[twitter-dev] Re: number of private accounts/ random user sample

2009-06-17 Thread Damon P. Cortesi
Of the 4.5m or so accounts indexed on tweepsearch.com, I've got about 10% private as well. On Jun 10, 11:33 pm, lucy a.downy.h...@gmail.com wrote: My poke shows roughly 7-9%, with only a third of the random id's between 1 and (8 digits) returning user accounts. (a test up to 10 digit

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

2009-06-17 Thread Andrew Badera
I think you misspelled Ar, matey! On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Brian Gilham bgil...@gmail.com wrote: R -- *From*: Doug Williams *Date*: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:31:11 -0700 *To*: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com *Subject*: [twitter-dev] Re:

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

2009-06-17 Thread Marco Kaiser
Doug, citing from your original mail: Any request not including this information will be returned a 403 Forbidden response code by our web server. How does it map to what you say now, that a best effort is sufficient, if you reject any request without those header(s) with a 403 response? Again,

[twitter-dev] adding hashtags to direct message API

2009-06-17 Thread xp
is there any way to add hashtags in direct message API call? thanks.

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth 1.0a changes and PIN-based authentication shipped

2009-06-17 Thread Andrej
Just wanted to post info on how to change Ruby OAuth example that can be found on twitter page: Instead of line in callback action @access_token = @request_token.get_access_token use following passing oauth_verifier @access_token = @request_token.get_access_token(:oauth_verifier =

[twitter-dev] Re: Mixing basic auth with OAuth

2009-06-17 Thread Simon
On Jun 16, 2:58 pm, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Since you have all the passwords, could you not just log into the users account and authorise access to your oauth based application? No, it's way too many users. I don't have that time. But see that's exactly my point. I HAVE

[twitter-dev] Re: Mixing basic auth with OAuth

2009-06-17 Thread Andrew Badera
What you're proposing kind of defeats the purpose and intent of OAuth ... even if, implicitly, users have sort of given permission. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Simon tro...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 16, 2:58 pm, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Since you have all the

[twitter-dev] Re: Mixing basic auth with OAuth

2009-06-17 Thread Paul Kinlan
Hi, I was joking about taking their password and getting then logging in to the accounts to auth the oauth tokens. oAuth is designed to stop people like us having and controlling peoples passwords and thus having control of peoples accounts. You can stop taking peoples accounts, use sign in with

[twitter-dev] Failed to validate oauth signature or token with OAuth while updating the status

2009-06-17 Thread Borja Martín
Hi, I'm getting the following error while trying to update the user status who is supposed to be authenticated through OAuth: 'Failed to validate oauth signature or token' The thing is that this was working a few hours ago and if I try to call the credentials verfication api method it works fine

[twitter-dev] update_profile_image gives 500 internal server error

2009-06-17 Thread bivekr
Hi, I am using wininet HTTP api to upload an image (http://twitter.com/ account/update_profile_image.xml) to Twitter , but server returns 500 internal server error. I am not getting the cause of error. Please help. Thnaks, Bivek.

[twitter-dev] Twitter openid url

2009-06-17 Thread rita
Hi, In my application i am providing a button Sign in with Twitter. But i don't know the openid url which will be hit on click of that button. Let me know the openid URL for Twitter. Thanks in advance, Rita

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limits - Am I Blacklisted?

2009-06-17 Thread betweeted
Ok, I'm back again. I had thought this was fixed, but indeed I still couldn't get it to work... I just now have a clearer idea of the problem. Here's the problem, my GET requests won't authenticate. I'm 100% unequivocally sure that I'm using the correct username/password combo. It works just

[twitter-dev] Twitter4j oAuth help

2009-06-17 Thread MrLago
Hi, I was trying to make a update my user status, but It was returning an exception, I'm thinking it's because my username is already registered for my application, and this way, the new token that I request is not being accepted, since twitter is waiting for the other token registered for my

[twitter-dev] Re: update_profile_image gives 500 internal server error

2009-06-17 Thread Clint Shryock
your request is most likely mal-formed or the image is possibly too large. you should be getting some kind of error message back, possibly saying image possibly too large or to that effect. can you use a proxy to show the HTTP headers and such, or post some code so we can take a look at how

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed to validate oauth signature or token with OAuth while updating the status

2009-06-17 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, You may want to checkout the issues list for the PHP library. I found an issue there that seems to be the same: http://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async/issues/unreads#issue/6 Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On Jun 17, 2009, at 5:32 AM, Borja Martín

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

2009-06-17 Thread Doug Williams
Marco, I was giving us breathing room. In 6 days, we will require this data but enforcement will be manual in most cases. My strict language above is to ensure that developers know we reserve the right to terminate their applications without warning if they are abusing the system and not including

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

2009-06-17 Thread Craig Hockenberry
Matt Doug, Here's some more information to help fingerprint search requests: The MGTwitterEngine library sends the following X headers by default: X-Twitter-Client: MGTwitterEngine X-Twitter-Client-Url: http://mattgemmell.com/source X-Twitter-Client-Version: 1.0 These can be overridden by

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

2009-06-17 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Craig, I didn't know about the X-Twitter-Client headers, thanks for the info. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On Jun 17, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Craig Hockenberry wrote: Matt Doug, Here's some more information to help fingerprint search requests: The

