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mdesjardins / buzzbird

Buzzbird is (was?) a XUL-based desktop twitter client
http://getbuzzbird.com
MIT License
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Don't allow user to think he/she can send a DM to someone who doesn't follow back #12

Closed mdesjardins closed 14 years ago

mdesjardins commented 14 years ago

This might require some UI rework... twitter doesn't reliably set the "following" flag (which is deprecated, anyway) in the user object within a tweet (it's a known issue w/ the API). So, to determine whether or not someone follows you, you need to do another API call, which is a ding against the API limit. So we can't decide whether to render the direct action (i.e., the telephone icon) for every tweet. We might need to get rid of the telephone icon altogether and add a DM button to the user screen instead. Then we can call the friendship API from there.

mdesjardins commented 14 years ago

Fixed in this morning's commit.