[twitter-dev] Re: Enable ability to block apps via Twitter or the API

2009-05-31 Thread Doug Williams
Interesting idea Jesse. I'll float this idea internally tomorrow and get some feedback. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:57 PM, kylel...@gmail.com wrote: > > I completely agree with some type of blocking for specific app

[twitter-dev] Re: Source showing as web

2009-05-31 Thread Doug Williams
Please watch this for updates: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=634 Doug On May 31, 7:53 pm, John Kalucki wrote: > We're aware of this. Twitter developers and operations have been > working quite a bit this weekend on problems related to this issue and > others mentioned o

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread Doug Williams
Please watch this thread for updates: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=634 Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:54 PM, John Kalucki wrote: > > We're aware of this. Twitter developers and operations hav

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread John Kalucki
We're aware of this. Twitter developers and operations have been working quite a bit this weekend on problems related to this issue and others mentioned on the Twitter Status blog. Rough plans have been made to fully address the status source tag on Monday, after people have had some rest, but it'

[twitter-dev] Re: Source showing as web

2009-05-31 Thread John Kalucki
We're aware of this. Twitter developers and operations have been working quite a bit this weekend on problems related to this issue and others mentioned on the Twitter Status blog. Rough plans have been made to fully address the status source tag on Monday, after people have had some rest, but it'

[twitter-dev] Re: request_token gives "Failed to validate oauth signature and token"

2009-05-31 Thread fastest963
Ok never mind that last post. Just 2 mins ago, my keys started working. So just hold on, it looks like they are fixing it. On May 31, 10:17 pm, fastest963 wrote: > I'm getting the same thing. Looks like Twitter is having some problems > updating its OAuth applications with any new registrations

[twitter-dev] Change Tracker

2009-05-31 Thread TechRavingMad
I was wondering if there would be any way that Twitter could publish an RSS feed of when certain profile items are changed? I could use this to keep up-to-date my user database instead of occasionally cycling through all active users to check for name changes (as an example). Things this RSS fee

[twitter-dev] Re: request_token gives "Failed to validate oauth signature and token"

2009-05-31 Thread fastest963
I'm getting the same thing. Looks like Twitter is having some problems updating its OAuth applications with any new registrations or consumer keys. On May 31, 4:00 pm, kollynews wrote: > I am trying to run a sample application (http://github.com/abraham/ > twitteroauth) but i am getting 401 erro

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id -> screen_name resolution.

2009-05-31 Thread Philip Plante
Depending on the response from Twitter on this I would like to sponsor this effort. I have a architecture that will already support a larger number of tweets, and have the resources at my disposal to scale it out as it grows. We will just have to wait for Twitter to weigh in on the sharing aspec

[twitter-dev] Search API

2009-05-31 Thread Joseph
If I do a search the API, is there an easier way to get all output, than doing multiple calls, each specifying a page number?

[twitter-dev] request_token gives "Failed to validate oauth signature and token"

2009-05-31 Thread kollynews
I am trying to run a sample application (http://github.com/abraham/ twitteroauth) but i am getting 401 error during request_token phase. It says "Failed to validate oauth signature and token". Can anybody help me in this. this is what i am accessing: https://twitter.com/oauth/request_token?oauth

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread Jesse Stay
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Peter Denton wrote: > I think it would be hard to develop a model where people pay for uptime > support. 1) if I dont pay, and you and Ian at tweetDeck do, is twitter going > to break the feature for non-payers (me?) 2) If this were a big time > emergency and they

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread Jesse Stay
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > I know it's an emergency for Damon, or anyone else whose app relies on > those > > sources. > > That's exactly my point -- it's not an emergency to Twitter, it's not part > of their core functionality and they've never made it as such. It'

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread Peter Denton
I think it would be hard to develop a model where people pay for uptime support. 1) if I dont pay, and you and Ian at tweetDeck do, is twitter going to break the feature for non-payers (me?) 2) If this were a big time emergency and they couldnt fix it right away, are paying devs going to sue becaus

