Twitter @Anywhere API Review

connectButton

twitter-connect-placeholder

isConnected

twitter-isconnected-placeholder

signOut

Sign out of Twitter

tweetBox

tweetbox-placeholder

hovercards

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@yui_code
@dojo
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@yuilibrary
@testswarm

currentUser

currentUser.isBlocking("jwalsh_") isblocking-placeholder

API

Dependencies

anywhere.js (AmazonS3)
client.js (AmazonS3)
jQuery JavaScript Library v1.4.2 (Google APIs)
client.bundle.js (base_lite.js, lib/json2.js, common.js, models.js, basefeatures.js, styles.js)
Cross Domain receiver
*.bundle.js (tweet_box, hovercards)

Review

Uncaught TypeError: Object function (C){twttr.anywhere.remote.call("currentUser",[],A(C))} has no method 'data'

User login & signup may need to go from

    if (twitter.isConnected) {
      currentUser = twitter.User.current;
      screenName = currentUser.data('screen_name');
      profileImage = currentUser.data('profile_image_url');

    if (twitter.isConnected()) {
      var currentUser = twitter.currentUser.attributes;
      screenName = currentUser.screen_name;
      profileImage = currentUser.profile_image_url;

http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=281 mentions the "Invalid / suspended application" error during the authentication call but there doesn't seem to be a reasonable escalation procedure. Clean runs without cookies or referrers completed successfully. The original application "twap by wal.sh" was indicated as "Inactive" only hours after the original construction. Required the use of a new "aapr" validator application. Connections reviewed show "twap by wal.sh" as "Suspended" although 24 drift in approval time: "approved on 4:21 PM yesterday · read-only access"
Total download for minimal functionality to check twitter.isConnected() requires a resource pull of approximately 265KB. Times for the download were reasonable with a spot check (http://wal.sh/twap-perf/) of
```
documents(ms),scripts(ms),xhr(ms)
31,112,190
441,125,295
9,141,109
19,116,411
25,134,537
10,159,135
16,134,239
31,117,139
18,99,174
43,121,185
20,142,172
11,149,190
24,111,546
        
```
The signOut example could be simplified with s/#// to allow the default action to complete and reload the page.
tweet-box-container is provided inside an iframe; span.btn-disabled is set above the "Tweet" button.

twitter.currentUser

twitter-currentuser-placeholder