"Do you look for online examples, or is there a way to "comprehend" how to use which class and method?"
Going through every class and method -> time consuming, tedious, API specs change all the time, probably overwhelming because there's a lot of methods and you will not know how it all fits together. It will be like looking at eyes, ears, legs, etc. all in isolation but unless you have first seen the human body form as to how it all fits together it might be difficult to 'comprehend'. Looking for online examples - if you are beginning, this is what I would suggest. Once you feel confident, give a quick glance through all available methods in the API so you have an idea of what is available , what can and cannot be done etc. I would start with articles like this http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-twitterREST/index.html I would then Google 'twitter api example' or 'twitter api tutorial' and look for similar usage-based examples. Download some popular twitter api library in the language of your choice and cook up something... ~~~ Mohan Arun ~~~ -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk