[twitter-dev] API and web UI differ on access to protected users' friends

[Terry Jones]

This seems inconsistent:

The API docs (http://bit.ly/TVwXI) state that to successfully call
/statuses/friends on a protected user, you must authenticate and be allowed
to see the user.  OTOH, twitter.com lets you see the friends/followers list
of protected users if you're simply logged in - no need to be granted
access by the user.

Terry

Re: [twitter-dev] API and web UI differ on access to protected users' friends

[Raffi Krikorian]

hi - this is being tracked on the google code tracker (and owned by me).
 please feel free to star the issue!

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Terry Jones te...@jon.es wrote:

 This seems inconsistent:

 The API docs (http://bit.ly/TVwXI) state that to successfully call
 /statuses/friends on a protected user, you must authenticate and be allowed
 to see the user.  OTOH, twitter.com lets you see the friends/followers
 list
 of protected users if you're simply logged in - no need to be granted
 access by the user.

 Terry




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