I've just played around with the user timeline to show data when the user is logged in (http://www.wait-till-i.com/2009/01/05/detecting-and- displaying-the-information-of-a-logged-in-twitter-user/, specifically http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/twitter-hi-demo.html).
This is pretty cool, and kudos to your security that when the user is not authenticated I get a popup to authenticate. However, this is the problem of the script. Is there an idea of allowing a "twitter status" API call that only would allow me to see if the current user is authenticated? It would be useful to build for example WordPress add-ons that only give twitter functionality when we know the user is authenticated. A boolean would do, really. Or turning off the automatic login request on the json and callback output and instead throw back an error. If I curl the user timeline I get this error, but not when I use the JSON callback. cheers chris
