[twitter-dev] Lots of "Couldn't find Status with ID" messages

Hello! We regularly fetch feeds from the Twitter API and then take the max id as the sinceid to subsequent calls. The problem is that in the last two days, we suddenly are getting lots of "Couldn't find Status with ID=XYZ" messages. We weren't seeing these before, but now multiple times a day

[twitter-dev] Re: [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:15 AM, srikanth reddy wrote: > @chris > Okay. I was talking about different scenario (using oAuth apps to steal > user info) > But If credentials are stolen then its all over (it doesn't matter which > oAuth app you have authorized) > > @sasongoko. > If Bob manages to c

[twitter-dev] Re: [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?

@chris Okay. I was talking about different scenario (using oAuth apps to steal user info) But If credentials are stolen then its all over (it doesn't matter which oAuth app you have authorized) @sasongoko. If Bob manages to change his password after Mallory used Bob's old credentials to authorize

[twitter-dev] Re: Separate terms using commas?

Try track=#test1,#test2,#test3 You are searching for "#test1", "(space)#test2", etc. Nothing will ever match (space)#test2. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 14, 8:38 pm, EastSideDev wrote: > It seems as neither is working. I tried #test1, #test2, #test3

[twitter-dev] Re: [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Chris Babcock wrote: > > The situation in this scenario is that Mallory phished Bob's Twitter > credentials and used them to authorize access for himself with an OAuth > App that Bob also uses. Mallory can only be detected by the changes he > makes in the account;

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile Image Update Via API -> Access Denied

Thanks Chad it was the content type, I made a quick function to grab the mime type as the avatar is randomly selected from a folder and changed my postfields as follows: curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array("image" => "@ $avatar", "type" => "$mime_type")); All seems to be working

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile Image Update Via API -> Access Denied

Try this.. curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array("image" => "@$new_image;type=image/png")); I have never tried this myself, but I have seen some other people say that it is needed on some servers to set the proper content-type. -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:15 PM, TylerC wrot

[twitter-dev] Re: Separate terms using commas?

It seems as neither is working. I tried #test1, #test2, #test3 and #test1 #test2 #test3, but I got no data (streaming API), and I let it run for hours. When I used only a single term #test1, I immediately started getting data. Was there a change to prevent more than one term from being used? On O

[twitter-dev] Re: The little twitter button

http://twitter.com/goodies/widgets Is that what you are looking for? Josh On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dawg wrote: > > How do I get the little twitter button I see on many blogs and sites? > > I have set up FaceBook to work with our database of articles but I > cannot find on twitter what

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile Image Update Via API -> Access Denied

In this case it was /home/49090/domains/***/html/clients// tools/avatars/city_ninja.png On Oct 14, 11:10 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: > Most likely the content-type is not being set correctly. What is the > value of $new_image? > -Chad > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:29 PM, TylerC wrote: > > >

[twitter-dev] The little twitter button

How do I get the little twitter button I see on many blogs and sites? I have set up FaceBook to work with our database of articles but I cannot find on twitter what I need to do. I don't think I need to use the Twitter API and I cannot find any information on this issue. Thanks Dave

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile Image Update Via API -> Access Denied

Most likely the content-type is not being set correctly. What is the value of $new_image? -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:29 PM, TylerC wrote: > > Hey all I am having trouble getting Twitter to update profile > avatars... From what I can tell I have the API calls straight but when > I go to Twi

[twitter-dev] Profile Image Update Via API -> Access Denied

Hey all I am having trouble getting Twitter to update profile avatars... From what I can tell I have the API calls straight but when I go to Twitter there is no avatar image and when I right click it and then click view image I get the following: AccessDenied Access Denied 5C34DBD155FA0052 - Rd

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing retweeted_details for user_timeline payload

Ahh..just noticed who he was looking at. I would assume that most of the Twitter employees have it turned on for their accounts. Most certainly the CEO of Twitter. Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Josh Roesslein wrote: > > I think its been enabled for a select few for testing. I don't thi

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing retweeted_details for user_timeline payload

I think its been enabled for a select few for testing. I don't think its gone public yet. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, ryan alford wrote: > Maybe the new retweet functionality has been turned on? > Ryan > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Martin wrote: >> >> I'm retrieving the timeline fo

