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I think that if this was done, there'd be a surge of blog posts not long after telling people to just use the original verbs, because everything about them - ca

I think that if this was done, there'd be a surge of blog posts not long after telling people to just use the original verbs, because everything about them - caching, idempotence, safeness, etc. - is a known quantity and doesn't change based on different interpretations of the same verb. Not to mention ridiculously confusing APIs. TWEET / GOOGLE /internet/?query=... LIKE /friend/jimmy GETPUTPOSTDELETE /i-am-too-lazy-to-use-separate-verbs

jared314 13y ago
POST https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/retweet/:id.json https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/retweet/:id.json POST https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos/rate?id=1234&rating=like&key={YOUR_API_KEY} https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos/rate?id=1234&#3... APIs are already confusing for anything beyond CRUD operations.