Re: How API will works after OAuth?

2009-02-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> Thanks for the feedback, guys. We'll consider extending Basic Auth's > life, or maybe granting a "stay of execution" to known-good apps. At the > very least, we'll try not to pull the rug out from under anyone. I appreciate the consideration. :) -- perso

Re: How API will works after OAuth?

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Payne
Thanks for the feedback, guys. We'll consider extending Basic Auth's life, or maybe granting a "stay of execution" to known-good apps. At the very least, we'll try not to pull the rug out from under anyone. funkatron wrote: Agreed. I do believe that the use of HTTP Basic Auth was key to the

Re: Any plans for TweetTornado?

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Payne
This isn't the only spam/abuse/"SEO"/"marketing" product out there for Twitter. We have a bunch of metrics in our system that keep tools like these from being effective in the long-term. I do not wish the developers well, to say the least. Max wrote: So just to be a dick (and cuz I'm bored

Re: Any plans for TweetTornado?

2009-02-04 Thread Max
So just to be a dick (and cuz I'm bored), I downloaded the demo and decompiled the JAR files. In attempts to work around the API limits they post directly to the web forms using httpswell I assume its to work around the API limits, either that or they are slightly stupid and did alot of work

Re: How API will works after OAuth?

2009-02-04 Thread funkatron
Agreed. I do believe that the use of HTTP Basic Auth was key to the quick growth of the 3rd-party app community of Twitter, as the auth scheme is so well-understood and supported. This may or may not be as important at this point business-wise, as I suspect the Twitter userbase is large enough to

Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination

2009-02-04 Thread James Deville
Any chance of a easy way to map this to usernames? We want the friends list for Witty (and I imagine others), but we don't need full profiles, just this + username. This won't help us otherwise since we'll need to map the entire list to usernames, which will require too many requests. JD On Wed,

Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination

2009-02-04 Thread Burhan TANWEER
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Burhan TANWEER wrote: > Wonderful news !!! > > We will be using for our social search engine application. Thanks for > coming up with these new API for friends and followers ids. I apprecaite it. > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Alex Payne wrote: > >> >> Happ

Re: How API will works after OAuth?

2009-02-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> Sorry for chiming in on this late by I have been working with > @mrtall on the OAuth code. Your first question about allowing OAuth > and Basic Auth to co-exist is one we've covered a few times in this > group but it's sort of buried in the documentation [1]. We plan to > keep Basic

Re: Any plans for TweetTornado?

2009-02-04 Thread Peter Denton
I do like how they randomly put "TODAY" in double quotes. (maybe that's air quotes?) On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > > Hey Alex and gang, > > > > I am sure you have seen this, but just out of curiosity you got > > anything special planned for this? > > > > http://tweett

Re: Any plans for TweetTornado?

2009-02-04 Thread Terry Jones
> "Cameron" == Cameron Kaiser writes: >> Hey Alex and gang, >> I am sure you have seen this, but just out of curiosity you got >> anything special planned for this? >> >> http://tweettornado.com/ Cameron> I'm sure they're not greatly concerned about a product that can't Cameron> even spell

Re: Issues with following

2009-02-04 Thread dougw
Eric, Please do provide some basic recreate steps... not much to go on here. @dougw On Feb 4, 9:08 pm, pnoeric wrote: > I've been having some strange issues with following new people-- I'm > issuing the createFriendship call as always, Twitter doesn't appear to > be returning any error or other

Re: Any plans for TweetTornado?

2009-02-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> Hey Alex and gang, > > I am sure you have seen this, but just out of curiosity you got > anything special planned for this? > > http://tweettornado.com/ I'm sure they're not greatly concerned about a product that can't even spell 'niche' correctly. I think the users of that product have more

Issues with following

2009-02-04 Thread pnoeric
I've been having some strange issues with following new people-- I'm issuing the createFriendship call as always, Twitter doesn't appear to be returning any error or other result code, but then when I manually check on my account, we're not following the new person. I didn't see anything specific

Any plans for TweetTornado?

2009-02-04 Thread Max
Hey Alex and gang, I am sure you have seen this, but just out of curiosity you got anything special planned for this? http://tweettornado.com/ -Max

Re: TwitPicGrid = TwitPic + TweetGrid mashup

2009-02-04 Thread Rob Iles
Chad, Very nice :) suggestion: allow filter by language (if the API supports this). Rob Iles 2009/2/4 Chad Etzel > > I thought about doing that, but I don't want to overload people's > browsers and memory by loading a metric-ton of images. From my > experience, most browsers don't handle dyna

Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Payne
The response should be ordered with most recent followed/followers first in the list. Another developer noted duplicates; we'll look into that. Matt K. wrote: Alex - This is a great addition to the API - will make things much easier. Quick question (and I apologize if this is already docum

Re: Data Mining Feed

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Payne
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#WhatstheDataMiningFeedandcanInbsphaveaccesstoit ym wrote: So I played a bit with your API and I can call public_timeline to get 20 recent statuses. My IP address should be white listed on your servers by now; how do I access the data mining feed? do I just call pu

Data Mining Feed

2009-02-04 Thread ym
So I played a bit with your API and I can call public_timeline to get 20 recent statuses. My IP address should be white listed on your servers by now; how do I access the data mining feed? do I just call public_timeline and it will return 600 statuses every min.? I didn't find any docs about it. T

The data mining feed

2009-02-04 Thread ym
If I'm already whitelisted, how can I access the DM feed? I can access the public timeline using the REST API to get 20 recent statuses, but I need a lot of data, so it would be much faster if I can get 600 every min. Thanks! ym

Re: How API will works after OAuth?

