The only reason I can think of is if he (or a library used by him) utilises just one string to hold the base URL.
Some compiled libraries might also come with URLs hardcoded. Not a major bother, but possibly inconvenient as he notes. On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't understand why it would be difficult to develop your app using > api.twitter.com/1 instead of twitter.com, it's just a minor url change > and will make your app as future proof as you can get until v1 is > deprecated. > > Sorry if I'm missing some big reason why. > > On Nov 26, 3:45 pm, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: > > In general, our recommendation is to use api.twitter.com/1 from here > > on out as we are beginning our transition of all our endpoints to the > > versioned api namespace. We don't know exact dates, but at some point > > we will deprecate accessing the API from twitter.com directly. > > > > On Nov 26, 2009, at 1:10 AM, bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I found new APIs use api.twitter.com instead of twitter.com > > > > > in some lists APIs > > > > >http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapi/team/members.xml > > > is the same as > > >http://twitter.com/1/twitterapi/team/members.xml > > > > > but some other lists API , for example > > > > >http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapi/lists/subscriptions.xml is ok > > > but > > >http://twitter.com/1/twitterapi/lists/subscriptions.xml > > > is not found > > > > > this's a bug? this problem is very unconvient for me to develop my app > -- Harshad RJ http://hrj.wikidot.com
