[twitter-dev] Re: export followers

[Dave Briccetti]

Try this:

http://simple-twitter-client.appspot.com/

[twitter-dev] Re: Callback url during development

[Chad Etzel]

You could create a public DNS entry like dev.domain.com => 127.0.0.1
which would only work for people that actually have a dev environment
setup on their localhost... not the most elegant solution, but it
would work mostly.
-chad

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Mike Lewis  wrote:
>
> It doesn't allow you to set http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1 as a
> callback URL.  This is rather frustrating because I don't want to have
> to make a fake host and make all my developers make the same fake host
> on their respective machines as well, just to get something trivial
> like this to work.
>
> On Apr 27, 1:08 pm, Paul Kinlan  wrote:
>> This is going to sound silly, but I had it with a port on the settings page
>>
>> I addedhttp://www.twedaq.com:8080/oauthin to the oauth conf page, and then
>> changed my host file and all worked really well.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> 2009/4/27 Benjamin Cox 
>>
>>
>>
>> > Unfortunately, I'm working on a dev machine that's doubling as a web
>> > server for another small project.  I simply cannot run on port 80 in
>> > development.
>>
>> > Does that mean there is no way I can test oauth integration with
>> > Twitter?  Would you consider adding the ability to put a port number
>> > in the callback URL on the settings page?
>>
>> > Please?
>>
>> > Cheers,
>>
>> >  Ben
>>
>> > On Apr 26, 11:41 pm, Paul Kinlan  wrote:
>> > > I managed to set a port on the page when I was doing some google app
>> > > engine stuff.
>>
>> > > But saying that my dev server now runs on port 80 on my machine so it
>> > > isn't a problem much.
>>
>> > > Paul
>>
>> > > On 27 Apr 2009, at 06:58, Dimebrain  wrote:
>>
>> > > > How are you able to set this up for a non-standard port? HOSTS file is
>> > > > just for the domain/authority, and you can't specify a port in the
>> > > >callbackURL on the settings page?
>>
>> > > > On Apr 23, 7:31 pm, Jochen Kaechelin  wrote:
>> > > >> Am 24.04.2009 um 00:29 schrieb Paul Kinlan:
>>
>> > > >>> Hi,
>>
>> > > >>> During development I tend to modify my hosts file to point the
>> > > >>>callbackURL domain to my box for instance. This is quite good
>> > > >>> because all it affects is my box.
>>
>> > > >> I just had the same idea ... ;-)
>>
>> > > >> Works as expected now!!!
>>
>> > > >> Thanx
>>
>> > > >>> Paul
>>
>> > > >>> On 23 Apr 2009, at 23:16, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>
>> > > >>> wrote:
>>
>> > >  The oauth_callback parameter was just disabled do to security
>> > >  issues. Currently only the registeredcallbackworks. If you need a
>> > >  differentcallbacklocation for development set up a second
>> > >  application.
>>
>> > >  On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 17:12, Jochen Kaechelin
>> > >   wrote:
>>
>> > >  Am 22.04.2009 um 15:37 schrieb Abraham Williams:
>>
>> > > > Also when you are building the authorize url to send users to
>> > > > twitter.com you can add "&oauth_callback=http://localhost/
>> > > >callback"
>> > > > and that will override your applications registeredcallback.
>>
>> > >  OAuth::Consumer.new("xx", "xx",
>> > >  { :site=>"
>> >http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_callback=http://localhost:30
>> > >  ...
>> > >  " })
>>
>> > >  I can see the site where I have to Deny or Allow access.
>> > >  When I click "Allow" I will be redirected to the Domain which I
>> > >  entered in the
>> > >  OAUTHClients Registration Form (http://www.twitter.com/
>> > >  oauth_cleints)
>>
>> > >  Seems that the oauth_callback parameter does not work!
>> > >  Is it in the wrong place?
>>
>> > >  Any hints!?
>>
>> > >  Thanx
>>
>> > >  --
>> > >  Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com
>> > >  Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham
>> > >  Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org
>> > >  This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>> > >  Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Callback url during development

[Mike Lewis]

It doesn't allow you to set http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1 as a
callback URL.  This is rather frustrating because I don't want to have
to make a fake host and make all my developers make the same fake host
on their respective machines as well, just to get something trivial
like this to work.

On Apr 27, 1:08 pm, Paul Kinlan  wrote:
> This is going to sound silly, but I had it with a port on the settings page
>
> I addedhttp://www.twedaq.com:8080/oauthin to the oauth conf page, and then
> changed my host file and all worked really well.
>
> Paul
>
> 2009/4/27 Benjamin Cox 
>
>
>
> > Unfortunately, I'm working on a dev machine that's doubling as a web
> > server for another small project.  I simply cannot run on port 80 in
> > development.
>
> > Does that mean there is no way I can test oauth integration with
> > Twitter?  Would you consider adding the ability to put a port number
> > in the callback URL on the settings page?
>
> > Please?
>
> > Cheers,
>
> >  Ben
>
> > On Apr 26, 11:41 pm, Paul Kinlan  wrote:
> > > I managed to set a port on the page when I was doing some google app
> > > engine stuff.
>
> > > But saying that my dev server now runs on port 80 on my machine so it
> > > isn't a problem much.
>
> > > Paul
>
> > > On 27 Apr 2009, at 06:58, Dimebrain  wrote:
>
> > > > How are you able to set this up for a non-standard port? HOSTS file is
> > > > just for the domain/authority, and you can't specify a port in the
> > > >callbackURL on the settings page?
>
> > > > On Apr 23, 7:31 pm, Jochen Kaechelin  wrote:
> > > >> Am 24.04.2009 um 00:29 schrieb Paul Kinlan:
>
> > > >>> Hi,
>
> > > >>> During development I tend to modify my hosts file to point the
> > > >>>callbackURL domain to my box for instance. This is quite good
> > > >>> because all it affects is my box.
>
> > > >> I just had the same idea ... ;-)
>
> > > >> Works as expected now!!!
>
> > > >> Thanx
>
> > > >>> Paul
>
> > > >>> On 23 Apr 2009, at 23:16, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>
> > > >>> wrote:
>
> > >  The oauth_callback parameter was just disabled do to security
> > >  issues. Currently only the registeredcallbackworks. If you need a
> > >  differentcallbacklocation for development set up a second
> > >  application.
>
> > >  On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 17:12, Jochen Kaechelin
> > >   wrote:
>
> > >  Am 22.04.2009 um 15:37 schrieb Abraham Williams:
>
> > > > Also when you are building the authorize url to send users to
> > > > twitter.com you can add "&oauth_callback=http://localhost/
> > > >callback"
> > > > and that will override your applications registeredcallback.
>
> > >  OAuth::Consumer.new("xx", "xx",
> > >  { :site=>"
> >http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_callback=http://localhost:30
> > >  ...
> > >  " })
>
> > >  I can see the site where I have to Deny or Allow access.
> > >  When I click "Allow" I will be redirected to the Domain which I
> > >  entered in the
> > >  OAUTHClients Registration Form (http://www.twitter.com/
> > >  oauth_cleints)
>
> > >  Seems that the oauth_callback parameter does not work!
> > >  Is it in the wrong place?
>
> > >  Any hints!?
>
> > >  Thanx
>
> > >  --
> > >  Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com
> > >  Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham
> > >  Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org
> > >  This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
> > >  Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States

[twitter-dev] Re: Extracting tweets of all twitter users from a particular region (say new york city).

[Chad Etzel]

well, the api wiki is down for maint, but you can use the geocode
operator of the Search API to do this, yes.  check
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/ when it's back up.
-Chad

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Swiftguy121  wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
>
> Im twitter newbie.
>
>
> I would like to know how we can extract tweets of all twitter users
> from a particular region (say new york city).
>
> Is that possible using the twitter api ?
>
> Please help me out..thanks in advance!
>

[twitter-dev] Extracting tweets of all twitter users from a particular region (say new york city).

[Swiftguy121]

Hello All,


Im twitter newbie.


I would like to know how we can extract tweets of all twitter users
from a particular region (say new york city).

Is that possible using the twitter api ?

Please help me out..thanks in advance!

[twitter-dev] DM via curl?

[TjL]

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-direct_messages%C2%A0new?SearchFor=direct+message&sp=4

gives this example:

# curl -u user:password -d "text=all your bases are belong to
use&user=user_2" http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.xml

I tried this

# curl -u "luomat:PASSWORD" -d "text=test&user=tj"
http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.xml

and got this



  /direct_messages/new.xml
  Invalid request.


