[twitter-dev] Getting any users home timeline

2009-09-03 Thread dp
So the statuses/friends_timeline api call gives an authentated users and his friends statuses. Basically that authentacted users home page. Now is there any similar way to get any users home timeline. statuses/ user_timeline gives the statuses for any user specified by a userid. But it gives wha

[twitter-dev] Re: if you will be using the Geolocation API ...

2009-09-03 Thread Abir
Thanks Raffi, appreciate the info. Abir On Sep 3, 9:09 am, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > hey abir. > > > Great discussion, thegeolocationcode is exciting opens up so many > > possibilities. > > thanks! we're excited as well. > > > 1. Would you guys consider thegeolocationcode, opt-in on a tweet > >

[twitter-dev] Re: Crossdomain policy

2009-09-03 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, Our cross domain policy file is intentionally setup to exclude any and all 3rd party websites. This is a permanent decision. The only way to work around this is to setup a server-side proxy. Thanks, -Chad On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:35 PM, torontocitylife wrote: > > Does anyone know what's

[twitter-dev] api error when updating statuses?

2009-09-03 Thread AJ Chen
wired response from status update: I update my status with different tweets, but for a period of time, the responded statuses are always the same and wrong status. for example, 2009-09-03 21:30:51,149 DEBUG report.TweetMgr (TweetMgr.java:tweet(63)) - newsweb2x tweeted: Shuttle X500V All-In-One Desk

[twitter-dev] Re: Throttling of filter stream

2009-09-03 Thread John Kalucki
Zac, It's possible that the track filter is missing something, but there's probably other misunderstandings that are clouding things. I don't know how Tweespeed comes up with their numbers, but the Streaming API only makes available a proportion of all public statuses. Spam accounts, for example

[twitter-dev] Re: Throttling of filter stream

2009-09-03 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Zac, The filter streams are limited in the amount of data they will deliver. If you are filtering a high-volume term (such as http), you will definitely not be getting all results. -Chad On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Zac Witte wrote: > > I'm not sure the filter is actually catching every

[twitter-dev] Re: Search Operator OR needs more work!

2009-09-03 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, All results from the Search API are always returned in reverse chronological order (most recent first). Number of keywords present in the result does not play into it. Thanks, -Chad On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Mike wrote: > > Hi, > I'm very amazed by the API.. but when using the OR

[twitter-dev] Search Operator OR needs more work!

2009-09-03 Thread Mike
Hi, I'm very amazed by the API.. but when using the OR operator I was hoping to see something like what Google does. for ex: If I'm searching 3 keywords with OR operator. Google will list items that has more keyword occurrences first. Twitter search will return results with one keyword occurrence

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit Weirdness?

2009-09-03 Thread Guillaume Thonier
We are seeing this exact problem with our app (OAuth). Different sets of requests return different counts for the rate limit. It goes up and down and sometimes reaches 0 which is incorrect. Any idea? On Sep 2, 11:47 pm, srikanth reddy wrote: > I have seen some inconsistency with my desktop app(

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Open Connect

2009-09-03 Thread monkeyvu
Thanks :-) On Sep 3, 2:24 pm, jmathai wrote: > This is the closest,http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter > > On Sep 2, 7:10 pm,monkeyvu wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > Does Twitter support Open Connect which like the Facebook does? > > > Thanks,

[twitter-dev] Throttling of filter stream

2009-09-03 Thread Zac Witte
I'm not sure the filter is actually catching everything that I'm supposedly tracking. There are ~20,000 tweets per minute right now according to tweespeed. I'm getting about 1000 tweets/m and skipping on average 1500 tweets/m according to the limit notifications. That means my filter is matching a

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Kevin Mesiab
You're asking the wrong folks. Most of the developers here do not have any real capital investment in their projects to speak of. Fewer still have a profit model. Is Twitter a Fad? The easy answer, yes. The long answer? Yes, but it needn't be... Unless Twitter makes a very real move to legitim

[twitter-dev] Twitter AIR/JS API

2009-09-03 Thread Kevin Mesiab
For those of you developing in AIR or JS, we've open sourced our Twitter API library. Collaborators encouraged: http://code.google.com/p/adobe-air-twitter/ -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com

[twitter-dev] having issues with widget - trying to palce on my website - who do I talk to ?

