Re: [twitter-dev] Fail on Capture the Access Token in JS
A 401 often indicates a poorly-formed signature. I would take the output of your JavaScript request and compare it visually with the output of a good reference implementation, like Abraham's lib. Sometimes it's hard to predict exactly what your output will look like when trying to port across platforms/languages, even if the logic appears correct. Also, consider taking a dependency on a known good reference JS implementation, like the one found on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/oauth/source/browse/#svn/code/javascript ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Fernando Jorge f.j.mot...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, my name is Fernando, I am a Brazilian and developed a 'TwitterLib' JavaScript to be able to manage all the power of Twitter.Eu used the OAuth login to perform (and to show the extension name as the From in a tweet: D), but I have a problem in getting the Access Token, or better explained, Twitter me returns 401 Forbidden. I checked every line of code and found absolutely nothing that could damage, having considered until the code of Abraham's done in PHP Lib OAuth.The code function that captures the access_token and makes the request is available on PasteBin: http://pastebin.com/m7f4aa5c5 note that the same code is in JavaScript, because that I need help in that essentially no parte.Se find any fault, please return me and I can pass the functions performed by this function. Dwell (forward) returns. Detail: The Request Token is normally captured for information of all.
Re: [twitter-dev] complete Retweet functionality in thirdparty apps
@Abraham One thing you cant do with the API is Preventing users from retweeting their friends retweet which has already been retweeted by the user .To check this Go to Retweets By Others tab just retweet a friend's retweet and refresh your tabs. In web interface that tweet will appear in both Retweets By Others and Retweets By Me tabs and you will be given an option to undo the retweet in both tabs. But you cannot do the same with the API There is no way a user can find his retweeted entry in Retweets By Others directly (with one call) To fix this either 1) we should check the original retweet ids in both Retweets By Others and Retweets by Me (i.e make 2 calls). Not only is this resource/time consuming but it is highly unreliable. Some times Retweets by Me entries may not overlap with the entries from Retweets By Others due to the data size limit (200) Or 2)Twitter should add some flag like retweeted_by_me to the pay load for Retweets By Others which is really helpful This bug has been left untouched for a long time. @Tim Haines Theres already a bug filedfor that( num of ppl who RTed a tweet).API currently shows 20 but the doc says 100. I am okay with this as well. atleast you are seeing 20 ppl. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-retweets_of_me Yes. But does rt_o_m list who retweeted you? Near as I can tell it only lists the tweets themselves. Statuses/retweets does. It takes a few API calls but it gets you want is needed. Thanks, but no thanks. Really, if Twitter wants people to use this API more, it has to be much less kludgey than it currently is. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- The whippings shall continue until morale improves.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How long am I considered a new member?
How long will I have to be a member before my posts stop having to be moderated? Google maintains this number internally. ISTR it's somewhere in the ballpark of 20-30 approved posts. Sorry, that was supposed to be a private reply -- I entered the wrong address by mistake. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- I've been walking on clouds/'n flipping off rainbows ... -- Strong Bad #150
[twitter-dev] Twitter API OAuth Response Problem
I can not get response from Twitter to get authentication token. My hosting is mediatemple, and i'm using EpiOauth library. Btw, I'm getting the token on localhost.. Here is the link to testing page: http://twitteralem.com/twittertest.php Any helps will appreciated.. Thanks guys, Tolga
[twitter-dev] Re: Fail on Capture the Access Token in JS
Hello Andrew. I decided to use the JS OAuth-In-JavaScript (http://code.google.com/p/ oauth-in-javascript/downloads/list), because it has already been made to allow the use of OAuth in Firefox extensions . Signature is generated in the critpografia HMAC-SHA1 and encrypted with the standard RFC.Claro that, in the case of Twitter, I made some modifications in order to apply the oauth_verifier among the parameters, and even then only returns Twitter 401 Forbidden.Como I tried to be in Abraham's PHP Lib, I have become the method used for the request in GET.Abaixo I spend an example of the URL generated by the script: https: / / api.twitter.com / oauth / access_token? oauth_consumer_key = P3Ttvm4OXrCB4fTNY72xdw oauth_nonce = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e oauth_signature_method = HMAC-SHA1 oauth_timestamp = 1266584756 oauth_token = Hu22faLZe3iW6jonPzO0mDE1Q11Q8d0rIVJpy8hghA oauth_verifier = 5575287 oauth_version = 1.0a oauth_signature = 68XloBUImt3VHUqF3dzQpSDMPHQ % 3D Detail: The signature is generated as if it were a normal request, but