[twitter-dev] OAuth application icon reset?
Hi, I have a Twitter OAuth application running successfully since yesterday and all was good. Today, the application icon I had uploaded in the settings page seems to have reverted back to the default 'cogs' icon. I this a known issue? I tried re-uploading to no avail. Many thanks for finally implementing OAuth! Great news! Regards, @kosso
[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth preparation
I was having issues with this as well, but it seems to be cleared up. Brooks On Mar 17, 5:53 pm, Shannon Whitley wrote: > If I leave the username and password blank on the authorization page, > and then click Allow, I receive a valid token for a user named, > andiojeda. Has anyone else seen this? Is it a "feature" when using > the oauth_callback?
[twitter-dev] Re: Direct message appearing and disappearing on each refresh
Very much so. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 14:43, benjackson wrote: > > We're seeing an issue where the latest direct message is cut out of > the list when refreshing, and then included/cut again upon each > refresh. > > Is this a known issue? > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
I'd like to be added to the list also. Fiji Web Design URL: http://www.fijiwebdesign.com/ Twitter: @fijiwebdesign Focus: Open Source web development. On Feb 22, 2:00 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API > development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, > but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list > or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance > that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on > such requests. > > -Chad
[twitter-dev] "Invalid / expired Token" after authorizing request token
Hello, I'm unit testing my OAuth implementation and am able to obtain a request token successfully. After obtaining it, I redirect the user to the authorize URL (with token parameter and no callback) and hang and wait for a few seconds while I click "Allow" on the token's redirected authorization page. At this stage, I'm under the impression that I should now exchange that request token (which should be authorized due to my clicking the big green button) for an access token. I perform my signature hashing and such based on the access URL, provide the required parameters including the token, and make my request, but this call consistently returns "Invalid / expired Token". I'm assuming it can't find the token I'm trying to look up. Am I looking at this the wrong way?
[twitter-dev] Direct message appearing and disappearing on each refresh
We're seeing an issue where the latest direct message is cut out of the list when refreshing, and then included/cut again upon each refresh. Is this a known issue?
[twitter-dev] Re: Friends and followers listing ends abruptly for large numbers
Interesting... I've reported this also: I'm seeing consistent 502 errors on users with large follow lists when using the social api The fact is that it's inconsistent: i am able to see page 648 and 649, but not 1000... On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: > Google Is Your Friend -- this issue has come up more than once recently. > Check the list archives. > > > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Patrick wrote: > >> >> I'm using the api to retrieve friends and followers for a popular user >> but it seems the api and the twitter friends and followers webpage end >> the listing quite early in the listing. (I'm assuming the webpages >> just use the api behind the scenes) >> >> For example check out stephenfry's profile... >> >> He's got 316888 followers which should result in over 15000 pages of >> followers (20 per page). However if you go to, say, page 1000 there >> are no results: http://twitter.com/stephenfry/followers?page=1000 >> >> (the listing actually ends on page 647: >> http://twitter.com/stephenfry/followers?page=647) >> >> I'm seeing the exact same issue with my client. The api also stops the >> listing early. >> >> Anyone able to shed any light? >> > >
[twitter-dev] Re: Not appearing in search results
I had this happen to me awhile ago for no reason that I could explain. I put in a support request(*) and a few days later I was back in there. Support request to http://help.twitter.com or http://www.getsatisfaction.com/twitter not here TjL
[twitter-dev] Re: Not appearing in search results
Sean, Please refer to http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/16817. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Sean wrote: > > My Twitter feed has been unprotected for all of its existence, but I > can't get it to show up in search.twitter.com results. The most > obvious example might be the hashtag #wff2009 -- there aren't that > many posts out there in all of Twitterdom that feature it, but none of > them are mine. I'm hoping to use Twitter for business communication > purposes in the future, but those plans rely on being able to trust > that searches I do on a given hashtag actually find all the responses. > Any ideas? > > My feed it twitter.com/traineenews > > Thanks. >
[twitter-dev] Not appearing in search results
My Twitter feed has been unprotected for all of its existence, but I can't get it to show up in search.twitter.com results. The most obvious example might be the hashtag #wff2009 -- there aren't that many posts out there in all of Twitterdom that feature it, but none of them are mine. I'm hoping to use Twitter for business communication purposes in the future, but those plans rely on being able to trust that searches I do on a given hashtag actually find all the responses. Any ideas? My feed it twitter.com/traineenews Thanks.
[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?
