Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Contributor API

2009-12-16 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi duane. i'm not personally familiar with all the nuances about how this feature is going to be rolled out -- i ran it by a few people, and here are the responses. again, this feature will be available, in some form, to everybody, however, our expectation is that business users and business

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Contributor API

2009-12-15 Thread Duane Roelands
The blog post says that this will be launched to all business users and ecosystem partners which would seem to imply that it's not going to be launched for the entire userbase. 1. Is Twitter planning to charge money for this feature? 2. If so, how does that affect developers? Is this going to

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Contributor API

2009-12-14 Thread Justyn
Hi Raffi, Curious how the contributors will be associated? Will it essentially be linking accounts? Presumably then the user would identify in an app which account to post an update to based on those accounts they have been associated as contributors to? So, a contribution would originate from a

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Contributor API

2009-12-14 Thread Zac Bowling
I'm curious about rate limiting and what impact this has. Which account gets rate limited basically. Zac Bowling On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Justyn justyn.how...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Raffi, Curious how the contributors will be associated? Will it essentially be linking accounts?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Contributor API

2009-12-14 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi zac. we have not yet rectified this, but, as it currently stands, the contributor (in the case of my example, @raffi) gets the deduction from his or her rate limit. to try to anticipate your next question, the account holder (@twitter) only has a set number of people he or she can invite to

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Contributor API

2009-12-14 Thread Justyn
That's exactly what I was wondering, helps for planning. Thanks Raffi! On Dec 14, 11:14 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: what we have not yet exposed is the invitation or linking step - but, you are mostly correct.  to carry on with my example, @twitter would invite @raffi to