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing retweeted_details for user_timeline payload

Maybe the new retweet functionality has been turned on? Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Martin wrote: > > I'm retrieving the timeline for a specific user: > > curl http://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ev.xml > > Within that timeline, I see retweeted_status fragment. > Is this nor

[twitter-dev] Seeing retweeted_details for user_timeline payload

I'm retrieving the timeline for a specific user: curl http://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ev.xml Within that timeline, I see retweeted_status fragment. Is this normal behavior ? Thanks - Martin

[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow

Thanks Chad. On Oct 15, 3:30 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: > I agree. I'm lobbying the team for something like this. > -Chad > > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Josh Roesslein wrote: > > > Yeah we really need a way to bulk request user payloads by giving a list of > > IDs. > > > On Wed, Oct 14,

[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow

I agree. I'm lobbying the team for something like this. -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Josh Roesslein wrote: > > Yeah we really need a way to bulk request user payloads by giving a list of > IDs. > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Tim Haines wrote: >> >> Are you suggesting I should

[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow

Yeah we really need a way to bulk request user payloads by giving a list of IDs. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Tim Haines wrote: > > Are you suggesting I should retrieve the 2k users 1 at a time from > users/show once I have the ids?  I'd essentially like to do this, but > 100 at a time. > >

[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow

Are you suggesting I should retrieve the 2k users 1 at a time from users/show once I have the ids? I'd essentially like to do this, but 100 at a time. I know I can get the 7000 ids in 2 calls (1 even without the cursors) - but I actually want the whole user objects.. Tim. On Oct 15, 2:56 pm, C

[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow

If you are pulling down the entire social graph, why not use the social graph calls which would deliver all 7000 ids in 2 calls? You can also parallelize this process by looping through different users on each thread instead of using each thread to grab a different page/cursor of the same user.

[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow

Hi Chad, Statuses/followers. I've just timed another attempt - it took 25 minutes to retrieve 17957 followers with statuses/followers. Is there anything I can elaborate on in the filed issue to make it clearer? Tim. On Oct 15, 2:42 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: > Hi Tim, > > You said "Retrieving 700

[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow

Hi Tim, You said "Retrieving 7000 followers just took > 20 minutes for me." Can you explain what you meant by that? Are you using the friends/ids, followers/ids methods or the statuses/friends, statuses/followers methods? -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tim Haines wrote: > > Hi'ya, > >

[twitter-dev] Re: Issues I came across migrating to cursors

No - I pulled down the 7000 followers using the cursor calls - not just the ids. Tim. On Oct 15, 1:48 pm, Michael Steuer wrote: > So now that you pulled down 7000 IDs, are you making 7000 user/show calls to > get the rest of the details? How's that working out? > > On 10/14/09 5:03 PM, "Tim Hai

[twitter-dev] Re: Issues I came across migrating to cursors

I'm doing statuses/followers (100 at a time) and it's taking me 1.5 minutes per 1,000 followers. Really painful. I implemented the other route using followers/ids and making a profile call for each in as parallel a way as possible and the total time was about the same. I am sticking with status

[twitter-dev] Re: Issues I came across migrating to cursors

So now that you pulled down 7000 IDs, are you making 7000 user/show calls to get the rest of the details? How's that working out? On 10/14/09 5:03 PM, "Tim Haines" wrote: > > I'm migrating my code now. I just pulled down 7000 users. If I get a > bad response to a call I'll retry it up to 5

[twitter-dev] Account reversion to May 2009 settings

I'm the author/maintainer of Net::Twitter, the perl library for the Twitter API. I have an account, @net_twitter, I use to communicate with the users of the Net::Twitter module. Several times (most recently, today), the account has been reverted to its state on or about May 30, 2009. I'm postin

[twitter-dev] Re: Counting tweets with no concern for contents

Thanks John. I'm mostly interested in using a single keyword at present, but it would be nice to not have rate-limiting issues with multiple keywords. I've read the Streaming API page, and I guess I get the ideas there, although I'm not familiar with the Twitter API terminology yet. I was hopin

