@Twittergator You do not necessary need a programming language to play around with the api.
Sure, if you really want to do stuff, you need the api, but simpler stuff is possible with command line tools like wget and Excel (excel does reads rss once you get the idea) The problem is that people with no skills are a hassle without knowing it - so please dont give them ideas or at least the right ideas. ;) Example: Although it is not directly written, just seeing this entry http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#followers in the doc you should be able to see yourself that you can request the follower lists of other users if you just combine the settings of this entry. So let's rephrase the question: Do you want people to be able to 'do' something with their data and make some small mashup or do you want them to be able to do a bigger twitter app? The first is doable without programming skills, the second is not and should not be tried. Stuart > They are aware that you guys are about to change it all right?? But it is so much fun when you write a book and they change in the middle so you can redo everything. ;) i had to redo all my screenshots due to the redesign of the interface, thankfully not as much impact as the api changes. ;) > > O'Reilly has the "rough cut" of their book on the Twitter API > > available:http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157791/. thanks did not know that Nicole -- Suche Beta-Tester für Experiment: "Journalisten suchen Blogger" - http://bloxpert.de/ Kontakt: http://twitter.com/NicoleSimon // http://mit140zeichen.de/ http://crueltobekind.org // http://beissholz.de skype: nicole.simon / mailto:nee...@gmail.com phone: +49 451 899 75 03 / mobile: +49 179 499 7076
