[twitter-dev] Followers Timeline
Anyone know of any reason why an identical API call to the followers timeline (api.twitter.com/1/statuses/followers.json) from two different clients would return different results? I'm specifying "cursor=-1" for both, but in one client I get both the next and prev cursor objects plus an array of user statuses, while in the other I only get an array of user statuses. Both requests are for the same user account, which as only a handful of followers. Anyone have any ideas? Ron
[twitter-dev] API For Login
Hey Guys, I am trying to build an API that would help me build an application wherein the user can log onto twitter from my website. Its kinda similar to the "Facebook Connect" Application and I am trying to make that in Classical ASP. Any help / ideas would be hugely appreciated. PS: I am not talking about the twitter thing that would lead to my website twitter account which would allow the users to look into the tweets.
Re: [twitter-dev] Is users/lookup being throttled?
Hi Adam, The users/lookup method will return up to 100 users worth of information. It's possible the users you are seeking do not exist on the system, are suspended or have been deleted. If they are they will be dropped from the 100 IDs you send. Matt On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Adam Green <140...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am calling 'http://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.json? > screen_name=...' with a list of 100 screen names to update a list of > users for an app I'm building for a client.. I'm running the script > once per minute (so 60 api calls per hour), and checking return > codes. No other API calls are being made on this server. > > At first I was getting 100 user results. Then it dropped to 48. Then > 25. Then 24. 23. 19. 18. 17. I have not received any error codes. Is > this a general throttling algorithm? Is it specific to the world cup? > Is there some limit I am exceeding, but still not getting an error > code? > > -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris
Re: [twitter-dev] @anywhere iframes getting improper document domain?
Hello,
By chance are you only seeing this error in IE? If so, the following
config for @Anywhere can fix your problem:
twttr.anywhere.config("domain", document.domain);
- Todd
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, dndrnkrd wrote:
> I'm seeing same-origin policy issues at the completion of the
> @anywhere sign-in process, to the tune of: "permission denied for
> window www.example.com (document.domain has not been set) to get
> property Window.twttr from www.example.com (document.domain =
> http://example.com).
>
> My @anywhere app's primary domain is www.example.com, and to boot,
> example.com is in my allowed domains as well. Any ideas on why a) the
> generated tweetbox iframe sets its domain to http://example.com, and
> b) why this property get isn't permitted?
>
[twitter-dev] @anywhere iframes getting improper document domain?
I'm seeing same-origin policy issues at the completion of the @anywhere sign-in process, to the tune of: "permission denied for window www.example.com (document.domain has not been set) to get property Window.twttr from www.example.com (document.domain = http://example.com). My @anywhere app's primary domain is www.example.com, and to boot, example.com is in my allowed domains as well. Any ideas on why a) the generated tweetbox iframe sets its domain to http://example.com, and b) why this property get isn't permitted?
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Streaming API - Connection Refused
It was an issue on our end. Thank you
[twitter-dev] Is users/lookup being throttled?
I am calling 'http://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.json? screen_name=...' with a list of 100 screen names to update a list of users for an app I'm building for a client.. I'm running the script once per minute (so 60 api calls per hour), and checking return codes. No other API calls are being made on this server. At first I was getting 100 user results. Then it dropped to 48. Then 25. Then 24. 23. 19. 18. 17. I have not received any error codes. Is this a general throttling algorithm? Is it specific to the world cup? Is there some limit I am exceeding, but still not getting an error code?
Re: [twitter-dev] Any chance to get more than 20,000 calls per hour?
I would suggest that you shouldn't limit your application development by attempting to cover all user cases. It's highly unlikely that a celebrity will ever use your service when it is starting out. Instead, I'd focus on the common case user and first prove your value there. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:42 AM, deadlychaos wrote: > Hi there, > > We have been building this application since 6 months now. It is anti- > spam app which works with very different algorithms and has been very > useful for twitter user (we have tested it with 150 calls). But the > problem is our apps dig out lot of follower data to let the user know > whether his followers are spam or not (it doesn't allow users to > unfollow anyone). We all know, Twitter api consumes 1 call for > retrieving 100 followers of a particular twitter user. Now 20,000 > calls are ok with normal users but some celebrities like Aston > Kutcher, Britney Spears and EV have more than 2 million followers > which means we cannot track. If they were few it would be ok but day > by day as Twitter is growing at amazing rate many users are passing > the 2 million milestone. So our app becomes useless for these users > and which makes it imperfect. This is totally anti-spam app and I am > sure folks at Twitter will love it once it does its work to chop off > spam users. I know there have been many such apps but this is > something everyone would love. We are done coding our app just wanted > to know how can we track users more than 2 million followers? Would > whitelisting more than 1 ip and switching them be the right thing to > do? Can Twitter allow more than 20,000 calls for 1 ip on special > request? > > Hoping to get answers, > Thank you! >
Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Streaming API - Connection Refused
I cannot reproduce this problem and the aggregate statistics on stream.twitter.com look normal. Please email your account, ip address, the exact time of an example failure in UTC, and also a sample curl -v run to api at twitter dot com. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter Inc. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:11 AM, worksapp wrote: > Since early morning today(EST), we are not able to connect to > streaming API - LinkHose. We are getting the following response to our > connection: > > > (111, 'Connection refused') > > > Is anyone else facing similar issue? > > Thank you >
[twitter-dev] Re: Any chance to get more than 20,000 calls per hour?
