[twitter-dev] OAuth image upload: how does Twitter want to see multi-part post OAuth parts?

2010-01-11 Thread Andrew Arnott
Can anyone from Twitter, or someone who's successfully done it with a consumer library, please lay out the exact format of the HTTP request Twitter expects for an OAuth-signed image upload? By my reading the OAuth spec allows several possibilities, assuming multi-part POST: 1. Only the the

[twitter-dev] Re: A New API For Browserless Apps?

2010-01-11 Thread SM
I agree with Isaiah. This is a huge improvement over the current PIN workflow. When will this roll out? Is there an authorization endpoint we can use now for testing purposes? That would be great. On Dec 10 2009, 8:58 am, Isaiah supp...@yourhead.com wrote: This seems like a dramatic improvement

[twitter-dev] Invalid HTTP response when 500 status repsonses are sent from Twitter

2010-01-11 Thread Andrew Arnott
Twitter sends this in response to an OAuth message it deems unworthy. Note that *all* that I copied below is part of the response *body*. The first two lines *look* like they belong in the response headers. But in fact they are not (two preceding \r\n before the start). And the response is a

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Tokenizing Process

2010-01-11 Thread ANDREY BOYKOV
2010/1/10 Damon C d.lifehac...@gmail.com OK, so it looks like I misunderstood the docs, as it relates to the punctuation. I understood this: Terms are exact-matched, and also exact-matched ignoring punctuation. to mean that if I provide a keyword with punctuation, the punctuation will be

[twitter-dev] Adding lists als filter in Twitter Search?

2010-01-11 Thread Marcel
Anyone aware of plans by Twitter give us an additional filter in Search based on lists? I would very much like the option to search only for a certain #tag in the tweets of a designated group without all the programming involved now. Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth image upload: how does Twitter want to see multi-part post OAuth parts?

2010-01-11 Thread Andrew Arnott
Still trying to post images to Twitter using OAuth unsuccessfully. Can someone please help? My latest attempt is inline with what I can gather from other people who claim to do it successfully: put ALL parameters in the multipart entity and have a very simple OAuth signature base string:. The

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Tokenizing Process

2010-01-11 Thread Damon C
That'd definitely be appreciated. This is where I ended up today (from a ruby perspective) and it seems to be getting the job done. def tokenize(tweet) tokens = tweet[text].split(/\s+/).map{|w| w.downcase} tokens |= tokens.map{|x| x.gsub(/[^\w]+/, ).strip.split(/\s +/)}.flatten end On Jan

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

2010-01-11 Thread Rich
Hi Raffi For me there are two very important changes that need to be made to the oAuth login page 1) The DENY button is currently default, which means if you hit the return button on the iPhone keyboard is uses DENY instead of ALLOW. Please change the default button! 2) Please have a mobile

[twitter-dev] Re: background url showing via api, but not on profile

2010-01-11 Thread Kyle Mulka
bump On Jan 1, 2:24 pm, Kyle Mulka repalvigla...@yahoo.com wrote: The profile background image URL of this user shows up in the API, but it doesn't show up on their profile page. What’s happening? profile page:http://twitter.com/dirk100

Re: [twitter-dev] When does the rate limit increase for oAuth apps go into effect?

2010-01-11 Thread Harshad RJ
Oh yes. Just noticed that in the response headers. Thanks! Though calling rate_limit_status on both twitter.com and api.twitter.com/1returns the 150 per hour values. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:11 PM, srikanth reddy srikanth.yara...@gmail.com wrote: I am already seeing some change(not 10x

[twitter-dev] Looking for assistance: custom search widget (search hashtag within list tweets)

2010-01-11 Thread Marcel
Dear all out here, For a local online social network (volunteer project) I would very much like to present our users with selected local tweets. What I would like to do is this: + present a widget on our main page (much like Twitter's own widget: http://twitter.com/goodies/widget_search) +

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: background url showing via api, but not on profile

2010-01-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
thanks for bumping :P there is a fix in the pipeline for this issue -- we're just waiting on getting it deployed out. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Kyle Mulka repalvigla...@yahoo.com wrote: bump On Jan 1, 2:24 pm, Kyle Mulka repalvigla...@yahoo.com wrote: The profile background image

[twitter-dev] Display latest tweets from multiple Twitterers?

2010-01-11 Thread CG
Hi, Using the code found here: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/php/get-latest-twitter-status/ I can display the latest tweet for a single twitter user. My question is this: is it possible to get the latest tweet from multiple users this way or a similar method? My plan is to have users submit

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best way to pull/cache location based search results?

