Re: [twitter-dev] Anybody else seeing "Unable to locate you. Try again" ??

[Abraham Williams]

I seem to recall hearing Gears doesn't work on Fx 3.6. I don't remember if
it was only OSX/Linux or all platforms.

Abraham

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 21:44, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> Well, it seems we have enough "does work" and "doesn't work" cases to
> justify me taking some Wireshark traces and trying to debug my usage,
> especially if Firefox 3.6.3 is still working on wireless in Windows and
> failing in wireless on openSUSE 11.2. What should I be looking for in
> the traces?
>
> On 04/18/2010 07:07 PM, Abraham Williams wrote:
> > Chrome for OSX and Linux doesn't support Gears and never will so until
> > Twitter supports the HTML5 Geo spec...
> >
> > 2010/4/18 Raffi Krikorian 
> >
> >> i use safari + gears on OS X and it works for me.  i think its only very
> >> recent that chromium under OS X supports it.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> Location used to work on the Windows beta of Chrome but stopped a week
> or
> >>> two ago for me. It has never worked on my Mac though.
> >>>
> >>> Abraham
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 18:59, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <
> zn...@comcast.net>wrote:
> >>>
>  On my Linux (openSUSE 11.2 with some of the advanced repositories) the
>  message "Unable to locate you. Try again" is showing up, and my tweets
>  aren't getting geotagged. Firefox 3.6.3, Google Chrome 5.0.375.9 dev
> and
>  Seamonkey 2.0.4 all do this, and it happens for both wired and
> wireless
>  connections.
> 
>  I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in the Linux stack beneath the browser
> -
>  the one time I booted one machine up in Windows, it worked in Firefox
>  3.6.3 with a wireless connection. And it used to work on Linux with
>  Firefox. I haven't tried any other distros or rolling back to Firefox
>  3.5. I might try a Lucid Lynx LiveCD just to see what happens, but I'd
>  rather get openSUSE to work, since I'm not planning to switch distros
>  just to get my tweets tagged. ;-)
> 
>  Is anyone else seeing this? The Firefox demo at
>  http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/#geo-demo works!
>  Anything else I should be looking at? I can grab Wireshark traces but
>  don't know what to look for.
>  --
>  M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
>  borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
> 
>  "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
>  Erdős
> 
> 
>  --
>  Subscription settings:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
> 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
> >>> PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
> >>> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Raffi Krikorian
> >> Twitter Platform Team
> >> http://twitter.com/raffi
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
>
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
> Erdős
>



-- 
Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

Re: [twitter-dev] Early look at Annotations

[Aral Balkan]

I like that annotations will be open so that the various schema can  
live/die organically based on client adoption (or lack thereof) rather  
than an artificially-emposed constraint.


I outlined some of my ideas for annotations (or "Twitterformats", as I  
called them) at the end of last year at http://twitterformats.org —  
hope they add to the conversation.


Aral

Sent from my iPhone

On 16 Apr 2010, at 19:24, Joseph Cheek  wrote:

awesome idea!  I know I can find a use for it.  Some concerns,  
however, below...


Joseph Cheek

Marcel Molina wrote:

the sentence
Namespaces aren't intended as a way for people to claim their  
little slice of the tweet space.

and the sentence
If you want a given key to mean one thing and someone else wants  
that same key to mean something else, and someone else still wants  
another meaning, consumers of your annotations are put in a tricky  
spot trying to figure out how to interpret a given annotation  
without the disambiguation of a namespace.
seem to be at odds with each other.  If you don't provide a way for  
us devs to claim a particular namespace, you force each of us to  
figure out what a dev meant with namespace xyz, which is what you  
way you want to avoid.  Perhaps namespaces can be prefixed with  
com.cheek.twitter or somesuch à la Java.  Just a thought.
We're erring on the side of thinking that the moderate increase in  
payload size for tweets with annotations, even on slow connections,  
is both more convenient and faster than the latency and  
inconvenience incurred by adding another HTTP round trip.

agreed, especially with rate limiting in place.
* Ok, great. How are we going to figure out what Joe Random's  
annotations actually mean?


That's something we need to figure out as a community. But here is  
an early idea: People could add some agreed upon "meta-annotation"  
that points to something which *describes* the annotation or  
annotations that person is using. Think something sort of like XML  
DTD, though not necessarily machine readable. This meta annotation  
could point to a URL that simply has an HTML document that gives a  
description with some examples of the various annotations you're  
experimenting with or standardizing on.
Interesting.  So I could add metadata to the tweet so that my foo  
namespace isn't interpreted the same as other's foo namespaces?  If  
so, then I would want the ability to select this metadata in a  
search - if I have to manually code something to recognize namespace  
foo for metadata http://www.cheek.com/my_twitter_rules_are_here.html  
then I don't want results for everyone else's namespace foo that my  
app won't recognize.  Make sense?


so then namespace com.cheek.foo becomes namespace foo with metadata cheek.com/blahblah 
.  ok, i can do that.





--
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Anybody else seeing "Unable to locate you. Try again" ??

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Well, it seems we have enough "does work" and "doesn't work" cases to
justify me taking some Wireshark traces and trying to debug my usage,
especially if Firefox 3.6.3 is still working on wireless in Windows and
failing in wireless on openSUSE 11.2. What should I be looking for in
the traces?

On 04/18/2010 07:07 PM, Abraham Williams wrote:
> Chrome for OSX and Linux doesn't support Gears and never will so until
> Twitter supports the HTML5 Geo spec...
> 
> 2010/4/18 Raffi Krikorian 
> 
>> i use safari + gears on OS X and it works for me.  i think its only very
>> recent that chromium under OS X supports it.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Location used to work on the Windows beta of Chrome but stopped a week or
>>> two ago for me. It has never worked on my Mac though.
>>>
>>> Abraham
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 18:59, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 On my Linux (openSUSE 11.2 with some of the advanced repositories) the
 message "Unable to locate you. Try again" is showing up, and my tweets
 aren't getting geotagged. Firefox 3.6.3, Google Chrome 5.0.375.9 dev and
 Seamonkey 2.0.4 all do this, and it happens for both wired and wireless
 connections.

 I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in the Linux stack beneath the browser -
 the one time I booted one machine up in Windows, it worked in Firefox
 3.6.3 with a wireless connection. And it used to work on Linux with
 Firefox. I haven't tried any other distros or rolling back to Firefox
 3.5. I might try a Lucid Lynx LiveCD just to see what happens, but I'd
 rather get openSUSE to work, since I'm not planning to switch distros
 just to get my tweets tagged. ;-)

 Is anyone else seeing this? The Firefox demo at
 http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/#geo-demo works!
 Anything else I should be looking at? I can grab Wireshark traces but
 don't know what to look for.
 --
 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
 borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky

 "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
 Erdős


 --
 Subscription settings:
 http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
>>> PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
>>> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Raffi Krikorian
>> Twitter Platform Team
>> http://twitter.com/raffi
>>
> 
> 
> 


-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Get user profile pic by name, unauthenticated?

[Shannon Whitley]

This has to be the softest launch ever, especially for such an important
feature (three years in-the-making).  You're saving me time, aggravation,
and money.  Thank you!

Are there any limitations?  I've been using it for a few weeks and it seems
stable.


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Re: Read only @anywhere application bug fix

[@iStylesMK]

Thanks, I just tested it with @iStylesMK and it worked!

I was previously testing with an account with protected tweets and
that did not work. I ran another test just to be sure and protected
accounts (or at least, my protected account) did not work but a public
account (eg @iStylesMK) worked fine.

Regards,
Ming Keong

On Apr 19, 1:49 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just followed @iStylesdotcom no problem through your test page.
>
> Follow my troubleshooting 
> info:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/080bdd996...
>
> If it still does not work let us know your browser specifics.
>
> Abraham
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 18:40, @iStylesMK  wrote:
> > > 5) Change the "Default Access type" to "Read & Write"
>
> > It's not working for us either despite the change to R/W. App key
> > 4hIZQHIItgc3IrCKyqsjQ and testing onhttp://www.istyles.com/index_test.php
>
> > The follow button and tweet box loads fine but the actions do not (eg,
> > does not follow, does not tweet). Upon clicking follow, a popup of
>
> >https://oauth.twitter.com/2/authorize?oauth_callback_url=http%3A%2F%2...
> > will appear but clicking on "Connect" does nothing more than making
> > the popup go away (and it comes back again in a few seconds).
>
> > When the follow button is first pressed (when the popup is popping
> > up), the main page encounters a javascript error:
>
> > Message: 'P' is null or not an object
> > Line: 1
> > Char: 1421
> > Code: 0
> > URI:http://platform0.twitter.com/1/javascripts/follow.js
>
> > --
> > Subscription settings:
> >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>
> --
> Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am
> PoseurTech Labs | Projects |http://labs.poseurtech.com
> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

Re: [twitter-dev] Anybody else seeing "Unable to locate you. Try again" ??

