Re: A general status update from Twitter's API Team

2008-12-04 Thread Damon C
Hi Alex, Thanks for the updates - one of the things I noticed is that the archive API method was marked as wontfix. I was wondering what this means for the future of accessing our Twitter history? Is this just something where we won't be able to export it in one shot, but still have access to

Re: A general status update from Twitter's API Team

2008-12-04 Thread Alex Payne
Yup, until some other under-the-hood stuff changes, we can't really hand out a user's archive in a single request/response in a timely and database-friendly fashion. You'll still have to page through to get a user's full archive, but with effectively non-existent rate limits, this should be much

Re: A general status update from Twitter's API Team

2008-12-02 Thread Alex Payne
We'll keep the current version running for a stretch (probably six months tops) as developers transition over to the new version of the API. On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:33, Chad Etzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the update! For those of us doing current development with the API, will

Re: A general status update from Twitter's API Team

2008-12-02 Thread Christopher St John
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Additionally, Matt has been working with our User Experience (UX) team on a beta of OAuth support. The UX component of this work is almost complete, and we should be ready for our first deploy in the next week or ten days.

Re: A general status update from Twitter's API Team

2008-12-02 Thread Alex Payne
Sure, I'll talk to the UX folks about writing some of that up. OAuth is still in its early stages, and it seems most every organization that implements it ends up taking some slightly different paths. On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 13:03, Christopher St John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 2,