You can't find out WHICH user is logged in, just that *a* user is logged in. We feel that minimizes the privacy risks.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:16, Peter Denton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
