friends_timeline suddenly requires authorisation?!

[Remy Sharp]

Hi,

I've been using friends_timeline for a long time now, and today I've
noticed it's asking me to enter my username and password for the API.

http://www.twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/rem.json

Whereas before, regardless of whether I was logged in, or if I wanted
to change the username to al3x, I would be able to see the timeline.

What's suddenly changed?? Or more importantly - why?!? I can see the
documentation said it required authentication, but the actual API
request didn't - so there's functionality built around that feature.

Please, please consider removing this downgrade.

Thank you,

Remy Sharp.

[dean.j.robinson]

See here:
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/89a7292e5a9eee6d/2f48d0dcd8c917e1#2f48d0dcd8c917e1

plenty of discussion around this topic in the last week or so.

[Remy Sharp]

Thanks, and...sod :-(

On May 31, 1:53 pm, "dean.j.robinson" <Dean.J.Robin...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> See here:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...