Pushing Tweets -- One more time

2009-02-10 Thread DATX
Hello, I realize that there are already discussions on pushing tweets to 3rd party apps. However, I'm still a little confused. I'm interested in knowing if its possible to design something very similar to the Twitter's Facebook Application (http://www.facebook.com/

Re: Post message to a group using API

2009-02-10 Thread Anikanchan Raut
Gotcha! So is it possible to update your own account through API, without using the Tweeter interface? Thanks. Nik On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: That's not really the way Twitter works. Generally, you update your own account and people follow you. You

Re: Post message to a group using API

2009-02-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Gotcha! So is it possible to update your own account through API, without using the Tweeter interface? Thanks. Yes, see http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowdoIusetheTwitterAPI specifically http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#update NB: it's spelled Twitter. --

Re: Pushing Tweets -- One more time

2009-02-10 Thread Dale Merrick
Check out Gnip at http://www.gnip.com Using them you should get a large volume of tweets in an event driven manner as Alex indicated. That would give you plenty of speed. On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:08 PM, DATX wrote: Hello, I realize that there are already discussions on pushing tweets to

Re: OAuth Documentation Preview

2009-02-10 Thread Christopher St John
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Chris Scott cjscot...@gmail.com wrote: See the Darkslide iPhone app for a nice implementation of this. When you touch the log in button it opens mobile Safari where you log in and authorize the app. Mobile Safari then closes and you are taken back to

Re: Post message to a group using API

2009-02-10 Thread Anikanchan Raut
Great help! Thanks! Sorry about the wrong spelling and thanks for reminding. One more question: What programming languages does Twitter API support? To be specific, does it support Java and .Net? Nik On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote: Gotcha! So is it

Re: Post message to a group using API

2009-02-10 Thread Mario Menti
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Anikanchan Raut anikanc...@gmail.comwrote: Great help! Thanks! Sorry about the wrong spelling and thanks for reminding. One more question: What programming languages does Twitter API support? To be specific, does it support Java and .Net? The API is

Re: Post message to a group using API

2009-02-10 Thread Chad Etzel
The Twitter API uses HTTP for transport. Any programming language that can manipulate sockets and deal with the HTTP protocol can use the API. So, just about all of them... -Chad On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Anikanchan Raut anikanc...@gmail.com wrote: Great help! Thanks! Sorry about

Re: Twitter trends for particular subjects, hashtags, @replies

2009-02-10 Thread Damon C
Dan, You can use the Gnip notification feeds to obtain some of this information. For example, their data provides the user that is being replied to and I use this to create the Top 10 @replies on http://tweetstats.com/twitter_stats dpc On Feb 7, 4:10 pm, Dan slightlyoffb...@gmail.com wrote:

Twollars - Sweat, stress and worries about IP blocking/rate limits

2009-02-10 Thread Eiso
Hi Alex and the rest of the Twitter Support Team, By now you might have seen the stream of tweets, messages and everything in my power to try and get a hold of you. We launched our startup today, Twollars.com - which is a virtual thank you currency for Twitter with as goal to support charities

Re: Twollars - Sweat, stress and worries about IP blocking/rate limits

2009-02-10 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Elso, I replied to your direct email and we can discuss in that thread. We'll do what we can to help out. Thanks; — Matt Sanford On Feb 10, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Eiso wrote: Hi Alex and the rest of the Twitter Support Team, By now you might have seen the stream of tweets,

Re: friends timeline problem

2009-02-10 Thread Alex Payne
Are you sure you're requesting the timeline for the same user with the correct credentials? Some example status IDs that are showing up in one place and not the other would be handy. Thanks! On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 18:54, Diane Slater toucan...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone else see the

Twitfilter

2009-02-10 Thread aestetix aestetix
Hey guys, I wrote a Twitter firefox plugin that (for me) solves a groups problem I was having. Basically, I wanted to be able to send filtered tweets to selected individuals. Rather than simply adding hash tags and parsing out tweets, I wanted to have groups where I could send tweets to multiple

