[twitter-dev] Non-Smart phone location
Hey Guys, If I update my status via text, using a non-smartphone in the US, does twitter pick up the location variables? If so lat/long or just neighborhood? Thanks
[twitter-dev] @ Message read rate for non-followers
Hey Guys, Do you know what % of people read @ messages if you are not a follower + targeting them based on keywords or search api's? Thanks, Abir
[twitter-dev] Filing a new support ticket re a reversed user spam complaint
Hey Guys, 1. An user had done a Report Spam in response to a marketing message we sent based on product keywords in their recent tweet. 2. We talked w the user over Facebook and agreed not to send him more marketing Tweets and he has agreed to withdraw the spam complaint. 3. We can't locate a way to open a support ticket to notify you here: http://twitter.com/help/start 4. Should we email or @ message someone? What's the protocol you guys want to follow? Thanks, Abir
[twitter-dev] Re: Filing a new support ticket re a reversed user spam complaint
Thanks Chris On Dec 19, 4:47 pm, Chris Thomson chri...@chris24.ca wrote: You can open a support ticket here:http://help.twitter.com/requests/new -- Chris Thomson On 2009-12-19, at 7:30 PM, Abir wrote: Hey Guys, 1. An user had done a Report Spam in response to a marketing message we sent based on product keywords in their recent tweet. 2. We talked w the user over Facebook and agreed not to send him more marketing Tweets and he has agreed to withdraw the spam complaint. 3. We can't locate a way to open a support ticket to notify you here: http://twitter.com/help/start 4. Should we email or @ message someone? What's the protocol you guys want to follow? Thanks, Abir
[twitter-dev] Getting Whitelisted For a Major Customer Of Ours
Hey Twitter Folks: 1. Working with a major customer of ours + live with marketing programs + promotions on your platform. 2. Could you help us get whitelisted? + there is a business opportunity for Twitter to acquire 500K-1Million users. 3. Who should we talk to figure things out? Thanks, Abir @Abir2
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting Whitelisted For a Major Customer Of Ours
Thanks Raffi appreciate it. On Dec 17, 1:16 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Abir abstar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Twitter Folks: 1. Working with a major customer of ours + live with marketing programs + promotions on your platform. 2. Could you help us get whitelisted? + there is a business opportunity for Twitter to acquire 500K-1Million users. 3. Who should we talk to figure things out? Thanks, Abir @Abir2 -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: if you will be using the Geolocation API ...
Guys: I am confused. Is the Geolocation now available on the API? How are users opting in to it on a tweet basis? or is the user release later on? Thanks, Abir On Sep 9, 7:13 pm, Mark Mason idtw...@gmail.com wrote: For those using the iphone and tweetdeck, you can click the locate icon and your iPhone: Long:Lat is updated on your profilie.location. I am interested in GEO locate, so products can find you. Example, You are on interstate driving or passenger, and it is after 3am, and you tweet... Holiday Inn can message you with a link to a nearby hotel. Or you tweet I am hungry, and restaurants find you. just rambling On Aug 29, 8:26 am, Nicole Simon nee...@gmail.com wrote: reading up on the dev list, I noticed some replies to thegeolocationthing and sorry to matt for picking his reply ;)) I'd like to add some of the usual stuff we know US based devs do forget but would be really great if they just thought about it because the rest of the world likes to use them too. Also I am surprised that thegeolocationof the person can be attached to the tweets but still not to the profile - something which would make location based services so much easier, even without having each tweet tell the world where you are? Short summary: - when developping your app, please make sure to get international users to test them and get their input so you don't make something US-only - before adding a geo location to every tweet, i rather expect people to be willing to add a real location in long / lat to their profile. having it just in the tweets is the second step without doing the first. the ecosytem would profit much more from it, would it be a profile thing. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 17:00, Matt Kaufman m...@mattkaufman.org wrote: I think that issue can be simplified down to zip code radiAl query (simple) once you know the users relevent vicinity. It's not like browsers are actually accurate as an actual gps (netbooks iPhone... Chipsets will change that soon) great. my zipcode is 23554, and that resolves to Lübeck, SH. :) As in: there is more on the world than just US zipcodes. Searches for anything outside of the US have been proven to be quite ineffective as they resolve around things currently like name of town. And that usually fails alone because the search does not recognize the name of the town as it is locally. // Sorting / overemphasize of state level Very often, location based application do go for the state level (as the US has so many of them) and does include the country, but neglects that others might like geographic centers. If you do an application please use a format like continent - country - town - exact location state in this is optional in many cases and not the center point in many countries. more often than that, there is the additional level above town like car plate key or else. // Outputting wrong characters if you use the application to resolve against something with the coordinates please make sure your application does understand special characters when you output them (like Lübeck) // I dont want to share that As a user, I might want to share with the world my country or my town where I am currently at but not pinpointing me on the map. Matt also brought up the the point about threats on exactgeolocation. I know of at least one couple who got separated because the guy did a location aware thing from the new girls house. But I would not mind sharing my location in my profile in general. For purposes of human profile readers, I do not put long and lat in my profile, and if I do use the correct Lübeck, Deutschland most of my visitors do not understand if they are from outside Germany. Which is why I am opting for Germany. Not because I want -but because that is the lowest thing we all can agree on being understandable. Nicole
[twitter-dev] Re: if you will be using the Geolocation API ...
