Re: [twitter-dev] Direct message Ids

2009-12-14 Thread Harshad RJ
Good observation and reasonable assumption. However, there is a thin possibility that these are being assigned from different sub-spaces within the same address space. I am still hoping it is the case since it will simplify my DB design much. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Michael Steuer

[twitter-dev] Re: WordPress implements a Twitter API root

2009-12-14 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I have four WordPress blogs but none of them are hosted on WordPress.com. I'm not sure what the use case is for the thing they just announced anyhow. On Dec 12, 7:57 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: fyi.. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/twitter-api/ seems to only support

[twitter-dev] Re: extract all @replies for a user

2009-12-14 Thread Rich
/statuses/mentions only works for the currently authenticated user and not all users however. On Dec 12, 1:41 am, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: Check out the statuses/mentions API On Dec 11, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Baron richar...@gmail.com wrote: hello, I want to get all the

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweeting via the API does not show up in other's Home Timeline

2009-12-14 Thread Rich
I believe this is correct that basically if a message has already appeared in your or other people's timeline, then a retweet won't appear. It'll only appear in another user's timeline if they don't follow the original tweeter On Dec 11, 9:46 pm, hansamann sven.hai...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [twitter-dev] Direct message Ids

2009-12-14 Thread Raffi Krikorian
They're separate ID spaces. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Harshad RJ harshad...@gmail.com wrote: Good observation and reasonable assumption. However, there is a thin possibility that these are being assigned from different sub-spaces within the same address space. I am still hoping it

[twitter-dev] C# WebRequest not returning from iDispose when calling stream.twitter.com

2009-12-14 Thread martimedia
With the sample function below the program never returns from iDispose WebResponse/StreamReader (TcpClient works fine): public void GetStatusesFromStream(string username, string password, int nMessageCount) { WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(http://stream.twitter.com/

[twitter-dev] Re: White Listing and Rate Limiting

2009-12-14 Thread martimedia
Instead of using request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password); try the following (sorry it's in C#) as .NET will try an unauthenticated request first, before trying an authenticated request : byte[] encbuff = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(username + : +

[twitter-dev] delete a tweet with twitterVB .net library API

2009-12-14 Thread KellyP
Is there a way to delete previously posted tweets using the twitter API? I'm using the twitterVB .net library and would like to delete all tweets older than 1 week. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth DELETE LIST problem

2009-12-14 Thread volker
i think your base String should look like this: base: DELETEhttp%3A%2F%2Fstaging..com%2Fapi%2Fmodel%%2Fcontroller %2F2467oauth_consumer_key%thekey%26oauth_nonce %3D1429%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp %3D1260804448%26oauth_token%3Dtoken%26oauth_version%3D1.0 so you

[twitter-dev] profile_image_url bigger thumbnail image

2009-12-14 Thread Quy
In the xml returned using the API, I noticed all the profile_image_url are of the form *_normal.*{jpg,gif} Can I just replace normal with bigger and assume there will always be a bigger 73x73 version? Thanks, Quy

[twitter-dev] friendships/create method and 403 ambiguity

2009-12-14 Thread shiplu
There are two phrases about friendships/create. 1. If you are already friends with the user an HTTP 403 will be returned. 2. This method is subject to [1]update limits. An HTTP 403 will be returned if this limit as been hit. How to differ those two status codes? [1]

[twitter-dev] TTYtter 1.0.0 beta

2009-12-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
For those of you using TTYtter as a bot or scripting platform in your applications, the TTYtter 1.0.0 beta is now available for testing. There are several significant changes in the TTYtter API, including a new multi-module system, changes to methods, and changes to recommended practices for state

Re: [twitter-dev] friendships/create method and 403 ambiguity

2009-12-14 Thread Mark McBride
The body of the response allows you to differentiate these two codes, e.g. curl -ucredentials -XPOST -d http://twitter.com/friendships/create/atebits.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/friendships/create/atebits.xml/request errorCould not follow user: atebits is already on

Re: [twitter-dev] delete a tweet with twitterVB .net library API

2009-12-14 Thread Andrew Badera
Hrmmm, the method that says DeleteUpdate might just possibly delete updates. But that's just from glancing at the TwitterVB site for a mere 30 seconds, I could be wrong. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: White Listing and Rate Limiting

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Rutherford
That looks like it might do the trick. I'll give it a go! Cheers! Michael On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:36 AM, martimedia duffym...@googlemail.comwrote: Instead of using request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password); try the following (sorry it's in C#) as .NET will try

[twitter-dev] Getting a timeline from a select number of friends without using list

2009-12-14 Thread joeygreen...@gmail.com
I have an app that needs to be able to get a timeline from a select number of friends without using list. I haven't been able to find a api method that I can do this, but I might have overlooked it. Right now my solution is to just create a list of these users and read the list timeline, but I

Re: [twitter-dev] Getting a timeline from a select number of friends without using list

2009-12-14 Thread John Kalucki
You could stream them with the track resource and the follow parameter on the Streaming API. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:53 PM, joeygreen...@gmail.com joeygreen...@gmail.com wrote: I have an app that needs to be able to get a

[twitter-dev] Regarding the retrieval of Tweets for a user

2009-12-14 Thread vijay sai
Hi All , Is it possible to retrieve tweets for a given user using the api. If so could anyone explain how to use the api to solve the purpose. Thanks in Advance Vijay Sai

Re: [twitter-dev] Regarding the retrieval of Tweets for a user

2009-12-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Is it possible to retrieve tweets for a given user using the api. If so could anyone explain how to use the api to solve the purpose. Start with statuses/user_timeline. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-user_timeline --

[twitter-dev] Locked Out! Why?

