Re: [twitter-dev] small update c client

2009-12-22 Thread shiplu
If you get 302 it'll contain a Location header. Make request to that location again. You are requesting to twitter.com. You should be using api.twitter.com/1 instead. Its better you use curl in C. Here is a code snippet for you http://pastie.org/752884 Its generated by curl. -- Shiplu

Re: [twitter-dev] .NET Servers

2009-12-22 Thread Andrew Badera
Good stuff Shannon, I was paying that much ($24.99) or more for shared 2003 hosting per month not too long ago. Too bad the 2008, especially 64-bit, stuff is significantly steeper. At that price point, in my mind it becomes worth the minor hassle for a lot of people to go BizSpark or WebsiteSpark

[twitter-dev] Unable to get complete timeline for a user (including retweets) without logging-in! New API method urgently required.

2009-12-22 Thread Tim Acheson
Problem: There is an important limitation in the API regarding retweets. With the new retweets feature, in the current API, it is not possible to get a complete timeline for a user (unless you have the user's password). This is bad. Firstly, it means user timelines retrieved from the API will

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting retweets in user timelines

2009-12-22 Thread Tim Acheson
I strongly agree with the OP. Problem: Unable to get the complete timeline for a user including retweets (without logging in)! There is an important limitation with the API regarding retweets. With the new retweets feature, in the current API, it is not possible to get a complete timeline for a

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweets and the Public Timeline

2009-12-22 Thread Tim Acheson
I strongly agree with the OP. Problem: Unable to get the complete timeline for a user including retweets (without logging in)! There is an important limitation with the API regarding retweets. With the new retweets feature, in the current API, it is not possible to get a complete timeline for a

Re: [twitter-dev] Invalid Following count

2009-12-22 Thread Raffi Krikorian
can you provide the exact calls that you are using? including the parameters you are passing so that we can replicate this. thanks! On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Gaurav Shaha gauravshah...@gmail.comwrote: Dear sir, I am using this API

[twitter-dev] Re: small update c client

2009-12-22 Thread Alex
thanx for your help, i can't use curl , it's for study purposes. it's actually started working on it's own,strange... now i can twit from my CLI :P again thanx for the response. On Dec 22, 11:35 am, shiplu shiplu@gmail.com wrote: If you get 302 it'll contain a Location header. Make

Re: [twitter-dev] small update c client

2009-12-22 Thread Raffi Krikorian
agreed - for future proofing purposes, make those calls against api.twitter.com/1. have fun in C. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:35 AM, shiplu shiplu@gmail.com wrote: If you get 302 it'll contain a Location header. Make request to that location again. You are requesting to twitter.com. You

[twitter-dev] Re: .NET Servers

2009-12-22 Thread Shannon Whitley
Thanks for the feedback, Andy. I'll run your thoughts past GoGrid and see what they can do. I could offer 2008 at the same price as 2003 (if I drop the memory), but in my experience it's not even worth trying to run 2008 on less than a GB of RAM. I also want to know more about the ease with

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: .NET Servers

2009-12-22 Thread Andrew Badera
Hey Shannon, The application process can be expedited if the network partner knows you and pushes it. If you want a referral to a reliable partner, hit me up off-list. This current project, we applied and got approved 48 hours. I like the shared DB thought. --ab On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:20

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: .NET Servers

2009-12-22 Thread Michael Steuer
I concur, we too got accepted by BizSpark within 2-3 days from application... On Dec 22, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Hey Shannon, The application process can be expedited if the network partner knows you and pushes it. If you want a referral to a reliable

[twitter-dev] OT: Tuesday Humor

2009-12-22 Thread John Meyer
Maybe you needing later. . . http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Maybe-I-Needing-Later.aspx Otherwise entitled why going to the lowest possible bidder isn't always a good idea

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about Twitter use in library names

2009-12-22 Thread Duane Roelands
Hopefully, I haven't asked a question with an unfortunate answer. When I look at the number of great libraries with Twitter in the name, it would be a real kick in the teeth to the developer community. On Dec 22, 12:09 am, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: Just wanted to follow up with

[twitter-dev] Question concerning posts per hour

2009-12-22 Thread Mark Essel
Heyo, our company (Victus Media, http://victusmedia.com) is leveraging semantic processing on twitter public streams to market our service to potential users. Is there a healthy send rate that is acceptable for a user account for us to use? We're using http://www.twitter.com/semantic2 at the

Re: [twitter-dev] Question concerning posts per hour

2009-12-22 Thread Raffi Krikorian
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting is that what you're looking for? On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Mark Essel mes...@gmail.com wrote: Heyo, our company (Victus Media, http://victusmedia.com) is leveraging semantic processing on twitter public streams to market our service to

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweets and the Public Timeline

2009-12-22 Thread Tyson Lowery
The decision to leave out retweets is incomprehensible. I don't see who it benefits to leave these out, besides maybe the programmer at Twitter who has to do the work to include them. The API Programmers don't like it, the confused Twitter users who no longer see Retweets in their favorite third