it seems to be the problem, because Twitter only returns the 401 Forbidden with nothing in its content. I await response. On 19 fev, 08:15, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: A 401 often indicates a poorly-formed signature. I would take the output of your JavaScript request and compare it visually with the output of a good reference implementation, like Abraham's lib. Sometimes it's hard to predict exactly what your output will look like when trying to port across platforms/languages, even if the logic appears correct. Also, consider taking a dependency on a known good reference JS implementation, like the one found on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/oauth/source/browse/#svn/code/javascript ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Fernando Jorge f.j.mot...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, my name is Fernando, I am a Brazilian and developed a 'TwitterLib' JavaScript to be able to manage all the power of Twitter.Eu used the OAuth login to perform (and to show the extension name as the From in a tweet: D), but I have a problem in getting the Access Token, or better explained, Twitter me returns 401 Forbidden. I checked every line of code and found absolutely nothing that could damage, having considered until the code of Abraham's done in PHP Lib OAuth.The code function that captures the access_token and makes the request is available on PasteBin:http://pastebin.com/m7f4aa5c5note that the same code is in JavaScript, because that I need help in that essentially no parte.Se find any fault, please return me and I can pass the functions performed by this function. Dwell (forward) returns. Detail: The Request Token is normally captured for information of all.
[twitter-dev] oauth/authenticate language options
I've got OAuth implemented for all my service calls in an AIR app I'm building and everything seems to be working fine with one exception. When I request the authenticate page, for some reason the page that loads, loads in french on PCs. On Macs it loads just fine in the system's default language. Is there a parameter I can add to the request so I can specify the language? I've tried adding the optional xoauth_lang_pref but that hasn't made a difference.
[twitter-dev] Streaming API question
Has anyone else ran into an issue where over time the Streaming API just stops sending results? We are using a Ruby library to connect (twitter-stream) which uses EventMachine to open a persistent connection to the API (we are tracking and following). The library properly handles reconnection (from dropped connections) and the various error conditions. All works well for a period of time (8+ hours in some cases, sometimes a full day) after that the connection does no get dropped but no data gets sent. (At least that's what is seems as EventMachine feels its still connected) If we just drop the connection and reconnect all is well and the data starts to flow again. (Which we could do but that seems like a hack) Anyone else have this issue or should I dive into the EventMachine code and see if there is an issue in there? Thanks in advance, Rob
Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API question
Me too! Exact same case. I am using tweepy. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:36 AM, rob robert.bag...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone else ran into an issue where over time the Streaming API just stops sending results? We are using a Ruby library to connect (twitter-stream) which uses EventMachine to open a persistent connection to the API (we are tracking and following). The library properly handles reconnection (from dropped connections) and the various error conditions. All works well for a period of time (8+ hours in some cases, sometimes a full day) after that the connection does no get dropped but no data gets sent. (At least that's what is seems as EventMachine feels its still connected) If we just drop the connection and reconnect all is well and the data starts to flow again. (Which we could do but that seems like a hack) Anyone else have this issue or should I dive into the EventMachine code and see if there is an issue in there? Thanks in advance, Rob -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni
[twitter-dev] banned from search?
I just came across this article recently http://shegeeks.net/5-tips-to-avoid-being-filtered-from-twitter-search/ And read with interest this comment Did you know that Twitter http://twitter.com is beginning to filter out tweets from Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com ? The article suggests Head to Twitter search http://search.twitter.com/ . Enter the following in the search box: from:username, without the @ http://twitter.com/ symbol. For example: So I did so for my personal account and tweets are showing up http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adeancollins But the twitter account for my webapp for www.LiveNascarChat.com http://www.livenascarchat.com/ are not showing up? http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Alivenascarchat Does this mean the account http://twitter.com/livenascarchat is banned from search and people searching for Nascar will not find it or am I missing something? Cheers, Dean
Re: [twitter-dev] banned from search?
