[twitter-dev] Re: Having Twitter clients support proxies for enhanced (filtered) tweet fetching

2009-04-10 Thread tweetip
Dave, For nearly a year, we've done something a bit different to obtain your goal. We created a desktop client/httpserver. Through our mobile ui (iPhone/browser) we can access our desktop app for our filtered tweets. Realtime user action on the mobile updates the desktop app. Michael :) http://

[twitter-dev] Re: "Failed to validate oauth signature or token" on status update post?

2009-04-10 Thread jmathai
I am having this problem as well. GETs work fine but POSTs do not. I don't have any Authorization headers. On Apr 10, 10:37 am, Chen Jie wrote: > I got a workaround for POST, I removed Authorization info in Header, > then the POST request passed. > > On Apr 10, 8:50 pm, max wrote: > > > I hav

[twitter-dev] Re: 400 bad request from verify_credentials

2009-04-10 Thread Abraham Williams
Yes. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 22:26, nattu wrote: > > No, I am making a POST request. Now I see in the API documentation > that it is a GET to be used. But POST used to work till last > Wednesday. Was it a change in the API? > > Thanks.. > > On Apr 10, 11:48 pm, Doug Williams wrote: > > Are you

[twitter-dev] Re: 400 bad request from verify_credentials

2009-04-10 Thread nattu
No, I am making a POST request. Now I see in the API documentation that it is a GET to be used. But POST used to work till last Wednesday. Was it a change in the API? Thanks.. On Apr 10, 11:48 pm, Doug Williams wrote: > Are you making a GET request? > > Doug Williams > Twitter API Supporthttp:/

[twitter-dev] Re: http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.json failed

2009-04-10 Thread Zachary West
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:25, Doug Williams wrote: > Gary, > direct_messages/new requires a HTTP POST request. I can see from the URL you > pasted in the post that you have a query string. If you are sending a POST > request you would have no query string. Although, it is possible to have a POS

[twitter-dev] Re: http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.json failed

2009-04-10 Thread Gary Zhao
Exactly. It's my overlook. Thanks Alex and Doug. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Doug Williams wrote: > Gary, > direct_messages/new requires a HTTP POST request. I can see from the URL > you pasted in the post that you have a query string. If you are sending a > POST request you would have no q

[twitter-dev] Re: Em-dash, accented characters in updates: Failed to validate...

2009-04-10 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Isaac, The change we implemented seems to have fixed people using a newer version of the Ruby oauth gem but it sounds like it may have broken some other libraries. My guess is that there is an encoding normalization difference between the PHP library and the newest Ruby version rig

[twitter-dev] Re: Settings->Connections

2009-04-10 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, A fix for this was deployed a few moments ago. Thanks; — Matt Sanford On Apr 10, 2009, at 05:19 AM, Mobasoft wrote: Friday morning report: still seeing 500 error on the connections tab in some accounts. On Apr 8, 11:40 am, Doug Williams wrote: There were a lot of system iss

[twitter-dev] Re: Does the Search API have an hourly limit like the main API?

2009-04-10 Thread Doug Williams
No, search is not limited by the same rate limiter as the REST API. There is still a limit but it is well north of 100 request per hour. You'll receive 503 HTTP responses if the limit is hit. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Brandon Gei

[twitter-dev] Re: Source isn't working for me anymore

2009-04-10 Thread Doug Williams
It worked for me. How are you submitting your source parameter? Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Andrew Badera wrote: > Your flux capacitor must be on the flimflam. > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:54 PM, rfurlan wrote: > >> >> Since t

[twitter-dev] Em-dash, accented characters in updates: Failed to validate...

2009-04-10 Thread Isaac
Hi, I've been using the em-dash when posting status updates, and apparently this now causes the Twitter API to return "Failed to validate..." errors. This just started happening within the last 24-48 hours. I am using OAuth (specifically, the PHP library written by Abraham Williams), and my site

[twitter-dev] Re: Source isn't working for me anymore

2009-04-10 Thread Andrew Badera
Your flux capacitor must be on the flimflam. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:54 PM, rfurlan wrote: > > Since the 7th or the 8th (April) it seems like Twitter is ignoring my > source (twitzap). I have confirmed that the source string is being > submitted correctly when a status update is posted but all

[twitter-dev] Source isn't working for me anymore

2009-04-10 Thread rfurlan
Since the 7th or the 8th (April) it seems like Twitter is ignoring my source (twitzap). I have confirmed that the source string is being submitted correctly when a status update is posted but all the tweets show as "from web" on the Twitter website. Any ideas? -rfurlan

