[twitter-dev] Re: Still experiencing Streaming API connection issues

[Jonathan Strauss]

Or, someone mistakenly reset our password around the same time the
Streaming API went down :-/

Basic auth FTW!

Thanks for the help Nick and sorry for crying wolf.

On Jul 7, 5:39 pm, Nicholas Chase  wrote:
> Check your Access Tokens; mine have been spontaneously changing for weeks.
>
>   Nick
>
> On 7/7/2011 8:25 PM, Jonathan Strauss wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hey guys,
>
> > Perhttp://twitter.com/#!/twitterapi/status/89088788592214016, it
> > sounds like Streaming API issues are resolved. But our connection
> > attempts are still being rejected as they have been since a couple
> > hours ago with the following response:
>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Error 401 UNAUTHORIZED
> > 
> > 
> > HTTP ERROR: 401
> > Problem accessing /1/statuses/filter.json. Reason:
> >      UNAUTHORIZED
> > Powered by Jetty://
>
> > Nothing has changed on our side. So are our credentials somehow
> > invalid now or are there still general issues?
>
> > Thanks,
> > -jonathan

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[twitter-dev] Still experiencing Streaming API connection issues

[Jonathan Strauss]

Hey guys,

Per http://twitter.com/#!/twitterapi/status/89088788592214016, it
sounds like Streaming API issues are resolved. But our connection
attempts are still being rejected as they have been since a couple
hours ago with the following response:




Error 401 UNAUTHORIZED


HTTP ERROR: 401
Problem accessing /1/statuses/filter.json. Reason:
UNAUTHORIZED
Powered by Jetty://

Nothing has changed on our side. So are our credentials somehow
invalid now or are there still general issues?

Thanks,
-jonathan

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[twitter-dev] follow JS Event + user Web Intent

[Jonathan Strauss]

Congrats on the launch of JS Events, they make Web Intents that much more 
powerful!

I managed to get follow event tracking working fine with the new Follow Button. 
But when I try to implement my own custom button UI using the user Web Intent 
(e.g. http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=jhstrauss), the follow event 
doesn't seem to work the same.

Is this a known issue or is there a different approach for tracking JS Events 
from Web Intents rather than from Twitter-hosted buttons?

Thanks,
-jonathan

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[twitter-dev] Re: Auto Populating Tweets Broken?

[Jonathan Strauss]

Thanks for the clarification and bug link Matt!

I understand how big of a pain supporting this legacy method must be,
especially given the fundamental changes in #newtwitter. I just wanted
to emphasize how many sites still use this and probably aren't in a
position to easily figure out how to fix it.

Thanks,
-jonathan

On May 18, 5:48 pm, Matt Harris  wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> This is being investigated by our engineers at the moment. We'll be posting
> updates to this ticket on our issue tracker:
>    http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1650
>
> Best,
> @themattharris
> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Jonathan Strauss  wrote:
> > I'm totally with you guys on the value of switching to web intents,
> > and we recommend all our customers doing new implementations use them.
> > However, there are just too many legacy implementations against the
> > "old hack", as Taylor deemed it, for you to expect everyone to switch
> > over in such a timeframe. For a very long time the /?status= method
> > was the only way to tweet from a website and web intents are only a
> > few months old, so I hope you guys don't diminish the priority of
> > fixing this bug just because you want to force everyone to the new way
> > of doing things.
>
> > -jonathan
>
> > On May 18, 7:50 am, Taylor Singletary 
> > wrote:
> > > Hi Omar,
>
> > > Sorry for the confusion -- we recommend Web Intents as we've developed
> > the
> > > Tweet Intent specifically for this purpose -- let us know what tweaks you
> > > think the display needs to "look good" in a full browser tab. Intents are
> > > optimized to load quickly and service the user's intent as efficiently as
> > > possible -- the old way requires a more significant load time and invites
> > > the user to engage in all kinds of other fun Twitter activity aside from
> > > tweeting -- maybe they'll even forget why you sent them there in the
> > first
> > > place.
>
> > > This is a bug and while I don't have an ETA on when it will be fixed, it
> > was
> > > not intentional and this old hack has not been deprecated.
>
> > > @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary
>
> > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:34 PM, omegdadi  wrote:
> > > > Hey There,
>
> > > > +1. This issue is affecting all of our products at the moment. I can't
> > > > find any notification anywhere about this being deprecated today.
> > > > Please restore this functionality. And allow us some time to migrate
> > > > w/ a date in mind. If it's no longer going to be supported, we need to
> > > > know sooner as we have clients waiting for an answer at the moment. We
> > > > would like to use intents, but we need a full page to send the user to
> > > > since we can't always open a popup window (ie from Flash.) and that
> > > > page doesn't look good in a full browser tab.
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Omar
>
> > > > On May 17, 3:05 pm, Arnaud Meunier  wrote:
> > > > > Hey Yahel,
>
> > > > > Meet Web Intents:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents(takealook on
> > the
> > > > > "intent/tweet" intent). It really is super easy to implement. For
> > > > example:http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=foobar
>
> > > > > Arnaud / @rno <http://twitter.com/rno>
>
> > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Yahel Carmon 
> > wrote:
> > > > > > Hey,
>
> > > > > > We've just noticed that auto-populating tweets using
> > > > > >http://twitter.com/home/?status=foobarnolongerworks.
>
> > > > > > Has this feature been totally removed, or is this a temporary
> > glitch?
> > > > > > (Perversely,http://twitter.com/?status=foobarworks, but that was
> > the
> > > > > > older method that broke last year and we were told to add /home to
> > fix
> > > > it.)
>
> > > > > > I know we're supposed to move to the official Tweet button, but we
> > have
> > > > a
> > > > > > very large scale CRM that still relies on the old method.
>
> > > > > > Please let me know ASAP, as we have a lot of broken tweet links in
> > the
> > > > > > wild.
>
> > > > > > Thanks,
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Auto Populating Tweets Broken?

[Jonathan Strauss]

I'm totally with you guys on the value of switching to web intents,
and we recommend all our customers doing new implementations use them.
However, there are just too many legacy implementations against the
"old hack", as Taylor deemed it, for you to expect everyone to switch
over in such a timeframe. For a very long time the /?status= method
was the only way to tweet from a website and web intents are only a
few months old, so I hope you guys don't diminish the priority of
fixing this bug just because you want to force everyone to the new way
of doing things.

-jonathan

On May 18, 7:50 am, Taylor Singletary 
wrote:
> Hi Omar,
>
> Sorry for the confusion -- we recommend Web Intents as we've developed the
> Tweet Intent specifically for this purpose -- let us know what tweaks you
> think the display needs to "look good" in a full browser tab. Intents are
> optimized to load quickly and service the user's intent as efficiently as
> possible -- the old way requires a more significant load time and invites
> the user to engage in all kinds of other fun Twitter activity aside from
> tweeting -- maybe they'll even forget why you sent them there in the first
> place.
>
> This is a bug and while I don't have an ETA on when it will be fixed, it was
> not intentional and this old hack has not been deprecated.
>
> @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:34 PM, omegdadi  wrote:
> > Hey There,
>
> > +1. This issue is affecting all of our products at the moment. I can't
> > find any notification anywhere about this being deprecated today.
> > Please restore this functionality. And allow us some time to migrate
> > w/ a date in mind. If it's no longer going to be supported, we need to
> > know sooner as we have clients waiting for an answer at the moment. We
> > would like to use intents, but we need a full page to send the user to
> > since we can't always open a popup window (ie from Flash.) and that
> > page doesn't look good in a full browser tab.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Omar
>
> > On May 17, 3:05 pm, Arnaud Meunier  wrote:
> > > Hey Yahel,
>
> > > Meet Web Intents:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents(takea look on the
> > > "intent/tweet" intent). It really is super easy to implement. For
> > example:http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=foobar
>
> > > Arnaud / @rno <http://twitter.com/rno>
>
> > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Yahel Carmon  wrote:
> > > > Hey,
>
> > > > We've just noticed that auto-populating tweets using
> > > >http://twitter.com/home/?status=foobarnolonger works.
>
> > > > Has this feature been totally removed, or is this a temporary glitch?
> > > > (Perversely,http://twitter.com/?status=foobarworks, but that was the
> > > > older method that broke last year and we were told to add /home to fix
> > it.)
>
> > > > I know we're supposed to move to the official Tweet button, but we have
> > a
> > > > very large scale CRM that still relies on the old method.
>
> > > > Please let me know ASAP, as we have a lot of broken tweet links in the
> > > > wild.
>
> > > > Thanks,
>
> > > > Yahel
>
> > > > --
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> > > > (917) 445-3498
> > > > Twitter:http://twitter.com/yahelc
> > > > Facebook:http://facebook.com/yahel
> > > > LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/yahelc
>
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[twitter-dev] Re: Unwanted Link Shortening with t.co

[Jonathan Strauss]

Twitter is just wrapping your link in t.co. When it gets displayed in
Twitter, it will show the link on your domain as you passed it in.

On May 18, 12:35 pm, Mo  wrote:
> Since switching to the new "Intents" linking, by URLs are being
> shortened. I have a registered Twitter application, and a relatively
> short URL already (http://TagsBy.me).
>
> I'd like to continue using my own URLs, even if it means I have to
> build a shortener with an even shorter domain. However, I'd like to
> know what the rules/guidelines are that Twitter uses for overriding
> links, since there are many  exceptions that I see in my Twitter
> stream.

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[twitter-dev] Re: Tweet Button Error

[Jonathan Strauss]

+1

On Mar 3, 5:01 pm, Tom Mc  wrote:
> I've noticed the same thing, and if I've got firebug open, I see an
> error referring to jQuery not being defined.
>
> On Mar 3, 9:54 am, Jerry Thompson  wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Just noticed that the Twitter's Tweet button which opens up a popup
> > window for sharing, upon posting to Twitter, there's a link to "Return
> > to X site".  Clicking this link will open the originating site within
> > the JS popup.  Shouldn't it simply just close the popup window as the
> > user is already on the originating site?

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[twitter-dev] Re: custom share button and following - works for one twitter user but not for another

[Jonathan Strauss]

Are you already following the second Twitter account (i.e.
schoolsvhunger) from your logged in Twitter user? The suggestions will
only show you up to 2 Twitter users you don't currently follow, which
is why you have the option to specify up to 7 (1 via and up to 6
related).

-jonathan

On Feb 22, 8:28 am, KennyB  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I share my page with the related url param as
> 'schoolsserve:Schools Fight Hunger', I am asked if I want to follow
> schoolsserve after sharing the suggested text.
>
> When I only change the related url param to be 'schoolsvhunger:Schools
> Fight Hunger' (no other changes), I am not asked if I want to follow
> schoolsvhunger after sharing the suggested text.
>
> The code I'm using is below; shown with the 'non-working'
> schoolsvhunger related param in play.
>
> Any ideas why this wouldn't work? Would it be some kind of privacy
> setting that schoolsvhunger has set?
>
> 
>                          $text = JText::_('SCHOOL PROFILE HEADER TWITTER TEXT');
>                 $related = 'schoolsvhunger:Schools Fight Hunger';
> //              $related = 'schoolsserve:Schools Fight Hunger';
>                 $twitterurl = 
> 'http://twitter.com/share?url='.rawurlencode($url).
>                         '&related='.rawurlencode($related).
>                         '&text='.rawurlencode($text);
>         ?>
>          rel="nofollow">Tweet
> 
>
> The a tag generated by the above is:
>
> http://twitter.com/share?
> url=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.schoolsfighthunger.org%2Fschool%2F2000463-
> albertville-elementary.html&related=schoolsvhunger%3ASchools
> %20Fight%20Hunger&text=My%20school%20joined%20%40schoolsvhunger
> %20to%20%23fighthunger%21%20Make%20sure%20your%20school%20is%20taking
> %20part-join%20the%20fight%21">Tweet
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Kenn

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[twitter-dev] Re: Sharing a link on Twitter via an email

[Jonathan Strauss]

Hey Lukas,

This is pretty much the exact scenario for which we designed the
awe.sm /share endpoint documented here: 
https://github.com/awesm/awesm-dev-tools/wiki/Create-API#share

awe.sm creates Twitter-friendly tracking links. But unlike
conventional URL shorteners, we create a unique tracking link for each
share action (in your case per email recipient who clicks the tweet
call-to-action) and allow you to encode metadata in that link that
doesn't necessarily need to go into the destination URL string (but
can also be dynamically inserted if you like, see
https://github.com/awesm/awesm-dev-tools/wiki/Redirection-Patterns).

For example, the following GET call loads the tweet button share
interface with a unique link tagged with the awe.sm campaign value of
CAMPAIGN and the awe.sm notes value of RECIPIENT each time you click
it:
http://api.awe.sm/url/share?v=2&key=5c8b1a212434c2153c2f2c2f2c765a36140add243bf6eae876345f8fd11045d9&channel=twitter&tool=mKU7uN&url=http://totally.awe.sm&campaign=CAMPAIGN¬es=RECIPIENT&destination=http://twitter.com/share?url=AWESM_TARGET%26text=This+link+was+created+dynamically%26via=awesm

If you're interested in chatting more about the specifics of your use-
case and how we might be able to help, drop me a line to jonathan [at]
awe.sm.

Best,
-jonathan

On Feb 23, 7:37 am, Lukas Wittenbraker 
wrote:
> The links within the email pull customer specific information from our
> database. (customer name, ID, etc) for tracking purposes on the back
> end.  This is the reason I can't pre shorten the links.  I may be up a
> creek and not able to solve this issue.  I was hoping there was some
> sort of script that could shorten the link, or divert it to a url that
> automatically shortens and posts to twitter.
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Taylor Singletary
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > I think you want to pre-shorten your links before you even put them in the
> > email you're sending out. By pre-shortening the links, they'll already be of
> > an appropriate length for sharing on Twitter. When the user clicks the link
> > from within an email, your shortening service will unroll the link and
> > redirect the user to your chosen destination, parameters intact. If you're
> > looking for a way to embed a Tweet box or something fancier, email is really
> > the wrong place for that.
> > @episod - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer Advocate
>
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:22 PM, ReapMarketing 
> > wrote:
>
> >> I am running an email campaign and my developer is having issues with
> >> getting the link to share on Twitter. The links are user specific and
> >> contain necessary scripts on the tail end that cannot be removed for
> >> campaign tracking purposes so the link ends up being over the
> >> character limit.
>
> >> Is it possible to shorten these dynamic links from the click within
> >> the email to the sharing within Twitter.  I see their are some
> >> javascript processes available, but I am limited by the fact that I am
> >> operating within the email itself so I can't apply a javascript to the
> >> header, like I could on a webpage I work in.
>
> >> If this is not clear or you think I could explain better please let me
> >> know.  Otherwise if you have any ideas I'd appreciate your
> >> recommendation.
>
> >> Thanks,
>
> >> ReapMarketing
>
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[twitter-dev] Re: Is it possible to get in_replies for status id?

[Jonathan Strauss]

>From 
>http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/cdc34ae78a2350b8:

GET /1/related_results/show/:id.{format}
Requires authentication.
If available, returns an array of replies and mentions related to the
specified Tweet. There is no guarantee there will be any replies or
mentions in the response. This method is only available to users who
have access to #newtwitter.
Example: twurl /1/related_results/show/12345678.json


On Jan 21, 5:31 pm, jparicka  wrote:
> I am using twitter python
>
> http://python-twitter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/twitter.py
>
> and it seems that one can get in_replies only for a specific user,
> using the api.GetReplies()
>
> I need to pull replies for a specific tweet, using it's status ID.
>
> Is this even possible?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jan

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[twitter-dev] Re: replies to a particular tweet?

[Jonathan Strauss]

>From 
>http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/cdc34ae78a2350b8:

GET /1/related_results/show/:id.{format}
Requires authentication.
If available, returns an array of replies and mentions related to the
specified Tweet. There is no guarantee there will be any replies or
mentions in the response. This method is only available to users who
have access to #newtwitter.
Example: twurl /1/related_results/show/12345678.json


On Jan 21, 6:49 pm, Rosie Svaskova  wrote:
> Hello. Is there a way in the Twitter API to get the replies to a
> particular tweet?
>
> From what I understood, there isn't.
>
> Not in an easy pragmatic way. There is an feature request in for it:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142
>
> There are a couple of third-party websites that provide APIs but they
> often miss statuses.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Thanks

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[twitter-dev] Re: @Anywhere follow and update events?

[Jonathan Strauss]

I have seen similar requests come up a number of times on this list
and never any response from Twitter. This is something that would make
@Anywhere much more extensible and I'd love to see it.

@themattharris or @episod, any thoughts?

-jonathan

On Dec 13, 1:39 pm, Jim Spath  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using the hovercards and T.Status.update() functionality in
> @Anywhere.
>
> I was wondering if it possible to specify event callbacks when the
> user has successfully followed or tweeted.
>
> I've looked through the documentation and searched and didn't seen
> anything, but maybe I missed something?
>
> Thanks!
> Jim

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Re: [twitter-dev] Re: ? API method to get popular hashtags

[Jonathan Reichhold]

Have you considered the trends api?  Popular hashtags for many locations are
included in the trends.  You can then use the search api to find examples of
those trends.

http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/trends
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search

Jonathan

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 5:12 PM, b3zra1y  wrote:

> Thanks for the response.
> I'll check out your code.
>
> I should have clarified a bit more.
> I'm looking for the most popular hashtags within the Twitter DB.
> I would then like to be able to obtain a reference to the tweets that
> use these popular hashtags.
> Ideally, I would be able to obtain the text of each of those tweets,
> but I'm suspecting that this would far outweigh the Twitter API limit
> will.
>
> On Nov 14, 4:21 pm, Adam Green <140...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are you looking for the most popular hashtags out of all tweets or
> > within a set of tweets about a specific subject? If it is the later,
> > what I do is use the streaming API to collect all tweets for certain
> > keywords, parse out the hashtags within them, and store them in a
> > MySQL database. Then I can use straight-forward SQL commands to find
> > the most frequent tags over any period of time. As you'd expect, it is
> > a steep power curve with a very long tail. The top 100 to 200 hashtags
> > in any subset get about 80% of the use.
> >
> > I have a set of simple source code in PHP that creates this type of
> > database. You can use this as a starting point.http://bit.ly/a1CsZE
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 8:37 AM, b3zra1y  wrote:
> > > Hi all -
> > > I'm looking for an API method that will return a list of popular
> > > hashtags.
> >
> > > I'm new to the API, but at first glance I don't see such a method.
> > > Can you point the way ?
> > > THANKS
> >
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[twitter-dev] Re: URL encoding of status= parameter in #newtwitter

[Jonathan Strauss]

@themattharris, Pat's ticket just got rejected for not being an API
issue :-/. See http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1904

I have just filed it (again) via http://twitter.com/help/escalate.