This has been a problem for months. Some people just don't have their tweets show up in search, ever. I reported one of these for a friend via getsatisfaction months ago. No change. On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: I just came across this article recently http://shegeeks.net/5-tips-to-avoid-being-filtered-from-twitter-search/ And read with interest this comment “Did you know that Twitterhttp://twitter.comis beginning to filter out tweets from Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com?” The article suggests “Head to Twitter search http://search.twitter.com/. Enter the following in the search box: *from:username*, without the @http://twitter.com/symbol. For example:” So I did so for my personal account and tweets are showing up “ http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adeancollins “ But the twitter account for my webapp for www.LiveNascarChat.comhttp://www.livenascarchat.com/are not showing up? “ http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Alivenascarchat “ Does this mean the account http://twitter.com/livenascarchat is banned from search and people searching for “Nascar“ will not find it or am I missing something? Cheers, Dean
[twitter-dev] Re: The XML for user settings would be helpful
Dmitri, I believe such request still counts against your usage limit. Just to remember to stay within the boundaries :) On Feb 18, 10:15 pm, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to bother you, but I found out that this feature is already available Turns out I can easily get user's profile as json or xml without using oAuth or API Very simple, like this: http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show/MythBusters.json This is just great! On Feb 18, 3:36 pm, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote: I just though of something that would be very helpful to developers: what if there was a url to get xml or json of user's profile, background image, color settings and avatar. I mean similar to regular RSS feed, only for the current user's settings. This way we don't even need to use API if we want to generate a page that looks like user's own twitter page. And because it would be static files, they could be served from Twitter very fast and make use last-modified and etag headers. Currently if I want to style a page to mimin user's twitter page, I have to access thehttps://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.json and for that I have to use oAuth call. But this is an overkill. Why do I even need to have user's token and secret just to get his latest profile that is basically available on his twitter page, I just don't want to to and scrape it from the actual twitter page. Why not give us the url to get these settings as json or xml the same way we can get the RSS for user's latest messages without having to use API
Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API question
Hi, Yup, I saw it the last couple of weeks, this week has been considerably better. I use the delimited stream so I do read(entry size), read(entry), repeat ... I just put a 30 second timeout on the read operation (this is all in python) and if a read fails I close the stream and reconnect. This seems to work quite well ... depending on the chunk size you are reading you could probably lower the timeout if you are afraid of losing data. ttyl Dima On 19-Feb-10, at 7:36 AM, rob wrote: Has anyone else ran into an issue where over time the Streaming API just stops sending results? We are using a Ruby library to connect (twitter-stream) which uses EventMachine to open a persistent connection to the API (we are tracking and following). The library properly handles reconnection (from dropped connections) and the various error conditions. All works well for a period of time (8+ hours in some cases, sometimes a full day) after that the connection does no get dropped but no data gets sent. (At least that's what is seems as EventMachine feels its still connected) If we just drop the connection and reconnect all is well and the data starts to flow again. (Which we could do but that seems like a hack) Anyone else have this issue or should I dive into the EventMachine code and see if there is an issue in there? Thanks in advance, Rob -- ddbrod...@gmail.com The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find the most hard to pay. (Sir Antony Hoare, 1980)
[twitter-dev] home_timeline problems with count and page/pagination
I probably am simply misunderstanding something, but I'm getting what I think are odd results in calls to home_timeline when using the count and page parameters. For example, if I set the count to be 100, and then simply start with page 1, then fetch successive pages I run into two issues: 1) I don't always get 100 tweets back, even though I specified 100 for the count. 2) I get zero tweets back on about page 9, yet, according to the pagination and rate limiting docs, I should be able to do about 32 pages (rate limit of 3200 tweets, with asking for 100 per page) E.g. my script spits out: Processing 98 tweets on page 1... Processing 99 tweets on page 2... Processing 99 tweets on page 3... Processing 100 tweets on page 4... Processing 97 tweets on page 5... Processing 100 tweets on page 6... Processing 97 tweets on page 7... Processing 99 tweets on page 8... Processing 0 tweets on page 9... I'm not using a since parameter (yet), since this is the initial run. Thus, I'm trying to understand how I can go through a history of tweets and ensure I've gotten as many back as I can per the rate and pagination limits. Can someone explain why I wouldn't get 100 tweets per page, and then why it seems to drop off after returning roughly 800 tweets (8 pages)?
