[twitter-dev] Re: Why does changing this one char invalidate this message

2010-03-23 Thread Oli
Thanks for persisting with this - it seems to work from OSX, so I can work from here. Thanks again. On Mar 22, 4:59 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: I tested this by 1) Replacing the basic auth header with my own 2) Opening a connection via telnet on OS X   telnet twitter.com 80

[twitter-dev] reducing traffic back from twitter

2010-03-23 Thread Oli
I'm posting to twitter using a battery powered GSM device over GPRS. The thing is, I'm trying to minimise the traffic being sent over the connection to use as little energy as possible. When posting a status update, I get a reasonable amount of data returned - 1-2K (although insignificant in

[twitter-dev] Re: 403 on duplicate post - when?

2010-03-23 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Mark, Here is what appears to happen. When you try and duplicate the newest tweet (N), you get the expected new behavior with a 403 and Status is a duplicate. When you try and duplicate tweet N-1, you get the old behavior with 200 OK and the details of tweet N. I have not tested tweet N-2,

[twitter-dev] Is it possible to get statuses since a date/time?

2010-03-23 Thread bigcheez
The api statuses/user_timeline.xml?since_id=12345 parameter is useless. I would like to get a user's statuses since a given date or time. Is this possible? To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words

[twitter-dev] can we authenticate user without redirecting to the twitter in rails app.

2010-03-23 Thread bhagi
can we avoid redirection to the twitter for the authentication of the user. i m using oauth library and ruby on rails as a platform. kindly give me is there any apis r there? To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email

[twitter-dev] Re: Almost real time

2010-03-23 Thread Alberty Pascal
Repeated automated searches should not be run against search.twitter.com So what would you recommend as search method to get potentially huge amount of tweets (note that I need AND and OR criterias) Thanks On Mar 23, 12:42 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Pick the lowest frequency term

Re: [twitter-dev] getting authenticated user's rate-limit-using rest API.

2010-03-23 Thread Rushikesh Bhanage
Hi there, Yes I got your point Sir and that's the problem automatic switching of user does not take place. Yes authentication is essential, but can I do that using rate_limit_status method(passing user name and password to method) for these two users or OAuth is the option, but it's not

[twitter-dev] nearby_places vs reverse_geocode?

2010-03-23 Thread Björn
Hello, just wondering what does nearby_places do that reverse_geocode doesn't do? API docs recommend it over reverse_geocode, but it isn't really clear why? It says it might adapt results according to the user, but without any more specific information, it seems like a shot in the dark to use it.

[twitter-dev] Follow #topics

2010-03-23 Thread sem evers
Dear reader, Is it possible to follow #topics, like how many tweets contain #twitter for example and who tweeted the tweet containing #twitter? Sorry for my english Kind Regards, Sem Evers To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or

[twitter-dev] Re: reducing traffic back from twitter

2010-03-23 Thread Andy
Have you tried requesting compressed data? On Mar 23, 10:37 am, Oli oliverst...@gmail.com wrote: I'm posting to twitter using a battery powered GSM device over GPRS. The thing is, I'm trying to minimise the traffic being sent over the connection to use as little energy as possible. When

[twitter-dev] Hi

2010-03-23 Thread sudha g
Hi, how to post a link on twitter in our site using javascript . ex: i will use this twitter button in our own page. then i click twitter button and then post our page to twitter profile using HTML and VB.Net Thanks! To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [twitter-dev] can we authenticate user without redirecting to the twitter in rails app.

2010-03-23 Thread Taylor Singletary
If you're building a web application, the OAuth flow involving the redirect to Twitter for user authentication is really you're only viable option at this time. There are some fascinating new integration points that Twitter will be launching soon ( http://blog.twitter.com/2010/03/anywhere.html ).

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Almost real time

2010-03-23 Thread John Kalucki
The Streaming API is designed for bulk operations. You can retrieve millions of tweets per day with the default access level, but you may need elevated access to meet your requirements. You will have to do the AND on your end. Contact a...@twitter.com to begin the process for elevated access.

[twitter-dev] Re: getting authenticated user's rate-limit-using rest API.

2010-03-23 Thread natefanaro
There is no way that Twitter's api is going to let you swap between two users (ie: here are two usernames that can auth, swap to the other when one runs out of hits) You will have to check the authenticating user's rate limit before each request. When that account hits 0, authenticate with the

Re: [twitter-dev] Hi

2010-03-23 Thread Rajiv Verma™
Try redirecting to www.twitter.com?status=hi On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:35 PM, sudha g sudha.go...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, how to post a link on twitter in our site using javascript . ex: i will use this twitter button in our own page. then i click twitter button and then post our page to

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: getting authenticated user's rate-limit-using rest API.

2010-03-23 Thread Taylor Singletary
Using multiple accounts to get around rate limiting is not really in the spirit of the Twitter API and I recommend you banish the idea from your mind. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:03 AM, natefanaro natefan...@gmail.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk User Relationship Lookup?

2010-03-23 Thread Orian Marx (@orian)
Thanks Abraham, don't worry I'm watching Intersect closely ;) Unfortunately, this doesn't currently address what I'm getting at, namely, if I use the bulk user lookup, I'd like to similarly get accurate friend / follower info for each of those users (relative to the user making the bulk lookup)

[twitter-dev] Re: Best Practice - Parsing the Location Field

2010-03-23 Thread bendell
Hi. Did you manage to solve your issue? I'm faced with the same thing. I need to find a reliable way to retrieve location information from a tweet (i.e. given that the vast majority of tweets do not include lon and lat values). What did you do in the end? Are you willing to share code? On Feb 18,

[twitter-dev] Is there support for the OAuth 2-legged model?

2010-03-23 Thread Grantcv1
Hi, I am building an app that will programmatically update my twitter status every hour or so. It will update my status from a server running without any interaction from me. From what I have learned, I should use OAuth rather than basic authentication. It seems that basic authentication is to

[twitter-dev] Question about xAuth.

2010-03-23 Thread IoriAYANE
I have trouble for xAuth. I applied by sending an email to a...@twitter.com. And I received the email of the following contents. received mail -- Thanks for your interest in XAuth. Your application now has the ability to use XAuth, and you can read the documentation here:

Re: [twitter-dev] Is there support for the OAuth 2-legged model?

2010-03-23 Thread Lil Peck
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Grantcv1 grant.vergott...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am building an app that will programmatically update my twitter status every hour or so. It will update my status from a server running without any interaction from me. From what I have learned, I should use

[twitter-dev] Is there a way to to make the streaming API track parameter be case sensitive?

2010-03-23 Thread Mad Euchre
It appears it not. I have track=PASS and I get back Passing lane, Forward Pass, Pass the food, etc. Thanks To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.

Re: [twitter-dev] Follow #topics

2010-03-23 Thread Mark McBride
The streaming API's filter endpoint may be what you're looking for http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#statuses/filter ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:27 AM, sem evers sem_...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear reader, Is it possible to follow #topics,

Re: [twitter-dev] Is there support for the OAuth 2-legged model?

2010-03-23 Thread Raffi Krikorian
we're literally working on 2-legged oauth for our public methods as i type this. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Lil Peck lilp...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Grantcv1 grant.vergott...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am building an app that will programmatically update my

[twitter-dev] Re: Almost real time

2010-03-23 Thread Alberty Pascal
Thanks ! On Mar 23, 2:34 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: The Streaming API is designed for bulk operations. You can retrieve millions of tweets per day with the default access level, but you may need elevated access to meet your requirements. You will have to do the AND on your end.

Re: [twitter-dev] Is there support for the OAuth 2-legged model?

2010-03-23 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi all, We don't yet support two-legged OAuth but see value in its use for actions requiring client application authorization but not necessarily user-based authentication. As Raffi notes, we're implementing it now. However, two-legged OAuth does not necessarily solve the issue you're looking to

Re: [twitter-dev] Is there a way to to make the streaming API track parameter be case sensitive?

2010-03-23 Thread Mark McBride
There is currently no way to make this case sensitive. You can always post-process on your end. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Mad Euchre mad.ukrain...@gmail.com wrote: It appears it not. I have track=PASS and I get back Passing lane, Forward Pass, Pass

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: 403 on duplicate post - when?

2010-03-23 Thread Mark McBride
Yes, that's a hole in the current logic. I'll work on getting the N-n case handled. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, Here is what appears to happen. When you try and duplicate the newest tweet (N), you get

[twitter-dev] Re: Is there support for the OAuth 2-legged model?

2010-03-23 Thread Grantcv1
So let me see if I get this right. If I mock up some code to get an access token after I have done the manual login thingy, I should then be able to use that access token from my server indefinitely - without fear of it expiring or going away for one reason or another. Is my understanding correct?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: getting authenticated user's rate-limit-using rest API.

2010-03-23 Thread Rushikesh Bhanage
Hi there, Thank you for your valuable guidance sir, Now I just have last two questions: 1. How to get particular authorised user's hits, what is the url to to get remaining hits for that user.. 2. Suppose I am having authorised a/c(which has 2 hits), then how to call

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is there support for the OAuth 2-legged model?

2010-03-23 Thread Taylor Singletary
Grant, You are correct. An access token's lifespan is until it is explicitly revoked by a user -- in this case, you. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Grantcv1 grant.vergott...@gmail.comwrote: So let me see if I get this

[twitter-dev] Re: Follow #topics

2010-03-23 Thread Jaanus
I built http://cremeapp.com to showcase what this (following a search term or any #hashtag) might be like in a mobile UI. Twitter.com and other apps support saved searches, but IMO they don't push it far enough. On Mar 23, 8:27 am, sem evers sem_...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear reader, Is it

[twitter-dev] xAuth approvals?

2010-03-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I'm still (somewhat ;-) patiently waiting for xAuth approval so I can work on an implementation in TTYtter. Any news on the timeline? Will these be done in time for Chirp so that we can pillory you guys with questions? ;-) -- personal:

Re: [twitter-dev] reducing traffic back from twitter

2010-03-23 Thread Harshad RJ
Assuming you have already tried HTTP compression, some more suggestions are: - Use a proxy server of your own that strips off the response from twitter to 'OK' / 'NOK' - Go all the way down to raw TCP / UDP in the proxy I have some experience here. If you need any help with it, feel

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Bulk User Relationship Lookup?

2010-03-23 Thread Abraham Williams
Bulk lookup of social graphs seems like it would be a pretty resource intensive call. I would not hold my breath for Twitter to implement it. Abraham On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:21, Orian Marx (@orian) or...@orianmarx.comwrote: Thanks Abraham, don't worry I'm watching Intersect closely ;)

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is there support for the OAuth 2-legged model?

2010-03-23 Thread Lil Peck
I have some really stupid questions, regarding xauth. (Sorry.) Looking at this article: http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2010/03/using-xauth-an-alternate-oauth-from-twitter/ Can xauth be used as the 2 legged model? The article says First off though, you need to send an email to a...@twitter.com and

[twitter-dev] Missing replies to followed user (streaming api)

2010-03-23 Thread briantroy
We seem to consistently miss replies to users using the streaming api. Our methodology: If one of our users specifies a twitter user name we both follow the user (using the folllow= predicate) and track on the user's username (using the track= predicate). Our assumption was that this would get

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is there support for the OAuth 2-legged model?

2010-03-23 Thread Taylor Singletary
You would use two-legged OAuth in conjunction with xAuth. For the requests your app makes that don't require a user, you'd use two-legged OAuth. The process for acquiring an accessToken in xAuth is itself almost a two-legged OAuth operation (just like the request token step). The way you

Re: [twitter-dev] Missing replies to followed user (streaming api)

2010-03-23 Thread Mark McBride
What track/follow paramaters were you using to get this? follow=briantroytrack=briantroy? ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:42 PM, briantroy brian.cosin...@gmail.com wrote: We seem to consistently miss replies to users using the streaming api. Our methodology:

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing replies to followed user (streaming api)

2010-03-23 Thread briantroy
Mark - Two separate threads (one user is restricted track, the other is shadow). Track user/thread is running track=briantroy (along with 230 something other terms). The Follow thread/user is follow=4246611 - which is my userid (along with 60 something other user id's). Both threads have

Re: [twitter-dev] Digest for twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com - 25 Messages in 12 Topics

2010-03-23 Thread Daryn Nakhuda
unsubscribe On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:44 PM, twitter-development-talk+nore...@googlegroups.com wrote:   Today's Topic Summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/topics Missing replies to followed user (streaming api) [3 Updates] Is there support for the OAuth

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Missing replies to followed user (streaming api)

2010-03-23 Thread John Kalucki
I couldn't trivially reproduce this. But, I'll say that I suspect that there may indeed be some sort of bug around tracking on screen names and not always getting all tweets. There might be some combination of text reply vs. explicit reply vs. protected vs. private vs. something that causes

[twitter-dev] RateLimit value look to be incorrect in 3G/Edge

2010-03-23 Thread Eric
Hi, (sorry for my English) I currently develop a little twitter client for my iPhone application, and i have a problem with the rate limit when i'm connected in 3G/ Edge. (no problem when connected in WIFI) This parameter look to be completly random ! For example, there are the returned values

[twitter-dev] URI encoding displayed in tweet

2010-03-23 Thread Penelope
I'm trying to post a Twitter update using Javascript - here's my code: xhr.open(POST, http://twitter.com/statuses/ update.json, true); xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Basic ' + b64unpw); xhr.setRequestHeader(Content-type, application/x-www-

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth approvals?

