[twitter-dev] Re: [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:32:19 +0700 Dwi Sasongko Supriyadi ruck...@gmail.com wrote: Okay. If Mallory changed Bob's password after successfully get in, Can Bob still access his account through his application (which is authorized)? Yes, OAuth apps that have their own authentication context would still work for Bob. A change in Bob's Twitter password will not prevent the OAuth application from working. As long as Bob can prove that he is Bob to the application's satisfication then he can use that application and that application can use OAuth tokens that Bob previously authorized. From your explanation above, the answer is no, it is impossible. Since Bob cannot sign in anymore, Mallory has changed his password. The application may or may not relay on Twitter itself to authenticate the Twitter user after it has obtained a token. While Twitter is kind enough to give us the Sign-in with Twitter work flow, OAuth does not specify the means by which the application should authenticate the user. Account hi-jacking is a minor risk; It is auditable and reversible. OAuth is low risk because it is being offered in parallel with HTTP methods that have known vulnerabilities. Twitter accounts are low risk targets because the content is public, transient and repudiatable. A threat model that over-emphasizes those risks reveals fundamental misperceptions about the Twitter meme that is going to result in disappointment when those misperceptions attempt to manifest themselves as a business model. Chris Babcock
[twitter-dev] Use HTTP response headers for rate limit info
Sigh. I wrote a polling solution to fetch the rate limit info before discovering that the info is in the headers of every HTTP response. If you’re interested, here’s a commit to TalkingPuffin where I removed the polling and used the headers instead: http://github.com/dcbriccetti/talking-puffin/commit/237a204721c7141967c8065b45b53d5489ef7b83 http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting
[twitter-dev] Re: [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?
It is not impossible. It is still possible for Bob to use the same oAuth App (even if Mallory has changed his credentials) given that Mallory has not revoked the access to same oAuth app. As Chris pointed out, the application may not authenticate a twitter user after it has obtained the tokens. In this case the application would use the same old token for Bob. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Dwi Sasongko Supriyadi ruck...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:15 AM, srikanth reddy srikanth.yara...@gmail.com wrote: @chris Okay. I was talking about different scenario (using oAuth apps to steal user info) But If credentials are stolen then its all over (it doesn't matter which oAuth app you have authorized) @sasongoko. If Bob manages to change his password after Mallory used Bob's old credentials to authorize an oAuth app (same or different) then Mallory can still have some sort of access to Bob's account. To prevent this , Bob is required to change his password and must revoke the access to all the suspicious oAuth apps. Okay. If Mallory changed Bob's password after successfully get in, Can Bob still access his account through his application (which is authorized)? From your explanation above, the answer is no, it is impossible. Since Bob cannot sign in anymore, Mallory has changed his password. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Dwi Sasongko Supriyadi ruck...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Chris Babcock cbabc...@kolonelpanic.org wrote: The situation in this scenario is that Mallory phished Bob's Twitter credentials and used them to authorize access for himself with an OAuth App that Bob also uses. Mallory can only be detected by the changes he makes in the account; He cannot be detected by viewing the list of OAuth apps with access to the account. Additionally, Mallory's access does not disturb Bob's access to the account via the OAuth consumer App. Above are valid if only the credentials are not changed, either by Bob or . If in this case, Mallory changed Bob's credentials, will this disturb Bob's access to the account? This scenario is largely equivalent to Mallory's posession of the credentials themselves. The only difference is that Mallory retains certain capabilities even if the credentials he obtained are changed. The real security profile for this scenario is that it adds an extra layer of maintenance to be done by a user if a compromise is suspected. In addition to changing passwords, Bob should cancel all other accesses to his account and reauthorize those that are trusted and necessary. Chris Babcock On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:17:48 +0530 srikanth reddy srikanth.yara...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. The risk is high with Desktop apps as Consumer secret/keys are distributed. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: So this is a problem with web apps as well then. If User Bob authorized Web App to work on his account, and Phishing Dude also authorizes his Web App account to work on User Bob's Twitter account because he phished User Bob's Twitter username and password, User Bob is blissfully unaware of that?
[twitter-dev] 504 Gateway Timeout
I'm getting a LOT of: 504 Gateway Timeout * * How can I troubleshot this? any ideias?
[twitter-dev] favorites/destroy returns 404 for recent tweets
Is any one seeing this error.? I am seeing this behavior when i try to unfavorite a tweet which was just added to favorites. favorites/destroy works fine with old tweets in favorites. This behavior is not seen from the web (but through API)
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter icons
Hi, Is it ok to use the logo in our apps, someone would say that we are misleading users that we are actually twitter branches or so... On Oct 14, 10:12 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Here is Twitters logo:https://twitter.com/about#download_logo https://twitter.com/about#download_logoAbraham On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:02, John Meyre john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if I got that information here or somewhere else, but somebody pointed out a location where I could get some Twitter icons. -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abrahamhttp://web608.org/geeks/abraham/blogs/2009/10/03/win-google-wave-invite This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Download Avira 2010 an key 2014
uhm... should I ban @al3x now from the group?! seriously - what's up with Google Groups? Marco 2009/10/15 Avira a...@twitter.com Download Avira 2010 an key 2014 http://bit.ly/2dWFN5 http://bit.ly/2dWFN5 Download Avira 2010 an key 2014
[twitter-dev] Re: Download Avira 2010 an key 2014
We are just going to have to moderate his messages like mine currently are. Abraham On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:17, Marco Kaiser kaiser.ma...@gmail.com wrote: uhm... should I ban @al3x now from the group?! seriously - what's up with Google Groups? Marco 2009/10/15 Avira a...@twitter.com Download Avira 2010 an key 2014 http://bit.ly/2dWFN5 http://bit.ly/2dWFN5 Download Avira 2010 an key 2014 -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | Intersect | http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Download Avira 2010 an key 2014
ah - now I understand what you mean: set him as moderated in the members list. A bit funny to do that with the group owner... but yeah, maybe. 2009/10/15 Marco Kaiser kaiser.ma...@gmail.com sure, that removes them from the archive. but the messages are still sent out to the subscribers... Marco 2009/10/15 Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com We are just going to have to moderate his messages like mine currently are. Abraham On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:17, Marco Kaiser kaiser.ma...@gmail.comwrote: uhm... should I ban @al3x now from the group?! seriously - what's up with Google Groups? Marco 2009/10/15 Avira a...@twitter.com Download Avira 2010 an key 2014 http://bit.ly/2dWFN5 http://bit.ly/2dWFN5 Download Avira 2010 an key 2014 -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | Intersect | http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow
I wonder if a query language like what Facebook has with its FQL might help here. ;-) -- Kyle Mulka http://twilk.com On Oct 14, 10:30 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: I agree. I'm lobbying the team for something like this. -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah we really need a way to bulk request user payloads by giving a list of IDs. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Are you suggesting I should retrieve the 2k users 1 at a time from users/show once I have the ids? I'd essentially like to do this, but 100 at a time. I know I can get the 7000 ids in 2 calls (1 even without the cursors) - but I actually want the whole user objects.. Tim. On Oct 15, 2:56 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: If you are pulling down the entire social graph, why not use the social graph calls which would deliver all 7000 ids in 2 calls? You can also parallelize this process by looping through different users on each thread instead of using each thread to grab a different page/cursor of the same user. Regarding the code issue you submitted, if you have the users cached locally, you could use the social graph methods to determine the missing/new 2k users pretty quickly using the social graph methods and comparing ids. -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chad, Statuses/followers. I've just timed another attempt - it took 25 minutes to retrieve 17957 followers with statuses/followers. Is there anything I can elaborate on in the filed issue to make it clearer? Tim. On Oct 15, 2:42 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Tim, You said Retrieving 7000 followers just took 20 minutes for me. Can you explain what you meant by that? Are you using the friends/ids, followers/ids methods or the statuses/friends, statuses/followers methods? -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi'ya, I'm migrating my code to use cursors at the moment. It's frustrating that calls need to be synchronous rather than how paged calls could be asynchronous. Retrieving 7000 followers just took 20 minutes for me. I filed an issue that proposes a solution here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1078 If you retrieve friends or followers, please take a look and give it a star if it's important to you. If anyone can suggest a work around for this, I'd be happy to hear it. Cheers, Tim. -- Josh
[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing retweeted_details for user_timeline payload
Thanks for the clarification. That explains the inconsistent behavior we are seeing when trying to load specific user timelines. Do we have an updated api wiki that defines the semantics of the retweeted_status fragment ? Martin www.wherecloud.com On Oct 14, 10:59 pm, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: I think its been enabled for a select few for testing. I don't think its gone public yet. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the new retweet functionality has been turned on? Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm retrieving the timeline for a specific user: curlhttp://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ev.xml Within that timeline, I see retweeted_status fragment. Is this normal behavior ? Thanks - Martin -- Josh
[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing retweeted_details for user_timeline payload
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-home_timeline http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-home_timelineThat will be the new Friends Timeline. It will include retweets, while the current Friends Timeline will not. The current Friends Timeline will also be going away at some point in the future. Ryan On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the clarification. That explains the inconsistent behavior we are seeing when trying to load specific user timelines. Do we have an updated api wiki that defines the semantics of the retweeted_status fragment ? Martin www.wherecloud.com On Oct 14, 10:59 pm, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: I think its been enabled for a select few for testing. I don't think its gone public yet. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the new retweet functionality has been turned on? Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm retrieving the timeline for a specific user: curlhttp://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ev.xml Within that timeline, I see retweeted_status fragment. Is this normal behavior ? Thanks - Martin -- Josh
[twitter-dev] Re: Separate terms using commas?
