[twitter-dev] Re: Proof of identity rather than authorization

2009-03-22 Thread Shannon Whitley
Very timely. I was thinking through this last night. I may develop a general application for this purpose. On Mar 22, 3:17 am, GraemeF grae...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Elliott, This scenario worked well with basic authentication; you could just delegate the login to Twitter. Now I don't see

[twitter-dev] Re: 403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.

2009-03-22 Thread Abraham Williams
Thanks for finding that typo. On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:09, ldnStreetLife londonstreetl...@gmail.comwrote: Okay I figured out what the problem was. The example I was following had a bad API call: $to-OAuthRequest('https://twitter.com/status/update.xml', array ('status' = 'Test OAuth

[twitter-dev] datatype for key and secret?

2009-03-22 Thread Chris Westbrook
What is a good mysql datatype to use to store the user token and secret? I am new to mysql and am not that familiar with the different types. Thanks.

[twitter-dev] OAuth Open Beta for new accounts?

2009-03-22 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, I have created a new account for a new app coming up (for which I would like to implement OAuth), and I don't see the Connections tab under my new account settings. Are there some heuristics which determine whether an account can participate in the OAuth Open Beta? Thanks, -Chad

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Open Beta for new accounts?

2009-03-22 Thread Chris Thomson
I believe the Connections tab only appears after you authorize an application. You should be able to access it directly, though: https://twitter.com/account/connections Chris Thomson http://twitter.com/chris24 On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I

[twitter-dev] Re: datatype for key and secret?

2009-03-22 Thread Nial
I may be mistaken, but I'd imagine varchar is probably your best bet. On Mar 22, 4:56 pm, Chris Westbrook westbch...@gmail.com wrote: What is a good mysql datatype to use to store the user token and secret?  I am new to mysql and am not that familiar with the different types.  Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Get approval to publish links/info from web app (i.e. Blip.fm Tipjoy)

2009-03-22 Thread rpsfan
Hi I wondered if you need to get approval from Twitter to push information into mutual users' Twitter feed? Blip.fm allows options for users to publish in their twitter feed what they are listening to with a few short words and Tipjoy announces that X is sending X some amount of currency. Im

[twitter-dev] Re: Invalid oAuth Request

2009-03-22 Thread Jamie Rumbelow
Can anyone give me a hand? Jamie Rumbelow Designer / Developer / Writer / Speaker http://www.jamierumbelow.net | +44 (0)7956 363875 | jamie (at) jamierumbelow (dot) net -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com]

[twitter-dev] A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?

2009-03-22 Thread Zac Bowling
I would love it if Twitter would develop an equivalent to Facebook's FQL, Yahoo's YQL, Amazon's SimpleDB, or Google's GQL (used for app engine data storage). Basically an abstracted SQL-like query engine for doing queries and getting back data the data you want using virtual tables of different

[twitter-dev] Re: Get approval to publish links/info from web app (i.e. Blip.fm Tipjoy)

2009-03-22 Thread rpsfan
Thanks. The app is similar to blip.fm where a user announces an action/ something they are enjoying/enjoyed and then broadcasts this information via text a link to their followers. Like listening to the new song check it out here. What would you suggest for implementation in that regards?

[twitter-dev] Re: Get approval to publish links/info from web app (i.e. Blip.fm Tipjoy)

2009-03-22 Thread Cameron Kaiser
The app is similar to blip.fm where a user announces an action/ something they are enjoying/enjoyed and then broadcasts this information via text a link to their followers. Like listening to the new song check it out here. What would you suggest for implementation in that regards? Get

[twitter-dev] Re: Get approval to publish links/info from web app (i.e. Blip.fm Tipjoy)

2009-03-22 Thread rpsfan
Thanks ... overall Im a noob with this, but currently have implemented OAuth - yet not sure where to go after the below OAuth is working via this process/steps (much like Tipjoy's process) I go to my test homepage --- click Twitter button --- box appears saying you can publish this

