Re: Create Twitter Account using the API?
Spam much? Even if your use is legitimate, don't you realize the huge potential for spam you're inviting here? Thanks- - Andy Badera - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (518) 641-1280 - http://higherefficiency.net/ - http://changeroundup.com/ - http://flipbitsnotburgers.blogspot.com/ - http://andrew.badera.us/ - Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a twitter account using the API, if not, can anyone suggest an alternative programmatic method that would allow this - Thank you.
Re: Create Twitter Account using the API?
This has been discussed before. The concern is that it would allow for mass creation of accounts, ripe for abuse by spammers. I can't speak for Twitter, but I suspect that it will be a while before we see something like this, if at all. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 Skype: funka7ron On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a twitter account using the API, if not, can anyone suggest an alternative programmatic method that would allow this - Thank you.
Re: Create Twitter Account using the API?
No, it's impossible to create an account via API. It is done for security reasons, I suppose. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a twitter account using the API, if not, can anyone suggest an alternative programmatic method that would allow this - Thank you.
Re: Create Twitter Account using the API?
It's not for spam purposes that we would wish to impliment such a feature. We're working on a portal that allows users to update multiple digital destinations with news on their brands and other topics of interest. Instead of asking users to go to each of these destinations, register, then come back to our portal to update them, we were looking to create the accounts for them where applicable. I can see how this might be used for spam, if twitter didn't impliment email URL authentication, which it does ... rendering that argument pretty much mute. However, I guess we will have to look for a work around. On Nov 4, 2:57 pm, Andrew Badera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spam much? Even if your use is legitimate, don't you realize the huge potential for spam you're inviting here? Thanks- - Andy Badera - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (518) 641-1280 -http://higherefficiency.net/ -http://changeroundup.com/ -http://flipbitsnotburgers.blogspot.com/ -http://andrew.badera.us/ - Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a twitter account using the API, if not, can anyone suggest an alternative programmatic method that would allow this - Thank you.
Re: Create Twitter Account using the API?
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not for spam purposes that we would wish to impliment such a feature. We're working on a portal that allows users to update multiple digital destinations with news on their brands and other topics of interest. Instead of asking users to go to each of these destinations, register, then come back to our portal to update them, we were looking to create the accounts for them where applicable. I can see how this might be used for spam, if twitter didn't impliment email URL authentication, which it does ... rendering that argument pretty much mute. I could see that as useful, yeah. Did you file a feature request in the issue tracker yet? -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 Skype: funka7ron
Re: Create Twitter Account using the API?
Moot? Why? Email is easily automated and parsed too. You can batch confirm, believe me. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not for spam purposes that we would wish to impliment such a feature. We're working on a portal that allows users to update multiple digital destinations with news on their brands and other topics of interest. Instead of asking users to go to each of these destinations, register, then come back to our portal to update them, we were looking to create the accounts for them where applicable. I can see how this might be used for spam, if twitter didn't impliment email URL authentication, which it does ... rendering that argument pretty much mute. However, I guess we will have to look for a work around. On Nov 4, 2:57 pm, Andrew Badera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spam much? Even if your use is legitimate, don't you realize the huge potential for spam you're inviting here? Thanks- - Andy Badera - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (518) 641-1280 -http://higherefficiency.net/ -http://changeroundup.com/ -http://flipbitsnotburgers.blogspot.com/ -http://andrew.badera.us/ - Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a twitter account using the API, if not, can anyone suggest an alternative programmatic method that would allow this - Thank you.
Re: Create Twitter Account using the API?
It would be a minimal amount of work to write a script to follow links sent in an email. It could be mitigated by have a captcha on the landing page from that link. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 09:29, Andrew Badera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moot? Why? Email is easily automated and parsed too. You can batch confirm, believe me. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not for spam purposes that we would wish to impliment such a feature. We're working on a portal that allows users to update multiple digital destinations with news on their brands and other topics of interest. Instead of asking users to go to each of these destinations, register, then come back to our portal to update them, we were looking to create the accounts for them where applicable. I can see how this might be used for spam, if twitter didn't impliment email URL authentication, which it does ... rendering that argument pretty much mute. However, I guess we will have to look for a work around. On Nov 4, 2:57 pm, Andrew Badera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spam much? Even if your use is legitimate, don't you realize the huge potential for spam you're inviting here? Thanks- - Andy Badera - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (518) 641-1280 -http://higherefficiency.net/ -http://changeroundup.com/ -http://flipbitsnotburgers.blogspot.com/ -http://andrew.badera.us/ - Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a twitter account using the API, if not, can anyone suggest an alternative programmatic method that would allow this - Thank you. -- | Abraham Williams | Web Developer | http://abrah.am | Brazen Careerist, Inc. | Hacker | http://www.brazencareerist.com | PoseurTech LLC | Mashup Ambassador | http://poseurte.ch | Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org | This email is: [] blogable [x] ask first [] private
Create Twitter Account using the API?