[Abraham Williams]

Chrome for OSX and Linux doesn't support Gears and never will so until
Twitter supports the HTML5 Geo spec...

2010/4/18 Raffi Krikorian 

> i use safari + gears on OS X and it works for me.  i think its only very
> recent that chromium under OS X supports it.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Location used to work on the Windows beta of Chrome but stopped a week or
>> two ago for me. It has never worked on my Mac though.
>>
>> Abraham
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 18:59, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On my Linux (openSUSE 11.2 with some of the advanced repositories) the
>>> message "Unable to locate you. Try again" is showing up, and my tweets
>>> aren't getting geotagged. Firefox 3.6.3, Google Chrome 5.0.375.9 dev and
>>> Seamonkey 2.0.4 all do this, and it happens for both wired and wireless
>>> connections.
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in the Linux stack beneath the browser -
>>> the one time I booted one machine up in Windows, it worked in Firefox
>>> 3.6.3 with a wireless connection. And it used to work on Linux with
>>> Firefox. I haven't tried any other distros or rolling back to Firefox
>>> 3.5. I might try a Lucid Lynx LiveCD just to see what happens, but I'd
>>> rather get openSUSE to work, since I'm not planning to switch distros
>>> just to get my tweets tagged. ;-)
>>>
>>> Is anyone else seeing this? The Firefox demo at
>>> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/#geo-demo works!
>>> Anything else I should be looking at? I can grab Wireshark traces but
>>> don't know what to look for.
>>> --
>>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
>>> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
>>>
>>> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
>>> Erdős
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Subscription settings:
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
>> PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
>> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Raffi Krikorian
> Twitter Platform Team
> http://twitter.com/raffi
>



-- 
Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

Re: [twitter-dev] Anybody else seeing "Unable to locate you. Try again" ??

[Raffi Krikorian]

i use safari + gears on OS X and it works for me.  i think its only very
recent that chromium under OS X supports it.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Location used to work on the Windows beta of Chrome but stopped a week or
> two ago for me. It has never worked on my Mac though.
>
> Abraham
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 18:59, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 
> wrote:
>
>> On my Linux (openSUSE 11.2 with some of the advanced repositories) the
>> message "Unable to locate you. Try again" is showing up, and my tweets
>> aren't getting geotagged. Firefox 3.6.3, Google Chrome 5.0.375.9 dev and
>> Seamonkey 2.0.4 all do this, and it happens for both wired and wireless
>> connections.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in the Linux stack beneath the browser -
>> the one time I booted one machine up in Windows, it worked in Firefox
>> 3.6.3 with a wireless connection. And it used to work on Linux with
>> Firefox. I haven't tried any other distros or rolling back to Firefox
>> 3.5. I might try a Lucid Lynx LiveCD just to see what happens, but I'd
>> rather get openSUSE to work, since I'm not planning to switch distros
>> just to get my tweets tagged. ;-)
>>
>> Is anyone else seeing this? The Firefox demo at
>> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/#geo-demo works!
>> Anything else I should be looking at? I can grab Wireshark traces but
>> don't know what to look for.
>> --
>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
>> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
>>
>> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
>> Erdős
>>
>>
>> --
>> Subscription settings:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
> PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>



-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi

Re: [twitter-dev] Anybody else seeing "Unable to locate you. Try again" ??

[Andrew Badera]

Location has never worked for me in Win7 x64+Chrome (dev channel).

∞ 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 Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Location used to work on the Windows beta of Chrome but stopped a week or
> two ago for me. It has never worked on my Mac though.
> Abraham
>
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 18:59, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 
> wrote:
>>
>> On my Linux (openSUSE 11.2 with some of the advanced repositories) the
>> message "Unable to locate you. Try again" is showing up, and my tweets
>> aren't getting geotagged. Firefox 3.6.3, Google Chrome 5.0.375.9 dev and
>> Seamonkey 2.0.4 all do this, and it happens for both wired and wireless
>> connections.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in the Linux stack beneath the browser -
>> the one time I booted one machine up in Windows, it worked in Firefox
>> 3.6.3 with a wireless connection. And it used to work on Linux with
>> Firefox. I haven't tried any other distros or rolling back to Firefox
>> 3.5. I might try a Lucid Lynx LiveCD just to see what happens, but I'd
>> rather get openSUSE to work, since I'm not planning to switch distros
>> just to get my tweets tagged. ;-)
>>
>> Is anyone else seeing this? The Firefox demo at
>> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/#geo-demo works!
>> Anything else I should be looking at? I can grab Wireshark traces but
>> don't know what to look for.
>> --
>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
>> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
>>
>> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
>> Erdős
>>
>>
>> --
>> Subscription settings:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>
>
>
> --
> Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
> PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Anybody else seeing "Unable to locate you. Try again" ??

[Abraham Williams]

Location used to work on the Windows beta of Chrome but stopped a week or
two ago for me. It has never worked on my Mac though.

Abraham

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 18:59, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> On my Linux (openSUSE 11.2 with some of the advanced repositories) the
> message "Unable to locate you. Try again" is showing up, and my tweets
> aren't getting geotagged. Firefox 3.6.3, Google Chrome 5.0.375.9 dev and
> Seamonkey 2.0.4 all do this, and it happens for both wired and wireless
> connections.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in the Linux stack beneath the browser -
> the one time I booted one machine up in Windows, it worked in Firefox
> 3.6.3 with a wireless connection. And it used to work on Linux with
> Firefox. I haven't tried any other distros or rolling back to Firefox
> 3.5. I might try a Lucid Lynx LiveCD just to see what happens, but I'd
> rather get openSUSE to work, since I'm not planning to switch distros
> just to get my tweets tagged. ;-)
>
> Is anyone else seeing this? The Firefox demo at
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/#geo-demo works!
> Anything else I should be looking at? I can grab Wireshark traces but
> don't know what to look for.
> --
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
>
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
> Erdős
>
>
> --
> Subscription settings:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>



-- 
Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Read only @anywhere application bug fix

[Abraham Williams]

I just followed @iStylesdotcom no problem through your test page.

Follow my troubleshooting info:
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/080bdd99661b9b43

If it still does not work let us know your browser specifics.

Abraham

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 18:40, @iStylesMK  wrote:

> > 5) Change the "Default Access type" to "Read & Write"
>
> It's not working for us either despite the change to R/W. App key
> 4hIZQHIItgc3IrCKyqsjQ and testing on http://www.istyles.com/index_test.php
>
> The follow button and tweet box loads fine but the actions do not (eg,
> does not follow, does not tweet). Upon clicking follow, a popup of
>
> https://oauth.twitter.com/2/authorize?oauth_callback_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.istyles.com%2Findex_test.php&oauth_mode=flow_web_client&oauth_client_identifier=4hIZQHIItgc3IrCKyqsjQ
> will appear but clicking on "Connect" does nothing more than making
> the popup go away (and it comes back again in a few seconds).
>
> When the follow button is first pressed (when the popup is popping
> up), the main page encounters a javascript error:
>
> Message: 'P' is null or not an object
> Line: 1
> Char: 1421
> Code: 0
> URI: http://platform0.twitter.com/1/javascripts/follow.js
>
>
> --
> Subscription settings:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>



-- 
Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

[twitter-dev] Re: Read only @anywhere application bug fix

[@iStylesMK]

> 5) Change the "Default Access type" to "Read & Write"

It's not working for us either despite the change to R/W. App key
4hIZQHIItgc3IrCKyqsjQ and testing on http://www.istyles.com/index_test.php

The follow button and tweet box loads fine but the actions do not (eg,
does not follow, does not tweet). Upon clicking follow, a popup of
https://oauth.twitter.com/2/authorize?oauth_callback_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.istyles.com%2Findex_test.php&oauth_mode=flow_web_client&oauth_client_identifier=4hIZQHIItgc3IrCKyqsjQ
will appear but clicking on "Connect" does nothing more than making
the popup go away (and it comes back again in a few seconds).