Re: [twitter-dev] home_timeline problems with count and page/pagination
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Chris Bailey ch...@cobaltedge.com wrote: 1) I don't always get 100 tweets back, even though I specified 100 for the count. For what I got, Twitter first retrieve the tweets from the cache and then tests if some of those were removed. In your case, 2 tweets were deleted and, thus, not returned in the result (although they still were present in the cache.) 2) I get zero tweets back on about page 9, yet, according to the pagination and rate limiting docs, I should be able to do about 32 pages (rate limit of 3200 tweets, with asking for 100 per page) I did a quick search and couldn't find anything. But, again, if my memory doesn't fail, the total number of tweets you can retrieve are based on the total number of tweets in the cache. Either that or I'm confusing it with the search cache. -- Julio Biason julio.bia...@gmail.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/juliobiason
[twitter-dev] Introduce yourself!
We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well. I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp. TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into Twitter profiles. The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to get replies to a specific status. So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added? @Abraham [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/c7cdaa0840f0de84/ [2] https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e [3] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogokloiggg [4] http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: banned from search?
The official help page relating to this is here: http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713-troubleshooting/entries/42646-i-can-t-find-my-tweets-in-twitter-search If you believe your account has been removed from search for one of the reasons mentioned and would like it put back, file a ticket (while logged in as the account) at http://bit.ly/twicket and our Support team will get back to you. Brian On Feb 19, 9:36 am, TJ Luoma luo...@luomat.net wrote: This has been a problem for months. Some people just don't have their tweets show up in search, ever. I reported one of these for a friend via getsatisfaction months ago. No change. On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: I just came across this article recentlyhttp://shegeeks.net/5-tips-to-avoid-being-filtered-from-twitter-search/ And read with interest this comment “Did you know that Twitterhttp://twitter.comis beginning to filter out tweets from Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com?” The article suggests “Head to Twitter search http://search.twitter.com/. Enter the following in the search box: *from:username*, without the @http://twitter.com/symbol. For example:” So I did so for my personal account and tweets are showing up “http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adeancollins“ But the twitter account for my webapp forwww.LiveNascarChat.comhttp://www.livenascarchat.com/are not showing up? “http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Alivenascarchat “ Does this mean the accounthttp://twitter.com/livenascarchatis banned from search and people searching for “Nascar“ will not find it or am I missing something? Cheers, Dean
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Ed Borasky - freelance developer for lots of stuff besides Twitter, but I spend most of my time these days doing Twitter. Main languages are Perl (Net::Twitter is my friend!) and R, with Ruby sometimes when I need to write code other people can read. ;-) Main areas of interest - natural language processing, statistics, applied math, Linux performance engineering, social media analytics / marketing tools, algorithmic composition of music. What have I built? Some public stuff is at http://github.com/znmeb/Twitter-API-Perl-Utilities and http://github.com/znmeb/Ruby-Streaming-Testing. What do I most want to see added? Well, right now, I'd mostly like to see Twitter put up a public page with all the gee-whiz statistics - how many tweets per hour are being created, how many searches are being done, how many people are joining Twitter per day, etc. I'm happy with the API itself. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky/ A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~ Paul Erdős
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Oops. I borked my links. We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well. I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp. TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into Twitter profiles. The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to get replies to a specific status. [5] So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added? @Abraham [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/c7cdaa0840f0de84/ [2] https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e [3] http://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth [4] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogokloiggg [5] http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] Introduce yourself!
