[twitter-dev] Re: Followers with time they followed

2009-07-18 Thread Stuart
2009/7/19 niff : > > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to pull a list of followers, including the time they > started following. > I'm not sure what method should be used for this. Here's what I > thought about so far and didn't work. > - ids.xml (obviously not) > - followers.xml the more detailed on

[twitter-dev] Followers with time they followed

2009-07-18 Thread niff
Hello everyone, I'm trying to pull a list of followers, including the time they started following. I'm not sure what method should be used for this. Here's what I thought about so far and didn't work. - ids.xml (obviously not) - followers.xml the more detailed one (still no info on the time) - fr

[twitter-dev] Tweet Photo

2009-07-18 Thread Kevin Mesiab
Hey guys, just a quick FYI. TweetPhoto has a revenue share option for developers. You can earn revenue from google adwords displayed near photos uploaded by your client. Some of you I know have great volume and this would probably be a relatively painless and tasteful revenue stream to capitaliz

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-18 Thread Jesse Stay
Yeah, to tell you the truth the no notice thing has completely ruined my weekend trying to re-factor broken production code thanks to this. Jesse On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Swaroop wrote: > > This is occurring with OAuth as well. verify_credentials is now being > limited to 15 calls/hour.

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money

2009-07-18 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:02 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > Netflix, even without the contributions of the contest teams, is doing > pretty well too. ;-) Different problem - they're aggregating votes, not trying to interpret language. Although it is certainly possible that some of the co

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money

2009-07-18 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: > If you think there are no well-funded, successful companies in this domain, > take a look at Nielsen/Buzzmetrics.  They've been at this for more than 10 > years.  They acquired my patents, from a startup where we demonstrated basic > sentiment

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Etzel
Bayesian filters are actually pretty good at "sentiment analysis" - of course the quality of the classification is based upon the corpus of information fed into the filters. I implemented this for a while with http://flixpulse.com for movie review tweet analysis. It wasn't perfect, but the filte

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money

2009-07-18 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:53 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > > And there is > http://twittersentiment.appspot.com/, a research project by some grad > students at Stanford. Perhaps you've heard of two other Stanford grad > students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page? Gilt by association? Nick

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money

2009-07-18 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Kevin Mesiab wrote: > A per follower charge is a fast way to obliterate the value of Twitter as a > platform. I disagree. Businesses are using Twitter to listen to their customers and to engage with them. I think a business should be allowed to follow as many cus

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money

2009-07-18 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:49 AM, David Fisher wrote: > > Show me these killer companies doing great NLP with social networks. NLP, especially sentiment analysis, is hard. The fact that tweets aren't English but an evolving language makes it harder. But there are certainly companies, for example

[twitter-dev] Re: LOLCODE API Wrapper

2009-07-18 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Actually, I believe there is a PL/LOLCODE procedural language plug-in for PostgreSQL. So you could write a script in any other language to collect tweets into a PostgreSQL database, then build your stored procedures in LOLCODE. I CAN HAZ TWEETS? On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Andrew Badera wr

[twitter-dev] Re: Developers unite – throw off the yoke of Twitter centralization and publish your tweetstreams!

2009-07-18 Thread Andrew Badera
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Andrew Badera wrote: > >> >> Old news. This topic of conversation has been around since the >> internetworked opensourced clones like laconi.ca started growing in >> popularity. >> >> I think you missed t

[twitter-dev] Re: Developers unite – throw off the yoke of Twitter centralization and publish your tweetstream s!

2009-07-18 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Andrew Badera wrote: > > Old news. This topic of conversation has been around since the > internetworked opensourced clones like laconi.ca started growing in > popularity. > > I think you missed the point. What if TweetDeck, for example, by default also publishe

[twitter-dev] Re: Developers unite – throw off the yoke of Twitter centralization and publish your tweetstreams!

2009-07-18 Thread Andrew Badera
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: > Chuck Shotton's recent "Twitter is a prototype" comment inspired me to > write a blog post about overcoming the limitations of Twitter's design... > I'm suggesting that Twitter apps should publish their tweetstreams locally > or to a hosted se

[twitter-dev] Developers unite – throw off the yok e of Twitter centralization and publish your tweetstreams!

