I think the extra meta data the retweet API brings is a good addition.
Currently you have to use up
some of your 140 chars for the retweet heading + username (Rt
@whoever ...). So
you might get stuck having to truncate the original tweet. With the retweet API
you no longer need to include that in
If you mean you now want to auth a new user, remove the user's oauth
keys and grab new ones from Twitter
On Sep 23, 9:04 pm, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote:
There's no logout for OAuth, per se, as I understand it. It's just a matter
of not sending the tokens any longer.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at
If you haven't previously registered an application then unfortunately
the only way to get 'from myapp' nowadays is to use oAuth for
authentication (and you can register your application from the
connections tab on your Twitter settings)
On Sep 22, 9:00 pm, shapper mdmo...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't understand. It just follows rate limiting like most other
calls?
1 API call = 1 rate limit
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting
On Sep 22, 3:38 pm, trybeee tryb...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everybody!
Does anybody knows which limits for quering this url pattern
Hi Guys,
I am having an issue with a very very small percentage of my users who can't
use oauth, it simply won't work for them - the get directed to a Something
is Technically Wrong page.
For 99.9% of my users it works fine so I don't think it is an issue my end
(although I am not discounting
Hello Twitter Team,
Would it be possible to have a PNG with transparency as opposed to
solid colours in the central panes?
Thanks
Wayne Jansen
That's weird I know...
When our application has . for example nba.com in the status
message, the status update API call fails and we get 401. other
requests work fine.
We use oAuth btw.
Any ideas?
GT
Agreed that the problem isn't Twitter's fault. But a basic feature
like cursor should work in a language as popular as PHP. Not so much
in principle but in practice.
Has anyone tried PEAR's Services_JSON? I haven't tried nor looked at
the source. It's also slower than the native json_*
Hi,
I'm the developer of Twittercal (@gcal) -- a Twitter bot that connects
to your Google Calendar. I'm having problems with auto-follow, lots
of users are complaining that the bot is not following them back and
indeed, it does not.
I have too many requests so I can't cope with it manually.
Provided that it will not break the JSON for other language apps, the
solution is extremely simple for Twitter to implement, and it will
save a lot of us a lot of work and expense.
Just create any large numeric values in the JSON output as strings,
instead of numbers.
This goes for any large
So after battling OAuth, I finally was able to get an access token.
But now, I am getting a 401 Unauthorized error when trying to post the
status.
My question is, what parameters do I need to send for posting a
status? All parameters(consumer key, consumer secret, token, token
secret, nonce,
Hello everybody!
Please help to resolve very strange bug.
Getting HTTP 404 Not Found (The specified key does not exist) error
when requesting user avatar image from amazon ec2 instance:
curl http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/433197623/twigroups_avatar_normal.png
Requesting this image from
i can't get it with curl or a browser.
trybeee wrote:
Hello everybody!
Please help to resolve very strange bug.
Getting HTTP 404 Not Found (The specified key does not exist) error
when requesting user avatar image from amazon ec2 instance:
curl
With the current way RT works (without the RT API) and at least as of
a month ago, making RTs a reply makes it limited to people who follow
both the sender and the original author (since it's a reply). This
greatly diminishes the point of retweeting and was the reason why I
stopped
I get a 404 no matter how I try it. Are you sure it exists? What user
is this an avatar for? (I looked at @twigroups, but the path to their
avatar is much different).
-Chad
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com wrote:
i can't get it with curl or a browser.
trybeee
Hello,
It looks like your base string is formatted correctly to generate the
signature. Not sure if you displayed the final URL for clarity, but
since sending a status update requires a POST, you need to put all of
the parameters in the body of the POST request instead of in the URL
query
Hello staff
My name is Michel, I am Brazilian and I am now beginning to study the
twitter API.
I copied the twitteroauth to test and see how it works. already registered
my app on twitter and have set up in php, but oauth_token = does not appear.
someone help me?
--
Michel Melo
My Blog -
I'll update the Wiki to reflect the new reality.
Retweets will begin to flow through all /1/statuses/* resources soon
-- in advance of the full retweet launch. This will give developers
time to test and deploy features in advance. Also, the retweet volume
is very low now, so exceptions should be
Boy, this concerns me. People definitely need to be able to add their
own comments to the RT.
And removing the retweets if someone deletes the original tweet?! No
way. Once it's retweeted, that retweet belongs to the retweeter and
must stay. I think it violates social media principles to delete
Twitter could add:
next_cursor_string:1314614526448841129
Minimal cost and it would be backwards compatible.
Abraham
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:06, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:
Jesse,
It will add exactly two quote characters () per numeric field in the
JSON payload.
In any
creat[ing] any large numeric values in the JSON output as strings
could potentially break existing JSON-using applications, depending on
the library they use and how they have typed the variable to receive
the large numeric value.
For http://twxlate.com, I use Google's GSON library
Abraham,
That is true, but we are going to run into exactly the same problem
with 64-bit status ids.
And that is going to break a LOT of PHP applications in one fell
swoop.
