Well ok then :) issue submitted: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=235
Please go star it to add your vote. return Chad; On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, dougw <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was agreeing with you that there is value here and that it hasn't > been brought up in conversation. > > Users have asked for a way to know when to stop paging through > @replies and the count value would alleviate some of the concerns I've > seen on this board over the current "iterate-until-you-step-off-the- > end" method of finding the last page. Additionally, a cached count > value is understandably valuable in it's own right, which is why the > other two timelines have it. > > In my first response, by user_timeline I meant friends_timeline. But > thinking a little harder I realize that this number could be of little > real world use for most users so you can ignore my mumbling. > > In other news, I'd like you to move forward with the request, because > it's a feature I could use. > > On Jan 15, 11:37 am, "Chad Etzel" <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, dougw <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Chad, >> > I haven't seen anything of the sort but since @replies are just >> > another user specific timeline, perhaps the issue is more with a >> > "count" value being returned with each user timeline over just this >> > specific timeline. >> >> Can you rephrase that? I'm afraid I didn't understand that sentence at all >> :( >> >> >> >> > There has been quite a few discussions that would have been alleviated >> > (pagination, etc...) that would have been resolved if every user >> > timeline were returned with a count value as well. I can see the value >> > extending this idea to all user timelines, can you? >> >> user_timeline already does support "count". so does friends_timeline. >> Even though it isn't explicitly stated, it seems to be working with >> sent and received direct message calls as well. Just seemed odd to me >> that Replies didn't have it. >> >> -Chad >> >> >> >> > @dougw >> >> > On Jan 15, 9:35 am, "Chad Etzel" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I see that the current Replies API call does not support a "count" >> >> parameter. I will open an issue for this, but wanted to double check >> >> this hadn't been discussed/submitted before even though I searched the >> >> issues and group archives. >> >> >> -Chad