Raffi: Thanks, that helps a great deal, we have created an app that our business customers want to use, we will start testing with #94109 etc...and let you know when we go live, hopefully you guys will release the geolocation soon. Abir On Sep 17, 4:04 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi abir. It's not yet live on Twitter - when it does become live, there will be a setting available under each user's settings page to turn on the ability for his or her API clients to annotate tweets. On Sep 17, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Abir abstar...@gmail.com wrote: Guys: I am confused. Is theGeolocationnow available on the API? How are users opting in to it on a tweet basis? or is the user release later on? Thanks, Abir On Sep 9, 7:13 pm, Mark Mason idtw...@gmail.com wrote: For those using the iphone and tweetdeck, you can click the locate icon and your iPhone: Long:Lat is updated on your profilie.location. I am interested in GEO locate, so products can find you. Example, You are on interstate driving or passenger, and it is after 3am, and you tweet... Holiday Inn can message you with a link to a nearby hotel. Or you tweet I am hungry, and restaurants find you. just rambling On Aug 29, 8:26 am, Nicole Simon nee...@gmail.com wrote: reading up on the dev list, I noticed some replies to thegeolocationthing and sorry to matt for picking his reply ;)) I'd like to add some of the usual stuff we know US based devs do forget but would be really great if they just thought about it because the rest of the world likes to use them too. Also I am surprised that thegeolocationof the person can be attached to the tweets but still not to the profile - something which would make location based services so much easier, even without having each tweet tell the world where you are? Short summary: - when developping your app, please make sure to get international users to test them and get their input so you don't make something US- only - before adding a geo location to every tweet, i rather expect people to be willing to add a real location in long / lat to their profile. having it just in the tweets is the second step without doing the first. the ecosytem would profit much more from it, would it be a profile thing. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 17:00, Matt Kaufman m...@mattkaufman.org wrote: I think that issue can be simplified down to zip code radiAl query (simple) once you know the users relevent vicinity. It's not like browsers are actually accurate as an actual gps (netbooks iPhone... Chipsets will change that soon) great. my zipcode is 23554, and that resolves to Lübeck, SH. :) As in: there is more on the world than just US zipcodes. Searches for anything outside of the US have been proven to be quite ineffective as they resolve around things currently like name of town. And that usually fails alone because the search does not recognize the name of the town as it is locally. // Sorting / overemphasize of state level Very often, location based application do go for the state level (as the US has so many of them) and does include the country, but neglects that others might like geographic centers. If you do an application please use a format like continent - country - town - exact location state in this is optional in many cases and not the center point in many countries. more often than that, there is the additional level above town like car plate key or else. // Outputting wrong characters if you use the application to resolve against something with the coordinates please make sure your application does understand special characters when you output them (like Lübeck) // I dont want to share that As a user, I might want to share with the world my country or my town where I am currently at but not pinpointing me on the map. Matt also brought up the the point about threats on exactgeolocation. I know of at least one couple who got separated because the guy did a location aware thing from the new girls house. But I would not mind sharing my location in my profile in general. For purposes of human profile readers, I do not put long and lat in my profile, and if I do use the correct Lübeck, Deutschland most of my vis itors do not understand if they are from outside Germany. Which is why I am opting for Germany. Not because I want -but because that is the lowest thing we all can agree on being understandable. Nicole
[twitter-dev] Re: if you will be using the Geolocation API ...
