Re: Subsequent identical messages ignored?
No documentation update yet...can you please just tell me what the subsequent update limit is so I can update my code to prevent redundant posts? In the meantime I'm going to limit identical posts to no more than one a minute. (Don't worry, I don't expect the app to update nearly that often...but it may happen while testing.) On Dec 6, 6:34 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not new, and we haven't had any other reports of updates lagging. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 15:25, tweetip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been guessing this new check is why posting an update is taking so long? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Problems with updating profile image
Thanks Lien. I was able to get this figured out. It was a problem with the way I was encoding the image data. I needed to be using iso-8859-1. I really appreciate your help On Dec 8, 5:00 pm, Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Lien, I am trying to get this done using c#.NET and I think I am getting closer. What is happening with my request is it is getting truncated only a few characters in to the actualimagedata so I don't have a footer boundary. The post completes successfully, but theimagethat gets uploaded to the server isn't formatted correctly. Here is the full request body - POST /account/update_profile_image.xml HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=125e2d3d-97d3-44fc-8267-9a8ef2d79644 Authorization: Basic removed Host: twitter.com Content-Length: 201010 Expect: 100-continue --125e2d3d-97d3-44fc-8267-9a8ef2d79644 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=image; filename=seantest.jpg Content-Type:image/jpeg ÿØÿà Any ideas what could be causing theimagedata to be truncated? Thanks again for your help On Dec 8, 3:24 pm, Lien Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what my request body looks like: POST /account/update_profile_image.xml HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Basic removed Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=-1228771270538 User-Agent: Java/1.6.0_02 Host: twitter.com Accept: text/html,image/gif,image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2 Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 71380 ---1228771270538 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=image; filename=Sunset.jpg Content-Type:image/jpeg binary data here ---1228771270538--HTTP/1.1 200 OK On Dec 8, 8:11 am, Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you mind posting a sample of your correctly formatted request here? I am running windows and haven't been able to get curl up and running yet. Thanks Sean On Dec 8, 12:06 am, Lien Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Alex. I used curl to see what the request should look like and then coded up my request accordingly. It's working for me now. On Dec 6, 11:37 am, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The test we use for this method is to use curl: curl -F '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/to/test/image.jpg' -u USERNAME:PASSWORDhttp://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.xml If you use an HTTP proxy, you can see it generating the appropriate request and response. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 00:09, Lien Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been trying to update myprofileimageusing the account method update_profile_image. However, the server keeps returning the error There was a problem with your picture. Probably too big. The photo I am trying touploadis a jpg less than 700 kilobytes in size. Below is the request body and request response. Request body: POST /account/update_profile_image.xml HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Basic encoded credentials here User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1 Host: twitter.com Content-Length: 71440 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=tUGDGHg6- mbUEjVXYFhFWeb_NFmBUxiXOK --tUGDGHg6-mbUEjVXYFhFWeb_NFmBUxiXOK Content-Disposition: form-data; name=Sunset.jpg; filename=Sunset.jpg Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary binary data here --tUGDGHg6-mbUEjVXYFhFWeb_NFmBUxiXOK-- Response body: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:59:53 GMT Server: hi Last-Modified: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:59:53 GMT Status: 403 Forbidden Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post- check=0 Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 183 Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7BzoHaWQiJWRhOWNmNjI1MGM5MjRmYWIwOGEzOGQwNTQyYzNmZTNjIgpm %250AbGFzaElDOidBY3Rpb25Db250cm9sbGVyOjpGbGFzaDo6Rmxhc2hIYXNoewAG %250AOgpAdXNlZHsA--d9fe4dcadf2064553d3371c9fe767ff009f20c21; domain=.twitter.com; path=/ Vary: Accept-Encoding Connection: close ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/account/update_profile_image.xml/request errorThere was a problem with your picture. Probably too big./ error /hash Does the request body look correct? Does anyone have a sample of what the request body should look like if this is not correct? Thanks. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x-Hidequotedtext - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:32 AM, jstrellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, this sounds like MLM, based off of twitter, just slightly modified. If you want to go this route, why not just say, if you follow me, I'll follow you and we'll both get higher numbers. Maybe you'll like what I have to say too. How do you do this without spamming a huge number of people? Why do you think many people would look at your twitter page to read such a message? Amir Honestly though, this completely misses the whole point of Twitter. On Dec 8, 7:51 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but stubborn persistence regardless. And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting for them? (because of the quality of feed). Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter followers to better their chances of startup success. They could go to this service to increase their followers. So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their intent to follow more people. Amir Not cutting, just trying to understand. Waitman On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Anyways, back to the original topic. I don't understand WHERE these Them are going to submit. (re: original post). I guess that's what I'm missing. Waitman At the service using the twitter API that I'm thinking of building. I didn't realize this idea was so difficult to understand though. Maybe I shouldn't even try... Amir On Dec 8, 5:54 pm, Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's because people who are new, or considered new due to few posts, are automatically put in the moderation queue. spam, which I'm sure --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://t... --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://twitter.com/amichail -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com http://numbrosia.com http://twitter.com/amichail
