[twitter-dev] Japanese Characters in Image URLs

2009-10-12 Thread Kyle Mulka
This might be more of a PHP and/or curl question than a Twitter API question, but I figured I would ask here first because Twitter API developers have to deal with non-ASCII characters in image URLs because Twitter doesn't change the name the user gave their image file to something cleaner. The

[twitter-dev] Re: Japanese Characters in Image URLs

2009-10-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser
This might be more of a PHP and/or curl question than a Twitter API question, but I figured I would ask here first because Twitter API developers have to deal with non-ASCII characters in image URLs because Twitter doesn't change the name the user gave their image file to something cleaner.

[twitter-dev] Regarding the twitter api to get last shared status

2009-10-12 Thread abhigudi
hi I gone through the api but was not able to get the last shared status as in oneriot .is thr any ways to get this status ...please let know ...and help me out

[twitter-dev] AutoHashTags

2009-10-12 Thread Nigel Cannings
Some testing help required for anyone interested. The theory is automatic tagging of your Twitter feed via a series of hash tags placed into your feed about every 20 tweets. The service takes literal tags and non-literal themes into account to try to give a more rounded feel of what's in

[twitter-dev] Re: AutoHashTags

2009-10-12 Thread thomas cavanaugh
do you ever get relevent information ,tech,,etc, from twitter,I have noticed some REALLY bad suggestions from subscribers./s/ tomMSCE On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Nigel Cannings nigelcanni...@googlemail.com wrote: Some testing help required for anyone interested. The theory is automatic

[twitter-dev] Arabic in the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread Fabien Penso
Hi. An Arabic speaking user of ours says he gets no notifications from the tracking API. A simple test : curl -uLOGIN:PASSWORD http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?track=تويتر Twitt and include تويتر in your twitt : nothing appear in the curl calls. Is that a known issue or am I

[twitter-dev] Randomly Sampling Users: Suggestions?

2009-10-12 Thread Ryan Rosario
I am doing some research using the Twitter API and I would like to get a random sample of Twitter users. Any ideas of how this can be accomplished? So far, I have scraped 2 weeks from the Streaming API and extracted 3 million user IDs from the stream. Any arguments as to whether or not this

[twitter-dev] Re: Randomly Sampling Users: Suggestions?

2009-10-12 Thread Andrew Badera
Doesn't the streaming API have a sampling method status/sample for statuses from which you can derive users? And don't the docs describe this as random, while specifying gardenhose access is required for statistically significant samples? ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ]

[twitter-dev] Re: Randomly Sampling Users: Suggestions?

2009-10-12 Thread John Kalucki
The Streaming API sample method would provide a random sampling of public users weighted by update rate, not a random sampling of all users. The default 'spritzer' should be sufficient for most uses. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 12, 8:01 am, Andrew

[twitter-dev] Re: Arabic in the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread John Kalucki
Unicode is untested on the Streaming API, but UTF-8 really should be supported. I've filed an internal ticket to dig into this more, but I can't promise a resolution. In the mean time, I'd try putting the track parameter in the POST header (e.g. use curl -d @file as recommended in the Wiki) on

[twitter-dev] Re: Randomly Sampling Users: Suggestions?

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Babcock
I am doing some research using the Twitter API and I would like to get a random sample of Twitter users. Any ideas of how this can be accomplished? Here's a start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics) At this point you are asking for a sampling method without providing an

[twitter-dev] Re: Arabic in the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread Fabien Penso
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Unicode is untested on the Streaming API, but UTF-8 really should be supported. I've filed an internal ticket to dig into this more, but I can't promise a resolution. Yes I had Korean users with no issues. In the mean

[twitter-dev] Re: Arabic in the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread John Kalucki
Could there be an issue with tokenizing either the predicate or the searched text? The tweet is just broken by spaces and common punctuation. -John On Oct 12, 8:32 am, Fabien Penso fabienpe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Unicode

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisted IPs only work when authed?

