Re: [twitter-dev] huge Fail Whale quotient suddenly

2010-02-16 Thread Tim Haines
Hey Raffi, It would probably be helpful for a lot of us if the status blog (or another secondary indicator) was more accurate in terms of being a problem/no problem indicator. Even if it didn't have an indication as to cause or expected time to resolve, just a little flag that said 'we acknowled

Re: [twitter-dev] huge Fail Whale quotient suddenly

2010-02-16 Thread Raffi Krikorian
yeah - by the time we got ready to put the post up, on this particular issue, we had solved the problem. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Never did get a post on status.twitter.com on this. > > Abraham > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 15:24, Raffi Krikor

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth connection and timestamp

2010-02-16 Thread Fauzil Hamdi
hi anton, thank you for your advice. that's very useful. and yes, i'm twitblack author :-) On 16 February 2010 23:53, Anton Krasovsky wrote: > Hi Fauzil, > > I guess you're the author of Twitblack? I'm another j2me developer > here, the author of PavoMe. Unfortunately I can't give you much advice

Re: [twitter-dev] huge Fail Whale quotient suddenly

2010-02-16 Thread Abraham Williams
Never did get a post on status.twitter.com on this. Abraham On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 15:24, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > we're aware of the issue and are working on it - i expect a post to > status.twitter.com in a bit. > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Yu-Shan Fung wrote: > >> We're seeing the

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Broken - Now Asking Users for PIN

2010-02-16 Thread mthistle
Hi DenVog, First, cool, you quoted my post at droolfactory. Raffi: Yes, the Twitter-OAuth-iPhone code from http://github.com/bengottlieb/Twitter-OAuth-iPhone is using page scraping and javascript to pull out the PIN. This is the code that DenVog is referencing from my post. The better way to do

[twitter-dev] Re: Using the mobile OAuth flow on the desktop for a better UX

2010-02-16 Thread Brian Ellin
Yes, and I experienced two different things: 1: It rendered the mobile OAuth flow, but then switched the browser into "mobile mode" for all of twitter.com. So, after signing in the user browses to her twitter homepage it is rendered in the mobile view. User had to click "View in Standard" at th

Re: [twitter-dev] Using the mobile OAuth flow on the desktop for a better UX

2010-02-16 Thread Raffi Krikorian
have you tried pointing at m.twitter.com? On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Brian Ellin wrote: > One technique that many sites use to authenticate users via an API > like Twitter is to open a new browser window and perform the auth > inside. The benefit of doing this is that the user isn't comple

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Search API Irregularity

2010-02-16 Thread Atul Kulkarni
If you are using just track predicate, then u should be fine. But in general gardenhose floods u depending on the time of the day and various other factors nearly a few thousand tweets per hour on an average or something similar. But again it depends what u r consuming. My numbers could certainly d

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Irregularity

2010-02-16 Thread TimeSnag
Are you able to tell me how many more? I know that current am getting about 28 tweets per second that contain 'rt' in them. I estimated from the twitter.com search, that there are about 40-50 per second, but that is assuming the twitter.com is not limited. Thanks

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Search API Irregularity

2010-02-16 Thread Atul Kulkarni
Something just to keep in mind. Try not to postpone integration into a higher access level stream for last b'coz you might have to process A LOT (I really mean it!) of tweets. Unless well done it could be over whelming for the application to integrate with elevated access level stream. On Tue, F

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread PJB
Might I suggest that since you now have email contact with Twitter, that you cease copying ALL of your correspondence with them to this group? On Feb 16, 1:53 pm, Jim Fulford wrote: > Brian, > I have made the requested changes to my application, but the support > ticket has been closed and is no

[twitter-dev] Re: Anyone using phirehose?

2010-02-16 Thread att...@gmail.com
We are several developpers using the recommended Phirehose library to catch tweets from the twitter streaming api. Surprisingly, we have all at the same time the same connection error. The last connection error occured today (feb 16) at 3.12PM GMT. (see details at http://groups.google.com/group/ph

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Irregularity

2010-02-16 Thread TimeSnag
Yes, I am receiving limit messages. I will send an email once my college project is near completion and ready to go live. Thanks for Twitter's Dev Team Help! - Will Mulligan Worcester Polytechnic Institute

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Ryan, I assume that Brian actually uses an application before he decides that the application is in violation. It will be very helpful and professional if he could be more specific in saying something like, "The feature that you call XYZ in your application is in violation of our rule ABC (the he

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Fulford
I'm assuming that it was the modules that sent tweets into the timeline. (based on the email) My auto_follow and un_follow is very tame compared to most. For example, Smart Follow show you who is following you that you are not following, but it lets you chose who you want to follow, and then only