Is the maximum number of allowed characters still 140? On Oct 14, 9:12 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Try track=#test1,#test2,#test3 You are searching for #test1, (space)#test2, etc. Nothing will ever match (space)#test2. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 14, 8:38 pm, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: It seems as neither is working. I tried #test1, #test2, #test3 and #test1 #test2 #test3, but I got no data (streaming API), and I let it run for hours. When I used only a single term #test1, I immediately started getting data. Was there a change to prevent more than one term from being used? On Oct 14, 1:52 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: You may be conflating the Streaming API, which requires commas between keywords, and the search API, which does not. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 14, 9:19 am, Kyle B kylebarn...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 13, 4:09 pm, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: I am using the streaming search API. If I have more than one term to search, do I need to separate those terms with commas? If these are hash tags, do I include the hash symbol? (#test1, #test2, #test3) I am experiencing some random problems, and I would like to eliminate this as the trouble spot before looking for the problem elsewhere. Personally, I have experienced no problems using spaces between the search terms. Be careful what you use because there is a difference between searching all keywords and all occurrences of all keywords. I think you are fine with or without commas though. Here are the search operators from twitter: http://search.twitter.com/operators You can get an idea for url composition by using the advanced search:http://search.twitter.com/advanced
[twitter-dev] Re: Checking if a user exists by email
...and there never ever should be. On Oct 14, 4:55 pm, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: no. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:50, HAR HAR harsocialme...@gmail.com wrote: There was a post on this group called API Method for checking if a user exists? a while ago. The method for checking if a user exist described there no longer works. Is there a way for me to use the API to verify if an email address is associated with a twitter account? Thanks. -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: Checking if a user exists by email
Haven't you heard about the allegedly spammer-hostile Address Book API that's coming soon? ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote: ...and there never ever should be. On Oct 14, 4:55 pm, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: no. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:50, HAR HAR harsocialme...@gmail.com wrote: There was a post on this group called API Method for checking if a user exists? a while ago. The method for checking if a user exist described there no longer works. Is there a way for me to use the API to verify if an email address is associated with a twitter account? Thanks. -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: Duplicate Tweets
I appreciate the healthy debate here over the issue, and we all read the threads in this forum, but the reality is we don't have the time to respond to every inquiry. Chad has done a great job in making sure explicit questions get answered and we are happy to have an open discussion about the topic. Let me try to answer the myriad of topics that have been raised here: 1. Duplicate tweets HAS always been considered a violation. If you haven't read The Twitter Rules (clearly linked to from the Terms), you should read them now: http://help.twitter.com/forums/26257/entries/18311. It clearly states under *Spam* that the definition will include ... post duplicate content over multiple accounts or multiple duplicate updates on one account 2. In the Spam section of that policy we also clearly state that the rules will be changing as we adapt to new tactics. It's an arms race and we need the ability to react to new issues to protect the experience for all users and developers. And counter to Dewalds point, releasing exact numbers for spammers to circumvent creates MORE of an issue, not less. If you are dancing around the edges of those numbers, you are likely supporting functionality that questionable. 3. Spam is bad. For everyone. We will not only enforce the letter of that document but the spirit of that document. If your app enables spam, be prepared to get an email from us. We will help you identify the features that are facilitating spammy behavior and work with you to rectify it. 4. We are open with our policies and communication. If you have questions about your app, please email us for clarification. We are happy to talk to you about it. Best, Ryan On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: I've previously asked for guidelines on what our responsibilities are in terms of self-policing. No answer. Add to that the clear and unambiguous definition of things. Yeah sure, Twitter cannot clearly define things because that will aid the spammers. Bullshit. It is their responsibility to define what exactly is acceptable to them. That will not assist the spammers. It will assist us to not inadvertently, through wrong interpretation or assumption, provide a platform that spammers can leverage. Up until the first email I received from Twitter on October 8th, I was monitoring the level of duplicate tweet rejection that the API was giving, and I consequently concluded that the users of my service was not producing a large amount of duplicate tweets. Seems like their internal definition of duplicate content is far wider than the interpretation of the Platform Team when they wrote the code to reject duplicate tweets. I still do not know exactly what is duplicate content and what is not. Do you? I guess not. Nobody knows. Dewald On Oct 13, 11:07 pm, PJB pjbmancun...@gmail.com wrote: Chad: Sorry, I didn't see you had posted in here, and not sure if my subsequent posts properly answered you. I mean that Desktop apps, not being bound by a whitelisted IP, wouldn't be limited by restrictions limiting API access to OAUTH only. Namely, a desktop client could use a Mozilla user-agent, scrape Twitter.com, grab an authenticity_token, and then do a simple HTTP form submission with plaintext username/password. From there, the client could do whatever outlawed actions aren't possible from Web apps. While you could presumably find some commonalities with these logins for a time, probably the only effective way to counter this approach is to introduce login captchas. And that's an ugly barrier to entry for the average user. Restricting Web-based apps will presumably shift the policed behavior to such desktop apps, where it would probably morph into something even more destructive. As a web-based developer, I've previously asked for guidelines on what our responsibilities are in terms of self-policing. No answer. And it's really disheartening to hear that carte blanche limitations are now being imposed. There are obvious legitimate uses for recurring dynamic tweets (e.g., NBC announcing show schedules/guests, or fitness apps tweeting how many miles you ran). Blocking such behavior across the board seems incredibly short-sighted and limits further important business- oriented development in this area. PB On Oct 13, 12:47 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM, PJB pjbmancun...@gmail.com wrote: Wrong. Basic Authentication will obviously ALWAYS be an option for desktop clients, regardless of whether or not it is via API. Please explain this statement? -Chad Furthermore, the app in question explicitly offered the option of a recurring tweet which is a violation of the TOS. Regardless of whether or not that provides a useful service -- I'm not going to start debating that -- the fact of the matter is it *is* a violation of the
[twitter-dev] Re: Arabic in the streaming API
Guys Any Update? Regards On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Fabien Penso fabienpe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. An Arabic speaking user of ours says he gets no notifications from the tracking API. A simple test : curl -uLOGIN:PASSWORD http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?track=تويتر Twitt and include تويتر in your twitt : nothing appear in the curl calls. Is that a known issue or am I doing something wrong ? Thanks!
[twitter-dev] Re: Download Avira 2010 an key 2014
You would think that Google Groups would use the SPF record result at least: Received-SPF: fail (google.com: domain of a...@twitter.com does not designate 80.80.228.43 as permitted sender) client-ip=80.80.228.43; If all you have to do is spoof the from address then we're all doomed. -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Marco Kaiser kaiser.ma...@gmail.com wrote: ah - now I understand what you mean: set him as moderated in the members list. A bit funny to do that with the group owner... but yeah, maybe.