Am I missing something?

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing truncated XML responses again

[Doug Williams]

Dossy,
Are you still seeing this?

Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Doug Williams  wrote:

> Thanks Dossy, I'll check with the Operation's guys to see what's up.
>
> Thanks,
> Doug Williams
> Twitter API Support
> http://twitter.com/dougw
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote:
>
>>
>> On 4/27/09 1:48 PM, Doug Williams wrote:
>>
>>> Can you give an example request that is yielding truncated responses?
>>>
>>
>> statuses/followers and statuses/friends methods, randomly.  Here's an
>> example as sniffed off the network wire:
>>
>> GET /statuses/followers/14512675.xml?page=1 HTTP/1.0
>> Accept: */*
>> Host: twitter.com
>> User-Agent: Tcl http client package 2.5.5
>> Authorization: REDACTED
>>
>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:12:36 GMT
>> Server: hi
>> Last-Modified: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:12:36 GMT
>> Status: 200 OK
>> X-RateLimit-Limit: 100
>> ETag: "fdb1c0f45474731d9217aa8c3be1f64e"
>> X-RateLimit-Remaining: 95
>> Pragma: no-cache
>> Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0,
>> post-check=0
>> Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
>> X-RateLimit-Reset: 1240857598
>> Content-Length: 180270
>> Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT
>> X-Revision: 427f3a44794f891adc58fae386da935822f21de8
>> X-Transaction: 1240855956-8004-28824
>> Set-Cookie: lang=en; path=/
>> Set-Cookie: lang=en; path=/
>> Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7**REDACTED**c55a; domain=.twitter.com;
>> path=/
>> Vary: Accept-Encoding
>> Connection: close
>>
>> 
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>>  15941343
>>  Damien Basile
>>  db
>>  Brooklyn, NY
>>  Brand Strategy Expert. Email me for speaking engagements, to
>> hire me for consulting or to say hi : Damien @thecauseisthehabit.com
>> 
>>  http://s3.amazonaws.com/t
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
>> Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
>>  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>>folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>>
>
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

[zbowling]

Can you add me to the 3rd party independent developer list?

Real Name: Zac Bowling
Twitter: @zbowling
Email: z...@zacbowling.com
Website: http://zbowling.com/
Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/in/zbowling/

General do it all web and mobile programmer. PHP, Ruby, Python, C#
\.NET (ASP.NET), Java, ColdFusion, C\C++, Objective-C\Cocoa (iPhone)
Over 8 years in software development and 3 years in developing social
networking software for companies like Match.com, Telligent Systems,
and Seesmic

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting a status update to the Mobile version of Twitter

[Abraham Williams]

I'm almost certain there is JS to break iframes on both main and mobile.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:43, James Abley  wrote:

>
> Just to confirm my understanding, is clickjacking not an issue when
> using http://twitter.com/ but it potentially is when using
> http://m.twitter.com/
> ?
>
> Can you suggest what the preferred way to provide this type of easy-
> linking functionality might be for mobile?
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
> On Mar 3, 11:15 pm, Alex Payne  wrote:
> > In order to prevent clickjacking attacks, we had to disable this
> functionality.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 13:44, aschobel  wrote:
> >
> > > To clarify, we only want to prepopulate the status field.
> >
> > > This works on the standard version, doesn't work on the mobile
> > > version.
> >
> > > It used to work on mobile version according to this thread:
> >
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread.
> ..
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Andreas
> >
> > > Follow us on Twitter @3banana
> > >http://twitter.com/3banana
> >
> > > On Mar 3, 1:00 pm, aschobel  wrote:
> > >> We are having problems posting status updates to the mobile version of
> > >> Twitter, it looks like the status input field for the mobile version
> > >> comes with a default value of "".
> >
> > >>  > >> value=""/>
> >
> > >> For the standard version of Twitter, we can pre-populate the status
> > >> field by doing opening the following page:
> >
> > >>http://twitter.com/home?status=Hello%20world
> >
> > >> Our app for Android lets folks share their notes to Twitter, and this
> > >> was working fine until Twitter started detecting the user agent for
> > >> Android and giving people the mobile version instead of the standard
> > >> version.
> >
> > >> Is there a way to force the Standard version? Passing in &ui_type=s
> > >> doesn't do anything.
> >
> > >> We support Twidroid, but not everybody has that installed.
> >
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Andreas
> >
> > >> Follow us on Twitter @3bananahttp://twitter.com/3banana
> >
> > --
> > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
>



-- 
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Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham
Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org
This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
Sent from Madison, WI, United States

[twitter-dev] Re: export followers

[Abraham Williams]

Maybe someone on http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Developers can help.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:06, guido  wrote:

>
> I want to export my followers, including the number of their
> followers. I have found lots of tools to export name, nickname etc.
> but none that seems to export the follower-number. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks
> Gudio
>



-- 
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Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham
Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org
This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
Sent from Madison, WI, United States

[twitter-dev] Re: Advanced Search Date Range

[Esé]

Got it Matt - thanks!

E.

On Apr 27, 9:38 am, Matt Sanford  wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>      We're working to make the window of tweets you can search longer  
> but we've had some technical limitations to work out. Once we have  
> passed these issues we should be able to make the window larger but I  
> think it is unlikely we will ever support searching all tweets.
>
> Thanks;
>   – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
>       Twitter Dev
>
> On Apr 25, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Esé wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I've been trying to dig up some older tweets by date range (from last
> > year) and the results keep coming up empty. I found this post from
> > Matt here 
> > -http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/e4cec438a...
> > -
>
> > "The reason for your error is that the since: date you  provided is
> > older than the data currently available. We plan to improve the error
> > messaging when we merge the search and main APIs, so hopefully things
> > will be clearer after that.
> >     We try to keep as much search data on hand as we can but we're
> > currently limited on disk space. As the rate of tweets increases we
> > need more and more disk to keep old data on hand. We've ordered more
> > disks and await them eagerly. Once those are installed the date range
> > for searches can start growing again. Sorry for the confusing error
> > messaging. "
>
> > So, currently, are only the past 7 days or so indexed? And would there
> > be an ETA as to when all the archived tweets are finally made
> > available or are you folks still fighting the happy problem of just
> > trying to not get swamped right now? :-)
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > E.

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

[Tom Klaasen]

Hi Alex,

I'm also interested in developing third-party twitter application.

In fact, I've already worked on some.

Real name: Tom Klaasen
Twitter: @tomklaasen
email: t...@10to1.be

I'm an experienced Ruby on Rails developer in Belgium. Worked with
Java/JEE for 10 years, now focusing on more agile projects.

Projects I've worked on, include:
http://twiddict.com
http://twistory.net

Cheers,

[twitter-dev] inviting developers to showcase twitter apps on SDForum July event

[AJ]

After just finalizing our next event program, which will be focused on
web intelligence and co-hosted with the semtech09 conference in June,
it’s time to plan on the July event for our SIG. I’d like to do
something different this time, that is, to allow as many developers as
possible to showcase their projects of using NLP/semantics for cool
applications.

Since Twitter is the most popular topic these days and they are so
generously opening their data stream to third-party developers, I
think it will serve as the best theme for this developer-focused
event.  I’d like to invite all developers to submit proposal for
speaking on the event. Any project using NLP or semantic technology to
make use of twitter data/api is welcome, including personal projects
actively pursued by developers or entrepreneurs.  Of course, anyone
from big companies or startups is encouraged to share his or her
twitter app.  The only requirement is that you should be able to show
how your code works. This is similar to what people do on codecamp.

If you are doing some cool stuff with twitter data, please send me a
description of what you would like to talk about. Everyone gets only
10 min to present/demo/coding so that more projects can be
accommodated on the 2-hour event.

If twitter API team has someone available, we could get them to
introduce twitter API to kick off the event, which I’d like to call
“Hacking the semantics of twitter”.

This semantic web SIG event is scheduled for July 1st in palo alto,
CA.  For more information about the SIG, please visit SDForum.org
website.

Best,
-aj

--
AJ Chen, PhD
Co-Chair, Semantic Web SIG, sdforum.org
Technical Architect, healthline.com
http://web2express.org
Palo Alto, CA

[twitter-dev] Re: Friendship Create

[Paul Kinlan]

I have just checked the library and whilst it sorts the keys, I don't think
it sorts the library sorts actual query string when it makes the request.  I
will have to check that bit out.

