A Twitter client can do an HTTP get to here:
http://talkingpuffin.appspot.com/filters/noise
and expect lines of plain text like this:
Just joined a twibe. Visit http\://twibes\.com/.*
just joined a video chat at http\://tinychat\.com.*
I am reposting the @oneforty response to my blog post here for the
benefit of everyone:
---
Hey everyone, thank you for taking the time to help us better
understand and better serve the developer community.
We read this and shared it with our investors, adviso
Andrew us absolutely correct. I personally bear full responsibility
for letting that flawed contract get into production, even on a beta.
It was likewise my error of judgment to assume that the alpha testers
had been fine with the proposed contract merely because we had not
received adverse feedba
That may or may not be why I said "generally".
Abraham
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 22:56, Dewald Pretorius wrote:
>
> Abraham,
>
> Reality is more nuanced than that. There is some flagging system in
> Twitter that prevents tweets from some accounts, which are otherwise
> normal in appearance, from be
Duane Roelands wrote:
> I read it, and I was horrified. So, I logged into IRC and found two
> members of the OneForty development team. I asked them to remove my
> application from the directory.
>
> They refused.
>
> OneForty is not a developer-friendly platform.
That is unfortunate. If they
Abraham,
Reality is more nuanced than that. There is some flagging system in
Twitter that prevents tweets from some accounts, which are otherwise
normal in appearance, from being indexed by Twitter Search.
I know because it happened to my personal account a few months ago.
The reason given was b
Andy,
I agree with you whole-heartedly to the point of giving a standing
ovation and a one-man Mexican wave.
I don't know the folks behind OneForty from the man in the moon and
have no grounds to vouch for or question their honesty or integrity.
But I do know this. When you express your busines
Al3x has talked about adding a curser to mark progress on this list before.
So if you read through a bunch of statuses on you iPhone the last one you
read will get stored and when you switch to your desktop app it starts
displaying at that specific status. I have no idea if this feature is still
pl
Generally any public Tweet that is not from a suspended/spam account will be
searchable.
Abraham
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:38, Emídio Cunha wrote:
>
> If an application publishes a tweet about 3 times a minute, will it be
> ignored in search.twitter.com ? what are the rules for this? If so, it
>
Twitter's spam flagging system is an ever-changing trade secret. It is
unlikely that you will get a direct answer. Have the 600 account holders
contact Twitter support and hopefully they will get re-enabled quickly.
Abraham
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 09:59, SuperCerial wrote:
>
> HI, I've made an acc
Try emailing a...@twitter.com. Not sure if they will change it but it is your
best shot.
Abraham
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:19, Nik Fletcher wrote:
>
> Hi Guys
>
> We've recently acquired a desktop application that uses the basic
> authentication to interact with the Twitter API. As we're renamin
Check out the OAuth FAQ: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-FAQ
Abraham
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 15:00, shapper wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am using a C# library to publish in my Twitter account from my CMS.
> The problem is that the source in my twitter text is the name of this
> library.
>
> How can
You could argue that it's a closed beta, so it's for finding this stuff
out...but yeah, I agree with you.
I just know how these threads can snowball, and I want to share my
experience that oneforty is made by good people. Don't like it, don't sign,
and of course raise concerns, but I would hate to
All else aside ... lawyers complicate things? Maybe, but you don't
launch a product/platform and expect commitment from outside parties
until YOU are happy with what YOUR lawyers have produced and thus YOU
are offering to the outside world.
There's no defense for a questionable contract. You stan
"OneForty is not a developer-friendly platform."
I think this is a demonstrably false statement. All of my interactions with
Laura and the 140 team have been very positive, and she's made it clear that
they're working on the contract. Sometimes lawyers overcomplicate things,
and it takes time to d
I've created a Twitter API Development Talk Wave on Google Wave. Come join
in the fun:
https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252B6vkwQQ_AA
Abraham
--
Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org
Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham
http://we
Yeah I just saw that, they're sticking to there guns.
On Oct 8, 6:24 pm, Duane Roelands wrote:
> I read it, and I was horrified. So, I logged into IRC and found two
> members of the OneForty development team. I asked them to remove my
> application from the directory.
>
> They refused.
>
> One
don't you mean
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-user_timeline
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 19:17, monkeyvu wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to get the list of status messages that I posted to Twitter but
> I can't find the API to do that. Anyone knows this? Please help me.
>
I read it, and I was horrified. So, I logged into IRC and found two
members of the OneForty development team. I asked them to remove my
application from the directory.
They refused.
OneForty is not a developer-friendly platform.