Is it possible to create a twitter account using the API, if not, can anyone suggest an alternative programmatic method that would allow this - Thank you.
Erratic `since_id` behaviour
I've not been able to find any documentation for this, and a quick search of this group also revealed nothing (please feel free to point me to any existing discussion that I might have missed). The quick and dirty: Twitter doesn't like a `since_id` that is not a part of the timeline it is being sent for. The longer and cleaner: Try this - find the status ID of any tweet (take one from my timeline [http://twitter.com/aditya], I'm pretty sure you're not following me =P), and make a call to your `friends_timeline` with this ID as the `since_id`. Twitter will ignore it completely, and send you the last 20/200 tweets anyway. Expected behaviour: The API should return tweets made after the `since_id` supplied, regardless of whether that status belongs in that timeline or not. A simple reason is a use case I hit time and time again: My app stores the status ID of the last tweet fetched, and uses it for the next call. If I unfollow anyone in between two fetches, and his/her was the last tweet I received (a pretty common scenario), Twitter API bonks and sends me tweets I already have. What I propose will bring a uniformity to the API call - and maybe will be easier on Twitter as well (depending on how their fetch-from- the-database is set up).
Posting links to twitter
Is this possible? Everything I try to do comes out as text.
Re: Posting links to twitter
Just post a URL. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM, dowhilesomething [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this possible? Everything I try to do comes out as text. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
How to count users that are using my client?
Hi there! I need to count users that are using my client. How can i do this using API?
Re: Erratic `since_id` behaviour
Yes, the behavior you describe would be an improvement. Please request this change at: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry. Thanks! On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Aditya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've not been able to find any documentation for this, and a quick search of this group also revealed nothing (please feel free to point me to any existing discussion that I might have missed). The quick and dirty: Twitter doesn't like a `since_id` that is not a part of the timeline it is being sent for. The longer and cleaner: Try this - find the status ID of any tweet (take one from my timeline [http://twitter.com/aditya], I'm pretty sure you're not following me =P), and make a call to your `friends_timeline` with this ID as the `since_id`. Twitter will ignore it completely, and send you the last 20/200 tweets anyway. Expected behaviour: The API should return tweets made after the `since_id` supplied, regardless of whether that status belongs in that timeline or not. A simple reason is a use case I hit time and time again: My app stores the status ID of the last tweet fetched, and uses it for the next call. If I unfollow anyone in between two fetches, and his/her was the last tweet I received (a pretty common scenario), Twitter API bonks and sends me tweets I already have. What I propose will bring a uniformity to the API call - and maybe will be easier on Twitter as well (depending on how their fetch-from- the-database is set up). -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Source Parameter: Can I Me One Of Those?
I requested a source parameter for toweet.com at http://twitter.com/help/request_source but have not heard back. I just re-requested it, in case the first registration got lost. What is the typical waiting period for such a thing?
Twitter status source!!
Hi. I am deploying a twitter application. I use the API for update status and put the ApplicationName in source post param, but ever show from web. How display my application name in source? Thanks for all. P.D. Sorry for bad english :/
Re: Twitter status source!!
Read the wiki, plz: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FrontPage On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:20 PM, charlesmex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am deploying a twitter application. I use the API for update status and put the ApplicationName in source post param, but ever show from web. How display my application name in source? Thanks for all. P.D. Sorry for bad english :/
Re: Twitter status source!!
http://twitter.com/help/request_source On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Ed Finkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read the wiki, plz: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FrontPage On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:20 PM, charlesmex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am deploying a twitter application. I use the API for update status and put the ApplicationName in source post param, but ever show from web. How display my application name in source? Thanks for all. P.D. Sorry for bad english :/ -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Posting links to twitter
On Nov 4, 8:18 pm, dowhilesomething [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is this possible? Everything I try to do comes out as text.
As long as it looks like a url it seems to work,
namely with the http://
I wrote a bit of code to tinyurl-ise any links
http://github.com/matthewrudy/rudebay/tree/master/lib/rudebay/twitterer.rb
ruby
def self.make_tinyurl(link)
url = URI.parse('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php')
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
req.set_form_data('url' = link)
res = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port).start {|http|
http.request(req) }
return res.body
end
Re: Posting links to twitter
On Nov 4, 8:18 pm, dowhilesomething [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is this possible? Everything I try to do comes out as text.
It works fine, as long as it recognises its a url.
(I assume it uses the Rails auto_link, or something of that sort -
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M001338)
namely start the link with an http://;
I wrote a bit of code to tinyurl any links
ruby
def self.make_tinyurl(link)
url = URI.parse('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php')
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
req.set_form_data('url' = link)
res = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port).start {|http|
http.request(req) }
return res.body
end
http://github.com/matthewrudy/rudebay/tree/master/lib/rudebay/twitterer.rb
enjoy.
(apologies if I sent this twice)
MatthewRudy
