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

2009-09-29 Thread Nalin Savara
Nice logic Chad... Especially the way you parsed that expression into all permutations. Regards, N S On 9/29/09, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: 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

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

2009-09-29 Thread Abraham Williams
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 18:50, Hintswen hints...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2009-09-29 Thread Jim Renkel
In answer to your question Is there a way to automatically get the access tokens without me making a web page that will ask me to login to twitter and authenticate?, I requested this as an enhancement. Here's the URL to the request: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1011

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

2009-09-29 Thread Abraham Williams
Ya. Sorry bout the miss info I reread the docs and forgot to correct myself. Luckily Chad is on the ball though. :) Abraham On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 17:26, Yaniv Golan yango2...@walla.co.il wrote: Thanks for that Chad On Sep 28, 6:03 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hello, The

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

2009-09-29 Thread Josh Roesslein
If you are new to OAuth check out http://oauth.net first. There is important details you need to know in the spec before you get started. The site also provides links to libraries for about every major language out there. Not sure if you rolled your own twitter library or what language you using.

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

2009-09-29 Thread Abraham Williams
There is no humor like geek humor :) Abraham On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:13, Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: Nice logic Chad... Especially the way you parsed that expression into all permutations. Regards, N S On 9/29/09, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Uh, I guess it was

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

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Babcock
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: 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? All hypothetical, no malice imputed... - What if program costs run away and

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

2009-09-29 Thread Abraham Williams
My understanding is Twitter wants the opt-in to be explicitly done by the user. If it is changeable through the API apps could enable it without the consent of the user. Abraham On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 13:03, CodeWarden paul0...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Really looking forward to the ability

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

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Badera
As CTO of a startup involved with 501c3s for over two years now, I'm pretty confident in stating that development cannot be donated, period. Services cannot be donated for tax purposes. Only goods can be donated for tax deductions. Services are always taxable, period. No tax benefit for donated

[twitter-dev] Social Graph Methods followers/names ?

2009-09-29 Thread Thomas Hübner
Hi All, would it be possible to get an additional API function which delivers the screennames instead of ID's? The reason is, I work on a Client App in .NET On Startup I load the followers, friends and blocked ID's. I use this to show the status then in my application and enable/ disable the

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

2009-09-29 Thread JDG
Touche, salesman. Touche. On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 23:14, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: 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

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

2009-09-29 Thread jim.renkel
I have suggested previously that the capability of an application to geo-code a users tweets and the capability of an application to opt-in to geo-coding for a user be made OAuthorizable. The application would request these capabilities when registering. If twitter didn't trust the application,

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

2009-09-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Boolean algebra, ftw? Request to administration: all posts to this list to be done in Prolog. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- If the French were really

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

2009-09-29 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 9/29/09 9:12 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Boolean algebra, ftw? Request to administration: all posts to this list to be done in Prolog. idea(stupid) :- t. :-) -- Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/

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

2009-09-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Boolean algebra, ftw? Request to administration: all posts to this list to be done in Prolog. idea(stupid) :- t. See how unambiguous that was? ;-) -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *

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

2009-09-29 Thread Pistachio
Hi folks, Laura again. We hear you loud and clear that the contract needs to change - and we agree. We are working on that! Definitely under review = payment minimum threshold and lag time; how the customer relationship is fairly shared if you sell through us, contract cancellation policy and

[twitter-dev] Off line version of api wiki

2009-09-29 Thread shiplu
Hello, Is there any offline version of twitter api? -- A K M Mokaddim http://twitter.com/shiplu

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

2009-09-29 Thread Kalpesh
Well while developing, few things are not meant to be used but when it becomes open to the world people start using them the way they like. Before initiating this thread I read the API rules and found nothing about Naming and Using the apps. Can't I start offering a free service where people can

[twitter-dev] Twitter Client App Not Posting

2009-09-29 Thread akademicjeanius
Hello, I have a Twitter app that posts updates to Twitter every 5 minutes (274 times per day). About 8 times a day, the posts get rejected for some reason. I was wondering if this is a known problem with the Twitter API or more likely something to do with my app.