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added? For a long time, I didn't 'get' Twitter. Then I thought of having the classified ads on my site send an update to the site's Twitter status each time someone posts a new ad. A TinyURL for the ad is included in the status update. I also realized that Twitter is a really good way to keep my site's users updated about the site. There are many possible pratfalls if one tries to keep a mailing list, that include getting blacklisted due to false spam complaints and so on. So, I'm letting Twitter be the means by which I stay in touch with my site's visitors! Now I am a big fan of Twitter. I use Classic ASP with the API. My site isn't anything fancy, it is just a fun little hobby site for owners of Quarter Horses at http://QHTimes.com (Twitter account QHtimes) --Lil
RE: [twitter-dev] Re: banned from search?
Great yet again the fact that twitter is a free service and doesn't offer commercial licenses bites us in the ass. Ticket filed. Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Sutorius Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 3:32 PM To: Twitter Development Talk Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: banned from search? The official help page relating to this is here: http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713-troubleshooting/entries/42646-i-can-t-find-my-tweets-in-twitter-search If you believe your account has been removed from search for one of the reasons mentioned and would like it put back, file a ticket (while logged in as the account) at http://bit.ly/twicket and our Support team will get back to you. Brian On Feb 19, 9:36 am, TJ Luoma luo...@luomat.net wrote: This has been a problem for months. Some people just don't have their tweets show up in search, ever. I reported one of these for a friend via getsatisfaction months ago. No change. On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: I just came across this article recentlyhttp://shegeeks.net/5-tips-to-avoid-being-filtered-from-twitter-search/ And read with interest this comment Did you know that Twitterhttp://twitter.comis beginning to filter out tweets from Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com? The article suggests Head to Twitter search http://search.twitter.com/. Enter the following in the search box: *from:username*, without the @http://twitter.com/symbol. For example: So I did so for my personal account and tweets are showing up http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adeancollins; But the twitter account for my webapp forwww.LiveNascarChat.comhttp://www.livenascarchat.com/are not showing up? http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Alivenascarchat ; Does this mean the accounthttp://twitter.com/livenascarchatis banned from search and people searching for Nascar will not find it or am I missing something? Cheers, Dean
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: banned from search?
but it DOES offer commercial licensing ... still informal, but formalizing as we speak ... --ab On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: Great yet again the fact that twitter is a free service and doesn't offer commercial licenses bites us in the ass. Ticket filed. Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Sutorius Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 3:32 PM To: Twitter Development Talk Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: banned from search? The official help page relating to this is here: http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713-troubleshooting/entries/42646-i-can-t-find-my-tweets-in-twitter-search If you believe your account has been removed from search for one of the reasons mentioned and would like it put back, file a ticket (while logged in as the account) at http://bit.ly/twicket and our Support team will get back to you. Brian On Feb 19, 9:36 am, TJ Luoma luo...@luomat.net wrote: This has been a problem for months. Some people just don't have their tweets show up in search, ever. I reported one of these for a friend via getsatisfaction months ago. No change. On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: I just came across this article recentlyhttp://shegeeks.net/5-tips-to-avoid-being-filtered-from-twitter-search/ And read with interest this comment Did you know that Twitterhttp://twitter.comis beginning to filter out tweets from Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com? The article suggests Head to Twitter search http://search.twitter.com/. Enter the following in the search box: *from:username*, without the @http://twitter.com/symbol. For example: So I did so for my personal account and tweets are showing up http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adeancollins; But the twitter account for my webapp forwww.LiveNascarChat.comhttp://www.livenascarchat.com/are not showing up? http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Alivenascarchat ; Does this mean the accounthttp://twitter.com/livenascarchatis banned from search and people searching for Nascar will not find it or am I missing something? Cheers, Dean
[twitter-dev] Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts
Hello All, I'm in the process of creating an extension of my system. I want to be able to create twitter accounts for my clients so that I could keep them up to date. Does anyone know of any api or if at all twitter allows for the bulk or automated creation of twitter accounts? Thank you
Re: [twitter-dev] Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts
This is not only not something that can be done automatically, but even if you have a legitimate need, say brand protection for a large operation, you can still get blocked from registering accounts if you have too many. I think we got to around a hundred and then got the door slammed on our fingers. Perhaps there are larger social media operations who are better connected with Twitter and they have a different arrangement. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Abigail Fabien fabig...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I'm in the process of creating an extension of my system. I want to be able to create twitter accounts for my clients so that I could keep them up to date. Does anyone know of any api or if at all twitter allows for the bulk or automated creation of twitter accounts? Thank you -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com GV: 202-642-1717
Re: [twitter-dev] Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts
