Re: Putting a ceiling on requests from users and IPs on the whitelist

2009-01-21 Thread Mario Menti
Alex, are status update POSTs still excluded from this limit? Mario. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Up until now we've allowed users and IPs on our whitelist an unlimited number of requests per hour. When our whitelist was in the tens and low

Working around the public_timeline limit?

2009-01-21 Thread Chris
Hi guys, I know it has already been discussed that the public_timeline is not 100% reliable source of all 'tweets' (as some can be lost to the 20 tweet limit), but I was just curious how sites such as hashtags.org, or twemes.com would be consuming their data? Thanks, Chris.

Re: Scoble's followers

2009-01-21 Thread dougw
Jesse, Doing what you say you are doing should work. Can you provide more details what URL you are using, how you are making the requests, what exactly is coming back, etc...? @dougw On Jan 21, 12:41 am, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of going through Scoble's followers, I'm

Re: problem with the friends_timeline format

2009-01-21 Thread dougw
Hi, The credentials are passed in through the HTTP header, which is why you don't see parameters in the API docs to accept these values. For example, if you are familiar with the UNIX command cURL you can get the friends_timeline from the command line: % curl --basic --user user:pass

Re: how to fetch # of twitters and # of replies

2009-01-21 Thread dougw
Dhaval, Retrieving the number of @replies is open issue http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=235 By number of Twitters, are you wanting the number of updates a user has made? @dougw On Jan 21, 5:21 am, dhaval dhaval.parik...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all I am making a ruby on

Re: Working around the public_timeline limit?

2009-01-21 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I know it has already been discussed that the public_timeline is not 100% reliable source of all 'tweets' (as some can be lost to the 20 tweet limit), but I was just curious how sites such as hashtags.org, or twemes.com would be consuming their data? Special arrangement. If you need full

Re: how to fetch # of twitters and # of replies

2009-01-21 Thread Cameron Kaiser
thanks for your reply. Yes i mean the number of updated by a user. Can you please tell me if there is a direct way to do that. or need to fetch it from the show method? Yes, getting from users/show would probably be the most straightforward way. --

Re: how to fetch # of twitters and # of replies

2009-01-21 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi all, One correction on issue 235. I re-read the original thread and this one and there are two issues discussed. The first is that you can only get 20 results from the replies method. This is the one being fixed by allowing count=30 to return 30 results. Interleaved in the

Re: update_profile_image only succeeds on very small images

2009-01-21 Thread DeBetta
Hey Kevin, Although I cannot help you with the finer details of PHP and curl (I am using C# and wrote my own library for the Twitter API), I can still tell you that the image methods were the only ones I had difficulty with. Is there any way you can capture the outgoing post data using

Re: how to fetch # of twitters and # of replies

2009-01-21 Thread Dhaval Parikh
Hi Matt Like you pointed I want the exact number of replies give by or given to the user. I have opened an issue for the same which can be found on issue id 243. Thanks On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, One correction on issue 235. I re-read

Re: Working around the public_timeline limit?

2009-01-21 Thread Chris
Excellent, thanks guys. Chris. On Jan 21, 8:27 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: If you need more information please check out our blog posthttp://bit.ly/twttr-data   and the API wikihttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ Thanks;    — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford On Jan 21, 2009, at 07:40

Re: Putting a ceiling on requests from users and IPs on the whitelist

2009-01-21 Thread Alex Payne
Yes. On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:07, Mario Menti mme...@gmail.com wrote: Alex, are status update POSTs still excluded from this limit? Mario. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Up until now we've allowed users and IPs on our whitelist an unlimited

Re: Putting a ceiling on requests from users and IPs on the whitelist

2009-01-21 Thread iematthew
Perhaps a leaner version for requesting a user's followers and friends would help? Say, a method that only returns the ID and screen name for the user's followers or friends, but in lots of a thousand or ten thousand at a time. On Jan 21, 12:19 am, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: Alex,

Re: how to fetch # of twitters and # of replies

2009-01-21 Thread Yu-Shan Fung
Hi, Just to clarify, does that mean once this is deployed, replies will also support the count parameter of up to 200 per page? Thanks! Yu-Shan On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, One correction on issue 235. I re-read the original thread and

Are emails still unique?

2009-01-21 Thread Kevin Makice
The update_profile method allows you to set the email address associated with the account. I have been able to do this freely, even when using an email address I know to be fake or already in use. Is there any verification done on the Twitter end to attempt to prevent this (if so, it doesn't

API Changes for January 21, 2009

2009-01-21 Thread Matt Sanford
There was one change launched today, 2009-01-21: * Fixed: the /statuses/replies method did not support the count parameter to control the number of statuses returned. Support for the count parameter was added. This addresses http://bit.ly/twapi235 As always there is more on the way.

Re: Are emails still unique?

2009-01-21 Thread Alex Payne
Emails should be unique, although we don't send confirmations. Please file an issue and we'll fix the method to throw an error if you try to use a pre-existing email address: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry. On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:36, Kevin Makice kmak...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: how to fetch # of twitters and # of replies

2009-01-21 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Yu-Shan, This has now been deployed and yes, that should be the case. Thanks; — Matt Sanford On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Yu-Shan Fung wrote: Hi, Just to clarify, does that mean once this is deployed, replies will also support the count parameter of up to 200 per page?