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
On 9 Dec 2008, at 18:04, Amir Michail wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:32 AM, jstrellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, this sounds like MLM, based off of twitter, just slightly modified. If you want to go this route, why not just say, if you follow me, I'll follow you and we'll both get higher numbers. Maybe you'll like what I have to say too. How do you do this without spamming a huge number of people? Why do you think many people would look at your twitter page to read such a message? In my experience the best way to get new followers is not to ask for them, either directly or through using any service with the sole purpose of allowing you to pimp yourself as worth following. If you're worth following people will follow. It's then up to you whether you reciprocate or not. Personally I look their last few pages and base my decision on that. If I'm not interested in that then there's no value in my following them. But that's just the way I see it. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ http://twitter.com/stut Honestly though, this completely misses the whole point of Twitter. On Dec 8, 7:51 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but stubborn persistence regardless. And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting for them? (because of the quality of feed). Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter followers to better their chances of startup success. They could go to this service to increase their followers. So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their intent to follow more people. Amir Not cutting, just trying to understand. Waitman On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Anyways, back to the original topic. I don't understand WHERE these Them are going to submit. (re: original post). I guess that's what I'm missing. Waitman At the service using the twitter API that I'm thinking of building. I didn't realize this idea was so difficult to understand though. Maybe I shouldn't even try... Amir On Dec 8, 5:54 pm, Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's because people who are new, or considered new due to few posts, are automatically put in the moderation queue. spam, which I'm sure --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp ://t... --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp:// numbrosia.comhttp://twitter.com/amichail -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com http://numbrosia.com http://twitter.com/amichail
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many people has this worked for? From what I understand, people with a huge number of followers on twitter were already famous before using twitter. Is the goal here to win at twitter? Do you win by getting the most followers? As my good friend says: it's not who follows you, it's who you follow. That's how to get the most value out of twitter (in his opinion, and in mine). As for being famous and having a ton of followers... That's how celebrity works. Also, I don't consider myself remotely famous, but I just crossed 600 followers, which is quite a bit more than the average joe has... so it is possible to grow your followers with time and hard work to engage others to give them value. That said, you are still welcome to build this service. I'm not sure most of us understand it exactly, but maybe once it is implemented we will get it. That, and let the net decide. If people want to use it, they will... if not, they won't. Either way, it would probably be a fun exercise in programming and learning the API. -Chad p.s. This whole thread has been very entertaining, I must say. But that's just the way I see it. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ http://twitter.com/stut Honestly though, this completely misses the whole point of Twitter. On Dec 8, 7:51 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but stubborn persistence regardless. And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting for them? (because of the quality of feed). Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter followers to better their chances of startup success. They could go to this service to increase their followers. So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their intent to follow more people. Amir Not cutting, just trying to understand. Waitman On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Anyways, back to the original topic. I don't understand WHERE these Them are going to submit. (re: original post). I guess that's what I'm missing. Waitman At the service using the twitter API that I'm thinking of building. I didn't realize this idea was so difficult to understand though. Maybe I shouldn't even try... Amir On Dec 8, 5:54 pm, Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's because people who are new, or considered new due to few posts, are automatically put in the moderation queue. spam, which I'm sure --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp ://t... --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp:// numbrosia.comhttp://twitter.com/amichail -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com http://numbrosia.com http://twitter.com/amichail -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com http://numbrosia.com http://twitter.com/amichail