-jonathan

On Sep 28, 9:24 pm, Jonathan Strauss  wrote:
> Heh, thanks Pat! That was on my To Do list for tonight, I swear :-)
>
> On Sep 28, 9:04 pm, Pat Diven II  wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hey Jonathan, how's the Mission? Figures that I'd find a thread
> > started by you for the same issue we're also having. :)
>
> > So yes, we're also getting bit by the same issue.  One thing I noticed
> > on #newtwitter is that theencodingis mangled during a redirect
> > (from /home?status= to /?status=):
>
> > Redirect FAILS on 
> > #newtwitter:http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying%20out%20URL%20encoding%20%26%20...
>
> > Direct URL WORKS on 
> > #newtwitter:http://twitter.com/?status=Trying%20out%20URL%20encoding%20%26%20stuf...
>
> > Unfortunately we're all not supposed to use the latter method. It
> > works on #vintagetwitter but it doesn't preserve the status message
> > after the user logs in to either version anyway.
>
> > I just submitted the issue because it looks like @jhstrauss didn't get
> > around to it yet:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1904
>
> > Cheers,
> > Pat - @micropat
>
> > On Sep 24, 8:51 pm, Matt Harris  wrote:
>
> > > Hey Jonathan,
>
> > > Absolutely! Just wanted to put the Tweet Button out there as an option.
>
> > > So we can track this can you file an issue on:
> > >    http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
>
> > > I'll keep that updated with progress.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > @themattharris
>
> > > On Sep 24, 2010, at 18:54, Jonathan Strauss  wrote:
>
> > > > Hey Matt,
>
> > > > I know the tweet button very well, and I agree that it's better for
> > > > most use-cases (we're actually driving our customers towards using /
> > > > share instead of /home?status= for their custom share to Twitter
> > > > interfaces). However, all legacy 'Share on Twitter' or 'Tweet This'
> > > > implementations (that don't go through OAuth) use /home?status= and if
> > > > the things that worked before stop working as #newtwitter rolls out to
> > > > the full userbase, it's going to break a lot of stuff for people who
> > > > haven't yet had a chance to switch to the tweet button or a custom
> > > > integration with /share.
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > -jonathan
>
> > > > On Sep 24, 5:47 pm, Matt Harris  wrote:
> > > >> Hi Jonathan,
>
> > > >> I'll look into this but have you consider using the Tweet Button
> > > >> instead. Using the Tweet Button gives a better experience and means
> > > >> users don't need to leave your website to tweet your message.
>
> > > >> You can get the Tweet Button on our Goodies page:
> > > >>    http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton
>
> > > >> or create your own using the developer resources:
> > > >>    http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button
>
> > > >> Best,
> > > >> @themattharris
>
> > > >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Strauss  
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >>> The following link works fine for users with access to #vintagetwitter
> > > >>> but breaks on the first URL encoded & (%26) or # (%23) for users with
> > > >>> #newtwitter:
> > > >>>http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying+out+URL+encoding+%26+stuff+on+%...
>
> > > >>> Is this intentional?
>
> > > >>> Thanks,
> > > >>> -jonathan
>
> > > >>> --
> > > >>> Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
> > > >>>http://awe.sm
>
> > > >>> Blog:http://jonathanhstrauss.com
> > > >>> Twitter:http://twitter.com/jhstrauss
>
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>
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>
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> > > >> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
>
> > > > --
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[twitter-dev] Re: URL encoding of status= parameter in #newtwitter

[Jonathan Strauss]

Heh, thanks Pat! That was on my To Do list for tonight, I swear :-)

On Sep 28, 9:04 pm, Pat Diven II  wrote:
> Hey Jonathan, how's the Mission? Figures that I'd find a thread
> started by you for the same issue we're also having. :)
>
> So yes, we're also getting bit by the same issue.  One thing I noticed
> on #newtwitter is that the encoding is mangled during a redirect
> (from /home?status= to /?status=):
>
> Redirect FAILS on 
> #newtwitter:http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying%20out%20URL%20encoding%20%26%20...
>
> Direct URL WORKS on 
> #newtwitter:http://twitter.com/?status=Trying%20out%20URL%20encoding%20%26%20stuf...
>
> Unfortunately we're all not supposed to use the latter method. It
> works on #vintagetwitter but it doesn't preserve the status message
> after the user logs in to either version anyway.
>
> I just submitted the issue because it looks like @jhstrauss didn't get
> around to it yet:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1904
>
> Cheers,
> Pat - @micropat
>
> On Sep 24, 8:51 pm, Matt Harris  wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hey Jonathan,
>
> > Absolutely! Just wanted to put the Tweet Button out there as an option.
>
> > So we can track this can you file an issue on:
> >    http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
>
> > I'll keep that updated with progress.
>
> > Thanks,
> > @themattharris
>
> > On Sep 24, 2010, at 18:54, Jonathan Strauss  wrote:
>
> > > Hey Matt,
>
> > > I know the tweet button very well, and I agree that it's better for
> > > most use-cases (we're actually driving our customers towards using /
> > > share instead of /home?status= for their custom share to Twitter
> > > interfaces). However, all legacy 'Share on Twitter' or 'Tweet This'
> > > implementations (that don't go through OAuth) use /home?status= and if
> > > the things that worked before stop working as #newtwitter rolls out to
> > > the full userbase, it's going to break a lot of stuff for people who
> > > haven't yet had a chance to switch to the tweet button or a custom
> > > integration with /share.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > -jonathan
>
> > > On Sep 24, 5:47 pm, Matt Harris  wrote:
> > >> Hi Jonathan,
>
> > >> I'll look into this but have you consider using the Tweet Button
> > >> instead. Using the Tweet Button gives a better experience and means
> > >> users don't need to leave your website to tweet your message.
>
> > >> You can get the Tweet Button on our Goodies page:
> > >>    http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton
>
> > >> or create your own using the developer resources:
> > >>    http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button
>
> > >> Best,
> > >> @themattharris
>
> > >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Strauss  
> > >> wrote:
> > >>> The following link works fine for users with access to #vintagetwitter
> > >>> but breaks on the first URL encoded & (%26) or # (%23) for users with
> > >>> #newtwitter:
> > >>>http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying+out+URL+encoding+%26+stuff+on+%...
>
> > >>> Is this intentional?
>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>> -jonathan
>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
> > >>>http://awe.sm
>
> > >>> Blog:http://jonathanhstrauss.com
> > >>> Twitter:http://twitter.com/jhstrauss
>
> > >>> --
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>
> > >> --
>
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>
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[twitter-dev] Re: URL encoding of status= parameter in #newtwitter

[Jonathan Strauss]

Hey Matt,

I know the tweet button very well, and I agree that it's better for
most use-cases (we're actually driving our customers towards using /
share instead of /home?status= for their custom share to Twitter
interfaces). However, all legacy 'Share on Twitter' or 'Tweet This'
implementations (that don't go through OAuth) use /home?status= and if
the things that worked before stop working as #newtwitter rolls out to
the full userbase, it's going to break a lot of stuff for people who
haven't yet had a chance to switch to the tweet button or a custom
integration with /share.

Thanks,
-jonathan

On Sep 24, 5:47 pm, Matt Harris  wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I'll look into this but have you consider using the Tweet Button
> instead. Using the Tweet Button gives a better experience and means
> users don't need to leave your website to tweet your message.
>
> You can get the Tweet Button on our Goodies page:
>    http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton
>
> or create your own using the developer resources:
>    http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button
>
> Best,
> @themattharris
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Strauss  wrote:
> > The following link works fine for users with access to #vintagetwitter
> > but breaks on the first URL encoded & (%26) or # (%23) for users with
> > #newtwitter:
> >http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying+out+URL+encoding+%26+stuff+on+%...
>
> > Is this intentional?
>
> > Thanks,
> > -jonathan
>
> > --
> > Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
> >http://awe.sm
>
> > Blog:http://jonathanhstrauss.com
> > Twitter:http://twitter.com/jhstrauss
>
> > --
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> > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi
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[twitter-dev] URL encoding of status= parameter in #newtwitter

[Jonathan Strauss]

The following link works fine for users with access to #vintagetwitter
but breaks on the first URL encoded & (%26) or # (%23) for users with
#newtwitter:
http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying+out+URL+encoding+%26+stuff+on+%23newtwitter+vs+%23vintagetwitter

Is this intentional?

Thanks,
-jonathan

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[twitter-dev] Re: problems with 2000 followers barrier

[Jonathan Strauss]

This is how we architected the first version of TweetPo.st back before
the streaming API was available. It was a good workaround for
regularly polling the accounts of all our users individually to know
if they had tweeted. However, we ran into the same issue with the
follower/following ratio.

The good news is that this is exactly what the Streaming API is
designed to solve. We switched to using the Streaming API with the
follow predicate (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/
streaming_api_methods#follow). But that was before Site Streams
(http://dev.twitter.com/pages/site_streams), which basically does
exactly what it sounds like you want right out of the box.

-jonathan

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On Sep 21, 8:05 am, Adam Cloud  wrote:
> http://support.twitter.com/entries/68916
>
> <http://support.twitter.com/entries/66885-i-can-t-follow-people-follow...>Maybe
> ask some of users to follow you back to prove your the legitimacy of your
> app.
>
> 2010/9/21 Валентин "ValeZ" Любимов 
>
>
>
> > Hi, developers
>
> > My blog servicewww.liveinternet.ru(up to 1 500 000 blogs) recently
> > have developed the integration with twitter. Our users fix their
> > twitter accounts by OAuth and every message in twitter adds in their
> > blogs. Our account @liveinternet_ru automatically follow users'
> > accounts, analize it's timeline every 5 minutes and process all new
> > messages.
>
> > It was working great untill we reached 2000 followers limit for
> > @liveinternet_ru and I totally don't know what to do. Check each of
> > thousands accounts for updates every 5 minutes? Ok, we can
> > automatically follow @liveinternet_ru by every of 2000 accounts (but
> > it's strange and not needed by anyone), but if just one of our users
> > unfollow @liveinternet_ru we'll return to the same situaton.
> > Automatically follow every 5 minutes to reach 2000 followers? I don't
> > know what to do.
>
> > I belive, that Twitter is genious thing, but 2000 follower limit makes
> > me sad and lost. Help me?
>
> > --
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[twitter-dev] OAuth Authentication & Authorization interchangeability?

[Jonathan del Strother]

Hi,
Our site offers cross-site logins using Twitter's authentication oauth
url, and also has post-to-twitter functionality using the
authorization url.  To what extent are the tokens obtained from either
of these interchangeable?  It seems like I can use an authentication
token to post tweets, for example.  Is this guaranteed to stay like
this, or must I get both authentication & authorization if I want to
log a user in from their twitter account, and also post stuff to their
twitter account?

-Jonathan

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[twitter-dev] Re: t.co Rollout

[Jonathan Strauss]

> > If I post a bit.ly link and Twitter wraps it via t.co, will the
> > "unwrapped" display unwrap just the t.co piece, or will it go all the
> > way down to the raw URL?

According to the documentation, the display link on Twitter is meant
to be whatever link is submitted by the user when tweeting. So if it's
a bit.ly link, it should be displayed as bit.ly. However, various
clients can (and already do) choose to take their own approach to
displaying links (e.g. displaying the canonical URL, the page title,
inline content, etc).

To my understanding, the one thing that will be consistent across all
UIs and clients is that the href will always be the t.co link and it
will always wrap whatever link was submitted by the user when
tweeting, regardless of how it is displayed.

> And in a related question, exactly how is this going to affect character
> count?  Will it be based on the bit.ly URL, or the t.co URL?

I believe all t.co links are 20 characters.

-jonathan

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[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Button Counts

[Jonathan Strauss]

Ah, canonicalization. Thanks Matt.

As you probably know, those URL parameters (other than awesm=) are
standard Google Analytics tracking parameters. So, it's something that
should probably be handled better by the counter code. But at least we
now know the root cause.

Thanks,
-jonathan

On Aug 24, 5:23 pm, Matt Harris  wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> The count we use is completely separate to search so no inference
> should be drawn from there. As well as that the search index is only 5
> or so days now so anything Tweeted before then won't be found.
> When counting URLs we count the final destination of a shortURL so it
> doesn't matter which is used.
>
> Knowing this I took a look at the code you shared and it looks good,
> but here's the problem I noticed. The URL being Tweeted is not the URL
> you placed in data-counturl. You can see this when you hover over the
> short URL in the backtype results.
>
> Instead of:
>  http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...
>
> You are Tweeting:
>  http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...
>
> When I replaced your data-counturl with the Tweeted URL I was shown a
> count of 6. In this case 6 makes sense as this is the number of t.co
> links created from that longer query string URL. The 3 other URLs are
> not counted recognised because they have different utm_content and
> awesm values.
>
> I've passed this information onto the Tweet Button team who are
> working on ways to identify that the URLs like this below are
> collapsed into the correct URL:
>
> http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...
>
> I hope this explains why your situation occurs,
> Best,
> Matt
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Jonathan Strauss
>
>
>
>
>
>  wrote:
> > Matt, I've been using data-counturl from the start and still seeing 0
> > counts.
>
> > Here is the source for the button on
> >http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...
> > which is showing 0 tweets:
>
> > http://twitter.com/share"; class="twitter-share-button" data-
> > url="http://awe.sm/59O75"; data-counturl="http://
> > blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shortening-for-
> > wordpress/" data-text="Tweet Button with Shortening for WordPress"
> > data-count="vertical" data-via="snowballfactory" data-
> > related="jhstrauss:Author of the post">Tweethttp://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"</a>;>
>
> > As you can see, BackType is indexing the tweets correctly:
> >http://www.backtype.com/page/blog.snowballfactory.com%2F2010%2F08%2F1...
>
> > Yet Twitter search doesn't appear to be:
> >http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.snowballfactory
>
> > From what I can see, the issue appears to be related to what short
> > URLs Twitter is choosing to index for the count.
>
> > Thanks,
> > -jonathan
>
> > On Aug 24, 12:10 am, Matt Harris  wrote:
> >> Hey everyone,
>
> >> This is a repeat of a message on another thread.
>
> >> I've updated the Tweet Button docs today with information which I hope
> >> will answer a number of your questions. In particular the example
> >> about using a short URL with the parameter data-counturl should help
> >> those of you whose counts are staying at 0.
> >>  http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button#using-shorturl
>
> >> For reference the documentation URLs are:
> >>  http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button
> >> and
> >>  http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button_faq
>
> >> Hope that helps,
> >> Matt
>
> >> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:10 AM, artesea  wrote:
> >> > Just tried something else, I click on a tweet containing one of my
> >> > short urls
> >> > this actually redirects to
> >> >http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=20818&utm_source=tweet&utm_medium=twitt...
> >> > by setting
> >> &

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Button Counts

[Jonathan Strauss]

Matt, I've been using data-counturl from the start and still seeing 0
counts.

Here is the source for the button on
http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shortening-for-wordpress/
which is showing 0 tweets:

http://twitter.com/share"; class="twitter-share-button" data-
url="http://awe.sm/59O75"; data-counturl="http://
blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shortening-for-
wordpress/" data-text="Tweet Button with Shortening for WordPress"
data-count="vertical" data-via="snowballfactory" data-
related="jhstrauss:Author of the post">Tweethttp://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"</a>;>

As you can see, BackType is indexing the tweets correctly:
http://www.backtype.com/page/blog.snowballfactory.com%2F2010%2F08%2F15%2Ftweet-button-with-shortening-for-wordpress%2F/conversations

Yet Twitter search doesn't appear to be:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.snowballfactory.com%2F2010%2F08%2F15%2Ftweet-button-with-shortening-for-wordpress%2F

>From what I can see, the issue appears to be related to what short
URLs Twitter is choosing to index for the count.

Thanks,
-jonathan

On Aug 24, 12:10 am, Matt Harris  wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> This is a repeat of a message on another thread.
>
> I've updated the Tweet Button docs today with information which I hope
> will answer a number of your questions. In particular the example
> about using a short URL with the parameter data-counturl should help
> those of you whose counts are staying at 0.
>  http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button#using-shorturl
>
> For reference the documentation URLs are:
>  http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button
> and
>  http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button_faq
>
> Hope that helps,
> Matt
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:10 AM, artesea  wrote:
> > Just tried something else, I click on a tweet containing one of my
> > short urls
> > this actually redirects to
> >http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=20818&utm_source=tweet&utm_medium=twitt...
> > by setting
> > data-counturl="http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=20818";
> > it finally counts all the posts.
>
> > If you are still seeing zeros, double check to see where you exactly
> > redirect to.
>
> > Regards
> > Ryan
>
> > On Aug 22, 12:27 pm, artesea  wrote:
> >> Anyone from Twitter looking at this list???
>
> >> I now have a post with 32 tweets when looking 
> >> athttp://twitter.com/#search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fldv.org.uk%2F20818
> >> Yet the post itself is still showing 0.
>
> >> Until this is fixed there is no point having the numbers displayed.
>
> >> Completely useless.
>
> >> Ryan
>
> >> On Aug 19, 9:22 am, artesea  wrote:
>
> >> > I don't give a damn about bit.ly or t.co.
> >> > I just want people to a) tweet with my own shortlink, and b) display
> >> > the number of people using that shortlink.
> >> > I'm not expecting twitter to workout thathttp://ldv.org.uk/20680isa
> >> > shortlink 
> >> > forhttp://www.libdemvoice.org/office-of-the-public-guardian-finally-star...
> >> > I'm just expecting them to count the number of tweets 
> >> > withhttp://ldv.org.uk/20680
> >> > in them as per the spec.
>
> >> > Ryan
>
> >> > On Aug 19, 12:53 am, Jonathan Strauss 
> >> > wrote:
>
> >> > > I'm pretty sure they're only indexing a subset of redirect links for
> >> > > the count at this point. So, the 4 or 5 being counted are probably
> >> > > ones that were shared with t.co or bit.ly.
>
> >> > > -jonathan
>
> >> > > --
> >> > > Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founderhttp://snowballfactory.com
>
> >> > > Campaign tracking for social media -http://awe.sm
> >> > > A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter -http://tweetpo.st
> >> > > Sharecount button for Facebook -http://www.fbshare.me
>
> >> > > On Aug 18, 12:12 pm, artesea  wrote:
>
> >> > > > Happens in all browsers even days after the number of tweets is up to
> >> > > > 4 or 5 (ok not a busy site but still zero make it look crap)
> >> > > > Like I said before clicking on the number brings me to a page showing
> >> > > > all the tweets so they are there, just for some reason twitter when
> >> > > > doing the count lookup isn't finding them (url to short??? doesn't
> >> > > > like .org.uk???)
> >> > > > My shortlinks are the same for each post as I'm just using the
> >> > > > wordpress post id with a 301 redirect.
> >> > > > Not seeing any reply from Twitter other than "it's probably a cache
> >> > > > issue", which it clearly isn't.
>
> >> > > > Ryan
>
> >> > > > On Aug 16, 1:13 pm, Tom van der Woerdt  wrote:
>
> >> > > > > I have one theory and that is that the Twitter button caches the
> >> > > > > numbers. Try opening a different browser - I've heard people that 
> >> > > > > said
> >> > > > > that this works.
>
> >> > > > > You should also make sure that you don't generate a new shortlink 
> >> > > > > for
> >> > > > > every tweet.
>
> >> > > > > Tom
>
> --
>
> Matt Harris
> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Button Counts

[Jonathan Strauss]

I'm pretty sure they're only indexing a subset of redirect links for
the count at this point. So, the 4 or 5 being counted are probably
ones that were shared with t.co or bit.ly.

