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml

121. What is the purpose of requesting whitelisting?

122. Output of API call?http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml

123. Which is necessary to make a request for whitelist?

124. Which request headers can be used for making the Status API calls?