2009-10-12 Thread Charles
Thank you, Waldron -- that may be the solution. I will look into it! On Oct 10, 11:36 am, Waldron Faulkner waldronfaulk...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure your requests are coming from the same IP you whitelisted? If you're on a shared host, for example, your outbound requests may come from a

[twitter-dev] Re: Arabic in the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread Fabien Penso
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:36 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Could there be an issue with tokenizing either the predicate or the searched text? The tweet is just broken by spaces and common punctuation. John, To be honest I don't get a word of Arabic so I just searched for تويتر

[twitter-dev] Re: Arabic in the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread John Kalucki
The illiterate leading the illiterate. On Oct 12, 9:10 am, Fabien Penso fabienpe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:36 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Could there be an issue with tokenizing either the predicate or the searched text? The tweet is just broken by spaces

[twitter-dev] Re: Randomly Sampling Users: Suggestions?

2009-10-12 Thread Ryan Rosario
That sample will be biased towards more active posters and may include some demographic biases due to seasonal activities during the limited time frame of the sample. That answers my question, and that is what I was afraid of. I think for my purposes (language detection), a random sample of

[twitter-dev] Re: Randomly Sampling Users: Suggestions?

2009-10-12 Thread John Kalucki
To clarify, does this mean that each (non-protected) user has an equal probability of showing up in the stream regardless of how often they tweet? Nope. The stream is a sample of statuses as they are posted. Each status has an equal probability of being selected. This isn't a user sampling

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

2009-10-12 Thread Ryan Sarver
Isaiah, We are definitely interested in hearing what type of workflow you would prefer for OAuth-ing desktop applications. We want to make the experience the best it can be and look for your feedback on how we can improve it. Let me start another thread so we can make sure to capture everyone's

[twitter-dev] OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Ryan Sarver
Hey everyone, I wanted to email the list to start gathering some feedback on how we can improve the OAuth workflow. As we have discussed in the past, Basic Auth is going to be deprecated at some point in the future for OAuth and we want to make sure we improve the experience to meet everyone's

[twitter-dev] List of all verified accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Kiam
Hi, Is there a way to obtain a list of all verified accounts? Or are there plans to expose this in the future? Thanks, Kiam

[twitter-dev] Re: Regarding the twitter api to get last shared status

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Steuer
Any call that returns the user object for the user you're trying to get the last status for, will contain the user's last status... On Oct 12, 2009, at 3:13 AM, abhigudi abhishek.yu...@gmail.com wrote: hi I gone through the api but was not able to get the last shared status as in

[twitter-dev] Re: Japanese Characters in Image URLs

2009-10-12 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, Kyle: On Oct 12, 12:00 am, Kyle Mulka repalvigla...@yahoo.com wrote: ... Twitter API developers have to deal with non-ASCII characters in image URLs because Twitter doesn't change the name the user gave their image file to something cleaner. The PHP code below

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser
1. What can be improved about the web workflow? 2. What can be improved about the desktop workflow? I think the biggest improvement that can be made is not making the assumption people are in a web browser environment. Yes, there are workarounds, but they are kludgey by definition. If nothing

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API in 24 Hours

2009-10-12 Thread Martin Omander
One interesting problem with this kind of book is what programming language to use. The book is not about a programming language, but it has to contain code examples. Whatever language you pick, you will turn away potential readers who don't know that language. For example, it looks like the

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
Speaking as a developer... On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: 1. What can be improved about the web workflow? The desktop OAuth flow is pretty good, but the mobile device OAuth flow is terribly painful. Since Twitter is very mobile focused, having smooth

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
ugh.. found typo in my response... this sentence should read: Each user gets an API Key which allows manipulation of some aspects of their accounts, but *NOT* as much as knowing the actual account password combo. -chad On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Amicus
4. What could we improve around the materials for integrating OAuth into your application? The standard OAuth docs are pretty good, but some of the Twitter- specific implementation isn't documented and I've implemented code based on current Twitter OAuth behavior, but this isn't a good way to

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

2009-10-12 Thread Isaiah
Hi Ryan, Thanks for taking the time. I really appreciate it. I'll be sure to give my feedback. Isaiah YourHead Software supp...@yourhead.com http://www.yourhead.com On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Ryan Sarver wrote: Isaiah, We are definitely interested in hearing what type of

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Andy Freeman
I know that you asked about oauth workflow, but curl is really useful for debugging purposes. I mention that because using curl with oauth is very painful. I'm not sure what you can do about that. Perhaps calls using basic authentication could have very stringent rate restrictions. This would

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all verified accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Ben Parr
It exists already - http://twitter.com/verified Anyone that account follows is verified. On Oct 12, 9:59 am, Kiam kiamc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to obtain a list of all verified accounts?  Or are there plans to expose this in the future? Thanks, Kiam

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: 1. What can be improved about the web workflow? 2. What can be improved about the desktop workflow? 3. What other models of distributed auth do you

[twitter-dev] HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request

2009-10-12 Thread RTuosto
I'm getting this error when looking at http://www.twitter.com as well as user pages. Whats the issue?