[twitter-dev] Auditing apps actions

2009-09-29 Thread Cristovão Morgado
Is it possible to know what application added a friendship, posted an update? Some miss behaved apps are hard to detect... :( thx

[twitter-dev] Re: Off line version of api wiki

2009-09-29 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi. unfortunately, at this date, no -- apiwiki.twitter.com is the only available documentation. Hello, Is there any offline version of twitter api? -- A K M Mokaddim http://twitter.com/shiplu -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi

[twitter-dev] Question about longevity of geo-coded tweets

2009-09-29 Thread jim.renkel
I just noticed this in the API wiki, under the statuses/update method: Currently, all geolocated information will be removed after seven days. Two questions: 1. What exactly will be removed: the geocoding attached to the tweet? Or the whole tweet? 2. Why? I.e., why remove the geocoding or

[twitter-dev] Re: Off line version of api wiki

2009-09-29 Thread shiplu
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi. unfortunately, at this date, no -- apiwiki.twitter.com is the only available documentation. hmm. Just made one by wget -mkq http://apiwiki.twitter.com -- A K M Mokaddim http://twitter.com/shiplu

[twitter-dev] Announcing TweetHook.com

2009-09-29 Thread Chad Etzel
** DISCLAIMER ** - This is not officially affiliated with Twitter. I am writing from my personal gmail account. No Twitter endorsement implied. ** I have just launched TweetHook, a Twitter Search ping service that will push search results to user defined webhook/callback URLs. I know gnip

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about longevity of geo-coded tweets

2009-09-29 Thread Raffi Krikorian
I just noticed this in the API wiki, under the statuses/update method: Currently, all geolocated information will be removed after seven days. Two questions: 1. What exactly will be removed: the geocoding attached to the tweet? Or the whole tweet? the geocoding attached to the tweet.

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about longevity of geo-coded tweets

2009-09-29 Thread jim.renkel
As an alternative to a hard coded 7 days for the interval to the removal of geocoding information from a tweet, I suggest that an optional expires parameter be added to the statuses/update method. The value of this parameter would give the number of days between the tweet creation and when the

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about longevity of geo-coded tweets

2009-09-29 Thread JDG
I assume you're caching the tweets in a local DB or something in order to provide histories of 3200 tweets. For now, can't you also just cache the geocode info? On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:11, jim.renkel james.ren...@gmail.com wrote: As an alternative to a hard coded 7 days for the interval to

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about longevity of geo-coded tweets

2009-09-29 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi jim. As an alternative to a hard coded 7 days for the interval to the removal of geocoding information from a tweet, I suggest that an optional expires parameter be added to the statuses/update method. The value of this parameter would give the number of days between the tweet creation and

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about longevity of geo-coded tweets

2009-09-29 Thread Raffi Krikorian
its not a matter of caching the tweets, per se - its a matter of storing extremely sensitive information for the long haul. we intend to provide this information on a long-lived-basis at some point, but until we have better privacy mechanisms in place, we are not going to be storing this

[twitter-dev] Re: Auditing apps actions

2009-09-29 Thread Paul Kinlan
Funny you should say that I have raised a feature request about this earlier today. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1081 2009/9/29 Cristovão Morgado cristovao.morg...@gmail.com Is it possible to know what application added a friendship, posted an update? Some miss

[twitter-dev] Re: Announcing TweetHook.com

2009-09-29 Thread Kalpesh
I just had a look at it. Great! Best luck Chad! On Sep 29, 10:39 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: ** DISCLAIMER ** - This is not officially affiliated with Twitter. I am writing from my personal gmail account. No Twitter endorsement implied. ** I have just launched TweetHook, a

[twitter-dev] Posting App name for posts

2009-09-29 Thread c_mcintosh
I have a site posting updates to twitter using the api. I can either have it say API or it says 'From Web', I am looking at getting my site url in the From... part of the post information. I have tried setting the source parameter to a href tag, the url to the site, and just a site name and all

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Client App Not Posting

2009-09-29 Thread Thomas Hübner
If smthg. goes wrong you get an error back - in this very small XML Error document you have a XML node error. You should log the error and post it here On 29 Sep., 17:16, akademicjeanius enkwiringmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a Twitter app that posts updates to Twitter every 5 minutes

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting App name for posts

2009-09-29 Thread Thomas Hübner
You have to register your App @ Twitter and user OAuth. If you use ASP.NET you maybe can use the TwitterVB Project (DLL) It includes the full OAuth Support. c_mcintosh schrieb: I have a site posting updates to twitter using the api. I can either have it say API or it says 'From Web', I am