2009-07-18 Thread Nick Arnett
Chuck Shotton's recent "Twitter is a prototype" comment inspired me to write a blog post about overcoming the limitations of Twitter's design... I'm suggesting that Twitter apps should publish their tweetstreams locally or to a hosted service, as tagged RSS, so that anybody can aggregate, index and

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-18 Thread winrich
yeah, its being limited even when i call it with a valid OAuth sig. On Jul 18, 11:39 am, Chad Etzel wrote: > Can someone verify if it is being limited even if the credentials are > *correct*? > -Chad > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Swaroop wrote: > > > This is occurring with OAuth as well

[twitter-dev] Re: LOLCODE API Wrapper

2009-07-18 Thread Andrew Badera
++ On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:15 PM, JDG wrote: > most API libraries were written by 3rd party devs, so ... LOL GET 2 WERK > KTHXBYE ;) > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:54, David Fisher wrote: > >> >> I can't seem to find a LOLCODE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE) >> API wrapper for Twitte

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Etzel
Can someone verify if it is being limited even if the credentials are *correct*? -Chad On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Swaroop wrote: > > This is occurring with OAuth as well. verify_credentials is now being > limited to 15 calls/hour. I really wish they had informed us in > advance, at least no

[twitter-dev] Re: LOLCODE API Wrapper

2009-07-18 Thread JDG
most API libraries were written by 3rd party devs, so ... LOL GET 2 WERK KTHXBYE ;) On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:54, David Fisher wrote: > > I can't seem to find a LOLCODE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE) > API wrapper for Twitter. I was hoping to write my next Twitter > application in LOLCO

[twitter-dev] LOLCODE API Wrapper

2009-07-18 Thread David Fisher
I can't seem to find a LOLCODE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE) API wrapper for Twitter. I was hoping to write my next Twitter application in LOLCODE, but its very hard to do so without one. Can anyone help me get started with a basic program? My code so far isn't working HAI CAN HAS STDIO

[twitter-dev] Re: Matt Sanford, signing off.

2009-07-18 Thread surya sravanthi
All the bast Matt!!! Thanks for all you r help . On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Matt Sanford wrote: > > Hi everybody*, > >    Starting next week I'm not going to be responding to mails on the dev > list or working on Google Code issues as part of my daily work. I have been > working on the Sea

[twitter-dev] Re: Filter Profanity

2009-07-18 Thread jjin...@hotmail.com
why is it proving hard for me beta test with https://www.linkedin.com/secure/addContacts Youknow, iam huge advocate of getting traffic via our affiliate program, and afterseeing what Marlon Sanders , Yanik Silver and my other friends are doing : i thought to should have put up a test Wheather; o

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money

2009-07-18 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:49 AM, David Fisher wrote: > > Show me these killer companies doing great NLP with social networks. I > find the ones that are doing stuff right now themselves are far behind > the curve and not really pushing stuff to the edge. They are often > marketing companies that

[twitter-dev] Re: status ping?

2009-07-18 Thread Stuart
2009/7/18 Andrew Badera : > What's the best/lowest impact fashion of polling Twitter for status if > you're not already performing an operation? Does the help/test method work > (well) for this? Looking to poll once every five minutes or so, hopefully > without burning countable API hits. Lowest

[twitter-dev] # and $ symbols

2009-07-18 Thread luisfigo
Hi guys, Wondering if Twitter API supports search for hashtags (#) and stock symbols ($)?? I did something like this: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23username+OR+$$username and it returned tweets that don't contain any # or $ symbol. I tried to search for microsoft and I could find so

[twitter-dev] status ping?

2009-07-18 Thread Andrew Badera
What's the best/lowest impact fashion of polling Twitter for status if you're not already performing an operation? Does the help/test method work (well) for this? Looking to poll once every five minutes or so, hopefully without burning countable API hits. Thanks- - Andy Badera - and...@badera.us -

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-18 Thread Swaroop
This is occurring with OAuth as well. verify_credentials is now being limited to 15 calls/hour. I really wish they had informed us in advance, at least not a day before weekend. On Jul 18, 11:07 am, Jesse Stay wrote: > I asked the same thing of Alex - waiting to hear back. This method is still >

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money

2009-07-18 Thread Kevin Mesiab
A per follower charge is a fast way to obliterate the value of Twitter as a platform. However, if any of you think that Twitter hasn't already defined and begun executing upon their monetization strategy, you are woefully naive. ;) On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:29 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money

2009-07-18 Thread David Fisher
Show me these killer companies doing great NLP with social networks. I find the ones that are doing stuff right now themselves are far behind the curve and not really pushing stuff to the edge. They are often marketing companies that have hired one NLP guy (and underpaid them) and are just pushing

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money

2009-07-18 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Jul 16, 1:14 pm, Stuart wrote: > Twitter have a business plan, we're just not worthy enough to know all > the details. What we know so far is that they're planning to launch a > premium account type with a bunch of tools to aid brand and engagement > tracking. I've got news for you ... Twitt