[twitter-dev] Anyone else getting HTTP 404 with APIs today?
Hi All, Is it just me or anyone else there is getting those as well? -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053
[twitter-dev] Re: Anyone else getting HTTP 404 with APIs today?
I am not having any issues. *knock on wood* Ryan On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, Is it just me or anyone else there is getting those as well? -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053
[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing retweeted_details for user_timeline payload
I have no problem with this new API call. But why is it also included in the user_timeline payload ? Is this inclusion official on the Twitter side... Martin On Oct 15, 9:46 am, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-home_tim... http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-home_tim...That will be the new Friends Timeline. It will include retweets, while the current Friends Timeline will not. The current Friends Timeline will also be going away at some point in the future. Ryan On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the clarification. That explains the inconsistent behavior we are seeing when trying to load specific user timelines. Do we have an updated api wiki that defines the semantics of the retweeted_status fragment ? Martin www.wherecloud.com On Oct 14, 10:59 pm, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: I think its been enabled for a select few for testing. I don't think its gone public yet. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the new retweet functionality has been turned on? Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm retrieving the timeline for a specific user: curlhttp://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ev.xml Within that timeline, I see retweeted_status fragment. Is this normal behavior ? Thanks - Martin -- Josh
[twitter-dev] Re: Anyone else getting HTTP 404 with APIs today?
i am getting 404 for favorites/destroy for recent tweets that were just added to favorites. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:02 PM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: I am not having any issues. *knock on wood* Ryan On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, Is it just me or anyone else there is getting those as well? -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053 http://www.d.umn.edu/%7Ekulka053
[twitter-dev] Re: The little twitter button
Dave, It depends on which button you are seeing. A lot of blogs and sites have integrated Sign in with Twitter. It allows you to easily leverage Twitter for authentication and to link their identity on your site. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter Check it out and let us know if you have any questions. Best, Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Dawg ad...@sailinganarchy.com wrote: How do I get the little twitter button I see on many blogs and sites? I have set up FaceBook to work with our database of articles but I cannot find on twitter what I need to do. I don't think I need to use the Twitter API and I cannot find any information on this issue. Thanks Dave
[twitter-dev] Non-standard HTTP Errors? httplib.BadLineStatus
I use Python for most of my development with the Twitter API, and I have been using urllib2 to extract content. After running my scripts for some period of time (sometimes 5 mins, sometimes several hours) I get an httplib.BadLineStatus exception. All I could find on this error is that it means the server sent an HTTP error that is non-standard (?). The exception was passed up to the httplib from urllib2. This also happened with DeWitt's Python package (which uses urllib2). Without knowing what content is being returned (if any), I am having a difficult time nailing down what is causing this exception. Has anybody else experienced this problem? Is there any way to prevent it? (right now I am just retrying the request)
[twitter-dev] Re: Non-standard HTTP Errors? httplib.BadLineStatus
Hi Ryan, Hmm that is an odd error. I have not really experienced this in my Tweepy library during development. I don't use urllib2, but instead httplib directly. If this just happens once in a while maybe just catch that error and just retry the request. Josh On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote: I use Python for most of my development with the Twitter API, and I have been using urllib2 to extract content. After running my scripts for some period of time (sometimes 5 mins, sometimes several hours) I get an httplib.BadLineStatus exception. All I could find on this error is that it means the server sent an HTTP error that is non-standard (?). The exception was passed up to the httplib from urllib2. This also happened with DeWitt's Python package (which uses urllib2). Without knowing what content is being returned (if any), I am having a difficult time nailing down what is causing this exception. Has anybody else experienced this problem? Is there any way to prevent it? (right now I am just retrying the request) -- Josh
[twitter-dev] Re: Anyone else getting HTTP 404 with APIs today?
Just ran my unit tests and they all pass now. :) Seems the issues have been resolved for now. Josh On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday I was having issues with favorites/destroy most of the day. Haven't tried today yet. Josh -- Josh
[twitter-dev] Re: The little twitter button
Thanks guys but none of those do it.
What I found on Face Book (and expected to find on Twitter) was a
small script (below) which is in the php page that renders the
article.
script src=http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/
FeatureLoader.js.php/en_US type=text/javascript/scriptscript
type=text/javascriptFB.init(c5271172ce14e9ebba86a56e28c273a1);/
script
and a link that calls the script (function). Which I have as part of
the php code when the article is retrieved from the DB.
a href=http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u={URL HERE}\
onclick=return fbs_click() target=_blankimg src=http://
b.static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/zAB5S/hash/4273uaqa.gif alt=//a
Here is a sample of the FB widget.
http://www.sailinganarchy.com/z_article.php?get=1564
(the insert tag button is not working right now so don't bother to
click it)
All this was found in the developers widgets section
http://developers.facebook.com/tools.php?connect_wizardwizard=share
So I was hoping to find something simple like this on Twitter. I have
written some php DB code but I am not really interested in learning
the Twitter API just to have a share link.
So far you guys, and I want to thank you for responding, are the only
ones who have answered. It is tough to get any contact with people who
run these big sites.
Thanks
Dave
[twitter-dev] Re: The little twitter button
Dave,
That is exactly what http://twitthis.com does
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Dawg ad...@sailinganarchy.com wrote:
Thanks guys but none of those do it.
What I found on Face Book (and expected to find on Twitter) was a
small script (below) which is in the php page that renders the
article.
script src=http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/
FeatureLoader.js.php/en_US type=text/javascript/scriptscript
type=text/javascriptFB.init(c5271172ce14e9ebba86a56e28c273a1);/
script
and a link that calls the script (function). Which I have as part of
the php code when the article is retrieved from the DB.
a href=http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u={URL HERE}\
onclick=return fbs_click() target=_blankimg src=http://
b.static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/zAB5S/hash/4273uaqa.gif alt=//a
Here is a sample of the FB widget.
http://www.sailinganarchy.com/z_article.php?get=1564
(the insert tag button is not working right now so don't bother to
click it)
All this was found in the developers widgets section
http://developers.facebook.com/tools.php?connect_wizardwizard=share
So I was hoping to find something simple like this on Twitter. I have
written some php DB code but I am not really interested in learning
the Twitter API just to have a share link.
So far you guys, and I want to thank you for responding, are the only
ones who have answered. It is tough to get any contact with people who
run these big sites.
Thanks
Dave
[twitter-dev] New behaviour for statuses/update API call for 141+ char sized messages and duplicates?
Hi, I just figured out that when calling statuses/update with a text longer than 140 chars, the reply of that API call will be 200 OK with the last status of the user. Wouldn't it be better to return some sort of error message? The same seems to be happening when sending a duplicate tweet. Ole -- Jan Ole Suhr s...@mobileways.de On Twitter: http://twitter.com/janole
[twitter-dev] Re: New behaviour for statuses/update API call for 141+ char sized messages and duplicates?
If you send a message longer than 140 twitter will truncate it and set the truncate value on the status to True. For duplicates it will just ignore the status. Josh On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:20 PM, janole s...@mobileways.de wrote: Hi, I just figured out that when calling statuses/update with a text longer than 140 chars, the reply of that API call will be 200 OK with the last status of the user. Wouldn't it be better to return some sort of error message? The same seems to be happening when sending a duplicate tweet. Ole -- Jan Ole Suhr s...@mobileways.de On Twitter: http://twitter.com/janole
[twitter-dev] Add mass follow in twitter account
Hi, I need to add mass follow in my twitter account.I already wrote a program to add mass follows but didn't adding,my code is in below $url=http://twitter.com/friendships/create.xml?screen_name=.$value; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.:.$pass); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); $returned = curl_exec($ch); anybody help to this problem
[twitter-dev] Re: Add mass follow in twitter account
Romeo Oscar Tango Foxtrot Lima Mike Alpha Oscar On Oct 15, 4:03 pm, kiran kumar kiran.nets...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to add mass follow in my twitter account.I already wrote a program to add mass follows but didn't adding,my code is in below $url=http://twitter.com/friendships/create.xml?screen_name=.$value; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.:.$pass); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); $returned = curl_exec($ch); anybody help to this problem
[twitter-dev] http return 0
I have a pretty simple function I made to curl a url against twitter.