[twitter-dev] List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Atul Kulkarni
Is there anyway of obtaining this list (list of all active users on Twitter) ? or a BFS through friends and followers is the only way out of finding most if not all users. -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread thomas cavanaugh
why---so you can send them back to tehran On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.comwrote: Is there anyway of obtaining this list (list of all active users on Twitter) ? or a BFS through friends and followers is the only way out of finding most if not all users.

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Jesse Stay
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter already has something similar (one-click login): http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter Some devs like this for the simplicity, some don't because it will automatically use the already logged in account

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Andrew Badera
Was there some sort of basis for this extraordinarily rude and jingoist statement? Particularly from the guy with a tendency to post while drunk or high? ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Atul Kulkarni
and what do you think I would achieve by doing that? On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:11 PM, thomas cavanaugh tomros0...@gmail.comwrote: why---so you can send them back to tehran On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.comwrote: Is there anyway of obtaining this list

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Atul Kulkarni
If you wanted to be racist, then I am going to ignore it. It is simply not worth spending time with people like you. Good Luck! to you. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:11 PM, thomas cavanaugh tomros0...@gmail.comwrote: why---so you can send them back to tehran On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Atul

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
Mr. Troll has been summarily banned. To answer the question at hand: Twitter does not provide such a list of users. -Chad On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: If you wanted to be racist, then I am going to ignore it. It is simply not worth spending

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Atul Kulkarni
Thanks, Chad. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Mr. Troll has been summarily banned. To answer the question at hand: Twitter does not provide such a list of users. -Chad On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: If

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request

2009-10-12 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Their system must just be overloaded at the moment. I have been seeing response times in the 10+ seconds region per simple API call since earlier this morning. Dewald On Oct 12, 3:56 pm, RTuosto ryantuo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting this error when looking athttp://www.twitter.comas well

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request

2009-10-12 Thread ryan alford
Thanks Dewalt. I was beginning to think something was wrong with my app. Atleast I know I am not the only one seeing these slow downs. Ryan On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Their system must just be overloaded at the moment. I have been seeing

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Isaiah
1. What can be improved about the web workflow? I'll leave this one for the web dudes. 2. What can be improved about the desktop workflow? The UX: it's currently very complicated for the user. Much more more complicated than basic auth. Users are unaccustomed to it. Novelty isn't a

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request

2009-10-12 Thread Dewald Pretorius
It's now even on Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/10/12/http-server-error-twitter/ On Oct 12, 4:36 pm, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Dewalt.  I was beginning to think something was wrong with my app.  Atleast I know I am not the only one seeing these slow downs. Ryan

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request

2009-10-12 Thread John Kalucki
We updated the status blog: http://status.twitter.com. On Oct 12, 12:44 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: It's now even on Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/10/12/http-server-error-twitter/ On Oct 12, 4:36 pm, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Dewalt.  I was

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Duane Roelands
Please do NOT adopt anything like the Facebook model. Facebook authentication for desktop applications is a nightmare. You have to programatically interact with the browser and it's an enormous hassle. I think that the OAuth flow for desktop applications is fine as-is. Mobile apps need some

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request

2009-10-12 Thread bear
John, I'm going to be in San Fran the week of Nov 5th, I would love to meet with the Twitter Ops team on how we (we being Seesmic and possibly other large consumers of Twitter) can help you guys respond faster to these issues. If there was someone (or thing) to poke I could have given you guys

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Abraham Williams
A number of older threads for reference: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/5994f3237bbb6876/ http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/85dbaef35d68fc9e/

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Craig Hockenberry
2. What can be improved about the desktop workflow? Get Apple to integrate OAuth into the existing keychain mechanisms on the Mac and iPhone: http://blog.atebits.com/2009/02/fixing-oauth/ Until that happens, no user or developer is going to be happy with OAuth in a desktop or mobile