There are certainly valid use cases for automatic account creation, but I have yet to see a valid mechanism for preventing spam using same creation method. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:39 PM, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: This is not only not something that can be done automatically, but even if you have a legitimate need, say brand protection for a large operation, you can still get blocked from registering accounts if you have too many. I think we got to around a hundred and then got the door slammed on our fingers. Perhaps there are larger social media operations who are better connected with Twitter and they have a different arrangement. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Abigail Fabien fabig...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I'm in the process of creating an extension of my system. I want to be able to create twitter accounts for my clients so that I could keep them up to date. Does anyone know of any api or if at all twitter allows for the bulk or automated creation of twitter accounts? Thank you -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com GV: 202-642-1717
Re: [twitter-dev] Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 13:20, Abigail Fabien fabig...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I'm in the process of creating an extension of my system. I want to be able to create twitter accounts for my clients so that I could keep them up to date. Does anyone know of any api or if at all twitter allows for the bulk or automated creation of twitter accounts? Thank you -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts
Intresting. But that adds one step to my process. On Feb 19, 3:43 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 13:20, Abigail Fabien fabig...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I'm in the process of creating an extension of my system. I want to be able to create twitter accounts for my clients so that I could keep them up to date. Does anyone know of any api or if at all twitter allows for the bulk or automated creation of twitter accounts? Thank you -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate |http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud |http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts
Do you know of any mechanism for creating those accounts? On Feb 19, 3:42 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: There are certainly valid use cases for automatic account creation, but I have yet to see a valid mechanism for preventing spam using same creation method. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:39 PM, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: This is not only not something that can be done automatically, but even if you have a legitimate need, say brand protection for a large operation, you can still get blocked from registering accounts if you have too many. I think we got to around a hundred and then got the door slammed on our fingers. Perhaps there are larger social media operations who are better connected with Twitter and they have a different arrangement. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Abigail Fabien fabig...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I'm in the process of creating an extension of my system. I want to be able to create twitter accounts for my clients so that I could keep them up to date. Does anyone know of any api or if at all twitter allows for the bulk or automated creation of twitter accounts? Thank you -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com GV: 202-642-1717
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts
Other than screen scraping and email harvesting? Nope, sorry. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Abigail Fabien fabig...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know of any mechanism for creating those accounts? On Feb 19, 3:42 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: There are certainly valid use cases for automatic account creation, but I have yet to see a valid mechanism for preventing spam using same creation method. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:39 PM, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: This is not only not something that can be done automatically, but even if you have a legitimate need, say brand protection for a large operation, you can still get blocked from registering accounts if you have too many. I think we got to around a hundred and then got the door slammed on our fingers. Perhaps there are larger social media operations who are better connected with Twitter and they have a different arrangement. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Abigail Fabien fabig...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I'm in the process of creating an extension of my system. I want to be able to create twitter accounts for my clients so that I could keep them up to date. Does anyone know of any api or if at all twitter allows for the bulk or automated creation of twitter accounts? Thank you -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com GV: 202-642-1717
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts
Twitter does have an API for account creation but as far as I know only Citysearch has access to it: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_rolls_out_new_api_citysearch_first_to_impl.php On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 13:56, Abigail Fabien fabig...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know of any mechanism for creating those accounts? On Feb 19, 3:42 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: There are certainly valid use cases for automatic account creation, but I have yet to see a valid mechanism for preventing spam using same creation method. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:39 PM, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: This is not only not something that can be done automatically, but even if you have a legitimate need, say brand protection for a large operation, you can still get blocked from registering accounts if you have too many. I think we got to around a hundred and then got the door slammed on our fingers. Perhaps there are larger social media operations who are better connected with Twitter and they have a different arrangement. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Abigail Fabien fabig...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I'm in the process of creating an extension of my system. I want to be able to create twitter accounts for my clients so that I could keep them up to date. Does anyone know of any api or if at all twitter allows for the bulk or automated creation of twitter accounts? Thank you -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com GV: 202-642-1717 -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts
There isn't one. On 19 Feb 2010, at 21:56, Abigail Fabien wrote: Do you know of any mechanism for creating those accounts? On Feb 19, 3:42 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: There are certainly valid use cases for automatic account creation, but I have yet to see a valid mechanism for preventing spam using same creation method. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:39 PM, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: This is not only not something that can be done automatically, but even if you have a legitimate need, say brand protection for a large operation, you can still get blocked from registering accounts if you have too many. I think we got to around a hundred and then got the door slammed on our fingers. Perhaps there are larger social media operations who are better connected with Twitter and they have a different arrangement. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Abigail Fabien fabig...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I'm in the process of creating an extension of my system. I want to be able to create twitter accounts for my clients so that I could keep them up to date. Does anyone know of any api or if at all twitter allows for the bulk or automated creation of twitter accounts? Thank you -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com GV: 202-642-1717 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Hi I'm Richard Cunningham. PHP/MySQL coder, Linux Sys. admin and creator of http://friendbinder.com a site to bring all your friends into one place, currently supporting Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, RSS and others. I've been working with the Twitter API since 2008. Richard Cunningham http://twitter.com/rythie
Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API question
This shouldn't be happening, and having developers build these sorts of workarounds saddens me. It is possible that the server side is holding dead connections open, but I doubt it -- as I've a considerable amount of data to the contrary. I suspect that the socket code does not detect a close, driven by either a TCP Close or a TCP Reset. I've run connections over the public internet with close monitoring and rarely noticed a timeout. If you point the same client at a file of streaming data on a web server, does the client detect the end of file at the correct point? -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Dima Brodsky ddbrod...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Yup, I saw it the last couple of weeks, this week has been considerably better. I use the delimited stream so I do read(entry size), read(entry), repeat ... I just put a 30 second timeout on the read operation (this is all in python) and if a read fails I close the stream and reconnect. This seems to work quite well ... depending on the chunk size you are reading you could probably lower the timeout if you are afraid of losing data. ttyl Dima On 19-Feb-10, at 7:36 AM, rob wrote: Has anyone else ran into an issue where over time the Streaming API just stops sending results? We are using a Ruby library to connect (twitter-stream) which uses EventMachine to open a persistent connection to the API (we are tracking and following). The library properly handles reconnection (from dropped connections) and the various error conditions. All works well for a period of time (8+ hours in some cases, sometimes a full day) after that the connection does no get dropped but no data gets sent. (At least that's what is seems as EventMachine feels its still connected) If we just drop the connection and reconnect all is well and the data starts to flow again. (Which we could do but that seems like a hack) Anyone else have this issue or should I dive into the EventMachine code and see if there is an issue in there? Thanks in advance, Rob -- ddbrod...@gmail.com The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find the most hard to pay. (Sir Antony Hoare, 1980)
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
I'm Jugiter Viglio and I am involved in intelligence collection on Twitter. I'd like to see more links to tools that permit the tracking of long terms trends, groups of accounts, keywords, and the like. These should be downloadable applications for an open source operating system. There are interesting web based tools but applying them discloses both methodology and subjects of interest. I may or may not examine Mr. Ed Borasky's offerings from an undisclosed location. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Richard ryt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm Richard Cunningham. PHP/MySQL coder, Linux Sys. admin and creator of http://friendbinder.com a site to bring all your friends into one place, currently supporting Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, RSS and others. I've been working with the Twitter API since 2008. Richard Cunningham http://twitter.com/rythie
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Hey Fellers! I'm Ed Finkler. I make stuff with JavaScript and PHP and related junk, and think about security from time to time. I've built stuff like this: * Spaz, a microblogging client that's older than you. Desktop and webOS http://getspaz.com * SpazCore, a component library for JavaScript that helps devs build web runtime applications. http://github.com/funkatron/spazcore * Twitter Source Stats, a simple web app that tracks and displays stats about how people are posting to Twitter http://funkatron.com/tss * The feature I'd like added to the API the most would be a social- graph-type method that included screen names -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com Twitter:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Joe Mayo here. Author, Consultant, and 3rd Party Twitter Library developer. While writing my most recent book, LINQ Programming/McGraw- Hill, I wanted to show readers how to create a LINQ provider. Therefore, I created an open source .NET LINQ provider for Twitter and posted it at http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com/. I think Twitter is incredible for what it has accomplished so far and the amazing potential it has as a transformational communications medium. BTW, I have my ticket to Chirp and hope to meet many of you there. @JoeMayo On Feb 19, 1:20 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: We have not had an introductions thread ...