Dewald
On Sep 24, 2:27 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Twitter could add:
Thanks. I ended up copying the final url and pasting it into my
browser. I was then able to see that it was complaining about the
nonce. I changed it to use a GUID instead of a random number, since a
random number could reproduce the same numbers. That seemed to have
fixed my problem.
On Sep
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:
Abraham,
That is true, but we are going to run into exactly the same problem
with 64-bit status ids.
This has already happened. Tweet ids are now bigger than a 32 bit int
can store. That's what Twitpocalypse 2 was all
Hello,
auto-follow was disabled a while ago (emails should have gone to
accounts that had it enabled warning that it would go away), and
currently there are no plans to re-enable it.
Thanks,
-Chad
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Fred Brunel fbru...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm the developer
Chad,
Thanks for setting me straight on that one.
My app is not reliant on Twitter tweet ids except for one specific
informational use. Hence, I have not been paying much attention to the
Twitpocalypse 2.
Dewald
On Sep 24, 3:14 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at
until 65+ bit computing becomes standard, a lot of things will break
(twitter included) when id's go past 64 bits. i hate to be a naysayer
though, but the difference between 2^32 and 2^64 is, well, huge. i
don't expect twitter id's to break 64 bits anytime soon, until at least
far past
already past 32-bit signed but not 32-bit unsigned, right?
twitpocalypse moves the max to 2^32-1, right? or did i misread it?
Chad Etzel wrote:
This has already happened. Tweet ids are now bigger than a 32 bit int
can store. That's what Twitpocalypse 2 was all about.
-Chad
--
Joseph
Although, looking at a few tweets in the public timeline, I'm seeing
tweet ids of 4348298962, 4348298957, etc.
At least on my server, json_decode is still correctly decoding those
numbers.
So, it's probably safe to say that Twitpocalypse 2 has not arrived yet
for many PHP apps in terms of JSON
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com wrote:
already past 32-bit signed but not 32-bit unsigned, right?
twitpocalypse moves the max to 2^32-1, right? or did i misread it?
They have passed 32-bit *un*signed. My latest tweet id is 4345383616
(which is 2^32 - 1)
Looks like I didn't get the memo.
It is a general rule or it has just been disabled for some developers?
auto-follow was disabled a while ago (emails should have gone to
accounts that had it enabled warning that it would go away), and
currently there are no plans to re-enable it.
Dewald,
What do you get on your server if you do:
echo PHP_INT_MAX;
also, what version of PHP are you using?
-Chad
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:
Although, looking at a few tweets in the public timeline, I'm seeing
tweet ids of 4348298962,
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:52 PM, fbrunel fbru...@gmail.com wrote:
Looks like I didn't get the memo.
It is a general rule or it has just been disabled for some developers?
It has been disabled across the board.
-Chad
auto-follow was disabled a while ago (emails should have gone to
Chad,
PHP_INT_MAX is 2147483647.
And yet, json_decode is still correctly decoding id:4348298957.
O-o
Dewald
On Sep 24, 3:58 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote:
Dewald,
What do you get on your server if you do:
echo PHP_INT_MAX;
also, what version of PHP are you using?
-Chad
um...
As mentioned previously, the Twitter operations team will artificially
increase the maximum status ID to 4294967296 this coming Friday,
September 11th. This action is part of routine database upgrades and
maintenance.
Clearly PHP_INT_MAX plays no role in json_decode.
There must be some other mystical maximum number above which it
represents the number as float in the decoded data.
Dewald
On Sep 24, 4:05 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:
Chad,
PHP_INT_MAX is 2147483647.
And yet, json_decode
It is a general rule or it has just been disabled for some developers?
It has been disabled across the board.
Ok, so the only solution left on my side would be to go through all
the followers and follow them back on a regular basis.
Right?
Just wanted to pass on a note from the team at oneforty.com, who
recently launched with over 1300 Twitter applications in their
directory. Your app might already be on their site. If it's not yet,
you can register as a developer and add it. Once you register and
claim your app you can promote it
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:20 PM, fbrunel fbru...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, so the only solution left on my side would be to go through all
the followers and follow them back on a regular basis.
Right?
That is correct, or you could setup a system where the new follower
emails get forwarded to a
That magical maximum number appears to be 1 (1.0E+12).
So, for tweet ids we still have a bit of breathing space.
Dewald
On Sep 24, 4:18 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:
Clearly PHP_INT_MAX plays no role in json_decode.
There must be some other mystical maximum number
That is correct, or you could setup a system where the new follower
emails get forwarded to a script that triggers a mutual follow back.
Though you may run into rate-limit problems if you happen to get more
than 1000 a day.
Ok, I'll check this out.
Thanks for your help.
For reference, the PHP_INT_MAX on my 64-bit linux VM is:
9223372036854775807
and using json_decode on the next_cursor field of an ids list works just fine.
I'm using PHP 5.2.10-0.dotdeb.1 (though PHP 5.2.11-0.dotdeb.1 is available)
fwiw,
-Chad
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Dewald Pretorius
Thanks Alex. I work at oneforty, and would be really interested to
hear what would be useful for twitter developers. I've written a
couple Twitter-based apps, and found it is hard to have them
discovered, hear back from users, or even see what else is out there
in the space. (And having half of
Does anyone know how I can use the api and search only my followers
tweets for certain keywords?
