On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:13:12 -0700 (PDT)
Mike Langford m...@tweetworks.com wrote:
Twitter will also have to inform other existing clients, like
Twiterific and TwitterBerry, to cease and desist as well if it hopes
for a success application.
I'm not sure the situation is that set in stone.
If
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:55:44 +0100 (BST)
AlisonW alis...@gmail.com wrote:
The idea is great, but the execution (imho) leaves a lot to be
desired.
There are two types of retweet in my experience:
The first is the 'plain' duplication of the original tweet, with just
the RT @scnreename
I wonder who would get the eventual credit of a RT.
Say I follow userA and userB, both Retweeted a tweet from userC, whom
I'm not following. Do I see two tweets from userC from the new home
timeline? If so, then with the implied implementation it would be
confusing to users as the they are
+1 on this.
I think the ReTweet concept is more complex than the model in the
Retweet API described. While twitter has always been a keep it simple
service, I think you will find many users wont use this new
functionality if they can't use it the way they do currently (with
additional
I totally agree with this as it'll allow our clients to just have to
look for the one extra field and then we can query the other status ID
to find out the originals. This way we have to handle the entire
extra node and user node of the XML/json
On Aug 13, 11:31 pm, stygz
LOL, problems are now all sorted, lawyers happy it isn't confusing
anymore.
Turns out that he thought there was a big grey box in it, similar to
the new Twitter front page, but only because he was using IE6 and I
don't bother applying any transparent png fixes :)
On Aug 14, 3:16 am, Zac Bowling
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Goblinstu...@abovetheinternet.org wrote:
LOL, problems are now all sorted, lawyers happy it isn't confusing
anymore.
friggin IE6. Had to GIF some PNGs recently myself.
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I agree with Andrew, Bojan. Your work was invaluable to me and I'm
sure it has been to others as well. Don't let one ungrateful user run
you off.
On Aug 14, 4:01 am, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Bojan Rajkovicseveredcr...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
Yep.
I'm at the stage now for personal projects (and clients if they are
cool with it) that I'm just not worrying anymore about IE6.
Twitlonger runs about 3% IE6 so it's just not worth degrading the
experience for the people with decent browsers to make exceptions for
those living in the past.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Goblinstu...@abovetheinternet.org wrote:
Out of curiousity, have you tried the Unit PNG fix to deal with IE6?
Interested to know if you did and it didn't work out for you.
I was unfamiliar with it, I'll have to check it out, thanks.
Twitter, you will have to create new rules and limits around these new
methods.
A new breed of spammy app is going to emerge that leverages
retweeting.
One where users can say, Search for tweets that contain these
keywords, and automatically retweet them for me on my account.
So, you're going
There are lots of apps that capture this information already.
I'm not sure of the name of it but we had one at BarCampNYC that did as
you described for anyone who used the hashtag BCNYC5
Regards,
Dean Collins
Cognation Inc
d...@cognation.net
+1-212-203-4357 New York
+61-2-9016-5642
And as for you comment about them being spammy?
If you are not following them whats your problem?
Eg. Ford might want to set up a twitter account that RT a posts about anyone
who mentions Ford in their tweets. Whats your problem with that?
Of course it could get publicly commandeered like
Dean, calm down please.
I thought of a potential issue. It is Twitter's decision whether they
also see it as a potential issue and want to do anything about it.
Dewald
On Aug 14, 10:37 am, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote:
And as for you comment about them being spammy?
If you are not
Track keywords are logically ORed together. Give it a try. It should
work as you expect. If not, let's figure it out. (OTOH: You have to do
logical ANDs via post processing on your end.)
-John Kalucki
twitter.com/jkalucki
Services, Twitter, Inc.
On Aug 13, 9:56 pm, Andrew McCloud
For what it's worth, retweeter.com and myretweeter.com are already
registered
Dewald
Nice little footnote to the story, got this email from Jillian at
Twitter which has made me feel all warm and fuzzy:
Hey Stuart,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention and for reaching out. Our
Platform team should be communicating our goals (in relation to CDs,
and why they're sent) to the
Hello
Has anyone integrated oAuth with CodeIgniter?
Can you recommend libs?
I have seen Elliott Haughin's but had some questions.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Regards
Peter
And the love returns .
The PR value of a few nice words :-)
On 14 Aug 2009, at 19:08, Goblin wrote:
Nice little footnote to the story, got this email from Jillian at
Twitter which has made me feel all warm and fuzzy:
Hey Stuart,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention and for
Hello there,
http://github.com/sovnarkom/instwitter-py/
This is our lightweight, but scalable library for python 3, that
supports:
— REST and Search API
— *Retweeting API preview
— OAuth
— Streaming API
You can use this to implement both server and client applications.
