Twitter has a REST API that allows you to control an account and perform very specific searches using several types of filters. To make queries, it is necessary to have an application on Twitter linked to an account and a series of values that correspond to the OAuth authentication tokens.

The Twitter API has a fairly broad list of functions that can be invoked from any client, be it a custom-developed program or even a web browser, since being an API REST, it uses the HTTP protocol as a transfer protocol.

The documentation on the Twitter API is available at https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public:

In addition to the REST API, there are also some other libraries, such as the streaming API and Twitter for websites. More details about these and other libraries can be found at the following link: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/documentation.