Raffi: Great discussion, the geolocation code is exciting opens up so many possibilities. 1. Would you guys consider the geolocation code, opt-in on a tweet basis? It would be an optional input on a tweet basis with the default=off; This way users can choose, Hey, I am walking down market street for the next 45 minutes, and I am open to getting marketing offers. The bet= Users will want this on for a % of the time based on specific tweets and this would eliminate the need for them to turn the global geolocation default on and then off again, 2 steps vs. 1. 2. Any idea of approximate time frame we can start playing around with this? Thanks, Abir On Sep 2, 4:01 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi jim. yup! http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-account%C2%A0ve... Raffi, Another question came up as I was thinking about support for this in my web-site (http://twxlate.com): Will the user elements returned in the responses to API requests include information that indicates whether or not the user has opted- in to geo-coding of their tweets? I would like to see this right from the get go so that client web- sites / applications know whether or not to prompt their users for location information to be geo-coded with a tweet that is being created. If this isn't there, I think there will be unnecessary confusion and possibly wrong actions taken on behalf of the user. Please seriously consider this for inclusion in the initial deployment, if it is not already there. Thanks in advance. Comments welcome and expected. Jim Renkel On Sep 1, 6:08 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hey jim. 1. the user.location is a completely separate entity (for now) implies that maybe sometime in the future it may be used, e.g., to provide a default geo-coded location for a tweet. I would suggest that if the user's profile location if ever geo-coded, that geo-codeshould be added to the user objects returned by API calls, at least the users/show method. Users will want to know what may be, e.g., added to their tweets without having to generate a test tweet to find out. 2. Having the user's profile location geo-coded and returned in API calls would be very useful now. Yeh, twitter client web-sites / applications can do it for themselves (Mine certainly will if twitter doesn't do it.), but may come up with different / inconsistent results. And, trust me, it ain't as easy to get good results as it might first appear. To maximize use and consistency, it would be great if twitter did the geo-coding and supplied it to everyone. these are both great ideas. right now, thegeolocationAPI is really focused on tweet-level information -- but we're actively thinking about what's next. 3. Will twitter client web-sites / applications be able to turn the geo-location feature on for their users, or do the users have to go to twitter.com with a browser to do this? My concern here is that twitter.com only supports two languages (English and Japanese) for its UI, where my site (http://twxlate.com) supports these and over 40 more. Unless the user is fluent in English or Japanese, they won't be able to turn it on. I've already run into similar problems as I'm rolling out test versions of OAuth support. unfortunately not. as we're pretty sensitive to our user's privacy, for now, a user will have to go to twitter.com with a browser to turn on the setting (remember, by default it is off). if you have any suggestions on how to make this user interaction better in the future, i would be eager to hear them! As I've written some pretty spiffy geo-coding applications for other purposes, I plan on doing some pretty spiffy geo-coding stuff with twxlate.com. But it needs to be usable, or users won't use it and / or may be annoyed by it. I would hate for that to happen to what promises to be a really neat feature. cool! well - i hope what we're doing is usable! if not, just keep blasting me about it. threads like these on the mailing list are awesome. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: 140 character limit overridden for Twitgoo?
yes just the twitgoo website On Jul 21, 8:38 am, Justin Hart onyxra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, what app were you using? Just the website? On Jul 20, 4:20 pm, Abir abstar...@gmail.com wrote: Abraham: Thanks, but not sure I understand why the counter said 140 when i was inputting but the post count is 133? On Jul 20, 3:11 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If you look at the status you will find that it only posted at 133 characters. http://twitter.com/ABIRB123/status/2745931292 Abraham On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 16:36, Abir abstar...@gmail.com wrote: Guys: Just posted this on Twitgoo. -It let me post a 140 character + -The URL it is an oryx antelope, it's just a stock image from my laptop's repository. why do this? well i am testing!http://twitgoo.com/1ke92 Isn't the total limit 140 characters? or are URL's not counted? I am developing a service to buy and sell things on Twitter and this would be helpful to know. Thanks -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
[twitter-dev] 140 character limit overridden for Twitgoo?