I am whitelisted. I call a url once every 15 seconds, about once an
hour, I get 'http_response' of 0, the rest I get 200 OK.
When I do not see a 200, I log the 'http_response', is there anything
else I can log or enable in the curl code below to figure out what is
going on here? I am going to add curl_error to the result, and see
what I get from that, but thought I would as for any pointers.
function curl_url($url) {
$ch = curl_init(); // create a new curl resource
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // set URL to download
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://
example.com/'); // set referer:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'example'); // user
agent:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // return,
not print
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); // timeout in seconds
// download the given URL, and return output
$output= curl_exec($ch);
$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch); // close the curl resource, and free
system resources
$return_data['http_response'] = $http_code;
$return_data['page'] = $output;
return $return_data;
}
--
Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
[twitter-dev] Re: http return 0
i think http 0 in curl just means the connection failed. should probably
just retry.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 14:44, Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com wrote:
I have a pretty simple function I made to curl a url against twitter. I am
whitelisted. I call a url once every 15 seconds, about once an hour, I get
'http_response' of 0, the rest I get 200 OK.
When I do not see a 200, I log the 'http_response', is there anything else
I can log or enable in the curl code below to figure out what is going on
here? I am going to add curl_error to the result, and see what I get from
that, but thought I would as for any pointers.
function curl_url($url) {
$ch = curl_init(); // create a new curl resource
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // set URL to download
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER,
'http://example.com/'http://example.com/%27);
// set referer:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'example'); // user agent:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // return, not
print
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); // timeout in seconds
// download the given URL, and return output
$output= curl_exec($ch);
$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch); // close the curl resource, and free system
resources
$return_data['http_response'] = $http_code;
$return_data['page'] = $output;
return $return_data;
}
--
Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
--
Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing retweeted_details for user_timeline payload
Hmm except this API payload doesn't match that for the home_timeline Hometimeline shows retweet_status with a sub tag of retweeting_user, but yet @ev's user timeline shows a tag of retweet_status with a subtag of user. I want to support it but not with the inconsistency in the API On Oct 15, 5:18 pm, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: I have no problem with this new API call. But why is it also included in the user_timeline payload ? Is this inclusion official on the Twitter side... Martin On Oct 15, 9:46 am, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-home_tim... http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-home_tim...That will be the new Friends Timeline. It will include retweets, while the current Friends Timeline will not. The current Friends Timeline will also be going away at some point in the future. Ryan On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the clarification. That explains the inconsistent behavior we are seeing when trying to load specific user timelines. Do we have an updated api wiki that defines the semantics of the retweeted_status fragment ? Martin www.wherecloud.com On Oct 14, 10:59 pm, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: I think its been enabled for a select few for testing. I don't think its gone public yet. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the new retweet functionality has been turned on? Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm retrieving the timeline for a specific user: curlhttp://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ev.xml Within that timeline, I see retweeted_status fragment. Is this normal behavior ? Thanks - Martin -- Josh
[twitter-dev] Re: url fail
Using IE seems like a personal problem, and something you'll have to conquer on your own ;) Yes, but sending a screenshot to a development mailing list to report a broken link on a website is so wrong on so many levels... Using IE is a bit like smoking marijauna after work or having an expensive fetish - as long you don't drive while you're doing it or involve vulnerable members of society then there's no harm in it. On the other hand, can you imagine what life would be like if every user sent a screen shot of the fail whale to a random Twitter contact every time *that* happened with a comment like Someone might want to look into this? With the OP's reputation as a spamware vender and FUDmonger, I think we may have to face the fact that he has finally unleashed his master plan to bring down the Internet. We may be looking at the equivalent of the 'Dr. Doofenshmirtz Roller Skating in His Underwear Until He Falls Head First into a Toilet' video. If this practice goes viral, it could make the original Twitapocalypse seem like a spring day. Chris Babcock
[twitter-dev] Re: url fail
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Chris Babcock cbabc...@kolonelpanic.org wrote: With the OP's reputation as a spamware vender and FUDmonger, I think we may have to face the fact that he has finally unleashed his master plan to bring down the Internet. We may be looking at the equivalent of the 'Dr. Doofenshmirtz Roller Skating in His Underwear Until He Falls Head First into a Toilet' video. If this practice goes viral, it could make the original Twitapocalypse seem like a spring day. Perry the Platypus will save us. -Chad
[twitter-dev] Re: http return 0
I think so too, I am running some more tests. I have confirmed with a
parallel test to a nearby host to twitter, that I am able, at the
same time, to make a http request to their resource. While I can not
time the curl actions to happen at the exact same time, one much
happen before the other, the difference in time is:
2009-10-15 15:01:05.5321030
2009-10-15 15:01:05.5327020
So something like 5990 microseconds. I have set the order to be
random, so one will happen first some of the time, and the other first
some of the time, if random() is relatively even, and it was my
connection, I should see errors on the other resource a few times,
which I am not.
If curl_error shows me anything else, I will let the list know.
--
Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
On Oct 15, 2009, at 1:45 PM, JDG wrote:
i think http 0 in curl just means the connection failed. should
probably
just retry.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 14:44, Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com
wrote:
I have a pretty simple function I made to curl a url against
twitter. I am
whitelisted. I call a url once every 15 seconds, about once an
hour, I get
'http_response' of 0, the rest I get 200 OK.
When I do not see a 200, I log the 'http_response', is there
anything else
I can log or enable in the curl code below to figure out what is
going on
here? I am going to add curl_error to the result, and see what I
get from
that, but thought I would as for any pointers.
function curl_url($url) {
$ch = curl_init(); // create a new curl resource
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // set URL to download
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://example.com/'http://example.com/%27
);
// set referer:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'example'); // user
agent:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // return,
not
print
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); // timeout in seconds
// download the given URL, and return output
$output= curl_exec($ch);
$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch); // close the curl resource, and free system
resources
$return_data['http_response'] = $http_code;
$return_data['page'] = $output;
return $return_data;
}
[twitter-dev] Re: Add mass follow in twitter account
Lima Oscar Lima even more @ Dewalds response :D On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Romeo Oscar Tango Foxtrot Lima Mike Alpha Oscar On Oct 15, 4:03 pm, kiran kumar kiran.nets...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to add mass follow in my twitter account.I already wrote a program to add mass follows but didn't adding,my code is in below $url=http://twitter.com/friendships/create.xml?screen_name=.$value; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.:.$pass); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); $returned = curl_exec($ch); anybody help to this problem
[twitter-dev] Re: url fail
I was most disturbed by his deadlined transfer rate as shown in the top right of his screenshot.. Someone get the iDefibrillator! :(
[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing retweeted_details for user_timeline payload
Having retweets in the user_timeline isn't intentional. I'll be ensuring they don't appear there in the next few days. The only place they should be appearing (once publicly available) is the home_timeline. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm retrieving the timeline for a specific user: curl http://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ev.xml Within that timeline, I see retweeted_status fragment. Is this normal behavior ? Thanks - Martin -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing retweeted_details for user_timeline payload
Updating the retweet doc payloads is on my todo list. It's unfortunately currently a tedious and onerous task. I've been using my cycles on other things. But it's on the list to do. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: The API doc on the wiki is not correct. There was an email sent out earlier about the new payload format. Could someone update the wiki for the new payload? Josh On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm except this API payload doesn't match that for the home_timeline Hometimeline shows retweet_status with a sub tag of retweeting_user, but yet @ev's user timeline shows a tag of retweet_status with a subtag of user. I want to support it but not with the inconsistency in the API On Oct 15, 5:18 pm, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: I have no problem with this new API call. But why is it also included in the user_timeline payload ? Is this inclusion official on the Twitter side... Martin On Oct 15, 9:46 am, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-home_tim... http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-home_tim...That will be the new Friends Timeline. It will include retweets, while the current Friends Timeline will not. The current Friends Timeline will also be going away at some point in the future. Ryan On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the clarification. That explains the inconsistent behavior we are seeing when trying to load specific user timelines. Do we have an updated api wiki that defines the semantics of the retweeted_status fragment ? Martin www.wherecloud.com On Oct 14, 10:59 pm, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: I think its been enabled for a select few for testing. I don't think its gone public yet. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the new retweet functionality has been turned on? Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm retrieving the timeline for a specific user: curlhttp://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ev.xml Within that timeline, I see retweeted_status fragment. Is this normal behavior ? Thanks - Martin -- Josh -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: Add mass follow in twitter account
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Adam Cloud cloudy...@gmail.com wrote: Lima Oscar Lima even more @ Dewalds response :D Or as California cops sometimes say, John Edward Robert King. Nick
[twitter-dev] Lists API
So, what is the plan for releasing the Lists API, if there is one? It is well known that selected people have access to them while the rest of us do not, which is creating a problem with users. Is there a plan to release these APIs to everyone soon? Please respond. I am only asking. --ejw Eric Woodward Email: e...@nambu.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Lists API
We are rolling it out to a small set of users incrementally so that we can load test and find bugs. We've been working on the API documentation and will be rolling it out gradually. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Eric Woodward e...@nambu.com wrote: So, what is the plan for releasing the Lists API, if there is one? It is well known that selected people have access to them while the rest of us do not, which is creating a problem with users. Is there a plan to release these APIs to everyone soon? Please respond. I am only asking. --ejw Eric Woodward Email: e...@nambu.com -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Approx time for White listing?
