[twitter-dev] Sign in with Twitter - Using iPhone
Is there any way to use Sign in with Twitter from withing iPhone? I want the user of my application to be logged in using Twitter username/password. I am looking for similar functionality as Facebook Connect for iPhone provides.
[twitter-dev] Revoke/Destroy Access Method?
So user deletes his/her twitter access from my site, as in she says I don't want to give this app access anymore so on my site she clicks remove twitter access/account. Is there a method I can call to destroy the access keys I received and automatically revoke access to my application? I know for Facebook, it is a rule, you MUST destroy the keys and disconnect the user if they cancel access, but I don't see this anywhere on Twitters documentation. Thanks, @fastest963
[twitter-dev] Re: Revoke/Destroy Access Method?
Why would you need to destroy the access keys? They stop working once the user revokes access. I guess you could delete them from your database. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 06:44, fastest963 fastest...@gmail.com wrote: So user deletes his/her twitter access from my site, as in she says I don't want to give this app access anymore so on my site she clicks remove twitter access/account. Is there a method I can call to destroy the access keys I received and automatically revoke access to my application? I know for Facebook, it is a rule, you MUST destroy the keys and disconnect the user if they cancel access, but I don't see this anywhere on Twitters documentation. Thanks, @fastest963 -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Search problems for from:username searches
We have had some users complain about not being able to find themselves on http://followcost.com. I've dug into the code and it appears the failure is happening on queries to the search API of the form from:username. A couple example queries that return zero results: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3Athecurrent Yet clearly these users are active, and legitimate, Twitter users: http://twitter.com/1918 http://twitter.com/thecurrent But sadly, is it that these users are not being indexed at all in the search DB? I get zero results doing a simple from:username search for the same users: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Athecurrent These are just a couple examples. Is it common for legitimate, upstanding Twitter users to be unindexed in the search DB? -- Barry Hess http://followcost.com http://bjhess.com
[twitter-dev] saved_search: what is position/position ?
Hi, Thanks for providing saved_search methods! I have one question about the return value. As I mentioned in the subject, what is the value of position supposed to be? To me, it's always empty(XML) or null(json). Could you please document it? http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Return-Values Cheers, -- Yusuke Yamamoto yus...@mac.com this email is: [x] bloggable/twittable [ ] ask first [ ] private follow me on : http://twitter.com/yusukeyamamoto subscribe me : http://yusuke.homeip.net/blog/
[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/f3859409fb05127c -- Barry Hess http://bjhess.com http://iridesco.com On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:50 AM, bjhess bjh...@gmail.com wrote: We have had some users complain about not being able to find themselves on http://followcost.com. I've dug into the code and it appears the failure is happening on queries to the search API of the form from:username. A couple example queries that return zero results: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3Athecurrent Yet clearly these users are active, and legitimate, Twitter users: http://twitter.com/1918 http://twitter.com/thecurrent But sadly, is it that these users are not being indexed at all in the search DB? I get zero results doing a simple from:username search for the same users: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Athecurrent These are just a couple examples. Is it common for legitimate, upstanding Twitter users to be unindexed in the search DB? -- Barry Hess http://followcost.com http://bjhess.com
[twitter-dev] Re: saved_search: what is position/position ?
It is for future use when we allow explicit ordering. Currently it is unused. I've added this value has been the documentation. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Yusuke yusu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for providing saved_search methods! I have one question about the return value. As I mentioned in the subject, what is the value of position supposed to be? To me, it's always empty(XML) or null(json). Could you please document it? http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Return-Values Cheers, -- Yusuke Yamamoto yus...@mac.com this email is: [x] bloggable/twittable [ ] ask first [ ] private follow me on : http://twitter.com/yusukeyamamoto subscribe me : http://yusuke.homeip.net/blog/
[twitter-dev] Re: saved_search: what is position/position ?
