+1 to this Any news on when the rest of us devs can get access to this to work on our apps?
On Oct 28, 8:11 pm, Jesse Stay <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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
