[twitter-dev] Brain Wave Help required with Twitter - rss- map

2009-09-25 Thread billy2...@googlemail.com
Thank you for reading this as I am looking for some help to sort out a brain wave. You know what it is like do not know enough and do not know if it can be done. Is it possible to question twitter for Fishing Matches? What I would like to do is take all the information on Fishing Matches from

[twitter-dev] Re: Deprecation Notice: pagination on several methods is being replaced with cursoring on October 26, 2009

2009-09-25 Thread Alex Payne
I'll pass those numbers along to our App Services team and see what they can do. On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 19:07, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: 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

[twitter-dev] twitter Widget wont load results

2009-09-25 Thread wints9er
im getting an error loading results in my twitter search widget : Object doesn't support this property or method the only way to get rid of these errors is to comment out a scriptresource.axd that ties to data already on my site. HELP?

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread jmathai
I like Abraham's idea: Twitter could add: next_cursor_string:1314614526448841129 Or a general return_as_string parameter which would return all values as strings. This would solve the problem for future values that might exceed the max int. There are going to be a lot of devs using PHP that

[twitter-dev] The Difference Between a Twitter Web and Desktop Application

2009-09-25 Thread cnunciato
Hi folks: I'm adding some Twitter integration to a desktop app, and I'm unhappy with the whole copy/paste this PIN into your application experience. In my case, I happen to have a browser instance containing the OAuth authentication process embedded within my desktop app, so it's possible to

[twitter-dev] master thesis related to Twitter

2009-09-25 Thread Stefna
I've submitted a ticket with following content: *** *** *** I am a 23 years old student of informatics at AGH Universtity of Science and Technology in Cracow (Poland). Due to a rapid development, strict formed data and accessible API I would like to designate my master thesis to the Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: master thesis related to Twitter

2009-09-25 Thread Kevin Mesiab
Good luck and I look forward to reading some drafts, yeah? On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Stefna mstefa...@gmail.com wrote: I've submitted a ticket with following content: *** *** *** I am a 23 years old student of informatics at AGH Universtity of Science and Technology in Cracow

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread Scott Haneda
If you are on 32 bit, what php.ini changes are you referring to that would be beneficial? -- Scott Iphone says hello. On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:35 AM, jmathai jmat...@gmail.com wrote: I like Abraham's idea: Twitter could add: next_cursor_string:1314614526448841129 Or a general

[twitter-dev] Re: Brain Wave Help required with Twitter - rss- map

2009-09-25 Thread Scott Haneda
Ok, I'll bite :) I though you meant phishing at first. Do you have programmin experience? If so, what languages are you familiar with? If not, do you have access to a programer and are just looking for confirmation that your idea could be realized? This mailing list is primarily for

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread David Fisher
I'm sorry, but the problem isn't Twitter- its your language and JSON parser. Outputting everything as a string, when it clearly should be a number, is inefficient and crazy. Saying that startups can't afford 64 bit processors in systems is crazy. Most startups I know are running on EC2 or have

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread jmathai
I don't think anyone's saying it's Twitter's problem (at least I hope not). It's the same issue as supporting Internet Explorer. You can bitch and complain all you want about IE not supporting standards but if it's the most popular (or one of the most popular) browsers that are in use --- then

[twitter-dev] A few questions regarding rate limits / whitelisting

2009-09-25 Thread HardipSingh
We are launching some code next week that will be using the API to post updates for multiple twitter accounts. In preparation for our launch, I want to make sure that we're not going to get burned by rate limits. While reading over the documentation, a few questions came up. My questions are

[twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory

2009-09-25 Thread Pistachio
Hi folks, Really sorry this reply didn't get out sooner; I was on a plane last night when Dewald raised these issues. I regret any concern or alarm caused by our developer contract. We're now reviewing a number of the issues that Dewald brought up because frankly, we don't like them either. The