Thanks for the response! I'll treat it as a numeric value accordingly. Cheers, Yusuke On 6月6日, 午前12:10, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: It is for future use when we allow explicit ordering. Currently it is unused. I've added this value has been the documentation. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Yusuke yusu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for providing saved_search methods! I have one question about the return value. As I mentioned in the subject, what is the value of position supposed to be? To me, it's always empty(XML) or null(json). Could you please document it? http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Return-Values Cheers, -- Yusuke Yamamoto yus...@mac.com this email is: [x] bloggable/twittable [ ] ask first [ ] private follow me on :http://twitter.com/yusukeyamamoto subscribe me :http://yusuke.homeip.net/blog/
[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches
O! I love recursion! On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:04, Barry Hess bjh...@gmail.com wrote: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/f3859409fb05127c -- Barry Hess http://bjhess.com http://iridesco.com On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:50 AM, bjhess bjh...@gmail.com wrote: We have had some users complain about not being able to find themselves on http://followcost.com. I've dug into the code and it appears the failure is happening on queries to the search API of the form from:username. A couple example queries that return zero results: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3Athecurrent Yet clearly these users are active, and legitimate, Twitter users: http://twitter.com/1918 http://twitter.com/thecurrent But sadly, is it that these users are not being indexed at all in the search DB? I get zero results doing a simple from:username search for the same users: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Athecurrent These are just a couple examples. Is it common for legitimate, upstanding Twitter users to be unindexed in the search DB? -- Barry Hess http://followcost.com http://bjhess.com -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches
Please file a help ticket at http://help.twitter.com. @thecurrents tweets almost always have links that point back to the same source. This is normally indicative of spam which may explain why the account is no longer in search. The folks in support can help you take care issues like these. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Barry Hess bjh...@gmail.com wrote: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/f3859409fb05127c -- Barry Hess http://bjhess.com http://iridesco.com On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:50 AM, bjhess bjh...@gmail.com wrote: We have had some users complain about not being able to find themselves on http://followcost.com. I've dug into the code and it appears the failure is happening on queries to the search API of the form from:username. A couple example queries that return zero results: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3Athecurrent Yet clearly these users are active, and legitimate, Twitter users: http://twitter.com/1918 http://twitter.com/thecurrent But sadly, is it that these users are not being indexed at all in the search DB? I get zero results doing a simple from:username search for the same users: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Athecurrent These are just a couple examples. Is it common for legitimate, upstanding Twitter users to be unindexed in the search DB? -- Barry Hess http://followcost.com http://bjhess.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches
Doug, I've been having a problem seeing my own tweets in search for quite a few months, and I know my tweets were not showing up in a hashtag search at a conference I was at a few weeks ago (which made it really hard to participate in the conference's twitter conversation!). I did file a help ticket a while back and was basically put off by the response from support (essentially it said too bad, so sad) and they closed the ticket on me. I have not had the time nor patience to follow up on it, though, as I know that my tweets are getting out since people do respond to them. Would be nice if my tweets showed in searches, though. - h On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 08:20, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Please file a help ticket at http://help.twitter.com. @thecurrents tweets almost always have links that point back to the same source. This is normally indicative of spam which may explain why the account is no longer in search. The folks in support can help you take care issues like these. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Barry Hess bjh...@gmail.com wrote: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/f3859409fb05127c -- Barry Hess http://bjhess.com http://iridesco.com On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:50 AM, bjhess bjh...@gmail.com wrote: We have had some users complain about not being able to find themselves on http://followcost.com. I've dug into the code and it appears the failure is happening on queries to the search API of the form from:username. A couple example queries that return zero results: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3Athecurrent Yet clearly these users are active, and legitimate, Twitter users: http://twitter.com/1918 http://twitter.com/thecurrent But sadly, is it that these users are not being indexed at all in the search DB? I get zero results doing a simple from:username search for the same users: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Athecurrent These are just a couple examples. Is it common for legitimate, upstanding Twitter users to be unindexed in the search DB? -- Barry Hess http://followcost.com http://bjhess.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches
