[twitter-dev] Protect/Unprotect accounts using Twitter API
Hi everyone, Is there any technical way to protect/unprotect accounts using an API call? Or I have to rely on POSTing to Twitter's setting page? I want to put a checkbox in a client to make a single tweet public, by unprotecting the account for a while. Thanks! -- Slds, Gonzalo. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Protect/Unprotect accounts using Twitter API
Hi Taylor, Thanks for you fast and complete answer. There is no way to set the protected state of a single tweet. Toggling between the two account-level states effects all tweets issued by that author and changing it for the purposes of a single tweet is inadvisable. I would recommend that you dismiss the idea of manipulating a dynamic protected/unprotected state and pursue an alternative. I have to disagree with this paragraph. As you've said, the privacy changes affects all tweets stored in an account, but, if you generate a tweet with an unprotected account, it's indexed into the public search, and it's added to the mentions timeline of a mentioned user that is not following the protected account. That's why I want to toggle this state. In order to let an user to participate in public hashtags, or answer/mention an user that is not following him. Anyway, if there's any other method to do that, please point me and I'll be happy to do a research about it :-) Have a nice day! -- Slds, Gonzalo. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Gonzalo, There's no way to toggle between protected and unprotected account states via the API -- the only valid way to change the setting is for the user to do it of their own volition using a web browser while logged in to Twitter -- any automation of the submission of that toggle state by POSTing to the page outside of the standard user-browser narrative would be very frowned upon. There is no way to set the protected state of a single tweet. Toggling between the two account-level states effects all tweets issued by that author and changing it for the purposes of a single tweet is inadvisable. I would recommend that you dismiss the idea of manipulating a dynamic protected/unprotected state and pursue an alternative. @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Gonzalo Larralde gonzalolarra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Is there any technical way to protect/unprotect accounts using an API call? Or I have to rely on POSTing to Twitter's setting page? I want to put a checkbox in a client to make a single tweet public, by unprotecting the account for a while. Thanks! -- Slds, Gonzalo. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Protect/Unprotect accounts using Twitter API
When the account is toggled to public, all the tweets are visible to anyone, and can be indexed by any service. But they're not added to twitter's search index. Only the tweets made with the account configured as public are indexed by twitter search. Is the same for mentions. So, if you change the state of the account tu publish one tweet, in the time frame where the account is public, anyone can see your TL. The ideal solution could be a flag at the moment of the status creation, to override the account protection at the moment that Twitter decides if this tweet should be sent or not to the public index. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Damon Parker cartmet...@gmail.com wrote: As an aside to this thread... In regards to changing the status of an account from public to private or vice versa, does this only affect the tweets coming after the change or does it change the whole user's timeline past to present? Similarly if an account was private and is toggled to public, do all of the previously private tweets all of a sudden become public or just those starting after the toggle. Similarly if an account is public and toggled to private. thanks -- damonp On Monday, May 16, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Taylor Singletary wrote: There is no way to set the protected state of a single tweet. Toggling between the two account-level states effects all tweets issued by that author and changing it for the purposes of a single tweet is inadvisable. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: twitter app to be used at a kiosk (aka public computer)
