I can confirm this too, the lists are not being created without a
description

On Nov 19, 4:13 am, Naveen <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are seeing this issue as well..
>
> We create a list 
> with:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-POST-lists
>
> This is returning all valid data with an id for the list, which
> indicates it was successfully created..
>
> However when we try to get status for the list it is returning 404
>
> Then we try to get the lists using
>
> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-GET-lists
>
> And it is not returned in the result, the newly created list is also
> not on the twitter website..
>
> however if we include the description parameter(with empty content)
> the list is created and returns expected data and does show up on the
> twitter website..
>
> There is a bug here...  The work around is to just include an empty
> description field, which should not break anything in the future
> either.
>
> On Nov 18, 8:08 pm, Marcel Molina <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > The description parameter is not required to create a list.
>
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:57 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I've been using the List api in my app, and just noticed that the POST
> > > method to /:user/lists.:format returned the correct response, but
> > > didn't actually create a list.
>
> > > I've been following this api 
> > > document:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-POST-lists
>
> > > What I did notice was that the Add New List ui on Twitter.com has a
> > > description field, and so I tried the same call with an additional
> > > post param "description", and it worked.
>
> > > The description param can be empty, but it is required to make this
> > > call work.  Might be a bug?
>
> > > Just a heads up for anyone who might be wondering.
>
> > > DC
>
> > --
> > Marcel Molina
> > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio

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