Hi, We have an issue with some accounts being active for a brief while and then going dead. We are using the streaming API and the REST API for our application.
Streaming API doesn't notify me in any way, if the account I was following becomes dead. Example: http://twitter.com/warped09 - this existed till a few days back - now its dead. Is there some way you could give a status update on this event (account going dead), if its in our follow list? The REST API returns with a message that looks like this: {"request":"\/statuses\/user_timeline.json? screen_name=warped09&count=5","error":"This method requires authentication."} - the error message is completely irrelevant to the actual error of the account being dead. I verified - it isn't an authentication issue, I can get responses from valid accounts using the same program. Could you modify the error message to reflect the real error ? Or was this an one-off case? I need to design the application accordingly to realize that the account has been deleted / has become dead. Thanks, Lakshmi Naarayanan R -------------
