I was thinking something similar but I think it would probably have to
work something like:

http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline_number.format and a
since_id parameter (this would give you the number of messages since
message with that id)
<number_of_statuses>#</number_of_statuses>

Or for direct messages:
http://twitter.com/direct_message_number.format + since_id
<number_of_direct-messages>#</number_of_direct-messages>

etc...

These would be useful for letting a user know how many unread messages
they have, or for an app just starting up to get an idea of how much
data they'll need to download & have aprox. enough info to create a
progress bar.


On May 30, 4:09 am, jmathai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has there been any consideration to exposing the # of direct messages
> remaining for a user via an authenticated call?

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