Two features and five fixes were deployed today, 2009-06-25:
* Feature (REST): Added screen_name and user_id attributes to
direct_messages/new for disambiguation
- Issue: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=550
- Documentation:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-direct_messages%C2%A0new
* Feature (REST): Added new friendships/show method (issue 474,
documentation)
- Issue: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=474
- Documentation:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friendships-show
* Fixed (REST): Partially fixed issue with tiling background images
via the API
- Issue: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=650
- Note: This was part one. There is a second part to complete the
fix that is expected this week. The issue will be updated.
* Fixed (OAuth): Added a more helpful error message when you try to
use a request token in place of an access token.
- Error Text: "Request token must be exchanged for an access
token before use"
* Fixed (OAuth): Improved error handling when invalid data is
submitted in place of a token.
- The generic HTTP 500 should now be replaced with a message that
the token was not found
* Fixed (REST): The JSON returned in maintenance mode now correctly
contains null rather than NULL
- Issue: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=703
* Fixed (Mail): Improved outbound email reliability (for apps
parsing DM/friend emails)
- Improved some retry logic related to transient errors such as
timeouts.
As always we've updated the change log at
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Changelog
Thanks;
– Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
Twitter Dev