Hi All, What is the approximate expected time for white listing from the day of application? -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053
[twitter-dev] Re: Approx time for White listing?
I had a glitch, and was denied, and had whitelisting completed, from start to finish, in about 30 hours. -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * On Oct 15, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Atul Kulkarni wrote: Hi All, What is the approximate expected time for white listing from the day of application?
[twitter-dev] Re: Approx time for White listing?
On average under 72 hours, but depending on the state of things it can take up to 1 week. -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, What is the approximate expected time for white listing from the day of application? -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053
[twitter-dev] Re: Approx time for White listing?
Thanks, Scott, and Chad. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: On average under 72 hours, but depending on the state of things it can take up to 1 week. -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, What is the approximate expected time for white listing from the day of application? -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053 http://www.d.umn.edu/%7Ekulka053 -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053
[twitter-dev] Re: Approx time for White listing?
A question on the sidelines, If I am running an app with my credentials and at the same time I open another connection with the same credentials is the first connection closed? On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: On average under 72 hours, but depending on the state of things it can take up to 1 week. -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, What is the approximate expected time for white listing from the day of application? -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053 http://www.d.umn.edu/%7Ekulka053 -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053
[twitter-dev] Re: Approx time for White listing?
If you are asking about the Streaming API, then yes. If not, then I don't understand the question :) -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: A question on the sidelines, If I am running an app with my credentials and at the same time I open another connection with the same credentials is the first connection closed? On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: On average under 72 hours, but depending on the state of things it can take up to 1 week. -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, What is the approximate expected time for white listing from the day of application? -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053 -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053
[twitter-dev] Re: Approx time for White listing?
I have a small app (that I wrote) that fetches tweets from twitter and sends ocasionally with authentication and then I have my Echofon running that I use to post tweets well. Scenario that occured: This app was running while I tweeted from Echofon (I assume it authenticated me again) and then my app got a connection closed error. Hence I was asking, if one authentication nullfies previous one for the same user. I am using the same ID to work and tweet hence the problem I suppose. Regards, Atul. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: If you are asking about the Streaming API, then yes. If not, then I don't understand the question :) -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: A question on the sidelines, If I am running an app with my credentials and at the same time I open another connection with the same credentials is the first connection closed? On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: On average under 72 hours, but depending on the state of things it can take up to 1 week. -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, What is the approximate expected time for white listing from the day of application? -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053 http://www.d.umn.edu/%7Ekulka053 -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053 http://www.d.umn.edu/%7Ekulka053 -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053
[twitter-dev] Re: url fail
with the i at the beginning, i thought it was the Spanish upside down exclamation point and read it aloud as defibalaTOR ... i need help. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 16:31, Adam Cloud cloudy...@gmail.com wrote: I was most disturbed by his deadlined transfer rate as shown in the top right of his screenshot.. Someone get the iDefibrillator! :( -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: Approx time for White listing?
If both are using the REST API then it was probably a fluke. You should be able to have multiple applications authenticating on your behalf (within the rate-limits) w/o much of a problem. If you can consistently repeat this behavior let us know. -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: I have a small app (that I wrote) that fetches tweets from twitter and sends ocasionally with authentication and then I have my Echofon running that I use to post tweets well. Scenario that occured: This app was running while I tweeted from Echofon (I assume it authenticated me again) and then my app got a connection closed error. Hence I was asking, if one authentication nullfies previous one for the same user. I am using the same ID to work and tweet hence the problem I suppose. Regards, Atul. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: If you are asking about the Streaming API, then yes. If not, then I don't understand the question :) -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: A question on the sidelines, If I am running an app with my credentials and at the same time I open another connection with the same credentials is the first connection closed? On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: On average under 72 hours, but depending on the state of things it can take up to 1 week. -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, What is the approximate expected time for white listing from the day of application? -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053 -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053 -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053
[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow
I'm curious why you're using followers/ids and then users/show for each id? I tried using that and using statuses/followers and found that the total times were in the same ballpark. statuses/followers requires far fewer api calls if you're interested in user objects. FYI, I do want to add and say I agree that either method is EXTREMELY inefficient. Regardless what the argument against pages and for cursors are...the current implementation is painful from an end user perspective. Our backend doesn't really care, but our users don't like to wait 10-30 minutes for a web page to gather a social graph. I wish instead of a cursor I could get a snapshot id, # of pages and a page parameter. I don't know how it's implemented, but the ability to deterministically parallelize the calls - is such a benefit to the end user. Pages let me do that. On Oct 15, 9:17 am, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: That's great!! I'm currently using the suggested method (get IDs, then do users/show for each of them) and it's horrendously slow and cumbersome. It'd be great if you could get a 100 user objects at the time, based on 100 ids you provide.. On 10/14/09 7:30 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: I agree. I'm lobbying the team for something like this. -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah we really need a way to bulk request user payloads by giving a list of IDs. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Are you suggesting I should retrieve the 2k users 1 at a time from users/show once I have the ids? I'd essentially like to do this, but 100 at a time. I know I can get the 7000 ids in 2 calls (1 even without the cursors) - but I actually want the whole user objects.. Tim. On Oct 15, 2:56 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: If you are pulling down the entire social graph, why not use the social graph calls which would deliver all 7000 ids in 2 calls? You can also parallelize this process by looping through different users on each thread instead of using each thread to grab a different page/cursor of the same user. Regarding the code issue you submitted, if you have the users cached locally, you could use the social graph methods to determine the missing/new 2k users pretty quickly using the social graph methods and comparing ids. -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chad, Statuses/followers. I've just timed another attempt - it took 25 minutes to retrieve 17957 followers with statuses/followers. Is there anything I can elaborate on in the filed issue to make it clearer? Tim. On Oct 15, 2:42 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Tim, You said Retrieving 7000 followers just took 20 minutes for me. Can you explain what you meant by that? Are you using the friends/ids, followers/ids methods or the statuses/friends, statuses/followers methods? -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi'ya, I'm migrating my code to use cursors at the moment. It's frustrating that calls need to be synchronous rather than how paged calls could be asynchronous. Retrieving 7000 followers just took 20 minutes for me. I filed an issue that proposes a solution here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1078 If you retrieve friends or followers, please take a look and give it a star if it's important to you. If anyone can suggest a work around for this, I'd be happy to hear it. Cheers, Tim. -- Josh