Normally you could request Twitter whitelisting by emailing a...@twitter.com. However, you won't be able to until after the World Cup: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/130a8c1749a87279 -N On Jul 9, 12:42 pm, deadlychaos wrote: > Hi there, > > We have been building this application since 6 months now. It is anti- > spam app which works with very different algorithms and has been very > useful for twitter user (we have tested it with 150 calls). But the > problem is our apps dig out lot of follower data to let the user know > whether his followers are spam or not (it doesn't allow users to > unfollow anyone). We all know, Twitter api consumes 1 call for > retrieving 100 followers of a particular twitter user. Now 20,000 > calls are ok with normal users but some celebrities like Aston > Kutcher, Britney Spears and EV have more than 2 million followers > which means we cannot track. If they were few it would be ok but day > by day as Twitter is growing at amazing rate many users are passing > the 2 million milestone. So our app becomes useless for these users > and which makes it imperfect. This is totally anti-spam app and I am > sure folks at Twitter will love it once it does its work to chop off > spam users. I know there have been many such apps but this is > something everyone would love. We are done coding our app just wanted > to know how can we track users more than 2 million followers? Would > whitelisting more than 1 ip and switching them be the right thing to > do? Can Twitter allow more than 20,000 calls for 1 ip on special > request? > > Hoping to get answers, > Thank you!
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oauth status update returning error 401 invalid / used nonce
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Fabien Penso wrote: > Where my application http://twitter.com/apps/edit/14088 has read&write > access permission. This is fixed, what happened : - My application had read-only access for the user (myself in fact), I revoked access and asked for a new oauth token => working. - My application always had read-write access, there is no reason this token was read-only.
[twitter-dev] Number of lists
I want to get number of list. If I will get number of list, Should I use HTML Parser? Twitterでリストの数を取得したいと思っています。 In Japanese あるアカウントのフォロワー数、フォロー数、ツイート数などは、apiで取得することができますが、 あるアカウントをフォローしているリスト数を取得するのは、apiでは、取得することは、できないのでしょうか？
[twitter-dev] Desktop Application / xAuth / Access Token Exchange
Hi I am developing a link to Twitter from a desktop application - it's a client/server application that runs on Windows. We have many clients using the software, each with anywhere from 1 to several hundred users. The brief is to allow an administrator to enter one or more Twitter accounts in to the database so that the individual users can post updates to any of the accounts without having to know the authentication details. We have permanent xAuth access token exchange with the Twitter API. When a client administrator enters a Twitter account in to the database, they will enter the user name and password - my code will then immediately hit the API and exchange these for an access token which will then be stored in the database ready to be used when a user wants to post a status update. Trouble is I am having some problems with the http call that exchanges a user name and password for an access token, so any help and advice would be appreciated. I am developing in Delphi 7 but the https calls are made from a C# .NET 2.0 ComVisible class library which uses WebRequest/WebResponse. I am also using Fiddler 2 to view the traffic. Ok, an example. Here is my base signature (if I have the terminology correct) - I have obfuscated any sensitive data: POST&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2Foauth %2Faccess_token&oauth_consumer_key%3D%26oauth_nonce %3DFTV8pi3ScCaYbkNkEHcdTqHHPPy6F3FpG8VHK2tv%26oauth_signature_method %3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1278669373%26oauth_version %3D1.0%26x_auth_mode%3Dclient_auth%26x_auth_password%3D %26x_auth_username%3DX I then create the signature of this using HMAC SHA1 and the Twitter xAuth signing secret which gives me: b5d979ead19f4111b6e5b4db49aee893a2ccb30d Finally I create my Authorisation header for the http request which comes out like this: Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key="", oauth_nonce="FTV8pi3ScCaYbkNkEHcdTqHHPPy6F3FpG8VHK2tv", oauth_signature="b5d979ead19f4111b6e5b4db49aee893a2ccb30d", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1278669373", oauth_version="1.0" Now, if I am correct I am ready to post (to https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token) so I add the header but I am unclear as to whether I need to post the base signature string with it or whether this is discarded once the Authorisation header has been created, so I have tried both. The header is sent in each request but one request also sends the base signature in the SendStream where as the other request posts no data at all (but has the header). Header only returns an error: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized Header and data returns an error: The remote server returned an error: (417) Expectation Failed The second call (header and data) is interesting because when you view the traffic in Fiddler 2 I see the following headers: Cookies / Login Authorization: OAuth oauth_consun=mer_key=". Entity Content-Length: 337 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Transport Connection: Keep-Alive Expect: 100-continue Host: api.twitter.com and yet looking at the response: 417 Expectation Failed Expectation Failed The expectation given in the Expect request-header field could not be met by this server. The client sent Expect: 100-continue but we only allow the 100-continue expectation. So a 100-continue was sent which is the only thing allowed and yet it is complaining about it?! As I mentioned, any help or advice would be very welcome. Regards Craig
[twitter-dev] Any chance to get more than 20,000 calls per hour?
