[twitter-dev] Text Source. How can I change this?
Hello, I am using a C# library to publish in my Twitter account from my CMS. The problem is that the source in my twitter text is the name of this library. How can I change this? I think there is a new authentication method that allows it ... But do I need to open some type of account? Thank You, Miguel
[twitter-dev] Twitter Background
Hello, I need to create a custom Twitter background. What are the dimensions for it and the allowed maximum size or the size you advice? Does the background repeats horizontal and vertically? What are the options? Thanks, Miguel
[twitter-dev] Destroy ... What is the correct way?
Hello, I am posting tweets on my twitter account. Each tweet has a link to my web site. If a resource on my web site is deleted what should I do? 1. Delete all the tweets (new and old) that point to that resource; 2. Create a page on my web site that says "the resource no longer exists" when someone tries to access it. What is the correct way? Some of Twitter functionality still confuses me a little bit. Thanks, Miguel
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter image
Maybe you did not understand ... The users will never think they are no twitter. This is just an image (400px wide by 120 x height) with a design that will incorporate a bird, blue color, a similar font and other elements not related to twitter but to this web site I am creating. It will also incorporate an arrow saying "My Web Site on Twitter >>>". So people click this banner to go and check our twitter. It is just a banner incorporated on this web site. I am using only similar elements on the banner so the user identifies it as something related to twitter. But the web site itself has nothing to do in design or anything else with Twitter. Thanks, Miguel On Mar 11, 3:01 pm, Doug Williams wrote: > Miguel, > We ask that you ensure your efforts do not give users the impression they > are on Twitter.com, so please provide clear clues or differences in your > design that inform users that they are not on the main site. Otherwise we > have no issue with you basing your design on ours. You can refer to the > Terms of Service [1] during the design process or reply back if you have > specific questions. > > [1] -http://twitter.com/terms > > Best, > Doug Williams > Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:34 PM, shapper wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I would like to add a twitter image on my web site saying something > > like: > > > ThisWebSite.com in Twitter. > > > I am using a font similar's to Twitter's logo font. > > > I would like to create a design that is familiar to the users ... > > using a similar font, blue color and a bird. > > > Is this a problem? > > > Thanks, > > Miguel
[twitter-dev] Re: TinyUrl and Twitter. Should I use it?
Does anyone knows if there is a reliable C# library to generate bit.ly urls? Thanks, Miguel On Mar 11, 4:16 am, Steve Brunton wrote: > [top quoting is the debil] > > Another +1 for bit.ly. I was trying to do a "tweet this" for .com, but > I couldn't work any ju-ju to get it to work the way I wanted. When > OAuth is public (or out of private beta) I'll work on it again and use > bit.ly to shorten the URL's back to the news story. > > -steve
[twitter-dev] Re: TinyUrl and Twitter. Should I use it?
Hi, I see many services for shortening url's that seems far better then TinyUrl. But TinyUrl seems widely used and the same does not seems to happen with others ... I am just not sure if I should go for the standard or for other options like bit.ly. bit.ly seems really good ... The click tracker at the moment is not so important because I am already tracking all hits of the documents and articles on this project using google analytics. Since the short urls are all pointing to documents and articles so it would be just a replication. Thanks, Miguel On Mar 10, 9:43 pm, Alex Payne wrote: > I also highly recommend bit.ly. If were doing a project that required > URL shortening, it's what I would use. We use TinyURL presently by > convention, and because they were the most widely recognized URL > shortener at the time we wrote the auto-shortening functionality. > bit.ly adds far more value to a shortened URL, though. > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:12, Ivan Kirigin wrote: > > > I can highly recommendhttp://bit.ly > > > You can also setup a CNAME to point to their service. I have > > b.tipjoy.com setup, for links like this: > >http://twitter.com/TipjoyHelper/status/1267799430 > > > They give you real time analytics on clicks, which is great. > > > I just tweeted this awesome Mario Paint rendition of Paranoid Android: > >http://bit.ly/WFMN9 > > > And you can track the clicks here: > >http://bit.ly/WFMN9+ > > > Note that I'm biased - I know the good folks who make bit.ly > > > Best, > > Ivan > >http://tipjoy.com > > > On Mar 10, 1:56 am, PSM wrote: > >> you are completely safe to use tinyurl. yes there are issues with > >> it. yes it would be nice if somebody offered fixes to that. > > >> but the fact is that several hundred thousand twits per day use > >> tinyurl. so whatever issues tinyurl per se may or may not have, > >> twitter and the twitter community are putting up with it. > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Twitter image
Hello, I would like to add a twitter image on my web site saying something like: ThisWebSite.com in Twitter. I am using a font similar's to Twitter's logo font. I would like to create a design that is familiar to the users ... using a similar font, blue color and a bird. Is this a problem? Thanks, Miguel
[twitter-dev] TinyUrl and Twitter. Should I use it?
