Hi J,
We have an issue tracker and enhancements list which I think you should add
this to. To other subscribers to the list, if you think this is a feature
you would like to see us work on please 'star' it on the issue tracker.
The issue tracker can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
Matt
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Jaanus jaa...@gmail.com wrote:
This is a request to the Twitter API team but rather than sending it
in private, I'm posting it here so others can chime in too.
Tweets are 140 characters. But sometimes Twitter decides that some
content is interesting enough to annotate with graphical icons on
Twitter.com. Examples are red ribbon/aids that I think happened a
while ago, and now during World Cup, the #worldcup hashtag gets a
football icon and all the #country 3-letter abbreviations get a flag.
These things happen quickly and spontaneously enough inside Twitter
that it's not possible or necessary to coordinate with dev community
beforehand. I appreciate that, and that's perfectly fine. But perhaps
you can send developers this data as metadata, so should the apps opt
in to displaying these, they could do that too? You already have two
mechanisms in place for this that you could utilize — the entities
where you transmit the URLs and hashtags, and of course annotations.
Could we have these icons transmitted as part of either of these
mechanisms? And maybe you can standardize the height or size so we
could consider it in our UI layouts?
J
cremeapp.com
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Matt Harris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris
