[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API question

2010-02-19 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Feb 19, 2:55 pm, John Kalucki wrote: > This shouldn't be happening, and having developers build these sorts of > workarounds saddens me. > > It is possible that the server side is holding dead connections open, but I > doubt it -- as I've a considerable amount of data to the contrary. I suspe

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API question

2010-02-19 Thread Atul Kulkarni
I have had it get stuck with 'track' after around 16-20 hours. I am going to try and reproduce it and then post details. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 2:38 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > > On Feb 19, 7:36 am, rob wrote: > > Has anyone else ran into an issue where over time the Streaming API > >

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API question

2010-02-19 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Feb 19, 7:36 am, rob wrote: > Has anyone else ran into an issue where over time the Streaming API > just stops sending results? > > We are using a Ruby library to connect (twitter-stream) which uses > EventMachine to open a persistent connection to the API (we are > tracking and following). >

[twitter-dev] Re: What tools do you use?

2010-02-19 Thread Joe Mayo
LINQ to Twitter - http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com/ On Jan 30, 12:55 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lets collect an awesome list of tools and applications we use to help > develop with the Twitter API.

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-02-19 Thread Joe Mayo
Joe Mayo here. Author, Consultant, and 3rd Party Twitter Library developer. While writing my most recent book, LINQ Programming/McGraw- Hill, I wanted to show readers how to create a LINQ provider. Therefore, I created an open source .NET LINQ provider for Twitter and posted it at http://linqtotwit

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-02-19 Thread funkatron
Hey Fellers! I'm Ed Finkler. I make stuff with JavaScript and PHP and related junk, and think about security from time to time. I've built stuff like this: * Spaz, a microblogging client that's older than you. Desktop and webOS http://getspaz.com * SpazCore, a component library for JavaScript

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-02-19 Thread Jugiter Viglio
I'm Jugiter Viglio and I am involved in intelligence collection on Twitter. I'd like to see more links to tools that permit the tracking of long terms trends, groups of accounts, keywords, and the like. These should be downloadable applications for an open source operating system. There are in

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API question

2010-02-19 Thread John Kalucki
This shouldn't be happening, and having developers build these sorts of workarounds saddens me. It is possible that the server side is holding dead connections open, but I doubt it -- as I've a considerable amount of data to the contrary. I suspect that the socket code does not detect a close, dri

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-02-19 Thread Richard
Hi I'm Richard Cunningham. PHP/MySQL coder, Linux Sys. admin and creator of http://friendbinder.com a site to bring all your friends into one place, currently supporting Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, RSS and others. I've been working with the Twitter API since 2008. Richard Cunningham http://tw

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts

2010-02-19 Thread Scott Wilcox
There isn't one. On 19 Feb 2010, at 21:56, Abigail Fabien wrote: > Do you know of any mechanism for creating those accounts? > > On Feb 19, 3:42 pm, Andrew Badera wrote: >> There are certainly valid use cases for automatic account creation, >> but I have yet to see a valid mechanism for prevent

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts

2010-02-19 Thread Abraham Williams
Twitter does have an API for account creation but as far as I know only Citysearch has access to it: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_rolls_out_new_api_citysearch_first_to_impl.php On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 13:56, Abigail Fabien wrote: > Do you know of any mechanism for creating those

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Badera
Other than screen scraping and email harvesting? Nope, sorry. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Abigail Fabien wrote: > Do you know o

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts

2010-02-19 Thread Abigail Fabien
Do you know of any mechanism for creating those accounts? On Feb 19, 3:42 pm, Andrew Badera wrote: > There are certainly valid use cases for automatic account creation, > but I have yet to see a valid mechanism for preventing spam using same > creation method. > > ∞ Andy Badera > ∞ +1 518-641-128

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts

2010-02-19 Thread Abigail Fabien
Intresting. But that adds one step to my process. On Feb 19, 3:43 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 13:20, Abigail Fabien wrote: > > Hello All, > > > I'm in the process of creating an extension of my system. I want to