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request

2009-10-12 Thread ryan alford
Now the website seems fine. However, trying to post a status update from my desktop client (using OAuth, don't know if that makes a difference), it just hangs when sending the request. Status updates from twitter.com seem to work just fine. Ryan On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:19 PM, bear

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Amitab
For me, the biggest pain with Oauth is when the redirection to Twitter gives a Twitter is busy, too many people are tweeting response. For websites/ applications that are pretty small, each person who is willing to try out is immensely valuable. I hate it when I loose that person (probably

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request

2009-10-12 Thread John Kalucki
Thanks for your offer of help. When additional data from clients would help, we usually post here and appreciate whatever reports we can get. We collect statistics throughout the system, so there is a very complete view of what's going on. In the end, we're usually sorting through too much

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Steuer
Great... That was way overdue On 10/12/09 12:23 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Mr. Troll has been summarily banned. To answer the question at hand: Twitter does not provide such a list of users. -Chad On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Regex to get user agent aka 'source'

2009-10-12 Thread Scott Haneda
It appears Twitter returns the 'source' field which has a user agent in it. Most of the time this is an HTML HREF string. I have found one case where that is not true. web will exist as only that string. Is web the only non HTML string I can expect at this time? I'm logging the event

[twitter-dev] Re: Regex to get user agent aka 'source'

2009-10-12 Thread shiplu
Do you use php?? If yes, use strip_tags() function. otherwise -- A K M Mokaddim http://talk.cmyweb.net http://twitter.com/shiplu Stop Top Posting !! বাংলিশ লেখার চাইতে বাংলা লেখা অনেক ভাল Sent from Dhaka, Bangladesh

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Can someone just ban this guy from the list... He_s only been posting noise, unrelated crap and has now moved on to being rude and offensive... Is there no moderator on this list? Chad already removed him. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser
3. What other models of distributed auth do you think we could learn from and what specifically about them? I am happy to see username/password Basic Auth go away, but I would be sad to see all methods of Basic Auth unavailable. Lots of other APIs have api keys that users can use to

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone just ban this guy from the list... He’s only been posting noise, unrelated crap and has now moved on to being rude and offensive... Is there no moderator on this list? Yes, that is what summarily banned means

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Scott Haneda
Isn't part of the point of oauth to teach the user they are entering in credentials for another website into that other website? By rebranding the twitter oauth page it gets to a point where you may as well just ask their user/pass on your own site, and never have them leave your

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request

2009-10-12 Thread Andrew Badera
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:42 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: We need to get better at the status blog, but it's rare that we aren't responding to a site- wide issue within moments. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. Any idea when that might

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Steuer
Got it... Great job guys! On 10/12/09 2:34 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone just ban this guy from the list... He¹s only been posting noise, unrelated crap and has now moved on to being rude and

[twitter-dev] Re: Regex to get user agent aka 'source'

2009-10-12 Thread Scott Haneda
Well holy smokes, add another one to the kitchen sink list of php functions I was not aware of. Thanks! I worry about ' a hreffoo/a, which a browser happily takes, but I get this feeling strip_tags is going to only chop off the /a closing tag. Have you had this in use and confirmed

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Sebastian
The solution for OAuth on Mobile and Desktop is easy: Allow the app to act as the user agent when authenticating with Twitter when requesting the token and authorizing the app. Let me rewrite this in plain english: let the app ask for login/ password and pass it to twitter. Users don't seem to

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Geo stuff

2009-10-12 Thread Axthelm
Excellent, thank you both for your responses. A second question on all of this, if the user has their geo_enabled flag off and we submit the location with their tweet will that location information be saved with the tweet for future use or disgarded due to the setting being off? Axthelm On Oct

[twitter-dev] Push DMs to iphone with Prowl

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
*not an official twitter feature/product. just a personal project i'm sharing* Hi All, If you're like me and don't have unlimited text SMS on your phone plan, you may have disabled DMs as text messages. I've been using Prowl [1] to send DMs to my iphone as push notifications for a while now. In

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Isaiah
I wouldn't want to speak on Loren's behalf, but it seems to me that your conclusion is similar to Loren's conclusion on this page: http://blog.atebits.com/2009/02/fixing-oauth/ This seems like a reasonable proposal as it's a good stepping stone toward OS. Plus it meets the as easy as

[twitter-dev] Screen Scraping against TOS?

