[twitter-dev] How to get started

2009-03-05 Thread Omer rosen
I have been struggling with Twitter API tutorials for a week and still no progress. I downloaded curl-7.19.4 but don't know what to do with it. I know some PHP, but I havn't reached that stage that I am actually programing something. I just read manuals and can't understand how to start. My goal

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-05 Thread Nick Halstead
We have every single short url + long url that is posted on twitter, we take the whole firehose, there are outages at times with the firehose so sometimes we still miss bits, but coverage is very high. On Mar 4, 8:51 pm, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM,

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-05 Thread Santosh Panda
Hi Nick, Good stuff! We are ready to launch Tweetmeme popular tweets with Twitblogs. Btw the story URL points to the source of the story, I was under impression that user will be redirected to Tweetmeme to ready the full story? Thanks, Santosh www.Twitblogs.com Twitter :-

[twitter-dev] Problems with Facebook-pages

2009-03-05 Thread raketra...@gmail.com
Hi. The Twitter application on facebook doesn't work with facebook- pages. Example: I am in a band. We have a Page on facebook. We also have our own twitter. These aren't syncable with the current facebook- application. It CAN be installed to the facebook-page but you cannot link it to the

[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the world's most extensive Twitter User Analyzer application

2009-03-05 Thread Noah
It would be much more useful if I could direct link to specific stats. I found some interesting things about a user and wanted to send them a link to a specific chart, but can't. If you added that and a tweet this stat feature, it would probably do wonders for your traffic. Nice site. On Mar

[twitter-dev] Re: Destroying tweets issue for games

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Gilham
Use direct messages instead. -Original Message- From: kprobe goo...@kprobe.com Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:12:42 To: Twitter Development Talktwitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Destroying tweets issue for games I've written a game (@Tweet_Quiz) which allows

[twitter-dev] Need a list of Friends -- followers/ids.xml isn't enough

2009-03-05 Thread JakeS
I'd like to implement an addressbook or tab-completion for @replies-- to make it easier for users to send a message to a specific user without having to type out the whole username. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to get the full list of friends names for a user. Any good ideas on

[twitter-dev] Re: Need a list of Friends -- followers/ids.xml isn't enough

2009-03-05 Thread Doug Williams
Jake, There are two options. Since I don't know what you've looked into, I'll list them below. You can use the social graph API [1] to gain a list of all other friend IDs in a single call. This method however does not return screen name of a user as explained in the linked discussion. This is,

[twitter-dev] Re: Need a list of Friends -- followers/ids.xml isn't enough

2009-03-05 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:29 AM, JakeS jakesteven...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to implement an addressbook or tab-completion for @replies-- to make it easier for users to send a message to a specific user without having to type out the whole username. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get started

2009-03-05 Thread Doug Williams
Omer, Have you seen this [1]? It should get you started requests with cURL. [1] - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#TheEasiestWaytoPlayAroundwiththeTwitterAPI Doug @dougw On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Omer rosen omero...@gmail.com wrote: I have been struggling with Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Need a list of Friends -- followers/ids.xml isn't enough

2009-03-05 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Doug Williams do...@igudo.com wrote: Jake, There are two options. Since I don't know what you've looked into, I'll list them below. You can use the social graph API [1] to gain a list of all other friend IDs in a single call. This method however does not

[twitter-dev] Re: Need a list of Friends -- followers/ids.xml isn't enough

2009-03-05 Thread Chad Etzel
There is an open issue that is related: New API method request, return friend starting with... http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=207 There is some discussion of its merit in the bug description itself, but you should star it if it would suit your needs. -Chad On Thu, Mar 5,

[twitter-dev] Re: Need a list of Friends -- followers/ids.xml isn't enough

2009-03-05 Thread Doug Williams
Nick, These methods aren't perfectly complete for every use case, and that's why we are here discussing them. Note that easily modifies the work necessary to retrieve the list of IDs. So yes, that is easily done. I then mentioned the con: that individual API calls to users/show were necessary to

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get started

2009-03-05 Thread TjL
You can find a lot of examples that use curl on the commandline (that is, not with PHP) at http://twitreport.tntluoma.com FWIW TjL

[twitter-dev] Re: How often do users change their screen names?

