Maybe a little more appropriate to post this to a private list (no pun intended) for beta users? I admit I feel a little jealous every time I see one of these updates, unless there's some way to get into the beta.
Thanks, Jesse On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Marcel Molina <mar...@twitter.com> wrote: > > Two additions and two changes to the List API will be deployed in the > next few days: > > * List descriptions > We're adding a description to every list. You'll be able to specify a > description when you create or update a list and the description will > be included in the payload. > > * Cursoring through lists of lists > All resources that return a list of lists will include next and > previous cursors and will accept a :cursor parameter. > > * Finding by list id rather than slug > When you change the name of a list, the slug will be updated to > reflect that change. That means using the slug in the url for > resources to operate on lists requires the onerous task of validating > that the slug for the list you are about to do something with hasn't > been updated since the last time you stored its slug. What a nightmare > :-) > > Every list also has an id. This value won't change. We'll be changing > the API to replace all instances of a list slug in urls to be list ids > instead. > > * Consistent names > The terminology we've used thus far for people you follow with a list > is members. The terminology for people who are following a list is > subscribers. We're going to mirror the terminology used for users and > change it to followers and following respectively. > > So: > > /:user/lists/:list_id/memberships becomes /:user/lists/:list_id/followers > > /:user/lists/:list_id/subscribers becomes /:user/lists/:list_id/following > > As we deploy these changes we'll send out a heads up on the dev list > and @twitterapi. > > -- > Marcel Molina > Twitter Platform Team > http://twitter.com/noradio > > > >