When the follow button is first pressed (when the popup is popping
up), the main page encounters a javascript error:

Message: 'P' is null or not an object
Line: 1
Char: 1421
Code: 0
URI: http://platform0.twitter.com/1/javascripts/follow.js


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Do the twttr.anywhere.tweetBox() boxes actually post tweets for anyone?

[Abraham Williams]

Trouble shooting the TweetBox not posting.

1) Check that your application has "Read and Write" as the "Default access
type". If not edit your application so it does. https://twitter.com/apps
2) Check that your access token for said application has "read and write
access". If not revoke access and re-authorized from your website.
https://twitter.com/settings/connections
 3) Delete your cookies.
Specifically the "twttr_anywhere" cookie for the website using said
application.

Abraham

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 13:00, Pau Gay  wrote:

> It didn't work for me ...
>
> And you guys? (apart from Abraham)
>
> On 18 abr, 20:39, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes it works for me. Seehttp://
> twitter.com/abraham/status/12411336409just
> > posted fromhttp://anywhere.drup.al/.
> >
> > You may have to clear your cookies and revoke access to your application
> > first.
> >
> > Abraham
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 21:30, Jon  wrote:
> > > so, they work for you? Because, after the twitter guys posted about
> > > the default read-only settings, I changed my app to r&w, regenerated
> > > the key and still can't get it to post a tweet. The examples still
> > > don't post to my feed either.
> >
> > > On Apr 17, 3:28 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Make sure the app is set to read and write and that you have
> authorized a
> > > > read and write token on your connections page.
> >
> > > > Abraham
> >
> > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 15:52, Jon  wrote:
> > > > > So, I've got the tweetBoxes rendering just fine and doing the
> onTweet
> > > > > callbacks, but they don't actually post anything to my twitter
> profile
> > > > > (and, yes, I've authorized the app). Even the example boxes on
> > > > >http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere/begin#tweetboxthatpost as the "My
> > > > > Pet Monster" app don't create tweets...
> >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Subscription settings:
> > > > >
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
> >
> > > > --
> > > > Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am
> > > > PoseurTech Labs | Projects |http://labs.poseurtech.com
> > > > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
> >
> > --
> > Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am
> > PoseurTech Labs | Projects |http://labs.poseurtech.com
> > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>



-- 
Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

Re: [twitter-dev] Redirecting to a user's profile

[Abraham Williams]

No it is not possible. They will have to log in themselves.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 16:47, Berto  wrote:

> Correct. But it won't show protected profiles because the user is not
> logged in. I'd like a way to log in the user before taking them to
> that link so they don't have to go through the hassle of signing in
> just to see the profile of a person they're already friends with.
> Some api endpoint I could pass the access token I have for them so
> that I could redirect them to a profile without logging them in. Is
> this possible?
>
> Sorry I worded that a little weird the first time.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Abraham Williams wrote:
> > It does not prompt me for authentication when I am not logged in. Neither
> > for public or protected accounts.
> >
> > Abraham
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:09, Berto  wrote:
> >
> > > So I was able to find this handy call:
> > > http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=
> > > by perusing the groups, but I was curious if there was an authenticate
> > > call I could pass this as a redirect URL to?  It seems like the oauth/
> > > authenticate end-point might do what I'm wanting, but I'm unsure and
> > > if it does, I'm unsure of how exactly to use it.
> > >
> > > What I'm trying to do is display a link to the user's web profile,
> > > which works fine.  The problem is, it will ask them to log in if they
> > > aren't already logged in on the browser even though I have an auth
> > > token for them.  Any easy way to do this?
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Subscription settings:
> > >
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
> > PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
> > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>



-- 
Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

Re: [twitter-dev] Privacy issues with the proposed annotations feature

[Raffi Krikorian]

>
> Right now the web UI exposes every piece of metadata in a tweet to
> end-users. That is, an end-user can use twitter.com to check the complete
> contents of tweet sent by an application. I didn’t see anything in the
> proposals regarding the annotation feature that says that users will be able
> to see all the annotations through the web UI. And, even if they could see
> them, chances are they couldn’t understand them. And, even if end-users
> could understand them, applications will be able to use encryption and other
> obfuscation to make them impossible to interpret. This reduces the amount of
> control users have over their tweets.
>
this wasn't always true -- there was a period where the web client showed no
geo information at all.  geo was an API only feature.  at current time, it
is still a bit unknown how the twitter.com webclient will utilize
annotations (just like its unknown how the ecosystem will utilize
annotations).

> I think there must be some kind of control mechanism in place for
> annotations, or the web UI must present all the annotations of a user’s
> tweets to that user, or both, in order to prevent the annotations feature
> from becoming a side channel for applications to communicate users’ private
> information without users’ knowledge or consent. I would like to know more
> about how this is going to be done.
>
at this point, we're not planning to have any elaborate control mechanisms
over annotations, however, your point of being able to use twitter.com as a
"debugging" interface is an interesting one.

-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Redirecting to a user's profile

[Berto]

Correct. But it won't show protected profiles because the user is not
logged in. I'd like a way to log in the user before taking them to
that link so they don't have to go through the hassle of signing in
just to see the profile of a person they're already friends with.
Some api endpoint I could pass the access token I have for them so
that I could redirect them to a profile without logging them in. Is
this possible?

Sorry I worded that a little weird the first time.

Thanks!

Abraham Williams wrote:
> It does not prompt me for authentication when I am not logged in. Neither
> for public or protected accounts.
>
> Abraham
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:09, Berto  wrote:
>
> > So I was able to find this handy call:
> > http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=
> > by perusing the groups, but I was curious if there was an authenticate
> > call I could pass this as a redirect URL to?  It seems like the oauth/
> > authenticate end-point might do what I'm wanting, but I'm unsure and
> > if it does, I'm unsure of how exactly to use it.
> >
> > What I'm trying to do is display a link to the user's web profile,
> > which works fine.  The problem is, it will ask them to log in if they
> > aren't already logged in on the browser even though I have an auth
> > token for them.  Any easy way to do this?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Subscription settings:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
> PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

[twitter-dev] Privacy issues with the proposed annotations feature

[Brian Smith]

Right now the web UI exposes every piece of metadata in a tweet to
end-users. That is, an end-user can use twitter.com to check the complete
contents of tweet sent by an application. I didn't see anything in the
proposals regarding the annotation feature that says that users will be able
to see all the annotations through the web UI. And, even if they could see
them, chances are they couldn't understand them. And, even if end-users
could understand them, applications will be able to use encryption and other
obfuscation to make them impossible to interpret. This reduces the amount of
control users have over their tweets.

 

Right now an application cannot disclose the user's location in a tweet,
except by putting the location information in the tweet text (which the user
can see very clearly), or by putting the location information in the
built-in geo feature. The ability for applications to expose the user's
information is controlled by a preference that can be controlled only by the
official web interface on twitter.com. However, with the annotations
feature, applications will be able to expose the user's location-again,
possibly encrypted or otherwise obfuscated-even when application access to
the location feature is disabled. It doesn't make sense to disable an
applications' access to the geo feature and then let it silently and
undetectably disclose the user's location-perhaps in even more detail than
the built-in geo feature allows.

 

I think there must be some kind of control mechanism in place for
annotations, or the web UI must present all the annotations of a user's
tweets to that user, or both, in order to prevent the annotations feature
from becoming a side channel for applications to communicate users' private
information without users' knowledge or consent. I would like to know more
about how this is going to be done.

 

Thanks,

Brian 



-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Archive - Looking for an API...

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On 04/18/2010 03:40 PM, Abraham Williams wrote:
> What gave you the impression that Google was connected to LOC's archive? As
> far as I can tell the two archive programs are seperate and Google's data is
> only available from when they started getting the firehose.
> 
> Abraham

I'll have to go digging on the web - it was one of the news items from
the announcement.

-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Archive - Looking for an API...

[Abraham Williams]

What gave you the impression that Google was connected to LOC's archive? As
far as I can tell the two archive programs are seperate and Google's data is
only available from when they started getting the firehose.

