Some API additions

[Alex Payne]

Some changes I hope you'll all enjoy:

1. The users/show method now returns the following additional
attributes: time_zone, created_at, followers_count.

2. The "following" attribute returned by users/show should work more
reliably. This attribute is present if making an authenticated
request and returns a boolean value of whether or not the requesting
user in following the requested user.

3. If we've set up an account to "auto-friend" or "auto-follow",
notifications we now also automatically be turned on for any user your
bots automatically follow.

4. All status objects returned by the API will now include two new
attributes: in_reply_to and in_reply_to_user_id. We set those
attributes based on "@reply" messages. in_reply_to is the ID of the
status to which we think the user is replying. in_reply_to_user_id
should be fairly self-explanatory.

This set of changes was, as you can see, meant to target adding
helpful attributes to the most-used objects in the API.

The next set of changes will target additional filtering options,
since as "since" support for methods that are lacking it and so forth.
Further out, we're still working OAuth, the migration to
api.twitter.com, etc.

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[Cameron Kaiser]

> Some changes I hope you'll all enjoy:

Delicious! Thank you!

> The next set of changes will target additional filtering options,
> since as "since" support for methods that are lacking it and so forth.

This is what I'm particularly looking forward to.

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[gmail (codehooligans)]

Awesome! These changes are in now?

P-

[John Krutsch]

Alex,

Thank you so much for your prompt attentivness.

John

[Marco Kaiser]

You nearly killed twhirl with these changes (well, bad luck, I guess...), but they are great!

Thanks!

[John Krutsch]

Alex,

Thank you so much for your prompt attentivness.

John

On Apr 3, 2008, at 4:26 PM, "Alex Payne" <al...@al3x.net> wrote:

[Brad Hintze]

Alex,

This is awesome! You are doing terrific things with the API.

Brad

[Ed Finkler]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Alex Payne <al...@al3x.net> wrote:
>
> Some changes I hope you'll all enjoy:
>
> 1. The users/show method now returns the following additional
> attributes: time_zone, created_at, followers_count.
>
> 2. The "following" attribute returned by users/show should work more
> reliably. This attribute is present if making an authenticated
> request and returns a boolean value of whether or not the requesting
> user in following the requested user.

Can these totally awesome things be added to the followers/following
lists, and/or the user info returned in statuses, or does that req a
join in the DB?

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[John Krutsch]

Right it would be great to know when I started following someone and
when folks started to follow me.

John

[Andrew Badera]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAmen. Including protected users. ESPECIALLY protected users.

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[Andrew Badera]

Though I don't mean to sound ungrateful in general, I'm sure the Twitter dev team is working their lower cheeks off.

[Alex Payne]

That one's on the list. We're reshuffling some database indexes this
weekend and hopefully we should be able to better support the queries
necessary to support that information via the API.

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[dru...@hotmail.com]

Just FYI, since this update it appears that there's now two
followers_count elements in the results for /users/show. This could
affect some parsers that expect only a single instance of the element:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<user>
<id>11694452</id>
<name>Drew Marsh</name>
<screen_name>drub0y</screen_name>
<location>NYC, NY</location>
<description></description>
<profile_image_url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/
profile_images/42286502/me_normal.jpg</profile_image_url>
<url>http://blog.hackedbrain.com</url>
<protected>false</protected>
<profile_background_color>9ae4e8</profile_background_color>
<profile_text_color>000000</profile_text_color>
<profile_link_color>0000ff</profile_link_color>
<profile_sidebar_fill_color>e0ff92</profile_sidebar_fill_color>
<profile_sidebar_border_color>87bc44</profile_sidebar_border_color>
<friends_count>1</friends_count>
<followers_count>0</followers_count>
<created_at>Mon Dec 31 17:51:14 +0000 2007</created_at>
<favourites_count>1</favourites_count>
<utc_offset>-18000</utc_offset>
<time_zone>Eastern Time (US &amp; Canada)</time_zone>
<following>false</following>
<statuses_count>6</statuses_count>
<followers_count>0</followers_count>
<status>
<created_at>Sun Feb 24 21:21:12 +0000 2008</created_at>
<id>752650232</id>
<text>Commands, RoutedEvents, Bindigns, Styles and
ControlTemplates... these are a few of my favorite things.</text>
<source>web</source>
<truncated>false</truncated>
<in_reply_to></in_reply_to>
<in_reply_to_user_id></in_reply_to_user_id>
</status>
</user>

[Andrew Badera]

Am I now seeing emails from protected users? 100001% pure awesome!

[harry]

Do you have any timeframe for OAuth-support?

[Alex Payne]

Not at the moment, no.

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