Hi Taylor, Thanks for you fast and complete answer.
There is no way to set the protected state of a single tweet. Toggling > between the two account-level states effects all tweets issued by that > author and changing it for the purposes of a single tweet is inadvisable. > > I would recommend that you dismiss the idea of manipulating a dynamic > protected/unprotected state and pursue an alternative. > I have to disagree with this paragraph. As you've said, the privacy changes affects all tweets stored in an account, but, if you generate a tweet with an unprotected account, it's indexed into the public search, and it's added to the mentions timeline of a mentioned user that is not following the protected account. That's why I want to toggle this state. In order to let an user to participate in public hashtags, or answer/mention an user that is not following him. Anyway, if there's any other method to do that, please point me and I'll be happy to do a research about it :-) Have a nice day! -- Slds, Gonzalo. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Taylor Singletary < taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi Gonzalo, > > There's no way to toggle between protected and unprotected account states > via the API -- the only valid way to change the setting is for the user to > do it of their own volition using a web browser while logged in to Twitter > -- any automation of the submission of that toggle state by POSTing to the > page outside of the standard user-browser narrative would be very frowned > upon. > > There is no way to set the protected state of a single tweet. Toggling > between the two account-level states effects all tweets issued by that > author and changing it for the purposes of a single tweet is inadvisable. > > I would recommend that you dismiss the idea of manipulating a dynamic > protected/unprotected state and pursue an alternative. > > @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary > > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Gonzalo Larralde < > gonzalolarra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Is there any technical way to protect/unprotect accounts using an API >> call? Or I have to rely on POSTing to Twitter's setting page? >> >> I want to put a checkbox in a client to make a single tweet public, by >> unprotecting the account for a while. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> Slds, >> >> Gonzalo. >> >> -- >> Twitter developer documentation and resources: >> https://dev.twitter.com/doc >> API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi >> Issues/Enhancements Tracker: >> https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list >> Change your membership to this group: >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk >> > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