[twitter-dev] Re: Loose ends for List and Retweet APIs

2009-12-22 Thread Tyson Lowery
Or conceivably (though arguably janky) there could be an additional parameter you provide for the user timeline that opts you in to having retweets appear. e.g. ?include_retweets=true Thank you, this is badly needed!!! On Dec 19, 10:21 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Or

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweets and the Public Timeline

2009-12-22 Thread Tyson Lowery
Maybe it is being considered now, check this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/515733c625904ed8/ec71454fcac98781?lnk=gstq=retweet#ec71454fcac98781 On Dec 22, 9:34 am, Tyson Lowery tysonlow...@gmail.com wrote: The decision to leave out retweets

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Retweets and the Public Timeline

2009-12-22 Thread Raffi Krikorian
i would like to stress that timelines are, of course, only slices of data that twitter. API developers are urged to be creative and innovative -- come up with timelines that we didn't think of! come up with other ways to present data to the user that are not just direct representations of our

[twitter-dev] Re: Loose ends for List and Retweet APIs

2009-12-22 Thread hansamann
Hi Marcel, I had once suggested this feature: * add retweet_count to every status representation My issue was by placing retweeted statuses once into the home timeline, my app was no longer able to keep track of retweets over time. I think even having the retweet_count still does not change

[twitter-dev] Re: Loose ends for List and Retweet APIs

2009-12-22 Thread hansamann
OK, if there is room for change then I'd hope for a parameter like: ?include_duplicate_retweets=true This would mean that whenever one of my friends retweets a status, I'd still get a new entry into the home/user time line. It would stop me from having to listen to the streaming methods to get

[twitter-dev] OAuth login in an IFRAME?

2009-12-22 Thread jxdavis
We'd like to perform the OAuth login in an IFRAME, but Twitter redirects the window.top to the page if it detects that it's IFRAME'd. Is there a reason why we *must* show a window.open()? The reason why this is an issue is because the window.open() approach is not modal, i.e. we cannot force the

[twitter-dev] Re: Something is technically wrong Response 500

2009-12-22 Thread quenotacom
Nobody answer here ? On Dec 21, 4:06 pm, quenotacom webmas...@quenota.com wrote: Hi, I am using the REST api (oauth) , everything is working for GET operations, however I cannot POST an update/status because I always receive that message (Thanks for noticing we're going to fix it up and

[twitter-dev] Completely denied by OAuth

2009-12-22 Thread Matt
I have the same code in two places (Dev and Production). On my dev server, I am able to use OAuth with no issues. On my Production server, I get 401 unauthorized every time I make a request. I tried regenerating my keys, I back tracked through every line of code to figure out if it was me. As

[twitter-dev] Re: Suggestion: Ability to just search amongst a user's friends

2009-12-22 Thread Marcel
So searching with a particular list as a filter is not yet possible. Any way of replicating this in an other way via a script parsing through list members tweets? Thanks. On Dec 19, 6:30 pm, Richard ryt...@gmail.com wrote: We now have this in friendbinder.com - though unfortunately we don't

[twitter-dev] Search API: new HTTP response code 420 for rate limiting starting 1/18/2010

2009-12-22 Thread Wilhelm Bierbaum
We're changing the response code sent back by the Search API when the rate limit has been exceeded. At present, it is impossible to distinguish rate limit responses from other error conditions in responses from the Search API -- this is what we're trying to fix. Starting Monday, January 18th,

[twitter-dev] oAuth Authenticate vs. Authorize (force_login)

2009-12-22 Thread Justyn
We've found it necessary to use the force_login method for Authorize because of the confusion many users have with the splash page shown on Authorize (many times they want to authorize a different account than their latest session), however Authorize does not support force_login. Is there a way

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth login in an IFRAME?

2009-12-22 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi. i think this is one of the general frustrations with oauth - the whole idea is that the customer would see that the URL bar has a secure twitter.comURL. i'm not sure how you would demonstrate that if in an iframe. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM, jxdavis jxda...@godaddy.com wrote: We'd

Re: [twitter-dev] How to fetch the user info in Twitter Oauth

2009-12-22 Thread Mark McBride
It's likely because that is a non-routable IP address, and we can't connect to it from our site. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:58 AM, ndot saranraj.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have connected Twitter Oauth in my website.. It getting the request and responding

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Something is technically wrong Response 500

2009-12-22 Thread Mark McBride
It means an error occurred processing your request. Without more details (for example the specific headers and URLs) it's difficult to answer in more detail. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:36 PM, quenotacom webmas...@quenota.com wrote: Nobody answer here ? On

Re: [twitter-dev] Completely denied by OAuth

2009-12-22 Thread Mark McBride
Can you email me the IPs for both your dev and production machines? ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Matt mkbern...@gmail.com wrote: I have the same code in two places (Dev and Production).  On my dev server, I am able to use OAuth with no issues.  On my

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Something is technically wrong Response 500

2009-12-22 Thread Raffi Krikorian
in general, for situations like this, please realise that in order for us to help you, we need as much information as you can give us so that we can try to replicate the problem and hopefully track it down. what is really helpful is the following: - what end point are you calling? (which

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth login in an IFRAME?

