Seconding... In our app, whenever someone enters a screen name they want to add to a list, we have to do two API calls, to first get the id before adding the user to the list.
Lee On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Damon Clinkscales <sca...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Marcel Molina <mar...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > > Hey folks. As some of you have likely read we're starting to do some > > private beta testing of our new lists feature. We're not quite ready > > to open it up to everyone but we've made some headway on the API and > > wanted to share some details of what we've got so far. > > > > There are a handful of things on our todo lists so don't consider this > > signed and sealed just yet. > > Marcel, > > It would be nice if we could pass in either the user_id or the > screen_name, wherever you are currently requiring a Twitter user id. > This would be consistent with the rest of the REST API (and quite > useful, saving an extra call). > > Thanks, > -damon > -- > http://twitter.com/damon > > > >