Re: [twitter-dev] Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts

2010-02-19 Thread Abraham Williams
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 13:20, Abigail Fabien wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm in the process of creating an extension of my system. I want to be > able to create twitter accounts for my clients so that I could keep > them up to date. > > Does anyone know of any ap

Re: [twitter-dev] Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Badera
There are certainly valid use cases for automatic account creation, but I have yet to see a valid mechanism for preventing spam using same creation method. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/searc

Re: [twitter-dev] Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts

2010-02-19 Thread neal rauhauser
This is not only not something that can be done automatically, but even if you have a legitimate need, say brand protection for a large operation, you can still get blocked from registering accounts if you have too many. I think we got to around a hundred and then got the door slammed on our fin

Re: [twitter-dev] Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts

2010-02-19 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> Does anyone know of any api or if at all twitter allows for the bulk > or automated creation of twitter accounts? No. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Birth, n.: T

[twitter-dev] Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts

2010-02-19 Thread Abigail Fabien
Hello All, I'm in the process of creating an extension of my system. I want to be able to create twitter accounts for my clients so that I could keep them up to date. Does anyone know of any api or if at all twitter allows for the bulk or automated creation of twitter accounts? Thank you

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: banned from search?

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Badera
but it DOES offer commercial licensing ... still informal, but formalizing as we speak ... --ab On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Dean Collins wrote: > Great yet again the fact that twitter is a free service and doesn't offer > commercial licenses bites us in the ass. > > Ticket filed. > > > >

RE: [twitter-dev] Re: banned from search?

2010-02-19 Thread Dean Collins
Great yet again the fact that twitter is a free service and doesn't offer commercial licenses bites us in the ass. Ticket filed. Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of B

Re: [twitter-dev] Introduce yourself!

2010-02-19 Thread Lil Peck
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do > you most want to see added? > For a long time, I didn't 'get' Twitter. Then I thought of having the classified ads on my site send an update

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-02-19 Thread Abraham Williams
Oops. I borked my links. We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well. I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group since early 2

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-02-19 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Ed Borasky - freelance developer for lots of stuff besides Twitter, but I spend most of my time these days doing Twitter. Main languages are Perl (Net::Twitter is my friend!) and R, with Ruby sometimes when I need to write code other people can read. ;-) Main areas of interest - natural language pr

Re: [twitter-dev] Introduce yourself!

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Badera
This almost feels Google Buzz API inspired :P Andy Badera. Jackass tech consultant, .NET geek extraordinaire and CTO. Take your pick on the priority of those three. Been working with the Twitter API since November or December 2007. I wrote the first .NET client posting simultaneously to both Pownc

[twitter-dev] Re: banned from search?

2010-02-19 Thread Brian Sutorius
The official help page relating to this is here: http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713-troubleshooting/entries/42646-i-can-t-find-my-tweets-in-twitter-search If you believe your account has been removed from search for one of the reasons mentioned and would like it put back, file a ticket (while log

[twitter-dev] Introduce yourself!

2010-02-19 Thread Abraham Williams
We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well. I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance

Re: [twitter-dev] home_timeline problems with count and page/pagination

2010-02-19 Thread Julio Biason
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Chris Bailey wrote: > 1) I don't always get 100 tweets back, even though I specified 100 for > the count. For what I got, Twitter first retrieve the tweets from the cache and then tests if some of those were removed. In your case, 2 tweets were deleted and, thus,

[twitter-dev] home_timeline problems with count and page/pagination

2010-02-19 Thread Chris Bailey
I probably am simply misunderstanding something, but I'm getting what I think are odd results in calls to home_timeline when using the count and page parameters. For example, if I set the count to be 100, and then simply start with page 1, then fetch successive pages I run into two issues: 1) I d