-jonathan

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Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me


On Aug 18, 12:12 pm, artesea  wrote:
> Happens in all browsers even days after the number of tweets is up to
> 4 or 5 (ok not a busy site but still zero make it look crap)
> Like I said before clicking on the number brings me to a page showing
> all the tweets so they are there, just for some reason twitter when
> doing the count lookup isn't finding them (url to short??? doesn't
> like .org.uk???)
> My shortlinks are the same for each post as I'm just using the
> wordpress post id with a 301 redirect.
> Not seeing any reply from Twitter other than "it's probably a cache
> issue", which it clearly isn't.
>
> Ryan
>
> On Aug 16, 1:13 pm, Tom van der Woerdt  wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have one theory and that is that the Twitter button caches the
> > numbers. Try opening a different browser - I've heard people that said
> > that this works.
>
> > You should also make sure that you don't generate a new shortlink for
> > every tweet.
>
> > Tom

[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Tweet Button

[Jonathan Strauss]

Yeah, we've been seeing similar issues for awe.sm-powered links (on
>400 domains).

It would seem that Twitter's counter is only indexing *some* redirect
URLs. There are other folks complaining about this issue on this
thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/ed8bf9ded82fd5ca

Still waiting on official acknowledgment from Twitter, but it's a real
issue being experienced by a bunch of publishers trying to use their
own custom redirect links.

-jonathan

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http://snowballfactory.com

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A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me


On Aug 18, 11:00 am, Clint Ecker  wrote:
> Taylor,
>
> We're seeing 0-tweet counts on every article on Ars.  I've literally
> never seen anything by a 0-count on any article since you released the
> button.
>
> People are tweeting these links, so I'm pretty sure there's clicks:
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2Fg3kPchF
>
> Clint
>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Taylor Singletary
>
>
>
>  wrote:
> > We had some caching/rate limiting issues related to tweet counts for a
> > portion of yesterday but these should be relieved now. Please let us know if
> > you continue seeing the zero counts after a reasonable amount of time (they
> > won't update instantaneously).
>
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, artesea  wrote:
>
> >> Anyone else getting the count to work? Had several people press the
> >> button and it still shows zero, and when clicking on the zero it takes
> >> me to the search page containing their tweet, plus our autotweet
> >> everytime we do a blog post.
>
> >> Also will you be counting all tweets containing the URL, or only those
> >> via the button?
>
> >> Cheers
> >> Ryan

[twitter-dev] Re: WordPress

[Jonathan Strauss]

There are now a number of WP plugins for the tweet button. But, I like
to think mine is the best ;-)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/

--
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http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

On Aug 12, 1:07 pm, Matt Harris  wrote:
> Until a Tweet Button plugin is released you could add a button by either
> visiting our Tweet Button page [1] and coping the code, or follow our
> developer documentation [2].
>
> Best,
> Matt
>
> 1.http://twitter.com/tweetbutton
> 2.http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Tom van der Woerdt  wrote:
>
> > On 8/12/10 8:52 PM, ClaudioLessa wrote:
> > > Is there a step-by-step set of instructions on how to apply the tweet
> > > button to a WordPress blog? Thanks!
>
> > Hi,
>
> > If you host your blog at wordpress.com :
>
> >http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/08/12/the-new-tweet-button-lau...
>
> > If you host your own blog, then I don't know - you will most likely have
> > to wait until an addon is released, or write your own.
>
> > Tom
>
> --
>
> Matt Harris
> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter button with custom URL shortener

[Jonathan Strauss]

Yes, the button takes a data-url argument, in which you can pass
whatever URL you wish to be posted, and a data-counturl argument, in
which you specify the canonical URL for the counter. The compose
screen will still have a t.co URL in it, but it should be rendered as
whatever you passed to data-url when it is posted on Twitter.com (and
clients). See http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/.

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http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

On Aug 17, 6:37 am, romainst  wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> I'm developer for a French News TV Channel,
> and as we already own a bit.ly Pro Entreprise account
> to have our own URL shortener with our domain,
> I just wanted to know if it were possible to deactivate
> t.co shortening on tweet buttons to keep our custom shortened URLs?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Romain

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweet Button w/ Shortening for WordPress

[Jonathan Strauss]

Thanks for the heads-up Ed! I just fixed that issue and uploaded version 0.2.1 
to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/. It can 
sometimes take a few minutes to process, but you should get an alert in your WP 
admin when the new version is live.

-jonathan

-- 
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http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:04 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> Looks great!! It doesn't seem to be putting the button on pages, though - 
> just posts. I check the box, hit the "Save" button, and it comes back 
> unchecked.
> -- 
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb
> 
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
> 
> 
> Quoting Jonathan Strauss :
> 
>> Adds a fully configurable official Twitter tweet button to your self-
>> hosted WordPress blog. You can set it up to use awe.sm, bit.ly,
>> tinyurl, su.pr, or digg to shorten the links shared through the tweet
>> button.
>> 
>> Features:
>> * Choose the placement of the button on your posts: top; bottom; top &
>> bottom; or manual
>> * Choose the type of Twitter tweet button you want: vertical count;
>> horizontal count; or no count
>> * Optionally use awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, digg.com, or tinyurl to
>> shorten the links shared through the tweet button (default is
>> Twitter's t.co)
>> * Specify the via Twitter username to be included at the end of the
>> tweet and in the recommended users to follow screen after the tweet
>> * Optionally add the author of a given post to the recommended users
>> to follow screen after the tweet (requires the author to enter their
>> Twitter username in their WP profile)
>> * Disable the button on Pages
>> 
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/
>> 
>> Enjoy!
>> -jonathan
>> 
>> --
>> Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
>> http://snowballfactory.com
>> 
>> Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
>> A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
>> Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me
>> 
> 
> 
> 

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweet Button w/ Shortening for WordPress

[Jonathan Strauss]

I'm not sure if my reply failed or is pending, but version 0.2.1,
which fixes this issue, is now live at
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/

Thanks Ed!

-jonathan

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A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

On Aug 16, 2:04 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky"  wrote:
> Looks great!! It doesn't seem to be putting the button on pages,  
> though - just posts. I check the box, hit the "Save" button, and it  
> comes back unchecked.
> --
> M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb
>
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
>
> Quoting Jonathan Strauss :
>
>
>
> > Adds a fully configurable official Twitter tweet button to your self-
> > hosted WordPress blog. You can set it up to use awe.sm, bit.ly,
> > tinyurl, su.pr, or digg to shorten the links shared through the tweet
> > button.
>
> > Features:
> > * Choose the placement of the button on your posts: top; bottom; top &
> > bottom; or manual
> > * Choose the type of Twitter tweet button you want: vertical count;
> > horizontal count; or no count
> > * Optionally use awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, digg.com, or tinyurl to
> > shorten the links shared through the tweet button (default is
> > Twitter's t.co)
> > * Specify the via Twitter username to be included at the end of the
> > tweet and in the recommended users to follow screen after the tweet
> > * Optionally add the author of a given post to the recommended users
> > to follow screen after the tweet (requires the author to enter their
> > Twitter username in their WP profile)
> > * Disable the button on Pages
>
> >http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/
>
> > Enjoy!
> > -jonathan
>
> > --
> > Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
> >http://snowballfactory.com
>
> > Campaign tracking for social media -http://awe.sm
> > A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter -http://tweetpo.st
> > Sharecount button for Facebook -http://www.fbshare.me

[twitter-dev] Tweet Button w/ Shortening for WordPress

[Jonathan Strauss]

Adds a fully configurable official Twitter tweet button to your self-
hosted WordPress blog. You can set it up to use awe.sm, bit.ly,
tinyurl, su.pr, or digg to shorten the links shared through the tweet
button.

Features:
* Choose the placement of the button on your posts: top; bottom; top &
bottom; or manual
* Choose the type of Twitter tweet button you want: vertical count;
horizontal count; or no count
* Optionally use awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, digg.com, or tinyurl to
shorten the links shared through the tweet button (default is
Twitter's t.co)
* Specify the via Twitter username to be included at the end of the
tweet and in the recommended users to follow screen after the tweet
* Optionally add the author of a given post to the recommended users
to follow screen after the tweet (requires the author to enter their
Twitter username in their WP profile)
* Disable the button on Pages

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/

Enjoy!
-jonathan

--
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http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Button Counts

[Jonathan Strauss]

I am seeing the issue with awe.sm links. It seems unlikely, but my
theory is that Twitter isn't unwrapping *all* redirect links to
attribute to the count, only those on certain domains.

See:
http://backtweets.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fextend%2Fplugins%2Ftweet-button-with-shortening%2F
vs.
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fextend%2Fplugins%2Ftweet-button-with-shortening%2F

Anyone have any info on this?


On Aug 16, 5:13 am, Tom van der Woerdt  wrote:
> On 8/16/10 2:05 PM, artesea wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On my website I have added the Twitter Button and I want it to use my
> > own customer short URL. However I'm finding it never counts the number
> > of search results.
>
> > eg:
> >http://www.libdemvoice.org/office-of-the-public-guardian-finally-star...
> > hashttp://ldv.org.uk/20680as a shortlink
>
> > I'm using data-url withhttp://ldv.org.uk/20680and continuously get
> > back 0. Click on the zero and at the moment I get 4 search results.
> > I noticed that bit.ly mentioned an undocumented data-counturl, setting
> > this to the shortlink continues to bring up 0, however using the full
> > link I get 1, but as most people tweet our shortlink already I want
> > those numbers, and those using the full link are those RSS->Tweet
> > "people" who I don't really care about.
>
> > Is there any reason why using my custom short links we aren't getting
> > back any results?
>
> I have one theory and that is that the Twitter button caches the
> numbers. Try opening a different browser - I've heard people that said
> that this works.
>
> You should also make sure that you don't generate a new shortlink for
> every tweet.
>
> Tom

[twitter-dev] Re: New tweet button - is t.co mandatory?

[Jonathan Strauss]

I've just posted a WP plugin that makes it easy to use the tweet
button with awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, and tinyurl:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/

On Aug 13, 8:17 am, "Matt LeMay from bit.ly" 
wrote:
> Hi, folks-
>
> Yes indeed, t.co links will be unwrapped in the stream, so bit.ly pro
> users will still be able to use custom domains, along with bit.ly's
> analytics features.
>
> We put a post up on our blog explaining how publishers can continue to
> use bit.ly pro domains with the Tweet Button:
>
> http://blog.bit.ly/post/945591208/using-bit-ly-with-twitters-tweet-bu...
>
> And we are working on some additional tools and resources for
> publishers.
>
> If you have any specific questions about implementation, do not
> hesitate to contact supp...@bit.ly, or to e-mail me directly!
>
> Thanks-
> Matt LeMay
> m...@bit.ly
>
> On Aug 13, 10:06 am, Tom van der Woerdt  wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 8/13/10 5:04 AM, pthomsen wrote:
>
> > > I read in the techcrunch article, that the posting url is wrapped in
> > > t.co, but then when displayed in the stream, the url gets unwrapped
> > > again, so you should see the moxs.ie url (in my case). This doesn't
> > > happen for me. I only see the t.co url.
>
> > > Is there a whitelist of URLs that are accepted by twitter for
> > > 'unwrapping-in-the-stream'? If so, how do I get on that list?
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Per
>
> > Yesterday I noticed that t.co links were unwrapped in the search, but it
> > looks like that is no longer the case at the moment. Probably taken
> > offline for a few hours to perfect the algorithm, like Twitter usually
> > does after implementing something new (happened to Lists too).
>
> > It looked like all t.co links are unwrapped, so don't worry ;-)
>
> > Tom

[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Tweet Button

[Jonathan Strauss]

I just posted a WP plugin that uses the dataurl attribute to make the
tweet button work with awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, and tinyurl:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/

It also allows multi-author blogs to automatically add the post author
to the recommended users screen after the tweet.

On Aug 12, 12:18 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Clint,
>
> Include a data-url attribute in the  element. It will get wrapped in a
> t.co but the user will still hit the arst.ch domain.
>
> http://twitter.com/share"; class="twitter-share-button" 
> data-url="http://arst.ch/xyz"; data-count="vertical"
> data-via="abraham">Tweet src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";>
>
> Abraham
> -
> Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate |http://abrah.am
> @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am
> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:30, Clint Ecker  wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM, themattharris
> >  wrote:
> > > Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make it easy for your users
> > > to share your website with their followers. When they click on the
> > > Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear pre-populated with a message and
> > > link chosen by you. Once they have sent a Tweet they can choose to
> > > follow accounts recommended by you. All of this happens on your
> > > website, so the user never has to leave.
>
> > Hi Matt,
>
> > I'd really like to use this on Ars Technica, but it seems to force the
> > t.co shortener on us.  We have our own shorturl system (arst.ch) and I
> > need to use that.  Can you explain how I might go about doing
> > that—I've scoured the docs and have seen no mention of custom Short
> > URLs.
>
> > Thanks!
> > Clint

Re: [twitter-dev] Wrong GEOCODE results

[Jonathan Reichhold]

Daniel,

The search index only cover <7 days worth of content, and a tweet from July
17th is older than 7 days.  This has nothing to do with your geocode and is
an issue with the depth of the index.

Geo is not the only signal used for location and you may also have place ids
other sources.

Jonathan

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Daniel  wrote:

> Hi!
>
> This is the thirth time I post this problem and no body may help me.
> This is a very important problem than only occurs in some countries of
> South America as Chile, Argentina, Peru.
>
> This is a clear problem related to the geocode query...
>
> I'm trying to make a search query with GEOCODE params but this is not
> working propperly.
>
> I created this geolocalizated tweet with echofon:
>
> http://twitter.com/DanielAtik/status/18794641441
>
> As you may see here is the lat, lon of this tweet:
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-33.437790,-70.635895
>
> But if I make a search with search API this tweet does not appears as
> you can see:
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search.json?geocode=-33.437790,-70.635895,2km
>
> or for delimeted more:
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search.json?geocode=-33.437790,-70.635895,2...
>
> As you may see at returned JSON, the tweets has not GEO values. Is
> there anything wrong?? Any help may be appreciated ;)
>
>
> Daniel
>

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth page showing "opening and ending tag mismatch"

[Jonathan del Strother]

Good news: the user who originally said he was seeing the error under
an english locale actually wasn't, and the error goes away when he
sets his phone to English.

Bad news: he's still seeing the error.  I haven't been able to
actually get the error text or a screenshot out of him yet, will carry
on trying...


On Aug 3, 8:19 am, Jonathan del Strother 
wrote:
> Thanks for the update - I'll let our users know and get back to you if
> there's any further problems.
>
> On Aug 3, 7:05 am, Matt Harris  wrote:
>
>
>
> > We found some escape markers in the language file used on the pages shown to
> > be having issues and fixed them. Hopefully that's worked out the issues
> > users were having.
>
> > Mobile is very hard to debug and test as there are so many different
> > handsets so if anybody does have issues again please take a screenshot and
> > let us know. That will help us track down the source of the error.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
>
> > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Jonathan del Strother <
>
> > jdelstrot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'd assume the language depends on the http Accept-Language header,
> > > but just changing that doesn't seem sufficient to trigger the bug.
>
> > > On Jul 27, 3:21 am, Bess  wrote:
> > > > I don't see that error on mobile Twitter page but I am testing it in
> > > > US.
>
> > > > Do you think it is related to callingURL IP Address? Would Twitter
> > > > process it differently for non-US IP Address on callingURL?
>
> > > > On Jul 26, 2:10 pm, Jonathan del Strother 
> > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi - thanks for the response.  Both the users who have come to us with
> > > > > this problem are non-english speakers - one was definitely viewing it
> > > > > in French, the other claimed to be using English but I kinda suspect a
> > > > > communication problem there...
> > > > > I've not been able to reproduce it, even when setting my phone to
> > > > > different locales - do you have a guaranteed way of reproducing it
> > > > > yet?  Any idea what percentage of users see the problem?  I've been
> > > > > wondering about sticking a ?lang=en parameter in there till it gets
> > > > > fixed.
>
> > > > > -Jonathan
>
> > > > > On Jul 26, 6:49 pm, Matt Harris  wrote:
>
> > > > > > Hi Jonathan,
>
> > > > > > Our mobile team is aware of this issue and is looking into it. From
> > > my tests
> > > > > > it looks like it only happens for users whose language is not
> > > English. Do
> > > > > > you know if these users are viewing the site in anything other than
> > > English?
>
> > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > Matt
>
> > > > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Jonathan del Strother <
>
> > > > > > jdelstrot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > Any further progress on this?  Is there anything I can get my 
> > > > > > > users
> > > to
> > > > > > > try, to try & diagnose the problem some more?
>
> > > > > > > -Jonathan
>
> > > > > > > On Jul 22, 3:10 pm, Taylor Singletary <
> > > taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
> > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hi Jonathan,
>
> > > > > > > > One conjecture I can think of based on the screenshot is that
> > > this may
> > > > > > > > be due to the broken image upload issues we were having recently
> > > --
> > > > > > > > but the further reports on the original link you provided 
> > > > > > > > suggest
> > > > > > > > otherwise.
>
> > > > > > > > Looking into this.
>
> > > > > > > > Taylor
>
> > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Jonathan del Strother
>
> > > > > > > >  wrote:
> > > > > > > > > No takers?
>
> > > > > > > > > On Jul 15, 1:10 pm, Jonathan del Strother <
> > > jdelstrot...@gmail.com>
> > > > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > >> Hi,
> > > > > > > > >> We use Twitter Oauth for third party signin.  I haven't been
> > > able to
> > > > > > > > >> reproduce this myself, but one of our users is seeing an 
> > > > > > > > >> error
> > > page
> > > > > > > > >> showing "this page contains the following errors: error on
> > > line 397
> > > > > > > > >> column 156: opening and ending tag mismatch:divline 0
> > > andstrong".
> > > > > > > > >> Someone at Boxcar seems to be having similar problems -
>
> > >http://help.boxcar.io/discussions/problems/455-i-cant-sign-in-in-twitter
>
> > > > > > > > >> Anyone else run into this?  Any suggestions on fixing it?
>
> > > > > > > > >> -Jonathan
>
> > > > > > --
>
> > > > > > Matt Harris
> > > > > > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
>
> > --
>
> > Matt Harris
> > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Search API: tweet Source search

[Jonathan Reichhold]

It should be source:mastercard_marketplace™_homeward_bound but not finding
anything with that source.  I.e. spaces are replaced with underscores.