My experience interacting with http://help.twitter.com this year has been nothing for 2 months until the ticket auto closes. Support is hard to scale for 40 million accounts. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:33, Howard Siegel hsie...@gmail.com wrote: Doug, I've been having a problem seeing my own tweets in search for quite a few months, and I know my tweets were not showing up in a hashtag search at a conference I was at a few weeks ago (which made it really hard to participate in the conference's twitter conversation!). I did file a help ticket a while back and was basically put off by the response from support (essentially it said too bad, so sad) and they closed the ticket on me. I have not had the time nor patience to follow up on it, though, as I know that my tweets are getting out since people do respond to them. Would be nice if my tweets showed in searches, though. - h On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 08:20, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Please file a help ticket at http://help.twitter.com. @thecurrents tweets almost always have links that point back to the same source. This is normally indicative of spam which may explain why the account is no longer in search. The folks in support can help you take care issues like these. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Barry Hess bjh...@gmail.com wrote: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/f3859409fb05127c -- Barry Hess http://bjhess.com http://iridesco.com On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:50 AM, bjhess bjh...@gmail.com wrote: We have had some users complain about not being able to find themselves on http://followcost.com. I've dug into the code and it appears the failure is happening on queries to the search API of the form from:username. A couple example queries that return zero results: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3Athecurrent Yet clearly these users are active, and legitimate, Twitter users: http://twitter.com/1918 http://twitter.com/thecurrent But sadly, is it that these users are not being indexed at all in the search DB? I get zero results doing a simple from:username search for the same users: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Athecurrent These are just a couple examples. Is it common for legitimate, upstanding Twitter users to be unindexed in the search DB? -- Barry Hess http://followcost.com http://bjhess.com -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
[twitter-dev] Sign in with Twitter - Using iPhone
Is there any way to use Sign in with Twitter from withing iPhone? I want the user of my application to be logged in using Twitter username/password. I am looking for similar functionality as Facebook Connect for iPhone provides.
[twitter-dev] Re: how to deal with truncatedtrue/truncated ??
Am 05.06.2009 um 03:25 schrieb Abraham Williams: I don't the Twitter web allows for more then 140 characters to be posted anymore. ups!! I just saw it!!! Thanx.
[twitter-dev] API request limit information - clarification
Hi, the twitter API request limit information is confusing me - so I destilled my understanding of it here: There are 2 kind of different limits: A rate-limit _and_ update- limits. 1. rate-limit This limit is applied to all GET requests (e.g. https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml). 1.1 default appication (= NOT approved by twitter corp.) Default applications have a rate limit for calls to the REST API of 100 requests per hour. 1.2 whitelist application (= approved by twitter corp.) Whitelisted applications, whether an account or IP address, is allowed 2 requests to the REST API per hour. 2. update-limits These limits affect POST requests (e.g.: https://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.xml). 2.1 1,000 total updates per day, on any and all devices (web, mobile web, phone, API, etc. ) 2.2 1,000 total direct messages per day, on any and all devices These limits are applied on a per-account / per-user basis regardless of whitelisting status. Can any person for and on behalf of TWITTER confirm that my understanding is correct, please? Thanks, Michael Links: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/b53550be7149c81a/6f5166547c3dbec6?hl=en#6f5166547c3dbec6 http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364
[twitter-dev] how is iso_language_code determined while twittering?
Hi, I have written a retweet bot searching with language_code=de. Some posts are very German but carry language_code=pl or nl. How is the language_code determined when a user twitters? Thanks, Thomas
[twitter-dev] Re: Help needed, to search photos in twitter
You guys might also want to add our photo sharing service to the mix, tweetphoto.com and pic.gd Sean On Jun 4, 10:16 pm, Chethan chethanksw...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 5, 7:09 am, Jonathan twitcaps.develo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I developed the application Twitcaps (http://twitcaps.com) and I can tell you that what I am using in my search API calls is twitpic.com, yfrog.com or twitgoo.com (or any other arbitrary image provider, img.ly, etc). I found that by including the .com at the end, I wound up with more real image URLs and less mere conversational mentions of twitpic to parse through. Unfortunately, I don't have any good sample code for you. I'm running on Grails/Groovy. -jonathan On Jun 4, 7:05 am, Chethan chethanksw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, can anyone please tell me how to search for photos in twitter/ twitpic, (ex:http://www.twitpicsearch.com,http://tweetgrid.com/twitpicgrid), it would be really helpful if you could provide me with some sample code, I am using PHP and jQuery Thankyou Thank you jonathan. It was really helpful- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
[twitter-dev] A Fresh Look At Follower Processing
New follower processing using the Social Graph methods will become a bigger and bigger headache as more and more Twitter accounts grow into the must page territory. I thought I'd put a completely different approach on the table and see what everyone thinks about it. When doing new follower processing, one is not really interested in the full follower list. You just want to know when a new follower action happens on a Twitter account. To me, this sounds like a perfect candidate for a pub-sub architecture. Instead of Twitter taking on that additional infrastructure load, I'd recommend you investigate whether you can make new follower actions available via Gnip.com. Gnip already has the ability to segment by people, tags and keywords, so segmenting the transactions by Twitter screen name should fit into their current architecture. It's a win for Twitter, because you push a new follower transaction out once only to one single service, and you're done with it. Us developers then grab those transactions from Gnip. It's a win for us as well, because grabbing those transactions don't impact our site rate limits. This pub-sub approach could work for a number of other developer needs as well.