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Fulford
Ryan, Yes jim_fulford is the account with the oauth_client. It appears that Twitter has turned GoTwitr back on, but I cannot access the oauth_client page frmo jim_fulford, it still shows suspended. On Feb 16, 5:58 pm, Ryan Sarver wrote: > Jim, > > It's part of the functionality of the tool, so i

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Ryan Sarver
Jim, It's part of the functionality of the tool, so it's not something that is prone to a human forgetting. Is the jim_fulford account the one that your OAuth tokens are associated with? Either way, a...@twitter.com is your best channel for follow up. Thanks, Ryan On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:06 P

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
How do you know it is not the follower acquisition nature of your application that caused the suspension? That URL that Brian linked to also has a section titled, Automated Following and Un-Following. On Feb 16, 6:11 pm, Jim Fulford wrote: > I turned off everything in my application that can sen

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Fulford
I turned off everything in my application that can send a tweet in an automated fashion. (Kind of like killing a fly with a sledgehammer) If I try to determine how many tweets can be sent per hour or per day, etc. I'll never get my site back on. And this feature is a new addition and and not the

Re: [twitter-dev] Add My Application In Twitter

2010-02-16 Thread shiplu
Just visit http://twitter.com/oauth Its all about twitter oauth applications :) -- Shiplu Mokaddim My talks, http://talk.cmyweb.net Follow me, http://twitter.com/shiplu SUST Programmers, http://groups.google.com/group/p2psust Innovation distinguishes bet ... ... (ask Steve Jobs the rest)

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Fulford
Ryan, can you check and see if #1 below is really happening. My twitter account is jim_fulford. It has my main email on it, and has never been changed. I did not get a warning or a suspension notice of any kind. Thanks Jim Fulford On Feb 16, 1:46 pm, Ryan Sarver wrote: > Sorry I am a little

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Jim, I am extremely intrigued to know how you figured out from that message exactly what you had to change in your application to come in compliance. On Feb 16, 5:37 pm, Jim Fulford wrote: > Well 5 days later, I finaly got a response from Twitter.  Posted > below. I'm going to spend the few minu

Re: [twitter-dev] Add My Application In Twitter

2010-02-16 Thread Chris Thomson
You can use http://twitter.com/oauth_clients to register a Twitter API application for use with OAuth. Is that what you're looking for? -- Chris Thomson On 2010-02-16, at 2:02 PM, 3rB3r wrote: > Hey Guys ... > Last Week I Found A URL For Add Application [ API ] In Twitter > WebSite , But Now I

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Fulford
Brian, I have made the requested changes to my application, but the support ticket has been closed and is no longer available. Who do I contac to request to have my application turned back on? I hope it won't take as long to check on this as it did for my first notice :) Also, I cannot get to oa

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Fulford
Brian,

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Fulford
Well 5 days later, I finaly got a response from Twitter. Posted below. I'm going to spend the few minutes required to make my app compliant and see if and when it gets turned back on. to be continued.'' On Feb 16, 3:49 pm, PJB wrote: truebe, Feb

Re: [twitter-dev] Global twitter profile image URL

2010-02-16 Thread Raffi Krikorian
probably more than a single day :P yes - we have thought about it... its low on our priority list right now, however. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Peter Kieltyka wrote: > Hey guys, > > I was wondering if twitter has any plans to offer a global URL to each > user's profile pic? This would b

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread PJB
Thanks very much for the reply... On Feb 16, 10:46 am, Ryan Sarver wrote: > Sorry I am a little late to the thread and there are a lot of topics here so > I'll do my best to cover them. > > 1. Email notices - we send out an email for warnings and for suspensions > every time to the email on reco

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Scott Wilcox
Perfectly put Ryan. On 16 Feb 2010, at 18:46, Ryan Sarver wrote: > Sorry I am a little late to the thread and there are a lot of topics here so > I'll do my best to cover them. > > 1. Email notices - we send out an email for warnings and for suspensions > every time to the email on record for

[twitter-dev] twitter application in flex

2010-02-16 Thread Geo Paul
hi I recently started learning flex and some sort of api programming. I found the twitter api for actionscript so simple so that I made an application and updated myself using it. I am thinking of adding some more features to it. Is there a way to make a TwitterUser instance with our userid?...(

[twitter-dev] Add My Application In Twitter

2010-02-16 Thread 3rB3r
Hey Guys ... Last Week I Found A URL For Add Application [ API ] In Twitter WebSite , But Now I Can't Find It And I Forgotted :( Anybody Can Help Me ? With Best Regards, @3rB3r

[twitter-dev] Twitter API and Home Presentation - My updates and those of those I follow.