[twitter-dev] New cursor methods are way too slow

Hi'ya, I'm migrating my code to use cursors at the moment. It's frustrating that calls need to be synchronous rather than how paged calls could be asynchronous. Retrieving 7000 followers just took > 20 minutes for me. I filed an issue that proposes a solution here: http://code.google.com/p/twi

[twitter-dev] Re: Issues I came across migrating to cursors

I'm migrating my code now. I just pulled down 7000 users. If I get a bad response to a call I'll retry it up to 5 times. It took > 20 mins and < 1 hour, which is going to be troublesome. Tim. On Oct 7, 6:59 pm, jmathai wrote: > So a user comes to the site and I need to build their social gra

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

Ok. nevermind. I have it fixed now. Since I am using OAuth, I am not writing a stream to the request object (like I would do with Basic Auth). So I changed the ContentLength to 0, and it works. Could the response had been waiting for me to stream the content to it since I told it the length?

[twitter-dev] Re: Help estimating tweets per day...

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Kyle B wrote: > >> >> Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Figuring out an accurate number >> is essential to my model, so much so that I am determined to find some >> method of estimating it to acceptabl

[twitter-dev] Re: Help estimating tweets per day...

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: > > And you don't think the streaming API will answer that for you? It can't, can it? It isn't the complete stream, only a sampled subset. There's no way to know which IDs were skipped in order to obfuscate the actual number of tweets. A mi

[twitter-dev] Re: Help estimating tweets per day...

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Kyle B wrote: > > Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Figuring out an accurate number > is essential to my model, so much so that I am determined to find some > method of estimating it to acceptable margins of error! It occurs to me that perhaps this might not

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

So any thoughts/ideas? Ryan On Oct 14, 12:09 pm, eclipsed4utoo wrote: > Here is a screenshot right before make the request. > > http://yfrog.com/8d10142009115958amp > > You can see that there is only the "Content-Type" header.  But you can > also see that the ContentLength is set(to 6...length

[twitter-dev] Re: Somebody has Experience with Affiliate Marketing using Twitter?

Wow, spam much? ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Bolaleman wrote: > > Hello, > I am a "hobby" online affiliate marketer making ultimately quite

[twitter-dev] Re: Help estimating tweets per day...

And you don't think the streaming API will answer that for you? -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * On Oct 14, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Kyle B wrote: Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Figuring out an accurate number is essential to my model, so much so that I am

[twitter-dev] Re: Help estimating tweets per day...

Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Figuring out an accurate number is essential to my model, so much so that I am determined to find some method of estimating it to acceptable margins of error! - Kyle On Oct 14, 5:19 pm, Nick Arnett wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Kyle B wrote: >

[twitter-dev] Re: Interface for twitter translators

Hello, You probably want to use the Google Group for your particular translator language: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-translators-italian http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-translators-german http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-translators-spanish http://groups.google.com/grou

[twitter-dev] Interface for twitter translators

It seems that the interface is not working very well because I hit the Translate Everything button and click on one term and it takes me back to the homepage. That happened on Chrome. It does not even work on IE 8. Regards, Antonio Lopez

[twitter-dev] Re: New spam reporting API now available

Awesome work! Let's make those spammers cry. :) On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Marcel Molina wrote: > > On the heels of adding a "Report as spam" button to twitter.com > (http://blog.twitter.com/2009/10/help-us-nail-spammers.html), you can > now also simultaneously block and report a user as a

[twitter-dev] Re: Help estimating tweets per day...

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Kyle B wrote: > > > 1. How are tweet IDs incremented? Do they increase by a factor of 1, > 2, 5, 10...? > I've asked that question previously and the answer was a definitive "We aren't telling." It seems to be considered a significant enough trade secret that I

[twitter-dev] Re: Help estimating tweets per day...

On Oct 14, 2009, at 8:38 AM, Kyle B wrote: I am creating a mathematical model based on some results from Twitter's API, but I am missing one critical number in the model. I need to estimate the number of total tweets in the USA each day. The better an estimate I get and the less assumptions I

[twitter-dev] Re: Counting tweets with no concern for contents

The track parameter on the Streaming API will give you all statuses that match a keyword. When rate-limited, you'll get an accurate count of the limited statuses. You'll only get accurate results for sets of keywords if your stream is not limited. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Service

[twitter-dev] Re: Checking if a user exists by email

no. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:50, HAR HAR wrote: > > There was a post on this group called "API Method for checking if a > user exists?" a while ago. The method for checking if a user exist > described there no longer works. Is there a way for me to use the API > to verify if an email address i

[twitter-dev] Re: Separate terms using commas?

