[twitter-dev] Re: search results using rpp and page parmeter stay the same

2009-09-28 Thread Yaniv Golan
Abraham, thanks for replying. something still doesn't make sense... how come i always get 100 results? I'm sure there are more tweets that match this search criteria how can i get the max result per call? On Sep 28, 7:25 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: The 1500 result limit is

[twitter-dev] Re: Throttling of filter stream

2009-09-28 Thread Robert Chatley
Hi, I also have a question regarding throttling of the streaming API when tracking keywords. We are successfully tracking keywords and reading messages, but would like to know when our query is too broad, and we are not receiving all the messages, so that we can back off. We would prefer to be

[twitter-dev] Re: Strange 401 errors when having dot in the status update

2009-09-28 Thread guytom
Thanks. On Sep 27, 4:56 pm, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: From the OAuth spec: 5.1.  Parameter Encoding All parameter names and values are escaped using the [RFC3986] (Berners-Lee, T., “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax,”

[twitter-dev] Re: Throttling of filter stream

2009-09-28 Thread John Kalucki
You will receive limit messages when your stream is limited. They are documented here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#ParsingResponses You may need to query on a few stop words before you get the limit messages to flow, as the proportion currently allowed is pretty large,

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

2009-09-28 Thread Waldron Faulkner
The rev-share doesn't kill the deal for me, although it does feel steep, and just because Apple gets 30% for the app store, not sure that number works in all cases. Also 60 day terms are discouraging. But the killer for me is the support-only clause. If I can't own the relationship, that makes it

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

2009-09-28 Thread David Fisher
A small group of us (mainly Harvard students, but others as well) had similar questions a few months back and we've started digging into the research pretty heavily (also doing contracting/consulting). Our group is called the Web Ecology Project and we've released a handful of academic (but

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

2009-09-28 Thread Brian Smith
Dossy Shiobara wrote: It would be nice if Twitter made authentication only as an option for OAuth. Twitter already has this. It is called Sign in with Twitter. - Brian

[twitter-dev] Re: Search calls ever moving into REST API?

2009-09-28 Thread Aaron Rankin
John, My key issue is that my application is hosted on shared infrastructure. In addition to mine, other applications are hitting the Search API from a common IP address. If there is a way to identify my traffic from others', and only rate limit it if it's responsible, that would solve it. I am

[twitter-dev] Re: search results using rpp and page parmeter stay the same

2009-09-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, The 1500 result limit _is_ for the Search API. The results are limited to 1500 or the last 7ish days, whichever occurs first. Yaniv, the rpp (results per page) parameter is how many results will be returned with each request. The page parameter is basically an offset indicator. To get

[twitter-dev] Twitter help for Agencies

2009-09-28 Thread Tucker
I work for a leading new media marketing agency and am wondering if it will be possible to have a direct contact within the Twitter team to come to with issues. We have many big clients as well as celebrities already tweeting/are going to tweet, who will also certainly be interested in investing

[twitter-dev] is there a search operator to exclude a specific username from search results?

2009-09-28 Thread Rodney
I'm going to be streaming tweets from an upcoming tradeshow and unfortunately, the organization that is running the tradeshow doesn't own the @username that matches their organization name. They had it, but then changed it to some obscure thing with underscores. Anyway, someone else now has the

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter help for Agencies

2009-09-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Tucker, Please see the Contact Us section of the About page: http://twitter.com/about#contact Thanks, -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Tucker tucker.gur...@gmail.com wrote: I work for a leading new media marketing agency and am wondering if it will be possible to have a direct

[twitter-dev] Re: is there a search operator to exclude a specific username from search results?

2009-09-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi there, -from:username should work. If it doesn't, please send the query (or unicast me if you want to keep it private) and we can take a look. example: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=jazzychad+-from:jazzychad If all else fails, you can filter the results on your end before displaying

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

2009-09-28 Thread Satheesh Natesan
Thanks, I will try that! On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:11 AM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: That's true -- %5BB6, for example, is NOT a UTF-8 encoded codepoint for a character. It's Unicode (or UTF-16). On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 20:54, Mageuzi mage...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I had this same

[twitter-dev] Can we update geo_enabled field in account profile via API ?

2009-09-28 Thread CodeWarden
Hello, Really looking forward to the ability to include lat/long with tweets. However, since all of my users are on mobile devices, it would be most useful if they could change the geo_enabled flag via the API. Before you enable this capability could you allow the update profile method to

[twitter-dev] Re: is there a search operator to exclude a specific username from search results?

2009-09-28 Thread Rodney
Chad, Thank you for rocking, sir! Not sure why -from:username wasn't working in my initial tests, but it's working perfectly now. --Rodney On Sep 28, 10:00 am, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, -from:username should work. If it doesn't, please send the query (or unicast me if

[twitter-dev] How many Apps can we register under one account?

2009-09-28 Thread Kalpesh
Hi. I am a developer and want to know is there any limit for registering an app per single account? I am developing apps and I want one app that can only be used by me and my friends, while others have another app for updating status, etc.. Thanks!

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Query Limitation (140 characters?)

2009-09-28 Thread zapnap
(this could be overcome, I suppose, by performing multiple queries, but that isn't much of a solution if you want to use the stock twitter js search widget, etc) On Sep 27, 11:37 am, zapnap npla...@gmail.com wrote: Search API queries appear to be limited to 140 characters. I mean, that's cute

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Query Limitation (140 characters?)

2009-09-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, The limit is indeed 140 and most likely won't be going up any time soon. The reason for the limit is for performance reasons. In order to do timely queries we don't allow for longer/arbitrary queries which could be very complex. -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:08 PM, zapnap

[twitter-dev] Re: How many Apps can we register under one account?

