API 1.1 requires authentication to get statuses for an arbitrary, non-protected user?

gregmaletic · 2013-01-24T23:59:15.000Z

Just want to confirm this: to query for a (public) user’s statuses, I need to authenticate my API request.

That’s new in 1.1, correct?

Thanks.

episod · 2013-01-25T16:46:06.000Z

Correct, all API calls require your application to identify itself. Today, we require that an access token belonging to a user is used in such requests, but we’ll soon have a form of application-only authentication that does not require a user context.

gregmaletic · 2013-01-25T18:01:15.000Z

Okay, thanks. Definitely looking forward to the application-only authentication. (I can only hope that will be available before the 1.0 API is deprecated…)