Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
If user is no longer the same user as the one that posted status id , then the link http://twitter.com//statuses/ would no longer be valid (as the NEW user is not the owner of the status id). On Jan 30, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Actually i can't. For example, i get some link like http://twitter.com/AAA/statuses/11, for the message that was posted month ago. I can't be sure if the current user AAA has the same guid as the AAA month ago. If i had the link like http://twitter.com/redirect?id=111status=222 i would be sure that it's the same user and the same status for that user. Ivan. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Michael Ivey michael.i...@gmail.com wrote: You could do this internally in your application, using statuses/ show to make sure you have the correct user info before redirecting. -- ivey On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter- user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user dd d changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two link s should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
Oh, no! I haven't found it! I added comment in my issue that it's duplicate, but i don't know how to close it. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Andy Freeman ana...@earthlink.net wrote: Argh! I opened such a feature request late last November AND you commented on it late last December. See http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1242 . On Jan 30, 11:17 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: There does not appear to be. You could open an feature request and maybe Twitter will augment ithttp://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry. Abraham On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:06, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud |http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- 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- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
I would also argue that, at the time of status whomever owned the account was the one that actually made the post...so it doesn't really matter who is controlling right now...they are associated with the history of the account, because, well it's a history. As an aside though, is there really that much username changing going on? I would think it's more likely an account goes idle or dead than gets transferred to another user...and for the most part this feels like a discussion about designing a system to scale to handle a kabillion users when it's not even clear yet if 10 users would actually use the service... Don't sweat the edge cases so much, fear will paralyze you...it's better to be 'completely broken' for a small percentage of people than to not exist for anyone... Just my two cents ;-) - Kevin On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: If user is no longer the same user as the one that posted status id , then the link http://twitter.com//statuses/ would no longer be valid (as the NEW user is not the owner of the status id). On Jan 30, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Actually i can't. For example, i get some link like http://twitter.com/AAA/statuses/11, for the message that was posted month ago. I can't be sure if the current user AAA has the same guid as the AAA month ago. If i had the link like http://twitter.com/redirect?id=111status=222 i would be sure that it's the same user and the same status for that user. Ivan. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Michael Ivey michael.i...@gmail.com wrote: You could do this internally in your application, using statuses/show to make sure you have the correct user info before redirecting. -- ivey On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
Yeap. But. 1. I have incorrect URL, that i can't use immediately. I mean for the every URL i can't be sure that guid is not changed for this username, so i can't be sure that every URL is correct. So for each URL 2. I have to find out the correct link with the help of 3. One or several request to the twitter API 4. If that URL is already in my database, i have to replace it with the new one, or better search for all records with this URL and replace old URL with the new one. It's unacceptable price for the absence of just one additional (and very chip for the twitter) functionality in the API. Ivan. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: If user is no longer the same user as the one that posted status id , then the link http://twitter.com//statuses/ would no longer be valid (as the NEW user is not the owner of the status id). On Jan 30, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Actually i can't. For example, i get some link like http://twitter.com/AAA/statuses/11, for the message that was posted month ago. I can't be sure if the current user AAA has the same guid as the AAA month ago. If i had the link like http://twitter.com/redirect?id=111status=222 i would be sure that it's the same user and the same status for that user. Ivan. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Michael Ivey michael.i...@gmail.com wrote: You could do this internally in your application, using statuses/show to make sure you have the correct user info before redirecting. -- ivey On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
I starred 1412 and commented on 1242 that they're basically the same. On Jan 30, 11:46 pm, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, no! I haven't found it! I added comment in my issue that it's duplicate, but i don't know how to close it. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Andy Freeman ana...@earthlink.net wrote: Argh! I opened such a feature request late last November AND you commented on it late last December. Seehttp://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1242. On Jan 30, 11:17 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: There does not appear to be. You could open an feature request and maybe Twitter will augment ithttp://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry. Abraham On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:06, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud |http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- 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- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
There does not appear to be. You could open an feature request and maybe Twitter will augment it http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry. Abraham On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:06, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- 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: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
Argh! I opened such a feature request late last November AND you commented on it late last December. See http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1242 . On Jan 30, 11:17 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: There does not appear to be. You could open an feature request and maybe Twitter will augment ithttp://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry. Abraham On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:06, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud |http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- 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- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
You could do this internally in your application, using statuses/show to make sure you have the correct user info before redirecting. -- ivey On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
Thanks a lot, Abraham! I've created it. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1412 Ivan. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: There does not appear to be. You could open an feature request and maybe Twitter will augment it http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry. Abraham On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:06, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- 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
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
Actually i can't. For example, i get some link like http://twitter.com/AAA/statuses/11, for the message that was posted month ago. I can't be sure if the current user AAA has the same guid as the AAA month ago. If i had the link like http://twitter.com/redirect?id=111status=222 i would be sure that it's the same user and the same status for that user. Ivan. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Michael Ivey michael.i...@gmail.com wrote: You could do this internally in your application, using statuses/show to make sure you have the correct user info before redirecting. -- ivey On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