[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow
For clarification, an api to get user objects in bulk given a set of ids - would work just as well :). Rooting for Chad on that one. On Oct 15, 6:07 pm, jmathai jmat...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious why you're using followers/ids and then users/show for each id? I tried using that and using statuses/followers and found that the total times were in the same ballpark. statuses/followers requires far fewer api calls if you're interested in user objects. FYI, I do want to add and say I agree that either method is EXTREMELY inefficient. Regardless what the argument against pages and for cursors are...the current implementation is painful from an end user perspective. Our backend doesn't really care, but our users don't like to wait 10-30 minutes for a web page to gather a social graph. I wish instead of a cursor I could get a snapshot id, # of pages and a page parameter. I don't know how it's implemented, but the ability to deterministically parallelize the calls - is such a benefit to the end user. Pages let me do that. On Oct 15, 9:17 am, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: That's great!! I'm currently using the suggested method (get IDs, then do users/show for each of them) and it's horrendously slow and cumbersome. It'd be great if you could get a 100 user objects at the time, based on 100 ids you provide.. On 10/14/09 7:30 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: I agree. I'm lobbying the team for something like this. -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah we really need a way to bulk request user payloads by giving a list of IDs. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Are you suggesting I should retrieve the 2k users 1 at a time from users/show once I have the ids? I'd essentially like to do this, but 100 at a time. I know I can get the 7000 ids in 2 calls (1 even without the cursors) - but I actually want the whole user objects.. Tim. On Oct 15, 2:56 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: If you are pulling down the entire social graph, why not use the social graph calls which would deliver all 7000 ids in 2 calls? You can also parallelize this process by looping through different users on each thread instead of using each thread to grab a different page/cursor of the same user. Regarding the code issue you submitted, if you have the users cached locally, you could use the social graph methods to determine the missing/new 2k users pretty quickly using the social graph methods and comparing ids. -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chad, Statuses/followers. I've just timed another attempt - it took 25 minutes to retrieve 17957 followers with statuses/followers. Is there anything I can elaborate on in the filed issue to make it clearer? Tim. On Oct 15, 2:42 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Tim, You said Retrieving 7000 followers just took 20 minutes for me. Can you explain what you meant by that? Are you using the friends/ids, followers/ids methods or the statuses/friends, statuses/followers methods? -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi'ya, I'm migrating my code to use cursors at the moment. It's frustrating that calls need to be synchronous rather than how paged calls could be asynchronous. Retrieving 7000 followers just took 20 minutes for me. I filed an issue that proposes a solution here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1078 If you retrieve friends or followers, please take a look and give it a star if it's important to you. If anyone can suggest a work around for this, I'd be happy to hear it. Cheers, Tim. -- Josh
[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow
FYI, My backend cares. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:07 PM, jmathai jmat...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious why you're using followers/ids and then users/show for each id? I tried using that and using statuses/followers and found that the total times were in the same ballpark. statuses/followers requires far fewer api calls if you're interested in user objects. FYI, I do want to add and say I agree that either method is EXTREMELY inefficient. Regardless what the argument against pages and for cursors are...the current implementation is painful from an end user perspective. Our backend doesn't really care, but our users don't like to wait 10-30 minutes for a web page to gather a social graph. I wish instead of a cursor I could get a snapshot id, # of pages and a page parameter. I don't know how it's implemented, but the ability to deterministically parallelize the calls - is such a benefit to the end user. Pages let me do that. On Oct 15, 9:17 am, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: That's great!! I'm currently using the suggested method (get IDs, then do users/show for each of them) and it's horrendously slow and cumbersome. It'd be great if you could get a 100 user objects at the time, based on 100 ids you provide.. On 10/14/09 7:30 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: I agree. I'm lobbying the team for something like this. -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah we really need a way to bulk request user payloads by giving a list of IDs. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Are you suggesting I should retrieve the 2k users 1 at a time from users/show once I have the ids? I'd essentially like to do this, but 100 at a time. I know I can get the 7000 ids in 2 calls (1 even without the cursors) - but I actually want the whole user objects.. Tim. On Oct 15, 2:56 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: If you are pulling down the entire social graph, why not use the social graph calls which would deliver all 7000 ids in 2 calls? You can also parallelize this process by looping through different users on each thread instead of using each thread to grab a different page/cursor of the same user. Regarding the code issue you submitted, if you have the users cached locally, you could use the social graph methods to determine the missing/new 2k users pretty quickly using the social graph methods and comparing ids. -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chad, Statuses/followers. I've just timed another attempt - it took 25 minutes to retrieve 17957 followers with statuses/followers. Is there anything I can elaborate on in the filed issue to make it clearer? Tim. On Oct 15, 2:42 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Tim, You said Retrieving 7000 followers just took 20 minutes for me. Can you explain what you meant by that? Are you using the friends/ids, followers/ids methods or the statuses/friends, statuses/followers methods? -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi'ya, I'm migrating my code to use cursors at the moment. It's frustrating that calls need to be synchronous rather than how paged calls could be asynchronous. Retrieving 7000 followers just took 20 minutes for me. I filed an issue that proposes a solution here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1078 If you retrieve friends or followers, please take a look and give it a star if it's important to you. If anyone can suggest a work around for this, I'd be happy to hear it. Cheers, Tim. -- Josh
[twitter-dev] What is included In the Queries are limited 140 URL encoded characters. restriction?
What us being counted as part of the length of the query - entire query string? What names (of query string name/value pair), values (of query string name/value pair), and delimiters are counted in the Twitter API restriction Queries are limited 140 URL encoded characters? I've run the Twitter API Advanced Search Form to generate queries: http://search.twitter.com/advanced At some point it will say the query is too large - should be 140 but is 155 Query example: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=ands=All+of+these+wordsphrase=This+exact+phraseors=Any+of+these+wordsnots=None+of+these+wordstag=Balloonboylang=enfrom=leonspencerto=ref=near=within=15units=misince=2009-10-15until=2009-10-16rpp=15 What us being included in this length? The entire query string? (i.e. ? q to the end or just the length of the values? Thank you
[twitter-dev] Odd behavior?
I just sent a group of messages to Twitter and the only thing that got posted was the shortened link. This happens only sometimes, though, and I can't find a pattern that points to the issue. The character counts are fine, too. The only thing different that I've done is to send 10 tweets in one burst because we've been timing our articles for releases on the hour instead of spreading them throughout the day (I have no control over this). What might be the issue?
[twitter-dev] Re: Separate terms using commas?