Jonathan

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Sunny  wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> I am having an issue with the twitter search api. As you know, there
> is a provision to search for tweets originating from a certain source
> say
> q=landing+source:tweetie
> will search within all tweets coming from tweetie as a source.
> however when the source looks complex (not just one word), then I'm
> unable to phrase it like the above. See for e.g the source for the
> below tweet
> http://twitter.com/lydiamarieng/status/20453857430
>
> I am unable to search for the source Mastercard Marketplace there
> please advise and thanks a lot for your help here.
>
> -ashwin

Re: [twitter-dev] GEOCODE search problem [URGENT]

[Jonathan Reichhold]

Simple answer is that the tweet isn't in the index as a search with no
geocode value

i.e.
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Prueba1

Tweet is from 3:15 PM Jul 17th<http://twitter.com/DanielAtik/status/18794641441>

The index doesn't go back that far.

Jonathan

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Daniel  wrote:

> Hi!
> I'm trying to make a search query with GEOCODE params but this is not
> working propperly in Chile.
>
> I created this geolocalizated tweet with echofon:
>
> http://twitter.com/DanielAtik/status/18794641441
>
> As you may see here is the lat, lon of this tweet:
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-33.437790,-70.635895
>
> But if I make a search with search API this tweet does not appears as
> you can see:
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search.json?geocode=-33.437790,-70.635895,2km
>
> or for delimeted more:
>
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search.json?geocode=-33.437790,-70.635895,2km&q=prueba
>
> As you may see at returned JSON, the tweets has not GEO values.
> Is there anything wrong?? Any help may be appreciated ;)
>
> You must make tests in http://metaki.com
>
> Daniel
>

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth page showing "opening and ending tag mismatch"

[Jonathan del Strother]

Thanks for the update - I'll let our users know and get back to you if
there's any further problems.

On Aug 3, 7:05 am, Matt Harris  wrote:
> We found some escape markers in the language file used on the pages shown to
> be having issues and fixed them. Hopefully that's worked out the issues
> users were having.
>
> Mobile is very hard to debug and test as there are so many different
> handsets so if anybody does have issues again please take a screenshot and
> let us know. That will help us track down the source of the error.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Jonathan del Strother <
>
>
>
>
>
> jdelstrot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd assume the language depends on the http Accept-Language header,
> > but just changing that doesn't seem sufficient to trigger the bug.
>
> > On Jul 27, 3:21 am, Bess  wrote:
> > > I don't see that error on mobile Twitter page but I am testing it in
> > > US.
>
> > > Do you think it is related to callingURL IP Address? Would Twitter
> > > process it differently for non-US IP Address on callingURL?
>
> > > On Jul 26, 2:10 pm, Jonathan del Strother 
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > Hi - thanks for the response.  Both the users who have come to us with
> > > > this problem are non-english speakers - one was definitely viewing it
> > > > in French, the other claimed to be using English but I kinda suspect a
> > > > communication problem there...
> > > > I've not been able to reproduce it, even when setting my phone to
> > > > different locales - do you have a guaranteed way of reproducing it
> > > > yet?  Any idea what percentage of users see the problem?  I've been
> > > > wondering about sticking a ?lang=en parameter in there till it gets
> > > > fixed.
>
> > > > -Jonathan
>
> > > > On Jul 26, 6:49 pm, Matt Harris  wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi Jonathan,
>
> > > > > Our mobile team is aware of this issue and is looking into it. From
> > my tests
> > > > > it looks like it only happens for users whose language is not
> > English. Do
> > > > > you know if these users are viewing the site in anything other than
> > English?
>
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > Matt
>
> > > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Jonathan del Strother <
>
> > > > > jdelstrot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Any further progress on this?  Is there anything I can get my users
> > to
> > > > > > try, to try & diagnose the problem some more?
>
> > > > > > -Jonathan
>
> > > > > > On Jul 22, 3:10 pm, Taylor Singletary <
> > taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi Jonathan,
>
> > > > > > > One conjecture I can think of based on the screenshot is that
> > this may
> > > > > > > be due to the broken image upload issues we were having recently
> > --
> > > > > > > but the further reports on the original link you provided suggest
> > > > > > > otherwise.
>
> > > > > > > Looking into this.
>
> > > > > > > Taylor
>
> > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Jonathan del Strother
>
> > > > > > >  wrote:
> > > > > > > > No takers?
>
> > > > > > > > On Jul 15, 1:10 pm, Jonathan del Strother <
> > jdelstrot...@gmail.com>
> > > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > >> Hi,
> > > > > > > >> We use Twitter Oauth for third party signin.  I haven't been
> > able to
> > > > > > > >> reproduce this myself, but one of our users is seeing an error
> > page
> > > > > > > >> showing "this page contains the following errors: error on
> > line 397
> > > > > > > >> column 156: opening and ending tag mismatch:divline 0
> > andstrong".
> > > > > > > >> Someone at Boxcar seems to be having similar problems -
>
> >http://help.boxcar.io/discussions/problems/455-i-cant-sign-in-in-twitter
>
> > > > > > > >> Anyone else run into this?  Any suggestions on fixing it?
>
> > > > > > > >> -Jonathan
>
> > > > > --
>
> > > > > Matt Harris
> > > > > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
>
> --
>
> Matt Harris
> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth page showing "opening and ending tag mismatch"

[Jonathan del Strother]

I'd assume the language depends on the http Accept-Language header,
but just changing that doesn't seem sufficient to trigger the bug.

On Jul 27, 3:21 am, Bess  wrote:
> I don't see that error on mobile Twitter page but I am testing it in
> US.
>
> Do you think it is related to callingURL IP Address? Would Twitter
> process it differently for non-US IP Address on callingURL?
>
> On Jul 26, 2:10 pm, Jonathan del Strother 
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi - thanks for the response.  Both the users who have come to us with
> > this problem are non-english speakers - one was definitely viewing it
> > in French, the other claimed to be using English but I kinda suspect a
> > communication problem there...
> > I've not been able to reproduce it, even when setting my phone to
> > different locales - do you have a guaranteed way of reproducing it
> > yet?  Any idea what percentage of users see the problem?  I've been
> > wondering about sticking a ?lang=en parameter in there till it gets
> > fixed.
>
> > -Jonathan
>
> > On Jul 26, 6:49 pm, Matt Harris  wrote:
>
> > > Hi Jonathan,
>
> > > Our mobile team is aware of this issue and is looking into it. From my 
> > > tests
> > > it looks like it only happens for users whose language is not English. Do
> > > you know if these users are viewing the site in anything other than 
> > > English?
>
> > > Thanks
> > > Matt
>
> > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Jonathan del Strother <
>
> > > jdelstrot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Any further progress on this?  Is there anything I can get my users to
> > > > try, to try & diagnose the problem some more?
>
> > > > -Jonathan
>
> > > > On Jul 22, 3:10 pm, Taylor Singletary 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Hi Jonathan,
>
> > > > > One conjecture I can think of based on the screenshot is that this may
> > > > > be due to the broken image upload issues we were having recently --
> > > > > but the further reports on the original link you provided suggest
> > > > > otherwise.
>
> > > > > Looking into this.
>
> > > > > Taylor
>
> > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Jonathan del Strother
>
> > > > >  wrote:
> > > > > > No takers?
>
> > > > > > On Jul 15, 1:10 pm, Jonathan del Strother 
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >> Hi,
> > > > > >> We use Twitter Oauth for third party signin.  I haven't been able 
> > > > > >> to
> > > > > >> reproduce this myself, but one of our users is seeing an error page
> > > > > >> showing "this page contains the following errors: error on line 397
> > > > > >> column 156: opening and ending tag mismatch:divline 0 andstrong".
> > > > > >> Someone at Boxcar seems to be having similar problems -
> > > >http://help.boxcar.io/discussions/problems/455-i-cant-sign-in-in-twitter
>
> > > > > >> Anyone else run into this?  Any suggestions on fixing it?
>
> > > > > >> -Jonathan
>
> > > --
>
> > > Matt Harris
> > > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth page showing "opening and ending tag mismatch"

[Jonathan del Strother]

Hi - thanks for the response.  Both the users who have come to us with
this problem are non-english speakers - one was definitely viewing it
in French, the other claimed to be using English but I kinda suspect a
communication problem there...
I've not been able to reproduce it, even when setting my phone to
different locales - do you have a guaranteed way of reproducing it
yet?  Any idea what percentage of users see the problem?  I've been
wondering about sticking a ?lang=en parameter in there till it gets
fixed.

-Jonathan

On Jul 26, 6:49 pm, Matt Harris  wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Our mobile team is aware of this issue and is looking into it. From my tests
> it looks like it only happens for users whose language is not English. Do
> you know if these users are viewing the site in anything other than English?
>
> Thanks
> Matt
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Jonathan del Strother <
>
>
>
>
>
> jdelstrot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any further progress on this?  Is there anything I can get my users to
> > try, to try & diagnose the problem some more?
>
> > -Jonathan
>
> > On Jul 22, 3:10 pm, Taylor Singletary 
> > wrote:
> > > Hi Jonathan,
>
> > > One conjecture I can think of based on the screenshot is that this may
> > > be due to the broken image upload issues we were having recently --
> > > but the further reports on the original link you provided suggest
> > > otherwise.
>
> > > Looking into this.
>
> > > Taylor
>
> > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Jonathan del Strother
>
> > >  wrote:
> > > > No takers?
>
> > > > On Jul 15, 1:10 pm, Jonathan del Strother 
> > > > wrote:
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >> We use Twitter Oauth for third party signin.  I haven't been able to
> > > >> reproduce this myself, but one of our users is seeing an error page
> > > >> showing "this page contains the following errors: error on line 397
> > > >> column 156: opening and ending tag mismatch:divline 0 andstrong".
> > > >> Someone at Boxcar seems to be having similar problems -
> >http://help.boxcar.io/discussions/problems/455-i-cant-sign-in-in-twitter
>
> > > >> Anyone else run into this?  Any suggestions on fixing it?
>
> > > >> -Jonathan
>
> --
>
> Matt Harris
> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth page showing "opening and ending tag mismatch"

[Jonathan del Strother]

Any further progress on this?  Is there anything I can get my users to
try, to try & diagnose the problem some more?

-Jonathan

On Jul 22, 3:10 pm, Taylor Singletary 
wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> One conjecture I can think of based on the screenshot is that this may
> be due to the broken image upload issues we were having recently --
> but the further reports on the original link you provided suggest
> otherwise.
>
> Looking into this.
>
> Taylor
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Jonathan del Strother
>
>
>
>  wrote:
> > No takers?
>
> > On Jul 15, 1:10 pm, Jonathan del Strother 
> > wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> We use Twitter Oauth for third party signin.  I haven't been able to
> >> reproduce this myself, but one of our users is seeing an error page
> >> showing "this page contains the following errors: error on line 397
> >> column 156: opening and ending tag mismatch:divline 0 andstrong".
> >> Someone at Boxcar seems to be having similar problems 
> >> -http://help.boxcar.io/discussions/problems/455-i-cant-sign-in-in-twitter
>
> >> Anyone else run into this?  Any suggestions on fixing it?
>
> >> -Jonathan

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth page showing "opening and ending tag mismatch"

[Jonathan del Strother]

No takers?

On Jul 15, 1:10 pm, Jonathan del Strother 
wrote:
> Hi,
> We use Twitter Oauth for third party signin.  I haven't been able to
> reproduce this myself, but one of our users is seeing an error page
> showing "this page contains the following errors: error on line 397
> column 156: opening and ending tag mismatch:divline 0 andstrong".
> Someone at Boxcar seems to be having similar problems 
> -http://help.boxcar.io/discussions/problems/455-i-cant-sign-in-in-twitter
>
> Anyone else run into this?  Any suggestions on fixing it?
>
> -Jonathan

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth page showing "opening and ending tag mismatch"

[Jonathan del Strother]

We've just had another user run into this, now with a handy
screenshot : http://skitch.com/catfish/dpsqg/skitched-20100722-114537

On Jul 15, 1:10 pm, Jonathan del Strother 
wrote:
> Hi,
> We use Twitter Oauth for third party signin.  I haven't been able to
> reproduce this myself, but one of our users is seeing an error page
> showing "this page contains the following errors: error on line 397
> column 156: opening and ending tag mismatch:divline 0 andstrong".
> Someone at Boxcar seems to be having similar problems 
> -http://help.boxcar.io/discussions/problems/455-i-cant-sign-in-in-twitter
>
> Anyone else run into this?  Any suggestions on fixing it?
>
> -Jonathan

[twitter-dev] OAuth page showing "opening and ending tag mismatch"

[Jonathan del Strother]

Hi,
We use Twitter Oauth for third party signin.  I haven't been able to
reproduce this myself, but one of our users is seeing an error page
showing "this page contains the following errors: error on line 397
column 156: opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 0 and strong".
Someone at Boxcar seems to be having similar problems -
http://help.boxcar.io/discussions/problems/455-i-cant-sign-in-in-twitter

Anyone else run into this?  Any suggestions on fixing it?

-Jonathan

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Search Users Per Location

[Jonathan Reichhold]

Not currently.  You can search by location and find users tweeting from
there or nearby, but can't search by users at a specific location by
profile.

Jonathan

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:28 PM, PhilGo20  wrote:

> anyone ?
>
> On 29 juin, 16:20, PhilGo20  wrote:
> > Is there a way to run a query returning Users around a particular
> > location based on the location specified in their profile (returns all
> > user with name="joe" in montreal ?
> >
> > Or is the only way is to use the user/search method and filter out the
> > results set ?
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Are search results ordered by creation date?

[Jonathan Reichhold]

result_type=mixed will give you a combination of popular and recent tweets.
Currently the 0-3 popular tweets are first followed by the recent tweets.
I.e. look at the in the results set

"metadata": {"result_type": "recent"},

What you are seeing is the mixing of the result types.  If you only want
recent then use result_type=recent

https://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%22Roman%20Polanski%22&result_type=recent&show_user=true&rpp=100

Jonathan


On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Harshad RJ  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just noticed that some search queries have results that seem to be in
> order, while others have results that seem to be either unordered or
> reversed.
>
> Based on a few sample queries, it looks like popular queries (such as for
> trending topics) have results in ascending order of creation date. While
> less popular ones are either unordered or descending order.
>
> Is there any order guaranteed by the search API?
>
> Two example queries each with a different order of results:
>
> https://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%22Roman%20Polanski%22&show_user=true&result_type=mixed&rpp=100
>
>
> https://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=holy&show_user=true&result_type=mixed&rpp=100
>
> thanks,
> --
> Harshad RJ
> http://hrj.wikidot.com
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Search?

[Jonathan Reichhold]

Can you provide more details?  We aren't seeing this behaviour.  Search has
never returned all of the data and in periods of high volume will not index
every single tweet.  If you want every tweet on a topic we highly suggest
the streaming interface.

Jonathan
@jreichhold

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Mack D. Male  wrote:

> What's the deal with search? It's not returning all the data. Just
> look at any of the trending topics for instance. The Status site
> hasn't been updated.

Re: [twitter-dev] How can I search Twitter for tweets containing an exact phrase

[Jonathan Reichhold]

The issue here is that the characters around the $t are considered
whitespace from parser we use.  $t will work, but if it is surrounded by
ignored characters then you will get what you consider junk.   The streaming
API will work better for just following a single topic, but the specific
query here for $t was created for stock search years ago.  We likely need to
think about this case and and maybe improve the parser.

Jonathan
@jreichhold

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:21 PM, John Kalucki  wrote:

> You may need to do some post-processing on your end to get exactly what you
> want. You could search for t, then discard all tweets that don't contain $t.
>
> But, it sounds like you are doing a repetitive automated search. You should
> be using the Streaming API for this. Try using track for $t, it might work.
> If not, track for t, then post-process. If you use search, you will miss
> some tweets, due to relevance filtering.
>
> -John Kalucki
> http://twitter.com/jkalucki
> Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Zhami  wrote:
>
>> I need to search Twitter for tweets containing the phrase "$T" (T
>> being the trading symbol for AT&T). When I perform a search for this,
>> I get back oodles of results where "$t" is not a complete phrase, but
>> the characters in some larger phrase, which isn't what I want. Alas,
>> $t is quite common in 1337 (leet) phraseology.
>>
>> The Web interface for search.twitter.com "advanced" offers an entry
>> for "This exact phrase" but I can't get that to work. I have tried
>> specifying spaces on either side of the $t text, as in:
>> http://search.twitter.com/search?phrase=%20%24t%20
>> But the search engine ignores the spaces and returns non-"exact"
>> phrase matches.
>>
>> Is there any way to inform the search engine that I want exact-exact
>> matches, or whole-word matches?
>>
>
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Search API returns only 15 results, even if rpp=100?