Guys: Just posted this on Twitgoo. -It let me post a 140 character + -The URL it is an oryx antelope, it's just a stock image from my laptop's repository. why do this? well i am testing! http://twitgoo.com/1ke92 Isn't the total limit 140 characters? or are URL's not counted? I am developing a service to buy and sell things on Twitter and this would be helpful to know. Thanks
[twitter-dev] Re: 140 character limit overridden for Twitgoo?
Abraham: Thanks, but not sure I understand why the counter said 140 when i was inputting but the post count is 133? On Jul 20, 3:11 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If you look at the status you will find that it only posted at 133 characters. http://twitter.com/ABIRB123/status/2745931292 Abraham On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 16:36, Abir abstar...@gmail.com wrote: Guys: Just posted this on Twitgoo. -It let me post a 140 character + -The URL it is an oryx antelope, it's just a stock image from my laptop's repository. why do this? well i am testing!http://twitgoo.com/1ke92 Isn't the total limit 140 characters? or are URL's not counted? I am developing a service to buy and sell things on Twitter and this would be helpful to know. Thanks -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Direct Message Limit for a Game we are creating what playspymaster does
Doug: Thanks for the info, much appreciated. Abir On Jul 16, 11:50 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Abir,By default, accounts are limited to 250 direct messages a day. Whitelisted accounts are able to make 10K direct messages a day. Design for these constraints and ensure notifications are opt-in, and we are happy to support your app. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Abir abstar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Guys: We are creating a game on Twitter. Can people tell me about the # of direct messages that you are allowed to send, is it 500? How does @playspymaster do it though since they say http://playspymaster.com/notifications they direct message people a lot. How can we create a good game, yet stay compliant with Twitter and keep them happy...thoughts? thanks
[twitter-dev] Direct Message Limit for a Game we are creating what playspymaster does
Hey Guys: We are creating a game on Twitter. Can people tell me about the # of direct messages that you are allowed to send, is it 500? How does @playspymaster do it though since they say http://playspymaster.com/notifications they direct message people a lot. How can we create a good game, yet stay compliant with Twitter and keep them happy...thoughts? thanks
[twitter-dev] Re: API Developers Alliance
Peter: In my experience, the folks @Twitter have been extremely responsive both on this forum+via email, and I thought this group was supposed to be doing that? Abir On Jul 16, 3:36 pm, Joel Strellner j...@twitturly.com wrote: Why can't we keep using this list for that purpose? It has worked well so far. -Joel From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Denton Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:34 PM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: API Developers Alliance Yes, agree with you 100%. I hope my mail did not come across overly Orwellian. Twitter is awesome and I have never experienced as warm a relationship with any large entity as with twitter. My intentions are to provide a place for API developers to discuss long term goals, concerns, as an entity of the twitter medium. Being able to express needs/fears to twitter in an organized manner will help everyone involved and reduce friction and increase transparency. On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Joel Strellner j...@twitturly.com wrote: Not sure that there needs to be formal alliance, but a working group that has the ear of twitter and can make sure needs are being met from both the developers and Twitters perspective would be good. On that same note though, I feel that twitter has done a pretty good job with this balance so far, and I do not feel that they'd do anything to hinder developers. As much as twitter is about being a communications tool, it is also a platform. I think they realizes this, and hindering the developers kills the platform. So, while an alliance might be helpful, personally, I also do not see it changing anything much. -Joel From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Denton Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:35 PM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] API Developers Alliance There is a lot of ambiguity up in the air, about api devs (third party) and the future of the api and twitter. Apps are a huge growth vehicle and a very significant piece of the future, getting the Twitter medium a global behavior. I believe there should be a formal alliance of third party developers to ensure that Apps have rights. The ambiguity around down the road, if and when scenarios, leave many investors weary, teams unformed, and products unbuilt because at the end of the day, people have to consider a massive acquisition or change where suddenly apps are crushed by the parent. Twitter is not facebook and potential for sustainable/profitable products and services around this medium are real. If you don't agree, that's fine. I am seeking those who believe this and want to address this. This is not meant to be a big, serious thing. This is meant to be an action item to those who want a developer bill of rights to happen, with input/voice from an organized approach, and want to create some level of insurance, to go out to investors/partners with an approach. If anyone would like to discuss this, please let me know off the list. I am not trying to irritate people, just gauge people's interest. Regards Peter -- Peter M. Dentonwww.twibs.com i...@twibs.com Twibs makes Top 20 apps on Twitter -http://tinyurl.com/bopu6c