So it appears that most (if not all) of the trending bots have been removed from search results as of 2 days ago, nice. I have also noticed that the referral traffic from my bot links have dropped about 85% in the last two days. Not complaining; I'm all for this change. Just noticing out loud. -Chad
[twitter-dev] Re: Friends and followers listing ends abruptly for large numbers
Google Is Your Friend -- this issue has come up more than once recently. Check the list archives. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Patrick wrote: > > I'm using the api to retrieve friends and followers for a popular user > but it seems the api and the twitter friends and followers webpage end > the listing quite early in the listing. (I'm assuming the webpages > just use the api behind the scenes) > > For example check out stephenfry's profile... > > He's got 316888 followers which should result in over 15000 pages of > followers (20 per page). However if you go to, say, page 1000 there > are no results: http://twitter.com/stephenfry/followers?page=1000 > > (the listing actually ends on page 647: > http://twitter.com/stephenfry/followers?page=647) > > I'm seeing the exact same issue with my client. The api also stops the > listing early. > > Anyone able to shed any light? >
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Hi, add me too please: Name: Arnaud Coomans Twitter: acoomans Websites: www.commentag.com, www.tweetag.com Skills: php, mysql, css, ajax, perl, python, twitter api, twitter search api On Mar 17, 3:16 am, Sharj wrote: > Hi, > Can you please add me as well. > > Name: Sharjeel Ahmed > Twitter ID: @Sharj > Website:http://www.sharjeel.info > I mostly work in Ruby on Rails, PHP and all the related technologies. > I have made many twitter applications using Twitter API. > > Thanks, > Sharjeel > > On Mar 12, 10:24 pm, Ollie wrote: > > > Can I be added to the list please? > > > Real Name: Ollie Parsley > > Twitter Username: @ollieparsley > > Email: ol...@ollieparsley.com > > > Freelance PHP developer based in Dorset, UK. Have quite a bit of > > experience with the Twitter APIs for bespoke web apps using PHP/MySQL. > > Done a fair bit of .NET with Oracle too. > > >http://footytweets.comhttp://twitterleague.comhttp://h1debate.com > > > Thanks > > > Ollie
[twitter-dev] Friends and followers listing ends abruptly for large numbers
I'm using the api to retrieve friends and followers for a popular user but it seems the api and the twitter friends and followers webpage end the listing quite early in the listing. (I'm assuming the webpages just use the api behind the scenes) For example check out stephenfry's profile... He's got 316888 followers which should result in over 15000 pages of followers (20 per page). However if you go to, say, page 1000 there are no results: http://twitter.com/stephenfry/followers?page=1000 (the listing actually ends on page 647: http://twitter.com/stephenfry/followers?page=647) I'm seeing the exact same issue with my client. The api also stops the listing early. Anyone able to shed any light?
[twitter-dev] Re: I would like to be a part of twitter freelancing
I think you want to move this information to the following thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/dce46c39188083c4/ad79dff921490913#ad79dff921490913 On Mar 18, 12:27 pm, Ratnavel wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to be a part of freelancers developing Twitter based > apps, I build apps in both Ruby on Rails and Java, > > My Twitter acc:http://twitter.com/ratnavel > Blog url:http://ratnaonrails.wordpress.com/ > > Regards, > Ratnavel
[twitter-dev] Re: Does API authentication failure count against a user's login attempts?
Not the way our login attempt rate limiting is written, no. We test for that. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:02, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > > On 3/18/09 11:18 AM, Daniel Sims wrote: >> >> This seems to be a recurring problem for some people, where their >> twitter account is constantly being locked out. >> http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/i_am_locked_out >> >> My guess is that there are apps/services out there that are >> continually attempting to authenticate, even if the stored password >> they have is incorrect. > > The larger issue at stake here is: could someone effectively "close down" > Twitter with a sufficiently large botnet, making random and repeated failed > login attempts against a very large list of Twitter user IDs? > > It's interesting how in this day and age of significantly sized botnets, we > haven't seen this kind of DDoS attack, yet. > > -- > Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/ > Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ > "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own > folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: ok to reserver a few dozen usernames for a business idea?
Lucy, You should only create accounts for users that you are actively using. Please do not create accounts to squat on them. A strong indication that an account should not exist account is a noticeable lack of followers. >From your description, I would suggest you concentrate on Option 2 and focus your efforts on a single username for the game. Only after it becomes clear that your users would benefit from independent names would Option 1 make sense. Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:32 PM, lucy wrote: > > A friend and I want to start a legitimate business involving a twitter > app. We're not sure what the best practice is regarding reserving > twitter usernames. We don't want to do anything slimey or abusive, but > we also don't want to shoot ourselves in the foot by being warm and > fuzzy instead of playing the marketing/convenience game. > > Essentially, the question is: if we plan to make a bunch of related > apps, is it ok to reserve 50 usernames? Say our company is called Foo, > and we want to release FooBar, FooQux and FooMoo, etc. > > option 1: > > Is it ok to reserve each sub-app that users can interact via: > "@FooBar sekret command" > and so that they only get updates about FooBar if that's what > interests them? > > option 2: > > Dev-wise, it's pretty similar for users to have to interact via: > "@Foo Bar sekret command" > where Foo is our only reserved username. Users won't be able to > specifically follow the sub-app that interests them, but we could work > that out internally and only direct message relevant users. > > The sub-apps are definitely apps in their own rights, rather than > categories. My friend and I are pretty serious about developing this > suite, and while some of the usernames won't get used (presumably we > can delete those accounts once that becomes clear), most of them will > be. We want to ensure our Foo brand doesn't run into problems. It > still feels greedy. > > Is option 1 a standard thing to do? Will our accounts be taken from > us? Will we be banned? > > Thanks! >
[twitter-dev] Re: ok to reserver a few dozen usernames for a business idea?