[Jonathan Reichhold]

There are plenty of results for this, but your url is encoded incorrectly

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=microsoft+OR+%23ms+OR+lnk.ms+OR+msft+OR+%23surface&rpp=100

# is %23 in url-encoded form

As the query exists it is "microsoft OR " with a page reference.

Jonathan

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:34 AM, John Kalucki  wrote:

> Try a less complex query, and you should get more results.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Josh Santangelo 
> wrote:
> > For example, this query:
> >
> https://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=microsoft+OR+#ms+OR+lnk.ms+OR+msft+OR+#surface&page=1&rpp=100&result_type=recent
> >
> > Is there any way to get a larger number of results per page?
> >
> > thanks,
> > -josh
> >
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: In San Francisco for WWDC? Come to Twitter HQ on June 9th 6-8pm for a @twitterapi meetup!

[Jonathan Markwell]

The next Twitter Developer Nest (@devnest) in London is on the 8th July:
http://devnest.eventbrite.com/

Hope you can make it.

Jon.

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Tammy Fennell wrote:

> Hey, any chance of ever having one of these meetups in the UK?!
>
> On Jun 7, 12:48 pm, Taylor Singletary 
> wrote:
> > Hi Mac Devs,
> >
> > This time last year we hosted an informal meetup of WWDC attendees. The
> > event turned into a fun evening so we've decided to do it again. We are
> > inviting WWDC attendees and Twitter Platform developers to our office on
> > Wednesday, June 9, at 6PM. There is limited space, so please register
> athttp://bit.ly/twitterapi-wwdcif you would like to join.
> >
> > During the meetup, we plan to discuss xAuth, OAuth Echo, give an update
> on
> > annotations, see demos of iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps and hold an open
> Q&A.
> > If you would like to apply to demo your Mac-based app, please fill out
> this
> > form:http://bit.ly/asvBwI. Around 8 o'clock, we will all head out for a
> few
> > drinks to close out the evening. We hope to see you there.
> >
> > Hope to see you there!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > The @twitterapi Team
>



-- 
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Engineer | Founder | Connector

Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK

Web application development & support
Twitter & Facebook integration specialists
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Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Saerch API and Twitter "Live Search Results" disparity

[Jonathan Reichhold]

The stream API will have more results and will give all results versus the
search API which will sample popular results (high-velocity), but for this
case all results are available for both systems.

Jonathan

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Bess  wrote:

> This is related to cache. Search API results are from cache to improve
> performance? Search API is not getting the same results as Stream API?
>
> On Jun 4, 3:12 pm, Jonathan Reichhold 
> wrote:
> > This is actually an artifact of how retweets are displayed between
> > search.twitter.com and twitter.com  The tweets are there, but the
> display is
> > different.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Brian Maso  >wrote:
> >
> > > Last night I collected tweets through the search API for the hashtag
> > > "#glossgreen", and got a sizeable number of tweets.
> >
> > > This morning I did the equivalent thing through the "search" box on my
> > > Twitter homepage (the URL that appears in my browser is "http://
> > > twitter.com/#search?q=%23glossgreen"), and got different results.
> >
> > > More specifically, I found that there were a few users who's tweets
> > > appeared when doing the search through the "search" box in the browser
> > > who do not appear at all through the search API results. For example,
> > > the user "@gloss" had many tweets using the #glossgreen hashtag in the
> > > time period around 6-8 pm PDT 6/2 -- none of these appear in the
> > > twitter search results, but many appear in results through the twitter
> > > "search" box on my personal twitter homepage.
> >
> > > I just re-performed both searches this morning to make sure this isn't
> > > a temporary issue, but got the same disparity,
> >
> > > What expectation should I have about search API accuracy? Shold I
> > > expect the search API results to eventually "repair", or is are the
> > > @gloss tweets permanently missing from the search API's database?
> >
> > > I don't want to have to use multiple different APIs/screen-scrapes/
> > > streams just to make sure I get accurate search results, but if that's
> > > what I have to do then please let me know.
> >
> > > Brian Maso
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Saerch API and Twitter "Live Search Results" disparity

[Jonathan Reichhold]

This has nothing to do with the cache.  Speaking as a engineer in the search
group I can state that this has nothing to do with the cache.

Jonathan
@jreichhold

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Bess  wrote:

> This is related to cache. Search API results are from cache to improve
> performance? Search API is not getting the same results as Stream API?
>
> On Jun 4, 3:12 pm, Jonathan Reichhold 
> wrote:
> > This is actually an artifact of how retweets are displayed between
> > search.twitter.com and twitter.com  The tweets are there, but the
> display is
> > different.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Brian Maso  >wrote:
> >
> > > Last night I collected tweets through the search API for the hashtag
> > > "#glossgreen", and got a sizeable number of tweets.
> >
> > > This morning I did the equivalent thing through the "search" box on my
> > > Twitter homepage (the URL that appears in my browser is "http://
> > > twitter.com/#search?q=%23glossgreen"), and got different results.
> >
> > > More specifically, I found that there were a few users who's tweets
> > > appeared when doing the search through the "search" box in the browser
> > > who do not appear at all through the search API results. For example,
> > > the user "@gloss" had many tweets using the #glossgreen hashtag in the
> > > time period around 6-8 pm PDT 6/2 -- none of these appear in the
> > > twitter search results, but many appear in results through the twitter
> > > "search" box on my personal twitter homepage.
> >
> > > I just re-performed both searches this morning to make sure this isn't
> > > a temporary issue, but got the same disparity,
> >
> > > What expectation should I have about search API accuracy? Shold I
> > > expect the search API results to eventually "repair", or is are the
> > > @gloss tweets permanently missing from the search API's database?
> >
> > > I don't want to have to use multiple different APIs/screen-scrapes/
> > > streams just to make sure I get accurate search results, but if that's
> > > what I have to do then please let me know.
> >
> > > Brian Maso
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Saerch API and Twitter "Live Search Results" disparity

[Jonathan Reichhold]

This is actually an artifact of how retweets are displayed between
search.twitter.com and twitter.com  The tweets are there, but the display is
different.

Jonathan

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Brian Maso wrote:

> Last night I collected tweets through the search API for the hashtag
> "#glossgreen", and got a sizeable number of tweets.
>
> This morning I did the equivalent thing through the "search" box on my
> Twitter homepage (the URL that appears in my browser is "http://
> twitter.com/#search?q=%23glossgreen"), and got different results.
>
> More specifically, I found that there were a few users who's tweets
> appeared when doing the search through the "search" box in the browser
> who do not appear at all through the search API results. For example,
> the user "@gloss" had many tweets using the #glossgreen hashtag in the
> time period around 6-8 pm PDT 6/2 -- none of these appear in the
> twitter search results, but many appear in results through the twitter
> "search" box on my personal twitter homepage.
>
> I just re-performed both searches this morning to make sure this isn't
> a temporary issue, but got the same disparity,
>
> What expectation should I have about search API accuracy? Shold I
> expect the search API results to eventually "repair", or is are the
> @gloss tweets permanently missing from the search API's database?
>
> I don't want to have to use multiple different APIs/screen-scrapes/
> streams just to make sure I get accurate search results, but if that's
> what I have to do then please let me know.
>
> Brian Maso

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Search request failed. error 420

[Jonathan Reichhold]

420 is a rate limit.  The actual error message in the response does state
this.

Requesting things more than every 20 seconds will not help your results be
any fresher.

Jonathan

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Karolis  wrote:

> Hello
>
> i was sending this request via php: status:http://search.twitter.com/
> search.json?geocode=55.6762944,12.5681157,10mi&rpp=100<http://search.twitter.com/%0Asearch.json?geocode=55.6762944,12.5681157,10mi&rpp=100>
>
> the reply i get is: 420 unused. failed to open stream: HTTP request
> failed! HTTP/1.1
>
> Is this problem with my code or reliability of api?
>

[twitter-dev] Re: TwitterOAuth, two authentication calls, one works, one fails... why?

[Jonathan Sachs]

On 5/26/2010, Abraham Williams wrote:

Are the scripts on the same server? Same version of PHP? Are they 
using the same accounts access tokens? Same consumer token?

Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

Since I posted, though, I figured out what the problem was. The 
second authentication _is_ working, but the "verify credentials" call 
that I made immediately afterward (to confirm that it's working) is 
not. I did the same after the first authentication call, and it 
worked there. This is equally baffling, but I can tweet, so it's not 
a show stopper.


I'd still like to get my code working with the current version of 
your API code, and if you have any suggestions, I'd welcome then. (I 
posted about this several weeks ago but got no response. The problem 
is not the same; in that case the first authentication call's tweet 
doesn't work either.) But I'll have to defer that until I get my 
first implementation into production.


-- Jonathan  

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter search API

[Jonathan Reichhold]

The first one should likely be
BBC1 OR "Cash in the Attic"
which translates to
(BBC1) OR (Cash AND in AND the AND Attic)

instead of
BBC1 OR Cash in the Attic
which translates to
(BBC1) OR (CASH) AND (in) AND (the) AND (Attic)

Jonathan

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Nick  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> The search API is giving me strange results, for instance
>
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=BBC1+OR+Cash+in+the+Attic&result_type=recent
>
> vs
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=BBC1&result_type=recent
>
> Shouldn't all the results from the second URL also be available in
> first URL?
> Or am I doing something wrong!
>

[twitter-dev] TwitterOAuth, two authentication calls, one works, one fails... why?

[Jonathan]

I've been trying to get my application to work with TwitterOAuth for
several weeks now. Here’s a brief history:

I need to authorize user requests of three different types. For that
purpose I’ve got two scripts (I’ll call them #1 and #2), and #2 is
invoked in two places.

Several weeks ago I got script #1 to work with an old version of
TwitterOAuth, which did not support specifying a callback URL for each
call. I then tried to migrate to a newer version (beta-0.2.0), which
would support specifying a callback URL, and script #1 ceased to work.
Everything seemed OK up to the point where I tested the access token
by performing a verify_credentials operation; then I got back an error
that said “could not authenticate you.”

I had no luck identifying the problem, so today I fell back to the old
version of TwitterOAuth. Now script #1 works again, but script #2 does
not. It returns the same error, “could not authenticate you.”

I've inserted echo statements in both scripts to show the parameters
and result of every call to TwitterOAuth. The sequences of calls are
identical, and as far as I can tell the parameters and results are
identical in every respect that they should be. Yet one call succeeds
and the other fails.

I've been beating may head against this thing for weeks, and I'm
stumped.

I'm open to any sort of advice on what the problem might be, or how to
identify it, or how to work around it without identifying it.

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

[Jonathan]

I'm Jonathan Sachs, and I'm working with a company named Kachingle
(http://www.kachingle.com) that's building a new type of service for
letting users give financial support to the web sites they visit. We
want to use Twitter to keep our member sites and users aware of each
others' activities.

I've spent about half of my career doing programming, and the other
half doing technical writing. (I'm a big believer in documentation,
and in software design for usability.) I'currently do most of my
programming in PHP, with a little Javascript thrown in. My past
activities have encompassed Java, C++, C, Visual Basic for
Applications, FORTH, PL/I, FORTRAN IV, SNOBOL3, and IBM Basic Assembly
Language. Among other things.

I'm currently wrestling with the latest (I think) version of Abraham's
implementation of the API, trying to make it do the things that an
older version did.

[twitter-dev] Problem(s) moving to a newer version of the API

[Jonathan]

I've been waiting a week for some response to a question. I just found
that the question never was distributed. I'll try again.

I've made a little progress on my own, but not much. I feel like I'm
beating my head against a wall, and I'm very frustrated.

To recap: I have a prototype application which was based on the
example on Abraham's web site. It works with an old version of
twitterOAuth, and I'm trying to upgrade it to use version 0.2.0-beta2
(I gather that's the most current version), which I need to develop my
prototype further. It doesn't work, and I don't know why.

First, a word about terminology: there seems to be a lot of confusion
about “key” versus “token.” The documentation I've read seems to
distinguish the two, but doesn't use them consistently. I'm using
“token” to denote the combination of a key and secret.

Here's what I'm doing now:

1. Create a TwitterOAuth object with consumer key and consumer secret.

2. Call $oauth->requestToken($callback); save the resulting token for
later use.

3. CAll $oath->getAuthorizeURL($request_token,false).

4. Link to the returned URL.

5. On return to the callback, create a TwitterOAuth object with
consumer key, consumer secret, request key, and request secret.

6. call $oath->getAccessToken($verifier), where $verifier comes from
the URL's parameter string.

7. Use the resulting access token to create a new TwitterOAuth object
with consumer key, consumer secret, access key, and access secret.

8. Try to perform an operation.

Everything seems to work well up to step 8, where I get back a
response that says, “Could not authenticate you.”

I'm baffled. It seems to me that either this thing works or it
doesn't, and if it doesn't, there's no logical process for figuring
out why.

I noticed one odd thing which might be a clue. I understand that the
"oauth_token" returned to the callback URL is supposed to the same as
the request key passed to the oauth_token passed to the authorization
URL (and thus, I assume, the request key in the request token passed
to getAuthorizeURL. It ain't so. The value returned to the callback
URL doesn't match anything else I recognize.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search API (boolean operators)

[Jonathan Reichhold]

Frequency of the words are highly time dependent and all terms are working.
See:

helenlowell "life before death" OR "palliative care" OR dying OR
"end-of-life care"

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=helenlowell+%22life+before+death%22+OR+%22palliative+care%22+OR+dying+OR+%22end-of-life+care%22

Jonathan

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:10 PM, taipan541  wrote:

> Erm, I dont think it is working correctly if using the link below (as
> what described in Jonathan's post)
>
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22life+before+death%22+OR+%22palliative+care%22+OR+dying+OR+%22end-of-life+care%22
>
> It only retrieve results that is based on the "dying" keyword. The
> other keywords ("life before death", "palliative care") which contain
> spaces doesnt return any results. :(
>
> Best Regards,
> Anis
> Year 3 - Student
> Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore
>
> On May 11, 11:44 pm, Jonathan Reichhold 
> wrote:
> > Quotes should be used on all phrases.  I.e.
> >
> > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22life+before+death%22+OR+%22pall...
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:35 AM, taipan541  wrote:
> > > Hello. :)
> >
> > > I have several keywords that I would like to search on Twitter. The
> > > keywords are "life before death", "palliative care", "dying", "end-of-
> > > life care". I have tried to use the boolean operators to form up the
> > > search query as stated below.
> >
> > >http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=life%20before%20death+OR+pall.
> ..
> > > (multiple keywords)
> >
> > > Firstly, did I build the query string correctly? If yes, I only could
> > > retrieve very little results with the query above. If I only include
> > > one keyword, which is "life before death", it would return me more
> > > results.
> >
> > >http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=life%20before%20death (one
> > > keyword)
> >
> > > I believed that if I use the boolean operators, It would have return
> > > me much more results which includes the results of "life before
> > > death". Please help me on how should I proceed to retrieve the results
> > > from all keywords.
> >
> > > Thank You For Your Help :)
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Anis
> > > Year 3 - Student
> > > Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Current TwitterOAuth API won't display authorization page

[Jonathan]

I'm afraid I spoke to soon. Things are not quite working.

I am able to authorize tweeting through the new API, but I am not able
to tweet yet.

When I first tried, I got back a message from this tweet operation:

   $to->OAuthRequest( "https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml";,
  array('status' => $expanded_txt, 'POST') );

which said,

Warning:  Missing argument 3 for TwitterOAuth::oAuthRequest(),
called in ... and defined in .../twitterOAuth.php on line 178

I looked at the code and concluded that the third parameter should be
NULL. I added that and got this from PHP:

Notice:  Array to string conversion in .../OAuth.php on
line 373

and from the tweet call:

Could not authenticate you.

Oauth.php lines 373 says

return strtoupper($this->http_method);

I traced the value in http_method back to the second parameter of
twitterOAuth::oAuthRequest. I saw that instead of returning an array
which contained, among other things, the scalar 'POST', the second
parameter should just be 'POST'.

Accordingly, I changed the call to:

   $to->OAuthRequest( "https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml";,
  'POST', NULL );

and got a return value that contained this:

Client must provide a 'status' parameter with a value.

...which makes perfect sense, since the "status" element of the array
contains the text of the tweet!

I'm not sure what's happening here. It appears that one part of the
code requires OAuthRequest's second parameter to be an array, and
another part requires it to be a scalar! I know that can't be so, but
I don't see what it wants. Again, I'm stymied by the lack of API
documentation.

[twitter-dev] Re: Current TwitterOAuth API won't display authorization page

[Jonathan]

On May 10, 1:08 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is because you are using the faster Sign in With Twitter endpoint where
> if a user has already authorized your application they will automatically
> redirect back to your site. If you want the user to always get prompted use
> $connection->getAuthorizeURL($token, FALSE);

Thanks. I tried that, and it worked.

One more question: how could I have figured this out without asking?

The comment block on twitterOAuth::getAuthorizeURL doesn't explain the
second parameter at all. I got your twitterOAuth documentation from
docs.google.com (I think through a link in the Twitter API Google
Group), but it describes the beta code, and I now know that it omits
the critical fact that I needed. Also, it's a brief outline of the
sequence of API calls -- useful in its own right, but it can't contain
the level of detail that I'd need to solve a problem like this one.

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Search API (boolean operators)

[Jonathan Reichhold]

Quotes should be used on all phrases.  I.e.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22life+before+death%22+OR+%22palliative+care%22+OR+dying+OR+%22end-of-life+care%22

Jonathan

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:35 AM, taipan541  wrote:

> Hello. :)
>
> I have several keywords that I would like to search on Twitter. The
> keywords are "life before death", "palliative care", "dying", "end-of-
> life care". I have tried to use the boolean operators to form up the
> search query as stated below.
>
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=life%20before%20death+OR+palliative%20care+OR+dying+OR+end-of-life%20care
> (multiple keywords)
>
> Firstly, did I build the query string correctly? If yes, I only could
> retrieve very little results with the query above. If I only include
> one keyword, which is "life before death", it would return me more
> results.
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=life%20before%20death  (one
> keyword)
>
> I believed that if I use the boolean operators, It would have return
> me much more results which includes the results of "life before
> death". Please help me on how should I proceed to retrieve the results
> from all keywords.
>
> Thank You For Your Help :)
> Best Regards,
> Anis
> Year 3 - Student
> Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore
>
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Authenticated Search:Version 2.1.2

[Jonathan Reichhold]

You are also using api.twitter.com/v1/search when you should be using
search.twitter.com/search

The low rate limit is a side affect of the incorrect endpoint.

