API Method for checking if a user exists?

2008-11-29 Thread Kashif
Is there an API method that helps me find out if a user exists for a given email address? Thanks.

Twitter in School

2008-11-29 Thread amyers
Hi, I'm fairly new at Twitter, but I think its a great tool. I'm a computer consultant for a school board and I want to get a group of kids using Twitter to write about their life daily. Is there a way for me to mass import users. The goal would be to have a couple of classes using it ... is the

Re: API Method for checking if a user exists?

2008-11-29 Thread Abraham Williams
The only way would be to take their password and run https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 03:28, Kashif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I went thru the API documents but couldnt find any API method that allows me to check if a twitter user account exists

Re: Twitter Whitelisting / Identifier - how long does the review take?

2008-11-29 Thread Terry Jones
I think it would be great if the part of the API docs (or wherever it is) that tells you how to get an identifier were expanded to cover this sort of question. It comes up over and over again, so it's clear the docs could be more helpful and/or more prominent. Terry

Re: Is SSL (TLS/https) officially supported?

2008-11-29 Thread John Adams
Officially supported, and recommended. -j On Nov 28, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Ed Finkler wrote: I'm pretty sure it's officially supported. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 Skype: funka7ron On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Jon Colverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Pinging back if there is an update by twitter? Is it possible?

2008-11-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser
If you use friendfeed, you may know that if you post a new status message on twitter, it appears in your friendfeed account only in 2 or 3 seconds. I think there is a ping API protocol between twitter and friendfeed. How can we do that? For instance, I follow your account and you're

Re: Pinging back if there is an update by twitter? Is it possible?

2008-11-29 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:55 PM, ahmet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. If you use friendfeed, you may know that if you post a new status message on twitter, it appears in your friendfeed account only in 2 or 3 seconds. I think there is a ping API protocol between twitter and

Re: What is Twitter Architecture to scale

2008-11-29 Thread Alex Payne
We've shared a fair bit on http://dev.twitter.com. We'll share more as time allows. On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 09:45, David C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry this is not a real dev question, but rather an infrastructure question. If I Google Tiwtter Scale or Twitter Architecture I get lots of

Re: Twitter, Push APIs and XMPP

2008-11-29 Thread Alex Payne
No, the firehose solution will not address this scenario in its first release. On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:32, Brent Soderberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to be able to use an HTTP-push solution for retrieving any replies made to a specific user. What are my options for that? I read