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In the social media space, web APIs have allowed web communities to facilitate sharing content and data between communities and applications. In this way, content that is created in one place dynamically can be posted and updated to multiple locations on the web.<ref name="Parr16">{{cite web|last1=Parr|first1=Ben|title=The Evolution of the Social Media API|url=http://mashable.com/2009/05/21/social-media-api/#1LJkofEl.Gqi|website=Mashable|accessdate=26 July 2016}}

</ref> For example, Twitter's REST API allows developers to access core Twitter data and the Search API provides methods for developers to interact with Twitter Search and trends data.<ref name="twity">{{cite web|title=Web API|url=https://www.definition.net/define/api|website=Definition.net|accessdate=21 February 2016cn}}

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==Design==