2009-10-12 Thread eclipsed4utoo
I was just wondering if screen scraping for OAuth for a desktop application was against the TOS? I tried reading it, but couldn't find anything. By screen scraping, I mean to send requests to twitter, and scrape the PIN from the page, and then use it for authorization. Ryan

[twitter-dev] Re: Screen Scraping against TOS?

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
While it may not explicitly be stated in the TOS, screen-scraping is highly discouraged, and we have detection methods that could potentially ban IPs for this behavior. Plus, it kind of subverts the whole point of the OAuth flow. -Chad On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM, eclipsed4utoo

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request

2009-10-12 Thread eclipsed4utoo
Are people still having issues posting status updates from third party applications? I haven't been able to post all day. Still can't post now. There isn't an update on the Twitter status page. I didn't know if that was because it wasn't fixed yet, or because they just haven't updated it post

[twitter-dev] Re: Regex to get user agent aka 'source'

2009-10-12 Thread Dave Briccetti
I don’t know the background, but I do wish they would split that into, say, sourceName and sourceUrl. http://github.com/dcbriccetti/talking-puffin/blob/master/twitter-api/src/main/scala/org/talkingpuffin/twitter/TwitterStatus.scala

[twitter-dev] 401 errors on followers/ids

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Steuer
I¹m getting 401 errors on requesting followers/ids, even though that API call is supposed to be accessible without authentication, as long as the user you¹re querying isn¹t protected (which isn¹t the case). I get the same thing with statuses/followers... I¹m using @jmathai Œs twitter-async

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Geo stuff

2009-10-12 Thread Ryan Sarver
Axthelm, If geo_enabled is set to false at the time you post geo data it will be dropped when it arrives and won't be saved for later tagging. Best, Ryan On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Axthelm caxth...@openpathproducts.com wrote: Excellent, thank you both for your responses.  A second

[twitter-dev] Opening multiple sockets with the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread EastSideDev
I have been using 3-4 scripts, to collect data, using the streaming APIs. Each script opens up a socket and keeps it open, unless it's closed by twitter (maintenance, problems, etc.). Each script checks for a pulse, and re-opens the socket when the Twitter service is back in business. This was

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Zhami
On Oct 12, 5:44 pm, Sebastian sdelm...@gmail.com wrote: The solution for OAuth on Mobile and Desktop is easy: snip Let me rewrite this in plain english: let the app ask for login/ password and pass it to twitter. snip All we need is a simple API call where we can trade a login and password

[twitter-dev] Re: Opening multiple sockets with the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
Are you using separate username/password combos to connect each socket? -Chad On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: I have been using 3-4 scripts, to collect data, using the streaming APIs. Each script opens up a socket and keeps it open, unless it's

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread JDG
But it completely subverts the point of OAuth, because it lets a third party have your password. Why even use OAuth in that case? On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 19:01, Zhami stu...@zhameesha.com wrote: On Oct 12, 5:44 pm, Sebastian sdelm...@gmail.com wrote: The solution for OAuth on Mobile and

[twitter-dev] Re: simple update and authentication

2009-10-12 Thread Yogesh Mali
well create a simple login page and ask users to sign-in with their twitter accounts to your client's website and provide the textbox to update twitter status. Use the credentials of users which they provided while signing in to authenticate their twitter account and also to store cookies or

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Smith
Ryan Sarver wrote: 1. What can be improved about the web workflow? * On many mobile platforms--even some of the newest ones--copy paste is unavailable, and/or users simply do not know how to do it. * A 7-digit PIN is too long for most users to remember long enough to switch apps and type it

[twitter-dev] Duplicate Tweets

2009-10-12 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Any developer who has included and/or is thinking about including a recurring tweet feature in your app, please take note that they are against Twitter TOS. You can read what Twitter wrote to me here: http://www.socialoomphblog.com/recurring-tweets/

[twitter-dev] Re: Opening multiple sockets with the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread EastSideDev
No, I am using the same username and password. This used to work (limited success), but it is not working now. On Oct 12, 6:10 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Are you using separate username/password combos to connect each socket? -Chad On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM, EastSideDev