Abraham

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 14:11, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> On 04/18/2010 01:48 PM, John Kalucki wrote:
> > The LOC will not provide programmatic access to the archive of a type
> that
> > you seek. At the moment we do not have a solution for this common
> request.
> > We're waiting on a major infrastructure upgrade before we can prioritize
> > this request among all other priorities.
> >
> > -John Kalucki
> > http://twitter.com/jkalucki
> > Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
>
> The impression I got from the press releases was that Twitter was simply
> handing the tweets off to Google and that *Google* was developing all
> the indexing, search and API technology in conjunction with the Library
> of Congress. Is that incorrect?
>
> --
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
>
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
> Erdős
>
>
> --
> Subscription settings:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>



-- 
Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Get user profile pic by name, unauthenticated?

[Raffi Krikorian]

we don't support the original in this endpoint - just the three that you
listed.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mini, normal, and bigger are work but what about original?
>
> Abraham
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 13:37, Raffi Krikorian  wrote:
>
>> http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi?size=bigger
>>
>> we will document this endpoint this week.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:34 PM, WBC wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Raffi... I knew there had to be something more simple!  Is
>>> there a way to get the bigger image?  I can parse the HTML and just
>>> replace _normal with _bigger of course... Anyway, cheers.
>>>
>>> On Apr 18, 8:50 am, Raffi Krikorian  wrote:
>>> > e.g.http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:41 PM, WBC >> >wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > > Hello all, please forgive a newbie here.
>>> >
>>> > > I would like to accomplish one simple task as described in the
>>> > > title:   get the URL of a user profile picture by user name, in the
>>> > > context of a Mac application.  At this time (and in the foreseeable
>>> > > future) I have no interest in doing more with the API(s).
>>> >
>>> > > I do not want to ask users to authenticate with their own accounts
>>> for
>>> > > this simple purpose, and I don't want to run into an
>>> application-based
>>> > > rate-limit for my distributed, desktop application.   I do plan to
>>> > > cache and honestly I can't imagine more than 50 calls a WEEK per IP
>>> > > for this purpose.
>>> >
>>> > > I assume based on this from the FAQ:
>>> >
>>> > > "The REST API does account- and IP-based rate limiting. Authenticated
>>> > > API calls are charged to the authenticating user's limit while
>>> > > unauthenticated API calls are deducted from the calling IP address'
>>> > > allotment."
>>> >
>>> > > ... that the user's IP is the one "deducted" if unauthenticated,
>>> which
>>> > > is perfectly fine.
>>> >
>>> > > But the search API requires authentication:
>>> >
>>> > >http://api.twitter.com/1/users/search.xml?q=username
>>> >
>>> > > I've spent quite a lot of time trying to figure this out already, so
>>> a
>>> > > simple "yes, you can do it and here's the URL" would be very kind.
>>>  (I
>>> > > can easily accomplish what I want just by parsing some HTML... but I
>>> > > thought I'd try to be legit about it ;-)
>>> >
>>> > > --
>>> > > Subscription settings:
>>> > >
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Raffi Krikorian
>>> > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Raffi Krikorian
>> Twitter Platform Team
>> http://twitter.com/raffi
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
> PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>



-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Get user profile pic by name, unauthenticated?

[Abraham Williams]

Mini, normal, and bigger are work but what about original?

Abraham

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 13:37, Raffi Krikorian  wrote:

> http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi?size=bigger
>
> we will document this endpoint this week.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:34 PM, WBC wrote:
>
>> Thanks Raffi... I knew there had to be something more simple!  Is
>> there a way to get the bigger image?  I can parse the HTML and just
>> replace _normal with _bigger of course... Anyway, cheers.
>>
>> On Apr 18, 8:50 am, Raffi Krikorian  wrote:
>> > e.g.http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi
>> >
>> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:41 PM, WBC > >wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > Hello all, please forgive a newbie here.
>> >
>> > > I would like to accomplish one simple task as described in the
>> > > title:   get the URL of a user profile picture by user name, in the
>> > > context of a Mac application.  At this time (and in the foreseeable
>> > > future) I have no interest in doing more with the API(s).
>> >
>> > > I do not want to ask users to authenticate with their own accounts for
>> > > this simple purpose, and I don't want to run into an application-based
>> > > rate-limit for my distributed, desktop application.   I do plan to
>> > > cache and honestly I can't imagine more than 50 calls a WEEK per IP
>> > > for this purpose.
>> >
>> > > I assume based on this from the FAQ:
>> >
>> > > "The REST API does account- and IP-based rate limiting. Authenticated
>> > > API calls are charged to the authenticating user's limit while
>> > > unauthenticated API calls are deducted from the calling IP address'
>> > > allotment."
>> >
>> > > ... that the user's IP is the one "deducted" if unauthenticated, which
>> > > is perfectly fine.
>> >
>> > > But the search API requires authentication:
>> >
>> > >http://api.twitter.com/1/users/search.xml?q=username
>> >
>> > > I've spent quite a lot of time trying to figure this out already, so a
>> > > simple "yes, you can do it and here's the URL" would be very kind.  (I
>> > > can easily accomplish what I want just by parsing some HTML... but I
>> > > thought I'd try to be legit about it ;-)
>> >
>> > > --
>> > > Subscription settings:
>> > >
>> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>> >
>> > --
>> > Raffi Krikorian
>> > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Raffi Krikorian
> Twitter Platform Team
> http://twitter.com/raffi
>



-- 
Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Get user profile pic by name, unauthenticated?

[Nigel Legg]

Good stuff.

On 18 April 2010 21:48, Raffi Krikorian  wrote:

> yeah - sorry about not documenting this earlier. were too busy losing our
> voices at chirp.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
>> > http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi?size=bigger
>> > we will document this endpoint this week.
>>
>> Fabulous!
>>
>> --
>>  personal:
>> http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
>>  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com *
>> ckai...@floodgap.com
>> -- Twenty-four hours in a day, twenty-four cans in a Pepsi cube.
>> Coincidence? -
>>
>>
>> --
>> Subscription settings:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Raffi Krikorian
> Twitter Platform Team
> http://twitter.com/raffi
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Archive - Looking for an API...

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On 04/18/2010 01:48 PM, John Kalucki wrote:
> The LOC will not provide programmatic access to the archive of a type that
> you seek. At the moment we do not have a solution for this common request.
> We're waiting on a major infrastructure upgrade before we can prioritize
> this request among all other priorities.
> 
> -John Kalucki
> http://twitter.com/jkalucki
> Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.

The impression I got from the press releases was that Twitter was simply
handing the tweets off to Google and that *Google* was developing all
the indexing, search and API technology in conjunction with the Library
of Congress. Is that incorrect?

-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API track vs. Search results

[John Kalucki]

Also ensure that your client is logging the raw data as received from the
socket. Sometimes this will narrows an issue down to a parsing or similar
error in the client.

-John Kalucki
http://twitter.com/jkalucki
Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.


On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Mark McBride  wrote:

> If you can duplicate this, can you send the exact text, tweet IDs and times
> of the runs?  Latency on the streaming API should be better than it is in
> search (they're both pretty fast), so having the streaming API lag search is
> surprising.
>
>   ---Mark
>
> http://twitter.com/mccv
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Mad Euchre wrote:
>
>> I wanted to test if my program is getting all the tweets it should. My
>> simple test was track="Palin" and I timed it for exactly 5 minutes. I
>> got 3 tweets and several replies to. Then I immediately ran  this:
>> http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=Palin
>> and looked for tweets in the last 5 minutes.
>>
>> There were 7 results for the last 5 minutes. The 3 I got from the
>> stream matched the oldest of the 7, so there were 4 newer that the
>> steam didn't pick up.
>>
>> I don't mind if there is a slight delay and the missing 4 would
>> eventually show up. How else can I tell if I'm getting all the tweets
>> that I'm supposed to  from the stream?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> --
>> Subscription settings:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>>
>
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Get user profile pic by name, unauthenticated?

[Raffi Krikorian]

yeah - sorry about not documenting this earlier. were too busy losing our
voices at chirp.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> > http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi?size=bigger
> > we will document this endpoint this week.
>
> Fabulous!
>
> --
>  personal:
> http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
>  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com *
> ckai...@floodgap.com
> -- Twenty-four hours in a day, twenty-four cans in a Pepsi cube.
> Coincidence? -
>
>
> --
> Subscription settings:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>



-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Archive - Looking for an API...

[John Kalucki]

The LOC will not provide programmatic access to the archive of a type that
you seek. At the moment we do not have a solution for this common request.
We're waiting on a major infrastructure upgrade before we can prioritize
this request among all other priorities.

-John Kalucki
http://twitter.com/jkalucki
Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.


On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg <
jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok so Google has an archive and the Library of Congress has an
> archive... I want to access someone's archive of Tweets via a solid,
> performant, rest-ful API... any suggestions?  Twitter?
>
> ps: I'm worried the LOC will not be performant enough, and they are
> making noises like "for research use", which won't help me.
>
> jeffrey greenberg
> http://www.tweettronics.com
> http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com
>
>
> --
> Subscription settings:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Get user profile pic by name, unauthenticated?

[Cameron Kaiser]

> http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi?size=bigger
> we will document this endpoint this week.

Fabulous!

-- 
 personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- Twenty-four hours in a day, twenty-four cans in a Pepsi cube. Coincidence? -


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Get user profile pic by name, unauthenticated?

[Raffi Krikorian]

http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi?size=bigger

we will document this endpoint this week.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:34 PM, WBC wrote:

> Thanks Raffi... I knew there had to be something more simple!  Is
> there a way to get the bigger image?  I can parse the HTML and just
> replace _normal with _bigger of course... Anyway, cheers.
>
> On Apr 18, 8:50 am, Raffi Krikorian  wrote:
> > e.g.http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:41 PM, WBC  >wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hello all, please forgive a newbie here.
> >
> > > I would like to accomplish one simple task as described in the
> > > title:   get the URL of a user profile picture by user name, in the
> > > context of a Mac application.  At this time (and in the foreseeable
> > > future) I have no interest in doing more with the API(s).
> >
> > > I do not want to ask users to authenticate with their own accounts for
> > > this simple purpose, and I don't want to run into an application-based
> > > rate-limit for my distributed, desktop application.   I do plan to
> > > cache and honestly I can't imagine more than 50 calls a WEEK per IP
> > > for this purpose.
> >
> > > I assume based on this from the FAQ:
> >
> > > "The REST API does account- and IP-based rate limiting. Authenticated
> > > API calls are charged to the authenticating user's limit while
> > > unauthenticated API calls are deducted from the calling IP address'
> > > allotment."
> >
> > > ... that the user's IP is the one "deducted" if unauthenticated, which
> > > is perfectly fine.
> >
> > > But the search API requires authentication:
> >
> > >http://api.twitter.com/1/users/search.xml?q=username
> >
> > > I've spent quite a lot of time trying to figure this out already, so a
> > > simple "yes, you can do it and here's the URL" would be very kind.  (I
> > > can easily accomplish what I want just by parsing some HTML... but I
> > > thought I'd try to be legit about it ;-)
> >
> > > --
> > > Subscription settings:
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
> >
> > --
> > Raffi Krikorian
> > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi
>



-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi

[twitter-dev] Re: Get user profile pic by name, unauthenticated?

[WBC]

Thanks Raffi... I knew there had to be something more simple!  Is
there a way to get the bigger image?  I can parse the HTML and just
replace _normal with _bigger of course... Anyway, cheers.

On Apr 18, 8:50 am, Raffi Krikorian  wrote:
> e.g.http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi
>
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:41 PM, WBC wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hello all, please forgive a newbie here.
>
> > I would like to accomplish one simple task as described in the
> > title:   get the URL of a user profile picture by user name, in the
> > context of a Mac application.  At this time (and in the foreseeable
> > future) I have no interest in doing more with the API(s).
>
> > I do not want to ask users to authenticate with their own accounts for
> > this simple purpose, and I don't want to run into an application-based
> > rate-limit for my distributed, desktop application.   I do plan to
> > cache and honestly I can't imagine more than 50 calls a WEEK per IP
> > for this purpose.
>
> > I assume based on this from the FAQ:
>
> > "The REST API does account- and IP-based rate limiting. Authenticated
> > API calls are charged to the authenticating user's limit while
> > unauthenticated API calls are deducted from the calling IP address'
> > allotment."
>
> > ... that the user's IP is the one "deducted" if unauthenticated, which
> > is perfectly fine.
>
> > But the search API requires authentication:
>
> >http://api.twitter.com/1/users/search.xml?q=username
>
> > I've spent quite a lot of time trying to figure this out already, so a
> > simple "yes, you can do it and here's the URL" would be very kind.  (I
> > can easily accomplish what I want just by parsing some HTML... but I
> > thought I'd try to be legit about it ;-)
>
> > --
> > Subscription settings:
> >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>
> --
> Raffi Krikorian
> Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi

Re: [twitter-dev] Problem with JSON

[John Kalucki]

If you can store the offending JSON and then run it through a JSON verifier
to see if it's malformed, that'd be great. Please post the offending JSON
and the error.

Otherwise, if there is a case where disambiguation is impossible, please
give examples of the two messages types that cannot be categorized.

Chances are that there is a new field in the message that your logic isn't
handling correctly. I'm not aware of any payload of rendering changes
recently.

-John Kalucki
http://twitter.com/jkalucki
Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.



On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Carl Knott  wrote:

> I have developed an iPhone app that connects to the streaming API the
> app was running correctly for 2 months but since yesterday it has not! I can
> still receive a response from the stream but now I can not parse the JSON
> correctly... My parser believes that the stream is incorrectly structured. I
> get a few correctly structured results and then I get errors. Is it a
> problem at twitters end or mine? Below is a snippet of my code.
>
> To initialize the HTTP request:
>
> request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString
> stringWithFormat: @"http://%@:%@@
> stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?track=%@", [[NSUserDefaults
> standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:@"UsernameKey"], [[NSUserDefaults
> standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:@"PasswordKey"], searchFormat]] ];
>
>
> - (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData
> *)data {
> NSString *responseString = [[[NSString alloc]  initWithData:data
> encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] autorelease];
>  NSDictionary *dictionary = (NSDictionary *) [parser
> objectWithString:responseString error:nil];
> NSDictionary *user = (NSDictionary *) [dictionary valueForKey:@"user"];
>  if([user valueForKey:@"screen_name"] != nil) {
> Tweet *tweet = [[Tweet alloc] init];
>  [tweet setScreenName:[user valueForKey:@"screen_name"]];
> [tweet setLink:[user valueForKey:@"profile_image_url"]];
>  [tweet setMessage:[dictionary valueForKey:@"text"]];
> //do something
> [tweet release];
>  }
> }
>
>


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Re: Do the twttr.anywhere.tweetBox() boxes actually post tweets for anyone?

[Pau Gay]

It didn't work for me ...

And you guys? (apart from Abraham)

On 18 abr, 20:39, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes it works for me. Seehttp://twitter.com/abraham/status/12411336409just
> posted fromhttp://anywhere.drup.al/.
>
> You may have to clear your cookies and revoke access to your application
> first.
>
> Abraham
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 21:30, Jon  wrote:
> > so, they work for you? Because, after the twitter guys posted about
> > the default read-only settings, I changed my app to r&w, regenerated
> > the key and still can't get it to post a tweet. The examples still
> > don't post to my feed either.
>
> > On Apr 17, 3:28 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Make sure the app is set to read and write and that you have authorized a
> > > read and write token on your connections page.
>
> > > Abraham
>
> > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 15:52, Jon  wrote:
> > > > So, I've got the tweetBoxes rendering just fine and doing the onTweet
> > > > callbacks, but they don't actually post anything to my twitter profile
> > > > (and, yes, I've authorized the app). Even the example boxes on
> > > >http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere/begin#tweetboxthatpost as the "My
> > > > Pet Monster" app don't create tweets...
>
> > > > --
> > > > Subscription settings:
> > > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>
> > > --
> > > Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am
> > > PoseurTech Labs | Projects |http://labs.poseurtech.com
> > > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>
> --
> Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am
> PoseurTech Labs | Projects |http://labs.poseurtech.com
> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: @anywhere Drupal and WordPress Plugins?