On Oct 8, 7:44 pm, "brad...@squeejee.com" wrote:
> wow, someh
Hi all,
I want to get the list of status messages that I posted to Twitter but
I can't find the API to do that. Anyone knows this? Please help me.
Thanks very much,
Pretty much. You have limited options:
1) Run your Search API requests through a proxy where you will have
exclusive access to the IP.
2) Wait for V2 of the Twitter API where the REST and Search APIs get
combined so you can have authenticated search queries.
3) Hope Twitter slaps some duct tape on
This is something very useful.
At Twaller.com we use filtering based on dictionary words, these words
include http, www, com etc. and also abusive words. However the lists
of such words keeps on growing and recently we have also added RT to
it since there are too many retweets which dont add valu
wow, somehow managed to totally miss that thread... thanks!
On Oct 8, 6:07 pm, Dewald Pretorius wrote:
> There's another thread herehttp://bit.ly/Owfvdwhere the developer
> contract also raised some eyebrows.
>
> Dewald
>
> On Oct 8, 7:25 pm, "brad...@squeejee.com" wrote:
>
> > There has been a
If anyone is interested, I have a small contribution I wrote a while
back (http://softprops.github.com/bird-speak/). It's a bookmarklet
that reads the lang attribute of the html tag on twitter.com and asks
googles translate api to translate all of the tweets on the current
page into that language.
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting states that "for cloud
platforms like Google App Engine, applications without a static IP
addresses cannot receive Search whitelisting."
Does that mean there is no way to avoid getting HTTP 503 response
codes to search requests from app engine?
On Oct 8,
It's a nice idea. I'd go ahead with it - but also release the regex
publicly.
Apps make enough external requests as it is
On Oct 9, 12:14 am, Dewald Pretorius wrote:
> I think it might be a better idea to publish the regex code somewhere,
> so that developers can directly include it in their app
Sounds interesting as a side project for me. Thanks
On Oct 8, 4:43 pm, "Avi Hein (Conduit)" wrote:
> Are you up to the challenge?
>
> Conduit, a SaaS platform that any web publisher can use to offer
> content and applications to users across the World Wide Web, has
> launched the Conduit Awards,
I think it might be a better idea to publish the regex code somewhere,
so that developers can directly include it in their apps if they want
to.
If you provide a web service, can I send my users to your email
address or support system if your regexs reject their tweets as false
positives? ;-)
I
There's another thread here http://bit.ly/Owfvd where the developer
contract also raised some eyebrows.
Dewald
On Oct 8, 7:25 pm, "brad...@squeejee.com" wrote:
> There has been a lot of buzz around OneForty.com and what it will mean
> for all of us Twitter app developers. However, some of the t
There has been a lot of buzz around OneForty.com and what it will mean
for all of us Twitter app developers. However, some of the things in
their developer contract (that you have to agree to in order to claim
your application on their side) gave us (Squeejee) pause after we
decided to read the fi
Over on the main Twitter blog we've just announced that we'll be
translating the site into French, Italian, Spanish and German soon,
with more languages to come later (http://bit.ly/LIa4C). We figured a
lot of folks building apps on the Twitter Platform might be interested
in providing their appli
Thanks Pavlo,
I tried, but it doesn't make a difference, despite sending a filename
index.html, the page served is still flagged as application/xhtml+xml
and coming from m.twitter.com
And this is something wget can confirm.
$ wget -U "Windows CE" twitter.com/login/
--2009-10-09 10:46:55-- http:
Thanks Andy,
Changing the user agent is a possibility, although advertising that we
are a mobile device sometimes has its advantages, like defaulting to
Google's mobile page, which is a simpler, stripped down version. So as
an OEM, it's a fine balance when deciding between which "big" web
servers
Participating Twitter clients could have a “Noise” button to submit
the tweet being read as a candidate for inclusion in the filtering.
I detest tweets like these:
just joined a video chat at http://xxx Make your own video chat at
http://xxx #xxx
just joined a twibe ...
I am thinking of starting a repository of regular expressions matching
noise-tweets like these, that Twitter clients could query via a Web
Service, and the publi
Any other solutions available for app engine folks stuck out here?
Please help!
I'm noticing this exact problem as well. I'm making only a few
requests per hour. I have tried setting the user-agent but it did not
help.
Akshar
On Oct 6, 9:50 am, Chad Etzel wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> GAE sites are p
It was my fault. :-) They key was coming back null, needed to update
my db.
thanks,
-k
On Oct 8, 11:57 am, kthom wrote:
> How should I handle 401's not authorized when sending via oauth and
> its twitter hiccuping and not an actual NOT Authorized? The reason I
> know its not a true 401 is becau
How should I handle 401's not authorized when sending via oauth and
its twitter hiccuping and not an actual NOT Authorized? The reason I
know its not a true 401 is because the updates appear on the twitter
profile, and then 30min or so later I receive the mobile
notification.. When looking at my p
Hi Guys
We've recently acquired a desktop application that uses the basic
authentication to interact with the Twitter API. As we're renaming the
application when it ships as 1.0, is there any way to *modify* an
existing application's basic auth listing?
Thanks!
Nik
HI, I've made an account management application and it's used on about
5 sites. It has been running just fine for months and months up until
about week ago, when about 600 accounts were suspended - chunk at a
time. Now some of these are individuals accounts, some are business
accounts being manage
Will the page parameter on /statuses/user_timeline (or on any of the
other timeline methods) be deprecated as well?
https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-user_timeline
I've noticed a lot of failures on /statuses/user_timeline recently.
Instead of the page parameter, i
Have you tried going straight to http://twitter.com/login ? it does not
redirect to mobile version and should render in mobile IE6.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Andrew Badera wrote:
>
> If you're writing custom code, simply set the user-agent header yourself.
>
> If you're stuck in IE6 for Wi
please remove my name and all other pertinent information from your site,
thank you /s/thomas cavanaugh
It seems that Twitter has been having some problems today. You also may
notice that not tweets have been displaying for about 3 hours now.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, vj_varga wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Today my following and followers change for null.
>
> vj_varga
>
Hi,
Today my following and followers change for null.
vj_varga
If an application publishes a tweet about 3 times a minute, will it be
ignored in search.twitter.com ? what are the rules for this? If so, it
renders any realtime update a large content site might have.
Thanks
Emidio
Yup. And, related, I think it would be great to have a way to filter
out repeat tweets in people's streams. I blogged about it just last
week! http://nmc.itdevworks.com/?p=855
On Oct 7, 10:37 am, Josh Roesslein wrote:
> Yes that would be a nice feature to have. A simple true/false value in
> th
Ok, who broke Twitter? fess up... :)
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Rich wrote:
>
> No problems, I think it's more than a few, try this search
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search?q=twitter+broken
>
> On Oct 8, 4:49 pm, Ryan Sarver wrote:
> > Thanks for pinging the list with this and confirmin
No problems, I think it's more than a few, try this search
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=twitter+broken
On Oct 8, 4:49 pm, Ryan Sarver wrote:
> Thanks for pinging the list with this and confirming a few people are seeing
> it. I will follow up internally to figure out what is going on and
Thanks for pinging the list with this and confirming a few people are seeing
it. I will follow up internally to figure out what is going on and report
back here.
Thanks again, Ryan
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:45 AM, stephane wrote:
>
> Echo, you are not alone
>
> Stephane
> @sphilipakis
> http://ww
Echo, you are not alone
Stephane
@sphilipakis
http://www.twazzup.com
On Oct 8, 5:39 pm, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> > Errm it looks like the friends_timeline and home_timeline are broken,
> > search seems to confirm this too.
>
> > Basically I and many others have had no Tweets appear here for over
> Errm it looks like the friends_timeline and home_timeline are broken,
> search seems to confirm this too.
>
> Basically I and many others have had no Tweets appear here for over an
> hour, yet I know 100% that there are users on my feed that have
> tweeted.
Echoing this. I'm seeing this also.
Chad,
Thanks. That works for me.
Dewald
On Oct 8, 12:22 pm, Chad Etzel wrote:
> There is a workaround for this from an earlier thread:
>
> In order to accomplish retrieving the assets over ssl to avoid
> security warnings in browsers, you will need to replace
>
> http://a1.twimg.com/ (or a2, a
Errm it looks like the friends_timeline and home_timeline are broken,
search seems to confirm this too.
Basically I and many others have had no Tweets appear here for over an
hour, yet I know 100% that there are users on my feed that have
tweeted.
Any news?
There is a workaround for this from an earlier thread:
In order to accomplish retrieving the assets over ssl to avoid
security warnings in browsers, you will need to replace
http://a1.twimg.com/ (or a2, a3, ...etc)
with
https://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/
in your example:
https://s3.a
It is also causing me grief in Firefox, because it's preventing
Firefox from displaying the user-comforting blue secured section to
the left of the address bar.
Dewald
My FireBug shows that it is pulling the most recent tweets from the
Search API, but the page itself is not displaying them if there are
new tweets. Also, the livetwitter jquery pluging or whatever is
driving it is not using the since_id parameter... so it might "upset"
the search team when it is p
Running SSL encryption on one's site and displaying Twitter profile
images is causing a lot of grief for people who use Internet Explorer.