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> > http://staynalive.com/articles/2009/05/31/where-is-twitters-emergency-response-system/ > > > > This isn't exactly an emergency. > > > > It's annoying as hell, it sucks not having tracking and I hope they fix it > > quickly. But this is different than, say, someone swiping passwords. > > > I

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread Jesse Stay
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > > > http://staynalive.com/articles/2009/05/31/where-is-twitters-emergency-response-system/ > > This isn't exactly an emergency. > > It's annoying as hell, it sucks not having tracking and I hope they fix it > quickly. But this is different

[twitter-dev] Re: Enable ability to block apps via Twitter or the API

2009-05-31 Thread kylel...@gmail.com
I completely agree with some type of blocking for specific apps. It kills me that I am dealing with the annoyance of Facebook on Twitter. Twitter... please for the love of God. Save us from spymaster. @kyleplacy On May 31, 6:52 pm, Jesse Stay wrote: > Not going to name names, but there are a fe

[twitter-dev] Re: Enable ability to block apps via Twitter or the API

2009-05-31 Thread Joel Strellner
I second this request. Ideally via both web and API, API being immediate and web when your UI guys can get to it. On May 31, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Jesse Stay wrote: > Not going to name names, but there are a few really noisy apps out > there right now. It would be really nice if, via either th

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> http://staynalive.com/articles/2009/05/31/where-is-twitters-emergency-response-system/ This isn't exactly an emergency. It's annoying as hell, it sucks not having tracking and I hope they fix it quickly. But this is different than, say, someone swiping passwords. -- -

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread Jesse Stay
http://staynalive.com/articles/2009/05/31/where-is-twitters-emergency-response-system/ @Jesse On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Peter Denton wrote: > you're funny > > > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: > >> >> Ditto. >> http://jazzychad.com/meteor/sources.php is much less intere

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id -> screen_name resolution.

2009-05-31 Thread Stuart
2009/5/31 Philip Plante : > > I would like to hear a response from Twitter on the sharing of this > data.  My db has about 2 million active users, and I have another db > with 6 million or so I would gladly share. > > Previously I think the response from Twitter is that they cannot > provide this

[twitter-dev] Enable ability to block apps via Twitter or the API

2009-05-31 Thread Jesse Stay
Not going to name names, but there are a few really noisy apps out there right now. It would be really nice if, via either the API (my preference as it would be less work on your part and fits well with my app), or the UI, you enabled users to block receiving Tweets generated from specific apps.

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread Peter Denton
you're funny On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: > > Ditto. > http://jazzychad.com/meteor/sources.php is much less interesting now :) > Chad > > > > On May 31, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Brooks Bennett wrote: > > >> Chiming in that this is an issue for me as well... >> >> On May 31, 1:19

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread Chad Etzel
Ditto. http://jazzychad.com/meteor/sources.php is much less interesting now :) Chad On May 31, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Brooks Bennett wrote: Chiming in that this is an issue for me as well... On May 31, 1:19 pm, JB wrote: Both of my OAuth applications are also showing as being "from web" toda

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id -> screen_name resolution.

2009-05-31 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Philip Plante wrote: > > > If this is allowed maybe the community could take this a step further > and provide a common interface to share data like this. Any thoughts? Some sort of shared system that distributes the load across the various databases (perhaps in

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id -> screen_name resolution.

2009-05-31 Thread Philip Plante
I would like to hear a response from Twitter on the sharing of this data. My db has about 2 million active users, and I have another db with 6 million or so I would gladly share. Previously I think the response from Twitter is that they cannot provide this as a bulk translation due to the demand

[twitter-dev] Re: urls in tweets

2009-05-31 Thread Philip Plante
Dependent on language and libraries available you should try making a HEAD request for each of the URLs you extract. This would return only the headers of the endpoint, and inside this list you should get the mime-type of the content. There are a ton of video mime-types but it should be easy to

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread Brooks Bennett
Chiming in that this is an issue for me as well... On May 31, 1:19 pm, JB wrote: > Both of my OAuth applications are also showing as being "from web" > today... > not using source parameter.

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id -> screen_name resolution.