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Andrew Badera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: define huge. I'm not famous, but have almost 2000 followers. How did you accumulate this number? How many of them already knew you? How many people did you follow (without taking away subsequent unfollows)? Amir early adopters probably have an easier time accruing large numbers of followers, as do celebrities, but fame is certainly not a requirement. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Dec 2008, at 18:04, Amir Michail wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:32 AM, jstrellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, this sounds like MLM, based off of twitter, just slightly modified. If you want to go this route, why not just say, if you follow me, I'll follow you and we'll both get higher numbers. Maybe you'll like what I have to say too. How do you do this without spamming a huge number of people? Why do you think many people would look at your twitter page to read such a message? In my experience the best way to get new followers is not to ask for them, either directly or through using any service with the sole purpose of allowing you to pimp yourself as worth following. If you're worth following people will follow. It's then up to you whether you reciprocate or not. Personally I look their last few pages and base my decision on that. If I'm not interested in that then there's no value in my following them. How many people has this worked for? From what I understand, people with a huge number of followers on twitter were already famous before using twitter. Amir But that's just the way I see it. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ http://twitter.com/stut Honestly though, this completely misses the whole point of Twitter. On Dec 8, 7:51 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but stubborn persistence regardless. And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting for them? (because of the quality of feed). Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter followers to better their chances of startup success. They could go to this service to increase their followers. So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their intent to follow more people. Amir Not cutting, just trying to understand. Waitman On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Anyways, back to the original topic. I don't understand WHERE these Them are going to submit. (re: original post). I guess that's what I'm missing. Waitman At the service using the twitter API that I'm thinking of building. I didn't realize this idea was so difficult to understand though. Maybe I shouldn't even try... Amir On Dec 8, 5:54 pm, Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's because people who are new, or considered new due to few posts, are automatically put in the moderation queue. spam, which I'm sure --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp ://t... --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp:// numbrosia.comhttp://twitter.com/amichail -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com http://numbrosia.com http://twitter.com/amichail -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com http://numbrosia.com http://twitter.com/amichail -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com http://numbrosia.com http://twitter.com/amichail
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
On 9 Dec 2008, at 18:41, Andrew Badera wrote: define huge. I'm not famous, but have almost 2000 followers. early adopters probably have an easier time accruing large numbers of followers, as do celebrities, but fame is certainly not a requirement. Absolutely. Be interesting, that's all it takes. And since everyone deems interesting as something different it's not as hard as it sounds. And huge is what you define it to be. If you're using Twitter purely to get followers, IMHO you're not worth following. It's not a popularity contest. If you feel the need to force it, are you really providing value to others? Speaking of popularity contests, my latest Twitter-based project is currently in private(ish) beta. To check it out sign up to the following Google Group for access details: http://groups.google.com/group/twitorfit - launching publicly at Twinterval on Monday. -Stut On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Dec 2008, at 18:04, Amir Michail wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:32 AM, jstrellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, this sounds like MLM, based off of twitter, just slightly modified. If you want to go this route, why not just say, if you follow me, I'll follow you and we'll both get higher numbers. Maybe you'll like what I have to say too. How do you do this without spamming a huge number of people? Why do you think many people would look at your twitter page to read such a message? In my experience the best way to get new followers is not to ask for them, either directly or through using any service with the sole purpose of allowing you to pimp yourself as worth following. If you're worth following people will follow. It's then up to you whether you reciprocate or not. Personally I look their last few pages and base my decision on that. If I'm not interested in that then there's no value in my following them. How many people has this worked for? From what I understand, people with a huge number of followers on twitter were already famous before using twitter. Amir But that's just the way I see it. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ http://twitter.com/stut Honestly though, this completely misses the whole point of Twitter. On Dec 8, 7:51 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but stubborn persistence regardless. And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting for them? (because of the quality of feed). Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter followers to better their chances of startup success. They could go to this service to increase their followers. So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their intent to follow more people. Amir Not cutting, just trying to understand. Waitman On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Anyways, back to the original topic. I don't understand WHERE these Them are going to submit. (re: original post). I guess that's what I'm missing. Waitman At the service using the twitter API that I'm thinking of building. I didn't realize this idea was so difficult to understand though. Maybe I shouldn't even try... Amir On Dec 8, 5:54 pm, Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's because people who are new, or considered new due to few posts, are automatically put in the moderation queue. spam, which I'm sure --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp ://t... --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp:// numbrosia.comhttp://twitter.com/amichail -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
