Hi Gonzalo,
There's no way to toggle between protected and unprotected account states
via the API -- the only valid way to change the setting is for the user to
do it of their own volition using a web browser while logged in to Twitter
-- any automation of the submission of that toggle state by
Hi Taylor,
Thanks for you fast and complete answer.
There is no way to set the protected state of a single tweet. Toggling
between the two account-level states effects all tweets issued by that
author and changing it for the purposes of a single tweet is inadvisable.
I would recommend that
As an aside to this thread... In regards to changing the status of an account
from public to private or vice versa, does this only affect the tweets coming
after the change or does it change the whole user's timeline past to present?
Similarly if an account was private and is toggled to public,
When the account is toggled to public, all the tweets are visible to anyone,
and can be indexed by any service. But they're not added to twitter's search
index. Only the tweets made with the account configured as public are
indexed by twitter search. Is the same for mentions.
So, if you change
