another way of stating is to wonder how you handle the mismatch of the number of tweets the home and mentions timeline receives. most people do not want to miss any results in the mentions timeline, but a lot of people do not mind missing tweets in the home timeline. if you mash the two together, how do you make sure to deal with that mismatch. how would you juggle the two since IDs that you may want to work with either? one idea could be to let clients use the home timeline and mentions timeline separately to "catch up" with real time, and then get them both from there on out...
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:47 AM, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: > I think the request is that @mentions are merged in with home_timeline. > There may be desktop clients that support this functionality, for all I > know. > > The risks are that some users receive a lot of @mentions, and their home > timelines would be unreadable. So, it would have to be an option. Secondly, > it would open another spam vector that would have to be addressed. We have > considered this feature on www, but I don't know whatever happened to the > idea. > > -John Kalucki > http://twitter.com/jkalucki > Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. > > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:24 AM, sh0w3r `uuuuuuh` <sho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 07/06/10 06:50, Raffi Krikorian wrote: >> >> i'm sorry, i'm not sure what you're asking. the mentions timeline has >> mentions information in it: >> http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/mentions >> >> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:12 PM, show3r <sho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> hi i want you to implement mention messages to appear in the timeline, >>> wont you think that would give the idea of twitter a boost? >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Raffi Krikorian >> Twitter Platform Team >> http://twitter.com/raffi >> >> no im asking, as i first hear of twitter, and the idea of public "im" >> messages, or timelines of life, and lifetime ... i thought i would be better >> to show the @ <- "at-messages" for example "@user_ralph" said that too, >> should appear in the timeline. >> >> at the moment you have to click the userfield on the right side @user_abc >> ... to search in twitter for all mention messages, cant you implement >> mentions in the basic timeline, as messages from user you follow? >> >> do you understand what i mean? >> > > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