For example, if I want to search for football or soccer tweets from
all of my followers.
I see there is a from: keyword search, but this would get too large
for many followers. Any help is
What about using www.tweetlater.com ? i saw that it gave an option to
follow ppl back that follow you. maybe that could work?
On Sep 24, 1:52 pm, fbrunel fbru...@gmail.com wrote:
Looks like I didn't get the memo.
It is a general rule or it has just been disabled for some developers?
Can someone explain this issue to me in more detail?
How do I know my php can handle it? I'm running on an older PPC
machine, which is 64 bit, but I have no idea if I built it as 64, I
just supplied standard configure arguments.
If php sees a 64 bit integer come in as JSON what happens on
Hello,
Currently there is no such API, but you can simulate it somewhat by
fetching several pages of your friends_timeline and parsing through
them for keywords. We realize this is not ideal, and we've had several
requests for this feature. It may be added down the road.
-Chad
On Thu, Sep 24,
What about usingwww.tweetlater.com? i saw that it gave an option to
follow ppl back that follow you. maybe that could work?
Thanks for the links. I registered and will give it a try.
I have checked the directory past days, and claimed my app. Congrats
on a work very well done.
A couple of suggestions:
- the site doesn't currently allow new lines in the description field;
this could be useful for listing features;
- although it's understandable why the directory requires
Quick question -
Status code 403 is thrown for hitting the update limit, but as I
understand it, it's also thrown if you're trying to DM someone who
you're not following. So when a DM fails with status code 403, you
cannot tell why just based on the status code.
I know you can parse the actual
My site, SocialToo.com will do this for you - we provide filters and such to
keep out auto-dms as well. If you'd like to offer it to your users let me
know and we can work something out that works out seamlessly for you.
Also, yesterday we just launched an anti-virus/anti-worm solution that,
I wish they would provide more information.
You sign in to oneforty by logging in through Twitter and authorizing
your Twitter account to talk to oneforty. We'll do the rest.
What rest? What is it going to do on my Twitter account?
Dewald
I can't seem to find any usable links beyond requesting Whitelisting,
for changing the IP that you are currently Whitelisted under. We are
migrating our Twitter Services to a new server and the IP is changing.
Anyone have any ideas?
-Greg
I am getting 401 Unauthorized exception when updating status with
non english characters using my app.
This exception is happening for any Japanese or Korean characters.
Another interesting thing is that it is possible to post some other
non english characters like Malayalam. The exception will
There's an app called Chatterfly (http://
chatterfly.appaturelabs.com/ ) that allows you to do this, but only
for your friends, not your followers unfortunately.
dpc
On Sep 24, 12:42 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote:
Hello,
Currently there is no such API, but you can simulate it
Ok this is very weird. The only explanation I can think of would be a
copy/paste bug over instant messenger involving the token. Somehow a
character was lost. After re-verifying the token was correct it
works.
On Sep 22, 9:14 pm, adam duffy.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi JDG,
Thanks for the
Just had an odd occurrence over on TweetStats. There's a user
(@dillaweezer) whose account was created in Apr 2009, but he somehow
has one tweet from Oct. 2008. Any idea how/why this happened?
User id: 36811640
created_at: Thu Apr 30 23:31:53 + 2009
Status id: 3439822377
created_at: Sat Oct
Please read the Publishers Contract that you agree to when you
register as a publisher and make your application available for sale
through OneForty.
Here's a bird's eye view of some things you need to determine whether
you like them or not:
1) OneForty takes 30% of nett revenue on the sales of
Hi,
Recently, we documented a new pagination mechanism for our social
graph methods, /friends/ids and /followers/ids. Traditional
page-based pagination doesn't dovetail with our recent backend
changes, and we've now exposed a cursor-based pagination mechanism
that's far more reliable.
Today,
Ha ha - better go remove www.MyPostButler.com from that site - how
exactly are they going to track sales from click through links?
Cheers,
Dean
-Original Message-
From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
[mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Are you sure you are encoding your posts as UTF-8?
On Sep 24, 5:16 pm, Satheesh Natesan satheesh.nate...@gmail.com
wrote:
I am getting 401 Unauthorized exception when updating status with
non english characters using my app.
This exception is happening for any Japanese or Korean characters.
Alex,
Thanks for this.
Is there any way that response times on the call could be improved?
It takes around 4 seconds to retrieve one cursor. When one retrieves
the followers/friends of an account with 100,000 of those, with 100
followers/friends per cursor, it takes more than an hour to
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Neicole neic...@trustneicole.com wrote:
Boy, this concerns me. People definitely need to be able to add their
own comments to the RT.
No they don't. If they want to comment on it, let them write a comment
and post an URL to the original message.
If you could
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com wrote:
what? Every time my app submits a tweet with the reply id set, that
limits the people who can see it?
Were you not around for The Great @Reply Upheaval of 2009?
ouch! deleting tweet IDs in my messages ASAP...
As long
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