2010-01-11 Thread Ed Costello
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:09 AM, GeorgeMedia georgeme...@gmail.com wrote: Is what you are suggesting to basically consume the entire firehose as it comes in and look for geo parameters/locations in real time? My Yes, that’s what I’m suggesting. The current API features constraints won’t

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

2010-01-11 Thread Mageuzi
As far as I can tell, there has been no progress on this. There is a bug open for the issue, if you would like to follow it: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1264 On Jan 9, 8:30 am, bear bea...@gmail.com wrote: I am now seeing this on some of my own accounts - has any

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best way to pull/cache location based search results?

2010-01-11 Thread John Kalucki
Repeated automated queries to search isn't a complete strategy, as search does not provide full corpus search and the rate limits are fairly low. Trending can usually be done on Spritzer or the Gardenhose. I'd grab Spritzer and see what you can determine by examining the Location field and the

Re: [twitter-dev] Display latest tweets from multiple Twitterers?

2010-01-11 Thread John Kalucki
Consider the follow parameter on the Streaming API after an initial REST call to obtain some historical backfill. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:11 AM, CG tusasupp...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Using the code found here:

[twitter-dev] When will delete list members and delete list be fixed?

2010-01-11 Thread Orian Marx (@orian)
There has been an accepted defect in the issue tracker which really should be a high priority and there has been no word of any status on a fix. The defect is that any developers who cannot use a DELETE request were supposed to be able to make a POST request with a _method=DELETE param, but that

Re: [twitter-dev] Download avatar 2009 for free

2010-01-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Hmm, looks like someone is joe-jobbing me now. Sorry about that, I'm cleaning up. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.

Re: [twitter-dev] Download avatar 2009 for free

2010-01-11 Thread John Meyer
On 1/11/2010 10:28 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Hmm, looks like someone is joe-jobbing me now. Sorry about that, I'm cleaning up. I would suggest that whoever is running this group put all new members on moderated (or even all on moderated) because a nasty spambot is running around

Re: [twitter-dev] Download avatar 2009 for free

2010-01-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I would suggest that whoever is running this group put all new members on moderated (or even all on moderated) because a nasty spambot is running around currently. I've also seen porn spam sent about Angelina Jolie lately. All new members are automatically moderated, which is why posts

Re: [twitter-dev] Download avatar 2009 for free

2010-01-11 Thread John Meyer
On 1/11/2010 10:40 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: I would suggest that whoever is running this group put all new members on moderated (or even all on moderated) because a nasty spambot is running around currently. I've also seen porn spam sent about Angelina Jolie lately. All new members are

Re: [twitter-dev] Download avatar 2009 for free

2010-01-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I would suggest that whoever is running this group put all new members on moderated (or even all on moderated) because a nasty spambot is running around currently. I've also seen porn spam sent about Angelina Jolie lately. All new members are automatically moderated, which is why

Re: [twitter-dev] Download avatar 2009 for free

2010-01-11 Thread Andrew Badera
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:43 PM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/11/2010 10:40 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: I would suggest that whoever is running this group put all new members on moderated (or even all on moderated) because a nasty spambot is running around currently. I've also

Re: [twitter-dev] Download avatar 2009 for free

2010-01-11 Thread Andrew Badera
Cameron, Google groups does respect SPF records, so if you tighten that down in your DNS setup, you can avoid this crap ... --ab On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I would suggest that whoever is running this group put all new members on

Re: [twitter-dev] Download avatar 2009 for free

2010-01-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Google groups does respect SPF records, so if you tighten that down in your DNS setup, you can avoid this crap ... Yup. See headers now. :) -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com *

Re: [twitter-dev] Download avatar 2009 for free

2010-01-11 Thread John Meyer
My mistake then. appy-pollo-gees On 1/11/2010 10:47 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:43 PM, John Meyerjohn.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/11/2010 10:40 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: I would suggest that whoever is running this group put all new members on moderated

[twitter-dev] Migration to streaming?

2010-01-11 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I just saw the announcement on Twitter-API-Announce about migrating to streaming. I'm curious about a couple of things: 1. If your application polls for keywords, mentions, is whitelisted on the Search API, or makes more than perhaps 10 queries per minute, you should begin your migration to

Re: [twitter-dev] Migration to streaming?

2010-01-11 Thread John Kalucki
We're not ready to fully support desktop clients on the Streaming API. Connection counts, permissions issues to protected statuses, OAuth, etc, still need to be addressed. At the moment, we're trying to move services over where possible. Desktop client experimentation is fine, but full support for

[twitter-dev] Re: Best way to pull/cache location based search results?

