[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread bosher
Noticing the downtime with oAuth now... On Aug 15, 8:05 pm, Ritvvij wrote: > Phew! thanks a lot.. i spent whole day thinking where I messed up the > code. :-) > > On Aug 15, 10:03 pm, goodtest wrote: > > > > > Same here. New users can't authorize. After pressing 'Approve', it > > takes for ever

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeking Beta Tester Developers for my API

2009-08-15 Thread Dale Merritt
yea, it looks very much like twitter. Twitgoo.com same thing. Any average joe would think it was a twitter company. On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: > > Looks cool, I suggest you read some of the C&D threads here, that design is > not going to go over well. If you have a c

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread Ritvvij
Phew! thanks a lot.. i spent whole day thinking where I messed up the code. :-) On Aug 15, 10:03 pm, goodtest wrote: > Same here. New users can't authorize. After pressing 'Approve', it > takes for ever and ends up in a blank-page > withhttp://twitter.com/oauth/authorize > url. > > On Aug 15, 6

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread goodtest
Same here. New users can't authorize. After pressing 'Approve', it takes for ever and ends up in a blank-page with http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize url. On Aug 15, 6:51 pm, Ritvvij wrote: > Hi could this be the reason why? > > On clicking authenticate user,  my application moves to twitter.

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth

2009-08-15 Thread Josh Roesslein
Looks nice. Seems like a Digg for twitter almost. Look forward to seeing it in action. On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Kevin Mesiab wrote: > Thanks, here's a little sneak preview (attached). > > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Jesse Stay wrote: > > Considering Twitter's recent move, you guys

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeking Beta Tester Developers for my API

2009-08-15 Thread Scott Haneda
Looks cool, I suggest you read some of the C&D threads here, that design is not going to go over well. If you have a chance to change it now, now would be the time. In your case, I think the font, the color, heck, pretty much everything about it could be mistaken for the real site. If

[twitter-dev] Re: call back issues

2009-08-15 Thread Ritvvij
Someone please assist. On Aug 15, 3:54 pm, Ritvvij wrote: > can someone please help?? > > On Aug 15, 3:19 pm, Ritvvij wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > development env: ruby on rails > > oauth: 0.3.5 > > gem used: twitter_oauth > > > My code to call twitter is > > > client = TwitterOAuth::Client.new(

[twitter-dev] Feed page sometimes not actually returning a feed

2009-08-15 Thread Jon Leighton
Hiya, I am displaying a twitter feed on a website. Unfortunately sometimes when my website requests the feed, it doesn't get a feed, but the following instead: It happens somewhat erratically. Any ideas? Cheers

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread Ritvvij
Hi could this be the reason why? On clicking authenticate user, my application moves to twitter. When the user presses APPROVE, it waits like forever and then goes to a blank page with url as "http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize " instead of my call back URL. ?? Please advise. Till last night my

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread Sean Callahan
Thanks for the reply Doug. Any new news? Still not able to login using basic auth on TweetPhoto. Do you have any ETA as to when we'll be restored? On Aug 15, 1:29 pm, Doug Williams wrote: > Sean,At this time we are monitoring the situation and containing issues as > we see them. Let's hold off

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth

2009-08-15 Thread Jesse Stay
Considering Twitter's recent move, you guys have a GREAT URL (retweet.com). Can't wait to see what you guys do with that. Jesse 2009/8/15 Kevin Mesiab > > Hi Twitter API Team, > > We are considering not implementing OAuth in our desktop application. > The interaction seems unintuitive and redund

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeking Beta Tester Developers for my API

2009-08-15 Thread Sam Street
Thanks Dale :) Hope you enjoy it. On Aug 16, 1:16 am, Dale Merritt wrote: > Cool app. I'll help you test it as a user.  Just checking it out.  Dale > > > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Sam Street wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I'm looking for a few developers to help me test the API I have bui

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeking Beta Tester Developers for my API

2009-08-15 Thread Dale Merritt
Cool app. I'll help you test it as a user. Just checking it out. Dale On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Sam Street wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a few developers to help me test the API I have built > for http://twicli.com (content sharing & user tagging) > > The API's work as you woul

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth

2009-08-15 Thread Duane Roelands
No OAuth = no source attribute unless your application was "grandfathered in". On Aug 15, 4:26 pm, Kevin Mesiab wrote: > Hi Twitter API Team, > > We are considering not implementing OAuth in our desktop application. > The interaction seems unintuitive and redundant for users who have > already g

[twitter-dev] Re: Authenticating / release of IDs & usernames

2009-08-15 Thread Sam Street
I recommend switching to OAuth where verify_credentials seems to be handled in conjunction with the oauth tokens rather than user/pass. Here's how I use it: 1. User authorizes for the first time 2. Twitter user ID, Screen name, password (and various style data) is stored in my 'twitter_users' ta