Paul.

2009/4/27 Dossy Shiobara 

>
> On 4/27/09 5:29 PM, Paul Kinlan wrote:
>
>> Bellow is an example query.
>>
>>
>> http://twitter.com/friendships/create.xml?screen_name=twollo&oauth_nonce=71594710&oauth_timestamp=1240867081&oauth_consumer_key=&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_token=x&oauth_signature=
>>
>
> "s" comes after "o".
>
> OAuth 1.0 specification mandates the parameters be sorted when the
> signature is computed.  Are you doing this?
>
> Also, getting HTTP 500 Server Error ... I ran into that when I was using
> HTTP Authorize header authentication and didn't "Parameter Encode" the
> signature.
>
>
> --
> Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
> Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
>  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>

[twitter-dev] users/show returning empty doc

[Dossy Shiobara]

Requests for this user:

http://twitter.com/users/show/18258394.xml

... simply returns the XML preamble.  What gives?  Server responds with 
HTTP 200 OK, and just:




HALP!  O HALP, PLEAS!


--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Re: Friendship Create

[Matt Sanford]

Hi Paul,

Dossy is correct on both counts. The 500 is not the ideal  
response and we're working on fixing those error messages where we  
can. If you can provide the request/response headers, and the response  
body as well, it might help me improve the error messaging. I  
understand if you don't want to send it to the whole list … feel free  
to send it to me directly.


Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev

On Apr 27, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Dossy Shiobara wrote:



On 4/27/09 5:29 PM, Paul Kinlan wrote:

Bellow is an example query.

http://twitter.com/friendships/create.xml?screen_name=twollo&oauth_nonce=71594710&oauth_timestamp=1240867081&oauth_consumer_key=&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_token=x&oauth_signature=


"s" comes after "o".

OAuth 1.0 specification mandates the parameters be sorted when the  
signature is computed.  Are you doing this?


Also, getting HTTP 500 Server Error ... I ran into that when I was  
using HTTP Authorize header authentication and didn't "Parameter  
Encode" the signature.



--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
 "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
   folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Re: Friendship Create

[Dossy Shiobara]

On 4/27/09 5:29 PM, Paul Kinlan wrote:

Bellow is an example query.

http://twitter.com/friendships/create.xml?screen_name=twollo&oauth_nonce=71594710&oauth_timestamp=1240867081&oauth_consumer_key=&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_token=x&oauth_signature=


"s" comes after "o".

OAuth 1.0 specification mandates the parameters be sorted when the 
signature is computed.  Are you doing this?


Also, getting HTTP 500 Server Error ... I ran into that when I was using 
HTTP Authorize header authentication and didn't "Parameter Encode" the 
signature.



--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Friendship Create

[Paul Kinlan]

Hi Guys,

I am developing some oauth support for http://www.twollo.com and I am having
some trouble with friendships/create  I keep getting 500 errors from
twitter, I am pretty sure that I have got the oAuth sorted ok, I am doing a
POST to the service, my app is allowed to write to a profile.

Bellow is an example query.

http://twitter.com/friendships/create.xml?screen_name=twollo&oauth_nonce=71594710&oauth_timestamp=1240867081&oauth_consumer_key=&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_token=x&oauth_signature=

Anyone else seeing problems on friendships/create and oAuth?

I also tried (with the same result)
http://twitter.com/friendships/create/twollo.xml?oauth_nonce=71594710&oauth_timestamp=1240867081&oauth_consumer_key=&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_token=x&oauth_signature=

As always, I am completly open to me causing the problem :)  I am using
TwitterOAuthClient (python) for my oauthy goodness.

Kind Regards,
Paul Kinlan

[twitter-dev] Re: Show the source of the update (from [myapp]) without OAuth?

[Doug Williams]

As has been communicated on this board in the past, please email
a...@twitter.com with a valid reason why OAuth is not appropriate for
your application so we can discuss your needs.

Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw

On Apr 27, 1:36 pm, Dave Briccetti  wrote:
> I would like to know the same. I have a recently-renamed desktop
> application. Twitter’s OAuth support is in beta, no? Doesn’t mean the
> same as Google.
>
> I would like “talkingpuffin” and “simpletwitterclient” to map to
> “TalkingPuffin”. Twitter, can you help? Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Re: Is there an account suspension and an API suspension?

[RC]

Doug, I realize this is my fault.  My algorithm had managed to collect
up a number of suspended accounts and tried to follow them.  When I
kept seeing the "This account is suspended" message I got paranoid and
thought it was talking about my account, not the one I was trying to
follow.  My fault.  Sorry for the bother.  Keep up the good work.

On Apr 27, 2:25 pm, Doug Williams  wrote:
> What HTTP response code are you seeing? What is the text of the error? What
> method are you using when you see this error (is it only
> friendships/create)?
>
> Have you hit the follower limit [1]? Note: whitelisting will not increase
> follower or update limits.
>
> 1.http://status.twitter.com/post/98402835/a-note-about-per-day-followin...
>
> Doug Williams
> Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM, RC  wrote:
>
> > Lately I have been trying to do some following through the API and get
> > a response back saying the account was suspended while if I go to the
> > account web page it is clearly active.  Tweets through the API are
> > going on and other social functions are working.  The service that
> > exercises the API had applied for white listing several weeks ago.  Is
> > this an API limit problem or how can I figure out what the problem is?

[twitter-dev] Re: Show the source of the update (from [myapp]) without OAuth?

[Dave Briccetti]

I would like to know the same. I have a recently-renamed desktop
application. Twitter’s OAuth support is in beta, no? Doesn’t mean the
same as Google.

I would like “talkingpuffin” and “simpletwitterclient” to map to
“TalkingPuffin”. Twitter, can you help? Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Re: What is current search time range limit?

[Doug Williams]

>From #6 on Things Every Developer Should Know [1].
Search API Limit

Clients may request up to 1,500 statuses via the page and count parameters
for the search  method. The response to a
request exceeding this limit will be a status code of 200 and an empty
result in the format requested. This artificial limit is in place to ensure
the performance of the search system. We also restrict the size of the
search index by placing a date limit on the updates we allow you to search.
This limit is currently around a month but is dynamic and subject to shrink
as the number of tweets per day continues to grow.
1.
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#6Therearepaginationlimits

Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:47 PM, explicious  wrote:

>
> is that really supposed to be "dominoes" (sic) ?
>
> > days ... example: search "dominoes pizza".  I searched this on 4/17
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Is there an account suspension and an API suspension?

[Doug Williams]

What HTTP response code are you seeing? What is the text of the error? What
method are you using when you see this error (is it only
friendships/create)?

Have you hit the follower limit [1]? Note: whitelisting will not increase
follower or update limits.

1.
http://status.twitter.com/post/98402835/a-note-about-per-day-following-limits

Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM, RC  wrote:

>
> Lately I have been trying to do some following through the API and get
> a response back saying the account was suspended while if I go to the
> account web page it is clearly active.  Tweets through the API are
> going on and other social functions are working.  The service that
> exercises the API had applied for white listing several weeks ago.  Is
> this an API limit problem or how can I figure out what the problem is?
>

[twitter-dev] Re: a new application

[Matt Sanford]

Hi there,

From your description it sounds like you do need some storage of  
your own to keep information like this.



Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev


On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:49 PM, guru wrote:



@Matt.. what if my mobile application need to store some data provided
by user for other users.. where this will be stored?? and also.. this
application will not be used by only one user.. this is a feature
which will be shared amongst users..   this is for twitter itself and
will be used by all users.. both format will be available.. mobile as
well as desktop.. its a software (till now only concept) which will be
developed by me, maintained by me.. but will be used by twitter people
as an integrated software of twitter..

can u suggest me something?? its really a good idea.. do i need to
create my own webspace??



On Apr 27, 8:16 pm, guru  wrote:

please read "twitter" at the place of "tutor" .. extremely sorry for
this..

On Apr 27, 7:13 pm, guru  wrote:




Hi All,


I want to develop a new mobile application for twitter. But I have  
few

questions. Please help me as I am new for twitter and this forum.



1. If tutor users will use my mobile application, then some space is
required to store data of my application. does twitter provide space
to us to store data related for the user which will be generated  
by my

application?
if provides, then which type of space? any database facility?