2009-05-31 Thread Dan Brickley
On 31/5/09 13:03, Stuart wrote: Since there's clearly a lot of demand for this feature is it not possible for it to be added to the official API? I'd hesitate before building anything on top of Twitter that also relies on a third party for something so basic. Related suggestion: have common RE

[twitter-dev] Re: Geographical distribution / latency of api servers

2009-05-31 Thread Nick Arnett
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:27 AM, John Adams wrote: > > On May 29, 2009, at 2:14 AM, jmathai wrote: > > What's the geographical distribution of the api servers? And, are >> requests routed to the nearest farm/colo? >> > > All servers are currently on the west coast. Thus, daily prayers are in

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread JB
Both of my OAuth applications are also showing as being "from web" today... not using source parameter.

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread JakeS
This appears to be an issue for almost all clients. My client's (PockeTwit) source parameter is no longer working either. On May 31, 3:19 am, Adrian wrote: > Hi, all preexisting and newly added tweets with source Twitya have > changed to Web. > > Tweets are added using 'source=twitya' in the po

[twitter-dev] Re: urls in tweets

2009-05-31 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:53 AM, grand_unifier wrote: > > i have written a code to get all tweets that have urls in them in atom > or json format. > > now i want a way to: > > 1>separate the urls from the tweetslike a tweetmeme way... > 2>find out if the url represents a video... > > how w

[twitter-dev] Re: Python 3 Basic Authentication

2009-05-31 Thread Paul Kinlan
I know it is not exactly the same service, but when I authenticate against the Twitter Stream API using basic auth and python I set the Realm = None when I call add_password on the basic auth handler. Paul 2009/5/31 Jason Emerick > I would recommend just added the authorization header directly t

[twitter-dev] Re: Python 3 Basic Authentication

2009-05-31 Thread Jason Emerick
I would recommend just added the authorization header directly to the request versus using the basic auth handler. I have included some sample code below of how I have been doing it. username = 'twitter' password = 'twitter' basic = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password))[:-1] reques

[twitter-dev] Python 3 Basic Authentication

2009-05-31 Thread Gerald Bäck
Hi, I try to do my first steps with the Twitter API, but I always get a 401 with this python 3 code. I douplechecked the credentials twice, they are surely correct. What am I doing wrong. Thankks in advance, Gerald auth_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler() aut

[twitter-dev] Anyone using Arc90's PHP Class? I'm in a pickle

2009-05-31 Thread Pedster
Server: PHP 5.2.8 with Curl compiled.. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here: [code] $twitter = new Arc90_Service_Twitter($username, $password); try { $status = 'My Script Sent This Test Status'; $response = $twitter->updateStatus($status, $in_reply_to_status_id = 0, $format = 'json'); $r

[twitter-dev] urls in tweets

2009-05-31 Thread grand_unifier
i have written a code to get all tweets that have urls in them in atom or json format. now i want a way to: 1>separate the urls from the tweetslike a tweetmeme way... 2>find out if the url represents a video... how will i do that?? pls advice...

[twitter-dev] source name has switch to web

2009-05-31 Thread Adrian
Hi, all preexisting and newly added tweets with source Twitya have changed to Web. Tweets are added using 'source=twitya' in the post querystring as per usual.

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter

2009-05-31 Thread Romeo Olympia
Hi all, So it looks like that the token being returned to the callback from oauth/authenticate is now the same request token we sent. Can someone please confirm this? This is the last message I found on the topic. If this is the case, how are we supposed to proceed? Should we exchange the reques

[twitter-dev] Re: Source showing as web

2009-05-31 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> All tweets seem to be showing as posted from web? :) Yes, I just noticed that too. Doug? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Eat healthy, stay fit, DIE ANYWAY! -

[twitter-dev] Source showing as web

2009-05-31 Thread Swap
All tweets seem to be showing as posted from web? :)

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id -> screen_name resolution.

2009-05-31 Thread Stuart
Since there's clearly a lot of demand for this feature is it not possible for it to be added to the official API? I'd hesitate before building anything on top of Twitter that also relies on a third party for something so basic. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/projects/twitter/ 2009/5/31 jstrellner