[twitter-dev] Re: Automated User Registration
Arvind, No this is not available. Users must register through the Web interface. Thanks, Doug Williams @dougw (Sent from my mobile device) -Original Message- From: Arvind R mrarvin...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:36:48 To: Twitter Development Talktwitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Automated User Registration Hello, IWe are planning a group festival in our organisation, centered arounf tech solutions. To allow users to post comments, we plan to use twitter and broadcast and display the live commentaries. To enable this, we want to automate user registration. Is there any function within the Twitter API to do this. Thanks in Advance, ArvindR
[twitter-dev] Re: auto follow using twitter api
iilv, Another way to auto-follow is to use the Social Graph API methods. For instance you could set up a script to run periodically that does the following: 1) download all of a user's friends' ID's through the friends/ids method and store them in a data structure 2) download all of the user's followers' IDs through the followers/ids method and store them in the data structure 3) perform a diff on these two data structures, finding all follower ids not currently in the friend id list. 4) follow the follower ids from step 3 with the friendships/create method This circumvents the parsing of new follower emails. The trade off is that it is not real-time since the script has to be run at periodic intervals. Hope that helps. Doug Williams @dougw do...@igudo.com On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:47 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, you can't auto-follow when someone sends you a DM, because you have to ALREADY be following someone in order to get a DM. You can auto-follow when someone starts to follow you. If you are familiar with procmail, you can auto-follow using the recipe below. (If you are not familiar with procmail, please delete and ignore. It's beyond my scope to teach and not every mail server supports it.) :0ci * ^X-Twitteremailtype: is_following * ^From: @postmaster\.twitter\.com * ^Subject: .* is now following you on Twitter! * ^X-Twittersenderscreenname: \/[^ ]+ | curl --netrc -s \ --data POST \ http://twitter.com/friendships/create/$MATCH.xml; /dev/null Note that you MUST have your twitter credentials stored in ~/.netrc for this to work in a format like this: machine twitter.com login YourTwitternameHere password SeKrEt Also note that this doesn't do any error-checking to make sure that the auto-follow has worked. FWIW TjL -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Hi all, Thanks for your responses. All the information provided this far is being tracked and recorded at: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Developers. It will be linked to the front page shortly. I'll monitor this thread and keep any changes/additions you make in sync. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks, @dougw do...@igudo.com On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Burhan TANWEER btanw...@gmail.com wrote: My contact information Explore WorldWideWeb Detroit, Michigan @explorewww expl...@explorewww.com http://explorewww.com On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Dave Briccetti da...@davebsoft.comwrote: Dave Briccetti Lafayette, California @dcbriccetti da...@davebsoft.com http://davebsoft.com Thanks! -- Sincerely, Burhan Tanweer Founder www.CorrectSearch.com Phone: 877-807-1818 supp...@correctsearch.com -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Updated. Sorry for the double post earlier! @dougw do...@igudo.com On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: Seems to be the done thing... @stut 3ft9 (http://3ft9.com/) cont...@3ft9.com I developed TwitApps.com, Tweetmeme.com and TwitOrFit.com. Mainly but not limited to PHP. -Stuart 2009/2/24 Doug Williams do...@igudo.com Hi all, Thanks for your responses. All the information provided this far is being tracked and recorded at: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Developers. It will be linked to the front page shortly. I'll monitor this thread and keep any changes/additions you make in sync. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks, @dougw do...@igudo.com On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Burhan TANWEER btanw...@gmail.comwrote: My contact information Explore WorldWideWeb Detroit, Michigan @explorewww expl...@explorewww.com http://explorewww.com On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Dave Briccetti da...@davebsoft.comwrote: Dave Briccetti Lafayette, California @dcbriccetti da...@davebsoft.com http://davebsoft.com Thanks! -- Sincerely, Burhan Tanweer Founder www.CorrectSearch.com Phone: 877-807-1818 supp...@correctsearch.com -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Hi all, Thanks for your responses. All the information provided this far is being tracked and recorded at: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Developers. It will be linked to the front page shortly. I'll monitor this thread and keep any changes/additions you make in sync. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks, @dougw do...@igudo.com On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Burhan TANWEER btanw...@gmail.com wrote: My contact information Explore WorldWideWeb Detroit, Michigan @explorewww expl...@explorewww.com http://explorewww.com On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Dave Briccetti da...@davebsoft.comwrote: Dave Briccetti Lafayette, California @dcbriccetti da...@davebsoft.com http://davebsoft.com Thanks! -- Sincerely, Burhan Tanweer Founder www.CorrectSearch.com Phone: 877-807-1818 supp...@correctsearch.com -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Result count with search api
Louis, That is not currently supported. @dougw On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:51 AM, houdelou houde...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible to get the number of search results from the search api? I don't see it in the atom/xml result. Thanks Louis -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com