Jonathan

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:32 AM, seshu  wrote:

> Hi,
> Twitter api supports maximum of 150 requests per hour for an
> unauthenticated request from an ip.
> So when i hosted it on GAE i was getting response code as 420.
> Does basic authentication for the search api work? I can see we are
> passing null for auth in Twitter.java.
> I tried passing auth also.(I created an extra method). After creating
> an authenticated instance of Twitter from Factory class by passing
> userId/password.
> But still seems it was not working as i was getting 420 status for
> GAE. But was working fine locally.
> Any workarounds for this? Or are there any gaps in my understandings?
>
> Best Regards,
> Suresh
>

[twitter-dev] Current TwitterOAuth API won't display authorization page

[Jonathan]

I'm having a puzzling (to me) problem with the TwitterOAuth API.

I wrote and debugged code to get authorization to use a Twitter
account, but I wasn't able to set the callback URL. With the help of
people in this forum, I learned that I had an old beta copy of the
API. Installing a current copy was supposed to solve the problem.
Instead, it "broke" my program.

Now, when I call click the link returned by getAuthorizeURL, I don't
get the authorization page at all. I'm just redirected to the callback
URL.

(Yes, getAuthorizeURL is returning a URL on Twitter that looks about
the same as it did before: https://twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token=[a
long string of gibberish].)

What's happening here?

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Developer Q&A on Stack Overflow

[Jonathan Markwell]

There's now an early Twitter investor on board with StackOverflow:
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/05/stack.html

Do you think this gives more weight to the idea of Twitter officially
pushing developers towards a StackOverflow tag for Q&A?

Jon.


On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Jonathan Markwell
 wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm sure that many of you have seen the rise of Stack Overflow as the
> source for developer questions and answers over the last year. Many
> members of this group's community are active there with over 400
> questions already tagged as being related to Twitter development:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/twitter
>
> It strikes me that this might be a much more effective environment
> than this Google Group for much of the discussion that happens here:
>
>  1) It will be much easier for people to find previous answers to
> questions both via Google and when they start asking a question.
>
>  2) Questions that the community deems to be most important will rise
> to the top and will gain attention of the team at Twitter.
>
>  3) Answers that the community deems to be correct will rise to the
> top saving people from trying all the suggestions in a thread.
>
>  4) Members of the community that add most value will be recognised here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=twitter&sort=stats&pagesize=15
>
> I'm confident that the new developer site being built by the platform
> team is going to be a dramatic improvement for the community. However
> I do not believe Twitter have the resources to recreate the success of
> Stack Overflow for Q&A purposes. Even Google has recently opted to use
> Stack Overflow as the official site for Android developer Q&A:
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/stackoverflow-android-support.php
>
> What are your thoughts on this? For this to work best, with a critical
> mass of participants, it would need to be endorsed by the Twitter
> Platform team. Do you think Stack Overflow should be named as the
> place for Twitter developer Q&A?
>
> Looking forward to hearing your thoughts,
>
> Jon.
>
> --
> Jonathan Markwell
> Engineer | Founder | Connector
>
> Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK
>
> Web application development & support
> Twitter & Facebook integration specialists
> http://inuda.com
>
> Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community
> http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com
>
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> http://theskiff.org
>
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>
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>



-- 
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Engineer | Founder | Connector

Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK

Web application development & support
Twitter & Facebook integration specialists
http://inuda.com

Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community
http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com

Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton -
http://theskiff.org

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skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot

Re: [twitter-dev] Differences between docs and Search API behavior

[Jonathan Reichhold]

First off, the address for search is currently search.twitter.com i.e. the
documentation and the information should use the following url:

http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=recipe

See http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search

All of your other issues are a result of not using the proper URL.  At some
point we look to combine the 2 API,, but issues like you have noted will
cause this to be painful.

Jonathan
@twittersearch

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Adam Green <140...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've found a number of things that don't seem to behave as documented
> on either the old API wiki or the new Dev site. I'm writing a tutorial
> on this portion of the API, so I'd like to know if the docs are
> correct, and I'm just getting weird results, or if the docs are wrong.
> I'm using PHP and cURL to test this. I'm sending a very simple search
> request of:
> http://api.twitter.com/1/search.json?q=recipe
>
> 1. Docs say "Search API is not limited by the same 150 requests per
> hour limit as the REST API. The number is quite a bit higher and we
> feel it is both liberal and sufficient for most applications."
>
> When I try calling the Search API, the rate limit shown in the header
> is 150. Exceeding 150 in an hour does cause a rate limit failure, so
> this number does seem to be 150.
>
> 2. Docs say "Consumers using the Search API but failing to include a
> User Agent string will receive a lower rate limit."
>
> I got the same rate limit of 150 whether or not I use the cURL user
> agent option. I tried an application name of "twitter app tutorial"
> and a standard Mozilla user agent string.
>
> 3. Docs say "An application that exceeds the rate limitations of the
> Search API will receive HTTP 420 response codes to requests."
>
> When I exceed 150 requests, I get a 400 HTTP response code, not 420.
>
> 4. Docs say "It is a best practice to watch for this error condition
> and honor the Retry-After header that instructs the application when
> it is safe to continue."
>
> When I exceed 150 requests, I don't see a retry-After header value.
>
> Thanks for your help with this.
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Search for certain users Twits yields no results

[Jonathan Reichhold]

Fixed.  Should have been searchable and now is.

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:40 PM, guytom  wrote:

> For some reason:
> http://search.twitter.com/search?from=Lakers
>
> While
> http://search.twitter.com/search?from=Celtics
> Works well
>
> Ideas anyone?
>
>
> --
> Subscription settings:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
>

[twitter-dev] Image Tags in Tweets?!

[Jonathan Strauss]

The last few tweets from @twitter feature the #endmalaria hash tag. On
some pages, like http://twitter.com/twitter and 
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23endmalaria,
the hash tag is followed by an image of a mosquito (http://
a1.twimg.com/a/1272044617/images/mosquito.gif) which is hyperlinked to
a different page than the hash tag itself. Yet on other pages, like
http://twitter.com/twitter/status/12719532503, and in the API (http://
api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/12719532503.xml), the mosquito image
doesn't appear at all.

What gives? Is this some kind of annotations test or something totally
different?


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Re: [twitter-dev] Search API - 420 increase at 17:01 PDT

[Jonathan Reichhold]

420 is a rate limit.  Are you in shared hosting or have you changed the
access pattern?

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:24 PM, mikawhite  wrote:

> The Search API is returning 420 code this afternoon. Did something
> change at twitter? To my knowledge, nothing has changed at my location.
>


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Re: [twitter-dev] Re: High frequency of search API timeouts

[Jonathan Reichhold]

There is a known issue with source and the search api that will be fixed on
the search deploy next week.

Jonathan

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Ryan W  wrote:

> Thanks for confirming.  Glad I'm not alone!
>
> Are you using the "source" keyword in your queries?  The more I try,
> the more I think that seems to be the problem since I can't recreate
> timeouts/long query times when I don't use it.  But again, maybe not
>
> I'll work on not using it for now.  But, thought I'd mention in case
> anybody from the twitter search team is out there.
>
> Nice app BTW, looks cool.
>
> rw
>
>
>
> On Apr 14, 8:56 am, Pykler  wrote:
> > I am a member of a team working on a new startup to classify
> twittersearchresults into various categories. Kinda cool, check itouthttp://
> twecan.com/. However, not all queries may work, and sometimes
> > you would have to resubmit them as mentioned by Ryan.
> >
> > On Apr 12, 7:04 pm, Ryan W  wrote:
> >
> > > Is anybody else seeing a high frequency ofsearchtimeouts?
> > ...
> > > Seemed to be working fine until yesterday.
> >
> > YES! same thing.
> >
> > > Here's the weird part though.
> >
> > > First case:
> > > - execute complexsearchdirectly in browser and it timesoutlike my
> > > app gets on App Engine
> >
> > > Second case:
> > > - run a simple, single word,searchin a browser
> > > - then run the complexsearchimmediately after and it works
> >
> > > It's almost like it has to be primed? It also seems like the "-source"
> > > parameter is the problem, but that could just be anecdotal and clouded
> > > by my second case example above.
> >
> > To me it looked random, re-running the same query seems to work
> > sometimes and then fail. We thought it was our caching strategy which
> > we worked all night yesterday optimizing so that we don't hit
> twittersearchas much, yet we often get timedout. Wonder if someone is
> > looking into this.
> >
> > --
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> > Twecan Developerhttp://twecan.com- Twecan - Making sense of twittersearch
>
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[twitter-dev] Re: Can an authorize URL pass through a parameter?

[Jonathan Sachs]

Raffi Krikorian replied to my question about pass-through parameters 
in the callback URL:
i don't think this is possible in oauth 1.0a. i know oauth 2.0 has a 
state parameter (don't quote me on the name) that will allow clients 
to pass an opaque string to the server who will then pass it back.

One of my co-workers came up with this:


looking at the twitter docu on github
http://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth/blob/master/DOCUMENTATION

i see this:

4) You will now have a Twitter URL that you must send the user to. 
You can add parameters and

they will return with the user in step 5.

https://twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token=xyz123
https://twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token=xyz123&info=abc 
// info will return with user


I haven't tried this yet, but it appears to be saying that the 
feature I want _is_ available. How should I interpret it?

[twitter-dev] Can an authorize URL pass through a parameter?

[Jonathan Sachs]

I've got a specific question and a general one.

The specific one first. When I registered my application with 
Twitter, it made me specify a callback URL. In fact, what page I want 
Twitter to "call back" depends on what the user is doing! 
Consequently, the callback page must figure out what the user was 
doing and redirect to one of several other pages, as appropriate.


That will be a lot easier if I can furnish the authorize URL with a 
parameter that Twitter will return to the callback URL along with the 
token that it provides. Is that possible?


Now, the more general question. Is there documentation that would let 
me find the answer to this question myself? So far all of the 
documentation I've found is tutorial, which is great for learning but 
not for looking things up.





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Re: [twitter-dev] Attending Chirp? Let's get to know each other better, Before the Conference!

[Jonathan Markwell]

Hi Arnaud & All

I'm also making the trip across the Atlantic with a group of Brits
under the heading of the Developer Mission:
http://developermission.com

Please get in touch with me off list if any of you are also travelling
a long way to get to San Francisco. We have a bunch of activities
planned including meetups, campus tours and meals between 12th and
19th and we have room for a few more to join us.

We just released the first wave of ticket's to Europe's Unofficial
Twitter Developer Unconference in London on the 8th and 9th of May.
They were all allocated in under an hour but we'll be releasing more
soon. Details at http://warblecamp.eventbrite.com

Also coming up on the evening 20th of April is the 8th Twitter
Developer Nest in London. More details and free tickets available at
http://twitterdevelopernest.com

I'm particularly looking forward to the hackday part of Chirp and the
opportunity to hear about what other people in the ecosystem are
working on. I'm looking at building a one page app that we can use to
get a quick daily snap shot of all the things going on in the Twitter
developer ecosystem from this Google Group, to GitHub, StackOverflow
and Twitter. If I get the chance I'll also be adding some refinements
to a soon to be launched app I'm woking on - http://smidgn.com

See you next week!

Jon
http://twitter.com/jot


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Arnaud Meunier
 wrote:
> Dear Developers,
>
> I'm sure we’re a lot - in this group - to have our ticket for Chirp,
> and I wanted to launch a thread so we could know each other a little
> better, before the conference starts.
>
> The conference looks very promising on a technical side: we’re going
> to learn from the expert, practice during the hack day... Now, I don't
> know for you, but as great as it looks like, another reason that
> pushed me to do this 6,000 miles trip (coming from Paris), is actually
> to meet YOU guys!
>
> So I would love to learn more about "my fellow Chirp attendees" the
> official website is mentioning! Where are you coming from? Which
> projects are you working on? What are you interested in (concerning
> the conference and/or in general)?
>
> We’re going to be a lot there (something like 800 people if I remember
> well), but for a short time and in a very busy schedule. That’s why I
> thought it would be interesting to start the conversation,
> presentation and “who’s who” game before.
>
> On my side, I’m a 26 years old French Engineer and I created my own
> company to focus on IT consulting and (mainly on) Twitoaster (http://
> twitoaster.com). It will be my first time in San Francisco, and I’d
> love to meet other developers to chat around Twitter projects, talk
> about our experiences, exchange ideas... I’ll arrive the 13th (will do
> my best to be at pre-chirp conf) and I’ll stay at the Orchard Hotel.
> Concerning the conference, I’m particularly curious about the
> Monetization part; and the Media Ecosystem development (but this part
> recently disappeared from the schedule). I’m also wondering how I’ll
> manage to stay awake for 48h+ :)
>
> Arnaud Meunier - http://twitter.com/twitoaster
> Twitoaster - http://twitoaster.com
>
> PS: For those who would have missed them, here are a couple of links
> about the conference:
> - Pre Chirp Conference: http://bit.ly/akOk0R
> - Hack day collaboration: http://bit.ly/cD3KAJ
> - Attendees list: http://bit.ly/9IeEmo & http://bit.ly/byKOjS
> - Attendees conversations: http://bit.ly/98nvAr
> - Questions for the speakers: http://bit.ly/aakPUN
>
>
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[twitter-dev] Re: Chirp is coming to San Francisco April 14 and 15

[Jonathan Strauss]

Ok, I just threw this together super quickly: http://chirphackday.pbworks.com/

Preliminary sections:
* List of participants + areas of interests
* Ideas + interested developers
* Non-Twitter APIs that might be useful 

It's currently open to anyone to edit. Hopefully folks will find it
useful and/or improve on it.

@Doug: It would be great to have any more details about the Hack Day
process (i.e. rules, etc) that are currently available added in the
general info section at the top.

On Apr 6, 4:01 pm, Doug Williams  wrote:
> Jonathan,
> Lead the way! I'll happily point to any any efforts you are doing around
> coordination with the @Chirp account, etc...
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 15:06, Jonathan Strauss <
> > jonat...@snowballfactory.com> wrote:
>
> >> Secondly, is there a wiki or something for coordinating among Chirp
> >> Hack Day participants?
>
> > Twitter.com? :-P
>
> > --
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[twitter-dev] Re: Chirp is coming to San Francisco April 14 and 15

[Jonathan Strauss]

First of all, I want to extend an invite to everyone here to the pre-
Chirp party we're co-hosting with 140, Klout, LiveIntent, Ellerdale,
and Plancast on Tuesday, April 13. See http://tweetvite.com/event/prechirp
for all the details.

Secondly, is there a wiki or something for coordinating among Chirp
Hack Day participants? We're a couple people, but are interested in
teaming up with some other folks if it makes sense. So, it would be
great to have a central place where people could list hack ideas or
areas that interest them and how to get in touch. In the meantime,
feel free to reach out to me directly if you want to chat about hack
ideas.

Hope to see you on Tuesday night,
-jonathan

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On Apr 6, 3:06 am, Arnaud Meunier 
wrote:
> Really excited to be in San Francisco (first time for me there) next
> week! Quite a long trip from Paris, but I just couldn't miss such an
> occasion to meet you all :)
>
> For those who would be interested, I made a little "Chirppage" on
> Twitoaster, threading Attendees' conversations in real 
> time:http://twitoaster.com/twitter-chirp-conference/
>
> See you (very) soon,
> Arnaud | @twitoaster |http://twitoaster.com
>
> On Apr 5, 9:04 pm, Doug Williams  wrote:
>
> > Hi all --
> > With only nine days left until Biz's opening speech,Chirp-- Twitter's
> > first conference for developers -- is fast approaching! The two day event
> > will be in San Francisco on April 14th and 15th. You can image how excited
> > we are to have a conversation with everyone from the ecosystem in the same
> > room.
>
> > The conference opens at the Palace of Fine Arts from 9AM to 6PM on April
> > 14th. The schedule features keynotes from Biz Stone, Ev Williams, Ryan
> > Sarver, and Dick Costolo which include announcements and roadmap details.
>
> > On April 14th at 7PM we all move to Fort Mason to start the Hack Day. Here
> > is where everyone will have a chance to collaborate, meet other members of
> > the ecosystem, and have the entire Twitter team on call to answer questions.
> > After an Ignite session at 8PM on the night of the 14th, we'll leave the
> > doors to Fort Mason open all night for developers who want to dig into their
> > code or conversations. The content on April 15th will pick up at 10AM. The
> > day includes breakout talks on technology, best practices, policy, design,
> > and more.  Additionally, we're hosting times for developers to meet with
> > Twitter's designers, Legal team, Platform team, the EFF and others to get
> > their individual questions answered. Even Ev and Biz are hosting an hour so
> > everyone can meet the founders. We'll wrap the entire conference with a
> > rockin' party later that night!
>
> > We have more space at Fort Mason than the Palace of Fine Arts so last week
> > we opened tickets for the Hack Day. There are still $140 Hack Day passes and
> > a few full conference tickets left so if you would like to attend please
> > head tohttp://chirp.twitter.comandregister. We hope to see you there!
>
> > Thanks,
> > Doug
>
> >http://twitter.com/dougw

[twitter-dev] Re: Can't reset application's callback address

[Jonathan]

It was very reproducible over the weekend... but not today.

Maybe OAuth is telling me that I shouldn't work on weekends!

BTW, the documentation for the example program refers me to your web
site (abrah.am), but when I got there, I get a notice that it's off-
line. Is that something that's going to change? I believe there are
materials there that would have helped me, at least by convincing me
sooner that something out of my ken was happening.


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[twitter-dev] Can't reset application's callback address

[Jonathan Sachs]

I'm trying to run the sample program that comes with the TwitterOAuth 
library. It's not working because when I registered my web as a 
Twitter API client, I mistyped the domain name. Twitter sends the 
OAuth token to an invalid URL, and the sample program never gets it.


I corrected the URL in Twitter, but it's still sending the token to 
the old URL. I've tried everything possible on the client end to make 
it stop, including switching browsers and rebooting. Nothing helped.