It sounds/feels like you're trying to force it, like you're imposing an artificial, redundant structure on top of Twitter ... But why don't you go ahead and implement it and show us all how it works, how effective it is? Less talk, more do. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Dec 2008, at 18:41, Andrew Badera wrote: define huge. I'm not famous, but have almost 2000 followers. early adopters probably have an easier time accruing large numbers of followers, as do celebrities, but fame is certainly not a requirement. Absolutely. Be interesting, that's all it takes. And since everyone deems interesting as something different it's not as hard as it sounds. And huge is what you define it to be. If you're using Twitter purely to get followers, IMHO you're not worth following. It's not a popularity contest. If you feel the need to force it, are you really providing value to others? I think many of the serious twitter users are tweeting frequently because it is part of their job. They really do need the traffic that twitter drives to their web site. And so I think there's a real need for a service that helps you increase followers, especially ones who might actually find your tweets interesting. Amir Speaking of popularity contests, my latest Twitter-based project is currently in private(ish) beta. To check it out sign up to the following Google Group for access details: http://groups.google.com/group/twitorfit - launching publicly at Twinterval on Monday. -Stut On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Dec 2008, at 18:04, Amir Michail wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:32 AM, jstrellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, this sounds like MLM, based off of twitter, just slightly modified. If you want to go this route, why not just say, if you follow me, I'll follow you and we'll both get higher numbers. Maybe you'll like what I have to say too. How do you do this without spamming a huge number of people? Why do you think many people would look at your twitter page to read such a message? In my experience the best way to get new followers is not to ask for them, either directly or through using any service with the sole purpose of allowing you to pimp yourself as worth following. If you're worth following people will follow. It's then up to you whether you reciprocate or not. Personally I look their last few pages and base my decision on that. If I'm not interested in that then there's no value in my following them. How many people has this worked for? From what I understand, people with a huge number of followers on twitter were already famous before using twitter. Amir But that's just the way I see it. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ http://twitter.com/stut Honestly though, this completely misses the whole point of Twitter. On Dec 8, 7:51 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but stubborn persistence regardless. And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting for them? (because of the quality of feed). Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter followers to better their chances of startup success. They could go to this service to increase their followers. So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their intent to follow more people. Amir Not cutting, just trying to understand. Waitman On Dec 8, 7:11 pm,
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
And so I think there's a real need for a service that helps you increase followers, especially ones who might actually find your tweets interesting. Need seems like a strong word. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 Skype: funka7ron
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
The easiest way to get your message out (i.e. have people that read your tweets) on twitter is to use twitter. That is to say that if you start interacting with people who are relevant to what you are interested you will start conversations, and ultimately have more people to spread your message to. eg. I use search.twitter.com or look in the public feed or look for people my friends are following who are saying interesting things to me. I @reply to one of their tweets. They @reply back to me because I said something interesting and worthwhile. Their followers see the @reply, wonder what it was a reply to, find me, then start following and @replying me. And thus twitter expands exponentially (well, sort of). Start using twitter to have the conversations you are interesting in. If you engage with interested people, they will listen. Emma. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:32 AM, jstrellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, this sounds like MLM, based off of twitter, just slightly modified. If you want to go this route, why not just say, if you follow me, I'll follow you and we'll both get higher numbers. Maybe you'll like what I have to say too. How do you do this without spamming a huge number of people? Why do you think many people would look at your twitter page to read such a message? Amir Honestly though, this completely misses the whole point of Twitter. On Dec 8, 7:51 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but stubborn persistence regardless. And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting for them? (because of the quality of feed). Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter followers to better their chances of startup success. They could go to this service to increase their followers. So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their intent to follow more people. Amir Not cutting, just trying to understand. Waitman On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Anyways, back to the original topic. I don't understand WHERE these Them are going to submit. (re: original post). I guess that's what I'm missing. Waitman At the service using the twitter API that I'm thinking of building. I didn't realize this idea was so difficult to understand though. Maybe I shouldn't even try... Amir On Dec 8, 5:54 pm, Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's because people who are new, or considered new due to few posts, are automatically put in the moderation queue. spam, which I'm sure --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://t... --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://twitter.com/amichail -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com http://numbrosia.com http://twitter.com/amichail
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
