Real soon now. We appreciate everyone's patience while we gradually ramp up traffic to lists to ensure we've got all our ducks in a row.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > +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 > -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
