[twitter-dev] Invitations API
Dear Please Sir to Your Kindness, Please consider the following: Open the find friends function to developers. I.e. Developer can submit a bulk of email addresses of user to Twitter for purpose of friend matching. And while you're at it: Allow developers to subscribe new users to your service, also via API. It's like kids selling magazine subscriptions. It works. Finally: Get your asses out of the clouds. When these are done, please notify me.
[twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?
Are you saying the last thing twitter wants is for everybody creating valuable web content to tell/link twitter? If so, I have a company, and I'm looking for investors. On Jan 26, 10:05 am, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote: If they allow create accounts from API then this is what's going to happend: All leading online forum software will implement an option to create new twitter account for a new forum. So if you run an online forum like vbulletin, you can have 100 forums, thus 100 accounts on twitter. This means that every post make to just about every forum on the Internet will end up on twitter. This will add thousands, tens on thousands of updates per second to twitter. I don't know if they really want it. For the forum owner this may be great - more traffic to their forums, for end user also an extra way to follow his favorite forums. I am sure if Twitter allows account creation from API, all major forum and blog/CMS makers will jump right it. On Jan 26, 10:34 am, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Strictly speaking, there is an API of sorts to create accounts, but limited to certain partners. Citysearch is using it IIRC. Although it would be great for mobile clients because there isn't a nice mobile web page to create an account so it takes a PC to get started for new users. Seen a note on it on those leaked twitter docs on techcrunch a while back, so the twitter guys have been thinking about it. On Jan 26, 2010 5:01 AM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/25/2010 8:55 PM, Johnny Honestly wrote: Twitter is a messenger system. They want people to ... I'm not talking about an API registration, what I'm talking about is either a new URL or a modification of the current URL that allows the user to allow an app where if the person isn't a twitter user it will let them become one, then go back, register the app, and return.
[twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?
I was just thinking about the very same topic as the OP. I think Twitter (and other service APIs) would do well to let the Third Party register users on their behalf. You'll see. @mostmodernist On Jan 25, 12:58 pm, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/25/2010 10:19 AM, Jaanus wrote: There are ways to limit abuse for account creation with API-s if they really wanted to (rate limiting, captchas etc). But notice that very few (AFAIK no) players on the web who use openID or OAuth actually let you create an account with any API. In my view, rightly so. Notice that if you use OAuth, account creation is a natural part of the flow when the user gets redirected to twitter.com. They can create an account at that point if they don't yet have one. But will it end up redirecting the person at the end of the account creation process?
[twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?
Twitter is a messenger system. They want people to use the system. They also want the people to make of the service what they will. If they opened it up and made affiliates out of developers and producers, they would have a free marketing force beyond the twiddle celeb fetish factor. If they made API reg, for instance, every new wordpress sign up could simultaneously become a new twitter user. On Jan 25, 7:02 pm, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/25/2010 5:14 PM, Johnny Honestly wrote: I was just thinking about the very same topic as the OP. I think Twitter (and other service APIs) would do well to let the Third Party register users on their behalf. You'll see. @mostmodernist From a spam twitter (swit?) perspective I can understand not wanting to open up registration of new accounts to an automated status. Perhaps an alternative would be to create a register and return oAuth URL that lets the user sign up for an account and allow the application authorization access at the same time. But even if this is not possible I don't think this is too much of an extra step.