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-04-10 Thread sscout
Hi, please add me too. Twitter username: sscout URL: http://sscout.livejournal.com | http://sscout.wordpress.com Email: ssc...@gmail.com S D A Y :P I develop on HTML (3+) (by hand, or WYSIWYG editors), some CSS, C, Pascal, Assembly Language (I know, I was raised by dinosaurs). and I've been tryi

[twitter-dev] my reader is FUBARd after latest API change ("since" param removed)

2009-04-10 Thread vlb
Here's your chance to convert me to another application. I've been using Pytwerp to read twitter. "Thanks" to the latest API change where "since" was removed, PPyTwerp is now merrily returning the same set of tweets over and over and over again. Busy developer says "It could be patched to save a

[twitter-dev] Re: Does the Search API have an hourly limit like the main API?

2009-04-10 Thread Brandon Geiger
So if we want to make over 100 search API requests in an hour, we need to get whitelisted? On Apr 10, 12:54 pm, Doug Williams wrote: > There is no authentication for the search API. Rate limiting is based on IP > address alone. > > Doug Williams > Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw > >

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized on OAuth calls?

2009-04-10 Thread Dominik Schwind
Oh, On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Dominik Schwind wrote: ["body:protected"]=> > string(60) " �  sK��IMQ(�W(K��LI,IU�O,-�P(�L�K,)- ��٩y0y(�+" } That gibberish is just a gzip version of: string(43) "Failed to validate oauth signature or token" Thx, Dominik

[twitter-dev] Re: Does the Search API have an hourly limit like the main API?

2009-04-10 Thread Doug Williams
There is no authentication for the search API. Rate limiting is based on IP address alone. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Brandon Geiger wrote: > > We are debating whether or not we need to authenticate users when > making a call aga

[twitter-dev] Does the Search API have an hourly limit like the main API?

2009-04-10 Thread Brandon Geiger
We are debating whether or not we need to authenticate users when making a call against the search API. Thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: 400 bad request from verify_credentials

2009-04-10 Thread Doug Williams
Are you making a GET request? Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:34 AM, nattu wrote: > > Hi, > > I am getting 400 Bad Request error from Twitter for the API call > 'account/verify_credentials'. > As per http://apiwiki.twitter.com this occurs w

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized on OAuth calls?

2009-04-10 Thread Dominik Schwind
Hi, I'm seeing it on two applications "EagleTweet" and "EagleTweetDev" - I am using the Zend_OAuth library for PHP and I'm updating location fields for roughly 100 users with their FireEagle location once in a while. You can see it at http://eagletweet.com/ and I can give you the API Keys in priv

[twitter-dev] 400 bad request from verify_credentials

2009-04-10 Thread nattu
Hi, I am getting 400 Bad Request error from Twitter for the API call 'account/verify_credentials'. As per http://apiwiki.twitter.com this occurs when the rate limit of 100 requests per 60 minute is exceeded. But I have verified thrice that the requests have not exceeded this limit at any time. Al

[twitter-dev] Re: A note on our API change policy

2009-04-10 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Doug Williams wrote: > Lastly, lets work together. Tell me what you developers need that we are not > currently providing. How can we better manage this communication? Which > method of notifications work best for you? Aside from transparency with API > changes,

[twitter-dev] OAuth Deny action should trigger a Revoke

2009-04-10 Thread Mobasoft
I was just doing some implementation testing. Here's the scenario: Assumption: Visitor has previously authorized the application. 1) Visitor was in my app 2) Visitor clicks on link to authorize app with Twitter 3) Visitor lands on https://twitter.com/oauth/authorize 4) Visitor enters userid and

[twitter-dev] Re: search by link

2009-04-10 Thread Doug Williams
Search only by source is not supported. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:38 AM, joop23 wrote: > > I was hoping to find a way to search for source through the search api > without having to pass in some text. Just source through api. > > On

[twitter-dev] Re: search by link

2009-04-10 Thread joop23
I was hoping to find a way to search for source through the search api without having to pass in some text. Just source through api. On Apr 9, 11:48 am, Chad Etzel wrote: > It should be noted that you can't just search for a source alone, you > must pass in some sort of query with it.  So you c

[twitter-dev] Re: Settings/connections

2009-04-10 Thread Doug Williams
This is a dupe thread --- let's move this discussion to the other settings/connections problem thread found here: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_frm/thread/689524038d8baec4/d34690416db08670?lnk=gst&q=settings#d34690416db08670 Doug Williams Twitter API Support http:

