[twitter-dev] Re: Friendship.create is confusing
Gary, Alex wrote this a while back and it suddenly seems relevant [1]. [1] - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Migrating-to-followers-terminology Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Gary Zhao garyz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I'm sort of confused with this API. On twitter.com, my understanding is a friend is someone you follow. However, there is a parameter follow for this API. That means he/she can be your friend, but you don't follow. What does this mean? A friend you don't follow is what? Another question is when you use Notification.follow API, will the user specified becomes your friend automatically? Or is it possible that you follow someone who's not your friend? Thanks -- Gary
[twitter-dev] Re: Friendship.create is confusing
Follower is clear (someone you follow) Friend is (kinda) clear if you know what Follower means (If a Follower is someone who follows you, then a Friend must be someone you follow.) I understand the desire to move away from the term Friend as Someone You Follow (as it can be confusing) but what's the better word for it? Has anyone come up with one? Followees isn't it but it's as close as I've come. Attention Getters (those who get my attention) vs Attention Givers (those who give their attention to me) would be another way of putting it, but both seem too long :-) TjL
[twitter-dev] Re: Friendship.create is confusing
Things still confusing. As per the article, The New Terminology Things are now decidedly simpler: you follow other users, and other users follow you. You can turn notifications on and off on a per-user basis. So looks like Friendship.create is to follow someone and Notification.follow is to turn on notifications. My question is what turn on/off means. I found the only option on twitter.com is to follow/unfollow a user. Can I follow a user but turn off notifications? or it can only be done in program? What's your suggestion if I want to simply follow a person. Friendship.create and Notification.follow, which one should I use? Thanks Gary On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Gary, Alex wrote this a while back and it suddenly seems relevant [1]. [1] - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Migrating-to-followers-terminology Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Gary Zhao garyz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I'm sort of confused with this API. On twitter.com, my understanding is a friend is someone you follow. However, there is a parameter follow for this API. That means he/she can be your friend, but you don't follow. What does this mean? A friend you don't follow is what? Another question is when you use Notification.follow API, will the user specified becomes your friend automatically? Or is it possible that you follow someone who's not your friend? Thanks -- Gary -- Gary
[twitter-dev] Re: Friendship.create is confusing
To simply follow a person, use friendships create. Notifications are for toggling notifications (updates from a particular user) on/off to the authenticated user's SMS device. Chris Thomson http://twitter.com/chris24 On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Gary Zhao garyz...@gmail.com wrote: Things still confusing. As per the article, The New Terminology Things are now decidedly simpler: you follow other users, and other users follow you. You can turn notifications on and off on a per-user basis. So looks like Friendship.create is to follow someone and Notification.follow is to turn on notifications. My question is what turn on/off means. I found the only option on twitter.com is to follow/unfollow a user. Can I follow a user but turn off notifications? or it can only be done in program? What's your suggestion if I want to simply follow a person. Friendship.create and Notification.follow, which one should I use? Thanks Gary On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Gary, Alex wrote this a while back and it suddenly seems relevant [1]. [1] - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Migrating-to-followers-terminology Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Gary Zhao garyz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I'm sort of confused with this API. On twitter.com, my understanding is a friend is someone you follow. However, there is a parameter follow for this API. That means he/she can be your friend, but you don't follow. What does this mean? A friend you don't follow is what? Another question is when you use Notification.follow API, will the user specified becomes your friend automatically? Or is it possible that you follow someone who's not your friend? Thanks -- Gary -- Gary
[twitter-dev] Re: Friendship.create is confusing
Why not categorize them in three roles?I would rather consider a friend is whom you are following and he/she follows you as well. For example, if someone I follow but he doesn't follow me, I can't send direct messages to him. How can I consider him as a friend? A friend should be someone you can communicate with without boundaries. Make sense? On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: Follower is clear (someone you follow) Friend is (kinda) clear if you know what Follower means (If a Follower is someone who follows you, then a Friend must be someone you follow.) I understand the desire to move away from the term Friend as Someone You Follow (as it can be confusing) but what's the better word for it? Has anyone come up with one? Followees isn't it but it's as close as I've come. Attention Getters (those who get my attention) vs Attention Givers (those who give their attention to me) would be another way of putting it, but both seem too long :-) TjL -- Gary http://twitter.com/garyzhao
