Let me boil it down to the simplest case.
I have a protected account that I want to use to provide notifications
to my users (but only my users). I have oauth completely set up to
let my users authorize me to their twitter accounts. I can then make
their twitter account follow me. Except, since I'm protected, that
following request isn't honored until I accept the pending follow
requests. Currently there is no 'friendships/accept' type API method
so I have effectively done nothing until a human presses the accept
button.
So since this isn't going to work any time soon via the api, am I
likely to get myself banned if I write a bot that periodically logs in
and 'clicks' the accept all pending follower requests link that I as a
human can see? And by periodically I think I mean once an hour or
less.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Taylor Singletary
taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote:
The breadth of functionality we have right now is, unfortunately:
GET friendships/incoming http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/friendships/incoming
GET friendships/outgoing http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/friendships/outgoing
and the rest of the friendship methods on the API.
Now, there may be a way to use these methods in combination with each other
to accomplish your goals, but I haven't yet connected the dots to ascertain
that. I can take a close look, or if someone else on the list has more
experience in this arena, they might have a suggestion.
Otherwise, I'd recommend going on with your workaround. The v1 API is going
to be around for awhile, and I don't think we have this feature on our
immediate roadmap; that said, sometimes a new feature that's been requested
like this just pops up. We'll announce when/if that happens.
Taylor
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Robert Van Dam rvanda...@gmail.com wrote:
Then perhaps I should ask my real question. I'm working on a system
for broadcasting messages to subsets of our users and we have set up
separate accounts for each subset. However, the company I work for
does not want these tweets to be fully public (they are not overly
sensitive but nonetheless...) but if I make the accounts protected,
then I can not automatically have our customers follow us since there
is no function in the api for accepting pending friend requests.
So my two options are to make a human login and periodically click the
'Accept all' link on several different accounts or I can write a bot
to do it (which I'm sure someone will tell me is a bad idea). I
noticed that there were a couple bug reports about this issue but they
were closed with links to the now apparently defunct V2-Roadmap page
and obviously no solution in the last two years since the first bug
was filed.
Is there any chance this functionality will be coming to the api any
time soon or will I be forced to code around it indefinitely?
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Taylor Singletary
taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi Rob,
Over time the v2 Roadmap became less and less relevant. We're currently
rethinking what V2 might look like with fresh eyes.
Taylor
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Rob rvanda...@gmail.com wrote:
I've seen many references to http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap,
particularly with regards to a current api issue I have (accepting
pending follow requests on protected accounts) but when I go to that
page I get a mostly empty page that just says You don't have
permission to look at V2 Roadmap. Is that intentional and if so is
there some place I can go to request access? I don't see any obvious
way to signup and login into the necessary workspace on pbwiki.