[twitter-dev] Re: adding hashtags to direct message API

2009-06-17 Thread Abraham Williams
Sure. Just add lots of #s. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:07, xp xpbarga...@gmail.com wrote: is there any way to add hashtags in direct message API call? thanks. -- Abraham Williams | Community | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project |

[twitter-dev] oAuth - Application Website

2009-06-17 Thread Wallace
I have gotten my oAuth based app to deploy (finally - its a long story). One problem I am seeing is that when I look at the url link for my app, it is different from the url entered into on my app on the oAuth_clients setting for Application Website The entry is correct in my application's

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

2009-06-17 Thread Doug Williams
Craig, That is an excellent example of what we would like to see. You've identified your application and given us the URL to learn about it. Perfect. Thanks for sharing. Doug On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Craig, I didn't know about the

[twitter-dev] Get last login date

2009-06-17 Thread drewcrazy
Is there currently a twitter call that can capture the last login date of a user?

[twitter-dev] Re: inline popup on twitter links

2009-06-17 Thread Abraham Williams
There is no way get links lightboxed on twitter.com without having users install something like greasemonkey or a firefox extension. Abraham On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 16:03, Shift shiftmarket...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys Just working on developing an idea/app for twitter and was hoping anyone

[twitter-dev] oauth_callback parameter

2009-06-17 Thread Peter Denton
Hey, Can a few PHP people using Abraham's oAuth code share some ways they are dealing with dynamic oauth_callback parameter? I am having issues getting users back to specific locations on my site after oAuth and would love some input. Thanks Peter

[twitter-dev] Re: Mixing basic auth with OAuth

2009-06-17 Thread Paul Kinlan
As Abraham said, even though we don't know your code it is simple to maintain both basic auth and oauth at the same time. Twollo's flow is basically: if user.UseOauth: request using oAuth else: request using basic Auth. Obviously at some point path 2 will be redundant, however there has been

[twitter-dev] Issue 639: Newly registered OAuth App s have non functioning keys / tokens.

2009-06-17 Thread root
Is this issue really resolved? I'm new to both oauth and twitter, but I've tried the abraham and epitwitter clients with me new app and consumer key/secret, and still receive Failed to validate oauth signature and token errors. I'd be surprised if both clients are broken...

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth authentication

2009-06-17 Thread root
i see the same. is this for a new app? On Jun 17, 1:27 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is anyone getting 'could not authenticate' for every oAuth request? Also, is there a method for checking the status of the oAuth service? Thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: Mixing basic auth with OAuth

2009-06-17 Thread Simon
True... I think the way I did was kinda stupid (made 2 databases). Going to recode everything in a new way. An easier way. I'm still interested in knowing what measures Twitter will take to switch basic auth users to OAuth... Will all of the users have to switch manually and those that don't

[twitter-dev] Re: Mixing basic auth with OAuth

2009-06-17 Thread Paul Kinlan
I would have thought the plan is to give everyone enough time to direct their users down the oauth route. I would still expect people to complain when they turn off basic auth in the future. Paul 2009/6/17 Simon tro...@gmail.com True... I think the way I did was kinda stupid (made 2

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

2009-06-17 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Setting the user agent is not only in the best interest of Twitter. It's in your best interest as well. I've been setting my user agent from almost day #1 of my service, and on several occasions it has helped me to get quick response and issue resolution from the API team for both REST and

[twitter-dev] Re: inline popup on twitter links

2009-06-17 Thread Shift
Thanks - I had a feeling that might be the case On Jun 17, 5:13 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: There is no way get links lightboxed on twitter.com without having users install something like greasemonkey or a firefox extension. Abraham On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 16:03, Shift

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth - Application Website

2009-06-17 Thread sull
this happened to me last week. it also happened again when i made edits to the registered app but those edits did not take effect (though the changes were displayed properly from oauth_clients management page. both times, deleting my app from twitter and recreating it helped. On Jun 17, 1:23 pm,

[twitter-dev] Re: inline popup on twitter links

2009-06-17 Thread Justyn
If you're looking to do this in an external app, it's certainly possible. If you're looking to add this functionality to twitter.com itself, you would need something like Abraham mentioned (a browser plugin). On Jun 17, 4:03 pm, Shift shiftmarket...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys Just working on

[twitter-dev] Re: Get last login date

2009-06-17 Thread Justyn
You could use the timestamp of their last update - I imaging this would work for most needs, unless you truly needed to know the last time they accessed Twitter and browsed. On Jun 17, 7:07 pm, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/17 drewcrazy andrewila...@gmail.com: Is there currently a

[twitter-dev] Re: inline popup on twitter links

2009-06-17 Thread Shift
thanks, I once again had a feeling that was the case - too bad twitter doesnt allow that functionality in the API I think it would be an awesome idea and helpful too On Jun 17, 10:37 pm, Justyn justyn.how...@gmail.com wrote: If you're looking to do this in an external app, it's certainly

[twitter-dev] Re: get all friend screen_names

2009-06-17 Thread Developer In London
why would you need the screen_names of all the friends? usually you can use the twitterID for making any API calls 2009/6/18 sull sullele...@gmail.com i actually started out using statuses/friends until i realized that it was only 100 results per call. then i would have to go into paging.