[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: reliable link to web status

2009-06-25 Thread Doug Williams
It would break if I changed my screen name but that is a very rare case. If your application depends deeply on these links not breaking, I'd suggest you cache status objects for a day, and refresh the cache and links daily. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:07 AM, jesse wrote: > > Thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: reliable link to web status

2009-06-25 Thread jesse
Thanks for the quick reply, Doug. From that I would create: http://twitter.com/dougw/status/1472669360 if you change your screen name, that link is going to break. If it didn't, I'd be fine with the Search API since it include screen_names and status ids. Or am I being obtuse and missing someth

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: reliable link to web status

2009-06-25 Thread Doug Williams
With one call to the statuses/show method [1] you could have all of the information you need to construct the permanent URL. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0show Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:31 AM, jesse wrote: > > I've been browsing the archi