If you create a bunch of accounts in a short period of time, it's likely that our support staff will ban those accounts. Please let them know ahead of time: supp...@twitter.com. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:32, lucy wrote: > > A friend and I want to start a legitimate business involving a twitter > app. We're not sure what the best practice is regarding reserving > twitter usernames. We don't want to do anything slimey or abusive, but > we also don't want to shoot ourselves in the foot by being warm and > fuzzy instead of playing the marketing/convenience game. > > Essentially, the question is: if we plan to make a bunch of related > apps, is it ok to reserve 50 usernames? Say our company is called Foo, > and we want to release FooBar, FooQux and FooMoo, etc. > > option 1: > > Is it ok to reserve each sub-app that users can interact via: > "@FooBar sekret command" > and so that they only get updates about FooBar if that's what > interests them? > > option 2: > > Dev-wise, it's pretty similar for users to have to interact via: > "@Foo Bar sekret command" > where Foo is our only reserved username. Users won't be able to > specifically follow the sub-app that interests them, but we could work > that out internally and only direct message relevant users. > > The sub-apps are definitely apps in their own rights, rather than > categories. My friend and I are pretty serious about developing this > suite, and while some of the usernames won't get used (presumably we > can delete those accounts once that becomes clear), most of them will > be. We want to ensure our Foo brand doesn't run into problems. It > still feels greedy. > > Is option 1 a standard thing to do? Will our accounts be taken from > us? Will we be banned? > > Thanks! > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] ok to reserver a few dozen usernames for a business idea?
A friend and I want to start a legitimate business involving a twitter app. We're not sure what the best practice is regarding reserving twitter usernames. We don't want to do anything slimey or abusive, but we also don't want to shoot ourselves in the foot by being warm and fuzzy instead of playing the marketing/convenience game. Essentially, the question is: if we plan to make a bunch of related apps, is it ok to reserve 50 usernames? Say our company is called Foo, and we want to release FooBar, FooQux and FooMoo, etc. option 1: Is it ok to reserve each sub-app that users can interact via: "@FooBar sekret command" and so that they only get updates about FooBar if that's what interests them? option 2: Dev-wise, it's pretty similar for users to have to interact via: "@Foo Bar sekret command" where Foo is our only reserved username. Users won't be able to specifically follow the sub-app that interests them, but we could work that out internally and only direct message relevant users. The sub-apps are definitely apps in their own rights, rather than categories. My friend and I are pretty serious about developing this suite, and while some of the usernames won't get used (presumably we can delete those accounts once that becomes clear), most of them will be. We want to ensure our Foo brand doesn't run into problems. It still feels greedy. Is option 1 a standard thing to do? Will our accounts be taken from us? Will we be banned? Thanks!
[twitter-dev] I would like to be a part of twitter freelancing
Hi, I would like to be a part of freelancers developing Twitter based apps, I build apps in both Ruby on Rails and Java, My Twitter acc: http://twitter.com/ratnavel Blog url: http://ratnaonrails.wordpress.com/ Regards, Ratnavel
[twitter-dev] Re: Does API authentication failure count against a user's login attempts?
On 3/18/09 11:18 AM, Daniel Sims wrote: This seems to be a recurring problem for some people, where their twitter account is constantly being locked out. http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/i_am_locked_out My guess is that there are apps/services out there that are continually attempting to authenticate, even if the stored password they have is incorrect. The larger issue at stake here is: could someone effectively "close down" Twitter with a sufficiently large botnet, making random and repeated failed login attempts against a very large list of Twitter user IDs? It's interesting how in this day and age of significantly sized botnets, we haven't seen this kind of DDoS attack, yet. -- Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
[twitter-dev] Does API authentication failure count against a user's login attempts?
This seems to be a recurring problem for some people, where their twitter account is constantly being locked out. http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/i_am_locked_out My guess is that there are apps/services out there that are continually attempting to authenticate, even if the stored password they have is incorrect.
