[twitter-dev] Either destroy is/was failing, or my understanding of destroy is/was failing

[Ted Neward]

I've been hacking on the Twitter API, and I'm running into some serious
weirdness with destroy.

 

I post a message:

 

C:\> curl -u name:pass -d "status=Testing"
http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<status>

  <created_at>Wed Sep 02 10:10:23 +0000 2009</created_at>

  <id>3708721364</id>

  <text>Testing</text>

  <source>&lt;a href=&quot;http://apiwiki.twitter.com/&quot;
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;API&lt;/a&gt;</source>

  <truncated>false</truncated>

  <in_reply_to_status_id></in_reply_to_status_id>

  <in_reply_to_user_id></in_reply_to_user_id>

  <favorited>false</favorited>

  <in_reply_to_screen_name></in_reply_to_screen_name>

  <user>

    <id>70927096</id>

    <name>Ted Neward</name>

    <screen_name>TestingScitter</screen_name>

    <location></location>

    <description></description>

 
<profile_image_url>http://s.twimg.com/a/1251845223/images/default_profile_no
rmal.png</profile_image_url>

    <url></url>

    <protected>false</protected>

    <followers_count>1</followers_count>

    <profile_background_color>9ae4e8</profile_background_color>

    <profile_text_color>000000</profile_text_color>

    <profile_link_color>0000ff</profile_link_color>

    <profile_sidebar_fill_color>e0ff92</profile_sidebar_fill_color>

    <profile_sidebar_border_color>87bc44</profile_sidebar_border_color>

    <friends_count>6</friends_count>

    <created_at>Wed Sep 02 09:49:13 +0000 2009</created_at>

    <favourites_count>0</favourites_count>

    <utc_offset></utc_offset>

    <time_zone></time_zone>

 
<profile_background_image_url>http://s.twimg.com/a/1251845223/images/themes/
theme1/bg.gif</profile_background_image_url>

    <profile_background_tile>false</profile_background_tile>

    <statuses_count>4</statuses_count>

    <notifications>false</notifications>

    <verified>false</verified>

    <following>false</following>

  </user>

</status>

 

. which is all good, but then I try to delete that message:

 

C:\ >curl -u name:pass --http-request DELETE
http://twitter.com/statuses/destroy/3708721364.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<hash>

  <request>/statuses/destroy/3708721364.xml</request>

  <error>We could not delete that status for some reason.</error>

</hash>

 

 

What gives? Is this something that I'm doing wrong on my end? Momentary
server weirdness? (Though it seems to have been pretty consistent all
night.)

 

Ted Neward

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