> % It's probably easy to create a twitter-to-email bidirectional > gateway. Has someone already done this?
Yup. Google is quite a thing. > % Twitter pushes DMs to my email address, which is cool, especially > since I can pipe the email to whatever I want. Can I force Twitter to > push REPLIES and friends_timeline to me w/o having to poll for them? Nope. DMs are infrequent. Replies and general public messages are insanely frequent. > % Twitter lets you follow 2000 people before imposing limits. But if > you follow 1900, unfollow them all and follow 1900 different people, > it looks like you hit the 110% limit instead. Anyone else experienced > this? I hope so, because that's intentional. We don't want people "churning" their following list. The people who do are usually "marketers", to put it politely. > % Whats the difference between /leave/ and /destroy/? Does one imply > the other? Leave turns off notifications. Destroy stops following entirely. > % Can the API tell me *when* I started following someone or vica versa? Not at present, but it's a frequently requested change and we'll try to include it. The more per-user information we add to the API, the harder it is to cache efficiently and deliver timely, compact responses. > % DMs have their own numbering scheme different from regular > tweets. Why? More importantly, how can I attach a unique integer to > each tweet, regardless of whether its a DM or not? Every tweet has a unique ID. Every DM has a unique ID. Every user has a unique ID. Every object in our system has a unique ID. > % What API call gives me the current twitter time? Or should we just > assume that twitter's synced up to NIST? We try to be. Our servers are all on GMT, regardless of their physical location's timezone. > % What other micro-blogging services have a SOAP/REST interface? Dunno about SOAP, but Identi.ca/Laconica has a REST interface that intentionally mirrors ours. > % Twitter is clearly using a MySQL server (clustered) to store all > this info. Could someone just give me the server name and a read-only > username/password? KIDDING! :) *shifty-eyes* -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