[Abraham Williams]

Yes I have :) https://twitter.com/abraham/status/12411336409

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:32, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> On 04/18/2010 11:28 AM, Abraham Williams wrote:
> > My Drupal module has been published as well:
> > http://drupal.org/project/anywhere
> >
> > Abaham
>
> Have you tweeted that? If not, please do so and I'll retweet it (and
> post a Facebook link too, for those still using such lame technologies).
> ;-)
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:24, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky  >wrote:
> >
> >> On 04/16/2010 03:11 PM, Pelechati wrote:
> >>> You can visit http://apture.com/plugin for a wordpress/drupal plugin
> >>> for @anywhere functionality.  Apture has been serving up @anywhere
> >>> behavior for over a year in a single line of javascript.
> >>
> >> Looks great! I have a good friend who's an Apture fanatic. I've never
> >> tried it - it seems like overkill for my blog - but it looks like an
> >> awesome idea for business sites.
> >>
> >> --
> >> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> >> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
> >>
> >> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
> >> Erdős
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Subscription settings:
> >> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
>
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
> Erdős
>



-- 
Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

Re: [twitter-dev] account/verify_credentials rate limited

[Raffi Krikorian]

we will return a 400 error code -- however, 400 is fairly overloaded.  all
twitter applications should monitor the http response headers as that gives
fairly specific information on how many calls are left, etc.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Harshad RJ  wrote:

> Would be thankful for any answers to my queries.
>
> Especially, the exact error code when rate-limit is breached. (I can't find
> it in the documentation, and I don't want to create a dummy user and write a
> dummy script to find out in practice)
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Harshad RJ  wrote:
>
>> Whoa! When did this endpoint become rate limited?
>>
>> This wiki page seems to be stale:
>> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting
>>
>> It says that verify-credentials is not rate-limited.
>>
>> Since this is an authenticated call, the rate-limit I guess gets applied
>> to the authenticating user. If the authentication is not successful, does it
>> get applied to the IP address? In any case, I feel the limit for this
>> endpoint should be accounted against the IP-address as a fall-back when the
>> user's quota is reached, since the verify-credentials calls by an app can
>> get held for arbitrarily long, if the user's quota is getting filled up by
>> some other call (possibly by another app).
>>
>> Also, can you tell me what is the response code when the rate-limit is
>> reached? The wiki page says "400 error codes" in this context, but which
>> exact error code?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Harshad
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote:
>>
>>> interesting - that's true.  they would have to wait until the rate limits
>>> reset.  i could be open to relaxing rate limits on this endpoint if somebody
>>> could tell me how doing so won't still have this same issue?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
 Now that account/verify_credentials is rate limited there is no way to
 verify tokens are valid if a user has exceded there GET limit.

 Abraham

 --
 Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
 PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
 This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Raffi Krikorian
>>> Twitter Platform Team
>>> http://twitter.com/raffi
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Harshad RJ
>> http://hrj.wikidot.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Harshad RJ
> http://hrj.wikidot.com
>



-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: @anywhere Drupal and WordPress Plugins?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On 04/18/2010 11:28 AM, Abraham Williams wrote:
> My Drupal module has been published as well:
> http://drupal.org/project/anywhere
> 
> Abaham

Have you tweeted that? If not, please do so and I'll retweet it (and
post a Facebook link too, for those still using such lame technologies). ;-)
> 
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:24, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 
> wrote:
> 
>> On 04/16/2010 03:11 PM, Pelechati wrote:
>>> You can visit http://apture.com/plugin for a wordpress/drupal plugin
>>> for @anywhere functionality.  Apture has been serving up @anywhere
>>> behavior for over a year in a single line of javascript.
>>
>> Looks great! I have a good friend who's an Apture fanatic. I've never
>> tried it - it seems like overkill for my blog - but it looks like an
>> awesome idea for business sites.
>>
>> --
>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
>> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
>>
>> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
>> Erdős
>>
>>
>> --
>> Subscription settings:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>>
> 
> 
> 


-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős

Re: [twitter-dev] account/verify_credentials rate limited

[Harshad RJ]

Would be thankful for any answers to my queries.

Especially, the exact error code when rate-limit is breached. (I can't find
it in the documentation, and I don't want to create a dummy user and write a
dummy script to find out in practice)

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Harshad RJ  wrote:

> Whoa! When did this endpoint become rate limited?
>
> This wiki page seems to be stale:
> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting
>
> It says that verify-credentials is not rate-limited.
>
> Since this is an authenticated call, the rate-limit I guess gets applied to
> the authenticating user. If the authentication is not successful, does it
> get applied to the IP address? In any case, I feel the limit for this
> endpoint should be accounted against the IP-address as a fall-back when the
> user's quota is reached, since the verify-credentials calls by an app can
> get held for arbitrarily long, if the user's quota is getting filled up by
> some other call (possibly by another app).
>
> Also, can you tell me what is the response code when the rate-limit is
> reached? The wiki page says "400 error codes" in this context, but which
> exact error code?
>
> Thanks,
> Harshad
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote:
>
>> interesting - that's true.  they would have to wait until the rate limits
>> reset.  i could be open to relaxing rate limits on this endpoint if somebody
>> could tell me how doing so won't still have this same issue?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Now that account/verify_credentials is rate limited there is no way to
>>> verify tokens are valid if a user has exceded there GET limit.
>>>
>>> Abraham
>>>
>>> --
>>> Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
>>> PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
>>> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Raffi Krikorian
>> Twitter Platform Team
>> http://twitter.com/raffi
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Harshad RJ
> http://hrj.wikidot.com
>



-- 
Harshad RJ
http://hrj.wikidot.com


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Tweets and the API?

[Raffi Krikorian]

we don't know yet - when we do, we'll be giving far advance notice in the
form of a developer preview, and probably even in bigger ways.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> > Anyone from Twitter want to comment? It's starting to look to me like
> > Promoted Tweets is being done outside the API for now.
>
> TTBOMK promotweets *are* outside of the API (there is no syndication), but
> I
> would like to know about the proposed methods for marking them so that they
> can already be dealt with in TTYtter when promotweets hit the wider API
> world.
>
> --
>  personal:
> http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
>  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com *
> ckai...@floodgap.com
> -- What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away.
> --
>
>
> --
> Subscription settings:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>



-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Tweets and the API?

[Raffi Krikorian]

it was stated fairly clearly and plainly by @dickc at @chirp that promoted
tweets would be iterated upon inside the web view first. there is going to
be a second and third "phase" of the program -- one of which involves
"syndication" (i.e. have promoted tweets appear in the API).

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:09 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
wrote:

> On 04/18/2010 10:57 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> >>> its too early to know answers to either of these questions -- the
> promoted
> >>> tweets program just started, and i suspect it will be a few months
> before we
> >>> get to the syndication phase of the program.
> >>
> >> All I want at this point in the Promoted Tweets development cycle is the
> >> ability to recognize that a tweet has been promoted when I see one come
> >> out of the API, whether it's from REST, Search or Streaming.
> >
> > What he said.
> >
> Although ... in playing around with searches for Starbucks, it looks
> like "promotion" is being done only in one specific case: I am logged in
> to Twitter.com and do a search for some specific things in the search
> box on the right of the page. I haven't gotten a Promoted Tweet from the
> search on the main Twitter page when I'm logged out or from
> search.twitter.com, even though I am using the same query.
>
> So I'm guessing the only way to "see" a Promoted Tweet from the API at
> the moment would be:
>
> 1. Find a search that gives you a Promoted Tweet.
> 2. Save it.
> 3. Re-activate the saved search from the API.
>
> Anyone from Twitter want to comment? It's starting to look to me like
> Promoted Tweets is being done outside the API for now.
>
> Given what I know about on line marketing and analytics, I'm not
> entirely convinced it's in Twitter's interest to answer my questions
> here. But I can ask. ;-)
>
> --
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
>
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
> Erdős
>
>
> --
> Subscription settings:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>



-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Tweets and the API?

[Raffi Krikorian]

i'm fairly positive we'll be doing that - just like how you can see in the
web UI right now a clear marking that the tweet has been promoted.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
wrote:

> On 04/18/2010 05:53 AM, Raffi Krikorian wrote:
> >>
> >> Do you know if those of us making small uses of the API (for example,
> >> most of our site runs off of the API, but we aren't an application in
> >> the sense that we perform actions on behalf of users via the API) have
> >> to register at dev. to be able to avoid being automatically opted in
> >> at some point?
> >>
> >> Also, do you know how much agency we have in where promoted tweets
> >> appear? (Is placement determined automatically by keywords in the
> >> tweets, or are we allowed to pick? Likewise, are we penalized (as per
> >> AdWords) for electing to appear for a search or keyword if an
> >> algorithm can't see it's relevance, or will the up/down system be
> >> entirely based on how users respond to what we've elected to promote?)
> >>
> >
> > its too early to know answers to either of these questions -- the
> promoted
> > tweets program just started, and i suspect it will be a few months before
> we
> > get to the syndication phase of the program.
> >
>
> All I want at this point in the Promoted Tweets development cycle is the
> ability to recognize that a tweet has been promoted when I see one come
> out of the API, whether it's from REST, Search or Streaming.
>
> --
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
>
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
> Erdős
>



-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Do the twttr.anywhere.tweetBox() boxes actually post tweets for anyone?