2010-02-16 Thread Danny
As a web developer, I have been tasked with putting up a sidebar on our website that displays a running set of Tweets that I and those I follow have made. I would be happy with the latest 10 to 20 entries, with possibly a scroll bar for more. For now, I am looking at Javascript possibilities such

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth connection and timestamp

2010-02-16 Thread Anton Krasovsky
Hi Fauzil, I guess you're the author of Twitblack? I'm another j2me developer here, the author of PavoMe. Unfortunately I can't give you much advice on j2me OAuth as I do most of that stuff on the server side. Few suggestions however: 1. The clock: why don't you try to get the exact time at the c

[twitter-dev] Re: Anyone using phirehose?

2010-02-16 Thread GeorgeMedia
I dunno guys, I haven't had a problem at all after I figured out the bash issue and using nohup (thanks Jeffrey). I actually used the unedited example code the phirehose developer put out in the last update. It ran for 2 weeks solid with no issues. On Feb 12, 10:12 am, Atul Kulkarni wrote: > It

[twitter-dev] Global twitter profile image URL

2010-02-16 Thread Peter Kieltyka
Hey guys, I was wondering if twitter has any plans to offer a global URL to each user's profile pic? This would be very handy for third party apps built on top of Twitter. Grabbing the profile_image_url which links directly to the S3 URL, is susceptible to change and requires a lot of effort on th

[twitter-dev] Re: one-click follow

2010-02-16 Thread ImproperUsername
Apparently, that Classic ASP script does work. It seems that the Twitter account I was attempting to follow was one of those that holds followers pending until approved. Theoretically, you could have a link to the script and with ajax make it so people with Twitter accounts who are signed in could

[twitter-dev] Re: Change the username on a tweet

2010-02-16 Thread _Bensn
Why you don't use the username of the logged-in account? i think (i'm not sure) you can't change the username... if it is possible, you can fake messages, etc.! On 16 Feb., 10:52, Jayster wrote: > Hi > > I have currently got an application the sends tweets to twitter but I > need to change the tw

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Dale Merritt
Thanks for your response Ryan. Growing pains are painful, but communication is the soothing sav.. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Ryan Sarver wrote: > Sorry I am a little late to the thread and there are a lot of topics here > so I'll do my best to cover them. > > 1. Email notices - we send o

[twitter-dev] complete Retweet functionality in thirdparty apps

2010-02-16 Thread srikanth reddy
Hi Has anybody implemented complete Retweet functionality (retweets by others, by you, your retweets) in their app. There are couple of issues with retweets api see here http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/fb44e38e034cb9b7?pli=1 I would like to know if any

Re: [twitter-dev] Cannot view my OAuth client's details - over capacity messages

2010-02-16 Thread Ryan Sarver
Mike, It's a known issue right now (sorry) but I don't know when a fix is going out for it. Best, Ryan On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Mike Champion wrote: > Over the past several weeks, I have never been able to view the > details of 1 of my OAuth clients, when I go to: > > http://twitter.com

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth:a disaster for Chinese twitter users

2010-02-16 Thread Raffi Krikorian
understood, but, right now, not in the plan. web apps will have to use the standard oauth workflow. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Actually, this whole Chinese user issue affects web apps as well. > Because, with OAuth, any Chinese user (or any user whose company >

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth:a disaster for Chinese twitter users

2010-02-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Actually, this whole Chinese user issue affects web apps as well. Because, with OAuth, any Chinese user (or any user whose company blocks Twitter.com) cannot use the web app or add the Twitter account to a web app that uses OAuth. So, web apps should have the option of offering their users the xau

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth:a disaster for Chinese twitter users

2010-02-16 Thread Raffi Krikorian
> > But, for web apps you are still going to allow the one-time bulk > conversion of existing users with xauth, correct? > yes. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth:a disaster for Chinese twitter users

2010-02-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
> oauth. the caveat is that i stated that xauth will not be allowed for "web > applications", but i can think of a few creative ways around that. Raffi, I assume that would be as a general rule for day-to-day operations of web apps. But, for web apps you are still going to allow the one-time b

Re: [twitter-dev] Cannot view my OAuth client's details - over capacity messages

2010-02-16 Thread Abraham Williams
Sometimes you can go directly to the edit page: https://twitter.com/oauth_clients/edit/XX To open a ticket you can email a...@twitter.com Abraham On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:03, Mike Champion wrote: > Over the past several weeks, I have never been able to view the > details of 1 of my OAuth

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Ryan Sarver
Sorry I am a little late to the thread and there are a lot of topics here so I'll do my best to cover them. 1. Email notices - we send out an email for warnings and for suspensions every time to the email on record for the account that is being suspended. If the email isn't up to date or isn't val

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Nom nom nom, say the spammers. Add to that method a few proxies and/or IP addresses, or something as simple as giving your users a PHP proxy pass-thru script that they can upload to their servers, and there is no way that Twitter can even identify the offending app, let alone suspend/ban/blackhole