[twitter-dev] Re: What tools do you use?
LINQ to Twitter - http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com/ On Jan 30, 12:55 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Lets collect an awesome list of tools and applications we use to help develop with the Twitter API.
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API question
On Feb 19, 7:36 am, rob robert.bag...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone else ran into an issue where over time the Streaming API just stops sending results? We are using a Ruby library to connect (twitter-stream) which uses EventMachine to open a persistent connection to the API (we are tracking and following). The library properly handles reconnection (from dropped connections) and the various error conditions. All works well for a period of time (8+ hours in some cases, sometimes a full day) after that the connection does no get dropped but no data gets sent. (At least that's what is seems as EventMachine feels its still connected) If we just drop the connection and reconnect all is well and the data starts to flow again. (Which we could do but that seems like a hack) Anyone else have this issue or should I dive into the EventMachine code and see if there is an issue in there? Thanks in advance, Rob I haven't seen anything like this, but I've only used tweetstream, not twitter-stream. I had a connection running last week for about 12 hours with no problems. It was on the filter stream doing a track for the keyword haiti.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API question
I have had it get stuck with 'track' after around 16-20 hours. I am going to try and reproduce it and then post details. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 2:38 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.comwrote: On Feb 19, 7:36 am, rob robert.bag...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone else ran into an issue where over time the Streaming API just stops sending results? We are using a Ruby library to connect (twitter-stream) which uses EventMachine to open a persistent connection to the API (we are tracking and following). The library properly handles reconnection (from dropped connections) and the various error conditions. All works well for a period of time (8+ hours in some cases, sometimes a full day) after that the connection does no get dropped but no data gets sent. (At least that's what is seems as EventMachine feels its still connected) If we just drop the connection and reconnect all is well and the data starts to flow again. (Which we could do but that seems like a hack) Anyone else have this issue or should I dive into the EventMachine code and see if there is an issue in there? Thanks in advance, Rob I haven't seen anything like this, but I've only used tweetstream, not twitter-stream. I had a connection running last week for about 12 hours with no problems. It was on the filter stream doing a track for the keyword haiti. -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API question
On Feb 19, 2:55 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: This shouldn't be happening, and having developers build these sorts of workarounds saddens me. It is possible that the server side is holding dead connections open, but I doubt it -- as I've a considerable amount of data to the contrary. I suspect that the socket code does not detect a close, driven by either a TCP Close or a TCP Reset. I've run connections over the public internet with close monitoring and rarely noticed a timeout. If you point the same client at a file of streaming data on a web server, does the client detect the end of file at the correct point? -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. Yeah ... I think we're stuck with this sort of thing until we get a robust library in portable *C* code. I took a look at the one from Gist that's noted on the web site - it's in Java, but I don't see why it couldn't be ported to C and released in open source. I don't want a Java Virtual Machine dependency just to talk to Streaming, though. ;-) You really only need to do the connection stuff in C - using SWIG, you can link to any higher-level language for feeding to a queue, flat file, RDBMS, NoSQL database, etc. Any chance libcurl could do this? There are already libcurl bindings for most of the languages, and there are Windows binaries. Could Twitter write and publish something? I'd think the time saved from not having to chase down Streaming connection problems would more than pay for the effort.