[twitter-dev] A note on our API change policy

2009-04-10 Thread Doug Williams
Twitter's development model is pragmatically agile where features enter the code base right alongside bug fixes. You can see this in our changelog [1]. What is not clear from the log is that most of the code is written just days before. April 8th's rapid deprecation of the since parameter/If-Modif

[twitter-dev] Re: Settings->Connections

2009-04-10 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, I have seen reports from a few developers about this consistent robot page. I have been looking into this morning and I believe I have a fix. The problem is a bug with how active tokens are handled when an application has been deleted. I'm working on getting the fix reviewed

[twitter-dev] Re: "Failed to validate oauth signature or token" on status update post?

2009-04-10 Thread Chen Jie
I got a workaround for POST, I removed Authorization info in Header, then the POST request passed. On Apr 10, 8:50 pm, max wrote: > I have the same problem since this morning, pretty strange, looked > over my code but I really don't see anything wrong. > > On Apr 10, 4:27 am, HSL wrote: > > > A

[twitter-dev] PHP Twitter by Tijs Verkoyen

2009-04-10 Thread Fern
Changes April 8th break PHP Twitter's verify credentials function. To fix this find the function (yes, it's spelled wrong) "verifyCrendentials" then update the code from $response = $this->doCall('account/verify_credentials.xml', array(), true); to $response = $this->doCall('account/verify_cre

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes for April 9, 2009

2009-04-10 Thread Carlos Crosetti
I appreciate giving back sending DM to myself - you have now helped to have this very important (non disturbing) test method - VERY THANKS On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Matt Sanford wrote: > > Hi all, > >Hot on the heels of yesterday's mega-deploy we've put out two small bug > fixes for to

[twitter-dev] Re: search by link

2009-04-10 Thread Carlos Crosetti
Squeak Smalltalk Twitter Client at http://code.google.com/p/twitter-client/

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized on OAuth calls?

2009-04-10 Thread Doug Williams
Before opening an issue [1] it would have been nice to discuss. What are you trying to do? What steps have you taken to debug? Why do you think this is on our end and not a bug in your code? We can't help without knowing what's going on. 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=447

[twitter-dev] Re: Requesting Twitter API

2009-04-10 Thread Doug Williams
Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Omer rosen wrote: > For some reason I can't find the link to the requesting page of > Twitter API. > Can someone reply me with the link? > Thanks! >

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized on OAuth calls?

2009-04-10 Thread HSL
I;ve created an issue,.. can you all comment there too? http://shortr.me/lz On Apr 10, 12:19 pm, Dominik Schwind wrote: > Hi everyone, > > since about half an hour ago I seem to be getting 401 Unauthorized > responses to my OAuth-ed API calls. > > Is that a known problem? > > Regards, > > Do

[twitter-dev] Re: "Failed to validate oauth signature or token" on status update post?

2009-04-10 Thread max
I have the same problem since this morning, pretty strange, looked over my code but I really don't see anything wrong. On Apr 10, 4:27 am, HSL wrote: > Anyone else has the problem that posting a status update through OAuth > gives the error: "failed to validate oauth signatre or token" since a >

[twitter-dev] Re: "Failed to validate oauth signature or token" on status update post?

2009-04-10 Thread max
I'm getting the same message when trying to update. The signature and token seem fine to me. On Apr 10, 4:27 am, HSL wrote: > Anyone else has the problem that posting a status update through OAuth > gives the error: "failed to validate oauth signatre or token" since a > few hours?

[twitter-dev] Re: "Failed to validate oauth signature or token" on status update post?

2009-04-10 Thread Chen Jie
sorry, I found out my bug, I constructed the wrong request URL. But I can't use POST also, :( On Apr 10, 11:57 am, Chen Jie wrote: > I got the error on every requests by OAuth, just works fine > yesterday.. > > On Apr 10, 10:27 am, HSL wrote: > > > Anyone else has the problem that posting a st

[twitter-dev] Re: Trying to send a direct message to myself, getting someone else's direct message back in retunr

2009-04-10 Thread Pauly
Service! Thanks guys @pauly On Apr 10, 1:32 am, Matt Sanford wrote: > Hi all, > >      The fix for this was just deployed. I'm updating the change log   > now and will send the standard announcement email. > > Thanks; >    — Matt > > On Apr 9, 2009, at 03:46 PM, Doug Williams wrote: > > > This i

[twitter-dev] Re: If your OAuth 'verify_credentials.xml' API just broke....