On 9 Dec 2008, at 18:55, Amir Michail wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Dec 2008, at 18:41, Andrew Badera wrote: define huge. I'm not famous, but have almost 2000 followers. early adopters probably have an easier time accruing large numbers of followers, as do celebrities, but fame is certainly not a requirement. Absolutely. Be interesting, that's all it takes. And since everyone deems interesting as something different it's not as hard as it sounds. And huge is what you define it to be. If you're using Twitter purely to get followers, IMHO you're not worth following. It's not a popularity contest. If you feel the need to force it, are you really providing value to others? I think many of the serious twitter users are tweeting frequently because it is part of their job. They really do need the traffic that twitter drives to their web site. And so I think there's a real need for a service that helps you increase followers, especially ones who might actually find your tweets interesting. As with other people on the list I encourage you to develop something if you believe it will add value to the Twitter ecosystem. However, based on your description of what you're thinking I think you would benefit from reversing the PR pitch to helping users find people to follow rather than helping users get followers. It's a much better proposition. -Stut Speaking of popularity contests, my latest Twitter-based project is currently in private(ish) beta. To check it out sign up to the following Google Group for access details: http://groups.google.com/group/twitorfit - launching publicly at Twinterval on Monday. -Stut On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Dec 2008, at 18:04, Amir Michail wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:32 AM, jstrellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, this sounds like MLM, based off of twitter, just slightly modified. If you want to go this route, why not just say, if you follow me, I'll follow you and we'll both get higher numbers. Maybe you'll like what I have to say too. How do you do this without spamming a huge number of people? Why do you think many people would look at your twitter page to read such a message? In my experience the best way to get new followers is not to ask for them, either directly or through using any service with the sole purpose of allowing you to pimp yourself as worth following. If you're worth following people will follow. It's then up to you whether you reciprocate or not. Personally I look their last few pages and base my decision on that. If I'm not interested in that then there's no value in my following them. How many people has this worked for? From what I understand, people with a huge number of followers on twitter were already famous before using twitter. Amir But that's just the way I see it. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ http://twitter.com/stut Honestly though, this completely misses the whole point of Twitter. On Dec 8, 7:51 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but stubborn persistence regardless. And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting for them? (because of the quality of feed). Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter followers to better their chances of startup success. They could go to this service to increase their followers. So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their intent to follow more people. Amir Not cutting, just trying to understand. Waitman On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Anyways, back to the original topic.
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
Amir, I think I'm *kind of* getting why/how this might be useful to a certain segment of Twitter users. Personally, I think the best route would be to implement it so we could all 'get it' and that might help us all see the light. It does sound interesting... Warmly, Anthony Papillion Twitter: www.twitter.com/cajuntechie http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=ULOOP.COM
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
The way I understand it, you want to create a CAPTCHA that uses the twitter API. The CAPTCHA itself would be used anywhere someone needs a CAPTCHA. Like my websites email newsletter signup. So the point of the thing is to be and function as CAPTCHA. But instead of picking out kittens, or reading letters, people would see a few of my tweets. So, it's just one more spot to expose the user to my brand. Did I get that right Amir? If so, it sounds cool. If I, as a developer, need to setup a CAPTCHA for whatever site I'm working on. It might as well be one that could help my brand. (Aka possibly gain my Twitter account more followers.) Dusty On Dec 8, 9:51 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but stubborn persistence regardless. And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting for them? (because of the quality of feed). Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter followers to better their chances of startup success. They could go to this service to increase their followers. So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their intent to follow more people. Amir Not cutting, just trying to understand. Waitman On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Anyways, back to the original topic. I don't understand WHERE these Them are going to submit. (re: original post). I guess that's what I'm missing. Waitman At the service using the twitter API that I'm thinking of building. I didn't realize this idea was so difficult to understand though. Maybe I shouldn't even try... Amir On Dec 8, 5:54 pm, Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's because people who are new, or considered new due to few posts, are automatically put in the moderation queue. spam, which I'm sure --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://t... --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://twitter.com/amichail
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