2009-09-03 Thread Jesse Gideon
trying to paste the code on my website for the twitter widget - after doing nothing happens ? see --> http://www.fresh2order.com/test.php help

[twitter-dev] Re: heavy throttling by search.twitter.com API from GAE application

2009-09-03 Thread Dan
I figured out this problem; it was not related after all. I needed to set the user-agent when using curl, with the "curl_setopt" command (in PHP). Once I did that I did not have problems using the Search API. On Aug 29, 7:03 pm, Dan wrote: > I'm not sure if this is related.  I've been using S

[twitter-dev] Cookie warning

2009-09-03 Thread Ted Neward
Hey, all. When I use Jakarta Commons' HttpClient to access Twitter, I get a warning about the cookie usage: WARNING: Cookie rejected: "$Version=0; _twitter_sess=BAh7CzoRdHJhbnNfcHJvbXB0MDo OcmV0dXJuX3RvIjRodHRwOi8vdHdpdHRl%250Aci5jb20vc3RhdHVzZXMvc2hvdy8zNzQ0NDIyMD U2Ln htbDoTcGFzc3dvcmRf%250

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Banh
if you're a developer... and u love to code... then i don't think it's a hard decision. #my2cents On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Andrew Badera wrote: > > Sometimes. > > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: >> >> Yes. >> >> On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:41 AM, ka...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Ted Neward
Kinda asking the wrong group, aren't you? Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com   > -Original Message- > From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter- > development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ka..

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread JDG
Ask Again Later On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 16:54, Andrew Badera wrote: > > Sometimes. > > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: > > > > Yes. > > > > On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:41 AM, ka...@sbcglobal.net wrote: > > > >> Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts? > > > > -- > > Scott * I

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Badera
Sometimes. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: > > Yes. > > On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:41 AM, ka...@sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts? > > -- > Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * > >

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Haneda
Yes. On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:41 AM, ka...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts? -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Joel Strellner
Yeah, it's a fad, just like vowels and capitalization are. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Dale Merritt wrote: > yea, like fb and ytube and ggle > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:41 AM, ka...@sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> >> Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts? >> > > > > -- > Dale Merritt > Fo

[twitter-dev] status id

2009-09-03 Thread Ki
i assume status id is auto generated. are there any situations where the id is manually set? for example, from id 1000 to 2000 for consecutive status updates that comes into twitter?

[twitter-dev] Re: Private user's 'following' information: why am I denied access via API but can get through Twitter.com?

2009-09-03 Thread TjL
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Tweet Thief wrote: > curl -D - -s -u user:pass > "http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.xml?user_a=just_me_hi&user_b=tweetthief"; Try the (new?) friendship/show: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friendships-show curl -D - -s --netrc "http://t

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Dale Merritt
yea, like fb and ytube and ggle On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:41 AM, ka...@sbcglobal.net wrote: > > Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts? > -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC

[twitter-dev] Re: [ANN] statuses/home_timeline resource now available (though it doesn't include retweets yet)

2009-09-03 Thread Rich
I second this, it'd be good to emulate the behaviour with real re- tweets in there On Sep 3, 7:45 pm, "Jim Renkel" wrote: > Marcel, > > This is good news! It will allow us to start development of retweet > support in our client applications / web-sites, and do backward > compatibility testing. >

[twitter-dev] Re: api user rate limit from different ip addresses

2009-09-03 Thread JDG
that's really quite brilliant for GETs ... if they could figure out a way to do it for POSTs (I know that Dojo uses iframes, but it's clunky and somewhat unreliable for non-JSON responses), I'd be all a-droolin. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 13:08, Bill Kocik wrote: > > > > On Sep 3, 10:48 am, NATO24

[twitter-dev] Re: api user rate limit from different ip addresses

2009-09-03 Thread Bill Kocik
On Sep 3, 10:48 am, NATO24 wrote: > JDG, you're right, you cannot perform a XMLHttpRequest, but jQuery can > load using the DOM script tag to get around it (using GET).  See the > second "Note:"http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.ajax#options For the curious, essentially this is done by append

[twitter-dev] statuses/followers Works fine with screen name but not with ID

2009-09-03 Thread Moritz
Hi, just wokred on my application when i noticed that I get an error when I try to get the statuses/followers or friends data by using the user_id param. with the screen_name param everythings works fine, but with the User ID I get an error saying me : "This request need auth." My fault ?