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread Scott Haneda
I tend to agree, a MacMini, around 600.00, would build php out as 64 bit no issue. If you are a baby startup, that should really cover you and be able to handle a lot more load than you would think. You may have to pop your database on something more robust, but it works quite well as

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized error while posting status with Unicode characters (non english characters)

2009-09-25 Thread Satheesh Natesan
Yes, it is UTF-8 encoded. The request body for の脚本家が贈る is

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread jmathai
It's ridiculous to suggest a change in hardware (64 bit) or software (switch from PHP) to use Twitter's API. It's not like either of these are archaic. It sucks, sure, but it's silly to suggest such a solution. BTW, I don't have this problem. I'm just trying to be the voice of reason. On Sep

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread Cameron Kaiser
You either need to run on a newer system or use a language that can properly handle 64-bit numbers. C, Python, Ruby, Scala, Erlang, C#, etc none of them have problems with 64-bit ints. Heck, Perl does it fine. I run TTYtter on a 32-bit system that runs a Perl that's over 10 years old, and

[twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory

2009-09-25 Thread oneforty
Thanks Nelu! Not sure when, but the chances of Chicago are really good. The next few trips are mid/late October, Mid November and early December. Details will be kept up-to-date at http://bit.ly/tour140. Also? We're working to get this thing out into the sunlight as quickly as possible to that

[twitter-dev] Re: Update on the Retweet API (we collapse retweets, not you we're adding statuses/retweets)

2009-09-25 Thread hansamann
John, thanx for your comment over at groovyconsole.appspot.com - http://groovyconsole.appspot.com/view.groovy?id=19003 In case you do not get updates on comments there, let me ask my main question again. This would make my (our) lives a lot easier when it comes to retweet tracking, still it

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread Scott Haneda
I would not change either. But there are those here that are stating they need new hardware to work around this issue, and that they can not afford that. I was trying to be that voice of reason if that is the road/excuse they are choosing to go. There seem to be acceptable workarounds,

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread Chad Etzel
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com wrote: I can not see it being that huge a performance hit to massage that string a bit once you get ahold of it. Precisely. If you really want to turn the numbers into strings in PHP, here are 2 workaround examples. Please

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread Richard
Can this not be returned as hex or base64? It would save bandwidth for Twitter (and us) and make it a string people could convert it to 64bit int if they still want to. On Sep 25, 10:16 pm, Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com wrote: I would not change either.  But there are those here that are

[twitter-dev] Re: A few questions regarding rate limits / whitelisting

2009-09-25 Thread Chad Etzel
See Inline: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:21 PM, HardipSingh mr.hardip.si...@gmail.com wrote: We are launching some code next week that will be using the API to post updates for multiple twitter accounts.  In preparation for our launch, I want to make sure that we're not going to get burned by

[twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory

2009-09-25 Thread Jim Renkel
oneforty.com seems like a valuable and useful site, one I would definitely take advantage of, but I have a couple of questions and concerns that need to be answered before I do so. 1. I'm not sure why I have to grant the site access to a twitter account to use, and I am REALY concerned about why

[twitter-dev] Please Make 401 Singular In Meaning

2009-09-25 Thread Dewald Pretorius
API folks, could you please, please NOT return 401 Not authorized when an authenticated call with a perfectly valid username and password requests a /queryusername.json where that queryusername happens to be a username that does not exist. Rather return 404. By returning 401 you are making it

[twitter-dev] Re: Please Make 401 Singular In Meaning

2009-09-25 Thread Dewald Pretorius
And if anyone is going to tell me I should make additional API calls to try and determine the real source of the error, or I should try and interpret the returned error message, I am going to remotely install a VB program on your laptop that is going to repeatedly pick up the mouse and whack you

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread JDG
and it would also break everyone who CAN handle 64 bit ints and expects results in decimal numeric format. On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 16:01, Richard ryt...@gmail.com wrote: Can this not be returned as hex or base64? It would save bandwidth for Twitter (and us) and make it a string people could

