[twitter-dev] Are IDs globally unique? Or just unique for each object type?

2010-09-03 Thread Colin Howe
Are IDs globally unique? Or just unique for each object type? In other words, is it possible to have a user with the ID 7 and also a DM with the ID 7? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi

[twitter-dev] Re: Are IDs globally unique? Or just unique for each object type?

2010-09-03 Thread Colin Howe
Cool. Thanks for the help :) On Sep 3, 2:16 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Unique for each object type. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Colin Howe colintheh...@googlemail.comwrote: Are IDs globally unique? Or just unique for each object type? In other words

[twitter-dev] Response format details?

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Howe
Hi, I can't find any documentation on the response format for anything that returns tweets. E.g. http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/mentions Is there any documentation of what the response looks like and what each field means? Specifically, I'm looking for information on when

[twitter-dev] Twitter API Timeouts

2011-02-28 Thread Colin Howe
Hi, We've started seeing the API drop a lot of our requests. No error, no response at all. Is this a known issue or is it a change I should have been aware of? Cheers, Colin -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:

[twitter-dev] How to get retweets of me

2011-07-07 Thread Colin Howe
Hello, I've just come across the statuses/retweets_of_me part of the API. However, that isn't as useful as I first thought. I'd like to get the 20 most recent retweets of me - ignoring when I posted the original tweet. The statuses/retweets_of_me won't return a retweet of me if the original tweet