[twitter-dev] Re: historic trend data > 10 days old
Thanks Taylor et al. for the responses. If there's a chance that I can get a copy of this data (any format/type would be awesome) for a project I'm working on, I'd love to hear from you ;) Right now, I've daily trend data (20 top trends for each hour of the day) from December 2008 to present day, but it is potted due to a bug in a script that was sucking it down. I'm more than happy to give any developer a copy of what I have if it might help others, just drop me a line. I can see that if Twitter are building analytics tools that maybe releasing this data might cause some internal debate, but I'm happy to discuss my project ideas with the Twitter folk if it'll help my request of course. Thanks again, James On Nov 22, 8:37 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" wrote: > I've seen a few hints of the analytics product and know a fair number > of people who do that sort of thing for a living. I think they're > *not* obsessed with the past at all - their wet dream is very much > like what Wieden and Kennedy and a whole host of partners did this > summer in real time with Old Spice. > > That's the future of Twitter / social media / advertising: teams of > creative, legal, copy writers, production and analytics people huddled > around control panels, analytics dashboards, video studios, phone > banks, etc. It's a bit like mission control for a shuttle launch - > only if something goes wrong do people look at the past. And mobile / > iPad / "places" is going to make it even more real-time. > -- > M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos > > Quoting Adam Green <140...@gmail.com>: > > > > > Yes, but advertisers and sales people are obsessed with the past, and > > they provide the dollars that will make Twitter grow. We'll see where > > this leads Twitter. I bet they follow the money. Google did, and it > > worked out OK. :) > > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Taylor Singletary > > wrote: > >> I can't really speak much on the topic of the analytics tool. I can say > >> that > >> you'll find most everything in Twitter is focused on real-time -- whether > >> it's search results, the tweets available for a given user timeline, or the > >> general structure and emphasis presented by our UI. There's not much on > >> Twitter that allows one to dwell on the past. > >> Taylor > > >> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Adam Green <140...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> Taylor, there has been much talk lately about the new Twitter > >>> Analytics tool that would deliver historical data. Am I correct in > >>> assuming that this is built on an internal API, and that this API will > >>> be surfaced eventually for use by us developers? > > >>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Taylor Singletary > >>> wrote: > >>> > Hi James, > >>> > You'll find that, in most cases, the data available for a trend is > >>> > limited > >>> > by the amount of data provided by the Search API. While this goes back > >>> > around 10 days currently, there have been times when less was available. > >>> > Some day we hope to provide more historical data. > >>> > Taylor > > >>> > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:24 PM, James Chivers > >>> > wrote: > > >>> >> I'm trying to dig out some hourly trend data from the Twitter API > >>> >> using the trends/daily call with the associated date that I'm looking > >>> >> for, but I'm not able to go back in time more than ~10 days. > > >>> >> Is there any way that I'm able to grab the hourly trend data given a > >>> >> date > 10 days from the API? > > >>> >> Thanks in advance, > > >>> >> James > > >>> >> -- > >>> >> 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: > >>> >
[twitter-dev] historic trend data > 10 days old
I'm trying to dig out some hourly trend data from the Twitter API using the trends/daily call with the associated date that I'm looking for, but I'm not able to go back in time more than ~10 days. Is there any way that I'm able to grab the hourly trend data given a date > 10 days from the API? Thanks in advance, James -- 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: securing a deleted username?
Just thought I'd update this thread in case other developers are looking to get deleted usernames released for their apps too. Twitter got around to answering my support request however they are not going to release the deleted username to me, and state: "Due to high ticket volume, Twitter Support is no longer releasing inactive user names unless in cases of trademark or copyright violation. We are working on releasing all inactive user names in the future, however, we will no longer manually release them on an individual basis." It's a shame, as the username was perfect for an application I'm developing, however I've had to register something else instead now which isn't as sexy, but it'll do. I guess if/when Twitter release all inactive userames at some point, I might have another chance.