Now *that* could be interesting... creating an CAPTCHA API that uses twitter's API... not exactly what Amir is proposing (I don't think...), but that would be a cool use of tweets, perhaps... -Chad On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:26 PM, DustyReagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The way I understand it, you want to create a CAPTCHA that uses the twitter API. The CAPTCHA itself would be used anywhere someone needs a CAPTCHA. Like my websites email newsletter signup. So the point of the thing is to be and function as CAPTCHA. But instead of picking out kittens, or reading letters, people would see a few of my tweets. So, it's just one more spot to expose the user to my brand. Did I get that right Amir? If so, it sounds cool. If I, as a developer, need to setup a CAPTCHA for whatever site I'm working on. It might as well be one that could help my brand. (Aka possibly gain my Twitter account more followers.) Dusty On Dec 8, 9:51 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but stubborn persistence regardless. And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting for them? (because of the quality of feed). Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter followers to better their chances of startup success. They could go to this service to increase their followers. So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their intent to follow more people. Amir Not cutting, just trying to understand. Waitman On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Anyways, back to the original topic. I don't understand WHERE these Them are going to submit. (re: original post). I guess that's what I'm missing. Waitman At the service using the twitter API that I'm thinking of building. I didn't realize this idea was so difficult to understand though. Maybe I shouldn't even try... Amir On Dec 8, 5:54 pm, Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's because people who are new, or considered new due to few posts, are automatically put in the moderation queue. spam, which I'm sure --http:/ /b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://t... --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp:// twitter.com/amichail
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:26 PM, DustyReagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The way I understand it, you want to create a CAPTCHA that uses the twitter API. The CAPTCHA itself would be used anywhere someone needs a CAPTCHA. Like my websites email newsletter signup. So the point of the thing is to be and function as CAPTCHA. But instead of picking out kittens, or reading letters, people would see a few of my tweets. So, it's just one more spot to expose the user to my brand. Did I get that right Amir? I wasn't thinking of using it that way. I was thinking of this as being a different use of CAPTCHAs that has nothing to do with security. But sure, you can combine (security) CAPTCHAs with advertising. Amir If so, it sounds cool. If I, as a developer, need to setup a CAPTCHA for whatever site I'm working on. It might as well be one that could help my brand. (Aka possibly gain my Twitter account more followers.) Dusty On Dec 8, 9:51 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but stubborn persistence regardless. And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting for them? (because of the quality of feed). Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter followers to better their chances of startup success. They could go to this service to increase their followers. So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their intent to follow more people. Amir Not cutting, just trying to understand. Waitman On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Anyways, back to the original topic. I don't understand WHERE these Them are going to submit. (re: original post). I guess that's what I'm missing. Waitman At the service using the twitter API that I'm thinking of building. I didn't realize this idea was so difficult to understand though. Maybe I shouldn't even try... Amir On Dec 8, 5:54 pm, Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's because people who are new, or considered new due to few posts, are automatically put in the moderation queue. spam, which I'm sure --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://t... --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://twitter.com/amichail -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com http://numbrosia.com http://twitter.com/amichail
Re: Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:26 PM, DustyReagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The way I understand it, you want to create a CAPTCHA that uses the twitter API. The CAPTCHA itself would be used anywhere someone needs a CAPTCHA. Like my websites email newsletter signup. So the point of the thing is to be and function as CAPTCHA. But instead of picking out kittens, or reading letters, people would see a few of my tweets. So, it's just one more spot to expose the user to my brand. Did I get that right Amir? I wasn't thinking of using it that way. I was thinking of this as being a different use of CAPTCHAs that has nothing to do with security. But sure, you can combine (security) CAPTCHAs with advertising. Amir BTW, I've been using the term CAPTCHA incorrectly. It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. What I describe here isn't automated. Users must submit a question to test comprehension of their tweet selection. But like a CAPTCHA, we want to make sure this is not a computer (or mindless clicking by a human). Amir If so, it sounds cool. If I, as a developer, need to setup a CAPTCHA for whatever site I'm working on. It might as well be one that could help my brand. (Aka possibly gain my Twitter account more followers.) Dusty On Dec 8, 9:51 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but stubborn persistence regardless. And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for some renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. Guys who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises just to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end waiting for them? (because of the quality of feed). Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter followers to better their chances of startup success. They could go to this service to increase their followers. So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. And so they end up following each other, even though it was not their intent to follow more people. Amir Not cutting, just trying to understand. Waitman On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Anyways, back to the original topic. I don't understand WHERE these Them are going to submit. (re: original post). I guess that's what I'm missing. Waitman At the service using the twitter API that I'm thinking of building. I didn't realize this idea was so difficult to understand though. Maybe I shouldn't even try... Amir On Dec 8, 5:54 pm, Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's because people who are new, or considered new due to few posts, are automatically put in the moderation queue. spam, which I'm sure --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://t... --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://twitter.com/amichail -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com http://numbrosia.com http://twitter.com/amichail -- http://b4utweet.com http://chatbotgame.com http://numbrosia.com http://twitter.com/amichail
Re: Subsequent identical messages ignored?