[twitter-dev] Re: Get approval to publish links/info from web app (i.e. Blip.fm Tipjoy)

2009-03-22 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Thanks ... overall Im a noob with this, but currently have implemented OAuth - yet not sure where to go after the below OAuth is working via this process/steps (much like Tipjoy's process) I go to my test homepage --- click Twitter button --- box appears saying you can

[twitter-dev] Re: Get approval to publish links/info from web app (i.e. Blip.fm Tipjoy)

2009-03-22 Thread rpsfan
Do you know or can you point to an example PhP code where another has implemented this into their service? thank you for all your help! On Mar 22, 4:55 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Thanks ... overall Im a noob with this, but currently have implemented OAuth - yet not sure

[twitter-dev] Re: Get approval to publish links/info from web app (i.e. Blip.fm Tipjoy)

2009-03-22 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Do you know or can you point to an example PhP code where another has implemented this into their service? thank you for all your help! You may wish to start with http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Open+source http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Libraries --

[twitter-dev] incorrect userIDs in search feed

2009-03-22 Thread Adrian
I've found that the user IDs in search feeds for any given user mismatch with those in the normal twitter feeds. Take for example @arikfr: ID: 12069702 http://twitter.com/users/show/arikfr.xml Now goto a search lookup: http://search.twitter.com/search.json...@arikfr or

[twitter-dev] Re: incorrect userIDs in search feed

2009-03-22 Thread Chad Etzel
This is a known issue. I'd search for the previous threads, but I'm on my mobile atm. -Chad On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Adrian spiritpo...@gmail.com wrote: I've found that the user IDs in search feeds for any given user mismatch with those in the normal twitter feeds. Take for example

[twitter-dev] Re: incorrect userIDs in search feed

2009-03-22 Thread Brian Gilham
I think that's a throwback to when Twitter Search was Summize and they had to come up with their own user IDs. I think they will be making them the same in the new API. Adrian wrote: I've found that the user IDs in search feeds for any given user mismatch with those in the normal twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth application icon reset?

2009-03-22 Thread Abraham Williams
When I visit: https://twitter.com/account/connections all of the icons are default. On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 16:33, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Slight bump here. Registered a couple new apps under 2 different accounts and neither were successful in uploading an app icon/image

[twitter-dev] Re: Get approval to publish links/info from web app (i.e. Blip.fm Tipjoy)

2009-03-22 Thread rpsfan
thanks, Cameron! This looks complete Chinese to me. Are you a PhP(e)r? This is for a somewhat known Internet app(might have heard of it?) - my partner/developer is on vacation and thus this web designer coder has 70% of this done - stumped on the last 30%. PUshing/publishing data to Twitter.

[twitter-dev] Re: Get approval to publish links/info from web app (i.e. Blip.fm Tipjoy)

2009-03-22 Thread Cameron Kaiser
thanks, Cameron! This looks complete Chinese to me. Are you a PhP(e)r? This is for a somewhat known Internet app(might have heard of it?) - my partner/developer is on vacation and thus this web designer coder has 70% of this done - stumped on the last 30%. PUshing/publishing data to

[twitter-dev] Re: A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?

2009-03-22 Thread Abraham Williams
I'm positive that a third party was providing a tql api for their database of tweets and that it was announced on this list but now searching returns nothing. Does anybody else remember this? Maybe it was a dream... On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 15:28, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: I would

[twitter-dev] Re: Invalid oAuth Request

2009-03-22 Thread Abraham Williams
Just for kicks try a GET instead of a POST. On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 15:18, Jamie Rumbelow ja...@jamierumbelow.netwrote: Can anyone give me a hand? Jamie Rumbelow Designer / Developer / Writer / Speaker http://www.jamierumbelow.net | +44 (0)7956 363875 | jamie (at) jamierumbelow (dot) net

[twitter-dev] Buggy user details?