[twitter-dev] Re: random sampling of users....do we know anything about user id range?
Yeah, it definately not users, just IDs. Out of the (now) 44.8+ user IDs about half are actual user accounts that haven't been deleted or banned. That's accounts, it counts multiple accounts from the same person as individual accounts. Twitter IDs are sequentially assigned. This is easily verifiable by watching the creation of the accounts via the api.
[twitter-dev] Re: search is acting strange
Matt, This is a critical issue for the app I am working on. Do you have any information as to when this might get resolved? Thanks, Jonas On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, This is a known issue [1] we're working on. Some servers are behind and we're trying to get them back up to date. Mark the Google Code issue [1] with a star to get updates … no need to leave comments in the ticket. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev [1] - http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=646 On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Jonas wrote: When I do: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=blah The most recent tweet is a couple of minutes old. The next time I do it the most recent is an hour old. The next time a half hour old. The next time a minute old, etc, etc.
[twitter-dev] Re: What is current search time range limit?
Hey Doug, We are seeing search limited all the way down to about 7 days right now. Is this true? This is causing a lot of problems with our app. Thanks, Joe On Apr 27, 1:33 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: From #6 on Things Every Developer Should Know [1]. Search API Limit Clients may request up to 1,500 statuses via the page and count parameters for the search http://apiwiki.twitter.com/search method. The response to a request exceeding this limit will be a status code of 200 and an empty result in the format requested. This artificial limit is in place to ensure the performance of the search system. We also restrict the size of the search index by placing a date limit on the updates we allow you to search. This limit is currently around a month but is dynamic and subject to shrink as the number of tweets per day continues to grow. 1.http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#6Therea... Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:47 PM, explicious avail4...@gmail.com wrote: is that really supposed to be dominoes (sic) ? days ... example: search dominoes pizza. I searched this on 4/17
[twitter-dev] Send data from my personal webpage to twitter
When I post an update in my webpage I want to have a button by pressing that I could sent a data automatically to my twitter. Is that possible?
[twitter-dev] Re: Send data from my personal webpage to twitter
Yes. Check out: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Getting-Started On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:32, nikoo nikou...@yahoo.com wrote: When I post an update in my webpage I want to have a button by pressing that I could sent a data automatically to my twitter. Is that possible? -- Abraham Williams | Community | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: What is current search time range limit?
The index has been shortened considerably to help reduce the replication lag that is causing some search machines to fall behind. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Joe Fernandez joey.fernan...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Doug, We are seeing search limited all the way down to about 7 days right now. Is this true? This is causing a lot of problems with our app. Thanks, Joe On Apr 27, 1:33 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: From #6 on Things Every Developer Should Know [1]. Search API Limit Clients may request up to 1,500 statuses via the page and count parameters for the search http://apiwiki.twitter.com/search method. The response to a request exceeding this limit will be a status code of 200 and an empty result in the format requested. This artificial limit is in place to ensure the performance of the search system. We also restrict the size of the search index by placing a date limit on the updates we allow you to search. This limit is currently around a month but is dynamic and subject to shrink as the number of tweets per day continues to grow. 1.http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#6Therea. .. Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:47 PM, explicious avail4...@gmail.com wrote: is that really supposed to be dominoes (sic) ? days ... example: search dominoes pizza. I searched this on 4/17
[twitter-dev] Streaming API: missing updates non-indexed user correlation?