[twitter-dev] Authenticating / release of IDs & usernames

2009-08-15 Thread stasisme...@googlemail.com
Hi all, I came across a strange issue today with a few users in my app that still uses basic auth: 1. User signs up to app with username / password 2. App verifies against verify_credentials 3. On success, the returned is stored. 4. User changes their screen_name, and that screen name is relea

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeking Beta Tester Developers for my API

2009-08-15 Thread Chad Etzel
Dangit, didn't mean to blast the group... sorry for the noise.. -Chad On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: > Hi Sam, > > (*Speaking strictly as a non-twitter employee and completely as a developer*) > > I'd like to play with it. I'm working on a new product myself > (unrelated to co

[twitter-dev] Open Auth

2009-08-15 Thread Kevin Mesiab
Hi Twitter API Team, We are considering not implementing OAuth in our desktop application. The interaction seems unintuitive and redundant for users who have already granted our application 'trust' by installing it. Are we still to expect basic auth to go away? Is it possible to be granted a so

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeking Beta Tester Developers for my API

2009-08-15 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Sam, (*Speaking strictly as a non-twitter employee and completely as a developer*) I'd like to play with it. I'm working on a new product myself (unrelated to content sharing), so my testing might not be immediate, but this certainly looks interesting. Thanks, -Chad On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at

[twitter-dev] Seeking Beta Tester Developers for my API

2009-08-15 Thread Sam Street
Hi all, I'm looking for a few developers to help me test the API I have built for http://twicli.com (content sharing & user tagging) The API's work as you would expect with each content type (photo, video, audio) having an 'upload' and 'uploadAndTweet' method. The backend of the API is actually

[twitter-dev] Re: How do you store the social graph locally?

2009-08-15 Thread Kevin Mesiab
If you store them as blobs, we're going to revoke your compiler privileges. :P On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Arik Fraimovich wrote: > > I was wondering how you store a local cache of the social graph > methods results locally in your applications. > > One obvious solution is to create a two c

[twitter-dev] Re: call back issues

2009-08-15 Thread Ritvvij
can someone please help?? On Aug 15, 3:19 pm, Ritvvij wrote: > Hi, > > development env: ruby on rails > oauth: 0.3.5 > gem used: twitter_oauth > > My code to call twitter is > > client = TwitterOAuth::Client.new( >       :consumer_key => Attribute::CONSUMER_KEY, >       :consumer_secret => Attri

[twitter-dev] Re: How do you store the social graph locally?

2009-08-15 Thread Kevin Mesiab
Your implementation here has much to do with how you intend to use the social graph. Are you simply caching, or do you intend to identify metrics by analyzing the shape of the relationships over time? If you're simply creating a local cache, blowing away the existing store and serializing the re

[twitter-dev] Re: I must be stupid.

2009-08-15 Thread Sam Street
This library worked perfectly for me http://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async/tree/master On Aug 15, 6:28 am, Adam Shannon wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: > > > Hi Adam, > > > If you really want to learn this yourself, the best method is to read > > through the oAuth

[twitter-dev] Re: php regex for twitter password

2009-08-15 Thread Kevin Mesiab
Depending on your deployment scenario, you could let Google do the heavy lifting for you ;) https://www.google.com/accounts/RatePassword?Passwd=poopy On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Sam Street wrote: > > http://pastebin.com/m4fd058a4 > > This code will be able to determine whether a password i

[twitter-dev] If you see "417 Expectation Failed" this post might help

2009-08-15 Thread Scott Carter
I started to occasionally get a 417 response from Twitter when my application was using cURL to fetch an OAuth Request Token. The response would contain "417 Expectation Failed The expectation given in the Expect request-header field could not be met by this server. The client sent Expect

[twitter-dev] Re: php regex for twitter password

2009-08-15 Thread Sam Street
http://pastebin.com/m4fd058a4 This code will be able to determine whether a password is weak, ok or strong based on whether it contains lowercase, uppercase + numbers hope thats what you were after -Sam @sampicli http://twicli.com On Aug 15, 7:33 am, Xpineapple wrote: > I could probably play

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Dale Merritt
Make no mistake, the trademark is the reason for them to examine how you use the trademark. Its the job of the attorney to find as many counts for law suit, that support their overall complaint. There arguement would be that the way Dean uses his app, dimenishes the value of the Twitter. If he h

[twitter-dev] Re: White Listing request

2009-08-15 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, Please head over to: http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting and file out the handy form. Please be as detailed as possible about your specific use-case. Thanks, -Chad On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Beshr Kayali wrote: > > Hello, > I'm working on a new twitter service and I was w

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread Doug Williams
Sean,At this time we are monitoring the situation and containing issues as we see them. Let's hold off on restoration requests until things stabilize. Thanks, Doug On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Sean Callahan wrote: > > Thanks for the update Doug. Users on TweetPhoto are not able to login. > I

[twitter-dev] Re: How do you store the social graph locally?

