Poll: how many of you use /statuses/friends_timeline/user.format? - Twitter Development Talk

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Alex Payne

More options May 24 2008, 8:23 pm

From: "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com>

Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 17:23:57 -0700

Local: Sat, May 24 2008 8:23 pm

Subject: Poll: how many of you use /statuses/friends_timeline/user.format?

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We're looking to trim up a few parts of the Twitter that cause our
database pain in an effort to maintain stability over the coming
weeks. It's been often been said on this list that developers
wouldn't mind suffering some API changes if it meant more reliability.
One of the methods that hurts us the most is what we call the
"profile with friends". Via the API, you'd access it via this URL if
you wanted the timeline of updates by bob's friends:

http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/bob.xml

We'd still allow you to retrieve your friends_timeline for the
authenticating user, just not the authenticating user looking at
another user's timeline. This latter method forces us to do a fairly
complex query that, when not cached, can be pretty painful.

How many of you actually make use of this method? Should it stay or
should it go? I can say that the equivalent view on the web is going
away in all likelihood. You'll still be able to see who another user
follows, but not in timeline format.

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Alex Payne
http://twitter.com/al3x

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