Allowed characters where? Each track keyword is limited to, at most, 30 characters. A tweet can be at most 140 characters. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 15, 6:54 am, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: Is the maximum number of allowed characters still 140? On Oct 14, 9:12 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Try track=#test1,#test2,#test3 You are searching for #test1, (space)#test2, etc. Nothing will ever match (space)#test2. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 14, 8:38 pm, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: It seems as neither is working. I tried #test1, #test2, #test3 and #test1 #test2 #test3, but I got no data (streaming API), and I let it run for hours. When I used only a single term #test1, I immediately started getting data. Was there a change to prevent more than one term from being used? On Oct 14, 1:52 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: You may be conflating the Streaming API, which requires commas between keywords, and the search API, which does not. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 14, 9:19 am, Kyle B kylebarn...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 13, 4:09 pm, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: I am using the streaming search API. If I have more than one term to search, do I need to separate those terms with commas? If these are hash tags, do I include the hash symbol? (#test1, #test2, #test3) I am experiencing some random problems, and I would like to eliminate this as the trouble spot before looking for the problem elsewhere. Personally, I have experienced no problems using spaces between the search terms. Be careful what you use because there is a difference between searching all keywords and all occurrences of all keywords. I think you are fine with or without commas though. Here are the search operators from twitter: http://search.twitter.com/operators You can get an idea for url composition by using the advanced search:http://search.twitter.com/advanced
[twitter-dev] Re: Lists API
Hmm. Ok, thats is obviously fair enough, in theory. You obviously need to test and debug something with a subset of traffic. But Lists are operational now on twitter.com which serves millions, so it seems you are well down that road, yet no API, no draft API methods to review like we have for retweets, nothing. Services contact me to integrate services they developed on top of Lists meaning they have had access to the API for weeks, or more. Basically, you are rolling out critical platform improvements that many of us don't have access to. I am not sure what the point of being a Twitter developer is if you dont give us all fair access to key elements of the service. You have also created a small nightmare for those us that implemented a version of Lists/Groups that is now starting to confuse users. Basically, from what has been going on from the bit.ly transition to suggested users lists to preferential access to stream APIs to free advertising/endorsements for some to now giving access to the Lists API to selected people, I could write a book on how to not manage an ecosystem using Twitter as the prime example. Please please at least give us a draft API to review for Lists as you have done for Rewteets so we can at least *plan* a transition from our own Groups implementations, or how we will coordinate the two features based on the API methods. You have people building services on opt of the Lists API and pitching me to include it in Nambu, so it is obviously a lot further along you are letting on here. --ejw Eric Woodward Email: e...@nambu.com On Oct 15, 4:19 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: We are rolling it out to a small set of users incrementally so that we can load test and find bugs. We've been working on the API documentation and will be rolling it out gradually. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Eric Woodward e...@nambu.com wrote: So, what is the plan for releasing the Lists API, if there is one? It is well known that selected people have access to them while the rest of us do not, which is creating a problem with users. Is there a plan to release these APIs to everyone soon? Please respond. I am only asking. --ejw Eric Woodward Email: e...@nambu.com -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] 401 Unauthorized with good access token (or seemingly good)
I am using python-auth, and oauth twitter to do backend authentication via twitter sign in. It works as designed. I am able to get an access_token and then use that to get the user info. I am having trouble when it comes to trying to post a status update using the oauth. I have pasted an example to illustrate my problem at http://pastebin.com/m50ed2c7e . You can see where I fail. Also at the bottom of that is pasted the encoded post data that I am sending to do the status update. Also, pasted below. encoded_post_data='status=Testoauth_nonce=43777168oauth_timestamp=1255665189oauth_consumer_key=MY_CONSUMER_KEYoauth_signature_method=HMAC- SHA1oauth_version=1.0oauth_token=SAME_AS_TOKEN.KEYoauth_signature=SIGNATURE_REMOVED' I don't expect anyone to be familiar with the libraries I am using but it is odd I can sign in properly but can't do much beyond that. I'd ideally like to chat with someone at twitter so I can send my Consumer info and the access_key in question to see if they can check things on their end and tell me what I am doing wrong. Thanks. Dan
[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing retweeted_details for user_timeline payload
To be honest, it seems a bit strange that they shouldn't appear in user_timeline surely if you're looking at a user's timeline then you'd want to also see what they've retweeted (or will the retweet appear but without the retweet_status tag? On Oct 15, 11:50 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: Updating the retweet doc payloads is on my todo list. It's unfortunately currently a tedious and onerous task. I've been using my cycles on other things. But it's on the list to do. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: The API doc on the wiki is not correct. There was an email sent out earlier about the new payload format. Could someone update the wiki for the new payload? Josh On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm except this API payload doesn't match that for the home_timeline Hometimeline shows retweet_status with a sub tag of retweeting_user, but yet @ev's user timeline shows a tag of retweet_status with a subtag of user. I want to support it but not with the inconsistency in the API On Oct 15, 5:18 pm, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: I have no problem with this new API call. But why is it also included in the user_timeline payload ? Is this inclusion official on the Twitter side... Martin On Oct 15, 9:46 am, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-home_tim... http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-home_tim...That will be the new Friends Timeline. It will include retweets, while the current Friends Timeline will not. The current Friends Timeline will also be going away at some point in the future. Ryan On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the clarification. That explains the inconsistent behavior we are seeing when trying to load specific user timelines. Do we have an updated api wiki that defines the semantics of the retweeted_status fragment ? Martin www.wherecloud.com On Oct 14, 10:59 pm, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: I think its been enabled for a select few for testing. I don't think its gone public yet. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the new retweet functionality has been turned on? Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm retrieving the timeline for a specific user: curlhttp://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ev.xml Within that timeline, I see retweeted_status fragment. Is this normal behavior ? Thanks - Martin -- Josh -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: Lists API
I too would like to know what is going on here, some high profile people are tweeting about lists and how they work, yet none (well maybe none) of us have any idea how we could integrate this into our apps yet. Yet at the same time the ReTweet api docs have been around for a while, they are being tested and not rolled out yet. On Oct 16, 5:09 am, Eric Woodward e...@nambu.com wrote: Hmm. Ok, thats is obviously fair enough, in theory. You obviously need to test and debug something with a subset of traffic. But Lists are operational now on twitter.com which serves millions, so it seems you are well down that road, yet no API, no draft API methods to review like we have for retweets, nothing. Services contact me to integrate services they developed on top of Lists meaning they have had access to the API for weeks, or more. Basically, you are rolling out critical platform improvements that many of us don't have access to. I am not sure what the point of being a Twitter developer is if you dont give us all fair access to key elements of the service. You have also created a small nightmare for those us that implemented a version of Lists/Groups that is now starting to confuse users. Basically, from what has been going on from the bit.ly transition to suggested users lists to preferential access to stream APIs to free advertising/endorsements for some to now giving access to the Lists API to selected people, I could write a book on how to not manage an ecosystem using Twitter as the prime example. Please please at least give us a draft API to review for Lists as you have done for Rewteets so we can at least *plan* a transition from our own Groups implementations, or how we will coordinate the two features based on the API methods. You have people building services on opt of the Lists API and pitching me to include it in Nambu, so it is obviously a lot further along you are letting on here. --ejw Eric Woodward Email: e...@nambu.com On Oct 15, 4:19 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: We are rolling it out to a small set of users incrementally so that we can load test and find bugs. We've been working on the API documentation and will be rolling it out gradually. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Eric Woodward e...@nambu.com wrote: So, what is the plan for releasing the Lists API, if there is one? It is well known that selected people have access to them while the rest of us do not, which is creating a problem with users. Is there a plan to release these APIs to everyone soon? Please respond. I am only asking. --ejw Eric Woodward Email: e...@nambu.com -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisted IPs only work when authed?
Hello, I also have similar problem, my app got whitelisted atleast 10 days ago. And its the account from which i requested the whitelist, got whitelisted, but the ip whitelist was still showing the same stuff (i.e. 150 limit). After readin this post and bit of google'in i solved the problem. To check what ip is passed exactly to twitter with your requests use the following code in a blank php file... ? echo file_get_contents(http://www.ipchicken.com/;); ? Then i replace that code with this to chk if CURLOPT_INTERFACE is working... ?php $url = 'http://www.ipchicken.com/'; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INTERFACE, '74.54.26.63'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); print curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); ? then u can again replace ipchicken.com with the twitter api call url http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml; to see if ur response is changed. Also if ur using epiTwitter class for interfacing with Twitter OAuth (as im using)... add the following line in EpiTwitter.php after line no. 38... (i.e. just after the $ch = curl_init($url); line)... curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INTERFACE, $_SERVER ['SERVER_ADDR']); i've also notified on github to the author... but in the meanwhile, this will surely help with those unauthenticated OAuth API calls. Hope this helps. -Ajinkya On Oct 10, 9:36 pm, Waldron Faulkner waldronfaulk...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure your requests are coming from the same IP youwhitelisted? If you're on a shared host, for example, your outbound requests may come from a different IP as your dedicated inbound IP. I had this issue, had to bind curl to my dedicated IP, and it worked fine. Setting the CURLOPT_INTERFACE option is what worked for me. On Oct 9, 5:08 pm, Charles colei...@gmail.com wrote: I recently received email that confirmed my whitelisting status. I have several IPswhitelisted, as well as the account. From a shell on one of thewhitelistedservers, I make a couple requests and then try: curlhttp://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash hourly-limit type=integer150/hourly-limit reset-time-in-seconds type=integer1255123230/reset-time-in- seconds reset-time type=datetime2009-10-09T21:20:30+00:00/reset-time remaining-hits type=integer147/remaining-hits /hash If, on the other hand, I try: curl -u username:passwordhttp://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml hash remaining-hits type=integer1/remaining-hits reset-time type=datetime2009-10-09T21:57:09+00:00/reset-time hourly-limit type=integer2/hourly-limit reset-time-in-seconds type=integer1255125429/reset-time-in- seconds /hash I was under the impression I did not have to auth if I was making calls from the API? Also: if I use my application's oauth credentials to generate an oauth_request and use the oauth URL, I am still getting the lower rate limit. Is this normal behavior?