Hi John, et al. I have been playing with the /follow streams and noticed that some users' updates don't appear at all. This was really confounding for quite a while. Then I noticed that using the search API to search for from:user returned no recent results. An example is @KimSherrell. I have been trying to get her updates in the /follow stream (she posts *a lot*) as a way to verify that it is working. Lo and behold her most recent entry in the Search API is from 5 days ago: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from:kimsherrell I know there is some administrative bit on the accounts that determines whether a user will be indexed by Search; is this same bit used to determine whether their updates will go out on the Hosebird streams? If so, may I ask why? Thanks! -Chad
[twitter-dev] Re: search is acting strange
Matt, It looks like this problem has diminished but not gone away. When I do several consecutive searches, the latest tweet is never more than a few minutes out of sync. I guess there will always be some small amount of time that the twitter servers will be out of sync. I'm just wondering if there will be any more improvement, or if this is the best it will be. Thanks, Jonas On Jun 3, 1:20 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, This is a known issue [1] we're working on. Some servers are behind and we're trying to get them back up to date. Mark the Google Code issue [1] with a star to get updates … no need to leave comments in the ticket. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev [1] -http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=646 On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Jonas wrote: When I do:http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=blah The most recent tweet is a couple of minutes old. The next time I do it the most recent is an hour old. The next time a half hour old. The next time a minute old, etc, etc.
[twitter-dev] Re: A Fresh Look At Follower Processing
Dewald, We're already considering the possibilities around pushing Social Graph changes via the Streaming API. At this point it is very hard to guess if we'll ever offer this as a feature. I can't offer anything more concrete or useful, as this is just in the Hey, what-if? idea phase, and the issues, problems and priorities are far from clear. In any case, the infrastructure isn't the difficult part and wouldn't require third parties. SGS changes are already serialized as JSON and moved around via Kestrel. Fanning out from SGS to a Hosebird queue for Streaming API syndication is how Hosebird already works. It practically writes itself. It would be a help to describe some compelling use cases for this data beyond efficiency, QoS and ease of use. -John Kalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Jun 5, 6:08 am, dewald dpr...@gmail.com wrote: New follower processing using the Social Graph methods will become a bigger and bigger headache as more and more Twitter accounts grow into the must page territory. I thought I'd put a completely different approach on the table and see what everyone thinks about it. When doing new follower processing, one is not really interested in the full follower list. You just want to know when a new follower action happens on a Twitter account. To me, this sounds like a perfect candidate for a pub-sub architecture. Instead of Twitter taking on that additional infrastructure load, I'd recommend you investigate whether you can make new follower actions available via Gnip.com. Gnip already has the ability to segment by people, tags and keywords, so segmenting the transactions by Twitter screen name should fit into their current architecture. It's a win for Twitter, because you push a new follower transaction out once only to one single service, and you're done with it. Us developers then grab those transactions from Gnip. It's a win for us as well, because grabbing those transactions don't impact our site rate limits. This pub-sub approach could work for a number of other developer needs as well.
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API: missing updates non-indexed user correlation?
There are multiple bits set for accounts that control various levels of access and all kinds of folderol. It's complicated and for mostly understandable reasons, purposefully opaque. Search and Hosebird currently have identical access rules, but that's subject to change. In this case, it appears that everything is working by the rules, if not also by design. These two concepts are not always in alignment! -John Kalucki Services, Twitter, Inc. On Jun 5, 10:09 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, et al. I have been playing with the /follow streams and noticed that some users' updates don't appear at all. This was really confounding for quite a while. Then I noticed that using the search API to search for from:user returned no recent results. An example is @KimSherrell. I have been trying to get her updates in the /follow stream (she posts *a lot*) as a way to verify that it is working. Lo and behold her most recent entry in the Search API is from 5 days ago:http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from:kimsherrell I know there is some administrative bit on the accounts that determines whether a user will be indexed by Search; is this same bit used to determine whether their updates will go out on the Hosebird streams? If so, may I ask why? Thanks! -Chad
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API: missing updates non-indexed user correlation?
