If I remember correctly early on there was both the firehose of all tweets you could access and easy to call apis to post tweets. So there were a set of progra

If I remember correctly early on there was both the firehose of all tweets you could access and easy to call apis to post tweets. So there were a set of programmatic standards to control how you could communicate, which sounds close enough to me for a blog post. But only if memory serves correctly, I do not know the timelines off the top of my head.