I am not sure how beneficial this would really be. Versioning from what I understand is for changes to the API that might break applications that have not yet updated. It wouldn't really provide any security against bugs/quirks in Twitter's backend which can cause downtime. So even older versions might be affected just as much as newer versions because down under they both use the same code, its just exposed differently from version to version.
I have no idea how things work under the covers so maybe this could work. I'd take any security against down time I can get. :) Josh On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > The yo-yo ride of the retweet API gave me this idea. It depends on > proper versioning of the API by Twitter. > > Twitter creates an API call that returns the current working API > version. We query that method and use that version of the API for our > calls. > > If something goes down, Twitter simply pushes out the version number > of an older API version, which is still working correctly. Our systems > will then automatically fall back to using that older version, until > Twitter again pushes out the new version number when it's back online. > > Dewald > > >