2009-12-14 Thread Chris Prakoso
Hi all, One of the feature of my app that I'm building at the moment is collecting details of every followers, following that a user has. So, what I'm doing is, getting id_list of followers from a user and hitting user/show to get user details of each follower. Recently when I'm doing this, I

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: White Listing and Rate Limiting

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Rutherford
Thanks much! That did it. The VB.Net code is as follows: Dim encbuff As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(userName + : + password) Dim enc As String = Convert.ToBase64String(encbuff) client.Headers.Add(Authorization, Basic + enc) On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:36 AM, martimedia

[twitter-dev] Developer Preview: Contributor API

2009-12-14 Thread Raffi Krikorian
As you may have seen on our bloghttp://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/feature-test-with-businesses.html, we're starting a very small test of a new feature that will allow a Twitter account to have multiple contributors. This is the first in a suite of features that we'll be rolling out specifically

[twitter-dev] Re: delete a tweet with twitterVB .net library API

2009-12-14 Thread KellyP
I guess I should have been more specific. I saw the DeleteUpdate method which calls for an ID parameter to be passed in, but I don't know how to get the ID of a tweet, let alone all the IDs for tweets older than 1 week. I know if you hover over a tweet in twitter you can see the ID, but how do

[twitter-dev] Re: C# WebRequest not returning from iDispose when calling stream.twitter.com

2009-12-14 Thread martimedia
Problem fixed via discussion on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1883022/why-does-webresponse-never-end-when-reading-twitter-firehose-stream FYI: needed to add a response.Abort() before the break, though others reported function working without the need for the Abort() call.

[twitter-dev] Desktop App oAuth GET request with valid accesstoken returns 401 Unauthorized

2009-12-14 Thread Sanjay
I got my desktop application registered on Twitter and successfully got the PIN which I used to generate Token and Secret Key. I am generating following signature for verify_credentials:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Regarding the search API based on Geo location

2009-12-14 Thread Raffi Krikorian
I'll be interested to hear when the API adds functionality that'll allow us to retrieve *only* tweets with a geopoint! Any hints? soon :P In the meantime; copyied from the first post, what is going on with tweets like this? : { * location: iPhone: 37.313690,-122.022911 * geo:

[twitter-dev] Re: Regarding the search API based on Geo location

2009-12-14 Thread dbasch
Many people use UberTwitter from their phone and also tweet from the web or a desktop client. UT updates the profile location with GPS data but the browser doesn't. If the source of the tweet is UT chances are the location is accurate, otherwise it's probably old. If you desperately need to pin as

[twitter-dev] Re: delete a tweet with twitterVB .net library API

2009-12-14 Thread Duane Roelands
Kelly, I'm the maintainer of the TwitterVB project. Thanks for trying TwitterVB! Your best bet for getting help with the TwitterVb library is to post in the TwitterVB discussion forum at the following URL: http://twittervb.codeplex.com/Thread/List.aspx To answer your question more

[twitter-dev] A way to send user to oAuth page with no user defined?

2009-12-14 Thread Justyn
We'd like to use oAuth to add authorize additional accounts, but it gets hairy for users when it defaults to last used username. Is there a way to send oAuth users directly to the page that appears when sign out is clicked? So that they are prompted for the username and password for the account

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

2009-12-14 Thread Justyn
Hi Raffi, Curious how the contributors will be associated? Will it essentially be linking accounts? Presumably then the user would identify in an app which account to post an update to based on those accounts they have been associated as contributors to? So, a contribution would originate from a

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

2009-12-14 Thread Zac Bowling
I'm curious about rate limiting and what impact this has. Which account gets rate limited basically. Zac Bowling On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Justyn justyn.how...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Raffi, Curious how the contributors will be associated? Will it essentially be linking accounts?

[twitter-dev] Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-14 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Last week at Le Web, Twitter's Platform Director, Ryan Sarver, announced that Twitter will be opening the firehose to all developers. As I recall, there were a number of reasons why Twitter kept the firehose restricted. Some of these were legal reasons. I'm starting to put together an action plan

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

2009-12-14 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi zac. we have not yet rectified this, but, as it currently stands, the contributor (in the case of my example, @raffi) gets the deduction from his or her rate limit. to try to anticipate your next question, the account holder (@twitter) only has a set number of people he or she can invite to

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

2009-12-14 Thread Justyn
That's exactly what I was wondering, helps for planning. Thanks Raffi! On Dec 14, 11:14 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: what we have not yet exposed is the invitation or linking step - but, you are mostly correct.  to carry on with my example, @twitter would invite @raffi to

Re: [twitter-dev] Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-14 Thread John Kalucki
There will be further announcements about Streaming API access early next year. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:09 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.comwrote: Last week at Le Web, Twitter's Platform Director, Ryan Sarver,

[twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-14 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Thanks!! At this point, I'm not sure I'll be using the firehose even if it is available -I don't think I can afford the pipe width to consume it. ;-) On Dec 14, 9:59 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: There will be further announcements about Streaming API access early next year. -John