Marcel, Great changes. A couple of questions:
- How long can a list description be? - A title can only be 15 chars - will that remain unchanged? - Will there be a little overlap where memberships and subscribers will still work while people migrate to followers/following? It would be awesome if there was a way to retrieve all member ids and a separate call for subscriber ids - cursored if necessary. Also, filed an edge case bug around list error messages a couple of days ago. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1145&sort=-opened&colspec=ID%20Stars%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Owner%20Summary%20Opened%20Modified%20Component Cheers, Tim. On Oct 29, 9:00 am, Marcel Molina <mar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Two additions and two changes to the List API will be deployed in the > next few days: > > * List descriptions > We're adding a description to every list. You'll be able to specify a > description when you create or update a list and the description will > be included in the payload. > > * Cursoring through lists of lists > All resources that return a list of lists will include next and > previous cursors and will accept a :cursor parameter. > > * Finding by list id rather than slug > When you change the name of a list, the slug will be updated to > reflect that change. That means using the slug in the url for > resources to operate on lists requires the onerous task of validating > that the slug for the list you are about to do something with hasn't > been updated since the last time you stored its slug. What a nightmare > :-) > > Every list also has an id. This value won't change. We'll be changing > the API to replace all instances of a list slug in urls to be list ids > instead. > > * Consistent names > The terminology we've used thus far for people you follow with a list > is members. The terminology for people who are following a list is > subscribers. We're going to mirror the terminology used for users and > change it to followers and following respectively. > > So: > > /:user/lists/:list_id/memberships becomes /:user/lists/:list_id/followers > > /:user/lists/:list_id/subscribers becomes /:user/lists/:list_id/following > > As we deploy these changes we'll send out a heads up on the dev list > and @twitterapi. > > -- > Marcel Molina > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio
