[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Relations and the Twitter Platform

2011-04-26 Thread Joel Strellner
Welcome aboard Jason. I'm looking forward to hearing about the event and to working with you in the future. -Joel On Apr 26, 10:20 am, Jason Costa wrote: > Hi all, > > My name is Jason Costa, and I joined Twitter last week to take on > the role of Developer Relations Manager. I'll be 100% focus

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming Api - Keywords matched

2009-11-05 Thread Joel Strellner
A little late to this convo, but I disagree with the need for this feature. It adds extra complexity to twitter that really should be on the application level, and, since the streaming API only returns one tweet, even if it matched two or more keywords that you are watching, it'd add extra load on

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

2009-09-19 Thread Joel Strellner
Greg, Please see the following code for a working example fo how to do the Streaming API in PHP. Not sure if it is the best way to do it, but it works for us, and we use the Streaming API for a lot of data. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/761eb0b23872d430?hl=en If yo

[twitter-dev] Re: Search by KW then RT

2009-09-09 Thread Joel Strellner
Something like this is going to require a server-side language, like PHP, Perl, Ruby, etc. JavaScript wont cut it. I'm not sure how you'd do this without it being spammy though. IMO it should be manual, or at least semi-manual using a queue of some sort that you need to approve prior to it going

[twitter-dev] Re: tracking URLs using Streaming API

2009-09-08 Thread Joel Strellner
In order to accomplish this, you need to follow each and every link that gets passed on Twitter to see if it matches the domain you are looking for. We do this on inView for our clients, and it may be what you are looking for: http://myinview.com (Note: This is our service, there may be others doi

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Joel Strellner
Yeah, it's a fad, just like vowels and capitalization are. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Dale Merritt wrote: > yea, like fb and ytube and ggle > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:41 AM, ka...@sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> >> Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts? >> > > > > -- > Dale Merritt > Fo

[twitter-dev] Re: Stream API Count Parameter

2009-09-01 Thread Joel Strellner
That would be very nice, but at this time it looks like count is the only way to go. Twitter: +1 for a since_id -Joel On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Sameer wrote: > > Hello, my question is in regards to the Stream API and how to deal > with getting statuses when the connection was lost. I wa

[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax

2009-08-31 Thread Joel Strellner
If he really is using only those two lines, then yes, it explains some of his error. The header lines are what tells the server what page you're looking for on stream.twitter.com. -Joel On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Joseph Cheek wrote: > > are you really just opening stream.twitter.org? No

[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax

2009-08-31 Thread Joel Strellner
ply say: > > > $fp = fsockopen("stream.twitter.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 10); > fclose($fp); > > But it doesn't appear to work :/ > > Thanks in advance > > On 10 Aug, 08:09, Joel Strellner wrote: > > Tom, > > > > Yes, that code works perfect

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API -- CHANGE REQUIRED -- URL rationalization

2009-08-26 Thread Joel Strellner
When does this change go into effect? -Joel On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM, John Kalucki wrote: > > The resources in the Streaming API have been rationalized. You'll need > to update the URLs that streaming clients are using over the next two > weeks. The old URLs will be deprecated on or aft

[twitter-dev] Re: efficient application that follows keywords

2009-08-23 Thread Joel Strellner
Look into the "track" streaming API method. That should be the least resource intensive way to track keywords. If you can't use the streaming API, make sure you use the since_id parameter. -Joel On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Qcho wrote: > > Hello > > I am a new twitter developer and I am d

[twitter-dev] Re: Stop playing around with Source parameters

2009-08-22 Thread Joel Strellner
Ummm... strip_tags()'s? On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:17 PM, TCI wrote: > > Recently you added nofollow's, and now you moved the nofollow after > the href. Some of us filter these out and you changing them is only > making it more complicated. Please make up your mind and stop changing > these... >

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Geolocation API

2009-08-20 Thread Joel Strellner
Hi Ryan, Will this data be available in the streaming API too? -Joel On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:11 PM, @epc wrote: > > Will twitter validate the coordinates (ie, what will the API do when I > pass lat=777&long=-666)? > > If the coordinates are invalid, will the status get posted or will the > e

[twitter-dev] Re: Track vs. Search

2009-08-20 Thread Joel Strellner
No, and Yes. Track does not allow for getting that high of a number of results, you will be throttled, thus you will miss links. -Joel On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Mark Nutter wrote: > > I'm writing an application that needs a realtime stream of the links > being posted on Twitter. I've b

[twitter-dev] Re: blogger.js runtime error on line12?!

2009-08-13 Thread Joel Strellner
Wrong list, this should be twitter API development questions only, but remove ".join('')" and you should be in business. -Joel On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:14 AM, roxxlive wrote: > > Can someone help me to fix this problem? > > Everything working fine on firefox. But on IE there is a window shown

[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax

2009-08-10 Thread Joel Strellner
th some detailed info. Are you > able to get that exact code working on your server? > > On Aug 3, 2:12 pm, Joel Strellner wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > > > I am not sure about XML, since I use JSON - it has a much lower > > over-the-wire data size, and its easier to pars

[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax

2009-08-03 Thread Joel Strellner
curl http://stream.twitter.com/spritzer.xml -uuser:pass > > is the exact line I get before > every status. If I manually clean up the XML (or JSON) it works great. > > On Aug 2, 7:10 pm, Joel Strellner wrote: > > Other than my username and password, this is an example that I know

[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax

2009-08-02 Thread Joel Strellner
was to echo things out and I added a keyword that I was sure would have volume - twitter. It did take a little bit of time to connect. I am assuming that that is because of their current load though, and not the script. On Aug 2, 2:25 am, Tom Fitzgerald wrote: > Joel, > > For some re

[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax

2009-07-27 Thread Joel Strellner
Here is a working example of how to do /track: $count = 1; $startparsing = false; $keyword_needles[] = 'keyword1'; $keyword_needles[] = 'keyword2'; $keyword_needles[] = 'keyword3'; $keyword_needles[] = 'keyword4'; // if your keywords have spaces, they must be urlencoded (twitter does not support

[twitter-dev] Re: Search / track term

2009-07-24 Thread Joel Strellner
No. If you are tracking 3 things, for example, the only way to determine which of those 3 terms matched, would be for you to search within the tweet for your terms and determine it yourself. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Joseph wrote: > > If I'm tracking a hash tag (using the streaming API),

[twitter-dev] Re: The Gardenhose Cooperative

2009-07-22 Thread Joel Strellner
I wonder if there is a way that Twitter could do the verification. Self verification is always vulnerable. It'd be nice if Twitter had some sort of way to be involved, and tell the provider of the backed up data what level of access that a user has. On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, braver wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-20 Thread Joel Strellner
Can you say what your account is doing? Sounds like you are getting suspended for a good reason if it has happened twice already. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:00 AM, sjespers wrote: > > That could work but if I got suspended twice in two days, I'm sure a > test account won't last long. I need to k

[twitter-dev] Re: Ideas for URL autodetection (like tweetmeme RT-Button)?

2009-07-20 Thread Joel Strellner
Most blogging platforms have a way to insert the posts permanent URL. Maybe look into that? On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Bjoern wrote: > > I was interested to read about the way Tweetmeme sets up it's retweet > button: http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/06/tweetmeme-button/ > > I also want t

[twitter-dev] Re: API Developers Alliance

2009-07-16 Thread Joel Strellner
r API developers to discuss long term goals, concerns, as an entity of the twitter medium. Being able to express needs/fears to twitter in an organized manner will help everyone involved and reduce friction and increase transparency. On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Joel Strellner wrote: Not sure

[twitter-dev] Re: API Developers Alliance

2009-07-16 Thread Joel Strellner
Not sure that there needs to be formal alliance, but a working group that has the ear of twitter and can make sure needs are being met from both the developers and Twitters perspective would be good. On that same note though, I feel that twitter has done a pretty good job with this balance so f

[twitter-dev] Re: There's a problem with the profile.

