In my day job, when I'm not learning things by reading and sharing here on DEV, I'm a developer advocate at Twitter. I've been doing this for quite a long time now, and I recognise that while I'm always learning for myself, I don't always stop to think about how other people learn.

I know that personally, I learn best from getting started guides, example code that makes sense, and the ability to "play with" an API using some kind of explorer or command line. I do not usually get so much from videos (but I love to take part in making them!).

How do YOU learn to use new APIs?

The more specific question / broader background...

In November, we launched Twitter API v2, which is a whole new way to access Twitter data, based on the OpenAPI specification, and with a more modern experience than v1.1 (which is around 11 years old - pretty rare for an API to last that long without major changes). We've hosted some Twitch streams and Twitter Spaces to talk about it.

We have documentation, a Postman Collection, and sample code.

export CONSUMER_KEY='<your_consumer_key>'export CONSUMER_SECRET='<your_consumer_secret>'

If you had the chance to request an educational resource about the Twitter API, what would you ask for? Tutorials, videos, Twitch, code? Any particular topic you want to know more about? Should we provide code in different languages - which ones, and why? Let me know in the discussion below, or follow me on Twitter and Tweet me a suggestion!