Hi there, We have been building this application since 6 months now. It is anti- spam app which works with very different algorithms and has been very useful for twitter user (we have tested it with 150 calls). But the problem is our apps dig out lot of follower data to let the user know whether his followers are spam or not (it doesn't allow users to unfollow anyone). We all know, Twitter api consumes 1 call for retrieving 100 followers of a particular twitter user. Now 20,000 calls are ok with normal users but some celebrities like Aston Kutcher, Britney Spears and EV have more than 2 million followers which means we cannot track. If they were few it would be ok but day by day as Twitter is growing at amazing rate many users are passing the 2 million milestone. So our app becomes useless for these users and which makes it imperfect. This is totally anti-spam app and I am sure folks at Twitter will love it once it does its work to chop off spam users. I know there have been many such apps but this is something everyone would love. We are done coding our app just wanted to know how can we track users more than 2 million followers? Would whitelisting more than 1 ip and switching them be the right thing to do? Can Twitter allow more than 20,000 calls for 1 ip on special request? Hoping to get answers, Thank you!
Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter service authentication
On 7/7/10, t.arnf...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hello :) > > I am building a service for twitter apps to use which has an API thats > quite simple. The question I have is that, I need to - from some kind > of data the application sends me - get hold of the users twitter > account to first, check if its a valid account, second to get their > profile pic url and third to get their twitter name. > > Could anyone suggest to me the *valid* data I need the twitter > application (that is already O/XAuth'd with twitter) to send to my API > for me to get this information? > > Any help would be much appreciated! > > Thanks! -- Sent from my mobile device
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API time drifting problem and possible solutions
Thank everyone for the quick reply, I have implemented a downloading program which uses curl, and it is fast enough to avoid the time drift. -Larry On Jul 8, 5:00 pm, Pascal Jürgens wrote: > Larry, > > moreover, I assume you checked I/O and CPU load. But even if that's not the > issue, you should absolutely check if you have simplejson with c extension > installed. The python included version is 1.9 which is decidedly slower than > the new 2.x branch. You might see json decoding load drop by 50% or more. > > Pascal > > On Jul 8, 2010, at 17:31 , Larry Zhang wrote: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > I have a program calling the statuses/sample method of a garden hose > > of the Streaming API, and I am experiencing the following problem: the > > timestamps of the tweets that I downloaded constantly drift behind > > real-time, the time drift keeps increasing until it reaches around 25 > > minutes, and then I get a timeout from the request, sleep for 5 > > seconds and reset the connection. The time drift is also reset to 0 > > when the connection is reset. > > > One solution for this I have now is to proactively reset the > > connection more frequently, e.g., if I reconnect every 1 minute, the > > time drift I get will be at most 1 minute. But I am not sure whether > > this is allow by the API. > > > So could anyone tell me if you have the same problem as mine or I am > > using the API in the wrong way. And is it OK to reset connection every > > minute? > > > I am using Tweepy (http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy) as the > > library for accessing the Streaming API. > > > Thanks a lot! > > -Larry
[twitter-dev] Re: Location information only delivered on geocoded searches?
Sure, I'll report the bug. I also know that location should secondary
to geo, I just was trying to get any/all relevant geo.
