[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and Perl

2009-05-19 Thread Jesse Stay
I just blogged a pretty thorough howto on this. Let me know if you have feedback: http://staynalive.com/articles/2009/05/19/social-coding-how-to-code-twitters-oauth-using-netoauth-and-perl/ http://staynalive.com/articles/2009/05/19/social-coding-how-to-code-twitters-oauth-using-netoauth-and-perl/

[twitter-dev] Twitter4J 2.0.4 released - added Streaming API support fixed OAuth compatibility issue

2009-05-19 Thread Yusuke Yamamoto
Hi all, Twitter4J 2.0.4 is available for download. http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/index.html#download It's also available at the Maven central repository. http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/net/homeip/yusuke/twitter4j/ Previous versions have a compatibility issue with OAuth since May 13th.

[twitter-dev] Re: Timezone Data

2009-05-19 Thread rchouinard
Which still doesn't give me a standard list. I can spend an hour and map the Twitter names to standard timezone names, but my thought was that it would serve the development community better if the standard zone names were returned from the start. Just my $.02 cents, though. You can keep the

[twitter-dev] problem with characters to send messages

2009-05-19 Thread Leo Baiano
My name is Leo Baiano, I am Brazilian and my English is not very good, a little PHP program and I am starting time trying to work with the Twitter API. I found a class ready for sending messages but I'm having problems with some characters. The class works but when I use any special characters

[twitter-dev] Re: How would I automatically DM to a person once theyve followed me?

2009-05-19 Thread Swaroop
Email is your only real time option here. On May 19, 7:45 am, Ryan Tuosto ryantuo...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best way to do this in real time? On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Then you use option b. Sent from my adp1 On May 18, 2009 6:21

[twitter-dev] announcement - tweetmotif - topical summarization system

2009-05-19 Thread Brendan O'Connor
Hi, I feel a little bad that I always use twitter-dev to whine about bugs in the search API. But it's really great and you can build interesting things on top of it! We just put up an experimental search/text analytics app that clusters tweets based on key phrases and terms relative to a specific

[twitter-dev] Invalid signature when calling request_token

2009-05-19 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I'm porting my HTTP authentication based twitter client to OAuth, and am having problems constructing a signed call to request_token that twitter.com will accept. The OAuth implementation has successfully worked with two different sample servers and MySpace, so I don't think I'm hitting any

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter4J 2.0.4 released - added Streaming API support fixed OAuth compatibility issue

2009-05-19 Thread imgnik
thank you! i am a fan of twitter4j :) On May 19, 11:07 am, Yusuke Yamamoto yus...@mac.com wrote: Hi all, Twitter4J 2.0.4 is available for download.http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/index.html#download It's also available at the Maven central

[twitter-dev] Re: Timezone Data

2009-05-19 Thread rchouinard
I can get a list of Twitter's zones easily enough, and I understand that. While I could spend time going through Twitter's timezone select box and manually map the values to Olson zone names (which is what I'm sure I'll end up doing), this could be made easier if Twitter simply returned the

[twitter-dev] Re: problem with characters to send messages

2009-05-19 Thread Cameron Kaiser
The class works but when I use any special characters in the message here in Brazil two characters after the special character disappears. This sounds like you aren't handling UTF-8 correctly in PHP. In particular you should look at the utf8_encode() and _decode() functions. This page may also

[twitter-dev] Re: Anti Spam

2009-05-19 Thread sillyt...@googlemail.com
We had a chat about Twitter spam yesterday and would like a points based approach to user ranking or spam rating. For those of us working on 3rd party applications, having a spam score to be able to make quick decisions on with regard to searches would be very useful. For example, a new user

[twitter-dev] Re: Are there ANY advantage of using OAuth with client softwares?

2009-05-19 Thread Thomas Mango
Another advantage is that if a third party application's database is breached, all of the stored usernames and passwords would be exposed. If the third party application was using oauth, the access token and secret pairs are only useable if the consumer key/secret pair are found and these can be

[twitter-dev] Re: Anti Spam

2009-05-19 Thread Paul Kinlan
Hi Guys, I developed http://www.itsabot.com, which was designed to detect twitter bots. I am happy to open this up as a larger project if people want - and move it into an open source project with spam accounts, not just bots. Paul 2009/5/19 sillyt...@googlemail.com sillyt...@googlemail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Anti Spam

2009-05-19 Thread Abraham Williams
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:06, sillyt...@googlemail.com sillyt...@googlemail.com wrote: For example, a new user would have a higher 'spam-rating' than a long time user. Someone with a huge follow:follower ratio similarly. Given how spam is used on Twitter, there are several categories which

[twitter-dev] Re: Timezone Data

2009-05-19 Thread Abraham Williams
I would say the API will try to be consistent with the web interface and those are the strings the web interface currently uses. You can try to convince http://help.twitter.com to change the strings used. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:03, rchouinard rchouin...@gmail.com wrote: I can get a list of

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth example in Java language

2009-05-19 Thread surya
hi, The problem exists still can you suggest me a solution to integrate my Twitter4j oauth in google app engine.. I am a beginner, so it will be helpful if anyone could suggest me how to start sravanthi. On May 18, 6:29 pm, surya sravanthi sravanthi.su...@gmail.com wrote: hi,

[twitter-dev] credential checking

2009-05-19 Thread Omkaaraa
Hello, only thing I want to do is using my own J2ME quivalent API, I want to check the user credential. I have read about OAuth also. So i have to gone through this link http://twitter.com/account/ verify_credentials.xml but this is the file which i will get in response, but in which format or

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter4J 2.0.4 released - added Streaming API support fixed OAuth compatibility issue

2009-05-19 Thread AJ Chen
Yusuke, thank you for providing twitter4j api. it's very useful. -aj On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Yusuke Yamamoto yus...@mac.com wrote: Hi all, Twitter4J 2.0.4 is available for download. http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/index.html#download It's also available at the Maven central

[twitter-dev] Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL

2009-05-19 Thread Nancy M
I'm using perl (NET::Twitter) to submit a status update. The update consists of a text string and a URL of our tracker module. The purpose of this is to allow us to track any sales that arise as a result of the clickthrough and associate them with the source. It appears that the URL is being

[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL

2009-05-19 Thread Chad Etzel
You are correct, Twitter is doing the bit.ly conversion on their end. They automatically shorten URLs based on some set of metrics (I think character length and formatting have something to do with it), and there's no (current) way to suppress this behavior when posting. The best you can do is

[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL

2009-05-19 Thread Abraham Williams
If you don't want to use bit.ly shorten the urls with the shortener of your choice first. When did Twitter switch to using bit.ly anyways? On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 17:24, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: You are correct, Twitter is doing the bit.ly conversion on their end. They

[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL

2009-05-19 Thread Cameron Kaiser
The best you can do is use the bit.ly API to un-shorten the link and grab your URL key from there. Have a look at the /expand method in their API: http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation Or, implement your own URL shortening scheme (either internally, or using a specific

[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL

2009-05-19 Thread Chad Etzel
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: When did Twitter switch to using bit.ly anyways? Sometime last week, if I recall. Looking at the stats for spammy links is incredible... people will click anything (tho I can't tell how many of the clicks are actually

[twitter-dev] Re: How would I automatically DM to a person once theyve followed me?

2009-05-19 Thread Coonay
nice to hear the solution On May 20, 12:09 am, Ryan Tuosto ryantuo...@gmail.com wrote: Well how does TweetLater do it?  They don't have access to client emails. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Swaroop rh.swar...@gmail.com wrote: Email is your only real time option here. On May 19, 7:45