Mini roadmap:
The web API uses a method called friendships/remove to stop someone
following me that I want to get rid of, without actively blocking them
- just want to kick off a load of followers.
When I try that call through the API, with a POST with no content, I
get a 302 moved temporarily return.
Is
I have used sites with part of twiiter name in it and do not get confused.
If you think the bird is just like twtter's bird than maybe change that but
i wouldn't go through changing your name unless you feel you would benefit
by changing it. But I'm against big, wealthy corps using big lawyers to
Hi,
Is there a guesstimate out there for twitter's spam-guarding friend/
follow ratio.
It would be nice to warn users, or red-flag users, before they
actually get hit by twitter account blocking measures.
Similarly, is there any idea about roughty what the 'follower churn'
rate is before it
Hello,
I have a colleague who keeps receiving this prompt:
Enter your name and password to update the RSS feed. To update the
RSS feed http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeslines.rss; youned
to log in to the area Twitter API on twitter.com.
Well, I've logged in and search the link and the
I have the following question:
If one of my tweets is retweeted multiple times, what will be the
return value of “retweets_of_me.format” ? Will it be one record with
multiple “retweet_details” sections?
If yes, will there be a “count” for the number of times it has been
retweeted?
If no, then
Hi Sikora,
Are you sure you are not manually specifying an oauth_callback
parameter (even if it is blank) when requesting the original tokens?
The oauth_verifier token (as seen in your sample URL) is only returned
when an oauth_callback is manually specified; otherwise it will use
the callback
Hi Andy,
Are you using PHP/curl to do this? If so, please make sure to have a
POSTFIELDS value, even if it is an empty string:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, );
This will correctly format the POST request and not look malformed
(which might be why you are getting 302's as part of
On 8/14/09 10:56 AM, Ty wrote:
I have used sites with part of twiiter name in it and do not get
confused.
IANAL, but ... in the likelihood of confusion test, I don't think the
standard includes us. By the virtue of the fact that we are in this
developer group already separates us from the
Hello,
Where are you seeing this prompt? On another website/blog? On
Twitter.com itself?
-Chad
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Coastywebs...@thecoast.ca wrote:
Hello,
I have a colleague who keeps receiving this prompt:
Enter your name and password to update the RSS feed. To update the
It looks like images are again (still?) coming through from twimg.com
but no SSL is available. Any plans to turn on SSL for those apps that
need to re-write to SSL?
Thanks!
OMG, love u dude!
Thanks a lot... the library I was using was sending an empty callback,
I had to fill it with the right call back.
That's strange, I wonder why I should register the callback on twitter
too if I can specify when requesting the token!
Thanks a lot Chad!
On Aug 14, 5:59 pm,
Hey,
This is my first post and I'm new to Oauth, I must be doing something wrong
and I'm looking for help.
Here is just a sample uri generator i'm trying...
?php
// Some defaults
$consumer_key = ''; // Normally My Key
$consumer_secret_key = ''; // Normally the private key.
$signature_method =
Mark has a point there, Twazzup makes use of RTs from the search
results to compute some relevancy/popularity scores.
If we consider that those RTs are simple forwards or likes, search
result could simply provide each tweets with its number of RTs (total
number and/or unique RT'ing user number
Looks like you have a good start. I like how you used generators for the
streaming API. In my library I went with a callback.
So looks like your are going 3-2 instead of the usual 2-3. It's good you
are support python 3. For me I believe right now
python 2 is in bigger demand and for me porting
Hi Adam,
I would suggest taking a look at Abraham's Twitter oAuth library for a
great example of PHP + Twitter oAuth.
http://twitter.abrah.am/
-Chad
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Adam Shannona...@ashannon.us wrote:
Hey,
This is my first post and I'm new to Oauth, I must be doing something
I have come across apps that have taken site down. TwitAds.com for
example. Maybe down for other reasons, but probably not. Under
construction
Good luck Dean.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote:
I’m only sending this to the Twitter-Dev list and not
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi Adam,
I would suggest taking a look at Abraham's Twitter oAuth library for a
great example of PHP + Twitter oAuth.
http://twitter.abrah.am/
-Chad
I have looked at that, what I guess I'm looking for is a simple
Well this goes to show you Biz Stone is no longer running the show at
Twitter. Seems the investors / board have taken control and are unleashing
the pack of lawyers. I hate to see twitter using such evil tactics. Sure
you guys coined the term twitter but the user base came up with tweet. I
think
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Adam Shannona...@ashannon.us wrote:
foreach ($oauth['parms'] as $parm) {
$request_uri = $request_uri . $parm;
}
Well, you didn't state the results you're getting (which error) so I'm
just guessing here. If I'm not mistaken, PHP uses a hash for array
indexes
Hi Adam,
If you want you can email me off list and I can help you use Abrahams. Its
really about as simple as something as going to be that you can trust will
work. Else, you might end up creating a lot of issues without knowing it.