2009-07-16 Thread Joel Strellner
Twitter caches the profile pics that you circled. It will catch up, as long as the other 4 that aren't shown aren't suspended, spammers, etc. -Joel -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of DJXpande

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Joel Strellner
There are 3 API's that I know of that you can use: Twitturly (Ours - Private beta only at the moment) Tweetmeme BackTweet Between the 3 of us, I am sure you can accomplish whatever your end-goal is. I do not think BackTweet processes all URLs, so they may not have a URL, but I do know that we d

[twitter-dev] Re: Is it okay to close a connection by opening a new one?

2009-07-14 Thread Joel Strellner
Why can't you do this entirely in your code? Why do you need to close the connection and reconnect? Closing a file, moving it, and then creating a new file should be able to be done extremely fast, thus you shouldn't need to close your connection to Twitter. Also, if at all possible, JSON

[twitter-dev] Re: New app: twivert.com

2009-07-14 Thread Joel Strellner
I think its fine as long as it is done only once for the app and the user interacts here more than just for purpose of telling people about the new app. On Jul 14, 10:19 am, Chad Etzel wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Andrew Badera wrote: > > When did this dev list become a self-promot

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API -- Additional markup added -- Deletion notifications on track streams.

2009-07-13 Thread Joel Strellner
Wow John, that was quick. Thank you. -Joel On Jul 13, 2009, at 7:53 PM, John Kalucki wrote: In addition to deletion notices, limitation notices will be added to track streams. These notices will be enabled on or after Tuesday July 14th. Deletions will be enabled on or after Thursday July 1

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API -- New objects in markup stream. Test your code

2009-07-11 Thread Joel Strellner
John, Any chance you can allow us to send an additional variable when we connect and you guys send it in the new format? This would allow for overlap and testing. -Joel On Jul 11, 2009, at 7:04 AM, John Kalucki wrote: Laurent, There are examples of the new objects on the Streaming AP

[twitter-dev] Re: stopping bit.ly automatic shortening of urls

2009-07-08 Thread Joel Strellner
It goes back to the root of twitter originally being a SMS application. I recall hearing or reading someone on the Twitter team saying that. -Joel On Jul 8, 2009, at 1:31 PM, whoiskb wrote: I am curious if there has ever been an official response from twitter on why some simple HTML ha

[twitter-dev] Re: @username matches and hash tags

2009-06-30 Thread Joel Strellner
I think usernames are a max of 20 characters, up from 15 a few months back. -Joel From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of JDG Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:43 PM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject:

[twitter-dev] Re: Clarification on how @ messages and PM's are handled - PLEASE HELP

2009-06-24 Thread Joel Strellner
Hi Nicholas, I don't work for twitter, but I believe that they associate ID's to messages (tweets or DMs), and then associate the ID to each of the users that it needs to go to. The message is only stored once, unlike email which is copied to each user. If a user deletes their message, all the

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API since_id doesn't work with filter:links

2009-06-24 Thread Joel Strellner
We are seeing this as well. On Jun 24, 4:57 am, Mojosaurus wrote: > Hi, > > My script polls Twitter APIs once every 15 seconds with a query > likehttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=video%20filter:links&rpp=100&;... > > Starting 2009-06-23, this API returns http 403, with the following > er

[twitter-dev] Re: adding hashtags to direct message API

2009-06-17 Thread Joel Strellner
Sounds like you need to URL encode your string before you send it to the API. The hash symbol is a reserved character and has a special meaning in URLs. Your browser will not automatically encode it like it would for spaces, for example. On Jun 16, 11:07 pm, xp wrote: > is there any way to add

[twitter-dev] Re: Spinn3r Twitter Social Media Rank

2009-06-15 Thread Joel Strellner
Kevin, We'd be very interested in an API that could determine spammers from regular users. If you go this route, please get in touch, I'd LOVE to test it out on our service, Twitturly. -Joel -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-

[twitter-dev] Re: Enable ability to block apps via Twitter or the API

2009-05-31 Thread Joel Strellner
I second this request. Ideally via both web and API, API being immediate and web when your UI guys can get to it. On May 31, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Jesse Stay wrote: > Not going to name names, but there are a few really noisy apps out > there right now. It would be really nice if, via either th