Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Steuer
If user is no longer the same user as the one that posted status id , then the link http://twitter.com//statuses/ would no longer be valid (as the NEW user is not the owner of the status id). On Jan 30, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-31 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Oh, no! I haven't found it! I added comment in my issue that it's duplicate, but i don't know how to close it. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Andy Freeman ana...@earthlink.net wrote: Argh! I opened such a feature request late last November AND you commented on it late last December. See

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Marshall
I would also argue that, at the time of status whomever owned the account was the one that actually made the post...so it doesn't really matter who is controlling right now...they are associated with the history of the account, because, well it's a history. As an aside though, is

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-31 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Yeap. But. 1. I have incorrect URL, that i can't use immediately. I mean for the every URL i can't be sure that guid is not changed for this username, so i can't be sure that every URL is correct. So for each URL 2. I have to find out the correct link with the help of 3. One or several request to

[twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-31 Thread Andy Freeman
I starred 1412 and commented on 1242 that they're basically the same. On Jan 30, 11:46 pm, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, no! I haven't found it! I added comment in my issue that it's duplicate, but i don't know how to close it. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Andy Freeman

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-30 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-30 Thread Abraham Williams
There does not appear to be. You could open an feature request and maybe Twitter will augment it http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry. Abraham On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:06, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented

[twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-30 Thread Andy Freeman
Argh! I opened such a feature request late last November AND you commented on it late last December. See http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1242 . On Jan 30, 11:17 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: There does not appear to be. You could open an feature request

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-30 Thread Michael Ivey
You could do this internally in your application, using statuses/show to make sure you have the correct user info before redirecting. -- ivey On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-30 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Thanks a lot, Abraham! I've created it. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1412 Ivan. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: There does not appear to be. You could open an feature request and maybe Twitter will augment it 

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-30 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Actually i can't. For example, i get some link like http://twitter.com/AAA/statuses/11, for the message that was posted month ago. I can't be sure if the current user AAA has the same guid as the AAA month ago. If i had the link like http://twitter.com/redirect?id=111status=222 i would be sure

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-29 Thread Abraham Williams
Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users

[twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.

2010-01-27 Thread Ivan
Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is