Re: [twitter-dev] Re: account/update_profile_background_image not working

2009-12-06 Thread Dhaval Parikh
Hey.. Has ne one implemented it with RoR?? I am not getting any error but the image is not updated somehow. Thanks On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Matt wrote: > I haven't, but you have a space in the link you posed as the thread > title. > > On Dec 3, 5:13 pm, dhaval wrote: > > Hey all > > >

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API questions

2009-12-06 Thread enygmatic
@AJ Chen You are 100% correct when you say that it’s the user’s responsibility to clean up duplicates in the search results. My issue is not so much about there being duplicates, but the fact that there are so many of them. My concept of search is that if there have been new tweets posted, say 30 o

[twitter-dev] statuses/friends issue?

2009-12-06 Thread hansamann
Hi all, my code is calling api method statuses/friends with an increasing paging to get all friends information. Since a couple of hours it seems it never reaches a page with no friends or less than n friends so my code stops the recursion. Anyone similar problems?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Tons of 502s

2009-12-06 Thread Mark McBride
This should be resolved now http://status.twitter.com/post/272315876/responding-to-whales On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:33 PM, LeeS - @semel wrote: > I'm glad the fail whale is still around. I hadn't seen it in a while > and was starting to miss it. > > Lee > -- ---Mark http://twitter.com/mcc

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get the most followed users?

2009-12-06 Thread LeeS - @semel
You've got to basically build your own database of users. That's what I did to create this page: http://listorious.com/top/followers Lee On Dec 6, 10:15 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you want the top 1000 by followers you could parsehttp://twitterholic.com/. > > On Sat, D

[twitter-dev] Re: Tons of 502s

2009-12-06 Thread LeeS - @semel
I'm glad the fail whale is still around. I hadn't seen it in a while and was starting to miss it. Lee

[twitter-dev] Re: Tons of 502s

2009-12-06 Thread LeeS - @semel
Everything is down for me too. Twitter.com itself shows a fail whale. Lee

Re: [twitter-dev] Tons of 502s

2009-12-06 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> everything appears dead... website (failwhale), API, streams, ... On the other hand, this gave my Fail Whale detector in TTYtter 1.0.0 a really good workout. ;-) -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodga

RE: [twitter-dev] Tons of 502s

2009-12-06 Thread Dean Collins
www.Twitter.com is down here from Time Warner in NY. Was funny because originally I thought it was me and something with my IP address because I was testing something out for my www.LiveFootballChat.com app when it stopped working and blocking all access to api and website. Cheers, Dean

Re: [twitter-dev] Tons of 502s

2009-12-06 Thread Chad Etzel
everything appears dead... website (failwhale), API, streams, ... -chad On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Twitter, are you aware that the API has been throwing tons of 502s on > all calls since around 5:00 PM CST? > >

[twitter-dev] Tons of 502s

2009-12-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Twitter, are you aware that the API has been throwing tons of 502s on all calls since around 5:00 PM CST?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: strange search api behavior

2009-12-06 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Martin Omander wrote: > > I noticed the same behavior in my app: when I include since_id in the > search API call, I often don't get all the tweets I should. If I run > without since_id, I see tweets with IDs that should have shown up in > the search where I include

[twitter-dev] How to build a form to Login into Twitter?

2009-12-06 Thread Feras Allaou
Dear Sirs, I really need your help . I tried to read the Api wiki but I didn't understand anything :S . I want anyone who can help me in building a form to Login into Twitter ! I am PHP programmer , so could anyone explain the concept for me ? Waiting your kind reply. Regards, Feras Allaou

[twitter-dev] Max tweet ID

2009-12-06 Thread ESPR!T
Hi, I have used the search for tweets newer then some tweet id (cron job accessing the search and getting all tweets containing some word which id is more then previous one) but looks like it doesn't work for me correctly anymore. I have modified my application a little week ago but I didn't touche

[twitter-dev] Re: strange search api behavior

2009-12-06 Thread Martin Omander
I noticed the same behavior in my app: when I include since_id in the search API call, I often don't get all the tweets I should. If I run without since_id, I see tweets with IDs that should have shown up in the search where I included since_id. Any response from Twitter? The since_id parameter i