You may be conflating the Streaming API, which requires commas between keywords, and the search API, which does not. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 14, 9:19 am, Kyle B wrote: > On Oct 13, 4:09 pm, EastSideDev wrote: > > > I am using the streaming searc

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets Dataset for academia?

Hi Atul, There is a fairly significant corpus of tweets available, although it is fairly old - see here: http://www.mail-archive.com/twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com/msg05715.html. I believe that the second part has expired, but you should be unable to use the first part - it is several m

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets Dataset for academia?

Atul, I am in the same boat as you. I am currently using the APIs that Twitter offers to gather data. However, the more data I have access to, the fewer assumptions I have to make and the better my results. Twitter is very popular though and access to their data from 3rd parties consumes a lot

[twitter-dev] Re: Separate terms using commas?

On Oct 13, 4:09 pm, EastSideDev wrote: > I am using the streaming search API. If I have more than one term to > search, do I need to separate those terms with commas? If these are > hash tags, do I include the hash symbol? ("#test1, #test2, #test3)  I > am experiencing some random problems, and I

[twitter-dev] Checking if a user exists by email

There was a post on this group called "API Method for checking if a user exists?" a while ago. The method for checking if a user exist described there no longer works. Is there a way for me to use the API to verify if an email address is associated with a twitter account? Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Help estimating tweets per day...

I am creating a mathematical model based on some results from Twitter's API, but I am missing one critical number in the model. I need to estimate the number of total tweets in the USA each day. The better an estimate I get and the less assumptions I make, the more useful the model will be (it wi

[twitter-dev] Counting tweets with no concern for contents

I'm looking for a simple way to count tweets over specific time periods, and I have little concern for the tweet contents at this time. I've taken a quick look at the Search API and I'm not sure this is possible without transferring the tweet contents and counting them based on their timestamps.

[twitter-dev] Re: Duplicate Tweets

I'm encouraged to know that someone from Twitter is reading the posts on this group. Perhaps this post will come to the attention of someone in Twitter who will start a discussion with their legal advisors. When I signed up for Twitter I read the TOS presented carefully (sorry, I used to be a pr

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter icons

Here is Twitters logo: https://twitter.com/about#download_logo Abraham On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:02, John Meyre wrote: > > I don't know if I got that information here or somewhere else, but somebody > pointed out a location where I could get some Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Duplicate Tweets

What kept me up at night is wondering what is coming down the pike... who knows if feature X, Y, or Z in your new Twitter app might get a stop-work order from Twitter. That's really scary. On Oct 14, 11:13 am, Neicole wrote: > Is Twitter crazy?! Have they even looked at their own user, market,

[twitter-dev] New spam reporting API now available

On the heels of adding a "Report as spam" button to twitter.com (http://blog.twitter.com/2009/10/help-us-nail-spammers.html), you can now also simultaneously block and report a user as a spammer via the API. The documentation for the report_spam resource can be found here: http://apiwiki.twitter.

[twitter-dev] Re: [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?

The situation in this scenario is that Mallory phished Bob's Twitter credentials and used them to authorize access for himself with an OAuth App that Bob also uses. Mallory can only be detected by the changes he makes in the account; He cannot be detected by viewing the list of OAuth apps with acc

[twitter-dev] Re: Duplicate Tweets

Is Twitter crazy?! Have they even looked at their own user, market, and competitor information? Twitter has said they are actively pursuing businesses (and bloggers) and doing away with recurring tweets does away with key business value. Besides, there are technical solutions to this problem, so

[twitter-dev] rate limit error on status/show only

Hi All, I am hitting the following url: /statuses/show/4843243649.xml And i get: Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 150 requests per hour. Note that before and after that i can hit any other url without problems with the same user - so i am logged in my application and everythi

[twitter-dev] Updating Twitter Status: Character Escaping and URLs

Hello all, I pass text from a POST variable from a form on my site to Twitter and I save this message on my own site. When I view the entry on my site it is absoultly fine. However, in some cases when there is an apostrophe in the message twitter updates the status of a user but escapes the apost

[twitter-dev] api down?

