so I can detect if a user is logged into twitter through /sessions/present.json ?
What would be the full URL for checking a username against it? ex: http://twitter.com/al3x/sessions/present.json On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > > We did an experiment with a partner of ours around this. It's not > currently an officially-supported API method, but check out > /sessions/present.json. It should support a callback and returns a > boolean. > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 07:49, Chris Heilmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. > http://twitter.com/al3x >