2009-08-15 Thread Arik Fraimovich
On Aug 15, 10:56 pm, Kevin Mesiab wrote: > If you store them as blobs, we're going to revoke your compiler privileges. Good thing that lately I was mainly doing PHP or Python, so no compiler privileges were needed - only parser Any other comments on the question in hand? Thanks, -- Arik Fraimo

[twitter-dev] Re: How to just show tweets with a specific hashtag on my website?

2009-08-15 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi, You probably want to use the Search API for that. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method:-search There are several widgets out there that allow you to display search results on a website. One example that my site provides is http://tweetgrid.com/widget/ There are also many oth

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread PJB
The scariest part about all of this, frankly, is less the trademark stuff, and more the fact that he is being punished for violating Twitter's terms and services. As near as I can tell, his app just follows users who tweet certain keywords. It doesn't even UNFOLLOW them (thus potentially churn

[twitter-dev] Re: Submitting applications to Twitter

2009-08-15 Thread Mytweetopics
Thanks for the responses. I understand the process now. Meanwhile take a look at www.mytweetopics.com. It certainly has the potential to show up in the sidebar promotion box! On Aug 14, 9:45 pm, Josh Roesslein wrote: > Just because you app isn't listed in the promo box doesn't mean all hope is

[twitter-dev] Re: Acount problem

2009-08-15 Thread Adam Shannon
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:23 AM, MRWILLAN wrote: > > can not login under my user name, Willnot let me in > Did you recently change your password/username?What error does it give you, where are you trying to login. Have you given your account information to any 3rd party services. -- - Adam Sh

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Patrick Kennedy
Exactly. Common sense helps. Avoid Twitter|Twit and/or violating terms of service. Blue, birds, fonts, etc, depends on context Microsoft doesn't sue for orange; Oracle doesn't sue for red. Orange is in the common domain. But if you use fonts, birds, colors, these, and so forth, such that you lo

[twitter-dev] How to just show tweets with a specific hashtag on my website?

2009-08-15 Thread 3hmonkey
Hello, I know, that must be a real newbie question, but I can't find the answer. I use the following line to get my tweets: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/user.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=3 Can I anyhow pass a variable to the api that contains a specific hashtag, so only mes

[twitter-dev] call back issues

2009-08-15 Thread Ritvvij
Hi, development env: ruby on rails oauth: 0.3.5 gem used: twitter_oauth My code to call twitter is client = TwitterOAuth::Client.new( :consumer_key => Attribute::CONSUMER_KEY, :consumer_secret => Attribute::CONSUMER_SECRET) request_token = client.request_token(:oauth_callback => 'ht

[twitter-dev] White Listing request

2009-08-15 Thread Beshr Kayali
Hello, I'm working on a new twitter service and I was wondering if I can request white listing while I'm developing the service. Thanks,

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Andrew McCloud
IANAL, But... I would check to make sure they have grounds to stand on. It may just be a bluff, or they may not be respecting the views of the company they represent. Andrew On Aug 14, 1:25 pm, "Dean Collins" wrote: > I'm only sending this to the Twitter-Dev list and not distributing the > i

[twitter-dev] Restrict search results to ones with latitude/longitude

2009-08-15 Thread Chris
Hi, using "geocode" one can search for tweets in a specific geographical region in combination with a radius. However, most of the results contain a "location" property that names e.g. the city. In my use case I can only make use of items that really contain latitude/longitude information. Is is

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread Sean Callahan
Thanks for the update Doug. Users on TweetPhoto are not able to login. I've added an alert notification on our homepage, http://TweetPhoto.com, to make them aware of the issues linking to the Twitter status blog. Will you need our IPs again to whitelist them or are you good to go. Please let me kn

[twitter-dev] php regex for twitter password

2009-08-15 Thread Xpineapple
I could probably play with regex all day and get no where (and so far am). While I could make some progress, I don't know all the rules for a good password. My intent is to ensure server (and service) are safe. With that in mind, can anyone provide a "fair enough" regex example of sanatizing a

[twitter-dev] Re: I must be stupid.