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting App name for posts

2009-09-29 Thread Peter Denton
Hello Chris, Currently the only way to do that is to use oAuth. see: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-FAQ Cheers Peter On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:48 AM, c_mcintosh ch...@chrismcintoshdesigns.comwrote: I have a site posting updates to twitter using the api. I can either have it say API or it

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about longevity of geo-coded tweets

2009-09-29 Thread JDG
Right, and I see where Twitter's coming from. I'm speaking more to API consumers that wish to persist the API/Geocode data on their own systems. On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:19, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: its not a matter of caching the tweets, per se - its a matter of storing

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about longevity of geo-coded tweets

2009-09-29 Thread Raffi Krikorian
ah, yes - most certainly. @rsarver will be putting together a list of best practices around geo, but, most certainly, you could just store this locally. Right, and I see where Twitter's coming from. I'm speaking more to API consumers that wish to persist the API/Geocode data on their own

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph Methods followers/names ?

2009-09-29 Thread Nelu Lazar
I subscribe to this request. Usernames in social graph methods' responses could be useful for many other implementations. @NeluLazar Tweetvisor.com On Sep 29, 7:22 am, Thomas Hübner thueb...@gmx.de wrote: Hi All, would it be possible to get an additional API function which delivers the

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

2009-09-29 Thread David Fisher
I'll vouch for Laura as being an upright person, and all of the other oneforty people I've met are as well. They aren't going to try to screw anyone over and I have faith that whatever they come up with will be fair for developers and the community both. david

[twitter-dev] Re: Verify_Credentials Flash

2009-09-29 Thread JDG
I don't think getting rid of the 401 is wise. That said, I think that they could probably (and SHOULD probably) get rid of the WWW-Authenticate header that is sent by the server when that 401 is sent, as that is the header that causes browser pop ups. Twitter, what say you? You would keep your

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph Methods followers/names ?

2009-09-29 Thread Thomas Hübner
I would see this as second coice - userID in searchresults would be the better choice because a numeric comparing is in each case faster then string comparing Best would be to get both. From side of server (Database request) both things should be not to tricky to make. cheers, Thomas Nelu Lazar

[twitter-dev] Re: Announcing TweetHook.com

2009-09-29 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Great service, Chad. It's one of those, why didn't I think about it? Best of luck. Dewald On Sep 29, 2:39 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: ** DISCLAIMER ** - This is not officially affiliated with Twitter. I am writing from my personal gmail account. No Twitter endorsement

[twitter-dev] Re: Announcing TweetHook.com

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Badera
haha that was my thought when Chad mentioned this to me as well. Good stuff Chad. I'm still looking for an opportunity and a need :) On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Great service, Chad. It's one of those, why didn't I think about it? Best of

[twitter-dev] Re: Announcing TweetHook.com

2009-09-29 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I'm just wondering if the launch of TweetHook.com has maybe shoved a big and well-known elephant into the room. *cough* You know, the whole tweet thing? Dewald

[twitter-dev] Re: Announcing TweetHook.com

2009-09-29 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 9/29/09 5:45 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: I'm just wondering if the launch of TweetHook.com has maybe shoved a big and well-known elephant into the room. *cough* You know, the whole tweet thing? Oh, I thought you were talking about the other elephants: what's happening with Gnip these

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

2009-09-29 Thread Spataro
Try logging into twitter.com and revoking access to the application I'll do know. It works, Revoking access create a new pair of keys. It could be useful find this info in the docs. Thank you

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

2009-09-29 Thread Robby Grossman
Hi folks, This is Robby from oneforty. We wanted to take a moment to address the issues that you all have raised surrounding our use of Twitter OAuth. oneforty requests read/write access to your Twitter account. At present, read access is used to examine the source tag of your tweets, so that

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

2009-09-29 Thread Spataro
Yes me too, now, 29-9-2009. My app was registered as read only, after I've changed in Read and Write, and it is correctly saved as read and write. But If I try to post I receive read only. Spataro On Sep 29, 12:40 am, Jeremy Glazman jglaz...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone encountered this

[twitter-dev] Protect My Tweets feature and effect on replies to tweets

2009-09-29 Thread kprobe
I run a game called Tweet_Words via a server app which tweets out clues every minute. People reply to @Tweet-Words with their guesses just fine to play the game. However, I just found out that if a user has Protect My Tweets activated, then replies to @Tweet_Words are being ignored. The user