[twitter-dev] Re: simply verify that user exists

2009-12-06 Thread Feras Allaou
Well , this is a useful Idea but I think you should write a lot of line for parsing the XML code no ? try this : http://pear.php.net/package/Services_Twitter I hope this can be useful for you . Regards, feras On Dec 6, 10:59 pm, TJ Luoma wrote: > Sorry, I'm having a brain cramp. I've been check

[twitter-dev] Search, ignoring retweets

2009-12-06 Thread LeeS - @semel
I'd like to use Twitter search while ignoring retweets. Is it always that case that retweets made with the Retweet button will have "RT @username:" prepended to the text when appearing in the search API results? Is there a better way to identify retweets? Thanks Lee

[twitter-dev] curl --netrc fails for adding to lists

2009-12-06 Thread TJ Luoma
Summary: When I try to add someone to a list using 'curl' with --netrc it is failing, but if I use "-u username:password" it works. Of course the first thought is that ~/.netrc isn't setup right (although it's been working fine for months). But I double checked that it is. Watch: 1) Verify that

[twitter-dev] simply verify that user exists

2009-12-06 Thread TJ Luoma
Sorry, I'm having a brain cramp. I've been checking the wiki and can't for the life of me figure out what's the preferred way of taking a name and validating / verifying if the name is valid Twitter account. Is "http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=FOO"; (and checking the response) the be

[twitter-dev] Re: Any iPhone Twitter apps with OAuth login ?

2009-12-06 Thread Ram
Thanks for the info, can you please tell us the name of your app and what feedback (if any) you've received from users about the OAuth login UI. On Dec 6, 12:55 am, Rich wrote: > Nope we use oAuth on the iPhone > > The UI is better than it used to be, I haven't checked recently on > whether press

[twitter-dev] Perl Catalyst Twitter Authentication Module

2009-12-06 Thread Jesse Stay
For any of you using Perl and Catalyst, I've created a Module enabling you to handle Twitter OAuth credentials seamlessly in the native Catalyst authentication process. After installing this module, authenticating the user is as simple as running $realm->credential->authenticate_twitter_url($c) to

Re: [twitter-dev] How to get the most followed users?

2009-12-06 Thread Abraham Williams
If you want the top 1000 by followers you could parse http://twitterholic.com/. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 16:10, developar wrote: > Hi > > I was just trying to know how I can ge a list of the top twitter users > who have most number of followers? there is no API to do that? > > Regards > -- Abr

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get the most followed users?

2009-12-06 Thread dbasch
> > not that I know of.  you could, conceivably, stroll through all the > followers of a particular user, gather their number of followers, and > then gather their followers and wash, lather, rinse, repeat. It would be easier to do it the other way around. Start picking random users and see how t

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Photo service for oauth clients

2009-12-06 Thread Harshad RJ
Well for an oauth token to be used, the API would need the consumer key as well. Would applications share their consumer key with the photo service? On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Michael Steuer wrote: > Hi all, > > Are any of you aware of a photo service that allows picture uploads from my >

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Photo service for oauth clients

2009-12-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:00:30PM -0800, Michael Steuer wrote: > Are any of you aware of a photo service that allows picture uploads from > my oauth based Twitter client? The Api for all the usual suspects > (twitpic, yfrog, tweetphoto, etc) requires passing of the user's > Twitter username

[twitter-dev] Re: Any iPhone Twitter apps with OAuth login ?

2009-12-06 Thread Rich
Nope we use oAuth on the iPhone The UI is better than it used to be, I haven't checked recently on whether pressing the Done key on the iPhone keyboard still defaults to the Deny button though. It would be nice if they could auto detect mobile and give us a specific interface, a bit like they do

[twitter-dev] Any iPhone Twitter apps with OAuth login ?

2009-12-06 Thread Ram
As a followup to the mobile OAuth discussions from October (see http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/c4a8637359b25683/21da1c7f070652f8#21da1c7f070652f8) Does anyone know of any (publicly released) iPhone or other mobile Twitter apps that use OAuth ?