Social Authority SDK

Social Authority helps you find, optimize, and engage your Twitter audience. It's a 1 to 100 point scale that measures a user's influential content on Twitter. More than just another self-focused metric, Social Authority helps you discover other influential tweeters with high engagement. You can read more about it at https://followerwonk.com/social-authority

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Getting Started with the Social Authority API

The Social Authority API gives access to a select piece of the Followerwonk infrastructure. It uses standard HTTP Verbs and Hypermedia documents to make exploring and learning as easy as possible. This guide will use curl for all our examples, you're welcome to translate them into whatever language you prefer.

A Quick Note about the Response Data Format

By default, the Social Authority API uses Hypertext Application Language for the JSON serialization format. This means we can (and do!) embed Hypermedia Controls into the documents. Every response from the API has a key (_links) pointing to more information. Simply generate requests for those URLs to obtain the additional information. This is useful when you exceed the limits for scores returned in a single request. The server will automatically generate the URLs needed for subsequent requests to obtain the remaining data.

Setting up Access Controls

The Social Authority API uses an access control system. To gain access the first step is to fetch your Social Authority API AccessID and SecretKey.

You can do this by logging into Followerwonk and following the directions from the Social Authority page there.

The current default freemium request limits are 250 SAs per day & 7500 SAs per month:

    25 IDs per request
     5 Requests Per Second (ie concurrently)
    10 requests per hour
    10 requests per day

Please contact us ([email protected]) for paid subscription access for larger volumes.

Querying the Social Authority API

Once you have an AccessID you can make a call to the Social Authority resource. The Social Authority resource takes a list of screen names or user ids and returns Social Authority scores for all of the accounts it can find. Currently we limit the number of screen names and user ids in a single request to 25 combined.

You will need to perform a signed request as described in Anatomy of a Social Authority Call.

curl -v https://api.followerwonk.com/social-authority?screen_name=randfish;AccessID=ACCESS_ID;Timestamp=TIMESTAMP;Signature=SIGNATURE_HMAC

You'll get back a JSON packet with the Social Authority score and some metrics.

    {
       "_embedded" : [
          {
             "_links" : {
                "self" : {
                   "href" : "/?user_id=6527972"
                }
             },
             "user_id" : "6527972",
             "social-authority" : "54.90157176971435",
             "screen_name" : "randfish"
          }
       ],
       "_links" : {
          "search" : [
             {
                "templated" : "yes",
                "href" : "/{?screen_name}",
                "name" : "screen_name"
             },
             {
                "templated" : "yes",
                "href" : "/{?user_id}",
                "name" : "user_id"
             }
          ],
          "self" : {
             "href" : "/social-authority?screen_name=randfish"
          }
       }
    }

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