+1 on the additional parameter to optionally request the data. Every byte counts for mobile device battery life and download time.
--Naveen Ayyagari @knight9 On May 13, 8:13 pm, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Raffi, > > This is all good, but can you please make the inclusion in the tweet > payload optional? Meaning, only include it if it is requested by an > additional parameter? > > I, and I'm sure a lot of others, are already parsing the tweet text. > This is just going to consume additional bandwidth and not add any > value for us. It will add value for folks who are not already doing > the parsing or don't know how. So, they can just request this > additional payload.