Anyone having issues logging in for apps via the api but no issues at all using the twitter web site? What happened to twitter saying they were going to eat their own dog food and use a common system so that issues like this wouldn't happen. Cheers, Dean

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets Dataset for academia?

Thanks, John. I am not only looking at hash tags, but also other things that go along with tweets. I will keep in mind. I was actually curious about Twitter's policy on this. What is there take on releasing a certain dataset of say some random X number of users. Is it violation of any of their poli

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets Dataset for academia?

Many people in academia / research have used TwapperKeeper service to capture tweets of interest (that are tagged) and export for analysis. Let me know if you have any questions. v/r, John http://TwapperKeeper.com jobr...@ob3solutions.com @jobrieniii On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Atul Kulk

[twitter-dev] Tweets Dataset for academia?

Hi All, I am curious if there is any Twitter data set already available for research or academia? If it is already not there then can one crawl through the users and build one and release it to the research community without any charge? What would be Twitter's official policy on this? I am sure t

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

Great, thanks for your response. More questions: - Is twitter.com/verified a complete list of all verified accounts? - It looks I'll have to crawl that account. Is there a simple flat list that gives the full real name of the user, plus the twitter account name? Thanks in advance! On Oct 12

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

Here is a screenshot right before make the request. http://yfrog.com/8d10142009115958amp You can see that there is only the "Content-Type" header. But you can also see that the ContentLength is set(to 6...length of my status update). .Net doesn't allow me to add the header manually if the obje

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

Another question is, what has changed? This code has been working fine since September 24th(sending the ContentLength). Then on October 11th, I start having issues. Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM, ryan alford wrote: > Other code uses this snippet also. > Now this is even more hilarious.

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

Is there some sort of request.toString() method that will dump the actual request that is being sent? Or is that what you see is only the Content-Type? -chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM, ryan alford wrote: > Other code uses this snippet also. > Now this is even more hilarious.  I am testing

[twitter-dev] Twitter icons

I don't know if I got that information here or somewhere else, but somebody pointed out a location where I could get some Twitter icons.

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

Other code uses this snippet also. Now this is even more hilarious. I am testing right now. I am sending the ContentLength no matter what. I now can't post status updates again. If I give it the ContentLength, it just hangs. If I don't give it the ContentLength, I get the error. If I give it

[twitter-dev] Re: /users/show.xml? doesn't return xml string

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, ArnieLapinig wrote: > > Hello, > > I found the problem... the Twitter API does return XML, but on my LAMP > system, the PHP > var_dump($variable) method strips away the XML tags! This seems > ridiculous to me, but > then the documentation on var_dump is skimpy...

[twitter-dev] Re: /users/show.xml? doesn't return xml string

Hello, I found the problem... the Twitter API does return XML, but on my LAMP system, the PHP var_dump($variable) method strips away the XML tags! This seems ridiculous to me, but then the documentation on var_dump is skimpy... Thanks again for your help. , On Oct 13, 9:51 pm, Scott Haneda wr

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:17 AM, ryan alford wrote: > Here is the code... > http://pastebin.com/m7ea04ea2 > Last night, that code worked(with the content length being commented out). >  This morning, it gives me the "length required" error. > Ryan I am not extremely familiar with C#, but you mi

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

Here is the code... http://pastebin.com/m7ea04ea2 Last night, that code worked(with the content length being commented out). This morning, it gives me the "length required" error. Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Chad Etzel wrote: > > Can you post your cod

[twitter-dev] Re: "Starts with" token in Search API

I know this is a feature that many people would like to see (including myself). It may be on the Search team's roadmap, but please create a Google Code ticket for it so we can track it: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Snook wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

Can you post your code snippet (in something like pastie or pastebin)? Content-length should almost always be required for POSTs (from HTTP spec). -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:56 AM, eclipsed4utoo wrote: > > Ok, this is really starting to screw with me.  On Sunday, I received > this error.  