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Christian Heilmann
ka...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts? Why are you on this list?

[twitter-dev] Re: New ReTweet API

2009-09-03 Thread Jim Renkel
In http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread /8540da9d7d64c46 Marcel, on behalf of twitter, announced to availability of the statuses/home_timeline method. This is good news! It will allow us to start development of retweet support in our client applications / we

[twitter-dev] Re: [ANN] statuses/home_timeline resource now available (though it doesn't include retweets yet)

2009-09-03 Thread Jim Renkel
Marcel, This is good news! It will allow us to start development of retweet support in our client applications / web-sites, and do backward compatibility testing. Would it be possible, if it has not already been done, for twitter to create a couple of accounts that include some retweets so we ca

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Paul Kinlan
In my opinion: possibly and yes defiantly worth developing for. 2009/9/3 ka...@sbcglobal.net > > Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts? >

[twitter-dev] Re: New ReTweet API

2009-09-03 Thread jim.renkel
I asked this, and similar but more detailed questions, in my Aug 18, 7:35 pm post to this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/1e07e332ec3d449d/2d10a6a22e55133e?lnk=gst&q=ReTweet+API#2d10a6a22e55133e but, unfortunately, have not yet received an ans

[twitter-dev] Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread ka...@sbcglobal.net
Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

[twitter-dev] Re: available languages

2009-09-03 Thread LucaPost
wondering... how does the language of a tweet actually get set ?! is it taken from the profile settings (location?), http headers set from the user OS or from actually analyzing the text content and assigning to a language with a dedicated algorithm?! On Aug 17, 4:59 pm, Ben Eliott wrote: > H

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Geolocation API

2009-09-03 Thread LucaPost
ok ok... so i guess that in the search API json response we will see an extra: "geo": { "type":"Point", "coordinates":[37.78029, -122.39697] } for each element of the 'results' array. BTW: I believe "geo": null, would be more manageable and formally correct then: "geo":{}, when geolocation me

[twitter-dev] Re: Find twitter account from email address?

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Babcock
> Ok, the long answer is "no" too. Here is the long answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNjQecyjE8 Chris Babcock

[twitter-dev] users/show reporting user-abandoned accounts as suspended?

2009-09-03 Thread iematthew
I have a user that removed her account from Twitter. She said she was not suspended, but voluntarily removed the account. The /users/show method is reporting the account as suspended: When accessing http://twitter.com/users/show/studiotwentytwo.xml I get the suspended response with a 404 status:

[twitter-dev] Re: [ANN] statuses/home_timeline resource now available (though it doesn't include retweets yet)

2009-09-03 Thread Marcel Molina
The friends_timeline will likely be around for an amount of time on the scale of months, rather than weeks. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Rich wrote: > > Any idea how long the friends_timeline will be available for, > obviously there might be some considerable development time assocated > with

[twitter-dev] Re: Private user's 'following' information: why am I denied access via API but can get through Twitter.com?

2009-09-03 Thread Jim Renkel
Hmm! I'm not sure what the problem is you're having, but my site has no problem seeing her followers. You can see this at: http://twxlate.com/?a=fllwrs&u=just_me_hi Hope this helps. Jim Renkel -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-developmen

[twitter-dev] Re: if you will be using the Geolocation API ...

2009-09-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi jim. its only properly documented there (that will be fixed soon!), but all objects will have the element in it. Raffi, Is it only the account/verify_credentials method that will return the sub-element in the element, or all methods that return a element? While having only account

[twitter-dev] Re: Bump Issue 949 - Deleting status returns error

2009-09-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi naveen. please don't bump issues on the mailing list. i believe we're releasing a fix for this issue: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/6bd4a43cfd2c9ac0/ca4cffb84e03930f?lnk=gst&q=alex#ca4cffb84e03930f Still waiting to get some kind of acknowled

[twitter-dev] Re: if you will be using the Geolocation API ...