2010-03-23 Thread Brian Sutorius
Hey Cameron, Could you reply to me directly? I can help get you set up. Brian On Mar 23, 11:00 am, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I'm still (somewhat ;-) patiently waiting for xAuth approval so I can work on an implementation in TTYtter. Any news on the timeline? Will these be

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about xAuth.

2010-03-23 Thread Brian Sutorius
I just refreshed your application's xAuth access. Can you try again? You may reply to me directly if you're still having issues. Brian On Mar 23, 9:10 am, IoriAYANE iori.ay...@gmail.com wrote: I have trouble for xAuth. I applied by sending an email to a...@twitter.com. And I received the

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing replies to followed user (streaming api)

2010-03-23 Thread briantroy
John - We rarely get limit messages - and no, none have coincided with missing replies. Our last limit message was yesterday at: NOTICE: TRACK - NOTICE: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:52:28 -0400 Stream is limited The track user is justsignal - the follow user is justsignalshad I'll have to dig through

Re: [twitter-dev] new suggested users api

2010-03-23 Thread Abraham Williams
I would assume Twitter will return all users in a category for each request. I don't imagine they list ever getting so big that it would be unmanageable. Abraham On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 06:47, Quy quyten...@gmail.com wrote: How do I page through this API call? users/suggestions/category Do

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Question about xAuth.

2010-03-23 Thread John Meyer
On 3/23/2010 3:45 PM, Brian Sutorius wrote: I just refreshed your application's xAuth access. Can you try again? You may reply to me directly if you're still having issues. Brian While we're on the topic, Brian. I'm going to start implementing xAuth support into TwitterVB. To do that I'm

Re: [twitter-dev] Generating oauth_signature?

2010-03-23 Thread Abraham Williams
Feel free to send me an email about any issues you have with my library. Abraham On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:32, KPL kapil.sa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello guys, I want to know if there's any function in PHP with which one can generate oauth_signature directly without using a library? I have

[twitter-dev] Re: Generating oauth_signature?

2010-03-23 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Is this what you're looking for? http://php.net/manual/en/book.oauth.php On Mar 21, 3:32 pm, KPL kapil.sa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello guys, I want to know if there's any function in PHP with which one can generate oauth_signature directly without using a library? I have tried to use

[twitter-dev] Twitter on Mobile Phone

2010-03-23 Thread Mantodea
Hello all, I am currently working on a mobile website that will post updates to Twitter, using their API. I'm hoping to program this in Java code; PHP if it seems easier. I am having a bit of trouble trying to figure out the best way to do this, but I have a few basic questions that

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: 403 on duplicate post - when?

2010-03-23 Thread Tim Haines
Learnt something here. I knew you couldn't post the same tweet twice in a row. But Twitter is also blocking you from repeating a tweet you posted earlier in the day? So you can't Tweet: A B AThis one won't go through? If this is the case, how far back does it check for duplicates? Guy

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about xAuth.

2010-03-23 Thread IoriAYANE
Dear Brian A problem was settled. Thank you very much. IoriAYANE On 3月24日, 午前7:45, Brian Sutorius bsutor...@twitter.com wrote: I just refreshed your application's xAuth access. Can you try again? You may reply to me directly if you're still having issues. Brian On Mar 23, 9:10 am,

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing replies to followed user (streaming api)

2010-03-23 Thread briantroy
John - Here is a good example: These two tweets came in 2 minutes apart from 2 different 3rd party clients. We got one and not the other: http://bit.ly/cG9emM (Got this one) http://bit.ly/aFvimS (Not this one) No limit messages, re-connects or anything at all unusual about the stream activity

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: 403 on duplicate post - when?

2010-03-23 Thread Mark McBride
Several tweets back, with a several hour cool down. So you could tweet A, B, A, providing they're several hours a part. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Learnt something here. I knew you couldn't post the same tweet