[twitter-dev] OAuth and update_profile_image
Hi, It seems OAuth doesn't support multipart/form-data, at least this version of the OAuth spec doesn't support it. Would it be possible to also accept a base64-encoded, hashed (regular) argument for the image in the POST data instead of just the form-data submission/version? This would make it significantly easier to submit the data, if at all. Zachary West @zacwest
[twitter-dev] Re: I cannot add a custom background image
Rob, Was this attempted through the API or Web? Thanks Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Rob wrote: > > DougW: > > Same issues for me. Failed for about 3 days now on multiple > attempts.Trying to reload an edited version of my background image. > File size, pixel dimensions unchanged (just painted a few pixels > differently). > > getting the "something is technically wrong" page. > > Attempts to load through the twitter.com website fail using both > Firefox 3.0.7 and IExplorer 7.0.5730.11 > > googling seems to indicate this problem is widespread. > > any eta on a fix? > > - Rob > > On Mar 17, 10:30 am, Doug Williams wrote: >> Victor, >> Are you doing this through the API or through the Web? >> >> If this was through the Web, please contact the support staff >> throughhttp://bit.ly/18bY2 >> >> If you were using the API, please provide more details on your >> account/update_profile_background_image method invocation such as what >> language or tool you are using, etc... >> >> Thanks, >> Doug Williams >> Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw >> >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Victor Hugo wrote: >> >> > I have been trying around 30 times and I cannot add a custom >> >backgroundimage. >> >> > it always display this message: >> >> > "Something is technically wrong. >> > Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to >> > normal soon." >> >> > Myimageis JPG and 50.5Kb >> >> > Can somebody give me a hand or fix the issue, please. >> >> > thank you >
[twitter-dev] Re: Users Location: 3 Part Process?
E, REST timelines do contain user information within each status element [1]. [1] - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#Statuselement Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:33 PM, E wrote: > > I'm trying to do something which I thought would be pretty standard: > > 1. Search tweets by kw/tag > 2. Associate the tweet with the users location (either the location > in their profile or the actual location where they made the tweet). > > From what I can tell after looking at this today, is that I would need > to do three things: > > 1. get the users ID > 2. lookup profile by ID to get their location. > 3. send their location to the Yahoo API to get their lat/long. > > Rest calls (public_timeline, friends_timeline, user_timeline) and the > Search API do not include a location node. > > Is this correct? > > -E > >
[twitter-dev] Re: Remaining Hits
Colin, Are you passing in your credentials with that request to account/rate_limit_status? Executing the method without credentials will return the status that applies to your IP address. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:27 AM, colboy wrote: > > In using the : > > http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.format > > command, there seems to be some inaccuracies. In testing when all the > clients I've played with have told me my limit for the hour has been > exceeded, when I try the API command it tells me I have Remaining Hits > - 87. I've tried this a few times and it appears that when the API is > exceeded, the remaining hit count is not displayed correctly, i.e. 0. > Also is there some kind of lag. If I have Twhirl or Spaz open and post > a few tweets, and then issue the API command, the remaining hits do > not seem to go down accordingly. > > Any ideas? > > Colin >
[twitter-dev] looking for some avid twitter fans to give feedback on a new twitter browsing service
hi guys. thanks twitter for the tech support and the whitelisting! i've got a twitter reverse-index service up and running that helps you find who is twittering about a specific web page. in other words, if, for example, you yourself just linked a web page in a tweet, you can refer to this service to see who else thought that was a cool page. it also has a few other fun features. it's in pre-alpha, most of the "hard parts" are working, and i need to broaden my audience of testers before i open it up for general use. it's google app engine based which means you'll need to send me your google email address if you want to help me test. email me at peter.s.magnus...@gmail.com thanks! P.
[twitter-dev] Re: Reserved usernames
If that's the problem you are trying to solve, just make a API call to retrieve the user information for xxx. -- Hwee-Boon On Mar 18, 11:22 am, "jim.renkel" wrote: > Richard, > > I think the problem you're trying to solve here is: given a URL of the > formhttp://twitter.com/xxx, is xxx a valid twitter username? (At > least that's a problem that I'm trying to solve for an application I'm > developing.). > > > Is this everything, or have I missed anything? > > > Richard
[twitter-dev] Re: Finding tweet by id only
I built it into an iPhone client, blogged about it here - http://motionobj.com/blog/the-conversation-view-in-simplytweet. Is such a thing in wide demand? -- Hwee-Boon On Mar 18, 11:18 am, TjL wrote: > This seems like it would be a fairly easy project to do, something like > > http://tweetbynumber.com/0 > > Look up the tweet, see if it exists, if it does, display it (and cache it) > > Assuming that we eventually get a way to search for replies, you could > display those too. > > Is Twitter Inc going to add this? > > If not, is someone else working on it? > > TjL