They constantly get that pop-up box that tells them there are insecure
elements on the page, and it is because profile images currently
cannot be pulled from t
Guess it might interest some of you; I just made public the Twitoaster
API ( http://twitoaster.com/api/ ).
Using the same model as the Twitter one, it brings the following
methods:
- conversation/show: Returns the whole conversation (max 200 tweets)
containing the requested tweet.
- conversation
Hi there,
I'm currently in New Orleans attending a tradeshow (SGIA) and I setup
a site that would stream live tweets from people talking about the
tradeshow at http://t-shirt.sc
It used to show the latest posts pretty quickly after they were
posted, but when I look at the site now, I don't see t
Currently there is no way to do wildcard/substring/fuzzy searching.
Only exact tokens are searchable. I agree this is somewhat limiting,
but otherwise the searching/indexing performance would suffer
horribly.
-Chad
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Nick wrote:
>
> Karthik - I'm not sure what you
Karthik - I'm not sure what you mean by "decorated" - the names do
hyperlink to the profile pages. But typically, I think the @ being
found is within the tweet content. All of these non-english tweets
either have the @ symbol alone, or they contain a mention.
I've looked through a lot of the AP
This is strange. Did you also notice that for Non-English tweets
returned from http://twitter.com/#search?q=%40, the user names are
decorated with links to their profile pages?
Well, Twitter doesn't index symbols like @ # $ ^. If you'd like to
gather the tweets containing references to twitter na
I'm confused about how twitter handles rate limiting.
I've got myself whitelisted so I can do 2 requests per hour,
however whenever I try to use statuses/show, I am limited to 150.
I've written a little app to try and figure this out. The output is
below. You can see that my rate is 2 a
Hi Tomas, you are absolutely right but i am
considering caching in a different task that i am doing..
Thanks!
On Oct 7, 12:36 pm, Thomas Hübner wrote:
> If you unfollow or follow or block you get an user xml back from Api -
> is it to difficult to remove or add the returned id manually from ID
Here is a screenshot of the bottom of the OAuth Application Registration
page.
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/6936/108200974258am.png
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Andrew Badera wrote:
>
> Sign-in-with-Twitter:
>
> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter
>
> Read-only access is a se
Sign-in-with-Twitter:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter
Read-only access is a setting you set when you register the app with Twitter.
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On Oct 8, 12:20 pm, Andrew Badera wrote:
> Sign-in with Twitter with Read access only?
So this is a parameter I can pass when requesting the authentication
token, and the user will see that I am requesting read only access?
Guess I overlooked that one.
Thanks!
Björn
Right ... ad? We both essentially said almost the same
thing at the same time ...
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:25 AM, ryan alford wrote:
While I haven't used the Sign-In-With-Twitter, I would assume it still
uses the same OAuth system, which allows either read-only or read/
write access. I could be wrong though.
On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:20 AM, Andrew Badera wrote:
>
> Sign-in with Twitter with Read access only?
>
> ∞ Andy Badera
>
Sign-in with Twitter with Read access only?
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Bjoern wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> just wondering if I read this right: while
An OAuth client can either have Read-only access or Read/Write access
to an account. So this gives the ability to read statuses/friends
withou having the ability to post.
On Oct 8, 2009, at 5:43 AM, Bjoern wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> just wondering if I read this right: while OAuth provides a way to
>
Hi,
just wondering if I read this right: while OAuth provides a way to
give a 3rd party access to an account without the password, it does
not provide a way to simply establish the identity of a Twitter user,
without giving away the rights?
The only reason I would need access to the account is t
Hi,
I am struggling a bit to find an elegant way to transfer the data from
the API calls to my models and save them in my database.
Was wondering if anybody would be willing to share their ideas? I am
not very experienced with Rails yet.
Atm. I figure the parsed JSON is a hash like parameters f
The Search API has different user_ids then the REST API. You will have to
use the screen_name when performing the users/show method.
Abraham
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 00:30, ArnieLapinig wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Hello,
>
> Just started developing a Twitter app... I'm using a php script with
> CURL to
I have solved a problem like that:
While I receive an error 503 - my application continue knocking to
twitter with query.
Everything works ;)
I'm developing yet another API binding based on the MsXml2.XmlHttp
class (aka XMLHttpRequest in AJAX for IE), it's an API for desktop
clients
I use the workflow described in http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter
to authenticate via OAuth with PIN. All works fine up to retrieving
the fin
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