Hello, I am integrating twitter with a ASP.NET MVC project. I am creating tweets and some of this must include a url back to the web site. Since the maximum length is 140 characters I decided for TinyUrl even there are other similar services. However, I read the following: "In 2006, MySpace banned posting TinyURLs.[4] Yahoo! Answers blocks postings that contain TinyURLs.[citation needed] The Orkut social network recently suppressed all TinyURL addresses. Wikipedia also blocks TinyURLs from being posted as part of its spam filter." On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyURL Should I use TinyUrl on Twitter? Thank You, Miguel
[twitter-dev] Re: Update
Thanks Cameron ... I was using tweet but just wanted to confirm. I got confused because a NET library I checked had create to I think ... that's why. Thanks, Miguel On Mar 10, 12:16 am, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > On Twitter API I see 3 actions: > > Create, Update and Destroy > > > So I can update any entry recent or old given its id? > > No. If you look at the update method in the API documentation, you cannot pick > an ID to update. Essentially it creates a new status (and in fact there *is* > no > create method for statuses specifically *named* create -- there is only > update and destroy). > > > Should I call a twitter entry? or twitter post? or do you have any > > name for it? > > A "tweet" ? :) > > -- > personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com > -- What happens when you get scared half-to-death twice? > --
[twitter-dev] Update
Hello, On Twitter API I see 3 actions: Create, Update and Destroy So I can update any entry recent or old given its id? But does it make any sense to update an old entry? Does not tweeter gives visibility to only recent entries? In fact when I login to tweeter I get only the options create and destroy: A side note: Should I call a twitter entry? or twitter post? or do you have any name for it? I am just trying my application to have the same "language" as twitter. Thanks, Miguel
[twitter-dev] Archive
Hello, When are tweets archived? It depends of how long they were created or twitter keeps always N tweets visible? Can I access older tweets? And can followers access my older tweets? Thanks, Miguel
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API and synchronization. Please, need advice ...
I opened my first twitter account and I am getting the feel of it. I see I can delete entries. So if I delete an article on my web site wouldn't be better to delete the tweets related to it in my twitter account? So basically I would do the following: 1. Create a table on my database named ArticlesTweets with the following columns: Guid ArticleID Int TweetID 2. Every time an article is Created or Updated I would create a tweet with Article's Title + Article's TinyUrl. I then receive the StatusId and create a new record in ArticlesTweets. There is only one problem here: Consider I create an article but after i created i see i made an error on the title. So i go correct it ... with this approach my twitter account would get two tweets: the right and the wrong. I am not exactly sure how to put this on ... any idea? 3. If an article is deleted I would get all TweetsIds from ArticlesTweets table for the given ArticleId. Then I would destroy those tweets. What do you think about this approach? My problem is really the update to solve the problem ... On Mar 8, 11:35 pm, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > > You can't make up a key and send it to Twitter to make Twitter use that as > > > a status ID. However, once you have a status ID back, then you can use > > > that > > > as a key for your own purposes if you like. > > > Can I be sure the the status ID's returned by twitter will always be > > different? > > Yes. > > -- > personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com > -- FORTUNE: Make your own advancement opportunity. Blackmail your boss. > ---
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API and synchronization. Please, need advice ...