2. To whom I will contact after developing this mobile application?



3. As this is a mobile application, so can u please suggest me that
what tools I should use?


thanks in advance.. please reply as soon as possible.- Hide quoted  
text -


- Show quoted text -

[twitter-dev] Re: Callback url during development

[Paul Kinlan]

This is going to sound silly, but I had it with a port on the settings page

I added http://www.twedaq.com:8080/oauth in to the oauth conf page, and then
changed my host file and all worked really well.

Paul

2009/4/27 Benjamin Cox 

>
> Unfortunately, I'm working on a dev machine that's doubling as a web
> server for another small project.  I simply cannot run on port 80 in
> development.
>
> Does that mean there is no way I can test oauth integration with
> Twitter?  Would you consider adding the ability to put a port number
> in the callback URL on the settings page?
>
> Please?
>
> Cheers,
>
>  Ben
>
> On Apr 26, 11:41 pm, Paul Kinlan  wrote:
> > I managed to set a port on the page when I was doing some google app
> > engine stuff.
> >
> > But saying that my dev server now runs on port 80 on my machine so it
> > isn't a problem much.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On 27 Apr 2009, at 06:58, Dimebrain  wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > How are you able to set this up for a non-standard port? HOSTS file is
> > > just for the domain/authority, and you can't specify a port in the
> > >callbackURL on the settings page?
> >
> > > On Apr 23, 7:31 pm, Jochen Kaechelin  wrote:
> > >> Am 24.04.2009 um 00:29 schrieb Paul Kinlan:
> >
> > >>> Hi,
> >
> > >>> During development I tend to modify my hosts file to point the
> > >>>callbackURL domain to my box for instance. This is quite good
> > >>> because all it affects is my box.
> >
> > >> I just had the same idea ... ;-)
> >
> > >> Works as expected now!!!
> >
> > >> Thanx
> >
> > >>> Paul
> >
> > >>> On 23 Apr 2009, at 23:16, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>
> > >>> wrote:
> >
> >  The oauth_callback parameter was just disabled do to security
> >  issues. Currently only the registeredcallbackworks. If you need a
> >  differentcallbacklocation for development set up a second
> >  application.
> >
> >  On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 17:12, Jochen Kaechelin
> >   wrote:
> >
> >  Am 22.04.2009 um 15:37 schrieb Abraham Williams:
> >
> > > Also when you are building the authorize url to send users to
> > > twitter.com you can add "&oauth_callback=http://localhost/
> > >callback"
> > > and that will override your applications registeredcallback.
> >
> >  OAuth::Consumer.new("xx", "xx",
> >  { :site=>"
> http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_callback=http://localhost:30
> >  ...
> >  " })
> >
> >  I can see the site where I have to Deny or Allow access.
> >  When I click "Allow" I will be redirected to the Domain which I
> >  entered in the
> >  OAUTHClients Registration Form (http://www.twitter.com/
> >  oauth_cleints)
> >
> >  Seems that the oauth_callback parameter does not work!
> >  Is it in the wrong place?
> >
> >  Any hints!?
> >
> >  Thanx
> >
> >  --
> >  Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com
> >  Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham
> >  Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org
> >  This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
> >  Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
>

[twitter-dev] Re: What is current search time range limit?

[explicious]

is that really supposed to be "dominoes" (sic) ?

> days ... example: search "dominoes pizza".  I searched this on 4/17

[twitter-dev] Re: a new application

[Andrew Badera]

Great place to store all your data:

http://www.mariowiki.com/Bottomless_Coin_Sack

I'm sure you realize that you need to procure your own webspace and host for
your application, right? Twitter isn't a distribution center -- this isn't
the AppStore. (And for that matter, Apple doesn't  give storage space away
for iPhone apps, either.)


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:49 PM, guru  wrote:

>
> @Matt.. what if my mobile application need to store some data provided
> by user for other users.. where this will be stored?? and also.. this
> application will not be used by only one user.. this is a feature
> which will be shared amongst users..   this is for twitter itself and
> will be used by all users.. both format will be available.. mobile as
> well as desktop.. its a software (till now only concept) which will be
> developed by me, maintained by me.. but will be used by twitter people
> as an integrated software of twitter..
>
> can u suggest me something?? its really a good idea.. do i need to
> create my own webspace??
>
>
>
> On Apr 27, 8:16 pm, guru  wrote:
> > please read "twitter" at the place of "tutor" .. extremely sorry for
> > this..
> >
> > On Apr 27, 7:13 pm, guru  wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi All,
> >
> > > I want to develop a new mobile application for twitter. But I have few
> > > questions. Please help me as I am new for twitter and this forum.
> >
> > > 1. If tutor users will use my mobile application, then some space is
> > > required to store data of my application. does twitter provide space
> > > to us to store data related for the user which will be generated by my
> > > application?
> > > if provides, then which type of space? any database facility?
> >
> > > 2. To whom I will contact after developing this mobile application?
> >
> > > 3. As this is a mobile application, so can u please suggest me that
> > > what tools I should use?
> >
> > > thanks in advance.. please reply as soon as possible.- Hide quoted text
> -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Callback url during development

[Benjamin Cox]

Unfortunately, I'm working on a dev machine that's doubling as a web
server for another small project.  I simply cannot run on port 80 in
development.

Does that mean there is no way I can test oauth integration with
Twitter?  Would you consider adding the ability to put a port number
in the callback URL on the settings page?

Please?

Cheers,

  Ben

On Apr 26, 11:41 pm, Paul Kinlan  wrote:
> I managed to set a port on the page when I was doing some google app  
> engine stuff.
>
> But saying that my dev server now runs on port 80 on my machine so it  
> isn't a problem much.
>
> Paul
>
> On 27 Apr 2009, at 06:58, Dimebrain  wrote:
>
>
>
> > How are you able to set this up for a non-standard port? HOSTS file is
> > just for the domain/authority, and you can't specify a port in the
> >callbackURL on the settings page?
>
> > On Apr 23, 7:31 pm, Jochen Kaechelin  wrote:
> >> Am 24.04.2009 um 00:29 schrieb Paul Kinlan:
>
> >>> Hi,
>
> >>> During development I tend to modify my hosts file to point the
> >>>callbackURL domain to my box for instance. This is quite good
> >>> because all it affects is my box.
>
> >> I just had the same idea ... ;-)
>
> >> Works as expected now!!!
>
> >> Thanx
>
> >>> Paul
>
> >>> On 23 Apr 2009, at 23:16, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>  
> >>> wrote:
>
>  The oauth_callback parameter was just disabled do to security
>  issues. Currently only the registeredcallbackworks. If you need a
>  differentcallbacklocation for development set up a second
>  application.
>
>  On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 17:12, Jochen Kaechelin
>   wrote:
>
>  Am 22.04.2009 um 15:37 schrieb Abraham Williams:
>
> > Also when you are building the authorize url to send users to
> > twitter.com you can add "&oauth_callback=http://localhost/
> >callback"
> > and that will override your applications registeredcallback.
>
>  OAuth::Consumer.new("xx", "xx",
>  { 
>  :site=>"http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_callback=http://localhost:30
>  ...
>  " })
>
>  I can see the site where I have to Deny or Allow access.
>  When I click "Allow" I will be redirected to the Domain which I
>  entered in the
>  OAUTHClients Registration Form (http://www.twitter.com/
>  oauth_cleints)
>
>  Seems that the oauth_callback parameter does not work!
>  Is it in the wrong place?
>
>  Any hints!?
>
>  Thanx
>
>  --
>  Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com
>  Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham
>  Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org
>  This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>  Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States

[twitter-dev] Is there an account suspension and an API suspension?

[RC]

Lately I have been trying to do some following through the API and get
a response back saying the account was suspended while if I go to the
account web page it is clearly active.  Tweets through the API are
going on and other social functions are working.  The service that
exercises the API had applied for white listing several weeks ago.  Is
this an API limit problem or how can I figure out what the problem is?

[twitter-dev] Re: a new application

[guru]

@Matt.. what if my mobile application need to store some data provided
by user for other users.. where this will be stored?? and also.. this
application will not be used by only one user.. this is a feature
which will be shared amongst users..   this is for twitter itself and
will be used by all users.. both format will be available.. mobile as
well as desktop.. its a software (till now only concept) which will be
developed by me, maintained by me.. but will be used by twitter people
as an integrated software of twitter..

can u suggest me something?? its really a good idea.. do i need to
create my own webspace??