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread PJB
Presumably to do the OAuth vanity plate, you have to do what you described in your "disgruntled developer" post above. I.e., the user registers their own OAuth app and enters the corresponding values in your app, allowing you to masquerade as their app in tweets. Frankly, it seems to run counter

[twitter-dev] Cannot view my OAuth client's details - over capacity messages

2010-02-16 Thread Mike Champion
Over the past several weeks, I have never been able to view the details of 1 of my OAuth clients, when I go to: http://twitter.com/oauth_clients/details/XX I can view the details of my other apps, but this one has *consistently* given "Over Capacity" messages. I went to twitter.com/ help and

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I see what you mean. It will be great to know what is the Twitter approved way of providing vanity plates. It is obviously a feature that will rock, if we can get a level playing field by that rule being made public to all of us. On Feb 16, 11:04 am, PJB wrote: > Vanity plate OAuth is already pre

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Raffi Krikorian
its not an excuse - but this one is (right now) out of my control. i've forwarded this thread along to those "in the know". On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Ryan Alford wrote: > Is it even worst that Raffi has seen this thread and posted in it, and > still not a peep? You would think that he wo

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Yet Another Rate Limit Question

2010-02-16 Thread Abraham Williams
Authenticated requests count against the users rate limit not your site rate limit. On Feb 16, 2010 2:54 AM, "Paul" wrote: Great; thanks for the clarification. I guess the last confusion I have is regarding the authorization request itself. Is that counted as an api request? That is, if I get

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread PJB
Vanity plate OAuth is already pretty rampant. And apparently acceptable by Twitter, too? That's at least what the leading Desktop purveyor of such a system says... something along the lines of "officially authorized by Twitter". On Feb 15, 9:31 pm, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Scenario One: Pisse

Re: [twitter-dev] iPhone twitter streaming app

2010-02-16 Thread John Kalucki
Carl, Yes, this is the purpose of the streaming api. We'd rather have all clients on oAuth, but we're in transition, so this is fine for now. Also, for capacity planning issues, we do not want large-scale end-user clients to begin connecting to the Streaming API. Just be sure that you've implemen

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Fulford
Exactly, all they have to do is contact me, I'll turn off the Tweet scheduling module if that's causing them grief. It's about 1% of my sites functionaly, and not used by most people. I can alter the site per their request by commenting out a few lines of code. This could have been fixed in 10 m

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Yet Another Rate Limit Question

2010-02-16 Thread Scott Wilcox
No, they're not rate limited. On 16 Feb 2010, at 10:54, Paul wrote: > Great; thanks for the clarification. I guess the last confusion I > have is regarding the authorization request itself. Is that counted > as an api request? That is, if I get 400 users and hour, each posting > a single updat

[twitter-dev] Change the username on a tweet

2010-02-16 Thread Jayster
Hi I have currently got an application the sends tweets to twitter but I need to change the tweet from like "username: tweet" to "something else: tweet. Hope someone can help me asap. if you need further explanation please let me know I need this asap. So your response would be greatly appriciated

Re: [twitter-dev] iPhone twitter streaming app

2010-02-16 Thread Carl Knott
Thanks for your reply. I will make those changes. Currently, the user enters a search term, connects to the stream and displays the results in a graphical manor. If the user decides to search for something else, it disconnects the stream and reconnects searching for a new keyword. I decided to use

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Twitter

2010-02-16 Thread b...@mindbus.nl
Thank you for your quick reply. I found out I was indeed rate limited, allthough i cant imagine having done 150 requests testing my app only once. Thanks anyway. On 15 feb, 23:41, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can check if you are getting rate limited with this > method:http

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Ryan Alford
Is it even worst that Raffi has seen this thread and posted in it, and still not a peep? You would think that he would look into it and help out, or contact somebody that could look into it. It's seems like they just have their head in the sand. Ryan On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Jim Fulford

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Fulford
5 Days not and applicatin is still down and no response at all from Twitter on my Support Ticket. Beware of Oauth, Twitter can disable your site in a second with no notice. I have still not gotten any feedback, communication of any kind. The only nice thing about this process is that my users ha

[twitter-dev] Re: Yet Another Rate Limit Question

2010-02-16 Thread Paul
Great; thanks for the clarification. I guess the last confusion I have is regarding the authorization request itself. Is that counted as an api request? That is, if I get 400 users and hour, each posting a single update, but each one authenticating each time they do an update, does that impact o

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth:a disaster for Chinese twitter users

2010-02-16 Thread janole
Hi Raffi, I've sent an eMail to a...@twitter.com requesting permission to use xAuth in my S60 Twitter Client Gravity. Just curious if there's any ETA for granting access to xAuth and/or providing documentation. Many thanks in advance, Ole -- Jan Ole Suhr s...@mobileways.de On Twitter: http://twi