[twitter-dev] Re: friends/ids JSON API

2010-10-26 Thread Alex B
/no_retweets/ids.json > - statuses/:status_id/retweeted_by/ids.json > > Thanks, > Taylor > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Alex B wrote: > > Will this be updating to the snowflake id strs workaround? Currently > > it delivers ints in an

[twitter-dev] friends/ids JSON API

2010-10-26 Thread Alex B
Will this be updating to the snowflake id strs workaround? Currently it delivers ints in an array. I'd like to propose a flag on all JSON API calls (? ids_as_strings=true) to deliver ids as strings instead of ints. This could apply to the cursor problem we saw earlier. -- Twitter developer docum

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume and freedom of speech

2010-08-21 Thread Alex B
I've run into this issue - Twitter could solve this by allowing XAuth to be used by web clients (with a policy about not abusing it), plus allowing any developer to use XAuth. On Aug 20, 2:34 am, artesea wrote: > Nearly all the users on my dabr install are Chinese and have found it > via word of

[twitter-dev] Adding and removing from Lists does not appear to be working

2010-07-28 Thread Alex B
Adding and Deleting members from lists appears to be silently failing. This issue also appears to impact the Twitter web interface. Is it just me seeing this bug? Is there any information on the issue?

[twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread Alex B
OK, it's a little confusing naming for display URL, as that implies that is what clients should show directly to the users, as most of the time I would imagine that field should be cut for brevity. The difference between having a ping service that can help twitter track clicks and a redirect servi

[twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread Alex B
What's the algorithm for the display url? Ideally it will be a predictable length, to aid predictability in tweet display code. If the motive is really to protect us from malicious URLs, what about giving a service we can call to route links through your protective redirect servers? Then we can gi