[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

2009-05-27 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Nancy M wrote: > > I do like the maps, but 50% error -- you would not possibly get on an > airplane with that kind of error rate, would you? And I don't think > I'd want to make decisions about my demographics on something with > that error rate either. Why not

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

2009-05-27 Thread Nancy M
I do like the maps, but 50% error -- you would not possibly get on an airplane with that kind of error rate, would you? And I don't think I'd want to make decisions about my demographics on something with that error rate either. Why not take the IPS and bounce them against whois or something? N

[twitter-dev] Re: UserIDs to UserName - in bulk

2009-05-27 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Brendan O'Connor wrote: > I've been wondering about the same thing, especially with the REST API's > rate limit.  I also wanted to dereference user id's from the Search API, > where the tweet data objects don't have the big nested user info object like > they do i

[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?

2009-05-27 Thread Doug Williams
Check out the content of the XML returned with the error you would see: /users/show.xml?user_id=41714775 User has been suspended. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg < jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com>

[twitter-dev] lots of 404s?

2009-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I'm seeing alot of 404 failures... some are for users that are suspended and some are just failng. These are id's i'm getting from the social graph apise.g. this is failing: http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?user_id=41714775 here's some more from my logs: getuser failed: /33687642 - /33687642 get

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

2009-05-27 Thread Nancy Miracle
I don't think this is accurate, since it bases its decision about the location on any geographical information mentioned in the tweets. If, for instance, one of our dealers added a bunch of early hong kong phone cards (as they did), the results will be undependable. See the results for tiasdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

2009-05-27 Thread 0 3
Hi Chris, Very nice! I'd be interested in a how-to. Jonas On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Christian Heilmann < chris.heilm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/tweet-locations.php?user=codepo8 > > What do you think? I can put up a how-to if wanted. > > cheers > Chr

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

2009-05-27 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Christian Heilmann < chris.heilm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/tweet-locations.php?user=codepo8 > > What do you think? Hey, nicely done. I like the maps. Are you sending the raw tweet texts to the Yahoo Placemaker service? Do

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

2009-05-27 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Brendan O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Christian Heilmann < > chris.heilm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/tweet-locations.php?user=codepo8 >> >> What do you think? > > > Hey, nicely done. I like the maps. >

[twitter-dev] Re: UserIDs to UserName - in bulk

2009-05-27 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Matthew Lefevre (mjlefevre) < mjlefe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a way to turn a list of UserIDs into User Name / Profile > information in one web service call? or feed? > > Or for 8000 followers do I need to make 8000 follow up web service > calls? I've be

[twitter-dev] Re: UserIDs to UserName - in bulk

2009-05-27 Thread Abraham Williams
You can either do a social graph call and users/show on each id or page through followers. 2009/5/27 Matthew Lefevre (mjlefevre) > > Is there a way to turn a list of UserIDs into User Name / Profile > information in one web service call? or feed? > > Or for 8000 followers do I need to make 8000

[twitter-dev] UserIDs to UserName - in bulk

2009-05-27 Thread Matthew Lefevre (mjlefevre)
Is there a way to turn a list of UserIDs into User Name / Profile information in one web service call? or feed? Or for 8000 followers do I need to make 8000 follow up web service calls? Thanks, Matt

[twitter-dev] Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

2009-05-27 Thread Christian Heilmann
http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/tweet-locations.php?user=codepo8 What do you think? I can put up a how-to if wanted. cheers Chris

[twitter-dev] Twitter may add location data to each tweet... What will the location data be?

2009-05-27 Thread J...
I am working on an app that uses location data and this may change the way I design the app. Will it be WOEID? Latitude & Longitude? GPS? Geo Tag? etc. This is of major interest to me.

[twitter-dev] Re: Automatic Tweets?

2009-05-27 Thread Chad Etzel
Quick and Dirty answer: yes. Depending on your kart tracking software/system, there are tons of options to integrate sending a tweet based on events (as long as the software you use allows for it). Side note: this is a cool idea. /karting nerd -Chad On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Chris wrot

[twitter-dev] Re: search.rss

2009-05-27 Thread Chad Etzel
"near" is not supported in .rss, .atom, or .json feeds for search (is said so in the old API docs, not sure about new ones). You can use the "geocode" search operator in the query, though... Try this for new york: geocode:40.714550,-74.007124,15mi -Chad On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jonas

[twitter-dev] Re: search.rss

2009-05-27 Thread Jonas
Hi Matt, I mistakenly wrote "since=" above when I meant to write "near=". The following url should return tweets with 15 miles of nyc, but instead I get invalid parameter. http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=&ands=&phrase=&ors=¬s=&tag=&lang=en&from=&to=&ref=&near=nyc&within=15&units=mi&sinc

[twitter-dev] Re: how are people collecting spritzer/gardenhose?