Re: Putting a ceiling on requests from users and IPs on the whitelist

2009-01-21 Thread greg schoen
I agree, ID/ScreenName only responses would cut down on A LOT of traffic. On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:28 PM, rhysmeister therhysmeis...@hotmail.com wrote: Yeah, somehow being able to periodically fully replicate your twitter data would be really good and reduce requests considerably. On Jan

Re: Putting a ceiling on requests from users and IPs on the whitelist

2009-01-21 Thread jodeer...@gmail.com
Alex, Look forward to working with you on this. As you know PeopleBrowsr passes all requests via a cache to minimise API requests on Twitter. Our requests which are coming from many clients will appear as coming from one IP address. Clients like Tweetdeck that dont cache, will make many more API

Receiving rate limit threshold exceeded when making certain calls, even when other calls are successful and rate limit is obeyed

2009-01-21 Thread Dimebrain
Currently, when I attempt the following API calls I receive the rate limit exceeded error: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends.xml http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/someone.xml http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.xml?user_a=meuser_b=someone However when I request rate limits I am well

Re: Putting a ceiling on requests from users and IPs on the whitelist

2009-01-21 Thread Scott C. Lemon
Alex, Can you please address the issue of how you would recommend that an application be able to fetch the total list of a users followers? I'm hearing all sorts of accusations and bluster, but want to understand from your perspective how you would propose an application do this? It's obvious

profile applications

2009-01-21 Thread kprobe
I'd love to create one or more applications that run on the twitter profile page. You've got the space on the side. What are your plans for supporting external apps? What about allowing for profile html changes?

Re: Putting a ceiling on requests from users and IPs on the whitelist

2009-01-21 Thread Aditya
In light of this, do we get a rate_limit_status type feed for a given IP, or do we keep an internal track of our calls (which could be inaccurate)? On Jan 21, 4:48 am, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Up until now we've allowed users and IPs on our whitelist an unlimited number of requests

Re: Putting a ceiling on requests from users and IPs on the whitelist

2009-01-21 Thread Steve Brunton
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Aditya adi...@adityamukherjee.com wrote: In light of this, do we get a rate_limit_status type feed for a given IP, or do we keep an internal track of our calls (which could be inaccurate)? You mean like the rate_limit_status API call?

Re: how to fetch # of twitters and # of replies

2009-01-21 Thread dougw
Dhaval, To get back to your original quesiont, the number of status updates is returned with the users/show method: URL: http://twitter.com/statuses/show/id.format * id. Required. The numerical ID of the status you're trying to retrieve. Ex: http://twitter.com/statuses/show/123.xml The

Communicating deleted statuses

2009-01-21 Thread Niall Kennedy
I am wondering how Twitter communicates statuses messages that may have existed at one point in time but have since been deleted by a member. Scenario: 1) John hits publish. 2) Message broadcast to all requesting (including firehose) 3) John doesn't like the message and deletes it 4) He might

Re: how to fetch # of twitters and # of replies

2009-01-21 Thread Dhaval Parikh
Well there is a difference what I want is the counts only for the replies and not the total updates performed by the user. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:34 AM, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote: Dhaval, To get back to your original quesiont, the number of status updates is returned with the

Re: Receiving rate limit threshold exceeded when making certain calls, even when other calls are successful and rate limit is obeyed

2009-01-21 Thread Alex Payne
Is it possible that you're attempting to log into Twitter with bad credentials? When go back to the Twitter web site are prompted to solve a CAPTCHA or told that your account is temporarily locked? On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 17:58, Dimebrain daniel.cre...@gmail.com wrote: Currently, when I

Re: profile applications

2009-01-21 Thread Alex Payne
We have no plans along these lines at this time. I won't speak for our User Experience team, but we've strived to keep Twitter clean and simple. On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 18:58, kprobe goo...@kprobe.com wrote: I'd love to create one or more applications that run on the twitter profile page.

Re: Putting a ceiling on requests from users and IPs on the whitelist

2009-01-21 Thread Alex Payne
Can you please address the issue of how you would recommend that an application be able to fetch the total list of a users followers? I'm hearing all sorts of accusations and bluster, but want to understand from your perspective how you would propose an application do this? Right now, you

Re: Putting a ceiling on requests from users and IPs on the whitelist

2009-01-21 Thread Jesse Stay
Alex, thanks - this is what we were looking for. In our defense, I did send you several personal e-mails and you mentioned this wasn't on your roadmap. While the limit will still eventually get us, this will get us much further. Is it necessary to implement the limit before these changes are in

Re: Scoble's followers

2009-01-21 Thread Jesse Stay
Is there any word on this? I can't figure out why this isn't working. Is there some limit we're hitting that I'm not aware of? Thanks, Jesse On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: Doug, we're using our whitelisted socialtoo account, on our whitelisted IP.