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

You may just be hitting different servers in the Twitter server farm, and some of them may be setup to require length and others not to. Dewald On Oct 14, 9:56 am, eclipsed4utoo wrote: > Ok, this is really starting to screw with me.  On Sunday, I received > this error.  I put in code to send th

[twitter-dev] "Starts with" token in Search API

Is it possible to add a simple "Starts with" token for the Search API? (and maybe an ends with token if people want that, as well). For example, it'd be nice to be able to do "^overheard" and only catch those tweets that specifically start with the word instead of having the word appear anywhere

[twitter-dev] Re: [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?

Yes. The risk is high with Desktop apps as Consumer secret/keys are distributed. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > > So this is a problem with web apps as well then. > > If User Bob authorized Web App to work on his account, and Phishing > Dude also authorizes his Web Ap

[twitter-dev] Re: [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?

So this is a problem with web apps as well then. If User Bob authorized Web App to work on his account, and Phishing Dude also authorizes his Web App account to work on User Bob's Twitter account because he phished User Bob's Twitter username and password, User Bob is blissfully unaware of that?

[twitter-dev] Re: [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?

<< Does User Bob see two separate entries for OAuth App Foo in his list of authorized apps in Twitter, or only one? >> Its only one. <> AFAIK there is no way to detect that. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > > Here's another question. > > User Bob installs OAuth App F

[twitter-dev] Re: Noise-tweet regex repository

Regex isn't that tough, but it IS one of those things you need to get into the rhythm of, and it's very easy to fall out. Every time I heavily dive back in though, after lots of frustration, you eventually end up with a lot of elegance and power. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [

[twitter-dev] (411) Length Required error

Ok, this is really starting to screw with me. On Sunday, I received this error. I put in code to send the content length when making a status update. It worked on Sunday. On Monday, the POST request started hanging. For two days, I tried to figure out what the problem was. So last night, I r

[twitter-dev] Re: [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?

Here's another question. User Bob installs OAuth App Foo on his desktop, and he authorizes access to it. Then he installs the app on his laptop and authorizes access to it. Does User Bob see two separate entries for OAuth App Foo in his list of authorized apps in Twitter, or only one? If he se

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed & desktop feedback

Tokens should never expire. However, you can only make that request once. If you try to make it again with the same request request token, then you will get the "expired token" error. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:02 AM, BlueSkies wrote: > > > When my application requests an OAuth token on behalf

[twitter-dev] Re: [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?

On Oct 14, 2:46 pm, Chris Babcock wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:48:13 -0700 (PDT) > > ruckuus wrote: > > Is there anyone have an experience to hijack a twitter account? > > The security profile of a Twitter account is no different than that of > many other on-line services. The major weaknes

[twitter-dev] Re: Noise-tweet regex repository

Nalin, I appreciate the ideas. Remember, you can’t DM somebody who isn’t following you. I want to maintain a fairly complete collection of filters for the common “noise tweets,” and use it in TalkingPuffin under user control, and invite other application developers to use it as well. Maybe as the

[twitter-dev] Re: Noise-tweet regex repository

Hi Rich. For me, whether the user authorized it or not is unimportant. Many users want to send out these messages, and I want a way to not see them. Many users do want to see such messages, and that’s just fine with me. I don’t want to interfere with them.

[twitter-dev] Re: Noise-tweet regex repository

I thought the new terms sorted this out "Get each user's consent before sending Tweets or other messages on their behalf. A user authenticating with your application does not constitute consent to send a message." On Oct 9, 10:22 am, Sam Street wrote: > Please don't forget the "Ive just taken t

[twitter-dev] Re: [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:48:13 -0700 (PDT) ruckuus wrote: > Is there anyone have an experience to hijack a twitter account? The security profile of a Twitter account is no different than that of many other on-line services. The major weaknesses are signing in over HTTP, accepting insecure cookies

[twitter-dev] [OOT] Hijacking twitter account, is it possible?

Hello All, Is there anyone have an experience to hijack a twitter account? well, the story is really weird. There is a celebrity's account hijacked (password stolen, etc), and then he created a new account, the told the world that he could do something in his old account, e.g. sending a new twee