2009-09-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hey abir. Great discussion, the geolocation code is exciting opens up so many possibilities. thanks! we're excited as well. 1. Would you guys consider the geolocation code, opt-in on a tweet basis? It would be an optional input on a tweet basis with the default=off; This way users can cho

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Geolocation API

2009-09-03 Thread LucaPost
ok ok... so I guess the Search API json response will include a: 'geo': { "type":"Point", "coordinates":[37.78029, -122.39697] } block for each of element of the 'results' array BTW: I believe 'geo': null would be formally more correct than 'geo': {} for tweets missing geoLocation metadata.

[twitter-dev] Re: api user rate limit from different ip addresses

2009-09-03 Thread NATO24
Thanks Jim and Andrew, that's exactly what I needed to know. The request are coming from the client machine, so I will be safe. There was just some verbiage in the Twitter docs that said that it used the account and ip address for rate limiting, but it didn't really define what that meant in det

[twitter-dev] Re: Can you speak in plain english

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:00 AM, PJB wrote: > > > I think the UK Telegraph (?) article yesterday put it perfectly... the > problem is two-fold: Twitter itself is pretty insecure (unfixed > javascript hacks, etc), and third-party apps are even LESS secure (non- > encrypted db storage of Twitter auth

[twitter-dev] Re: Can you speak in plain english

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Nicholas Granado wrote: > PJB ... really? There really no need to flame-bait this thread. I think > Scott put it perfectly. > > Cheers, > Nick There was even less need for you to chide him for it. What contribution did you, a list user, just add by criticizing anot

[twitter-dev] Re: [ANN] statuses/home_timeline resource now available (though it doesn't include retweets yet)

2009-09-03 Thread Rich
Any idea how long the friends_timeline will be available for, obviously there might be some considerable development time assocated with switching (and in the case of iPhone applications getting Apple to review the whole process too!) On Sep 3, 1:19 am, Marcel Molina wrote: > The current friends

[twitter-dev] Re: Can you speak in plain english

2009-09-03 Thread PJB
I think the UK Telegraph (?) article yesterday put it perfectly... the problem is two-fold: Twitter itself is pretty insecure (unfixed javascript hacks, etc), and third-party apps are even LESS secure (non- encrypted db storage of Twitter authentication on mysql injectable hosts, etc etc). My ge

[twitter-dev] Re: Can you speak in plain english

2009-09-03 Thread Nicholas Granado
PJB ... really? There really no need to flame-bait this thread. I think Scott put it perfectly. Cheers, Nick On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:37 PM, PJB wrote: > > > $_ =~ s/\-([^\[]+?)\-/process($1)/ges foreach (@tweets); > > On Sep 2, 6:50 pm, Dante Soiu wrote: > > And not computer language, Dante

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Streaming API

2009-09-03 Thread Paul Kinlan
Hi, I signed the EULA on the webiste. I think the url is http://twitter.com/help/request_streaming but I can't recall which EULA's it covers and you have to provide details of your application and your intended usage. The EULA is then attached to your logged in twitter account. Paul 2009/9/3 an

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Streaming API

2009-09-03 Thread anthony steven
Thanks Paul, Btw, do you know what is the procedure I should do to sign the EULA (End-User License Agreement) with Twitter? The reason I need the method is because currently I'm doing a research about Tweets Analysis. Thanks, Anthony On Sep 3, 5:15 pm, Paul Kinlan wrote: > I believe the fir

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Streaming API

2009-09-03 Thread Paul Kinlan
I believe the fire-hose is a "don't contact us we will contact you". Depending on what you want to do the track and follow API's may cover your needs. The garden hose requires you to sign an EULA. Paul 2009/9/3 anthony steven > > Dear All, > > How could I use the streaming API Documentation (f

[twitter-dev] Twitter Streaming API

2009-09-03 Thread anthony steven
Dear All, How could I use the streaming API Documentation (firehose)? Because when I try to use that API, I always get Authentication Error. Is there any way/procedure that I should follow? Regards, Anthony

[twitter-dev] Private user's 'following' information: why am I denied access via API but can get through Twitter.com?

2009-09-03 Thread Tweet Thief
Summary Question: "If a user is 'private' on Twitter, why can I see their followers on Twitter.com (IFF I log in) but not through the API?" Details: For example, I went to http://twitter.com/just_me_hi/followers/ and can see all of her followers, despite the fact that she is "private" (Note: I