2009-03-22 Thread Allen
Sometimes when I get information on users/show using this get http://twitter.com/users/show/user.xml it gives me a notification tag, and other times it doesn't. Oftentimes the notification tag is wrong (I've posted this before). Is there something really buggy going on here?

[twitter-dev] Re: Multiple OAuth AccessTokens for a single application

2009-03-22 Thread Abraham Williams
I submitted this to the issue queue since this is a big problem for people with multiple computers: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=372 On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 21:46, Chen Jie chenyue...@gmail.com wrote: I got the same problem, but it seems the access token is not invalid

[twitter-dev] Re: Proof of identity rather than authorization

2009-03-22 Thread Ed Finkler
On Mar 22, 6:17 am, GraemeF grae...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Elliott, This scenario worked well with basic authentication; you could just delegate the login to Twitter. Now I don't see a way to do it without requiring the user to create another account so that the token can be associated with

[twitter-dev] Re: username case sensitivity

2009-03-22 Thread Abraham Williams
When interacting with the API it is best practice to use user ids since they don't change. An interesting result of case is: https://twitter.com/OAuth https://twitter.com/oauth On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 17:22, GeoNomad pjenni...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I always assumed that the lowercase

[twitter-dev] Re: curl/php encoding

2009-03-22 Thread Abraham Williams
Viewing the http://playercontrol.slevolution.com/twitterupdates.php in Firefox on OSX it looks fine. In Safari and Opera it is all messed up. It is possible that by adding a html doctype on your output page the browser will render it properly. Try looking at it in a few browsers and try adding a

[twitter-dev] Re: A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?

2009-03-22 Thread Zac Bowling
There was the one I mentioned in my first email that was a bridge with MSSQL (Tweet-SQL) but that is nothing more then a bunch of managed (written in c#) stored procedure calls for MSSQL 2005 which maybe what you are thinking of. That's not really anything close to what I'm looking for. It

[twitter-dev] Re: A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?

2009-03-22 Thread Christian Heilmann
Yahoo's YQL supports open tables. Writing one for the Twitter API would mean you could easily do something like this. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/guide/yql-opentables-chapter.html

[twitter-dev] Re: A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?

2009-03-22 Thread Cameron Kaiser
There was the one I mentioned in my first email that was a bridge with MSSQL (Tweet-SQL) but that is nothing more then a bunch of managed (written in c#) stored procedure calls for MSSQL 2005 which maybe what you are thinking of. That's not really anything close to what I'm looking for.

[twitter-dev] Re: A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?

2009-03-22 Thread Lachlan Hardy
Yahoo's YQL supports open tables. Writing one for the Twitter API would mean you could easily do something like this. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/guide/yql-opentables-chapter.html Some have already been written for Twitter:

[twitter-dev] rate_limit_status called from .NET WebClient class

2009-03-22 Thread J.D.
I must be doing something wrong. If I call rate_limit_status with CURL, I can see 2 different counts, depending on if I pass my credentials or not. If I do the same thing from a .NET application, I always get the non-authenticated (IP address limit) results. I know setting the WebClient

[twitter-dev] Re: 403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.

2009-03-22 Thread ldnStreetLife
No problem at all, thank you so much for the example code it's been incredibly helpful! On Mar 22, 12:51 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for finding that typo. On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:09, ldnStreetLife londonstreetl...@gmail.comwrote: Okay I figured out what

[twitter-dev] Re: A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?

2009-03-22 Thread Zac Bowling
If it was built and twitter charged something similar to the rate that Amazon's SimpleDB charges for processing power required to preform the query, I would gladly pay. Zac Bowling On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: There was the one I mentioned in my

[twitter-dev] Re: in reply to metadata missing for manual replies

2009-03-22 Thread simX
So your argument of mouse vs keyboard use doesn't even convince ME, an avid keyboard user. I like it how I'm supposed to be the one that's an uninformed idiot, except for the fact that I actually use the Twitter website daily, and I can tell you that simply typing @name is faster than having