[twitter-dev] Re: Regex to get user agent aka 'source'

2009-10-12 Thread Scott Haneda
Agreed, just for data savings alone, there is no reason why *we* need to presentation data that Twitter uses. If they want to use rel=nofollow, they they can, but that has no bearing on how I may or may not want to use the data. If there was just url and agent, that alone should shave

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Smith
Letting a mobile/desktop app grab an OAuth token using the user’s username/password is still helpful because then they can store the token instead of the username/password, which is a big deal when there’s no really secure way to store it. Also, if your mobile phone/laptop gets stolen, you can

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread JDG
It's probably more likely that you would give your password to a malicious site (of course, one masquerading as a legitimate client) that would store it and use it than someone stealing your device. Moreover, many less-than-savvy users tend to use the same password for many accounts, including

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Arnaud Meunier
This has already been told, but a better support for mobiles and poor/ old rendering browsers is a must. Something as simple as using the useragent to display a nice, working and adapted login page would be a great start. Another point would be reliability. Is there a way that you priorize oAuth

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Isaiah
A good point. Another is that OAuth provides not only authorization, but also authentication. This would enable Twitter to shut down aps that are misbehaving. A feature I'm sure Twitter would like not to give up. I would also take issue with the assumption that third parties would

[twitter-dev] Re: Opening multiple sockets with the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread John Kalucki
You should have only one, perhaps two, sockets open to the Streaming API at any given time -- at most one on /1/statuses/filter and at most one on /1/statuses/sample. Opening multiple connections to circumvent limits is against the TOS. Also, opening more than one connection with the same account

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Smith
It is even more likely that a malicious app would direct you to a phishing site during the OAuth flow and you wouldn’t even notice since many mobile browsers do not show you the URL and do not implement any anti-phishing UI whatsoever. In fact, on some phones (especially ones a few years

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 errors on followers/ids

2009-10-12 Thread Josh Roesslein
I just tested this using both my python library and curl without any issues. Can you access http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xml?user_id=15972892 in your browser? Josh On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: I’m getting 401 errors on requesting followers/ids,

[twitter-dev] Re: Opening multiple sockets with the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread EastSideDev
This is not to circumvent the limits. I will open up another account for the second connection. On Oct 12, 8:09 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: You should have only one, perhaps two, sockets open to the Streaming API at any given time -- at most one on /1/statuses/filter and at most

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Josh Roesslein
Providing an API endpoint for basic auth credential exchange for a token would be a nice solution, but I can see it getting abused. An attacker could bombard this endpoint trying to guess an account's password. Protection can be placed to limit calls to this endpoint by IP which might be enough

[twitter-dev] Re: Opening multiple sockets with the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread Josh Roesslein
Might also be an option to proxy the single connection across all your scripts so its shared. This way you reduce the load on yours and twitter's servers. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:28 PM, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: This is not to circumvent the limits. I will open up another

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Jesse Stay
I think in the end any solution, to be the ideal solution, will need multiple Auth access points for desktop vs. web. OAuth itself also isn't an ideal desktop solution due to its reliance on the web. My suggestion towards a Facebook-like solution was intended to be for web apps. It's a great

[twitter-dev] Re: Opening multiple sockets with the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread EastSideDev
Good suggestion. While we're on the topic, does anyone know what the length limit on a tracking term for the search api (is it the same as the web interface: 140 search characters?). On Oct 12, 8:45 pm, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: Might also be an option to proxy the single

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 errors on followers/ids

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Steuer
Thanks Josh- yes I can access those URLs directly. It seems to be an issue with the library I'm using. I'll follow up w the developer. Was hoping someone had experienced something similar with this library. Thanks for your feedback. On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:16 PM, Josh Roesslein

[twitter-dev] RE: User-Authentication Services

2009-10-12 Thread Dean Collins
Thought this might interest you guys as well. Anyone know of any deals being signed along these lines? Cheers, Dean From: Dean Collins Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 6:50 PM To: newtec...@meetup.com Subject: User-Authentication

[twitter-dev] Re: Duplicate Tweets

2009-10-12 Thread PJB
I worried about this. Doesn't Twitter realize this will just shift things to desktop apps which they have less control over?!? On Oct 12, 7:24 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Any developer who has included and/or is thinking about including a recurring tweet feature in your app,