I meant via this particular mechanism. On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:19, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On the contrary, you certainly *can* detect WHICH user is logged in. > See http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/twitter-hi-demo.html if you are logged > into the twitter website. Now imagine the site making another AJAX > call to store the user info into a database somewhere.... goodbye > anonymous surfing.... > > -Chad > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 >> >
-- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