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I think the point that some folks are trying to make is that forcing consumers of the API to use 64-bit machines is stifling innovation. Many Twitter apps start as pet projects hosted on a shared HostGator or other provider's server for nine bucks a month. That's how mine started way back. You

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread jmathai
Dewald sums it up great. I'm not affected by this issue but keeping the barrier of entry low is of high value. It sucks that some PHP installations have this issue, but if there's a good way to accomodate such a popular language then what's the harm? This brings up an issue though. I'm not in

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread Scott Haneda
Why is the API not versioned then? api.twitter.com/?v=1, api.twitter.com/?v=1.1, api.twitter.com/?v=1.2 etc Or, if that is too much maintenance, how about api.twitter.com/?bitfix=32 or whatever. -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * On Sep 25, 2009, at 6:40

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I actually like the idea of versioning the API. Having an API version that returns all values as strings can be as simple on the Twitter side as an IF statement in the final stages of constructing the JSON output that just converts all numerical values to strings before the JSON encode. Dewald

[twitter-dev] Re: Please Make 401 Singular In Meaning

2009-09-25 Thread Scott Haneda
I think it would be more appropriate to create a GUI interface in Visual Basic, see if I can track an IP address. :) -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * On Sep 25, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: I am going to remotely install a VB program on

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized error while posting status with Unicode characters (non english characters)

2009-09-25 Thread Mageuzi
Hello, I had this same problem. I had to convert all multi-byte characters into their individual bytes. So, for example, for the character の: Your example has %306E, but the encoding that works for me is %E3%81%AE (three bytes for the three-byte character). On Sep 25, 5:00 pm, Satheesh Natesan

[twitter-dev] Re: Please Make 401 Singular In Meaning

2009-09-25 Thread Jim Renkel
Agree. Completely. Jim Renkel -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dewald Pretorius Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 20:05 To: Twitter Development Talk Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Please Make

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread Jim Renkel
+1. For this and other reasons the API should be versioned. Jim Renkel -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Haneda Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 21:28 To:

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread Michael Steuer
Twitter actually announced versioning along those lines during the API 2.0 developer track session at #140tc. On Sep 25, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Jim Renkel james.ren...@gmail.com wrote: +1. For this and other reasons the API should be versioned. Jim Renkel -Original Message-

[twitter-dev] Re: Please Make 401 Singular In Meaning

2009-09-25 Thread Michael Steuer
The same thing goes for 403... It's either update limit hit, or not allowed to DM that person because you're not following him. The latter should really have another error code, or you're forced to either make another api call, or to interpret the returned response. On Sep 25, 2009, at

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread Chad Etzel
Yes, versioning the API is on the roadmap, I just don't know of any official timeline. -Chad On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter actually announced versioning along those lines during the API 2.0 developer track session at #140tc. On Sep 25,

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-25 Thread dennisu rozenbaum
??? were is my information 2009/9/26, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com: Twitter actually announced versioning along those lines during the API 2.0 developer track session at #140tc. On Sep 25, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Jim Renkel

[twitter-dev] Re: Please Make 401 Singular In Meaning

2009-09-25 Thread Alex Payne
That absolutely seems like a bug, or at least an inconsistency - we generally return a 404 when things are missing. Please file an issue and we'll fix it up early next week. On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 17:51, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: API folks, could you please, please NOT return

[twitter-dev] Requesting shadow role for streaming API

2009-09-25 Thread hansamann
Hi all, what is the process for requesting the shadow role (up to 50 000 follower ids) for the streaming APIs? Is there a special form someone can link me to? I'd need the shadow role for the 'groovytweets' user account, we just passed the magic 400 followers and I want to use the streaming api.

[twitter-dev] Re: Requesting shadow role for streaming API

2009-09-25 Thread Chad Etzel
Please email a...@twitter.com with your details. -Chad On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:50 AM, hansamann sven.hai...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, what is the process for requesting the shadow role (up to 50 000 follower ids) for the streaming APIs? Is there a special form someone can link me