On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:16 PM, tom <tsma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, just one example is searching twitter. If you want to search for
> tweets that mention a particular url, you need all of the short urls
> used for that destination url. Obviously there are more url shorteners
> than just bit.ly but bit.ly is the most used. Without having a way of
> getting all user hashes for a global hash, you would need to index
> every tweet with a bit.ly link, store it in your own database and run
> it through the bit.ly /expand api method so that you can have a
> references of all bit.ly links used for a single destination url.
> Doing something like that is a serious undertaking and extremely
> inefficient, whereas being able to request all of the user hashes for
> a global hash of a destination url *when it's needed* saves everyone a
> lot of work and a lot of api calls.

> There are certainly other examples where an api method like this is
> useful, but they all pretty much boil down to the same thing: being
> able to aggregate data yourself.

> Thanks for listening and I hope we can see something like this in the
> api soon!

> On Dec 15, 5:46 pm, Jehiah Czebotar <jeh...@bit.ly> wrote:
>> no up date right now, but one of the things that always helps
>> development of new features, is sharing use cases for it, so if you
>> could do that, it would be helpful.

>> --
>> Jehiah

>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:48 PM, tom <tsma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is there any new information on this feature request? Thanks, in
>> > advance!

>> > On Oct 21, 6:13 pm, Kortina <kort...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Not currently, but we would like to add this api in the future.

>> >> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:48 PM, asp55 <aparn...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> >> > Is there any way in the api to, given the global hash ( ex: UHUGy ) to
>> >> > return a list of all the userHashes for the same url? (ex: 39ecrh )
>> >> > I'm not seeing one, but this would be a really useful feature.

>> >> > Thanks!
>> >> > -Andrew

>> >> --
>> >> @kortina