This is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks!
On Jan 5, 7:39 pm, "Alex Payne" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Seehttp://icant.co.uk/sandbox/twitter-hi-demo.htmlif 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