I'm going to delete and recreate my Twitter account, which should fix 
the problem, but my development work will probably require changing 
the URL several times, and I can't go through that each time. How can 
I make Twitter send the token to the right URL? 





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Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

[Jonathan Markwell]

Hi Ed,

http://snapbird.org does the kind of search you're looking for. All
done in javascript and the code is available at
http://github.com/remy/snapbird. Built by @rem

Jon.

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:06 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky  wrote:
> I just had an interesting feature request from a user. It seems like
> it would be fairly difficult to do without access to the full
> database, but what she wants is to be able to limit a search to just
> the people she's following. For example, if she saw a link go by from
> someone and didn't remember who it was from, she'd like to be able to
> search for it.
>
> I can think of fairly easy ways to code it using the API, but I'm
> wondering if something like that could be built into the web app.
>



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[twitter-dev] Overview of Yesterday's Twitter Developer Nest: London 7

[Jonathan Markwell]

Hi All,

@Ew4n from mobile industry review has written a great overview of
yesterday's Twitter Developer Nest. Perfect for people like me that
couldn't make it this time:

http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2010/03/a_quick_overview_of_devnest_7_last_night.html

The next Twitter Developer Nest London is on 20th April, follow
@devnest for details or get on the mailing list at
http://twitterdevelopernest.com

Also don't miss WarbleCamp, the free Twitter Developer Unconference &
24 Hackday in London on 8th and 9th May. We've just announced the
Guardian newspaper, PayPal X and Yahoo Developer Network as our lead
sponsors. Please register for more details if you are interested in
attending and/or sponsoring at: http://warblecamp.org

Best wishes,

Jon.



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[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Best Practice (Multiple Connections or Single)

[Jonathan Strauss]

First of all John, that may be the best Saturday night reply ever :-).

We are trying to use the count parameter with the follow predicate on
an account with shadow access role and have been getting some curious
responses when testing.

Here is a brief description of the testing scenarios:
* following a single Twitter ID
* using a count parameter of -1000
* tweeting from the Twitter ID being followed and then immediately
starting the connection described
Scenario A - if the connection is started within 1-2 seconds of the
tweet, it will show up in the historical results and then the
connection will hang for ~10min before disconnecting
Scenario B - if the connection is started >10 seconds from the tweet,
it will not show up in the historical results

Questions:
1) In reading "On filtered streams, the number requested is the number
of statuses that are applied to the filter predicate, and not the
number of statuses returned." from 
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#count,
are we to understand that the count parameter for the follow predicate
should be keying off the expected volume of *all* tweets in the
reconnect period, not just the ones from users we're following?
2) If that is the case, won't our count parameter always need to be a
function of total Streaming API tweet volume as opposed to anything we
can measure within our app?
3) And finally, what would be the explanation for the hang we see in
testing Scenario A above?

Thanks,
-jonathan

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On Feb 27, 8:31 pm, John Kalucki  wrote:
> Each developer will come to understand Fullness in a unique inner-directed
> manner. One might decide that exhausting the predicate list constitutes
> adequate Fullness. Another might decide that data loss becomes unacceptable
> at another point, perhaps due to the rapid cycling. A third might develop
> another Fullness heuristic. We should not judge their reasons, rather their
> reasoning and purity of motive. And their careful adherence to the
> connection guidelines, as offered in the Wiki of Truth.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Alam Sher  wrote:
> > Okay, great.
>
> > When we say a default access account or elevated access is "TOO FULL". Does
> > that mean, we have started getting rate limit messages in stream? Or it is
> > something else?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Alam Sher
>
> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:31 AM, John Kalucki  wrote:
>
> >> The elevated access account can reconnect much less frequently by adding
> >> new predicates to a default access stream that cycles based on demand. When
> >> the default access account cycles, very little data will be lost, as it
> >> receives a small fraction of your total feed. Once the default access
> >> account is too full, the elevated access account can be restarted with the
> >> current predicates.
>
> >> -John Kalucki
> >>http://twitter.com/jkalucki
> >> Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
>
> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Alam Sher  wrote:
>
> >>> Sorry, but exactly this portion of the documentations goes above my head.
>
> >>> Can you please explain a bit more to me how a default access account can
> >>> be used along with the elevated access account to minimize the data loss?
>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Alam Sher
>
> >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:15 PM, John Kalucki  wrote:
>
> >>>> Yes, this is indeed what you should be doing. If you have a low
> >>>> tolerance for data loss, you will then use a total of four accounts: 2
> >>>> elevated and 2 default access accounts. If you can tolerate a few missing
> >>>> tweets on each reconnect, you can just use the two elevated accounts.
>
> >>>> -John Kalucki
>
> >>>>http://twitter.com/jkalucki
> >>>> Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
>
> >>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Alam Sher wrote:
>
> >>>>> So in case, if I have 20K users and I have to, say track 60K keywords
> >>>>> for them + also have to follow all of them. I should be applying for 2
> >>>>> higher access accounts one for track predicates and other for follow
> >>>>> predicate. Does this make sense?
>
> >>>>> Thanks,
>
> >>>>> On Feb 25, 8:44 am, John Kalucki  wrote:
> >>>>> > This technique works for updating any filter predicate. The count
> >>>>&

[twitter-dev] Re: Quality Filter in Streaming API with follow predicates

[Jonathan Strauss]

Indeed several, but people love ours because we do it smarter:
* change @mentions to Twitter real names
* post links to FB wall so your friends can see previews, watch
videos, and/or play audio inline
* give you the option of an inclusive (#fb) or exclusive (!fb) filter
on what tweets to post

See #3 on http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/ :-)

On Feb 25, 6:17 am, John Kalucki  wrote:
> FYI: There's already an app that posts Tweets to Facebook.
>
> -John
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Jonathan Strauss <
>
>
>
> jonat...@snowballfactory.com> wrote:
> > Heh :-) The app we're building, TweetPo.st, is designed to post the
> > user's tweets to Facebook. So, the call-to-action I proposed would be
> > specific to our app: i.e. if TweetPo.st users were not seeing the
> > expected behavior from the app.
>
> > But, we have decided to do basically what you suggest to start.
> > However, this will not help us if a user starts out in the clear and
> > is then subsequently quality filtered for whatever reason. But,
> > hopefully that's a real edge-case.
>
> > Thanks again!
> > -jonathan
>
> > On Feb 24, 11:52 am, John Kalucki  wrote:
> > > I don't know if you could detect this via Facebook updates. You could,
> > > perhaps, start following them on the stream and poll their timelines in
> > > parallel until you determine that their tweets are flowing -- then turn
> > off
> > > the polling.
>
> > > -John
>
> > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jonathan Strauss <
>
> > > jonat...@snowballfactory.com> wrote:
> > > > On Feb 23, 11:45 pm, John Kalucki  wrote:
>
> > > > > As far as programmatic detection, there are significant policy issues
> > in
> > > > > play around filtered users. Getting this feature shipped is the real
> > > > > solution.
>
> > > > Thanks for the quick response John! We suspected that shipping this
> > > > feature was the right solution, and it's good to know it's at the top
> > > > of the list. However, we know first-hand how big a time sink
> > > > scalability can be, so we won't hold our breath on seeing it too
> > > > soon ;-)
>
> > > > In the meantime, we may be able to do a workaround using user input
> > > > (i.e. "Click here if your tweets aren't showing up on Facebook").
> > > > We're already doing direct polling for protected updates, so it would
> > > > just be a matter of detecting the quality filtered public updates and
> > > > flipping the direct polling bit on our side.
>
> > > > Thanks again, and we look forward to seeing this feature when you're
> > > > able to get to it.
>
> > > > -jonathan
>
> > > > =
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> > > >http://snowballfactory.com
>
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[twitter-dev] Re: Quality Filter in Streaming API with follow predicates

[Jonathan Strauss]

Heh :-) The app we're building, TweetPo.st, is designed to post the
user's tweets to Facebook. So, the call-to-action I proposed would be
specific to our app: i.e. if TweetPo.st users were not seeing the
expected behavior from the app.

But, we have decided to do basically what you suggest to start.
However, this will not help us if a user starts out in the clear and
is then subsequently quality filtered for whatever reason. But,
hopefully that's a real edge-case.

Thanks again!
-jonathan

On Feb 24, 11:52 am, John Kalucki  wrote:
> I don't know if you could detect this via Facebook updates. You could,
> perhaps, start following them on the stream and poll their timelines in
> parallel until you determine that their tweets are flowing -- then turn off
> the polling.
>
> -John
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jonathan Strauss <
>
>
>
> jonat...@snowballfactory.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 23, 11:45 pm, John Kalucki  wrote:
>
> > > As far as programmatic detection, there are significant policy issues in
> > > play around filtered users. Getting this feature shipped is the real
> > > solution.
>
> > Thanks for the quick response John! We suspected that shipping this
> > feature was the right solution, and it's good to know it's at the top
> > of the list. However, we know first-hand how big a time sink
> > scalability can be, so we won't hold our breath on seeing it too
> > soon ;-)
>
> > In the meantime, we may be able to do a workaround using user input
> > (i.e. "Click here if your tweets aren't showing up on Facebook").
> > We're already doing direct polling for protected updates, so it would
> > just be a matter of detecting the quality filtered public updates and
> > flipping the direct polling bit on our side.
>
> > Thanks again, and we look forward to seeing this feature when you're
> > able to get to it.
>
> > -jonathan
>
> > =
> > Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
> >http://snowballfactory.com
>
> > Campaign tracking for social media -http://awe.sm
> > A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter -http://tweetpo.st
> > Sharecount button for Facebook -http://www.fbshare.me

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Best Practice (Multiple Connections or Single)

[Jonathan Strauss]

On Feb 24, 2:06 pm, John Kalucki  wrote:
> The documentation should be pretty clear on this topic. One main connection,
> and perhaps an auxiliary connection to manage query velocity.

Hey John,

Do you recommend this kind of 2 connection setup for updating our user
list when using the follow predicate?

We've been trying unsuccessfully to use the count parameter when
reconnecting to add new users to our follow list. I've found several
oblique mentions of the count parameter only working in some cases,
but no specifics on how or why.

We currently have shadow role access for the TweetPo.st app. We're
trying to update our Streaming API connection when new users signup
for TweetPo.st without losing tweets for existing users during
reconnect. Any suggestions on the best way to do this would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks!
-jonathan

=
Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

[Jonathan Strauss]

On Feb 19, 12:54 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do
> you most want to see added?

I'm Jonathan Strauss, and I'm co-founder of a startup called the
Snowball Factory[1] that builds performance marketing tools for social
media.

Our core product is called awe.sm[2] and is a campaign tracking
platform for social media (no, it's not just another URL
shortener ;-) ) with some pretty robust APIs[3]. We've also built
fbShare.me, the original retweet badge knock-off for Facebook, as well
as TweetPo.st, which cross-posts tweets to Facebook in a more
intelligent manner.

I guess at this point, our top feature request is the ability to
disable quality filtering in the Streaming API when using follow
predicates[4] :-D

And a final fun fact, we just moved into an office with Klout on the
ground floor of the same building Twitter is in. So, folks are welcome
to stop by if they're ever in the neighborhood.

@jhstrauss

[1] http://snowballfactory.com
[2] http://totally.awe.sm
[3] http://developers.awe.sm
[4] 
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/9f5e05fe93516a74

=
Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

[twitter-dev] Re: Quality Filter in Streaming API with follow predicates

[Jonathan Strauss]

On Feb 23, 11:45 pm, John Kalucki  wrote:

> As far as programmatic detection, there are significant policy issues in
> play around filtered users. Getting this feature shipped is the real
> solution.

Thanks for the quick response John! We suspected that shipping this
feature was the right solution, and it's good to know it's at the top
of the list. However, we know first-hand how big a time sink
scalability can be, so we won't hold our breath on seeing it too
soon ;-)

In the meantime, we may be able to do a workaround using user input
(i.e. "Click here if your tweets aren't showing up on Facebook").
We're already doing direct polling for protected updates, so it would
just be a matter of detecting the quality filtered public updates and
flipping the direct polling bit on our side.

Thanks again, and we look forward to seeing this feature when you're
able to get to it.

-jonathan

=
Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media -http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter -http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook -http://www.fbshare.me

[twitter-dev] Quality Filter in Streaming API with follow predicates

[Jonathan Strauss]

>From http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#ResultQuality:
"Removing the quality filter from streams with follow predicates is,
quite reasonably, an often requested feature."

Does anyone have any ideas on the status of this feature or any
suggested workarounds?

We are working on a new version of TweetPo.st powered by the Streaming
API. However, some of our beta testers are apparently being quality
filtered and we are trying to figure out a way to get their tweets.
They are OAuthed, so we can in theory poll their accounts directly for
updates. However, we don't have a systematic way of figuring out
whether they are being quality filtered in the first place or if that
status changes subsequently.

So, our specific questions are:
A) Is there any update on the status of removing the quality filter
from streams with follow predicates?
B) Is there any way to programmatically check if a given user is being
quality filtered?
C) Is there any way to be notified when a given user's quality filter
status changes?

Any help here would be greatly appreciated as we would ideally like to
use the Streaming API as much as possible and it's hard to explain to
users when their tweets don't show up.

Thanks!
-jonathan

=
Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

Re: [twitter-dev] Introduce yourself!

[Jonathan Markwell]

Great idea Abraham!

I'm Jonathan Markwell I first experimented with the the API in in
Summer 2007 when I made our office Nabaztag Rabbit speak all the
tweets in my timeline (it wasn't long before it was thrown out the
window). I pay the bills as an independent Ruby on Rails developer,
mostly working on Twitter integrations.

I'm really interested in the challenges of scaling developer
communities and have just started a series of blog posts on the topic
here: http://blog.jot.is/the-unsolved-scaling-challenge

I enjoy organising real world developer events and activities inspired
by the barcamp, coworking, hack space and seed accelerator movements
mostly in Brighton and London in the UK. These include:

The Twitter Developer Nest: http://twitterdevelopernest.com

WarbleCamp - The Twitter Developer Unconference: http://warblecamp.com

Developer Mission - A group of UK hackers travelling to Chirp:
http://developermission.com

The Skiff coworking space: http://theskiff.org

BootCycle - Peer support for early stage technology products:
http://bootcycle.com

BarCampBrighton: http://barcampbrighton.org

Please let me know if you are interested in participating in any of
the above or replicating them in your part of the world.

The feature I'd most like to see added to the API is a way for us to
add freeform metadata to tweets and users. This would enable the
developer community to experiment with the potential of new features
enabling us to innovate in the same way that users have with notations
such as @ and #.

I'm also working on my own app called Smidgn which is an approach to
achieving some of the benefits the above feature would provide.

Looking forward to meeting many of you at Chirp, I'm also travelling
to SXSWi for the first time this year, would be great to meet any of
you that are there.

@jot

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could
> find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread
> [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.
> I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group
> since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration
> and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build
> or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp.
> TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and
> maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a
> fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into
> Twitter profiles.
> The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to
> get replies to a specific status.
> So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do
> you most want to see added?
> @Abraham
> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/c7cdaa0840f0de84/
> [2] https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e
> [3] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogokloiggg
> [4] http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142
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Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

[Jonathan Markwell]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Andrew Badera  wrote:
> I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come
> to mind) that have recently been blacklisted.

Thank you I'll do that. Any links you know off the top of your head?

> That aside, I for one am 100% opposed to giving anyone this sort of
> tool. Not that certain other people on this list haven't already done
> so for profit, sadly.

Normally I'd agree but knowing more about the specific goals of this
project, which unfortunately I can't share here, it's more of a gray
area. I'm hoping that I can persuade them to achieve what they  hope
to without being spammy.

> ∞ Andy Badera
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>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell
>  wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and
>> the official Twitter view.
>>
>> I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that
>> they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They
>> already have a quote from an outsourcing company that can do the work
>> and are keen to go ahead. The accounts will, for the most part, be
>> automated but I'm encouraging them to ensure each gets at least some
>> human participation in them on a regular basis.
>>
>> I'm apprehensive about this and I'm trying to disuade them from going
>> ahead. I'm not convinced that accounts that are primarily automated,
>> especially when set up on this scale can add that much value to the
>> ecosystem. Their feeling is quite the opposite and they believe the
>> audience they are working to provide for will find this extremely
>> valuable. In addition they are confident, and have some data to back
>> it up, that what they are creating will bring a huge number of new
>> real users to Twitter.
>>
>> What are your thoughts on this?
>>
>> Jon.
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Markwell
>> Engineer | Founder | Connector
>>
>> Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK
>>
>> Web application development & support
>> Twitter & Facebook integration specialists
>> http://inuda.com
>>
>> Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community
>> http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com
>>
>> Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton -
>> http://theskiff.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/jot
>>
>



-- 
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Engineer | Founder | Connector

Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK

Web application development & support
Twitter & Facebook integration specialists
http://inuda.com

Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community
http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com

Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton -
http://theskiff.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/jot

Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

[Jonathan Markwell]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Ken Dobruskin  wrote:
> I can't wait to hear how they plan to interest real people to follow these
> accounts. More keyword- (or geo-) based @ "replies"? save us!

Definitely will not be doing that. They will marketing the service via
some of their high profile clients and expect many of the real people
to be new to Twitter.


>> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 06:03:17 -0700
>> From: john.l.me...@gmail.com
>> To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation
>>
>> Sounds like a swit (spam twitterer) to me. Have you told them about
>> twitter's blacklisting policy?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/7/2010 5:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and
>> > the official Twitter view.
>> >
>> > I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that
>> > they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They
>> > already have a quote from an outsourcing company that can do the work
>> > and are keen to go ahead. The accounts will, for the most part, be
>> > automated but I'm encouraging them to ensure each gets at least some
>> > human participation in them on a regular basis.
>> >
>> > I'm apprehensive about this and I'm trying to disuade them from going
>> > ahead. I'm not convinced that accounts that are primarily automated,
>> > especially when set up on this scale can add that much value to the
>> > ecosystem. Their feeling is quite the opposite and they believe the
>> > audience they are working to provide for will find this extremely
>> > valuable. In addition they are confident, and have some data to back
>> > it up, that what they are creating will bring a huge number of new
>> > real users to Twitter.
>> >
>> > What are your thoughts on this?
>> >
>> > Jon.
>> >
>> >
>>
>
> 
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> Facebook.