2009-09-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Kalpesh, You can register multiple applications under one account, but someone will probably take notice if several dozen/hundred apps start appearing under an account. -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Kalpesh kalp.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I am a developer and want to know is

[twitter-dev] Whitelist req rejected with no reasons

2009-09-28 Thread Gnagnu
Hi there ! I am a developer and requested to be on the API whitelist. My request got rejected and there was no reasons explaining why. It makes it hard to understand... Thanks for any clarification. Hang

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

2009-09-28 Thread Jim Renkel
Yes, you can check the Yes, use Twitter for login, or not. I'm not sure what this does, either way. But you have to select one of the Read Write or Read-only radio buttons under the Default Access type: heading. There doesn't appear to be any way to turn them both off. So it seems you have

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelist req rejected with no reasons

2009-09-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Sorry about that. Sometimes the mailer seems to leave out the rejection reason. Looking into it. If this happens to you, please email a...@twitter.com with the username you used to apply and we can lookup the reason. Thanks, -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Gnagnu gna...@gmail.com wrote:

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

2009-09-28 Thread Dewald Pretorius
+1. Agree. It is my product that is purchased. No more should OneForty own the customer relationship than an affiliate of mine should own the relationship for having referred a sale to me. The other thing that really bugs is me the payment of the 70% in the form of a gift or donation. I cannot

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

2009-09-28 Thread JDG
Unfortunately, best as I can ascertain, that would violate the OAuth spec (I may, of course, be wrong -- I often am :-) ). There are RW tokens and RO tokens, but no Auth-only tokens. The best you could hope for, given the current state of the spec, would be for an app to simply get, then discard,

[twitter-dev] Re: search results using rpp and page parmeter stay the same

2009-09-28 Thread Yaniv Golan
Thanks for that Chad On Sep 28, 6:03 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hello, The 1500 result limit _is_ for the Search API. The results are limited to 1500 or the last 7ish days, whichever occurs first. Yaniv, the rpp (results per page) parameter is how many results will be

[twitter-dev] How does search get affected by Retweet APIs

2009-09-28 Thread Amitab
Hi, How do search results get affected when the ReTweet APIs become public. Do the search results consider Retweets as separate tweets and show them multiple times. Or do they ignore RTs since they dont contain any new content. As a developer at Twaller.com, I get frustrated when multiple

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Query Limitation (140 characters?)

2009-09-28 Thread David Fisher
If you need to search specific users why don't you use the Shadow API and grab all of their tweets and then search them locally? On Sep 28, 3:14 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hello, The limit is indeed 140 and most likely won't be going up any time soon. The reason for the limit is

[twitter-dev] OAuth client set to Read Write, but write access is denied

2009-09-28 Thread Jeremy Glazman
Has anyone encountered this problem? The Default Access type of my app is set to Read Write, and my app can authenticate with OAuth and perform all sorts of reads with no problem, but whenever I try to write (specifically when I try to tweet from my app) I get a 401 Operation could not be

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

2009-09-28 Thread Jim Renkel
I too could be wrong, and often am, but I don't see anything in the OAuth specification (http://oauth.net/core/1.0a) about what an access token could or does allow access to, i.e., reading resources as opposed to reading and writing resources. The spec seems to be completely silent on the

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

2009-09-28 Thread Nick Arnett
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: The other thing that really bugs is me the payment of the 70% in the form of a gift or donation. I cannot show that in the Sales Revenue of my business. If the amount becomes substantial, how do I explain to the tax

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

2009-09-28 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Nick, Then I don't understand. Why would OneForty elect to pay the developer's 70% in the form of a gift or donation to the developer? Dewald On Sep 28, 8:34 pm, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure how it works in other countries, but in the U.S. revenue is revenue is revenue;

[twitter-dev] First time working with OAuth want to do some automated stuff

2009-09-28 Thread Hintswen
I currently have a script running on my server using basic authentication and tweeting rss feeds to a number of different accounts. I want to do something similar to that but using OAuth (seeing as I cant register an application for basic auth anymore). But I'm lost, OAuth requires a browser to

[twitter-dev] How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT

2009-09-28 Thread Andy Freeman
using a rate-limited call or one with authentication. I'd be (mostly) satisfied with an analog to http://twitter.com/al3x in terms of user-id.

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT

2009-09-28 Thread JDG
http://twitter.com/users/show.json?screen_name=al3x On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 21:10, Andy Freeman ana...@earthlink.net wrote: using a rate-limited call or one with authentication. I'd be (mostly) satisfied with an analog to http://twitter.com/al3x in terms of user-id. -- Internets.

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT

2009-09-28 Thread Chad Etzel
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:45 PM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: http://twitter.com/users/show.json?screen_name=al3x That is a rate-limited call. I'm afraid the answer is, you can't. All unauthenticated API calls count against the IP rate-limit. -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 21:10, Andy

[twitter-dev] Re: How many Apps can we register under one account?

2009-09-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Kalpesh, While creative, the app link was not meant to be used in that manner. We are discussing internally that OAuth app registration will eventually have to be screened to prevent squatting and/or abuse. I'm not sure that apps named home or work would pass that screen :) -Chad On Tue,

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT

2009-09-28 Thread Abraham Williams
You can make any of the REST API calls with authentication. Abraham On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 22:10, Andy Freeman ana...@earthlink.net wrote: using a rate-limited call or one with authentication. I'd be (mostly) satisfied with an analog to http://twitter.com/al3x in terms of user-id. --

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT

2009-09-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Uh, I guess it was unclear from the subject/body split of the question what exactly was meant... How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT using a rate-limited call or one with authentication. ...can be read: How do I get the user_id for a screen_name without using a rate-limited