+1 for bumping the version number and maintaining backwards
compatibility.

On Oct 20, 2:23 pm, Josh Roesslein <jroessl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't the point of having versioned API's so changes can be rolled out w/o
> breaking a much of applications at once?
> Why not increment to version 2 and replace all ID's as strings in the JSON
> format? Keep version 1 around for a few months
> allowing everyone to upgrade and then kill it off. This can also give
> twitter a chance to make any other breaking changes.
>
> If Twitter is never going to take advantage of the versioning they added
> what is the point of having it?
> I think just creating new fields to avoid versioning issues is unclean and
> messy.

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