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

2009-09-29 Thread Dewald Pretorius
DM the app developer. Please don't add that as a feature. You are going to enable anybody to DM the developer, whether the developer follows that person or not. Dewald

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

2009-09-29 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Let me explain why I said that. There are only two ways you can implement a DM the developer feature. a) Execute a follow API call to make the developer follow the DMer, and then send the DM from the DMer's Twitter account. Presumably you will then also execute a follow API call from DMer to

[twitter-dev] Re: Protect My Tweets feature and effect on replies to tweets

2009-09-29 Thread JDG
How are you getting the replies? From the streaming or search APIs, yes, it's to be expected. If you're getting it from your timeline, you have to follow that user. On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 13:32, kprobe goo...@kprobe.com wrote: I run a game called Tweet_Words via a server app which tweets out

[twitter-dev] Re: Announcing TweetHook.com

2009-09-29 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Jesse, My understanding is it is a streaming API for Twitter Search, and you can use all the search operators to customize your stream. Dewald On Sep 29, 9:02 pm, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: So does this mean we can create real-time proxies for the real-time track API now?  How is

[twitter-dev] Re: Announcing TweetHook.com

2009-09-29 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Chad, I would LOVE to know how you avoid running smack bang into the Twitter Search rate limits with its lovely enhance your calm response. Dewald On Sep 29, 2:39 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: ** DISCLAIMER ** - This is not officially affiliated with Twitter. I am writing from my

[twitter-dev] Improving the UX of Twitter+Oauth on iPhone?

2009-09-29 Thread joeygreen...@gmail.com
I'm implementing both facebook connect and Twitter+Oauth for an iPhone app I'm currently working on. I really like the way facebook connect makes it seem that you're still in the app and not visiting some external website. Also, it kind of messes with the flow of my app because when you sign

[twitter-dev] 3200 users limit gone for cursorized statuses/friends and statuses/followers methods?

2009-09-29 Thread jim.renkel
Also, apparently the 3200 users limit is no longer in effect for these methods. I was able to successfully request and receive the 32nd 100 user block of @aplusk's followers! Kinda slow, took 168 seconds to retrieve 33 blocks of 100 users (slightly greater than 5 seconds per block; BTW, no

[twitter-dev] Re: Improving the UX of Twitter+Oauth on iPhone?

2009-09-29 Thread Dewald Pretorius
If my understanding is correct, the only way you can imitate Facebook connect when using Twitter OAuth, is to scrape the Twitter login page and authorization page and hide them from the user, i.e., login on behalf of the user, and authorize on behalf of the user, assuming that you first ask the

[twitter-dev] Re: Improving the UX of Twitter+Oauth on iPhone?

2009-09-29 Thread Jim Renkel
I created an enhancement request for this: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1011 and al3x has said We have a solution for this in progress.. Please visit the issue and star it to bump its priority within twitter. Jim Renkel -Original Message- From:

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

2009-09-29 Thread Bill Kocik
Access tokens that were obtained while the app was configured as read- only will remain read-only. They don't get converted to read/write when the app does. To obtain read/write tokens you'll have to revoke access to the app, then re-authenticate to it to get a read/write access token, as

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

2009-09-29 Thread Andriy Ivanov
any idea when API be released?

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

2009-09-29 Thread Brian Atkinson
It would be nice if Twitter was an OpenID end point (hint hint). OpenID could be used all over the place, but at the same time apps like oneforty could use this for allowing a user to login. I know has their own login with twitter thing, but I think it would be nice to have OpenID so my twitter

[twitter-dev] Count tweets

2009-09-29 Thread Coolio
Hi, Is that possible to send one(!) request to API with several search terms so to get response with amount of tweets per every search term ? something like search.json?q=Googleq=Yahooq=Twittercount=1 json response: { results: [ { search_term: 'Google',

[twitter-dev] API Limit and Requesting User Timeline unauthenticated

2009-09-29 Thread Patrick Burleson
Hello, I'm working on an app for someone who wants to include their Twitter feed for users to see. During testing, I'm hitting the API limit quite often and I'm guessing this is tied to my IP making more than 150/ requests per second unauthenticated as my Twitter clients are able to pull my