On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Chris Latko <ch...@latko.org> wrote: > Excuse my ignorance on this, but aren't you forced to use either an > authenticated or unauthenticated call depending on the API method? If > this is the case, then you really don't have an option on how these > calls are made.
I don't think you're "forced" to do unauthenticated calls on any API. There are some that require authentication, like direct messages and some that fall into an ambiguous position due the public/non-public tweets. E.g., if a user have a protected timeline, you need to be authenticated to request the user_timeline of that user; otherwise, doing an unauthenticated request will work fine. Mentions probably fall in the same category (you can get some mentions using the search API, but it won't return protected updates.) -- Julio Biason <julio.bia...@gmail.com> Twitter: http://twitter.com/juliobiason