> You can't make up a key and send it to Twitter to make Twitter use that as > a status ID. However, once you have a status ID back, then you can use that > as a key for your own purposes if you like. Can I be sure the the status ID's returned by twitter will always be different? On Mar 8, 4:30 pm, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > So basically every time a document or article is created or updated on > > my web site I would create a twitter entry with the document or > > article title and the url. > > I will use, maybe, TinyUrl to make the url smaller ... Is this the > > better option or should I use other service instead of TinyUrl? > > You can use whichever service you think is reliable for your purposes. > Tinyurl is fine, but there are plenty of others. > > > Then on my web site I would set a page to display a message "Document > > removed" or "Article removed" every time the user follows a link in > > twitter for a document or article that was deleted on the web site. Is > > this what you mean? > > Yes. > > > What do you mean with "you cannot make up arbitrary status IDs as > > keys"? > > Isn't the status ID a key like in a database record? What should I do > > then? > > No, what I mean is, you said in your original message: > > > > > My idea was to send the same Document ID or Article ID when I create > > > > it in twitter. > > > > But as far as I know Twitter uses INT as id and I am not even sure if > > > > I can define ... > > You can't make up a key and send it to Twitter to make Twitter use that as > a status ID. However, once you have a status ID back, then you can use that > as a key for your own purposes if you like. > > > Twitter entries must be less than 140 characters? This means that my > > document/article title and url must be together less than 140 > > characters? > > Yes. > > -- > personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com > -- Silly is a state of mind, stupid is a way of life. -- Dave Butler > --
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API and synchronization. Please, need advice ...
I see ... So basically every time a document or article is created or updated on my web site I would create a twitter entry with the document or article title and the url. I will use, maybe, TinyUrl to make the url smaller ... Is this the better option or should I use other service instead of TinyUrl? Then on my web site I would set a page to display a message "Document removed" or "Article removed" every time the user follows a link in twitter for a document or article that was deleted on the web site. Is this what you mean? What do you mean with "you cannot make up arbitrary status IDs as keys"? Isn't the status ID a key like in a database record? What should I do then? Twitter entries must be less than 140 characters? This means that my document/article title and url must be together less than 140 characters? Thank You, Miguel On Mar 8, 3:45 pm, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > I just finished a web site where documents are published and articles > > are written. > > I am using SQL Server and each Document ID or Article ID is a GUID. > > I am using ASP.NET MVC 1.0. > > > I would like to open a twitter account where I would post the title of > > all documents and articles published on this web site so the users > > could follow it through twitter. > > > The problem is that if a document is updated or deleted on the web > > site it should be also on twitter. > > > My idea was to send the same Document ID or Article ID when I create > > it in twitter. > > > But as far as I know Twitter uses INT as id and I am not even sure if > > I can define ... > > ... Or if it is defined internally will I get the value back? > > > Anyway, does anyone knows the best way to create this synchronization? > > This application is not going to work well in Twitter as you currently have > it defined, because essentially you are trying to change/delete old entries > to make updates rather than simply making updates. By doing the former > instead of the latter, people won't notice these changes because they are > operating on status IDs that most clients will already have marked as old. > Only your newly added articles will be seen, and this is probably not what > you want. For that matter, you cannot make up arbitrary status IDs as keys. > > Twitter is not, as you are trying to use it as, a synchronization sump. You > would be better served to simply make updates saying that article X has been > changed, or article X has been deleted. Much less code, and works more with > how most clients expect Twitter to work. On your article side, you will need > to make sure you notice invalid URLs for deleted articles, and notify the > user accordingly that the article does not exist (I assume you are posting > URLs with your article notifications). > > -- > personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com > -- I've been walking on clouds/'n flipping off rainbows ... -- Strong Bad #150
[twitter-dev] Twitter API and synchronization. Please, need advice ...
Hello, I just finished a web site where documents are published and articles are written. I am using SQL Server and each Document ID or Article ID is a GUID. I am using ASP.NET MVC 1.0. I would like to open a twitter account where I would post the title of all documents and articles published on this web site so the users could follow it through twitter. The problem is that if a document is updated or deleted on the web site it should be also on twitter. My idea was to send the same Document ID or Article ID when I create it in twitter. But as far as I know Twitter uses INT as id and I am not even sure if I can define ... ... Or if it is defined internally will I get the value back? Anyway, does anyone knows the best way to create this synchronization? Thanks, Miguel
