Sure can.  In fact, we gave people nine days notice for the change to
the response body of /account/verify_credentials.  But I don't predict
any more changes of this sort to the API in this "version", looking at
our list of outstanding issue requests.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 13:14, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That makes sense.
>
> In the mean time, can you give us some kind of heads up (ideally a
> couple days warning or something) if you are planning to make a change
> that could, as soon as it goes live, break an app?  So we can try to
> be ready for it when you flip the switch :)
>
> Thanks. Appreciate all that you're doing.
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> On Dec 11, 3:34 pm, "Alex Payne" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Versioning is a major part of the design of the next version of the
>> Twitter API (a rewrite, essentially).  We know it's been long since
>> missing from the API, and we're eager to fix that.  Making life hard
>> for developers definitely isn't our goal.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:05, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > The Twitter ecosystem has grown quite a bit, and a lot of users are
>> > relying on the API (and third party software) nowadays.
>>
>> > Small API changes can break these applications, and could possibly
>> > affect thousands of Twitter users.
>>
>> > I understand that the API will need to evolve - but can you please
>> > consider a versioning policy similar to:
>> >http://www.google.com/support/adwordsapi/bin/answer.py?answer=33152&t...
>>
>> > Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
>



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http://twitter.com/al3x

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