-- 
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Engineer | Founder | Connector

Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK

Web application development & support
Twitter & Facebook integration specialists
http://inuda.com

Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community
http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com

Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton -
http://theskiff.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
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Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

[Jonathan Markwell]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:03 PM, John Meyer  wrote:
> Sounds like a swit (spam twitterer) to me.  Have you told them about
> twitter's blacklisting policy?

That was my initial reaction. :)

> On 1/7/2010 5:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and
>> the official Twitter view.
>>
>> I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that
>> they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They
>> already have a quote from an outsourcing company that can do the work
>> and are keen to go ahead. The accounts will, for the most part, be
>> automated but I'm encouraging them to ensure each gets at least some
>> human participation in them on a regular basis.
>>
>> I'm apprehensive about this and I'm trying to disuade them from going
>> ahead. I'm not convinced that accounts that are primarily automated,
>> especially when set up on this scale can add that much value to the
>> ecosystem. Their feeling is quite the opposite and they believe the
>> audience they are working to provide for will find this extremely
>> valuable. In addition they are confident, and have some data to back
>> it up, that what they are creating will bring a huge number of new
>> real users to Twitter.
>>
>> What are your thoughts on this?
>>
>> Jon.
>>
>>
>
>



-- 
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Engineer | Founder | Connector

Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK

Web application development & support
Twitter & Facebook integration specialists
http://inuda.com

Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community
http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com

Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton -
http://theskiff.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
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[twitter-dev] Mass account creation

[Jonathan Markwell]

Hi All,

Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and
the official Twitter view.

I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that
they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They
already have a quote from an outsourcing company that can do the work
and are keen to go ahead. The accounts will, for the most part, be
automated but I'm encouraging them to ensure each gets at least some
human participation in them on a regular basis.

I'm apprehensive about this and I'm trying to disuade them from going
ahead. I'm not convinced that accounts that are primarily automated,
especially when set up on this scale can add that much value to the
ecosystem. Their feeling is quite the opposite and they believe the
audience they are working to provide for will find this extremely
valuable. In addition they are confident, and have some data to back
it up, that what they are creating will bring a huge number of new
real users to Twitter.

What are your thoughts on this?

Jon.

-- 
Jonathan Markwell
Engineer | Founder | Connector

Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK

Web application development & support
Twitter & Facebook integration specialists
http://inuda.com

Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community
http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com

Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton -
http://theskiff.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/jot

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Developer Q&A on Stack Overflow

[Jonathan Markwell]

Hi Zac,

These are some great points!

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Zac Bowling  wrote:
> Basic questions get answered usually here just as long as they are not
> obvious questions on the Wiki. :-)

That doesn't really mean they shouldn't be answered at all. If new
members of the community are primarily directed to Stack Overflow
junior members of the community can gain recognition while learning
more for themselves by answering these kinds of of questions.

> Stack Overflow has a lot of overflow (no pun) with other development
> communities. You see a lot of questions around how to use the twitter API
> with specific languages or frameworks on Stack Overflow rather then the
> twitter API specifically itself.

And those questions also come here. The organisation of Stack Overflow
means that once properly tagged they shouldn't cause too much noise
for the rest of us.

> More often then not, this list is usually filled with people that understand
> their platform well enough and past the basics of the API and are trying to
> maintain or develop larger twitter related projects these days. The
> questions that come up are usually around the lesser accessed/less trivial
> APIs (streaming, social graph, and oauth to some extent) or by people that
> need understanding on rate limiting or white-listing with the API that only
> the twitter devs maybe able to help with, or sometimes just to discuss
> changes in the API or bugs that popup as things happen.
> Stack Overflow is awesome but it's not a good platform for what goes on
> here.

I'm not saying Stack Overflow can replace everything that goes on
here. My concern is that if the Q&A  / support posts continue grow in
volume the list may become too noisy for some of the higher level
discussion to continue effectively.

Jon.


> Zac Bowling
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Jonathan Markwell 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ken, Andrew,
>>
>> Thank you for your thoughts! I had considered a Stack Exchange and
>> have set up a couple of experimental Q&A communities using it.  After
>> the seeing what the Android and Adbobe teams are doing I think it
>> makes much more sense to keep the programming discussion in one place
>> on and avoid splitting the community.
>>
>> I've not experienced the problems new developers may have with getting
>> started with Stack Overflow. While I'd like to think of the Twitter
>> Platform as being a perfect starting point for new developers trying
>> there hand at using web APIs, I think a key skill all programmers need
>> to learn first is how to find existing solutions to problems. If a new
>> developer finds it difficult participating in Stack Overflow vs.
>> posting to a mailing list, they are likely to become a very high
>> maintenance member of the community.  Unfortunately looking back at
>> the archives of this group it looks like many newbie questions go
>> unanswered. That is far less likely to happen on Stack Overflow as
>> there are incentives for people of all levels of expertise to help
>> each other.
>>
>> Stack Overflow looks like a great opportunity to bring developer
>> communities together which will ultimately be better for all of us.
>> We've seen a number of language specific questions pop up here that
>> the wider Stack Overflow community would probably do a much better job
>> of answering. In addition, comparing discussions around different
>> platforms side by side in Stack Overflow may increasingly influence
>> developers trying to decide which platform (Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn)
>> to integrate with first. I think we'd fair very well here and the more
>> open competition between the communities will help highlight areas
>> which should be prioritised for improvement.
>>
>> Jon.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Ken Dobruskin  wrote:
>> >> It seems like creating a stackexchange would just split the support
>> >> power.
>> >
>> > +1, totally.
>> >
>> >> One issue I've noticed with Stackoverflow is it is harder for new
>> >> developers to participate where as the barrier for entry on Google
>> >> Groups is
>> >> just having an email address.
>> > Some email groups can be very tough on newbies and this can change (ie,
>> > get
>> > worse) over time as there are no posted rules/policy. In my view, stack
>> > exchange is well conceived to avoid the trap of a harsh expert user
>> > playing
>> > the troll and shutting out new users. There is also a place for rules,
>> > and
>> > if desired a meta-Q&A for discussion o

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Developer Q&A on Stack Overflow

[Jonathan Markwell]

Hi Ken, Andrew,

Thank you for your thoughts! I had considered a Stack Exchange and
have set up a couple of experimental Q&A communities using it.  After
the seeing what the Android and Adbobe teams are doing I think it
makes much more sense to keep the programming discussion in one place
on and avoid splitting the community.

I've not experienced the problems new developers may have with getting
started with Stack Overflow. While I'd like to think of the Twitter
Platform as being a perfect starting point for new developers trying
there hand at using web APIs, I think a key skill all programmers need
to learn first is how to find existing solutions to problems. If a new
developer finds it difficult participating in Stack Overflow vs.
posting to a mailing list, they are likely to become a very high
maintenance member of the community.  Unfortunately looking back at
the archives of this group it looks like many newbie questions go
unanswered. That is far less likely to happen on Stack Overflow as
there are incentives for people of all levels of expertise to help
each other.

Stack Overflow looks like a great opportunity to bring developer
communities together which will ultimately be better for all of us.
We've seen a number of language specific questions pop up here that
the wider Stack Overflow community would probably do a much better job
of answering. In addition, comparing discussions around different
platforms side by side in Stack Overflow may increasingly influence
developers trying to decide which platform (Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn)
to integrate with first. I think we'd fair very well here and the more
open competition between the communities will help highlight areas
which should be prioritised for improvement.

Jon.

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Ken Dobruskin  wrote:
>> It seems like creating a stackexchange would just split the support power.
>
> +1, totally.
>
>> One issue I've noticed with Stackoverflow is it is harder for new
>> developers to participate where as the barrier for entry on Google Groups is
>> just having an email address.
> Some email groups can be very tough on newbies and this can change (ie, get
> worse) over time as there are no posted rules/policy. In my view, stack
> exchange is well conceived to avoid the trap of a harsh expert user playing
> the troll and shutting out new users. There is also a place for rules, and
> if desired a meta-Q&A for discussion of the discussion. I agree though that
> it should be up to Twitter to provide this environment.
>
> Ken
>
>
>> Abraham
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 21:40, Ken Dobruskin  wrote:
>
> Jonathan,
>
> Good points and initiative.
>
>>
>> I do not believe Twitter have the resources to recreate the success of
>> Stack Overflow for Q&A purposes.
>
> Have you considered setting up a Twitter Dev Q&A beta site on
> stackexchange.com? I have, and someone probably could, but I thought I'd
> wait and see what the official Twitter development platform had to offer
> before doing that!
>
> Ken
>
>
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Web application development & support
Twitter & Facebook integration specialists
http://inuda.com

Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community
http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com

Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton -
http://theskiff.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
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[twitter-dev] Twitter Developer Q&A on Stack Overflow

[Jonathan Markwell]

Hi All,

I'm sure that many of you have seen the rise of Stack Overflow as the
source for developer questions and answers over the last year. Many
members of this group's community are active there with over 400
questions already tagged as being related to Twitter development:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/twitter

It strikes me that this might be a much more effective environment
than this Google Group for much of the discussion that happens here:

 1) It will be much easier for people to find previous answers to
questions both via Google and when they start asking a question.

 2) Questions that the community deems to be most important will rise
to the top and will gain attention of the team at Twitter.

 3) Answers that the community deems to be correct will rise to the
top saving people from trying all the suggestions in a thread.

 4) Members of the community that add most value will be recognised here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=twitter&sort=stats&pagesize=15

I'm confident that the new developer site being built by the platform
team is going to be a dramatic improvement for the community. However
I do not believe Twitter have the resources to recreate the success of
Stack Overflow for Q&A purposes. Even Google has recently opted to use
Stack Overflow as the official site for Android developer Q&A:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/stackoverflow-android-support.php

What are your thoughts on this? For this to work best, with a critical
mass of participants, it would need to be endorsed by the Twitter
Platform team. Do you think Stack Overflow should be named as the
place for Twitter developer Q&A?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts,

Jon.

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Re: [twitter-dev] Key Twitter Questions

[Jonathan Markwell]

@rem's http://snapbird.org achieves this without using the Search API.

You could take a similar approach. The source code is available here:
http://github.com/remy/twitter-search-js

Jon.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:25 AM, seanie  wrote:
> New to this forum and similarly Twitter API. Would anyone be able to
> advise ref the following please:-
> - Can Twitter API (via browser app) search a 'Protected Tweets' area
> subsequent to giving API username/password?
> - Can Twitter API search back 'all' tweets (search criteria) and not
> the previous week (as search.twitter.com does).
> -Thanks
> Seanie
>



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[twitter-dev] Today's Platform Announcements at Le Web

[Jonathan Markwell]

Hi All,

Ryan made various big announcements this morning at Le Web that affect
all of us. :) I'm sure many of you would like to hear the news
directly as I did. You can watch it here on Ustream:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2748326

There are also a some write-ups here:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_at_leweb.php
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/09/twitter-le-web-2009/
http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/12/twitters-maturation-process-continues.html

Jon.

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Re: [twitter-dev] API Ready Apps List

[Jonathan Markwell]

TwitterLand combines 9 Twitter related app APIs into a single Ruby library:
http://github.com/squeejee/twitterland/

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Awesome. Who is going to be the first to integrate all of them into a single
> project?
> Abraham
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 16:13, Peter Denton  wrote:
>>
>> Hey Everyone,
>> As promised, I have published the list of people who have API's ready for
>> other app developers to use in their twitter projects.
>> If you have not added your app or service, please do. Again, I think this
>> is for everyone's benefit. Im always looking for cool api's to play with,
>> and am sure everyone else is as well.
>>
>> http://twibs.com/mashups.php
>>
>> Thanks
>> Peter
>
>
>
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Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid

[Jonathan Markwell]

Skyhook Wireless could be another option: http://www.skyhookwireless.com

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Anton Krasovsky
 wrote:
> Sure, but I think their coverage is somewhat scarce? Yahoo Fireeagle
> seems to support cellid, but I don't think is workable to ask users to
> signup for Fireeagle. Then there is http://www.navizon.com/ but it's
> too expensive for me at this stage.
>
> Anton
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you are making request to the Twitter API you should be able to make
>> request to OpenCelID to get an approximate lat/lon location.
>> http://www.opencellid.org/api
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 04:44, Anton Krasovsky 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have considered adding
>>> something
>>> like that in the future - iPhones and such are nice, but there are
>>> plenty more users with simplier phones that don't have GPS.
>>>
>>> Anton
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Raffi Krikorian  wrote:
>>> > hi anton.
>>> > that's interesting, but, right now, we don't have anything like that on
>>> > our
>>> > roadmap. devices like the iPod touch, i believe, do the cell ID ->
>>> > coordinate mapping internally, and then could send those coordinates to
>>> > our
>>> > API.
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, anton 
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Is there any plans to support cellid based location updates for mobile
>>> >> devices that aren't equipped with GPS?
>>> >>
>>> >> My understanding that currently to update user's location one has to
>>> >> obtain users latitude and longitude, which aren't readily available on
>>> >> most handsets (except the newest ones equipped with GPS) .
>>> >>
>>> >> It would be terrific if Twitter would allow to use cellid to update
>>> >> the user's location, similar to what Google Latitude does.
>>> >>
>>> >> Regards,
>>> >> Anton
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Raffi Krikorian
>>> > Twitter Platform Team
>>> > http://twitter.com/raffi
>>> >
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [twitter-dev] Digest for twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com - 11 Messages in 4 Topics

[Jonathan Timar]

Would somebody take me off this damn mailing list? When I got to the homepage 
to unsubscribe it says I can't because I am not currently a member. Well then 
why am I getting these emails? Make them stop please.


From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 3:26 PM
To: Digest Recipients 
Subject: [twitter-dev] Digest for twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com - 
11 Messages in 4 Topics


  Today's Topic Summary
Group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/topics

  a.. Please allow me to see people who RT me! ! [6 Updates] 
  b.. Kill the new RT feature - it's non-relational [3 Updates] 
  c.. Geotagging API [1 Update] 
  d.. Can't post tweets from my server with an account [1 Update] 
 Topic: Please allow me to see people who RT me! !
  Chuck Blakeman  Nov 22 08:46AM -0700

   
  Unless I'm missing something here, this is the single worst (and only)
  degradation of service Twitter has ever put in place. A big step backwards
  for three reasons - 1) It completely ignores the concept of relationship
  building, 2) it promotes elitist arrogance on Twitter, and 3) it will
  increase meaningless RTs exponentially - What am I missing here on what's
  good about this?
   
  Ignoring Relationship Building
  People gravitate toward people they enjoy communicating with - that's how we
  build friends in any context. One of the main ways I find people I want to
  meet is that they like what I say, and more often than not, an RT tells me
  they like what I say, and I do the same for them. To keep me from being
  able to see people who like what I say removes one of the best ways of
  building relationships Twitter has. I NEED to see an RT from people who
  aren't following me to help me build my business.
   
  Elitist Arrrogance
  Being annoyed by people retweeting you is like an author being annoyed that
  people showed up at their book signing - how elitist to turn up your nose at
  people who like what you say. Gee, sorry about that. This mindset doesn't
  want to build relationships but just wants to be able to count how many
  faceless, nameless people RT them - how arrogant is that?
   
  Increased Meaningless RT Traffic
  Before this feature, you actually had to do a little work to RT - copy,
  paste, put RT in front of it and send. Ouch - that's a lot of work. But
  that tiny bit of work kept people from senselessly RT'ing just to gain
  followers - it was too cumbersome to use effectively for spamming. Now by
  the simple push of a button people will be RT'ing like changing TV channels
  w/ a remote, and you won't really know if it meant enough to them to put a
  little effort into building that relationship with you - just stop holding
  your finger up and let it fall - that really shows a how much that comment
  meant to you?
   
  Summary
  Twitter started out as a tool to build relationships. It has become less
  and less personal. This new RT'ing feature reduces your ability to build
  relationships, plays to the arrogant elite, and makes it easier for people
  to use RT'ing and 10 different ghost accounts to spam people to death. And
  this is an upgrade? Hmmm not seeing it. Facebook is starting to look
  good all of a sudden.
   
  CAN'T YOU MAKE IT A CHOICE TO SEE RTs FROM NON-FOLLOWERS? WHY SHOULD I
  SUFFER BECAUSE THE TWITTER ELITE ARE TIRED OF THEIR FOLLOWERS?



  Michael Ekstrand  Nov 22 10:14AM -0600

   
  Chuck Blakeman wrote:
  > and 3) it will increase meaningless RTs exponentially - What am I
  > missing here on what's good about this?
  Have you tried looking at the "Your tweets, retweeted" tab in the
  Retweets page on Twitter's web site?
   
  - Michael
   
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  Confused by the strange files? I cryptographically sign my messages.
  For more information see .
   
   



  chuckblakeman  Nov 22 09:24AM -0800

   
  I don't see any RTs in the "Your tweets, retweeted" tab from people
  WHO AREN'T FOLLOWING ME. I want to see those!
   
  Is there a way for me to see people who RT me who aren't following
  me? That's the biggest problem i see with this, and unless I can find
  those people, this whole "upgrade" ignores some basic fundamentals of
  building relationships.
   
  Imagine having people visit your blog and try to leave a comment that
  they agree with you and you're not allowed to see it. And this is an
  upgrade? Still not seeing any upgrade here.
   



  Duane Roelands  Nov 22 11:13AM -0800

   
  I believe the "Retweets Of Me" timeline is what you're looking for.
   



  chuckblakeman  Nov 22 11:44AM -0800

   
  I'm confusing you - I meant to say I want to see the RTs of people WHO
  DO NOT FOLLOW ME. How do I view those?
   
   



  Zac Bowling  Nov 22 12:54PM -0800

   
  This a twitter developers list. Try twitter on getsatisfaction,com or
  http://help.twitter.com to contact twitter support.
 

[twitter-dev] Fully Featured PHP 5.3 Twitter Client

[Jonathan Wage]

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to let the group know that I've written a OO interface to the
Twitter API for PHP 5.3

http://github.com/jwage/Twitter

The above link has a pretty descriptive README showing at the bottom, but
here are some quick examples to give you a taste!

$client = new \Twitter\Client\HTTP('username', 'password');

$statuses = new \Twitter\Api\Statuses($client);
$statuses->updateStatus('my new status');

$account = new \Twitter\Api\Account($client);
$account->updateProfileImage('/path/to/image.jpg');

Thanks, Jon

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