protect updates via API?

[Ivan]

Hi,

I have an idea I'd like to write about for the Tipjoy Twitter Payments
API http://tipjoy.com/APIcontest/

I'm blogging ideas as I have time to write them down here:
http://tipjoys2cents.blogspot.com/

The idea deals with protected updates. The service I have in mind
would benefit from an API endpoint to protect a twitter user's
updates.

I don't see one on the wiki - is this possible?

Also, is it possible for a protected account to make a user unfollow
them? The friendship/destroy endpoint doesn't appear to enable this
from the protected account.

Could the user be blocked and then unblocked? That would make them
unfollow the protect account, and then move them to a normal state. I
think this is a hack and not the intended use of "block", but it would
probably work.

I'd like to avoid unfollowing from the following account because the
credentials could be changed or OAuth access revoked as a way of
avoiding follower removal.

Thanks,
Ivan
http://tipjoy.com/twitter

[Ivan Kirigin]

Also, is there a way to approve follow requests to a protected account
via the REST API?

Ivan

On Apr 15, 9:42 pm, Ivan <ivan.kiri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an idea I'd like to write about for the Tipjoy Twitter Payments

> APIhttp://tipjoy.com/APIcontest/

[Cameron Kaiser]

> Also, is there a way to approve follow requests to a protected account
> via the REST API?

http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=8

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[Abraham Williams]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 20:42, Ivan <ivan.k...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have an idea I'd like to write about for the Tipjoy Twitter Payments
API http://tipjoy.com/APIcontest/

I'm blogging ideas as I have time to write them down here:
http://tipjoys2cents.blogspot.com/

The idea deals with protected updates. The service I have in mind
would benefit from an API endpoint to protect a twitter user's
updates.

I don't see one on the wiki - is this possible?

You can only turn on protection from the web interface. And it is all or nothing. Individual tweets can not be protected.
 

Also, is it possible for a protected account to make a user unfollow
them? The friendship/destroy endpoint doesn't appear to enable this
from the protected account.

If protected user a unfollows user b then user b should not be able to see user a's tweets anymore. User b will still be following user a though.
 

Could the user be blocked and then unblocked? That would make them
unfollow the protect account, and then move them to a normal state. I
think this is a hack and not the intended use of "block", but it would
probably work.

I've never tried it but my guess is the user would still be following the protected account after unblocking them.
 

I'd like to avoid unfollowing from the following account because the
credentials could be changed or OAuth access revoked as a way of
avoiding follower removal.

Thanks,
Ivan
http://tipjoy.com/twitter

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