[Abraham Williams]

Yes it works for me. See http://twitter.com/abraham/status/12411336409 just
posted from http://anywhere.drup.al/.

You may have to clear your cookies and revoke access to your application
first.

Abraham

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 21:30, Jon  wrote:

> so, they work for you? Because, after the twitter guys posted about
> the default read-only settings, I changed my app to r&w, regenerated
> the key and still can't get it to post a tweet. The examples still
> don't post to my feed either.
>
> On Apr 17, 3:28 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Make sure the app is set to read and write and that you have authorized a
> > read and write token on your connections page.
> >
> > Abraham
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 15:52, Jon  wrote:
> > > So, I've got the tweetBoxes rendering just fine and doing the onTweet
> > > callbacks, but they don't actually post anything to my twitter profile
> > > (and, yes, I've authorized the app). Even the example boxes on
> > >http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere/begin#tweetboxthat post as the "My
> > > Pet Monster" app don't create tweets...
> >
> > > --
> > > Subscription settings:
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
> >
> > --
> > Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am
> > PoseurTech Labs | Projects |http://labs.poseurtech.com
> > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>



-- 
Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: @anywhere Drupal and WordPress Plugins?

[Abraham Williams]

My Drupal module has been published as well:
http://drupal.org/project/anywhere

Abaham

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:24, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> On 04/16/2010 03:11 PM, Pelechati wrote:
> > You can visit http://apture.com/plugin for a wordpress/drupal plugin
> > for @anywhere functionality.  Apture has been serving up @anywhere
> > behavior for over a year in a single line of javascript.
>
> Looks great! I have a good friend who's an Apture fanatic. I've never
> tried it - it seems like overkill for my blog - but it looks like an
> awesome idea for business sites.
>
> --
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky
>
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
> Erdős
>
>
> --
> Subscription settings:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>



-- 
Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am
PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: @anywhere Drupal and WordPress Plugins?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On 04/16/2010 03:11 PM, Pelechati wrote:
> You can visit http://apture.com/plugin for a wordpress/drupal plugin
> for @anywhere functionality.  Apture has been serving up @anywhere
> behavior for over a year in a single line of javascript.

Looks great! I have a good friend who's an Apture fanatic. I've never
tried it - it seems like overkill for my blog - but it looks like an
awesome idea for business sites.

-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

RE: [twitter-dev] @anywhere testing from local development machine

[Tim Marman]

Or you can create a real DNS record that points to 127.0.0.1 - I actually do 
this for one of my domains so me and all devs are pointing at the same DNS name 
for local development (and do some conditional config with that).

-Original Message-
From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com 
[mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cody Swann
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 9:46 PM
To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] @anywhere testing from local development machine

modify your host file

On 4/17/10 1:25 PM, Furkan Kuru wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to test the @anywhere integration to my existing web site on 
> my local test-machine.
>
> Is there a way to set the redirection url to localhost?
>
>
>
> --
> Furkan Kuru


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Tweets and the API?

[Cameron Kaiser]

> Anyone from Twitter want to comment? It's starting to look to me like
> Promoted Tweets is being done outside the API for now.

TTBOMK promotweets *are* outside of the API (there is no syndication), but I
would like to know about the proposed methods for marking them so that they
can already be dealt with in TTYtter when promotweets hit the wider API world.

-- 
 personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away. --


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Tweets and the API?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On 04/18/2010 10:57 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>> its too early to know answers to either of these questions -- the promoted
>>> tweets program just started, and i suspect it will be a few months before we
>>> get to the syndication phase of the program.
>>
>> All I want at this point in the Promoted Tweets development cycle is the
>> ability to recognize that a tweet has been promoted when I see one come
>> out of the API, whether it's from REST, Search or Streaming.
> 
> What he said.
> 
Although ... in playing around with searches for Starbucks, it looks
like "promotion" is being done only in one specific case: I am logged in
to Twitter.com and do a search for some specific things in the search
box on the right of the page. I haven't gotten a Promoted Tweet from the
search on the main Twitter page when I'm logged out or from
search.twitter.com, even though I am using the same query.

So I'm guessing the only way to "see" a Promoted Tweet from the API at
the moment would be:

1. Find a search that gives you a Promoted Tweet.
2. Save it.
3. Re-activate the saved search from the API.

Anyone from Twitter want to comment? It's starting to look to me like
Promoted Tweets is being done outside the API for now.

Given what I know about on line marketing and analytics, I'm not
entirely convinced it's in Twitter's interest to answer my questions
here. But I can ask. ;-)

-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Tweets and the API?

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > its too early to know answers to either of these questions -- the promoted
> > tweets program just started, and i suspect it will be a few months before we
> > get to the syndication phase of the program.
> 
> All I want at this point in the Promoted Tweets development cycle is the
> ability to recognize that a tweet has been promoted when I see one come
> out of the API, whether it's from REST, Search or Streaming.

What he said.

-- 
 personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- Never send a human to do a machine's job. -- "The Matrix" --


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Tweets and the API?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On 04/18/2010 05:53 AM, Raffi Krikorian wrote:
>>
>> Do you know if those of us making small uses of the API (for example,
>> most of our site runs off of the API, but we aren't an application in
>> the sense that we perform actions on behalf of users via the API) have
>> to register at dev. to be able to avoid being automatically opted in
>> at some point?
>>
>> Also, do you know how much agency we have in where promoted tweets
>> appear? (Is placement determined automatically by keywords in the
>> tweets, or are we allowed to pick? Likewise, are we penalized (as per
>> AdWords) for electing to appear for a search or keyword if an
>> algorithm can't see it's relevance, or will the up/down system be
>> entirely based on how users respond to what we've elected to promote?)
>>
> 
> its too early to know answers to either of these questions -- the promoted
> tweets program just started, and i suspect it will be a few months before we
> get to the syndication phase of the program.
> 

All I want at this point in the Promoted Tweets development cycle is the
ability to recognize that a tweet has been promoted when I see one come
out of the API, whether it's from REST, Search or Streaming.

-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Tweets and the API?

[Raffi Krikorian]

>
> Do you know if those of us making small uses of the API (for example,
> most of our site runs off of the API, but we aren't an application in
> the sense that we perform actions on behalf of users via the API) have
> to register at dev. to be able to avoid being automatically opted in
> at some point?
>
> Also, do you know how much agency we have in where promoted tweets
> appear? (Is placement determined automatically by keywords in the
> tweets, or are we allowed to pick? Likewise, are we penalized (as per
> AdWords) for electing to appear for a search or keyword if an
> algorithm can't see it's relevance, or will the up/down system be
> entirely based on how users respond to what we've elected to promote?)
>

its too early to know answers to either of these questions -- the promoted
tweets program just started, and i suspect it will be a few months before we
get to the syndication phase of the program.

-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Get user profile pic by name, unauthenticated?