On Apr 27, 8:16 pm, guru  wrote:
> please read "twitter" at the place of "tutor" .. extremely sorry for
> this..
>
> On Apr 27, 7:13 pm, guru  wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi All,
>
> > I want to develop a new mobile application for twitter. But I have few
> > questions. Please help me as I am new for twitter and this forum.
>
> > 1. If tutor users will use my mobile application, then some space is
> > required to store data of my application. does twitter provide space
> > to us to store data related for the user which will be generated by my
> > application?
> > if provides, then which type of space? any database facility?
>
> > 2. To whom I will contact after developing this mobile application?
>
> > 3. As this is a mobile application, so can u please suggest me that
> > what tools I should use?
>
> > thanks in advance.. please reply as soon as possible.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[twitter-dev] What is current search time range limit?

[Jeffrey Greenberg]

Is there an absolute time limit past which searches will fail? What is
that limit exactly

I thought I had read 4 months but don't see this info in the new
documentation. Furthermore, with the API I am seeing something like 25
days ... example: search "dominoes pizza".  I searched this on 4/17
and had responses from march, but now, one week later (today is
4/27/2009 ) I see no responses before April 2, and yet I know there
were matching tweets in march...

Appreciate your clarification of the documentation...

[twitter-dev] Re: getting an error about read-write access. Why?

[tayknight]

Thanks. That got it. Once i started sending oauth_access_type
everything worked. Did I miss this somewhere in the API docs?

On Apr 27, 10:32 am, Matt Sanford  wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>      Did you recently change the application from Read to Read/Write?  
> The error message is a little misleading since R/RW is now on a per-
> token basis [1]. I suggest re-authorizing the user and see if the  
> error continues.
>
> Thanks;
>   – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
>       Twitter Dev
>
> [1] -http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=302
>
> On Apr 26, 2009, at 10:34 PM, tayknight wrote:
>
>
>
> > My OAuth application, in 'Edit Application Settings' shows 'Read &
> > Write' is checked. Yet, when I try an api method that requires POST,
> > I'm getting a 401 "error":"Read-only application cannot POST". Why
> > would this be? Neither the user making the request nor the OAuth app
> > have their status set to protected.
>
> > Thanks for the help.
>
>

[twitter-dev] Re: count parameter not correctly used for /direct_messages.format

[Doug Williams]

An issue has been opened to track this defect [1].

1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=525

Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Hwee-Boon Yar  wrote:

>
> wget http://id:passw...@twitter.com/direct_messages.xml?count=15
> grep " | wc -l
>
> prints 9.
>
>
> Ditto for other numbers.
>
> --
> Hwee-Boon
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing truncated XML responses again

[Doug Williams]

Thanks Dossy, I'll check with the Operation's guys to see what's up.

Thanks,
Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Dossy Shiobara  wrote:

>
> On 4/27/09 1:48 PM, Doug Williams wrote:
>
>> Can you give an example request that is yielding truncated responses?
>>
>
> statuses/followers and statuses/friends methods, randomly.  Here's an
> example as sniffed off the network wire:
>
> GET /statuses/followers/14512675.xml?page=1 HTTP/1.0
> Accept: */*
> Host: twitter.com
> User-Agent: Tcl http client package 2.5.5
> Authorization: REDACTED
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:12:36 GMT
> Server: hi
> Last-Modified: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:12:36 GMT
> Status: 200 OK
> X-RateLimit-Limit: 100
> ETag: "fdb1c0f45474731d9217aa8c3be1f64e"
> X-RateLimit-Remaining: 95
> Pragma: no-cache
> Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0,
> post-check=0
> Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
> X-RateLimit-Reset: 1240857598
> Content-Length: 180270
> Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT
> X-Revision: 427f3a44794f891adc58fae386da935822f21de8
> X-Transaction: 1240855956-8004-28824
> Set-Cookie: lang=en; path=/
> Set-Cookie: lang=en; path=/
> Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7**REDACTED**c55a; domain=.twitter.com;
> path=/
> Vary: Accept-Encoding
> Connection: close
>
> 
> 
> ...
> 
>  15941343
>  Damien Basile
>  db
>  Brooklyn, NY
>  Brand Strategy Expert. Email me for speaking engagements, to
> hire me for consulting or to say hi : Damien @thecauseisthehabit.com
> 
>  http://s3.amazonaws.com/t
>
>
>
> --
> Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
> Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
>  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing truncated XML responses again

[Dossy Shiobara]

On 4/27/09 1:48 PM, Doug Williams wrote:

Can you give an example request that is yielding truncated responses?


statuses/followers and statuses/friends methods, randomly.  Here's an 
example as sniffed off the network wire:


GET /statuses/followers/14512675.xml?page=1 HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Host: twitter.com
User-Agent: Tcl http client package 2.5.5
Authorization: REDACTED

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:12:36 GMT
Server: hi
Last-Modified: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:12:36 GMT
Status: 200 OK
X-RateLimit-Limit: 100
ETag: "fdb1c0f45474731d9217aa8c3be1f64e"
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 95
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, 
post-check=0

Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
X-RateLimit-Reset: 1240857598
Content-Length: 180270
Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT
X-Revision: 427f3a44794f891adc58fae386da935822f21de8
X-Transaction: 1240855956-8004-28824
Set-Cookie: lang=en; path=/
Set-Cookie: lang=en; path=/
Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7**REDACTED**c55a; domain=.twitter.com; path=/
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close



...

  15941343
  Damien Basile
  db
  Brooklyn, NY
  Brand Strategy Expert. Email me for speaking 
engagements, to hire me for consulting or to say hi : Damien 
@thecauseisthehabit.com

  http://s3.amazonaws.com/t


--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Re: Signup URL?

[Doug Williams]

For now it is best to link to twitter.com. There is currently a team working
on this problem but unfortunately, until they are done, there is no good
mobile signup solution.

Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Pleasant Software <
pleasantsoftw...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> Which URL should I use to link to Twitter's signup page on a iPhone?
>
> I tried http://twitter.com/signup but this results in a error "Extra
> content at the end of the document" in Safari.
>
> When using http://twitter.com or http://m.twitter.com, the user lands
> on a "sign in" page for mobile devices. On this "sign in" isn't any
> "Sign up" or "Join" link. So this doesn't seem a got URL to land on
> for signing up either.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Cheers,
> Eberhard
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Confirming whitelisting status

[Dossy Shiobara]

On 4/27/09 1:28 PM, Doug Williams wrote:

I have added that IP (96.56.31.42) to your whitelisting record. Give it
an hour or so to take effect then ping @twitterapi if you are still
having problems.


Thanks, Doug!

--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Re: some user cant send reply's ?

[Doug Williams]

I'm having a hard time understanding your goal and your means. Can you take
me step-by-step through what you have done and what you expect to be the
result?

Thanks,
Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Apostol Victor
wrote:

> hi
>
> I have 2 users from one i am doing some api test but the reply's from him
> don't get to the other user
>
> i did sent reply's from my app and from web
>
> but i my main user time line i am not seeing them
>
> what are the problems?
>
> --
> victor
>
> http://apostolvictor.info
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter shortcuts return nothing useful in API

[Doug Williams]

Try using the direct message methods documented here [1] to send direct
messages. The returned text is direct message centric and perhaps more
appropriate for your application.

1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation

Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Kelly Jones wrote:

>
> I did this:
>
> curl -u kellyterryjones:xx http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml -d
> 'statu\
> s=D+canageek+Ignore+this+test+golf'
>
> w/ my real password. It DM'd my friend (follower) canageek, but it returned
> my
> last public tweet, not "Ignore this test golf".
>
> I then replaced canageek w/ britneyspears and got the same result,
> instead of an error saying britneyspears isn't following me.
>
> Even worse, when I do:
>
> curl -u kellyterryjones:xx http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml -d
> 'statu\
> s=STATS'
>
> I don't get any STATS on myself.
>
> In fact, all of the shortcuts at the bottom of:
> http://help.twitter.com/portal seem to return my last public tweet.
>
> Am I doing this wrong?
>
> I realize things like "FOLLOW foo" actually do follow foo, but
> shouldn't it return something more useful than my last public tweet?
>
> --
> We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying
> to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to
> new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Suggestion for image uploads from 3rd party applications

[Doug Williams]

This is not an enhancement that would likely be made to the API itself. Have
you thought about making this as an application that other developers could
use? All of this functionality could be contained within a third-party app.

