I'll admit, I'm curious about this myself. Another example is authenticating to pull a user's friends feed. With the exception of protected users, why not allow that public information to be pulled out via the API? -----Original Message----- From: Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:23:04 To: Twitter Development Talk<[email protected]> Subject: Re: Why is authentication required to get follower info? On Dec 4, 3:46 pm, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yup! > But why? Is this done to encourage more people to sign up? Amir > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:39, Chad Etzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Nov 21, 6:41 pm, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Please see the documentation > >> > athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation. You need to > >> > provide HTTP Basic Auth credentials when requesting thefollowersof > >> > another user. > > >> But why? > > >> Amir > > > I'm guessing because this mimics the behavior of the twitter website > > itself. You cannot see another person's followers-list without being logged > > into your account first. > > My $0.02, > > -Chad > > >> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 15:31, Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > Hi, > > >> > > curlhttp://twitter.com/statuses/followers/amichail.rss > > >> > > yields > > >> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > >> > > <hash> > >> > > <request>/statuses/followers/amichail.rss</request> > >> > > <error>Could not authenticate you.</error> > >> > > </hash> > > >> > > Amir > > >> > -- > >> > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
