[twitter-dev] Re: One letter hashtag for search API

2009-09-19 Thread Nick Arnett
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Nobu Funaki wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm talking about hashtag. > > I tried to use #A, #B or #C whatever one letter hashtag, sometimes > couldn't find them in search result. But sometimes I could. > > Could you tell me if there is any certain rules? Perhaps it is > inv

[twitter-dev] Re: One letter hashtag for search API

2009-09-19 Thread John Kalucki
The issue could be with the posting account, and not with the hashtag, per se. If you are only looking for hashtags programatically, consider using the track parameter on the Streaming API. You will see single character hashtags there, along with a lot of spurious matches like #I'malittleteapot.

[twitter-dev] Re: تم افتتاح منتدى الع جمى سوفت زيارتك شرف لنا

2009-09-19 Thread Nick Arnett
2009/9/19 alagmy > تم افتتاح منتدى العجمى سوفت زيارتك شرف لنا > > > > زورنا على منتدى العجمى سوفت لتحصل على كل ما هو جديد برامج العاب افلام > صور > > شاهد بنفسك > > http://alagmy.almslol.net And for those who were wondering, here's what Google translation yields for this: Opened Agami forum sh

[twitter-dev] Re: تم افتتاح منتدى الع جمى سوفت زيارتك شرف لنا

2009-09-19 Thread Adam Cloud
Agreed, you DO suck at life and should probably quit. 2009/9/19 alagmy > تم افتتاح منتدى العجمى سوفت زيارتك شرف لنا > > > > زورنا على منتدى العجمى سوفت لتحصل على كل ما هو جديد برامج العاب افلام > صور > > شاهد بنفسك > > http://alagmy.almslol.net

[twitter-dev] تم افتتاح منتدى العجمى سوفت زيارتك شرف لنا

2009-09-19 Thread alagmy
تم افتتاح منتدى العجمى سوفت زيارتك شرف لنا زورنا على منتدى العجمى سوفت لتحصل على كل ما هو جديد برامج العاب افلام صور شاهد بنفسك http://alagmy.almslol.net

[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax

2009-09-19 Thread John OBrien (TwapperKeeper)
Joel - thx for this bit of code... very helpful. John http://twapperkeeper.com @jobrieniii http://www.linkedin.com/in/jobrieniii On Aug 2, 7:10 pm, Joel Strellner wrote: > Other than my username and password, this is an example that I know is > working: > > $count = 1; > $startparsing = false

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting non-English Characters using OAuth

2009-09-19 Thread Mageuzi
Thanks for the response, Brian :) After a bit more debugging and research, I found the problem. In hindsight it's obvious, but I was putting too much faith into how the characters were being encoded. That "%65E5%672C%72AC" was completely incorrect, and instead the individual bytes needed to be e

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

2009-09-19 Thread Joel Strellner
Greg, Please see the following code for a working example fo how to do the Streaming API in PHP. Not sure if it is the best way to do it, but it works for us, and we use the Streaming API for a lot of data. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/761eb0b23872d430?hl=en If yo

[twitter-dev] looking for Twitter developer

2009-09-19 Thread Stranded Wind
I'm looking for a Twitter developer or development team, preferably an organization with a track record and some depth. I'd like to hear about the following and this is order of importance. 1. your existing server side development work - need not be Twitter specific, but talk to me about PHP,

[twitter-dev] using twitter api problem

2009-09-19 Thread apex
I am using twitter api for posting new posts from my site to twitter and everything worked fine until today when all stooped working. I believe that my api calls are denied (blocked). I am getting http_code= 0 what ever i try. I hawe tryed same code that im using on my site to run on my localhost

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

2009-09-19 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Greg, A couple of questions: Are you running this is a browser? It will be much easier to test if you can run the script from a console instead. There are all sorts of output buffering issues to deal with in a browser. Even if you are receiving any data from the stream, the way your code is

[twitter-dev] Re: Default profile pics

2009-09-19 Thread timwhitlock
Thanks all. Yes, MD5 is unreliable. But it has proven effective in identifying 1,000s of duplicate profile images in spam accounts before a single byte change throws the checksums off. Looking at the path is certainly an option, but I was worried that these may change suddenly without warning. I'l

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

2009-09-19 Thread retsoced
okay. That helps a bit, but how about using json requests? like this one: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3Ausername I'm pretty new to this API and I'm a bit lost at this point. I can use the above search (using juitter) to get post from just about any account that I want, just not t

