The Streaming API does not currently offer social graph changes. This is an often requested feature.
-John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 8, 2:31 pm, Narayan <lakshminaarayana...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -------------
