> So basically every time a document or article is created or updated on > my web site I would create a twitter entry with the document or > article title and the url. > I will use, maybe, TinyUrl to make the url smaller ... Is this the > better option or should I use other service instead of TinyUrl?
You can use whichever service you think is reliable for your purposes. Tinyurl is fine, but there are plenty of others. > Then on my web site I would set a page to display a message "Document > removed" or "Article removed" every time the user follows a link in > twitter for a document or article that was deleted on the web site. Is > this what you mean? Yes. > What do you mean with "you cannot make up arbitrary status IDs as > keys"? > Isn't the status ID a key like in a database record? What should I do > then? No, what I mean is, you said in your original message: > > > My idea was to send the same Document ID or Article ID when I create > > > it in twitter. > > > But as far as I know Twitter uses INT as id and I am not even sure if > > > I can define ... You can't make up a key and send it to Twitter to make Twitter use that as a status ID. However, once you have a status ID back, then you can use that as a key for your own purposes if you like. > Twitter entries must be less than 140 characters? This means that my > document/article title and url must be together less than 140 > characters? Yes. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * [email protected] -- Silly is a state of mind, stupid is a way of life. -- Dave Butler ----------