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

2009-09-19 Thread Joseph Cheek
agreed -- use post instead of get. Here's what I use to track 'hotpotato': wget -S -nv --auth-no-challenge \ --user="$TWITTER_USER" --password="$TWITTER_PASS" \ --post-data=track=hotpotato --read-timeout=60 "$TRACK_URL" \ -O /dev/stdout | while read a; do (parse xml) done John K

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

2009-09-19 Thread Joseph Cheek
You also need a keep-alive of greater than 30 seconds. And by default PHP funtions timeout after 30 seconds, so you'll need to change that to keep the script running indefinitely. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Jim Gilliam wrote: > I ran in

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

2009-09-19 Thread Joseph Cheek
curl buffers, even when called with -N. You won't get satisfactory results with curl unless you get a lot of data. Use wget instead. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: > I'd suggest trying to get this to work with curl firs

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

2009-09-19 Thread Joseph Cheek
I actually haven't done this in PHP, only in bash. The thing about stream is that you need something that returns data without buffering it. I'm sure there's a way to do this in PHP, but I haven't tried it yet. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Facebook checkbox

2009-09-19 Thread Mossy
I would really appreciate if the following feature was added: Underneath the message box, a checkbox labelled "Copy this tweet to my facebook status." At the moment you can only set it up so they never get copied over, or always. But sometimes you don't want it copied over, and sometimes you do

[twitter-dev] API terms of service

2009-09-19 Thread John Meyer
I have a question about the ToS. On the terms it states: "Get permission from the user that created the Tweet if you want to make their Tweet into a commercial good or product, like using a Tweet on a t-shirt or a poster or making a book based on someone's Tweets." Now would that apply to a scree

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

2009-09-19 Thread Jim Gilliam
I ran into the same problem trying to do this in Ruby last night using this technique: http://www.robares.com/2009/07/14/streaming-twitter-api.html I think it's because /statuses/filter.json requires a POST, which isn't supported by yajl-ruby. So I'm stuck. It works fine if you use one of the ot

[twitter-dev] One letter hashtag for search API

2009-09-19 Thread Nobu Funaki
Hi, I'm talking about hashtag. I tried to use #A, #B or #C whatever one letter hashtag, sometimes couldn't find them in search result. But sometimes I could. Could you tell me if there is any certain rules? Perhaps it is involved this rule. - Misuse of hashtags (words followed by the '#' sign)

[twitter-dev] Question on Account Suspension

2009-09-19 Thread Chris Latko
According to the new terms of service, it seems that there is much more that can get an account suspended. I've seen many friends have their accounts obliterated for apparently no reason. I'm wondering if Twitter is just a bit too trigger happy now. Having just been suspended, now I'm fee

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

2009-09-19 Thread John Kalucki
You can place parameters in the URL, but there's a practical limit to the number of parameters that you can specify in this manner. At some point the service will reject your request or you'll get tired of looking at your trace logs. If you use a POST parameter instead (placing the track= in the r

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

2009-09-19 Thread John Kalucki
I'd suggest trying to get this to work with curl first. Then, see what the differences are in your implementation. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 19, 7:31 am, Greg wrote: > I'm trying to implement Streaming API on my Twitter application to > enhance the

[twitter-dev] Streaming API Help

2009-09-19 Thread Greg
I'm trying to implement Streaming API on my Twitter application to enhance the stabilty instead of using the Search API. Basically - I'm trying to use the track paramter to track a keyword. However, when I run this code - it just times out - nothing occurs. Perhaps I'm not using the track paramet

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

2009-09-19 Thread Greg Avola
Do you have any documentation on how to use filter.xml in PHP? The API doc don't really spell it out. Can you just pass a parameter in the URL like filter.xml?track=term? On Sep 19, 9:15 am, Joseph Cheek wrote: > I ran into this problem too.  I adjusted my search to > usehttp://stream.twitter.

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

2009-09-19 Thread Joseph Cheek
I ran into this problem too. I adjusted my search to use http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.xml instead - it seems to work much better. Search isn't consistent and it isn't real-time. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom retsoced wrot

[twitter-dev] Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

2009-09-19 Thread retsoced
I've been working on a small web app to be able to post to an account using the API, while also displaying those tweets in the same page page where they are being posted from. The problem I am having is that the tweets are being indexed by tthe search, so all of the tools I have found to display a