2009-03-05 Thread TjL
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: Question for the folks at Twitter - any stats on how often people change their screen names?  In another thread, we were talking about the problem of resolving IDs to names... I'm refreshing my user data for lots of

[twitter-dev] Re: Problems with Facebook-pages

2009-03-05 Thread Alex Payne
Sorry to hear that you're having trouble with this. Unfortunately, this isn't the right channel to report those bugs on. Please contact our support staff via http://help.twitter.com/. Thanks! On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 05:16, raketra...@gmail.com raketra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. The Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Destroying tweets issue for games

2009-03-05 Thread kprobe
Using DM will cause a different problem. If I tweet a clue every few minutes, each person will have a stack of DM's in their profile to delete. This will be inconvenient to delete constantly. What games developers need is a better way of communicating with players.

[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the world's most extensive Twitter User Analyzer application

2009-03-05 Thread bbc
Agree. I sent my buddy a link that should have linked to followers' geo locations (google map), but instead he only saw the front page chart On Mar 5, 5:57 am, Noah noah.cof...@gmail.com wrote: It would be much more useful if I could direct link to specific stats. I found some interesting

[twitter-dev] Re: need to develop a twitter wall

2009-03-05 Thread Doug Williams
Marvelade, Have you looked into the Twitter Search API? It's common to have users tag their messages on a common topic with a hashtag such as #stock and perform a query on that tag: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23stocks. Information on the Search API is found here [1]. This makes it very

[twitter-dev] Re: Destroying tweets issue for games

2009-03-05 Thread Chad Etzel
Why the need to delete DMs? You can publicly post the message, and just have the players respond with DMs. Also curious why @replies won't work for your needs? Are you just looking for the first correct answer? Or the first 5? Checking timestamps will help this... I ran @popquiz

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get started

2009-03-05 Thread Omer rosen
Thanks everybody. I want to do it by myself and not to use frilancers. I still don't understand how to do the first step. What do I do with the curl? On Mar 5, 7:13 pm, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: You can find a lot of examples that use curl on the commandline (that is, not with PHP) at

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-05 Thread darragh.curran
Hey, I also run a service specifically dealing with lengthening short urls (http://www.longurlplease.com), it's api has proven to be robust, easily handling 100's of thousands of api calls per day, thanks app engine ;) Right now all it does is return the long url - but I've plans, amongst other

[twitter-dev] Re: Consistent 502 errors for users with large friend follower lists

2009-03-05 Thread Jennifer S
Where can I find an opne sources that only picks up Twitter users pictures linked to their profiles? Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Re: Destroying tweets issue for games

2009-03-05 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 3/5/09 9:57 AM, kprobe wrote: Using DM will cause a different problem. If I tweet a clue every few minutes, each person will have a stack of DM's in their profile to delete. This will be inconvenient to delete constantly. What games developers need is a better way of communicating with

[twitter-dev] Re: Destroying tweets issue for games

2009-03-05 Thread kprobe
I allow any number of ppl to respond with answers, with each subsequent answer resulting in half the points. Today is the first day of TweetQuiz and with 72 answers the game will last a full 24 hours. So ppl can cheat by viewing other followers of TQ. I do in fact grab all the replies

[twitter-dev] Twitter Apps going live with Oauth

2009-03-05 Thread Sam K Sethi
Hello We have had Twitter OAuth in twitblogs test site for a few weeks http://oauth.twitblogs.com and I know several other people have also got it implemented (TWE2) on test sites waiting for Twitter to give us ALL the thumbs up but it seems some apps are not waiting or have jumped the gun.

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieve user's email using twitter id and password

2009-03-05 Thread Doug Williams
David, Email address is currently not available through an API call. However, you can always use the users/show method with the email parameter to verify if an email address is in fact a user's registered address. Thanks, Doug @dougw On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:53 PM, David Neubauer

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get started

2009-03-05 Thread TjL
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Omer rosen omero...@gmail.com wrote: I still don't understand how to do the first step. What do I do with the curl? Go to http://twitreport.tntluoma.com and read some of the scripts and it will show you how to use curl. Start by putting this into a file

[twitter-dev] OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-05 Thread TjL
Specifically 1) There are WAY to many trending topic bots which fill search results with useless clutter 2) I'd love to see a trending topics list that does NOT include hash tags, you know, to find out what ordinary people are talking about :-) I know this is the wrong place for it (sorry) but