If you have control of the browser used to show the login page, maybe you can manually reset the cookies of the entire browser when the user finished the interaction. You can try making a plugin, or even a greasemonkey script could help. Or maybe you can apply for XAuth if it is an application and not a webpage. This will let you handle authentication as you want. -- Gonzalo. On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Chris ch...@deliens.be wrote: Thanks for your reply Abraham. Unfortunately, that is not an option in my case. I remember running into the same troubles last year with Facebook, but there was a solution: we can call a logout URL on facebook.com with a security token and an URL to redirect to as a querystring parameters. I wish there was the same at Twitter! On Mar 8, 1:10 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: The best work around I currently know of is after users logout of your site to display a prompt reminding them to logout of twitter.com too. Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | abrah.am http://abrah.amJust launched from Answerly http://answerly.com: InboxQhttp://inboxq.comfor Chrome @abraham https://twitter.com/abraham | github.com/abraham | blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 14:11, Chris ch...@deliens.be wrote: Hi, We are currently developing a twitter app to allow people to tweet what they experienced at a fair, from a public computer. everything works fine except that users stays logged in when using the oauth/authenticate or oauth/authorize mehods. appending the force_login=true parameter to the oauth/authenticate actually forces the login screen to display (that's kind of a fix for now...), but this is a security risk, as the previous user is still logged in ;) I found that an issue (#1453 - http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1453) was opened over a year ago states this, but no updates... does anyone know a way to logout a user programmatically or at least prevent twitter.com for storing its authentication cookies after a successful login? thx! -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Maximum username length
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Nick Telford nick.telf...@tweetmeme.com wrote: Hi everyone, Can we get a clarification on the maximum length of a username? The twitter.com frontend refuses to accept anything over 15 characters, and I'm fairly sure 15 characters is mentioned elsewhere in some documentation. However, we're seeing an increasing number of users who have (somehow) managed to register with a longer username: http://twitter.com/toasteroverheated http://twitter.com/veganstraightedge http://twitter.com/Laura_Villas_Boas http://twitter.com/colepatrickturner The number of user's that have managed to generate usernames over 15 characters in length is increasing, although not by a lot. It wouldn't surprise me if there are 100 users affected. A clarification on the absolute limit would be useful for us to determine how best to optimise our storage of usernames. I think it's really important get an specific definition on which usernames we may expect historically, and what's the actual username criteria. Can any twitter dev explain how we may validate usernames and what's the best way to store them into a db? Thanks! -- Slds, Gonzalo. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Firehose bandwidth requirements
Hi! I'm trying to find an estimation/report of the bandwidth requirements to download the firehose stream. Anyone here can share this information? Thanks! Gonzalo.
[twitter-dev] Re: Stop playing around with Source parameters
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:17 AM, TCI ticoconid...@gmail.com wrote: Recently you added nofollow's, and now you moved the nofollow after the href. Some of us filter these out and you changing them is only making it more complicated. Please make up your mind and stop changing these... a href=http://fun140.com/;Fun140/a a rel=nofollow href=http://fun140.com/;Fun140/a a href=http://fun140.com/; rel=nofollowFun140/a Or, maybe, you can try using this regex: /a.*? href=(.*?).*?(.*?)\/a/ and let them do whatever they want. -- Gonzalo. PS: My english sucks, sorry about that.
[twitter-dev] Re: Stop playing around with Source parameters
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 5:18 AM, PJBpjbmancun...@gmail.com wrote:
Hehehe... your regex isn't much better!
/a\s+(.*?\s+)?href=[']?(.+?)[']?(\s+.*?)?(.+?)\/a/is
On Aug 21, 9:54 pm, Gonzalo Larralde gonzalolarra...@gmail.com
wrote:
Or, maybe, you can try using this regex:
/a.*? href=(.*?).*?(.*?)\/a/
and let them do whatever they want.
KISS! You'll *never* get an area href= in that field :)
rant
{{{
/a\s+(.*?\s+)?href=[']?(.+?)[']?(\s+.*?)?(.+?)\/a\s*/is
}}}
Oh, look, now mine is better than yours!
Jury, jury, come here now please! Which one is better? (?)
/rant
:P
--
Gonzalo.
PS: My english sucks, sorry about that.
[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Dean Collinsd...@cognation.net wrote: Any other developer being sued by Twitter today? Basically it's a WINDOWS XP .net application, if you have a mac and you stupidly purchase this and it doesn't workgo bitch to Steve Jobs. [0] If you buy this and it doesn't do what you thought it was supposed togo bitch to your mother. [0] I hope they win. ¬¬ [0] http://www.mytwitterbutler.com/ @ About Me