I've updated the docs. There's no limit per se, we just discard statuses with text that are identical to the updating user's current status text. So, don't post foo bar baz twice in a row, as it's not guaranteed to post. On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 22:38, Corey Menscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No documentation update yet...can you please just tell me what the subsequent update limit is so I can update my code to prevent redundant posts? In the meantime I'm going to limit identical posts to no more than one a minute. (Don't worry, I don't expect the app to update nearly that often...but it may happen while testing.) On Dec 6, 6:34 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not new, and we haven't had any other reports of updates lagging. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 15:25, tweetip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been guessing this new check is why posting an update is taking so long? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Change to Twitter API?
This used to work for unauthenticated users to display statuses_count and now it doesn't: http://twitter.com/users/show/(screen_name).xml Any reason this was changed recently? Is there another way to access a user's status count (preferably without requiring the user's authentication)?
Updates and the following thereof
Some time ago, I set up a Twitter account to inform developers of changes to the API. That account had languished somewhat, but I've brought it back as @twitterapi (http://twitter.com/twitterapi). You may want to follow this user for handy API updates. Speaking of which, we've deployed a number of fixes over the past couple days, and more are coming. Check out http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Changelog for the details. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Change to Twitter API?
This is a temporary issue. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:47, itcn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This used to work for unauthenticated users to display statuses_count and now it doesn't: http://twitter.com/users/show/(screen_name).xml Any reason this was changed recently? Is there another way to access a user's status count (preferably without requiring the user's authentication)? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Change to Twitter API?
Apologies once again. We introduced a regression as part of another bug fix. We're doing an emergency deploy right now, so the correct behavior should be live again shortly. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:59, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a temporary issue. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:47, itcn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This used to work for unauthenticated users to display statuses_count and now it doesn't: http://twitter.com/users/show/(screen_name).xml Any reason this was changed recently? Is there another way to access a user's status count (preferably without requiring the user's authentication)? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
What happened to users background API
Show User use to return the following, but it seems not to anymore. Are they gone for good or moved? profile_background_color profile_text_color profile_link_color profile_sidebar_fill_color profile_sidebar_border_color profile_background_image_url profile_background_tile Dusty
Re: What happened to users background API
Please see the recently updated thread about this issue. It's a temporary error that these attributes are missing, and we're fixing it right now. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 15:50, DustyReagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Show User use to return the following, but it seems not to anymore. Are they gone for good or moved? profile_background_color profile_text_color profile_link_color profile_sidebar_fill_color profile_sidebar_border_color profile_background_image_url profile_background_tile Dusty -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: What happened to users background API
Right on. Thanks! On Dec 9, 5:53 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see the recently updated thread about this issue. It's a temporary error that these attributes are missing, and we're fixing it right now. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 15:50, DustyReagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Show User use to return the following, but it seems not to anymore. Are they gone for good or moved? profile_background_color profile_text_color profile_link_color profile_sidebar_fill_color profile_sidebar_border_color profile_background_image_url profile_background_tile Dusty -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Change to Twitter API?
Alex; Thanks for the prompt response and updates!! Thanks for all you guys do, Barry On Dec 9, 6:48 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies once again. We introduced a regression as part of another bug fix. We're doing an emergency deploy right now, so the correct behavior should be live again shortly. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:59, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a temporary issue. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:47, itcn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This used to work for unauthenticated users to display statuses_count and now it doesn't: http://twitter.com/users/show/(screen_name).xml Any reason this was changed recently? Is there another way to access a user's status count (preferably without requiring the user's authentication)? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