Thanks,
Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:39 AM, DaveK  wrote:

>
> Just kind of thinking aloud here.
>
> I was thinking about the bandwidth overhead for applications which use
> the API to set avatar or profile background images and had an idea.
>
> How about allowing an application to register an uploaded image with
> some sort of id or handle and then be able to set the avatar or
> background image to that id?
>
> e.g.
> app foobar uploads an image and registers it as "bg1"
> it can then make calls to update several accounts and set the profile
> background image to "foobar:bg1" or similar.
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing truncated XML responses again

[Doug Williams]

Can you give an example request that is yielding truncated responses?

Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Dossy Shiobara  wrote:

>
> I'm seeing truncated XML responses from the Twitter API again today,
> starting around 11 AM US/Eastern time, and ongoing as of this moment.
>
>
> --
> Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
> Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
>  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile Image Uploading - image doesn't change ...

[Clint Shryock]

Updating background and profile images is buggy right now, it's a known
issue
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=451&q=image&colspec=ID%20Stars%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Owner%20Summary%20Opened%20Milestone

+Clint

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:16 AM, janole  wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to upload a user profile image via the API and I'll get a
> 200 OK and the user-info in JSON as a return. However, the profile
> image doesn't change.
>
> Tried with different image names and sizes but to no avail.
>
> By the way, when sending without a "Content-Type: image/jpeg" ( but
> "application/octet-stream" ), the API said the image file was probably
> too large - it was ~ 70kB though.
>
> Not sure if there's something wrong in the form/multipart code, but on
> the other hand the same code is working for TwitPic/MobyPicture/
> Posterous and TwitGoo.
>
> Cheers
> @janole / Gravity
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Confirming whitelisting status

[Doug Williams]

Dossy,
I have added that IP (96.56.31.42) to your whitelisting record. Give it an
hour or so to take effect then ping @twitterapi if you are still having
problems.

Thanks,
Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Dossy Shiobara  wrote:

>
> On 4/27/09 12:40 PM, Chad Etzel wrote:
>
>> If you have a local/different webserver you can curl something from
>> there and see what IP it looks like to that remote server in its logs.
>> I've had this same issue with some hosting companies.
>>
>
> Good idea.  I just curl'ed from the Twitter Karma server on 96.56.31.42
> which is NOT at Media Temple to a server there, and the IP came back as
> 96.56.31.42 in the access log.
>
> --
> Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
> Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
>  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Confirming whitelisting status

[Dossy Shiobara]

On 4/27/09 12:40 PM, Chad Etzel wrote:

If you have a local/different webserver you can curl something from
there and see what IP it looks like to that remote server in its logs.
I've had this same issue with some hosting companies.


Good idea.  I just curl'ed from the Twitter Karma server on 96.56.31.42 
which is NOT at Media Temple to a server there, and the IP came back as 
96.56.31.42 in the access log.


--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Re: a new application

[guru]

please read "twitter" at the place of "tutor" .. extremely sorry for
this..

On Apr 27, 7:13 pm, guru  wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to develop a new mobile application for twitter. But I have few
> questions. Please help me as I am new for twitter and this forum.
>
> 1. If tutor users will use my mobile application, then some space is
> required to store data of my application. does twitter provide space
> to us to store data related for the user which will be generated by my
> application?
> if provides, then which type of space? any database facility?
>
> 2. To whom I will contact after developing this mobile application?
>
> 3. As this is a mobile application, so can u please suggest me that
> what tools I should use?
>
> thanks in advance.. please reply as soon as possible.

[twitter-dev] Re: Confirming whitelisting status

[Chad Etzel]

Or better yet, just curl  http://jazzychad.net/iponly.php from your
server and see what it gets back.

-Chad

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Chad Etzel  wrote:
> If you have a local/different webserver you can curl something from
> there and see what IP it looks like to that remote server in its logs.
> I've had this same issue with some hosting companies.
>
> -Chad
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Dossy Shiobara  wrote:
>>
>> On 4/27/09 12:23 PM, Matt Sanford wrote:
>>>
>>> I can say from experience the last 5 or so people who re-submitted
>>> were in the access logs with an IP they swore they were not using. Is it
>>> at all possible you're accessing via a 2nd interface on the same machine
>>> or via NAT? We could have it recorded incorrectly, or have a bug, but
>>> the last 5 were all unknown NAT issues so that might be something you
>>> can check while you wait on us to confirm.
>>
>> While it's entirely possible, I hope that's not happening.  All of my
>> requests should be coming from 96.56.31.42.
>>
>> Network-side packet captures show the source IP as being 96.56.31.42.  I
>> suspect my IP whitelisting either never happened (bizarre!) or recently
>> disappeared, or something else.
>>
>> Or, maybe my ISP is doing some funky NAT upstream from me.  I don't think
>> so, though.
>>
>> --
>> Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
>> Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
>>  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>>folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>>
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Confirming whitelisting status

[Chad Etzel]

If you have a local/different webserver you can curl something from
there and see what IP it looks like to that remote server in its logs.
I've had this same issue with some hosting companies.

-Chad

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Dossy Shiobara  wrote:
>
> On 4/27/09 12:23 PM, Matt Sanford wrote:
>>
>> I can say from experience the last 5 or so people who re-submitted
>> were in the access logs with an IP they swore they were not using. Is it
>> at all possible you're accessing via a 2nd interface on the same machine
>> or via NAT? We could have it recorded incorrectly, or have a bug, but
>> the last 5 were all unknown NAT issues so that might be something you
>> can check while you wait on us to confirm.
>
> While it's entirely possible, I hope that's not happening.  All of my
> requests should be coming from 96.56.31.42.
>
> Network-side packet captures show the source IP as being 96.56.31.42.  I
> suspect my IP whitelisting either never happened (bizarre!) or recently
> disappeared, or something else.
>
> Or, maybe my ISP is doing some funky NAT upstream from me.  I don't think
> so, though.
>
> --
> Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
> Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
>  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Advanced Search Date Range

[Matt Sanford]

Hi there,

We're working to make the window of tweets you can search longer  
but we've had some technical limitations to work out. Once we have  
passed these issues we should be able to make the window larger but I  
think it is unlikely we will ever support searching all tweets.


Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev

On Apr 25, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Esé wrote:



Hi,

I've been trying to dig up some older tweets by date range (from last
year) and the results keep coming up empty. I found this post from
Matt here - 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/e4cec438a1c8bbc5
-

"The reason for your error is that the since: date you  provided is
older than the data currently available. We plan to improve the error
messaging when we merge the search and main APIs, so hopefully things
will be clearer after that.
We try to keep as much search data on hand as we can but we're
currently limited on disk space. As the rate of tweets increases we
need more and more disk to keep old data on hand. We've ordered more
disks and await them eagerly. Once those are installed the date range
for searches can start growing again. Sorry for the confusing error
messaging. "

So, currently, are only the past 7 days or so indexed? And would there
be an ETA as to when all the archived tweets are finally made
available or are you folks still fighting the happy problem of just
trying to not get swamped right now? :-)

Thanks!

E.

[twitter-dev] Re: feature request/enhancement for "friendships/exists"

[Matt Sanford]

Hi Dean,

This sounds like a reasonable request. Please file a feature  
request [1] so we don't forget about it.


Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev

[1] - 
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry?template=Feature%20Request

On Apr 24, 2009, at 8:56 PM, dean.j.robinson wrote:



So, if I've got two users "user_a" and "user_b" the method currently
works like this (from api wiki):

"Tests for the existence of friendship between two users. Will return
true if user_a follows user_b, otherwise will return false."


Now, if I also wanted to know if "user_b" follows "user_a" I currently
need to do an additional api call, it would be great if both could be
done with one call.

I'm looking at using this to determine, a. if you can send a DM to the
user you're trying to, and b. if that user is then going to be able to
reply.