[twitter-dev] problem in friendships create..
Hello all, I am getting some problem in creating friends using twiiter API. I dont know why this is happening. I could not create a single friend since last few days.. Please advice Bellow is the code returned by twitter... * Server auth using Basic with user 'FamousGroup1' POST /friendships/create.xml?user_id=57929642 HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Basic RmFtb3VzR3JvdXAxOmludGVybmV0Mw== Host: twitter.com Accept: */* Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:48:03 GMT Server: hi X-Transaction: 1255488486-30308-24158 Status: 403 Forbidden Last-Modified: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:48:06 GMT Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8 Pragma: no-cache Content-Length: 311 Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0 Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT X-Revision: 8e98ae8624f9fc2586caf89fd09fb6a9ca56aada Set-Cookie: lang=en; path=/ Set-Cookie: lang=en; path=/
[twitter-dev] Re: Duplicate Tweets
On Oct 15, 7:50 am, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: 1. Duplicate tweets HAS always been considered a violation. Sure, it's always been a reason to kick someone off, but by attempting to automatically police it, you've managed to take out a couple of quite legitimate services, some of which were using twitter in new and interesting ways. But for those collecting examples of collateral damage, I've got another one for you. Perhaps someone above the approptiate pay grade at Twitter is a skier/rider? Because this change in behavior (even if it's not a change in policy) is going to eliminate two resources that Bay Area skiers tend to use. Neither seems like something that Twitter wants to shut off, but neither can continue to operate with the current de-duplication filters: @i80chains. That rebroadcasts Caltrans's announcements for Interstate 80 in the Sierra Nevadas. During the winter, it lets people know when chains are required to drive over Donner Pass. When chain control is turned off, it tweets OPEN: NO RESTRICTIONS (or something to that effect). That all clear tweet is getting caught by the filters, which leaves out-of-date information on the stream/feed. It is as important to receive a tweet that says you don't need chains as it is to receive one that says you'll need them from Kingvale to Truckee, but as of right now, only one is allowed to get through. @tahoe_weather. Rebroadcasts National Weather Service warnings/ watches and announcements relevant to people in Tahoe. It also has a No active advisory tweet that it sends out when there are no longer any active weather statements. Again, these all clear tweets are getting filtered, which rather drastically reduces the usefulness of the bot. 2. In the Spam section of that policy we also clearly state that the rules will be changing as we adapt to new tactics I understand that it's impossible to really define spam and/or abuse, and that anything that's ultimately an announcement-bot is going to be walking a fine line. But those two bots above seem like they're not remotely abusive, do seem like they're useful, and they're getting swept up among the spammers.
[twitter-dev] Re: Separate terms using commas?
It will work if you do #term1 OR #term2 OR #term3 spaces mean AND for Twitter search term. Also, please note that you MUST use OR and or :) Good luck, = Oren On Oct 15, 3:54 pm, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: Is the maximum number of allowed characters still 140? On Oct 14, 9:12 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Try track=#test1,#test2,#test3 You are searching for #test1, (space)#test2, etc. Nothing will ever match (space)#test2. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 14, 8:38 pm, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: It seems as neither is working. I tried #test1, #test2, #test3 and #test1 #test2 #test3, but I got no data (streaming API), and I let it run for hours. When I used only a single term #test1, I immediately started getting data. Was there a change to prevent more than one term from being used? On Oct 14, 1:52 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: You may be conflating the Streaming API, which requires commas between keywords, and the search API, which does not. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 14, 9:19 am, Kyle B kylebarn...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 13, 4:09 pm, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: I am using the streaming search API. If I have more than one term to search, do I need to separate those terms with commas? If these are hash tags, do I include the hash symbol? (#test1, #test2, #test3) I am experiencing some random problems, and I would like to eliminate this as the trouble spot before looking for the problem elsewhere. Personally, I have experienced no problems using spaces between the search terms. Be careful what you use because there is a difference between searching all keywords and all occurrences of all keywords. I think you are fine with or without commas though. Here are the search operators from twitter: http://search.twitter.com/operators You can get an idea for url composition by using the advanced search:http://search.twitter.com/advanced
[twitter-dev] Re: Issues I came across migrating to cursors
I migrated my code to cursors and successfully pulled large graphs in method #2. My code handles each and every Twitter errors (at least those I got in the last few months)... which means that sometimes I wait for a short while and then resume, sometimes I wait for longer time, depends on the error code, In order not to get into an tight loop overloading the already overloaded Twitter server the wait time grows on the next attempts... Oh - and I use paralellism for multiple users, where each user has its own thread, so the code was synchronous to begin with... maybe that's the reason it was so easy to migrate the code to cursors. = Oren On Oct 15, 3:14 am, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: No - I pulled down the 7000 followers using the cursor calls - not just the ids. Tim. On Oct 15, 1:48 pm, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: So now that you pulled down 7000 IDs, are you making 7000 user/show calls to get the rest of the details? How's that working out? On 10/14/09 5:03 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: I'm migrating my code now. I just pulled down 7000 users. If I get a bad response to a call I'll retry it up to 5 times. It took 20 mins and 1 hour, which is going to be troublesome. Tim. On Oct 7, 6:59 pm, jmathai jmat...@gmail.com wrote: So a user comes to the site and I need to build their social graph. I have two options. 1) Use followers/ids and get ids of all their followers 5,000 at a time 2) Use statuses/followers and get profiles of all followers 100 at a time Ids alone don't really do me much good. So option 2 is more efficient for me (unless there's a batch user fetch api I'm unaware of). That being said, if a user has 10,000 followers (not uncommon) then I have to make 100 API calls to fetch profiles for all the followers. Not a big deal. Except, Twitter gives me random errors. Sometimes it's a 502 and other times a 400. I'm not confident that I won't randomly receive a different 4xx or 5xx response. I tried to put code in place so that on 5xx responses that I would *continue* and retry the request. That's when I got a 400 response. I have yet to fetch someone's entire graph using a sample account with 13,000 followers. Has anyone successfully migrated tocursorsand consistently pulled down a large (10k) graph?
[twitter-dev] cursor based paging
http:// twitter.com/statuses/followers/username.xml?cursor=-1 gives me page 1 of my followers list,. When I then request http:// twitter.com/ statuses/followers/username.xml?cursor=-new_cursor_value I get page 1 again. The same happens when I request http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml?screen_name=usernamecursor=-cursor_value So everywhichway - it don't work
[twitter-dev] Re: Separate terms using commas?
Ok, now everybody is just getting confused, here. Dear OP, Are you asking about Streaming API or the Search API? -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Oren Rose o...@netta.co.il wrote: It will work if you do #term1 OR #term2 OR #term3 spaces mean AND for Twitter search term. Also, please note that you MUST use OR and or :) Good luck, = Oren On Oct 15, 3:54 pm, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: Is the maximum number of allowed characters still 140? On Oct 14, 9:12 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Try track=#test1,#test2,#test3 You are searching for #test1, (space)#test2, etc. Nothing will ever match (space)#test2. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 14, 8:38 pm, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: It seems as neither is working. I tried #test1, #test2, #test3 and #test1 #test2 #test3, but I got no data (streaming API), and I let it run for hours. When I used only a single term #test1, I immediately started getting data. Was there a change to prevent more than one term from being used? On Oct 14, 1:52 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: You may be conflating the Streaming API, which requires commas between keywords, and the search API, which does not. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 14, 9:19 am, Kyle B kylebarn...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 13, 4:09 pm, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: I am using the streaming search API. If I have more than one term to search, do I need to separate those terms with commas? If these are hash tags, do I include the hash symbol? (#test1, #test2, #test3) I am experiencing some random problems, and I would like to eliminate this as the trouble spot before looking for the problem elsewhere. Personally, I have experienced no problems using spaces between the search terms. Be careful what you use because there is a difference between searching all keywords and all occurrences of all keywords. I think you are fine with or without commas though. Here are the search operators from twitter: http://search.twitter.com/operators You can get an idea for url composition by using the advanced search:http://search.twitter.com/advanced