2009-04-10 Thread Doug Williams
Thanks for sharing the code. The change notice was here [1] for posterity. 1. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_frm/thread/5822fbfd5ea857c6/1e6e14b9c96f74ca#1e6e14b9c96f74ca Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:52 PM, k

[twitter-dev] Re: http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.json failed

2009-04-10 Thread Doug Williams
Gary, direct_messages/new requires a HTTP POST request. I can see from the URL you pasted in the post that you have a query string. If you are sending a POST request you would have no query string. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Alex P

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized on OAuth calls?

2009-04-10 Thread Doug Williams
Guys, Details are essential to help track down claims like these. What are you doing, and more importantly, how are you doing it? Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Bluespark wrote: > > Same here. > > On Apr 10, 10:19 pm, Dominik Schwind

[twitter-dev] Re: sort parameter for friends timeline method?

2009-04-10 Thread Chad Etzel
Not sure if this is best practices, but when using a since_Id param I just throw the max count value at the request (usually 200) and get all the data. Then you can sort it however you want client side. Probably not exactly what you were asking, but it works. Chad On Apr 10, 2009, at 11:3

[twitter-dev] Re: Recommended oAuth application setup for development/staging/production environments with different sub-domain names

2009-04-10 Thread Abraham Williams
If you use one OAuth application for all three be warned that currently if a single user account is being used on all three it will only work on the environment that you last authorized it on. So if you are using your personal account on production and authorized it on development. Production will

[twitter-dev] sort parameter for friends timeline method?

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Westbrook
It would be nice to have a sort parameter for the friends timeline method. i was a little baffled why when I requested hte tweets with a certain since id and a count of 20 it wasn't retrieving hte previous page, then I realized it was counting from the beginning and not the other way. any chan

[twitter-dev] Entity encoding (reprise)

2009-04-10 Thread Andrew Price
Hi, I notice that the Twitter website doesn't entity encode ampersands after retrieving statuses so it basically allows users to enter " into the text box and instead of seeing " they get " instead. This leads to problems for us API users. With my command line client, using JSON, it would still

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized on OAuth calls?

2009-04-10 Thread Bluespark
Same here. On Apr 10, 10:19 pm, Dominik Schwind wrote: > Hi everyone, > > since about half an hour ago I seem to be getting 401 Unauthorized > responses to my OAuth-ed API calls. > > Is that a known problem? > > Regards, > > Dominik

[twitter-dev] Re: Settings->Connections

2009-04-10 Thread Mobasoft
Friday morning report: still seeing 500 error on the connections tab in some accounts. On Apr 8, 11:40 am, Doug Williams wrote: > There were a lot of system issues that could have caused the robots. The > site should be much happier as the week goes on. Thanks for your patience. > > Doug William

[twitter-dev] 401 Unauthorized on OAuth calls?

2009-04-10 Thread Dominik Schwind
Hi everyone, since about half an hour ago I seem to be getting 401 Unauthorized responses to my OAuth-ed API calls. Is that a known problem? Regards, Dominik

[twitter-dev] Re: Having Twitter clients support proxies for enhanced (filtered) tweet fetching

2009-04-10 Thread Damon P. Cortesi
I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. The challenge I see is getting services to adopt "the proxy", though maybe the "if you build it, they will come" approach could work. This would be particularly nice from the perspective of having a portable set of services that could follow

[twitter-dev] Re: Recommended oAuth application setup for development/staging/production environments with different sub-domain names

2009-04-10 Thread Chad Etzel
In your authorize reuqest URL you can manually set an "oauth_callback" parameter which will override the URL set in your application setup page. So, you can use one app for all of your different test/dev/staging/live (sub)domains. -Chad On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Doug wrote: > > If I hav

[twitter-dev] Recommended oAuth application setup for development/staging/production environments with different sub-domain names

2009-04-10 Thread Doug
If I have dev/staging/prod environments defined as follows, do I need to create three separate oAuth apps on Twitter with the corresponding "Application Website" and "Callback URLs" defined in each one? 1. http://dev.example.com (pointing to my laptop external IP address) 2. http://staging.exampl

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes for April 9, 2009

2009-04-10 Thread Chen Jie
ok, I found out my bug, I added all parameters to the request url, but the OAuth spec(http://oauth.net/core/1.0/#request_urls) said 'The request URL query MUST NOT contain any OAuth Protocol Parameters', so I remove oauth parameters, and it works now. But, I am curious why my app work before? On