2010-01-11 Thread GeorgeMedia
Thank you everyone. To quote an internet meme, you're doing it wrong seems to be the consensus here. Your comments have shed light on the dark areas for me. So if I may bounce this off you to see if you've successfully pointed me in the right direction, a new and better approach would be to: 1)

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best way to pull/cache location based search results?

2010-01-11 Thread John Kalucki
You should continuously consume Streaming API feeds and store the results. Then, periodically run your algorithms over the stored set as required. Trending will require examining more data than every 30 seconds, especially if you are slicing by geo. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:51 AM, GeorgeMedia

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth image upload: how does Twitter want to see multi-part post OAuth parts?

2010-01-11 Thread Yusuke
If you are familiar with Java, try Twitter4J. The latest snapshot supports image upload with OAuth. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter4j/browse_thread/thread/d548993dd3a4fc84 On 1月11日, 午前11:37, Andrew Arnott andrewarn...@gmail.com wrote: Still trying to post images to Twitter using OAuth

[twitter-dev] Re: Migration to streaming?

2010-01-11 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Jan 11, 11:50 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: We're not ready to fully support desktop clients on the Streaming API. Connection counts, permissions issues to protected statuses, OAuth, etc, still need to be addressed. At the moment, we're trying to move services over where

[twitter-dev] Re: Best way to pull/cache location based search results?

2010-01-11 Thread GeorgeMedia
I understand there's a limitation on who is allowed to consume the firehose/gardenhose? I know my app, IPs, and username are whitelisted for the REST API but I am assuming getting access to the gardenhose requires that I contact someone at Twitter? Or has that changed since it is no longer in

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

2010-01-11 Thread siggy
Hi Raffi, I concur with the above suggestions by Fabien and Rich. Our iPhone app, heypic.me, displays the OAuth login page in a webview. Upon launching the login page, we only see about 20% of our users get all the way through the Twitter login process. This is not a bug, we've checked, but

[twitter-dev] Re: issues with retweets and API

2010-01-11 Thread Kristin
But if I retweet a tweet on the first page, call home_timeline, it doesn't contain the retweet (only visible under retweeted_by_me). Same occurrance happens on twitter.com but twitter.com knows that i've retweeted (the difference between the API and twitter). +1 this is very aggravating... On

[twitter-dev] Is this application breaking Twitter API standards?

2010-01-11 Thread Colin
I've discovered an online application - I won't mention the name - but it seems to break Twitter API. I'm wondering how they get away with it. Here's what the application does. It allows the user to enter a number of keyword phrases to monitor with. Every time a phrase is mentioned e.g. twitter

[twitter-dev] Reinstate 'from app' for Basic Auth desktop apps until OAuth is fixed

2010-01-11 Thread SM
I'd like for Twitter to reinstate granting 'from app' links for desktop apps that use Basic Auth. As it stands, developers who have relatively new desktop apps are penalized by having updates from their app say 'from web'. Older Basic Auth desktop clients continue to enjoy a link back to the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best way to pull/cache location based search results?

2010-01-11 Thread John Kalucki
You can apply for Gardenhose access at api at twitter dot com. We're currently not giving out Firehose access. Watch for further announcements about increased access levels. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:46 PM, GeorgeMedia

[twitter-dev] Support from a...@twitter.com sucks!!!

2010-01-11 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I sent very specific questions to a...@twitter.com, not knowing that it is now being automatically fed into the Zendesk Twitter helpdesk system. The answer I received back consisted of: - I suggest that you check out the API wiki for this information:

Re: [twitter-dev] Support from a...@twitter.com sucks!!!

2010-01-11 Thread Angel Robert Marquez
i'm sure someone is comparing our request with our last book purchase on amazon and designing us a new pair of jeans. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Angel Robert Marquez angel.marq...@gmail.com wrote: ha, i got the same one, probably totally different detailed question. it felt like a kind

Re: [twitter-dev] Support from a...@twitter.com sucks!!!

2010-01-11 Thread Adi
Have you tried posting the question here? To be fair the number of devs using twitter API is so huge, it will be impossible for them to answer individual requests. Adi www.appliedeye.com On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: I sent very specific questions

Re: [twitter-dev] Support from a...@twitter.com sucks!!!

2010-01-11 Thread Angel Robert Marquez
i think, i asked something less complicated and got radio silence. funny, what people respond to. i forget what it was actually, i think i wanted to know how to or if i could use oauth on a site and retrieve the geo info of the user id. signup and automatically plot their waypoint. i figured as

[twitter-dev] Application Definitions on the Twitter homepage

2010-01-11 Thread Kevin Chu
I apologize in advance is this isn't the right venue for asking this question, but how to developers get their applications posted on Twitter homepages? For instance, I see the following in the upper right hand corner below my profile information: Klout n. a fun way to analyze the social web.

