statuses/destroy

Destroys the status specified by the required ID parameter. The authenticating user must be the author of the specified status.

URL:

curl http://api.t.sina.com.cn/destroy/id.format

Formats:

xml, json

HTTP Method(s):

POST, DELETE

Requires Authentication (about authentication):

true

API rate limited (about rate limiting):

false

Parameters:

• id. Required. The ID of the status to destroy.

o Example: http://api.t.sina.com.cn/statuses/destroy/12345.json or http://twitter.com/statuses/destroy/23456.xml

Usage Notes:

• This method is subject to update limits. A HTTP 403 will be returned if this limit as been hit.
• Twitter will ignore attempts to perform a duplicate update. With each update attempt, the application compares the update text with the authenticating user's last successful update, and ignores any attempts that would result in duplication. Therefore, a user cannot submit the same status twice in a row. The status element in the response will return the id from the previously successful update if a duplicate has been silently ignored.

Response

(about return values): XML example (truncated):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<status>
 <created_at>Tue Apr 07 22:52:51 +0000 2009</created_at>
 <id>1472669360</id>
 <text>At least I can get your humor through tweets. RT @abdur: I don't mean this in a bad way, but genetically speaking you're a cul-de-sac.</text>
 <source><a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/">TweetDeck</a></source>
 <truncated>false</truncated>
 <in_reply_to_status_id></in_reply_to_status_id>
 <in_reply_to_user_id></in_reply_to_user_id>
 <favorited>false</favorited>
 <in_reply_to_screen_name></in_reply_to_screen_name>
 <user>
   <id>1401881</id>
   <name>Doug Williams</name>
   <screen_name>dougw</screen_name>
   <location>San Francisco, CA</location>
   <description>Twitter API Support. Internet, greed, users, dougw and opportunities are my passions.</description>
   <profile_image_url></profile_image_url>
   <url>http://www.igudo.com</url>
   <protected>false</protected>
   <followers_count>1027</followers_count>
   <profile_background_color>9ae4e8</profile_background_color>
   <profile_text_color>000000</profile_text_color>
   <profile_link_color>0000ff</profile_link_color>
   <profile_sidebar_fill_color>e0ff92</profile_sidebar_fill_color>
   <profile_sidebar_border_color>87bc44</profile_sidebar_border_color>
   <friends_count>293</friends_count>
   <created_at>Sun Mar 18 06:42:26 +0000 2007</created_at>
   <favourites_count>0</favourites_count>
   <utc_offset>-18000</utc_offset>
   <time_zone>Eastern Time (US & Canada)</time_zone>
   <profile_background_image_url></profile_background_image_url>
   <profile_background_tile>false</profile_background_tile>
   <statuses_count>3390</statuses_count>
   <notifications>false</notifications>
   <following>false</following>
   <verified>true</verified>
 </user>
</status>

Usage examples:

cURL (about cURL):

curl -u user:password --http-request DELETE http://api.t.sina.com.cn/statuses/destroy/1472669360.xml