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API question

2010-02-19 Thread Dima Brodsky
Hi, Yup, I saw it the last couple of weeks, this week has been considerably better. I use the delimited stream so I do read(entry size), read(entry), repeat ... I just put a 30 second timeout on the read operation (this is all in python) and if a read fails I close the stream and reconne

[twitter-dev] Re: The XML for user settings would be helpful

2010-02-19 Thread alexro
Dmitri, I believe such request still counts against your usage limit. Just to remember to stay within the boundaries :) On Feb 18, 10:15 pm, Dmitri Snytkine wrote: > Sorry to bother you, but I found out that this feature is already > available > Turns out I can easily get user's  profile as jso

Re: [twitter-dev] banned from search?

2010-02-19 Thread TJ Luoma
This has been a problem for months. Some people just don't have their tweets show up in search, ever. I reported one of these for a friend via getsatisfaction months ago. No change. On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Dean Collins wrote: I just came across this article recently http://shegeeks.net/

[twitter-dev] banned from search?

2010-02-19 Thread Dean Collins
I just came across this article recently http://shegeeks.net/5-tips-to-avoid-being-filtered-from-twitter-search/ And read with interest this comment "Did you know that Twitter is beginning to filter out tweets from Twitter Search ?" The arti

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API question

2010-02-19 Thread Atul Kulkarni
Me too! Exact same case. I am using tweepy. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:36 AM, rob wrote: > Has anyone else ran into an issue where over time the Streaming API > just stops sending results? > > We are using a Ruby library to connect (twitter-stream) which uses > EventMachine to open a persistent

[twitter-dev] Streaming API question

2010-02-19 Thread rob
Has anyone else ran into an issue where over time the Streaming API just stops sending results? We are using a Ruby library to connect (twitter-stream) which uses EventMachine to open a persistent connection to the API (we are tracking and following). The library properly handles reconnection (fr

[twitter-dev] oauth/authenticate language options

2010-02-19 Thread jdangerslater
I've got OAuth implemented for all my service calls in an AIR app I'm building and everything seems to be working fine with one exception. When I request the authenticate page, for some reason the page that loads, loads in french on PCs. On Macs it loads just fine in the system's default language.

[twitter-dev] Re: Fail on Capture the Access Token in JS

2010-02-19 Thread Fernando Jorge
Hello Andrew. I decided to use the JS OAuth-In-JavaScript (http://code.google.com/p/ oauth-in-javascript/downloads/list), because it has already been made to allow the use of OAuth in Firefox extensions . Signature is generated in the critpografia HMAC-SHA1 and encrypted with the standard RFC.Clar

[twitter-dev] Twitter API OAuth Response Problem

2010-02-19 Thread tolga.arican
I can not get response from Twitter to get authentication token. My hosting is mediatemple, and i'm using EpiOauth library. Btw, I'm getting the token on localhost.. Here is the link to testing page: http://twitteralem.com/twittertest.php Any helps will appreciated.. Thanks guys, Tolga

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How long am I considered a "new" member?

2010-02-19 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> > How long will I have to be a member before my posts stop having to be > > moderated? > > Google maintains this number internally. ISTR it's somewhere in the ballpark > of 20-30 approved posts. Sorry, that was supposed to be a private reply -- I entered the wrong address by mistake. -- -

Re: [twitter-dev] complete Retweet functionality in thirdparty apps

2010-02-19 Thread srikanth reddy
@Abraham One thing you cant do with the API is Preventing users from retweeting their friends retweet which has already been retweeted by the user .To check this Go to "Retweets By Others" tab just retweet a friend's retweet and refresh your tabs. In web interface that tweet will appear in both "Re

Re: [twitter-dev] Fail on Capture the Access Token in JS

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Badera
A 401 often indicates a poorly-formed signature. I would take the output of your JavaScript request and compare it visually with the output of a good reference implementation, like Abraham's lib. Sometimes it's hard to predict exactly what your output will look like when trying to port across platf