Jason, It is authenticated because the statuses/mentions timeline potentially includes protected updates. Making it unauthenticated is therefore not an option.
Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason, > statuses/mentions would contain this data, and it is available via search. > Let me bring this up with Alex, because you make a good point. > > Doug Williams > Twitter API Support > http://twitter.com/dougw > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Jason Wong <[email protected]>wrote: > >> As I see it, replies also contain @screen_name in them. There's already >> an API structure to find these items, via statuses/mentions. Is there a >> reason why it's restricted to only the authenticating user and not open to >> access a screen_name / user_id parameter? >> >> I can easily implement this if I keep everyone's authentication tokens and >> doing statuses/mentions and checking the in_reply_to_status_id. But it's not >> efficient and will have way too many hits against the twitter server. >> >> What do you guys think? >> >> Jason. >> >> >> Doug Williams wrote: >> >> It requires a non trivial change to our architecture which means that >> until the product at large (twitter.com) adopts the idea of conversation >> threads, the API will be unable to offer this feature. >> >> >> Doug Williams >> Twitter API Support >> http://twitter.com/dougw >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Zac Bowling <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I see the bug was closed as "WONTFIX". Would it not be possible for >>> search to get a param for in_reply_to_status_id? >>> >>> I'm not working on any twitter projects anymore but it could lead to >>> some very interesting clients. >>> >>> >>> Zac >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Please see http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 >>> > >>> > >>> > Doug Williams >>> > Twitter API Support >>> > http://twitter.com/dougw >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Jason Wong <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> I'm trying to find a way to get all replies to a certain status. >>> >> >>> >> I was looking at the statuses/mentions function, but according to the >>> >> documentation it only works with the authenticated user's screen_name. >>> >> If I use statuses/user_timeline and get a status id that I know has >>> >> replies, is there a way for me to get it without searching the >>> >> public_timeline and checking the in_reply_to_status_id field for that >>> >> status? It doesn't seem very efficient. >>> >> >>> >> Thanks, >>> >> Jason. >>> > >>> > >>> >> >> >