Re: Twollars - Sweat, stress and worries about IP blocking/rate limits

2009-02-10 Thread Sunny
Hi Matt, We have the exact same problem. Is there a possibility you could help us out as well? On Feb 10, 12:51 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Elso,      I replied to your direct email and we can discuss in that thread.   We'll do what we can to help out. Thanks;    — Matt

Re: Twollars - Sweat, stress and worries about IP blocking/rate limits

2009-02-10 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, My reply to Eiso was pretty much that there is a white list request form at http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting. Please be sure to be detailed in the request since that's all the approver has to go on. Thanks; — Matt Sanford On Feb 10, 2009, at 02:57 PM, Sunny

Re: Twollars - Sweat, stress and worries about IP blocking/rate limits

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Denton
Ok, this might come across as being sarcastic, but I am being 100% genuine here. My question is: how do you miss this? Again, not trying to piss anyone off, but seriously asking a question hoping you might provide some insight for a product manager. Would it be better if you: - received an

Re: Twollars - Sweat, stress and worries about IP blocking/rate limits

2009-02-10 Thread Andrew Badera
100% agreed Peter. Since Day One there has been a horrendous amount of redundant inquiry on this list. Is the information just not obvious enough? Not organized or presented well enough? Thanks- - Andy Badera - and...@badera.us - (518) 641-1280 - Tech Valley Code Camp 2009.1:

Re: Twollars - Sweat, stress and worries about IP blocking/rate limits

2009-02-10 Thread Matt Sanford
Good point. It had been so long since I joined I forgot there was no proper welcome message. I'll add one now pointing people to http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ . Thanks; — Matt On Feb 10, 2009, at 03:20 PM, Andrew Badera wrote: 100% agreed Peter. Since Day One there has been a

Re: Twollars - Sweat, stress and worries about IP blocking/rate limits

2009-02-10 Thread Andrew Badera
Awesome Matt, thanks! Steps in the right direction :) On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Good point. It had been so long since I joined I forgot there was no proper welcome message. I'll add one now pointing people to http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ.

Posting source parameter with curl

2009-02-10 Thread SamSoftware
I have looked through the api, this group and the web, and cannot find anywhere that describes how to post an update using curl with a source parameter. If anyone could tell how i would go about doing this it would be very helpful. I just got my app approved as a source and would like to add it.

Re: Posting source parameter with curl

2009-02-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I have looked through the api, this group and the web, and cannot find anywhere that describes how to post an update using curl with a source parameter. If anyone could tell how i would go about doing this it would be very helpful. I just got my app approved as a source and would like to add

Re: Posting source parameter with curl

2009-02-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser
curl http://invalid/xyz=pdqsource=yoursource Er, curl http://invalid/something.json?xyz=pdqsource=yoursource -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- To

Re: Posting source parameter with curl

2009-02-10 Thread SamSoftware
On Feb 10, 9:59 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote:    curlhttp://invalid/xyz=pdqsource=yoursource Er,         curlhttp://invalid/something.json?xyz=pdqsource=yoursource Ok thanks, what do the xyz and pdq stand for in that url?

Re: Posting source parameter with curl

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Denton
Here is a complete cURL example of posting to twitter. //username and password credentials $username = 'myusername'; $password = 'mypassword'; // The message you want to send $message = look world, i am posting to twitter; //the source parameter provided by twitter $appSource = 'twibs'; // The

Re: Posting source parameter with curl

2009-02-10 Thread leslie
I tried this, and it seems not to work. does Twitter allow to do it at all? basically I am using the urllib library of python to do the samething, and it works fine with posting a message to: http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=message but can't get it work with the source parameter.

Re: Posting source parameter with curl

2009-02-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I tried this, and it seems not to work. does Twitter allow to do it at all? Well, obviously, or there would be no sources! ;-) basically I am using the urllib library of python to do the samething, and it works fine with posting a message to:

Re: Posting source parameter with curl

2009-02-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Ah, thanks for the quick reply and good question, Cameron! And I don't have a key registered anywhere, and did realize it. However after some search and failed: can you please tell me how I can have a key and get it enabled?