Hi, While writing the Api for my client I came across an inconsistency in the XML API and I would like to ask, if this is deliberate or accidental.
The API documentation suggests to use the "since_id" parameter to lessen the load on the servers. That worked fine when using the "friends_timeline" method (XML URL: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml), but when I tried using it for the direct_messages feed (http:// twitter.com/direct_messages.xml), I got an unexpected result, when I requested the feed with a "since_id" parameter that generated an empty list of responses. The friends_timeline returns an empty array with the right tag (although it is not quite correctly formed), as expected: <statuses type="array"></statuses> But the direct_messages method uses a totally different tag (again not correctly formed): <nilclasses type="array"></nilclasses> I would have expected the following result: <direct-messages type="array" /> or <direct-messages type="array"></direct-messages> Thanks for looking into this. -Robert