Re: [twitter-dev] Support from a...@twitter.com sucks!!!

2010-01-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Have you tried posting the question here? I'm sure Dewald has thought of that. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- If there was a hole, I would jump into it. -- Gackt

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth image upload: how does Twitter want to see multi-part post OAuth parts?

2010-01-11 Thread Vikram
Yusuke, Can you please share with us the raw text of your request? I am not familiar with Java. I am working with C++(.NET)

Re: [twitter-dev] Support from a...@twitter.com sucks!!!

2010-01-11 Thread Angel Robert Marquez
typical On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote: Have you tried posting the question here? I'm sure Dewald has thought of that. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter app marked inactive?

2010-01-11 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Well, it seems three of my applications have been inactivated. I checked through the four rule sets and I don't think I'm violating any of them, at least not deliberately. I am doing a fair amount of testing, so I do get rate limited from time to time, especially when testing the rate limiting

[twitter-dev] Re: Support from a...@twitter.com sucks!!!

2010-01-11 Thread Dewald Pretorius
If this is the level of support we can now expect from the Platform Team, we can just as well devour our stash of refrigerated salami sandwiches in one sitting and start coding for MySpace, LinkedIn and Jaiku instead. I am still marginally hopeful that this was just a major beaurocratic fuckup.

[twitter-dev] Re: Support from a...@twitter.com sucks!!!

2010-01-11 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Some support requests contain confidential information that cannot be asked in a public forum like this. On Jan 12, 1:42 am, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Have you tried posting the question here? I'm sure Dewald has thought of that. --

[twitter-dev] Re: Support from a...@twitter.com sucks!!!

2010-01-11 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I've found Twitter's support of freelance developers to be *way* above average. Compared to Apple, Microsoft, or even Google, Twitter is a joy to work with. There's a sense of community here that I rarely see outside of pure open source projects like PostgreSQL, Perl, Ruby and Linux.

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

2010-01-11 Thread Brian Smith
1. The page needs to display correctly (laid out nicely, with the entire form above the fold) on a 2.4 QVGA (240x320 and 320x240) screen when images, Javascript, and flash are all disabled. 2. Replace the manual PIN entry requirement with something else. The OAuth 1.0a designers

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

2010-01-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
2. Replace the manual PIN entry requirement with something else. The OAuth 1.0a designers greatly under-estimated the poor usability of manual PIN entry, especially on mobile devices. One suggestion off the top of my head: allow OAuth 1.0 (in addition to OAuth 1.0*a*) if--and only

[twitter-dev] Re: Support from a...@twitter.com sucks!!!

2010-01-11 Thread Dewald Pretorius
It is a big misnomer to label everyone as developers let alone as freelance. A good number of us actually run very serious businesses with substantial revenues. On Jan 12, 2:21 am, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.com wrote: I've found Twitter's support of freelance developers to be *way*

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

2010-01-11 Thread Brian Smith
You do support TLS session resumption already though. Session resumption is where one HTTPS connection reuses the same handshake as a previous HTTPS connection. % openssl s_client -connect api.twitter.com:443 --reconnect . Reused, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA . Session-ID:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth image upload: how does Twitter want to see multi-part post OAuth parts?

2010-01-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
i suggest taking a look at http://hueniverse.com/2008/10/beginners-guide-to-oauth-part-iv-signing-requests/ as it has a pretty good walk through of how to construct the parameters. one point of note is that when the Content-Type of the request is -not- application/x-www-form-urlencoded, then

[twitter-dev] Re: Reinstate 'from app' for Basic Auth desktop apps until OAuth is fixed

2010-01-11 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I'm doing desktop apps and I think the PIN workflow is just fine as is. If there are security reasons why something else is needed, I can see changing it. But it's no big deal for me to fire up a browser, push the allow button, double-click on a PIN, and then CTL-C / CTL- SHIFT-V into a Konsole

[twitter-dev] Twitter Search - the page you were looking for doesn't exist

2010-01-11 Thread Mack D. Male
Twitter Search has been very problematic today, mainly for searches using operators. For instance, this search currently returns an error message: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=near%3Aedmonton The page you were looking for doesn't exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Support from a...@twitter.com sucks!!!

2010-01-11 Thread Angel Robert Marquez
I like the community too, that is why when I received my canned ticket response I shrugged it off. : It is a big misnomer to label everyone as developers let alone as freelance. A good number of us actually run very serious businesses with substantial revenues. Either way, support is support