On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 20:42, Ivan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an idea I'd like to write about for the Tipjoy Twitter Payments > API http://tipjoy.com/APIcontest/ > > I'm blogging ideas as I have time to write them down here: > http://tipjoys2cents.blogspot.com/ > > The idea deals with protected updates. The service I have in mind > would benefit from an API endpoint to protect a twitter user's > updates. > > I don't see one on the wiki - is this possible? >
You can only turn on protection from the web interface. And it is all or nothing. Individual tweets can not be protected. > > Also, is it possible for a protected account to make a user unfollow > them? The friendship/destroy endpoint doesn't appear to enable this > from the protected account. > If protected user a unfollows user b then user b should not be able to see user a's tweets anymore. User b will still be following user a though. > > Could the user be blocked and then unblocked? That would make them > unfollow the protect account, and then move them to a normal state. I > think this is a hack and not the intended use of "block", but it would > probably work. > I've never tried it but my guess is the user would still be following the protected account after unblocking them. > > I'd like to avoid unfollowing from the following account because the > credentials could be changed or OAuth access revoked as a way of > avoiding follower removal. > > Thanks, > Ivan > http://tipjoy.com/twitter > > > -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