2009-05-27 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM, pplante wrote: > You are essentially doing the same thing via some bash scripts and > flatfiles. How are you parsing and indexing the data once its > collected? python simplejson, custom tokenizer & other text analysis, then lots of tokyo cabinet/tyrant. --

[twitter-dev] Automatic Tweets?

2009-05-27 Thread Chris
Hey All, I've got a big question and just need a quick and dirty answer. I want to know if it possible to have our software send out tweets based on events. Quick back story: We currently have software that does point of sale, track timing, HR, financials, etc. for race tracks and kart tracks.

[twitter-dev] Re: search.rss

2009-05-27 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Jonas, Yes, they are. The since= parameter should not be required, can you share the URL you're getting the error from? Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On May 27, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Jonas wrote: Matt, Okay, I'm switching back to search.atom. However, I still

[twitter-dev] Re: search.rss

2009-05-27 Thread Jonas
Matt, Okay, I'm switching back to search.atom. However, I still get an "Invalid Parameter" error when since= is not empty. Are all the parameters that are available to the search command also available to the search.atom command? Jonas On May 27, 3:41 pm, Matt Sanford wrote: > Hi Jonas, > >

[twitter-dev] get alerts on topics in twitter

2009-05-27 Thread steve
Hey guys, I found a free online tool called Trackle ( http://tinyurl.com/pd9rag ). It allows you to track Twitter for information on anything or anyone and receive alerts when a tweet appears. It's cool! Cheers, Steve

[twitter-dev] Re: search.rss

2009-05-27 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Jonas, It is not safe to use and will go away at some point. It was added for questionable reasons and has never been linked to or documented. Having said that I don't remove it because people have changed .atom to .rss and started relying on it. Please don't use it since it has s

[twitter-dev] search.rss

2009-05-27 Thread Jonas
Hi, I was using the search.atom command and just happened to try search.rss. I was surprised that this works because I didn't see it documented in the api docs. Is search.rss documented anywhere? Is it safe to use? I noticed two problem with search.rss. 1) When since= is empty the returned r

[twitter-dev] Re: RSS rate limit

2009-05-27 Thread Doug Williams
Yes, IP based rate limiting. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Ali wrote: > > Is getting RSS feed using end point such as feed:// > twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/12345.rss > subject to rate limiting also?

[twitter-dev] Re: Is iso_language_code in search depreciated?

2009-05-27 Thread Matt L Hackett
Hi Tim, I got stymied by this problem as well. Not sure what the details of your project are, but you might find the Google Language API useful. It has a language detection method that works pretty well and even returns a confidence value (http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/ documentation/#

[twitter-dev] RSS rate limit

2009-05-27 Thread Ali
Is getting RSS feed using end point such as feed://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/12345.rss subject to rate limiting also?

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisted but being rate limited?

2009-05-27 Thread jmathai
@wirah sent me: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#IkeephittingtheratelimitHowdoIgetmorerequestsperhour On May 27, 9:06 am, jmathai wrote: > Ok...what exactly is that so we can program around it.  I haven't seen > it in my searching. > > On May 27, 9:01 am, Matt Sanford wrote: > > > Hi there, > >

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisted but being rate limited?

2009-05-27 Thread jmathai
Ok...what exactly is that so we can program around it. I haven't seen it in my searching. On May 27, 9:01 am, Matt Sanford wrote: > Hi there, > >      Whitelisting raises the various limits but it does not remove   > them. It sounds like you may have reached the direct message limit for   > whi

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisted but being rate limited?

2009-05-27 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, Whitelisting raises the various limits but it does not remove them. It sounds like you may have reached the direct message limit for whitelisted accounts. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On May 27, 2009, at 8:56 AM, jmathai wrote: This morning an app

[twitter-dev] Whitelisted but being rate limited?

2009-05-27 Thread jmathai
This morning an app of ours was rate limited when sending direct messages. Here is the response we get from the API: {"request":"/direct_messages/new.json","error":"There was an error sending your message: We know you have a lot to say, but you can only send so many direct messages per day. (clic

[twitter-dev] Re: Deprecation of following and notification elements

2009-05-27 Thread Ed Finkler
Or, as I think slightly more clearly, perhaps this is an example of the inconsistency discussed in the OP. Sorry for the noise if that's the case. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com Twitter:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On May 27, 11:50 am, Ed Finkler wrote: >

[twitter-dev] Re: Deprecation of following and notification elements

2009-05-27 Thread Ed Finkler
Has this been implemented? I'm getting results that seem to indicate so. Example: > curl > "http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.json?user_a=spaztest&user_b=funkatron"; true > curl > "http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.json?user_a=funkatron&user_b=spaztest"; true so those users are follow

