I posted the following a few days ago. Since then, in just the past day or so, I'm seeing additional *new* issues with the favorites info. The favorites count shown for a user, e.g. via twurl /1/show/<username>.xml is now very inaccurate-- so much so that I'm wondering if different user's information is getting pulled up instead. For example, with my account the number of favs is ~1042 lower than the actual number, which was correctly reported as recently as a couple days ago. When I check random status posts that I know should be favorited for me, they still are. (So, as with the issue I reported below, both issues might be related to how information is being served up, rather than the actual database information being changed)
On Oct 18, 9:51 am, AJ <amy.j.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have noticed an apparent bug with the REST favorites API which seems > to have just started a few days ago, I think around the 12th or 13th > Oct. > > I am working on an app which amongst other things archives a user's > favorites. > Periodically, the app pages through older pages of favorites to see if > any tweets further back in the stream are now favorited, and to see if > any older favs have been unfavorited. > > e.g. /1/favorites.xml?page=20 (as an authenticated user) > > It appears that only about every other actually favorited tweet is > being returned from these requests. This is new behaviour-- it worked > correctly last week. Because the app has the older tweets stored, it > detects those that are missing from the API response sequence. It is > typically about 10 out of 20 missing, typically ~every other one. > > However, if I check the actual 'missing' favs individually, they do > indicate that the authenticated user has favorited them. So it > appears that Twitter still considers the missing tweets favorited by > the user, but the API is not serving them all up any more, only about > half of them. > > This bug doesn't appear to manifest with 'newer' favs (e.g. the first > retrieved page seems okay). > > -Amy -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