2009-02-04 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi all, Sorry for chiming in on this late by I have been working with @mrtall on the OAuth code. Your first question about allowing OAuth and Basic Auth to co-exist is one we've covered a few times in this group but it's sort of buried in the documentation [1]. We plan to keep Basic A

Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination

2009-02-04 Thread rhysmeister
I'm getting duplicates in some of my calls to these methods. I've only seen it happen in those with a very large number of followers http://twitter.com/Wossy - 56, 000 followers with 11 duplicates. http://twitter.com/stephenfry - 120, 000 followers with 164 duplicates. http://twitter.com/kevinros

How to differentiate multiple languages from public timesline

2009-02-04 Thread btan
Hi, I have developed an application to read public timeline but it shows status in multiple languages. I did not see any attribute about language. How can I differentiate multiple languages from public timeline?

Re: How API will works after OAuth?

2009-02-04 Thread Stuart
2009/2/4 Gustavo Melo : > We need to understand how OAuth will affect ours app's... > Twitter authentication with username and password will totaly stop work? > How many days we will have to change our app's? > And for me the most important question is, "OAuth before copmleted > authentication fo

Re: Retrieving multiple arbitrary messages

2009-02-04 Thread dougw
Unless these messages are known to be in the same timeline where you could parse them out, you have to use serial requests of statuses/ show. You can always open a new enhancement issue, as this is something that I know a number of people would like: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/l

Re: TwitPicGrid = TwitPic + TweetGrid mashup

2009-02-04 Thread dougw
So this is where your gripes about JS freeing memory come from that I saw you tweet about days ago... On Feb 4, 12:32 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: > I thought about doing that, but I don't want to overload people's > browsers and memory by loading a metric-ton of images.  From my > experience, most bro

Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination

2009-02-04 Thread Nicole Simon
Awesome. I still do downloads of follower lists because it is an easier way to get a batch of information from the profile data than requesting every single one, but this already is a huge advancement. Small suggestion: Add a last changed info to it for social graph change or a number? Like if I

How API will works after OAuth?

2009-02-04 Thread Gustavo Melo
Hello Guys, Matt and Alex... We need to understand how OAuth will affect ours app's... Twitter authentication with username and password will totaly stop work? How many days we will have to change our app's? And for me the most important question is, "OAuth before copmleted authentication for us

Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination

2009-02-04 Thread Burhan TANWEER
Wonderful news !!! We will be using for our social search engine application. Thanks for coming up with these new API for friends and followers ids. I apprecaite it. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Alex Payne wrote: > > Happy to announce two new API methods today, delivered in response to > de

Re: TwitPicGrid = TwitPic + TweetGrid mashup

2009-02-04 Thread Chad Etzel
I thought about doing that, but I don't want to overload people's browsers and memory by loading a metric-ton of images. From my experience, most browsers don't handle dynamically generated pages' memory or garbage collection too well. I come from an embedded point-of-view, so my definition of "

Re: TwitPicGrid = TwitPic + TweetGrid mashup

2009-02-04 Thread Peter Denton
looks great Jazzy! Works extremely well too. I was thinking one thing, once it got to 200 pics, it could throw up a "page 2" tab, and so on. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Chad Etzel wrote: > > Thanks to those who provided feedback.. I have made some small tweaks: > > - Added an "Auto-Scroll"

Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination

2009-02-04 Thread iematthew
This is great news. Will make life much easier for a lot of people. Thanks! On Feb 4, 4:19 am, rhysmeister wrote: > A great addition to the API. Thanks for lsitening! > > Rhys > > On Feb 4, 1:01 am, Alex Payne wrote: > > > Happy to announce two new API methods today, delivered in response to >

Re: TwitPicGrid = TwitPic + TweetGrid mashup

2009-02-04 Thread Chad Etzel
Thanks to those who provided feedback.. I have made some small tweaks: - Added an "Auto-Scroll" option which will scroll the page as new pics come in. - Added "Auto-Resume after 200 pics" option for continuous/screen-saver type mode. - Made Pause/Resume links mutually-exclusive with Fade-In-Fade-

Retrieving multiple arbitrary messages

2009-02-04 Thread skieter
I have read through the documentation for REST API and Search API and could not find an answer to this. Is there a way to retrieve multiple status messages in a single request? i.e. I have status ids 1234, 1235, 1236 and would request using http://twitter.com/statuses/index.xml?id[0]=1234&id[1]

Re: PHP / Curl API failures

2009-02-04 Thread fastest963
try increasing your connecttimeout On Feb 3, 8:48 am, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > On Sunday (1 Feb 2009) I embedded the following code in my website > > (with appropraite variables set correctly): > > [...] > > > Which worked fine up until Monday morning (02 Feb 2009, 10:00 GMT > > ish). It then f

Re: TwitPicGrid = TwitPic + TweetGrid mashup

2009-02-04 Thread Stuart
2009/2/4 Chad Etzel : > With many thanks to Noah Everett (the TwitPic dude) for allowing the > use of TwitPic thumbnails, I have created TwitPicGrid at > http://tweetgrid.com/twitpicgrid as a mashup. Watch new TwitPics > arrive as they are tweeted, or search for keywords associated with the > pic

Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination

2009-02-04 Thread rhysmeister
A great addition to the API. Thanks for lsitening! Rhys On Feb 4, 1:01 am, Alex Payne wrote: > Happy to announce two new API methods today, delivered in response to > developer demand for an easier way to keep tabs on users' social graphs. > The methods, /friends/ids and /followers/ids, return