[twitter-dev] Re: Obtaining a complete user feed

2009-05-27 Thread Abraham Williams
Twitter has said in the pas they intend to make complete archives available. No idea what form they will actually happen in though. Some time in the future... 2009/5/27 Matthias Bauer > > Hello Twitter Team, > > I was wondering whether there is a way, currently or planned, to obtain > the comple

[twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property

2009-05-27 Thread Chad Etzel
Need to classify a twitter account? There's an app for that! ...maybe -Chad On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds like a third party app to me. > > 2009/5/27 Adam Covati >> >> Hmm, could definitely be of some use. Of course, with no policing it >

[twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property

2009-05-27 Thread Abraham Williams
Sounds like a third party app to me. 2009/5/27 Adam Covati > > Hmm, could definitely be of some use. Of course, with no policing it > would not be entirely reliable, but I guess it could help in a number > of different ways. The difficult part is classifying things, I would > probably want a few

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisted application still getting limited

2009-05-27 Thread jobtrain
Hi Matt, Thanks so much - just forwarded you the original email! On May 27, 11:05 am, Matt Sanford wrote: > Hi Miles, > >      I just checked the list of whitelisting requests and I don't see   > you anywhere in it, either approved, rejected or pending. Please   > forward me your approval ema

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisted application still getting limited

2009-05-27 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Miles, I just checked the list of whitelisting requests and I don't see you anywhere in it, either approved, rejected or pending. Please forward me your approval email (matt [at] twitter.com) and I'll track down where things went wrong. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Tw

[twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Covati
Hmm, could definitely be of some use. Of course, with no policing it would not be entirely reliable, but I guess it could help in a number of different ways. The difficult part is classifying things, I would probably want a few more types 1. Personal - your standard user on twitter 2. Business -

[twitter-dev] Proposal: account_type property

2009-05-27 Thread MPS
I would like to propose an additional property on twitter accounts: account_type. The main purpose for this would be to distinguish personal vs. business accounts. This would be very useful for apps that want to target one or the other type of twitter account. Who's with me on this? :-) - Mich

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API: Spritzer-stream coverage

2009-05-27 Thread John Kalucki
Folks, The significant/insignificant language currently isn't that important or clear, as we're preparing for future changes. The spritzer will likely remain a small public sample, the gardenhose will likely remain a larger sample that requires an EULA. The proportions, however, are subject to co

[twitter-dev] Re: LINQ to Twitter v1.0 RTW

2009-05-27 Thread Andrew Badera
Nice. I might just have to play with this, will keep you posted. --ab On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Joe Mayo wrote: > > LINQ to Twitter, v1.0 is now RTW: http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com/. > LINQ to Twitter allows .NET developers who program in C# or VB to > program Twitter applications u

[twitter-dev] LINQ to Twitter v1.0 RTW

2009-05-27 Thread Joe Mayo
LINQ to Twitter, v1.0 is now RTW: http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com/. LINQ to Twitter allows .NET developers who program in C# or VB to program Twitter applications using familiar LINQ syntax they are accustomed to. This is an open source project that comes with a full Visual Studio 2008 solution

[twitter-dev] Re: To get User email id as given in the User Profile

2009-05-27 Thread surya
hi all, Thanks for the immediate response :D Surya Sravanthi On May 26, 12:58 am, jmathai wrote: > Don't hold your breath for that one :) > > On May 25, 6:59 am, "sravs.." wrote: > > > hi, > > > I am a new user. can anyone tell me is there any way togetthe > >emailidof the user once the

[twitter-dev] Obtaining a complete user feed

2009-05-27 Thread Matthias Bauer
Hello Twitter Team, I was wondering whether there is a way, currently or planned, to obtain the complete twitterstream of one or multiple given users for data mining and backup purposes. It would be sufficient for me if I could request the data and would then, some time later, be notified that

[twitter-dev] Re: Search Twitter (Java, C#) - Language Preferences?

2009-05-27 Thread Merrows
On May 26, 3:10 pm, Andrew Badera wrote: > The language you're using is going to be pretty agnostic to the > performance of search.twitter.com. You're dealing with a loosely > coupled architecture over an Internet WAN connection ... and nothing > you do will change the base performance of searc

[twitter-dev] Re: Search Twitter (Java, C#) - Language Preferences?

2009-05-27 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Merrows wrote: > > I have a system already written in C# and .NET which I started in > 2003. I have been happy with using c# and .NET as it has a good class > structure, and also Winforms works well for writing client-server > applications. Recently, I have seen m

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API: Spritzer-stream coverage

2009-05-27 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:07 PM, elversatile wrote: > > Makes sense. I was assuming the same. Thanks people! John from Twitter > said that spritzer is 1/3 of the gardenhose, which makes it 15%. So I > guess statistical insignificance of spritzer is due to its low > percentage. I'm also curious