2009-12-22 Thread Abraham Williams
Have a look at how Facebook handles it. When they do a window.open() there is a notification in the existing window directing the user to look for the new window. When the new window closes the notification automatically goes away. Look under Linked Accounts:

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: new HTTP response code 420 for rate limiting starting 1/18/2010

2009-12-22 Thread DustyReagan
Will you be changing the REST API error code to match the Search API? RE: 420 = rate limit exceeded. On Dec 22, 4:44 pm, Wilhelm Bierbaum wilh...@twitter.com wrote: We're changing the response code sent back by the Search API when the rate limit has been exceeded. At present, it is impossible

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Search API: new HTTP response code 420 for rate limiting starting 1/18/2010

2009-12-22 Thread Marco Kaiser
yeah, doesn't make much sense to have two different codes indicating that the limit is exceeded... 2009/12/23 DustyReagan dustyrea...@gmail.com Will you be changing the REST API error code to match the Search API? RE: 420 = rate limit exceeded. On Dec 22, 4:44 pm, Wilhelm Bierbaum

[twitter-dev] Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2009-12-22 Thread Wilhelm Bierbaum
We noticed that some clients are still calling social graph methods without cursor parameters. We wanted to take time to make sure that people were calling the updated methods which return data with cursors instead of the old formats that do not. As previously announced in September

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2009-12-22 Thread Adam Loving
I noticed the ruby TwitterOauth library needs a patch. On Dec 22, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Wilhelm Bierbaum wrote: We noticed that some clients are still calling social graph methods without cursor parameters. We wanted to take time to make sure that people were calling the updated methods which

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: new HTTP response code 420 for rate limiting starting 1/18/2010

2009-12-22 Thread Wilhelm Bierbaum
Eventually the REST API will return the same 420 response code to indicate rate limiting. We wanted to change as little as possible to get people comfortable with the new response code. On Dec 22, 4:07 pm, Marco Kaiser kaiser.ma...@gmail.com wrote: yeah, doesn't make much sense to have two

[twitter-dev] connection to 168.143.162.100:80 was ESTABLISHED for 6 hours

2009-12-22 Thread shiplu
Hello, My cron send friendship/destroy request but twitter didn't send any reply. And it didn't close http connection too. I didn't use any timeout so the connection was ESTABLISHED for more than 6 hours. What could be the reason for this? Network issue? -- Shiplu Mokaddim My talks,

[twitter-dev] Cursoring: Addition of string-encoded equivalents of JSON cursor parameters starts 1/11/2010

2009-12-22 Thread Wilhelm Bierbaum
In response to complaints we've been receiving about cursor IDs being difficult to deal with because of their length (for example, JavaScript can't deal with them -- see http://bit.ly/cursors), we're adding string equivalents of next_cursor and previous cursor to those methods that return

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

2009-12-22 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
BTW, I see that applications that authenticate with oAuth are going to get a 10X increase in the number of API calls they can make per hour. When does that go into effect? On Dec 20, 3:55 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 18, 9:23 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com

[twitter-dev] CORRECTION: Cursoring: Addition of string-encoded equivalents of JSON cursor parameters starts 1/11/2010

2009-12-22 Thread Wilhelm Bierbaum
Sorry, I had a typo in one of the examples. The second example (with additions) should read: { users:[{!-- ... omitted records ... --}}, ...], next_cursor:319261365477361289, next_cursor_str:319261365477361289, previous_cursor:0, previous_cursor_str:0 } instead of

Re: [twitter-dev] CORRECTION: Cursoring: Addition of string-encoded equivalents of JSON cursor parameters starts 1/11/2010

2009-12-22 Thread Josh Roesslein
I wonder if in the next API version you could just make next_cusor and previous_cursor strings. Is there really a use case for having to return them as JSON ints? Most of the time they get converted to strings and appended onto the API requests. Josh On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Wilhelm

[twitter-dev] Re: 404 Errors on friends and followers using cursors

2009-12-22 Thread Mageuzi
Is there an update to the status of this issue? A user of my program reported a problem that ended up being this. While trying to iterate through: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/friends/oevl.xml Cursor 1274505087418535016 returned fine and contained a next_cursor value of 1267920196862230269.

[twitter-dev] Tweets with !, ', and other characters refused..

2009-12-22 Thread thetwitmaniac
Hi, I'm building a desktop twitter client and for some reason whenever I try to post a tweet with an exclamation mark or apostrophe, the tweet is rejected and I am presented with a request to provide login credential for the Twitter API. Has anyone run into this issue or have any idea why this

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweets with !, ', and other characters refused..

2009-12-22 Thread Abraham Williams
Make sure you are properly encoding the characters before you send them to Twitter. Abraham On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 23:49, thetwitmaniac alon.a.ta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm building a desktop twitter client and for some reason whenever I try to post a tweet with an exclamation mark or