Re: [twitter-dev] Re: It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?
I fully blame Twitter. They got us all hooked by being agreeable and easy going then we go and get all huffy over little things. :-P Abraham On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 16:03, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > > You don't have to have respect for third-party developers -- it's your > > site and you can do as you like -- but common sense should tell you > > that it behooves you to at least *try* to hide your contempt. > > I think I'm known for now and then directing a flame thrower in the > direction of the Twitter folks, sometimes out of frustration and > sometimes because wearing a diplomat's pants give me a serious wedgie. > > Despite that, I have never felt that Twitter has contempt for the > developers. > -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?
> You don't have to have respect for third-party developers -- it's your > site and you can do as you like -- but common sense should tell you > that it behooves you to at least *try* to hide your contempt. I think I'm known for now and then directing a flame thrower in the direction of the Twitter folks, sometimes out of frustration and sometimes because wearing a diplomat's pants give me a serious wedgie. Despite that, I have never felt that Twitter has contempt for the developers.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?
Quoting Caliban Darklock : On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jeffrey Friedl wrote: Not doing so is just another way you show that you have no respect for third-party developers, essentially telling them to get lost. I find it terribly ironic when people complain that it is somehow "contempt" when a company does not document - 100% accurately - every last minute detail of its freely available and actively maintained API for third party developers. In my book, "contempt" is when they do not have one in the first place. +1000 - I've never worked with a company as easy to work with as Twitter! -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net/ I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jeffrey Friedl wrote: > > Not doing so is just another way you show that you have no respect for > third-party developers, essentially telling them to get lost. I find it terribly ironic when people complain that it is somehow "contempt" when a company does not document - 100% accurately - every last minute detail of its freely available and actively maintained API for third party developers. In my book, "contempt" is when they do not have one in the first place.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?
> > we do, however, have this pagehttp:// > apiwiki.twitter.com/Counting-Charactersthat we put up a month ago > > that explains how to count your characters correctly and to help define > what > > twitter means by "140". > > But can't you at least update the official API docs (where developers > look for the final word on things)? > Not doing so is just another way you show that you have no respect for > third-party developers, essentially telling them to get lost. > where would you like me to put that information? its linked off the http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ page since we wrote it? proactively, i'm changing the "statuses over 140 characters" on the status/update page to link to that page as well. > You don't have to have respect for third-party developers -- it's your > site and you can do as you like -- but common sense should tell you > that it behooves you to at least *try* to hide your contempt. > i'm not going to bother responding to this one, except to say that i'm at home, stuck in bed with a nasty cold, and i'm still monitoring the mailing list to see if i can help developers out :P -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?
> we do, however, have this > pagehttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Counting-Charactersthat we put up a month ago > that explains how to count your characters correctly and to help define what > twitter means by "140". But can't you at least update the official API docs (where developers look for the final word on things)? Not doing so is just another way you show that you have no respect for third-party developers, essentially telling them to get lost. You don't have to have respect for third-party developers -- it's your site and you can do as you like -- but common sense should tell you that it behooves you to at least *try* to hide your contempt.
