Application programming interface

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An application programming interface, or API, is a way for one piece of software to talk to another.

An example of this would be the Twitter API, which allows other applications to have access to Twitter's data in order to provide a service to users. So, the Twitter client TweetDeck uses the API to present users' tweets within it's own service.

A service that offers an API can call itself a platform - ie something other developers can build upon.

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