[twitter-dev] Re: TwitReport and my Intro to Twitter on the commandline scripts
Great body of work here TjL, thanks for sharing. Good examples for people wanting to get up and running with the API. @dougw On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:00 AM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: What is a TwitReport? Well, you know the new follower emails that you get? They aren't very useful, are they? I mean it's nice to know that you've got a new follower, but it doesn't tell you anything about them. So what do you do? You could click on the page and see if they are someone you want to follow but -- Oops, look, they have their updates protected. Or all they post is links to their website about how to profit from the new social media scene. Etc. Wouldn't it be nice to get a quick look at their 'stats'? How many followers / friends / posts they have? When did they join Twitter? On average, how often do they post? How many of those posts, on average, are @replies? Did they post anything for their Bio, Location, or Website? Can I see their last 20 updates so I can see if they seem interesting? 1) Who else do they follow who I follow? 2) Who else follows them who I follow? 3) Who else follows both me and this new person? If they look like a spammer, how about showing me the Block URL? For that matter, why not show me their Twitter avatar/icon/picture, I might not recognize their name, but I might recognize their picture. Well, that's what TwitReport tells you, all right in your email, so you can look them over at your leisure, even on the go (the emails are formatted to work well on an iPhone [including the picture] and should work on other mobile devices as well). (You can find out more including how to use it at http://tr.im/twitreport and/or follow @twitreport at http://twitter.com/twitreport ) That's the What. The How is all done on the commandline, using standard Unix tools: curl, sed, grep, etc. In fact I've amassed a little collection of scripts designed to answer the question How to do basic things on Twitter via the commandline. What to see everyone who follows you who you don't follow? What to see everyone who you follow who doesn't follow you? Want to balance your followers, that is, follow everyone who is following you and unfollow everyone who isn't? Want to be able to favorite the last update that someone posted just by using their name? [*] I coded up a bunch of these, including some with no real practical use (Want to fav the last 20 posts that someone made?), some that can be easily re-used (validate that a given input is a real twitter user, convert a Twitter ID to a Twitter Name), along with the script that powers twitreport, and put them all up here http://twitreport.tntluoma.com/ in the hopes that they might be of some use to someone FWIW TjL [*] why? two reasons: 1) Twitterrific pops up, I can cmd+tab to Terminal and fav it on the commandline. NO MOUSE NEEDED. Also, 2) I can KNOW that it went through. My satellite connection is kinda flaky sometimes, so my script will read back the tweet that I fav'd to make sure that it was the right one and to confirm that it went through -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Rate limit exceeded for whitelisted app after inactivity.
CrewXp, Can you run a request to the rate limit status method and share with us what it returns? http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#ratelimitstatus For example, here's my waitlisted account: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash remaining-hits type=integer19995/remaining-hits hourly-limit type=integer2/hourly-limit reset-time type=datetime2009-02-21T18:00:41+00:00/reset-time reset-time-in-seconds type=integer1235239241/reset-time-in-seconds /hash As you can see, I have an hourly limit of 2 calls. All whitelisted accounts should see this, too. @dougw On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote: Hey, we requested to be whitelisted about a month or two ago and it seemed like everything worked fine after we were added, but school ended for the semester here at our university, so the program's use stopped. School is back in session, so we have faculty using the program again, and are starting to see the Rate limit exceeded for our app. Is there a period where we are removed from the whitelist if the application isn't in use for a while? In case you missed it the max number of requests for any app is now 20k an hour. So maybe that's your issue? Only if he is whitelisted, and it doesn't sound like the OP knows for sure. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- J. K. Galbraith - -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Include $ as a searchable character
Jonathan, I believe Chad wants just the dollar sign. Searching on just $ will return an error, you must enter a query. And searching on $AAPL is really searched as AAPL as the dollar sign is stripped. I assume this is easy to enable, though technically challenging (to scale) as it requires an index on a single character. You'll notice searches for '@' and '#' return similar errors as they are not independently indexed either. @dougw (Sent from my mobile device) -Original Message- From: Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:08:31 To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Include $ as a searchable character It is already: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%24AAPL On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be possible to include $ as a searchable character, much like # is for hashtags? This would be handy for following stock related tweets where people conventionally prepend ticker symbols with $ such as $GOOG or $AAPL. I'm sure the StockTwits devs would dig it also (I am not affiliated with them). -Chad -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development support Twitter Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Providing a nice place to work in the heart of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Helping people make a difference with technology - http://inuda.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/madmotive