Regards
Peter
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Julio Biason
Hi folks,
I have an acquaintance that is looking for Ruby/Twitter API
programmers (presumably for some contract work) in the Triangle, North
Carolina area. If this is you and want me to forward on your info,
please send it to me and I'll pass it along.
Thanks,
-Chad
Hi,
We would like to submit www.mytweetopics.com to Twitter so that it can
show up in the listing that Twitter uses to show highlighted Twitter
applications on a user's home page, in the top right hand box. e.g.
Trazz·ler Buzzn. tracking popular travel destinations via Twitter.
Does someone
Hello,
Please see:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowcanIgetmyappinthesidebarpromotionbox
Thanks,
-Chad
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Mytweetopicsmonsoon@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
We would like to submit www.mytweetopics.com to Twitter so that it can
show up in the listing that Twitter
Take a look at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowcanIgetmyappinthesidebarpromotionbox
:)
--
Chris Thomson
On 14-Aug-09, at 6:28 PM, Mytweetopics wrote:
Hi,
We would like to submit www.mytweetopics.com to Twitter so that it can
show up in the listing that Twitter uses to show highlighted
Does anybody have heart to tell him?
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Mytweetopics monsoon@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
We would like to submit www.mytweetopics.com to Twitter so that it can
show up in the listing that Twitter uses to show highlighted Twitter
applications on a user's home
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Adam,
If you want you can email me off list and I can help you use Abrahams. Its
really about as simple as something as going to be that you can trust will
work. Else, you might end up creating a lot of issues
HAHA... not me!
Rob
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Dale Merrittmogul...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anybody have heart to tell him?
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Mytweetopics monsoon@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
We would like to submit www.mytweetopics.com to Twitter so that it can
show up
Well, I am now so sh*t scared to use the words twr and tw**t
anywhere, I'm just going to write them as twr and tw**t from now
on.
Can you have *'s in your domain name?
Dewald
PS. Why and/or how can something be enforced that has not been granted
yet? Or, am I missing something here.
Unless something drastic changes in their approach, I think we as a
developer community should all rise and give them a standing ovation
for a brilliant performance in pissing people off.
Just be creative .
Here are some domain ideas:
1- SendR , SndeR,
2-MessgMe, Msg.Me,
3-Tmesg.in tmsg.in
4-sportstlk, sportsmesg.in
5-SendIt4.me DoIt4.Me
6-TxtButler, TsmgButlr
7-ThreadedMsg
8-ConTEXTual
-E
Gpro.ws
I'm afraid I'm not willing to accept Dean's characterization of events
since he's been lying from the get go (e.g. claiming Twitter's suing
me when nothing of the kind was happening). I give no credibility to
those who practice deception in order to win people to their cause.
On Aug 14,
Duane,
I do not think it is necessary to get personal here.
I took Twr is suing me as an expression of panic, nothing more.
Dewald
On Aug 14, 8:44 pm, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm afraid I'm not willing to accept Dean's characterization of events
since he's been
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:48 AM, dburkesdbur...@gmail.com wrote:
The API currently returns
http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/93621634/Untitled-1_normal.jpg
as the profile_image_url for me (http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?
screen_name=dburkes). Amazon says this URL
Got it fixed. I just set my rails app to use 0.6.12 of the twitter
gem.
On Aug 14, 1:09 am, Eric Waller erwal...@gmail.com wrote:
If you're using the twitter rubygem, the problem is detailed
herehttp://groups.google.com/group/ruby-twitter-gem/browse_thread/thread/
Basically the twitter
This is all rather scary, especially for those of us dedicating
significant resources to Twitter-related development.
I was having a new logo designed... it was going to be in light blue.
I guess I will have to reconsider that option now!
Just because you app isn't listed in the promo box doesn't mean all hope is
lost.
If it's good the people will come. But it does help a little bit to get
listed there. :)
Good luck with your app.
Josh
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