Re: post "countdown" as a way to promote an app

2009-01-16 Thread Nicole Simon
Even with the permission it is bad. Automatic posting to promote an app are the surest way to go viral - and as resulting action to make users unfollow. Unless you provide a benefit for me the reader, this *is* blatant advertisement. Same goes for advertisement via DM, I have set up filters to aut

Re: experience with Twitter's response time

2009-01-16 Thread Alex Payne
Please do email me. We're caught up on all of our developer support queues as of yesterday, so if something is six days old, it's gone weird. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 18:42, pnoeric wrote: > > Thanks Abraham-- if I can help it, I don't want to bug Alex outside of > normal channels... I imagine he

Re: experience with Twitter's response time

2009-01-16 Thread pnoeric
Thanks Abraham-- if I can help it, I don't want to bug Alex outside of normal channels... I imagine he's a pretty busy guy. (Though it's getting urgent!) I noticed just now that Twitter switched to a new support platform; the old whitelist request form has been replaced with a (gorgeous) support

Re: experience with Twitter's response time

2009-01-16 Thread Abraham Williams
You can always email a...@twitter.com if it has been more then a few days. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 18:59, pnoeric wrote: > > Yeah, it's been about 6 days now with no reply. The situation is > getting urgent, since we're now in the top 500 Twitters worldwide (in > fact, at the rate we're going, t

Re: experience with Twitter's response time

2009-01-16 Thread pnoeric
Yeah, it's been about 6 days now with no reply. The situation is getting urgent, since we're now in the top 500 Twitters worldwide (in fact, at the rate we're going, tomorrow we're going to be in the top 400)... and rapidly running out of API calls and direct messages ;-) The API says "If you are

Re: API No Longer Works - Return 417 Expectation Failed.

2009-01-16 Thread Sailfish
Here's the response that was returned: 417 Expectation Failed Expectation Failed The expectation given in the Expect request-header field could not be met by this server. The client sent Expect: 100-continue but we only allow the 100-continue expectation. which apparently manifested its

post "countdown" as a way to promote an app

2009-01-16 Thread Amir Michail
Hi, Posting an advertisement without the permission of the user is wrong. But what about a countdown? For example: "Post my stats to twitter after 5 moves. [reset countdown without posting]" Amir

Re: Fire and forget

2009-01-16 Thread Alex Payne
Nope, just ignore the response in your application. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 15:42, KP wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm a newbie. I want to POST a status update but not handle the > response. Does statuses/update.xml take a parameter that suppresses > the response? Or, at least keeps it down to stat

Re: Test Method Failing

2009-01-16 Thread Alex Payne
Ah. Our new support site may have clobbered this URL. Please file an issue here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 15:45, Eric Blair wrote: > > I'm getting a 301 error when I call the test method. I was using test > as a check to see if Twitter was up bef

Fire and forget

2009-01-16 Thread KP
Hi all, I'm a newbie. I want to POST a status update but not handle the response. Does statuses/update.xml take a parameter that suppresses the response? Or, at least keeps it down to status code? thanks in advance, KP

Test Method Failing

2009-01-16 Thread Eric Blair
I'm getting a 301 error when I call the test method. I was using test as a check to see if Twitter was up before doing the bulk of my calls, so this threw my scripts for a bit of a loop. http://twitter.com/help/test.xml returns HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:44:50 GMT S

Re: API No Longer Works

2009-01-16 Thread Alex Payne
I need to see some request/response output before I can determine what's going on with your application. Sailfish wrote: We have two sites (one LIVE, one sandbox) that had been working using the REST API via PHP libcurl calls but that stopped posting updates a few days ago. The API calls have

Underscores and hyphens in API responses

2009-01-16 Thread Saša Šarunić
Hi! I'am Sasa from Shout'Em development team (www.shoutem.com). We are currently building a white-label micro-blogging platform for small communities (we like to call it "Ning for Twitters") and one of our goals is to implement Twitter API. That's the reason that once in a while we find some sm