Ok, at least that confirms my suspicions about why those updates were not being delivered. If I may make an argument to separate the policy between Search and Hosebird (at least for the /follow methods)... In the case of the /follow methods (as opposed to the unfiltered /(fire|garden)hose methods), there is specific intent to get the updates of a particular user. Even if Twitter considers a user unworthy of indexing in Search (for whatever reason), I purposefully want to receive their updates and am stating as much by putting their userid in the follow parameter. In other words, I am opting-in to get those updates whether Twitter considers them spammy or not. If a user account is not in an officially suspended state, I think they should be fair game for /follow methods. Any other opinions out there? -Chad On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:44 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: There are multiple bits set for accounts that control various levels of access and all kinds of folderol. It's complicated and for mostly understandable reasons, purposefully opaque. Search and Hosebird currently have identical access rules, but that's subject to change. In this case, it appears that everything is working by the rules, if not also by design. These two concepts are not always in alignment! -John Kalucki Services, Twitter, Inc. On Jun 5, 10:09 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, et al. I have been playing with the /follow streams and noticed that some users' updates don't appear at all. This was really confounding for quite a while. Then I noticed that using the search API to search for from:user returned no recent results. An example is @KimSherrell. I have been trying to get her updates in the /follow stream (she posts *a lot*) as a way to verify that it is working. Lo and behold her most recent entry in the Search API is from 5 days ago:http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from:kimsherrell I know there is some administrative bit on the accounts that determines whether a user will be indexed by Search; is this same bit used to determine whether their updates will go out on the Hosebird streams? If so, may I ask why? Thanks! -Chad
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API: missing updates non-indexed user correlation?
A very good point. I'll take this up with product. On Jun 5, 10:58 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, at least that confirms my suspicions about why those updates were not being delivered. If I may make an argument to separate the policy between Search and Hosebird (at least for the /follow methods)... In the case of the /follow methods (as opposed to the unfiltered /(fire|garden)hose methods), there is specific intent to get the updates of a particular user. Even if Twitter considers a user unworthy of indexing in Search (for whatever reason), I purposefully want to receive their updates and am stating as much by putting their userid in the follow parameter. In other words, I am opting-in to get those updates whether Twitter considers them spammy or not. If a user account is not in an officially suspended state, I think they should be fair game for /follow methods. Any other opinions out there? -Chad On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:44 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: There are multiple bits set for accounts that control various levels of access and all kinds of folderol. It's complicated and for mostly understandable reasons, purposefully opaque. Search and Hosebird currently have identical access rules, but that's subject to change. In this case, it appears that everything is working by the rules, if not also by design. These two concepts are not always in alignment! -John Kalucki Services, Twitter, Inc. On Jun 5, 10:09 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, et al. I have been playing with the /follow streams and noticed that some users' updates don't appear at all. This was really confounding for quite a while. Then I noticed that using the search API to search for from:user returned no recent results. An example is @KimSherrell. I have been trying to get her updates in the /follow stream (she posts *a lot*) as a way to verify that it is working. Lo and behold her most recent entry in the Search API is from 5 days ago:http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from:kimsherrell I know there is some administrative bit on the accounts that determines whether a user will be indexed by Search; is this same bit used to determine whether their updates will go out on the Hosebird streams? If so, may I ask why? Thanks! -Chad
[twitter-dev] API statuses/friends maximum count per page
I intend to use this maximum count to figure out whether I have more pages need to retrieve from twitter. Otherwise I always need to retrieve an empty page. Is there an official count per page for this API? I see other APIs can specify a count parameter when making the request. I wonder why this one does not do that. Thanks, Fangge
[twitter-dev] Re: What is current search time range limit?
Is this something that is going to be fixed or get better in the near term or is this the new reality? On Jun 5, 10:05 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: The index has been shortened considerably to help reduce the replication lag that is causing some search machines to fall behind. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Joe Fernandez joey.fernan...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Doug, We are seeing search limited all the way down to about 7 days right now. Is this true? This is causing a lot of problems with our app. Thanks, Joe On Apr 27, 1:33 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: From #6 on Things Every Developer Should Know [1]. Search API Limit Clients may request up to 1,500 statuses via the page and count parameters for the search http://apiwiki.twitter.com/search method. The response to a request exceeding this limit will be a status code of 200 and an empty result in the format requested. This artificial limit is in place to ensure the performance of the search system. We also restrict the size of the search index by placing a date limit on the updates we allow you to search. This limit is currently around a month but is dynamic and subject to shrink as the number of tweets per day continues to grow. 1.http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#6Therea. .. Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:47 PM, explicious avail4...@gmail.com wrote: is that really supposed to be dominoes (sic) ? days ... example: search dominoes pizza. I searched this on 4/17
[twitter-dev] Re: What is current search time range limit?