Something like  http://twitter.com/friendships/mutual.format  taking
the same two params "user_a" and "user_b", and perhaps returning
something like:
true  (ie. user_a follows user_b)
true  (ie. user_b follows user_a)


also, it'd be nice if this post doesn't get deleted, without
explanation, like the last two I've posted. :)

[twitter-dev] Re: 417- Expectation failed error

[Abraham Williams]

Try running your request through a Charles proxy to make sure the expect
header is not getting added.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:18, sttester  wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am starting this as a new thread because I did not get any reply
> since 4 days in the below thread:
>
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/7c67ff1a2407dee7
>
> The '417- Expectation failed error' occurs again for me while updating
> status. I am using the Yedda Twitter library. I have already added
> 'System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;' to my
> Posting function:
>
> protected string ExecutePostCommand(string url, string userName,
> string password, string data)
>{
>
>WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
>if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(userName) && !
> string.IsNullOrEmpty(password))
>{
>request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName,
> password);
>request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-
> urlencoded";
>request.Method = "POST";
>System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue =
> false;
>
> etc etc.
>
> I tried changing the position of
> 'System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;' to above
> the WebRequest object creation, but that also does n't help.
>
> This occurs in random. Please help me out of this situation as this
> has been happening since a week now.
>
> Thanks in advance
>



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[twitter-dev] Re: Confirming whitelisting status

[Dossy Shiobara]

On 4/27/09 12:23 PM, Matt Sanford wrote:

 I can say from experience the last 5 or so people who re-submitted
were in the access logs with an IP they swore they were not using. Is it
at all possible you're accessing via a 2nd interface on the same machine
or via NAT? We could have it recorded incorrectly, or have a bug, but
the last 5 were all unknown NAT issues so that might be something you
can check while you wait on us to confirm.


While it's entirely possible, I hope that's not happening.  All of my 
requests should be coming from 96.56.31.42.


Network-side packet captures show the source IP as being 96.56.31.42.  I 
suspect my IP whitelisting either never happened (bizarre!) or recently 
disappeared, or something else.


Or, maybe my ISP is doing some funky NAT upstream from me.  I don't 
think so, though.


--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Re: Confirming whitelisting status

[Matt Sanford]

Hi Dossy,

I can say from experience the last 5 or so people who re- 
submitted were in the access logs with an IP they swore they were not  
using. Is it at all possible you're accessing via a 2nd interface on  
the same machine or via NAT? We could have it recorded incorrectly, or  
have a bug, but the last 5 were all unknown NAT issues so that might  
be something you can check while you wait on us to confirm.


Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev




On Apr 27, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote:



On 4/27/09 12:17 PM, Abraham Williams wrote:

If you call rate_limit_status authenticated as yourself and return is
greater then 100 then it is your account. You can also make the same
call unauthenticated from the IP.


That's a fantastic way of doing it, Abraham.  Thanks.  I've just  
confirmed that, sadly, my IP was NOT whitelisted as I thought.


Time to put in the request.  Again.

--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
 "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
   folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Re: Confirming whitelisting status

[Dossy Shiobara]

On 4/27/09 12:17 PM, Abraham Williams wrote:

If you call rate_limit_status authenticated as yourself and return is
greater then 100 then it is your account. You can also make the same
call unauthenticated from the IP.


That's a fantastic way of doing it, Abraham.  Thanks.  I've just 
confirmed that, sadly, my IP was NOT whitelisted as I thought.


Time to put in the request.  Again.

--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Re: a new application

[Dossy Shiobara]

On 4/27/09 11:43 AM, Andrew Badera wrote:

September already?


I guess we know what kind of project just got posted on rent-a-coder.

--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Re: Confirming whitelisting status

[Abraham Williams]

If you call rate_limit_status authenticated as yourself and return is
greater then 100 then it is your account. You can also make the same call
unauthenticated from the IP.

[1]
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-account%C2%A0rate_limit_status

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:07, Dossy Shiobara  wrote:

>
> On 4/27/09 11:25 AM, Matt Sanford wrote:
>
>> This is why we added the X-RateLimit-* headers, so you can check the
>> status on the actual calls you perform and not need to make another
>> call. Those should tell you your current limit when calling the ids
>> method.
>>
>
> OK, I know what's on the wiki re: rate limit policy, but what I'm actually
> observing appears to contradict it.
>
> Many of the requests coming back are showing that the limit is 100 for each
> user, but I thought my IP was whitelisted, which the wiki says should take
> precedence over the user's rate limit.
>
> So, what is the policy?  Perhaps it's just my Twitter ID @dossy that's been
> whitelisted, but not my IP?  How could I confirm this?
>
>
> --
> Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
> Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
>  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>



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Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham
Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org
This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.

[twitter-dev] Seeing truncated XML responses again

[Dossy Shiobara]

I'm seeing truncated XML responses from the Twitter API again today, 
starting around 11 AM US/Eastern time, and ongoing as of this moment.



--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Re: Encrypting tweets using public keys and MIME64

[Chad Etzel]

"Say receive encrypted DMs over SMS and need to decrypt them on the
fly. There's an app for that!"
/runs off to write DMd3crypt0r.app

-Chad

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Matt Sanford  wrote:
>
> My take on this …
>
>I sort of like the idea but I'd be a little miffed if I were paying to be
> SMS'd a encrypted strings.
>
> Thanks;
>  – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
> Twitter Dev
>
>
> On Apr 27, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Swaroop wrote:
>
>>
>> Err. DMs don't suit the purpose?
>>
>> On Apr 27, 1:59 am, Kelly Jones  wrote:
>>>
>>> Encrypting tweets using public keys and MIME64 seems easy enough, eg:
>>>
>>> http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5330-Encrypted-direct-messages-in-Tw...
>>>
>>> Has any client implemented something like this?
>>>
>>> --
>>> We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying
>>> to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to
>>> new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.
>
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Confirming whitelisting status

[Dossy Shiobara]

On 4/27/09 11:25 AM, Matt Sanford wrote:

This is why we added the X-RateLimit-* headers, so you can check the
status on the actual calls you perform and not need to make another
call. Those should tell you your current limit when calling the ids method.


OK, I know what's on the wiki re: rate limit policy, but what I'm 
actually observing appears to contradict it.


Many of the requests coming back are showing that the limit is 100 for 
each user, but I thought my IP was whitelisted, which the wiki says 
should take precedence over the user's rate limit.


So, what is the policy?  Perhaps it's just my Twitter ID @dossy that's 
been whitelisted, but not my IP?  How could I confirm this?


--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Re: a new application

[Andrew Badera]

September already?


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Matt Sanford  wrote:

>
> Comments inline …
>
> On Apr 27, 2009, at 7:13 AM, guru wrote:
>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I want to develop a new mobile application for twitter. But I have few
>> questions. Please help me as I am new for twitter and this forum.
>>
>> 1. If tutor users will use my mobile application, then some space is
>> required to store data of my application. does twitter provide space
>> to us to store data related for the user which will be generated by my
>> application?
>> if provides, then which type of space? any database facility?
>>
>
> Twitter does not provide any storage for application data.
>
>
>> 2. To whom I will contact after developing this mobile application?
>>
>
> Twitter does not currently host any sort of application directory, nor do
> we have any sort of approval process. I recommend putting your application
> out on the web, letting people on this list know or on mobile development
> forums.
>
>
>> 3. As this is a mobile application, so can u please suggest me that
>> what tools I should use?
>>
>
> That all depends on what languages you know and what phones you want to run
> on. From the twitter side I would check out the API documentation at
> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation, and maybe the list
> of known libraries at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Libraries
>
>
>> thanks in advance.. please reply as soon as possible.
>>
>
> Thanks;
>  – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
> Twitter Dev
>
>
>
>

[twitter-dev] Re: a new application

[Matt Sanford]

Comments inline …

On Apr 27, 2009, at 7:13 AM, guru wrote:



Hi All,

I want to develop a new mobile application for twitter. But I have few
questions. Please help me as I am new for twitter and this forum.

1. If tutor users will use my mobile application, then some space is
required to store data of my application. does twitter provide space
to us to store data related for the user which will be generated by my
application?
if provides, then which type of space? any database facility?


Twitter does not provide any storage for application data.



2. To whom I will contact after developing this mobile application?


Twitter does not currently host any sort of application directory, nor  
do we have any sort of approval process. I recommend putting your  
application out on the web, letting people on this list know or on  
mobile development forums.




3. As this is a mobile application, so can u please suggest me that
what tools I should use?


That all depends on what languages you know and what phones you want  
to run on. From the twitter side I would check out the API  
documentation at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation,  
and maybe the list of known libraries at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Libraries




thanks in advance.. please reply as soon as possible.


Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev

[twitter-dev] Re: Encrypting tweets using public keys and MIME64

[Matt Sanford]

My take on this …

I sort of like the idea but I'd be a little miffed if I were  
paying to be SMS'd a encrypted strings.


Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev


On Apr 27, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Swaroop wrote:



Err. DMs don't suit the purpose?

On Apr 27, 1:59 am, Kelly Jones  wrote:

Encrypting tweets using public keys and MIME64 seems easy enough, eg:

http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5330-Encrypted-direct-messages-in- 
Tw...


Has any client implemented something like this?

--
We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying
to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to
new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.

[twitter-dev] Re: getting an error about read-write access. Why?

[Matt Sanford]

Hi there,

Did you recently change the application from Read to Read/Write?  
The error message is a little misleading since R/RW is now on a per- 
token basis [1]. I suggest re-authorizing the user and see if the  
error continues.


Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev

[1] - http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=302


On Apr 26, 2009, at 10:34 PM, tayknight wrote:



My OAuth application, in 'Edit Application Settings' shows 'Read &
Write' is checked. Yet, when I try an api method that requires POST,
I'm getting a 401 "error":"Read-only application cannot POST". Why
would this be? Neither the user making the request nor the OAuth app
have their status set to protected.

Thanks for the help.

[twitter-dev] Re: Confirming whitelisting status

[Matt Sanford]

Hi Dossy,

This is why we added the X-RateLimit-* headers, so you can check  
the status on the actual calls you perform and not need to make  
another call. Those should tell you your current limit when calling  
the ids method.


Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev

On Apr 26, 2009, at 5:16 PM, Dossy Shiobara wrote:



Hi,

How can an application confirm its whitelisting status?  I thought  
my IP was whitelisted, but when I make authenticated requests from  
my IP, I often see HTTP 400 rate limit error responses to the REST  
API.


The same user can auth. from their Twitter client app. from a  
different IP and does not receive a rate limit response.


Specifically, it appears like the social graph methods don't respect  
my IP whitelisting status.  Is that possible?


--
Dossy Shiobara  | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
 "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
   folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[twitter-dev] Re: Feature Request: Publicly Mark Tweets That You Like (i.e. digg a tweet)

[@mikestead]

Just noticed Vimeo has this feature for their videos too and use it
build relevant feeds.

On Apr 25, 3:28 pm, "@mikestead"  wrote:
> Thanks for the link, it also lead me tohttp://favotter.matope.com/en/.
>
> These services are nice, but in regards to what I suggested, just skim
> the surface. I guess in my mind for this to work it needs to be rolled
> out as a core feature. This way all the major front end clients would
> look to integrate it, along with the website, like what happened with
> the "favorite" option.
>
> Without this widespread adoption, If some of my friends use it and
> some don't then the impact of its usefulness is greatly reduced for
> me, them, and the rest of the Twitterverse (and Twitter the company).
> Maybe this could be said of a lot of third party Twitter services
> however.
>
> On Apr 25, 2:44 pm, Cameron Kaiser  wrote:
>
> > > First off I'm sorry if this has been requested previously (I'm sure it
> > > has somewhere), I searched around the group and couldn't spot anything
> > > related.
>
> > > The feature is pretty straightforward on the surface. If I see a tweet
> > > that I like, then I can publicly mark it as such. This then opens up a
> > > whole lot of great features including:
>
> > You're basically asking something along the lines of a favourites-driven
> > site. There isn't a lot out there on it, but among other things look at
> > favrd and similar services.
>
> > --
> >  
> > personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/--
> >   Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com*ckai...@floodgap.com
> > -- 10% of computer users [use] Mac ... the top 10 percent. -- Douglas Adams 
> > ---

[twitter-dev] a new application

[guru]

Hi All,

I want to develop a new mobile application for twitter. But I have few
questions. Please help me as I am new for twitter and this forum.

1. If tutor users will use my mobile application, then some space is
required to store data of my application. does twitter provide space
to us to store data related for the user which will be generated by my
application?
if provides, then which type of space? any database facility?

2. To whom I will contact after developing this mobile application?

3. As this is a mobile application, so can u please suggest me that
what tools I should use?

thanks in advance.. please reply as soon as possible.

[twitter-dev] Re: Search if a user profile exists based on his email id / name

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > > Is it possible to know if a user (profile) exists based on email id .
> >
> > No.
>
> There is an API for search,  cant we use it to search if users exists
> or not. I think twitter gives you, I would like it to use on my
> website as a widget where I can search for a user based on emailid or
> username and then proceed to his twitter page.

The Search API does not allow searching for users by E-mail. As far as
username, you can simply query the username and see if it exists.

-- 
 personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley Montagu 

[twitter-dev] Profile Image Uploading - image doesn't change ...

[janole]

Hi,

I'm trying to upload a user profile image via the API and I'll get a
200 OK and the user-info in JSON as a return. However, the profile
image doesn't change.

Tried with different image names and sizes but to no avail.

By the way, when sending without a "Content-Type: image/jpeg" ( but
"application/octet-stream" ), the API said the image file was probably
too large - it was ~ 70kB though.

Not sure if there's something wrong in the form/multipart code, but on
the other hand the same code is working for TwitPic/MobyPicture/
Posterous and TwitGoo.

Cheers
@janole / Gravity

[twitter-dev] Re: Encrypting tweets using public keys and MIME64

[Swaroop]

Err. DMs don't suit the purpose?

On Apr 27, 1:59 am, Kelly Jones  wrote:
> Encrypting tweets using public keys and MIME64 seems easy enough, eg:
>
> http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5330-Encrypted-direct-messages-in-Tw...
>
> Has any client implemented something like this?
>
> --
> We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying
> to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to
> new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.

[twitter-dev] Suggestion for image uploads from 3rd party applications

[DaveK]

Just kind of thinking aloud here.

I was thinking about the bandwidth overhead for applications which use
the API to set avatar or profile background images and had an idea.

How about allowing an application to register an uploaded image with
some sort of id or handle and then be able to set the avatar or
background image to that id?

e.g.
app foobar uploads an image and registers it as "bg1"
it can then make calls to update several accounts and set the profile
background image to "foobar:bg1" or similar.

[twitter-dev] Re: Search if a user profile exists based on his email id / name

[king]

There is an API for search,  cant we use it to search if users exists
or not. I think twitter gives you, I would like it to use on my
website as a widget where I can search for a user based on emailid or
username and then proceed to his twitter page.

Thank you

On Apr 25, 7:10 pm, Cameron Kaiser  wrote:
> > Is it possible to know if a user (profile) exists based on email id .
>
> No.
>
> --
>  personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/--
>   Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com
> -- DON'T PANIC! 
> ---

[twitter-dev] 417- Expectation failed error

[sttester]

Hi,

I am starting this as a new thread because I did not get any reply
since 4 days in the below thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/7c67ff1a2407dee7

The '417- Expectation failed error' occurs again for me while updating
status. I am using the Yedda Twitter library. I have already added
'System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;' to my
Posting function:

protected string ExecutePostCommand(string url, string userName,
string password, string data)
{

WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(userName) && !
string.IsNullOrEmpty(password))
{
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName,
password);
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-
urlencoded";
request.Method = "POST";
System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue =
false;

etc etc.

I tried changing the position of
'System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;' to above
the WebRequest object creation, but that also does n't help.

This occurs in random. Please help me out of this situation as this
has been happening since a week now.

Thanks in advance

[twitter-dev] Re: Yet another from "my app" related question

[Emrah KAVUN]

Hello!

Thanks a lot for your reply, I understand better now.

Cheers,
emrah
Chad Etzel wrote:
> No, you cannot.  "Source parameter registration" has been depricated
> for non-OAuth apps.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/ce57405a08483877/715c330a15e4968d
>
> -Chad
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Emrah  wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can see aplications made in 2007 with the from "my app" appended.
>> Any hint on how I can specify the source without OAuth?
>> I am using OAuth with great satisfaction but I still annoys me to rely on a 
>> Web token/platform.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Emrah KAVUN
>> 
>>
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[twitter-dev] getting an error about read-write access. Why?

[tayknight]

My OAuth application, in 'Edit Application Settings' shows 'Read &
Write' is checked. Yet, when I try an api method that requires POST,
I'm getting a 401 "error":"Read-only application cannot POST". Why
would this be? Neither the user making the request nor the OAuth app
have their status set to protected.

Thanks for the help.