API No Longer Works

2009-01-16 Thread Sailfish
We have two sites (one LIVE, one sandbox) that had been working using the REST API via PHP libcurl calls but that stopped posting updates a few days ago. The API calls have been working for a few months and have not been changed in at least two months. The sites are: www.twitbacks.com (LIVE) - F

Re: a simple workaround for lack of OAuth

2009-01-16 Thread Lon Koenig
My desire for OAuth on Twitter is simple. As a developer of twitter-related utilities, I don't want to store my user's twitter credentials. As has been stated in this thread, even asking for those credentials is creating bad habits amongst Twitter's user base. I would never store a user's password

Re: max Connections

2009-01-16 Thread fornarat
excelent dougw, thanks for the info What about simultaneos connections? I will be making async calls to the api from my service.. Is there a max simultaneos connections or are they unlimited? can I launch (ie) 1000 request (assuming I have such amount of different account to log in) or I will be b

Re: Status update encoding issue

2009-01-16 Thread Alex Payne
Sorry, but that's the intended behavior. It makes it difficult for people to inject HTML or scripts into tweets. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 07:43, twonvo.com wrote: > > i have a similar problem... when submitting from my tool the user > cannot use &! > > any ideas? - tried converting to & with no l

Re: Access to the Data Mining Feed

2009-01-16 Thread Alex Payne
Just email me off-list with the IPs you'll be requesting from. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 19:13, Ryan wrote: > > Alex, > If possible I would like to get access to the data mining feed. I am > working with the twitter api for tons of fun in the evenings. I have > some ideas that I want to play wit

Re: max Connections

2009-01-16 Thread dougw
Tomas Whitelisting works on IP, which allows your IP unlimited API calls. Whitelisting can be requested at http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting If you aren't whitelisted, then rate-limiting occurs per user for authenticated methods. The friends_timeline is an authenticated method which wo

Re: Access to the Data Mining Feed

2009-01-16 Thread dougw
I knew about that feed, just by a different name apparently. Gotta wait for an official Twitterer's response -- I've yet to see anything about it on here to point you to. @dougw On Jan 16, 10:44 am, Ryan wrote: > Doug, > I am referring to this the data mining feed in this blog > post.http://d

max Connections

2009-01-16 Thread Tomas Fornara
Hi, I would like to know if there is some limit on the amount of *simultaneous *connections I can stablish with the API? Other question.. if I iterate asking for the friend timeline of several users (whom I log into the api).. the limit is 100 conns/hour.. right? it is for my app, my IP or the log

Re: Status update encoding issue

2009-01-16 Thread twonvo.com
i have a similar problem... when submitting from my tool the user cannot use &! any ideas? - tried converting to & with no luck On Jan 16, 2:52 pm, nattu wrote: > If the status message for a user contains the characters '<' or '>', > while > fetching through the API, the returned status contain

Re: Access to the Data Mining Feed

2009-01-16 Thread Ryan
Doug, I am referring to this the data mining feed in this blog post. http://dev.twitter.com/2008/10/we-got-data.html I am after the latest stream of tweets at any given time. I would like more than the 20 in the public timeline. I have read that the data mining feed will provide the last 600 tw

Re: Access to the Data Mining Feed

2009-01-16 Thread dougw
Ryan, What do you mean by data mining feed? What data are you looking for? @dougw On Jan 14, 10:13 pm, Ryan wrote: > Alex, > If possible I would like to get access to the data mining feed.  I am > working with the twitter api for tons of fun in the evenings.  I have > some ideas that I want to

Status update encoding issue

2009-01-16 Thread nattu
If the status message for a user contains the characters '<' or '>', while fetching through the API, the returned status contains the double html encoded form of < and >, i.e., '&<' and '&>'. This is causing issues when used in our application. http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml We are reques

Re: 160 chars?

2009-01-16 Thread dougw
There was a past discussion on this same question. You can access it here: http://is.gd/g7jV @dougw On Jan 15, 7:09 pm, TCI wrote: > Hey > Once upon a time the API's update method allowed 160 chars, from which > 140 would be posted in the timelines and the other 20 only when > accessing that t