2009-08-15 Thread Adam Shannon
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > If you really want to learn this yourself, the best method is to read > through the oAuth spec here: > http://oauth.net/core/1.0a > > This explains exactly how to create the signatures, etc... > > -Chad > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 a

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread Sam Street
I haven't experienced any downtime or lack of connectivity so far. On Aug 15, 7:16 pm, dougw wrote: > Looks like I forgot the link to the status blog. > > [1]http://status.twitter.com/post/163603406/working-on-unexpected-downtime > > Thanks, > Doug > > On Aug 15, 11:08 am, Doug Williams wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter, Auto-Follow Question

2009-08-15 Thread Doug Williams
Hi -- Auto following is discouraged. However if your app relies on the user following your account, you should clearly state well ahead of the auto follow action what relationship changes will occur to the user's account. Thanks, Doug Sent from my mobile. On Aug 15, 2009, at 12:07 PM, b

[twitter-dev] Re: Acount problem

2009-08-15 Thread Bill Kocik
Check out these resources: http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10713/entries/47763 http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10713/entries/15365 If that doesn't help, try submitting an issue here: http://twitter.zendesk.com/requests/new On Aug 15, 11:23 am, MRWILLAN wrote: > can not login under my user

[twitter-dev] Sign in with Twitter, Auto-Follow Question

2009-08-15 Thread bosher
Regarding, building a new web app that uses Sign in with Twitter. Is it acceptable in Twitter's TOS to have a user that is Signing in with Twitter auto-follow the site's Twitter account?

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread dougw
Looks like I forgot the link to the status blog. [1] http://status.twitter.com/post/163603406/working-on-unexpected-downtime Thanks, Doug On Aug 15, 11:08 am, Doug Williams wrote: > Hi all --If you have been monitoring our status blog [1] or been to > Twitter.com today you have noticed that we

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Dean Collins
The shitty part about this is unlike most of the devs on this mailing list for me MyTwitterButler is a minor minor side project. It's more a 'by-product' in that I needed to create something to track baseball tweets for another project. I kind of feel bad in that Twitter inc has probably spent

[twitter-dev] Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread Doug Williams
Hi all --If you have been monitoring our status blog [1] or been to Twitter.com today you have noticed that we are once again experiencing problems due to external causes. The issues causing the downtime require that we once again take measures to bring the site back online. The first step our ope

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Andrew Badera
I believe it was already stated that the platform team is going to communicate with the dev list on these matters "in the near future" in an earlier thread. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Josh Roesslein
I'm sure we will see a blog post soon from twitter. Yeah its very unlikely that any twitter API dev will comment on this since they can't speak on behalf of twitter's legal plans. They probably don't even know what legal plans are in place. On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> I would humbly suggest that someone from Twitter comments in this > thread sooner rather than later as I am concerned this will end up in > the press with quite a negative spin - unless there is some quick > clear guidance. I doubt very much that the Twitter people who follow this thread,

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Vision Jinx
OMG! LMA! :D On Aug 15, 10:24 am, Scott Haneda wrote: > He rocks in the tree tops all day long Hoppin' and a-boppin' and a- > singing his song > > All the little birds on Jaybird Street > Love to hear the robin go tweet(tm) tweet(tm) tweet(tm) > > Get on it Twitter :) > -- > Scott > Iphone s

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Scott Haneda
He rocks in the tree tops all day long Hoppin' and a-boppin' and a- singing his song All the little birds on Jaybird Street Love to hear the robin go tweet(tm) tweet(tm) tweet(tm) Get on it Twitter :) -- Scott Iphone says hello.

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Vision Jinx
@Andrew Tweet needs to be challenged... I agree :) If I lived in the US I would be happy to join the cause (probably where the case would need to be challenged). I am also concerned if Twi***r gets Tweet™ they will also claim ReTweet™ too like in their new API. Then will we have to use RT™ @someon

[twitter-dev] Acount problem

2009-08-15 Thread MRWILLAN
can not login under my user name, Willnot let me in

[twitter-dev] How do you store the social graph locally?

2009-08-15 Thread Arik Fraimovich
I was wondering how you store a local cache of the social graph methods results locally in your applications. One obvious solution is to create a two column table of the relations, but in such case how do you update it? Just prune everything of the user you're updating and inserting from the begi

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Neil Ellis
I would humbly suggest that someone from Twitter comments in this thread sooner rather than later as I am concerned this will end up in the press with quite a negative spin - unless there is some quick clear guidance. Now is time for some PR guys and someone talk directly to Dean please. S

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Dale Merritt
I have been through something very similiar to this with a trademark dispute I had with a major cable television network. I understand the dispute process pretty well, as well as what you can or (not supposed to be able to) and can't trademark. There is a window of opportunity that you have to di

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-15 Thread Rich
The very fact that Twitter themselves, on their very own blog have said that the encourage using Tweet and will not be 'going after' apps that use it would lend itself to a strong defence in my opinion. However the word Twitter probably wouldn't based on the fact it's the name of the company! On

[twitter-dev] My Issue with the ReTweet API and my solutions

2009-08-15 Thread Paul Kinlan
Hi Guys, When I saw the original message stating that the retweet API I was about to say straight away that I despise the idea, but I thought I would refrain - give it some thought. I still despise the idea and I have to make it known the reasons why I think it is a very very bad idea and in the lo