[Raffi Krikorian]

e.g. http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:41 PM, WBC wrote:

> Hello all, please forgive a newbie here.
>
> I would like to accomplish one simple task as described in the
> title:   get the URL of a user profile picture by user name, in the
> context of a Mac application.  At this time (and in the foreseeable
> future) I have no interest in doing more with the API(s).
>
> I do not want to ask users to authenticate with their own accounts for
> this simple purpose, and I don't want to run into an application-based
> rate-limit for my distributed, desktop application.   I do plan to
> cache and honestly I can't imagine more than 50 calls a WEEK per IP
> for this purpose.
>
> I assume based on this from the FAQ:
>
> "The REST API does account- and IP-based rate limiting. Authenticated
> API calls are charged to the authenticating user's limit while
> unauthenticated API calls are deducted from the calling IP address'
> allotment."
>
> ... that the user's IP is the one "deducted" if unauthenticated, which
> is perfectly fine.
>
> But the search API requires authentication:
>
> http://api.twitter.com/1/users/search.xml?q=username
>
> I've spent quite a lot of time trying to figure this out already, so a
> simple "yes, you can do it and here's the URL" would be very kind.  (I
> can easily accomplish what I want just by parsing some HTML... but I
> thought I'd try to be legit about it ;-)
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Subscription settings:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>



-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi

Re: [twitter-dev] local trends api "trends/available" not working

[Raffi Krikorian]

the error that we are returning is unfortunate, but --
http://status.twitter.com/post/516695583/local-trends-disabled -- local
trends have been temporarily disabled.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:52 PM, rakf1  wrote:

> local trends api "trends/available" is no longer working, it was
> working fine until recently. I'm using this in my iPhone app
> "iTrends". Below is the API call and the response I'm getting.
>
> http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/available.json
>
> {"request":"/1/trends/available.json","error":"Sorry, you do not have
> access to this endpoint."}
>
>  I looked at the API documentation, it has not changed, it does not
> require any authentication. Any help is appreciated.
>
>
> --
> Subscription settings:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>



-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi

Re: [twitter-dev] Put source info

[Raffi Krikorian]

you have to use oauth to set the source parameter.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Souzinha wrote:

> How can i put the source info when i post a twit by the REST API?
>
> My test with fiddler didnt work... the source of the twit has the
> value of "web" in my twitter status
>
> POST URL:
> http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.xml
> POST BODY:
> status=Hello World&source=xpto
>
>
> tks in advance for the help!
>
>
> --
> Subscription settings:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>



-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi

[twitter-dev] Annotations Discussion Group: twitter-meta

[Michael Bleigh]

I've started a new discussion group around Twitter Annotations so that
there's a place for the community to begin to discuss the
possibilities of the new API feature coming down the pike. I've
started it with a couple ideas for some schemas, but there's lots to
discuss! If you're interested in Annotations, I'd love to start
talking about them!

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-meta

Hope to see you there,
Michael Bleigh

[twitter-dev] Problem with JSON

[Carl Knott]

I have developed an iPhone app that connects to the streaming API the
app was running correctly for 2 months but since yesterday it has not! I can
still receive a response from the stream but now I can not parse the JSON
correctly... My parser believes that the stream is incorrectly structured. I
get a few correctly structured results and then I get errors. Is it a
problem at twitters end or mine? Below is a snippet of my code.

To initialize the HTTP request:

request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString
stringWithFormat: @"http://%@:%@@
stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?track=%@", [[NSUserDefaults
standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:@"UsernameKey"], [[NSUserDefaults
standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:@"PasswordKey"], searchFormat]] ];


- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData
*)data {
NSString *responseString = [[[NSString alloc]  initWithData:data
encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] autorelease];
NSDictionary *dictionary = (NSDictionary *) [parser
objectWithString:responseString error:nil];
NSDictionary *user = (NSDictionary *) [dictionary valueForKey:@"user"];
 if([user valueForKey:@"screen_name"] != nil) {
Tweet *tweet = [[Tweet alloc] init];
[tweet setScreenName:[user valueForKey:@"screen_name"]];
[tweet setLink:[user valueForKey:@"profile_image_url"]];
[tweet setMessage:[dictionary valueForKey:@"text"]];
//do something
[tweet release];
}
}


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Re: @anywhere testing from local development machine

[tux_advocate_hpu]

Yes, you need to give your machine a real domain name in your /etc/
hosts file.  It doesn't have to really resolve in the real world, but
javascript calls running inside your browser need to find your local
machine by that domain name.

I made-up a subdomain of an existing domain that I control.

On Apr 17, 4:25 pm, Furkan Kuru  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to test the @anywhere integration to my existing web site on my
> local test-machine.
>
> Is there a way to set the redirection url to localhost?
>
> --
> Furkan Kuru
>
> --
> Subscription 
> settings:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Get user profile pic by name, unauthenticated?

[WBC]

Hello all, please forgive a newbie here.

I would like to accomplish one simple task as described in the
title:   get the URL of a user profile picture by user name, in the
context of a Mac application.  At this time (and in the foreseeable
future) I have no interest in doing more with the API(s).

I do not want to ask users to authenticate with their own accounts for
this simple purpose, and I don't want to run into an application-based
rate-limit for my distributed, desktop application.   I do plan to
cache and honestly I can't imagine more than 50 calls a WEEK per IP
for this purpose.

I assume based on this from the FAQ:

"The REST API does account- and IP-based rate limiting. Authenticated
API calls are charged to the authenticating user's limit while
unauthenticated API calls are deducted from the calling IP address'
allotment."

... that the user's IP is the one "deducted" if unauthenticated, which
is perfectly fine.

But the search API requires authentication:

http://api.twitter.com/1/users/search.xml?q=username

I've spent quite a lot of time trying to figure this out already, so a
simple "yes, you can do it and here's the URL" would be very kind.  (I
can easily accomplish what I want just by parsing some HTML... but I
thought I'd try to be legit about it ;-)





-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Put source info

[Souzinha]

How can i put the source info when i post a twit by the REST API?

My test with fiddler didnt work... the source of the twit has the
value of "web" in my twitter status

POST URL:
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.xml
POST BODY:
status=Hello World&source=xpto


tks in advance for the help!


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] local trends api "trends/available" not working

[rakf1]

local trends api "trends/available" is no longer working, it was
working fine until recently. I'm using this in my iPhone app
"iTrends". Below is the API call and the response I'm getting.

http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/available.json

{"request":"/1/trends/available.json","error":"Sorry, you do not have
access to this endpoint."}

 I looked at the API documentation, it has not changed, it does not
require any authentication. Any help is appreciated.


-- 
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Multiple Account creation

[Dinho]

Hi there,

I'm a little confused about the number of accounts that is allowed.
Searching through this group, the web and reading the Twitter EULA it
seems just a few are allowed. However in these threads
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/396f0ea6a634d1e/dd8d0dd2bc6b5329
and 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/4fac98bee4430efd/8f16874856c670f2
it's stated that multiple accounts are allowed and that even 600
accounts could be allowed.

But after reading the StatTweets and Sportytweets stories, and their
suspended accounts I'm a little confused. Since on the other hand,
TweetmyJobs.com has stated they manage over 8000 different
Twitteraccounts. And that sounds like a huge multi-account violation
to me.

We're currently setting up a localised version of Tweetmyjobs, which
will require a lot less accounts, but we would still need around 250
accounts (lto localise the jobs in different areas to different
channels). So my question is; would this be acceptable and what would
be the best way to set this up, without violating Twitters TOS. Or
would it just be a waste of my time?

[twitter-dev] Re: Do the twttr.anywhere.tweetBox() boxes actually post tweets for anyone?

[Jon]

so, they work for you? Because, after the twitter guys posted about
the default read-only settings, I changed my app to r&w, regenerated
the key and still can't get it to post a tweet. The examples still
don't post to my feed either.

On Apr 17, 3:28 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Make sure the app is set to read and write and that you have authorized a
> read and write token on your connections page.
>
> Abraham
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 15:52, Jon  wrote:
> > So, I've got the tweetBoxes rendering just fine and doing the onTweet
> > callbacks, but they don't actually post anything to my twitter profile
> > (and, yes, I've authorized the app). Even the example boxes on
> >http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere/begin#tweetboxthat post as the "My
> > Pet Monster" app don't create tweets...
>
> > --
> > Subscription settings:
> >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>
> --
> Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am
> PoseurTech Labs | Projects |http://labs.poseurtech.com
> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.

[twitter-dev] Re: Read only @anywhere application bug fix

[maskin]

> I can't find a label which is named „Default Access type“ please see
> my
> screenshot:http://cl.ly/T1C

Please go to :
http://twitter.com/oauth_clients

//@maskin

On 4月17日, 午後4:37, "@keeev"  wrote:
> > following these steps:
>
> > 1) Go to:http://twitter.com/oauth
> > 2) Click on your application
> > 3) On the "Application Details" page click the "Edit Application
> > Settings" button
> > 4) On the settings page for your application, scroll down to the item
> > labeled "Default Access type"
> > 5) Change the "Default Access type" to "Read & Write"
>
> I can't find a label which is named „Default Access type“ please see
> my
> screenshot:http://cl.ly/T1C
>
> Thanks so far! :)
>
> --
> Subscription 
> settings:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] @anywhere testing from local development machine

[Cody Swann]

modify your host file

On 4/17/10 1:25 PM, Furkan Kuru wrote:

Hello,

I'd like to test the @anywhere integration to my existing web site on 
my local test-machine.


Is there a way to set the redirection url to localhost?



--
Furkan Kuru



--
Subscription settings: 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en