As far as I know it is the new reality, at least for the foreseeable future. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Joe Fernandez joey.fernan...@gmail.comwrote: Is this something that is going to be fixed or get better in the near term or is this the new reality? On Jun 5, 10:05 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: The index has been shortened considerably to help reduce the replication lag that is causing some search machines to fall behind. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Joe Fernandez joey.fernan...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Doug, We are seeing search limited all the way down to about 7 days right now. Is this true? This is causing a lot of problems with our app. Thanks, Joe On Apr 27, 1:33 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: From #6 on Things Every Developer Should Know [1]. Search API Limit Clients may request up to 1,500 statuses via the page and count parameters for the search http://apiwiki.twitter.com/search method. The response to a request exceeding this limit will be a status code of 200 and an empty result in the format requested. This artificial limit is in place to ensure the performance of the search system. We also restrict the size of the search index by placing a date limit on the updates we allow you to search. This limit is currently around a month but is dynamic and subject to shrink as the number of tweets per day continues to grow. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#6Therea. .. Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:47 PM, explicious avail4...@gmail.com wrote: is that really supposed to be dominoes (sic) ? days ... example: search dominoes pizza. I searched this on 4/17
[twitter-dev] Re: Help needed, to search photos in twitter
Sean, I will look into it. When I was researching the APIs I think I was confused that there were so few links to tweetphoto pics (but plenty of conversational mentions). I didn't realize that pic.gd was the URL shortener for it. That changes everything. At first, I was implementing only RESTful services that could be called with a static URL pattern, but now I'm moving on to Flickr and others that require multiple calls to get the full image info, so I will definitely give pic.gd a shot. Thanks for the heads up! -jonathan On Jun 5, 5:22 am, TweetPhoto s...@tweetphoto.com wrote: You guys might also want to add our photo sharing service to the mix, tweetphoto.com and pic.gd Sean On Jun 4, 10:16 pm, Chethan chethanksw...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 5, 7:09 am, Jonathan twitcaps.develo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I developed the application Twitcaps (http://twitcaps.com) and I can tell you that what I am using in my search API calls is twitpic.com, yfrog.com or twitgoo.com (or any other arbitrary image provider, img.ly, etc). I found that by including the .com at the end, I wound up with more real image URLs and less mere conversational mentions of twitpic to parse through. Unfortunately, I don't have any good sample code for you. I'm running on Grails/Groovy. -jonathan On Jun 4, 7:05 am, Chethan chethanksw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, can anyone please tell me how to search for photos in twitter/ twitpic, (ex:http://www.twitpicsearch.com,http://tweetgrid.com/twitpicgrid), it would be really helpful if you could provide me with some sample code, I am using PHP and jQuery Thankyou Thank you jonathan. It was really helpful- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
[twitter-dev] Search.atom Complex Search Question
If I wanted an advanced search that included multiple tags _in addition to_ standard search terms, what would be the best way to phrase the query please? For example the search - tags: #dog or #puppy term ands: pet and competition term ors: prize or win Perhaps?: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tag=dog+OR+%23puppyands=pet+competitionors=prize+win
[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Desktop Application Changes - Incompatibility Alert
I wanted to follow up on this. Admittedly, I'm a newb with oauth. I'm currently working on an application that uses MS's cloud computing environment Azure. I'm using this to schedule tweets in the future. Azure has a worker role which is an application that a web user never directly works against. The worker role is being used to post updates to a user's stream. Right now, I am using basic auth, but I would like to move to oauth. My current design has the user storing twitterids and passwords in a table. The user interacts over the web with the webrole and then the worker role handles the posting. It looks to me, given a VERY limited knowledge of oauth, that its designed with user interaction in mind. Does that sound correct? Wally
[twitter-dev] Re: how is iso_language_code determined while twittering?
Solved. Set lange= and it will pick up all languages. Thomas On 5 Jun., 12:59, cyberbrainw...@googlemail.com cyberbrainw...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I have written a retweet bot searching with language_code=de. Some posts are very German but carry language_code=pl or nl. How is the language_code determined when a user twitters? Thanks, Thomas