On Jul 8, 5:57 pm, Matt Harris wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> I'm not sure why the location field is missing from those search results so
> I'll need to follow that up. Can you file it as a defect in the API Issues
> List:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
> and i'll look into it.
>
> Just to clarify though, the location field is the location you see under a
> users name on their Twitter profile page. It is a free-text field in which
> the user can put anything they want. If Twitter Search can reverse geocode
> the text in that field it will use it as the geo for the Tweet only when the
> Tweet itself doesn't have any geo co-ordinates. This means when you perform
> a Geocoded Twitter Search you may see results you wouldn't expect. For
> example somebody who says their location is San Francisco but is on holiday
> in New York may not geocode their Tweets and so their Tweets will be indexed
> as being in San Francisco.
>
> Hope that explains how this works.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:16 AM, James wrote:
> > Hi there,
>
> > I'm getting started with using the search API; I'm a GIS guy looking
> > at how to ingest tweets with geo or location info. I'm seeing an odd
> > behavior with the location element- it seems the location info is only
> > displayed when I submit a geocoded search. As an example:
>
> > In the results for
> >http://search.twitter.com//search.json?q=%23geoglobaldomination
> > is the following tweet:
> > {"Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:43:02 +",
> > "from_user":"geo_rube",
> > "metadata":{"result_type":"recent"},
> > "to_user_id":1203277,"text":"@wonderchook You need to write a book
> > "Adventures in #Geoglobaldomination" or "Bangin
> > BP"",
> > "id":17997780478,"from_user_id":100089794,
> > "to_user":"wonderchook","geo":null,"iso_language_code":"en","source":" > href="http://www.tweetdeck.com";
> > rel="nofollow">TweetDeck"}
>
> > Note no location info. However, if I do
>
> >http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23geoglobaldomination&geocod...
> > The result is:
> > {"location":"Springfield, VA","profile_image_url":"http://a1.twimg.com/
> > profile_images/907787936/shitstorm_normal.jpg","created_at":"Thu, 08
> > Jul 2010 01:43:02 +","from_user":"geo_rube","metadata":
> > {"result_type":"recent"},"to_user_id":1203277,"text":"@wonderchook
> > You need to write a book "Adventures in
> > #Geoglobaldomination" or "Bangin BP"","id":
> > 17997780478,"from_user_id":
>
> > 100089794,"to_user":"wonderchook","geo":null,"iso_language_code":"en","source":" > href="http://www.tweetdeck.com";
> > rel="nofollow">TweetDeck"}
>
> --
>
> Matt Harris
> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting feed for multiple accounts (how does hootsuite/tweetdeck do it so fast?)
Make your requests asynchronous so they are handled independently of one another. Each of your 5 API calls for the 5 columns would return their results as soon as they are available for population of the column. On Jul 8, 12:01 am, rksprst wrote: > Let's say I have five columns that show the @replies for five > different twitter accounts. > > Since each account has its own authentication with oath, I would need > to make 5 API calls to load up these columns. > > This seems inefficient and also slow. Is there anyway to speed this > process up? > > Hootsuite seems to do this quite fast, do they actually make a request > for every column when you load up their client. Do you guys have any > suggestions on improving speed for this? > > Thanks! > Alex
[twitter-dev] Twitter Streaming API - Connection Refused
Since early morning today(EST), we are not able to connect to streaming API - LinkHose. We are getting the following response to our connection: (111, 'Connection refused') Is anyone else facing similar issue? Thank you
[twitter-dev] Re: Which one are you using in your mobile app? xAuth or oAuth?
So far I only learn of one Twitter-based app is using OAuth - Twitter official app (not sure it is out in app store yet). I personally like to learn the best practice on OAuth and best OAuth library used in iPhone, Android, Nokia and Blackberry. On Jul 7, 10:19 am, Oscar Cortes wrote: > Thanks for the feedback Rich. I didn't know that the embedded web > browser could be used for this. Can someone point me out to an iPhone > or iPad app that uses oAuth with the embedded web browser? I would > like to try it out. > > Oscar > > On Jul 6, 6:28 pm, Rich wrote: > > > We are using oAuth on the iPhone. It works great and I don't see why > > xAuth should be allowed on iPhone as the embedded web browser is more > > than capable > > > On Jul 6, 8:55 pm, Oscar Cortes wrote: > > > > We are about to integrate Twitter support in our iOS library and we > > > are seeing that some devs prefer xAuth over oAuth? Which one are you > > > using and why? Does Twitter push for one of them more? > > > > Thanks