Re: rate limit question
Hi Ruth, I recently received a whitelisting, but I supplied my server IPs and so the folks at Twitter opened up their acl rate limits based on those I believe (and not account name). Alex (Twitter API Lead) answered a similar question recently: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/a49bb0385c8e18f/2c4c8329d7b788e9 So, it appears that should you have been approved, you should not be limited from your server IP(s). However, if you didn't supply any IP range info in your original request, I'm not sure Twitter have an 'account-only' rate limit (or whether they guessed your IP from recent connections, etc.). When you hit http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml from your server, are you seeing the 'hourly-limit' decrement? Cheers, James On Jan 19, 10:46 am, Ruth wrote: > Hi, > I have received a whitelisting approval for Ruth_Z a few weeks ago, > and still getting rate limit errors. I know that I'm authenticating > fine. Is the fact that i didn't provide an IP address in my > whitelisting request can cause this problem. > > Thanks > Ruth
Re: securing a deleted username?
Ha! Thanks, that seemed to work :) I'm so used to substituting 'username' for my own username, or the username in question pertaining to whatever current context that I assumed I had to email the username I was after and not, literally as Stuart says, 'username'. Cheers! On Jan 18, 1:47 am, Stuart wrote: > 2009/1/17 James Chivers : > > > > > Thank you both for your uber rapid responses; much appreciated. > > > I've dropped an email to the usernameiwouldl...@twitter.com but > > unfortunately I got a 550 back. > > > It looks like twitter.com is using Google apps for their email, and so > > they might not have set up a catchall mechanism to process invalid > > email addresses. Maybe in the past they were using a different mta and > > thus had a different setup (to support such emails), but it doesn't > > look like it now. > > You need to email usern...@twitter.com literally, not usernameyouwouldl...@. > > -Stuart > > --http://stut.net/
Re: Read My Tweets launch imminent -- last minute advice?
Ah possibly. I think that people kinda know what a banner or link exchange is. Maybe you could re-phrase it to 'tweet exchange' or something? i.e. put it into some context of your platform being a Twitter app, etc. On Jan 17, 11:35 pm, "Amir Michail" wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:28 PM, James Chivers wrote: > > > Hey Amir, > > > As Joe Random internet user, it's not overly clear what your app does > > or how it works (plus any benefits it'll give me as a user) - maybe > > worth dropping some intro blurbage on the frontpage? > > Is everyone familiar with a banner exchange? Maybe I can use that as > a starting point for an explanation? > > Amir > > > > > > > I just launched a very basic app but spent some time working out an > > intro that I hope explains the service, however I appreciate that your > > app is a little more complex than my bot :) > > > Good luck with the launch! > > > James > >http://yarimashita.com > > > On Jan 17, 7:58 pm, Christian Heilmann > > wrote: > >> Amir Michail wrote: > >> > Hi, > > >> > I will probably launch Read My Tweets on Monday. Anything I should > >> > improve before then? > > >> >http://www.readmytweets.com > > >> > Amir > > >> Make the signup process much bigger. > > >> 1) Follow readmytweets to get your password > > >> ... > > --http://readmytweets.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp://twitter.com/amichail
Re: securing a deleted username?
Thank you both for your uber rapid responses; much appreciated. I've dropped an email to the usernameiwouldl...@twitter.com but unfortunately I got a 550 back. It looks like twitter.com is using Google apps for their email, and so they might not have set up a catchall mechanism to process invalid email addresses. Maybe in the past they were using a different mta and thus had a different setup (to support such emails), but it doesn't look like it now. Thanks again, James
securing a deleted username?
Hi, I'm developing an app for twitter and have found the perfect username only it has already been taken, and subsequently deleted (I get "That page doesn't exist!" 404). I raised a support request 10 days ago with twitter requesting to know whether I could get the deleted name now, or to be notified as to when I could re-register it, but haven't heard anything yet. As fellow developers, I wondered whether anyone else has had any experience with resurrecting a deleted username for their app and/or what I could do to try and expedite my request (without upsetting the twitter support team)? Cheers, James
Re: Read My Tweets launch imminent -- last minute advice?
Hey Amir, As Joe Random internet user, it's not overly clear what your app does or how it works (plus any benefits it'll give me as a user) - maybe worth dropping some intro blurbage on the frontpage? I just launched a very basic app but spent some time working out an intro that I hope explains the service, however I appreciate that your app is a little more complex than my bot :) Good luck with the launch! James http://yarimashita.com On Jan 17, 7:58 pm, Christian Heilmann wrote: > Amir Michail wrote: > > Hi, > > > I will probably launch Read My Tweets on Monday. Anything I should > > improve before then? > > >http://www.readmytweets.com > > > Amir > > Make the signup process much bigger. > > 1) Follow readmytweets to get your password > > ...
