I don't think this has happened to me, but a number of my friends and
some well-known Twitter people have reported that Twitter is
unfollowing people from their accounts on its own, apparently in some
random fashion. I don't have any more detail than that, or I'd file an
issue. But I've hea
On 10-08-13 08:35 PM, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
Hello,
I'm not having success with the following code, I get a "Sorry, page
doesn't exist!" webpage. I am using the OAuth v0.4.1 gem. Your help
and guidance is very appreciated, thanks!
If I type the following out in IRB, it seems to work, but of
Clay,
I've been waiting for it too! Hopefully they don't back out of the promise.
Regards,
Brad Bosley
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Clay Graham wrote:
> Ed,
>
> Thanks for the advice. I have emailed Tim directly, no reply. Will
> keep trying. Can I be the only one who is hungry for this?
>
Yeah - but I turn that off on my Verizon Droid Incredible (along with
WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS) to conserve battery anyhow. ;-)
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
Quoting Do
The one benefit to having an on-device application is for background
polling and notifications.
On 8/13/10 11:08 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> On second thought, though, given the rapidity at which Twitter is
> deploying new features to twitter.com via "standard" Javascript
> libraries, ma
On second thought, though, given the rapidity at which Twitter is
deploying new features to twitter.com via "standard" Javascript
libraries, maybe there's a future for a pure Javascript in-browser
open source Twitter client, which I think could run in the Android
browser. You really only ne
Ed Finkler (@funkatron) is trying to port Spaz to Titanium
Accelerator. That should cover all the bases - Android, iPhone and
desktops. I haven't checked on the status of the port recently,
though. I don't see the point in building *another* open source
Twitter client as long as there's Spa
Ed,
Thanks for the advice. I have emailed Tim directly, no reply. Will
keep trying. Can I be the only one who is hungry for this?
Clay
On Aug 13, 2:35 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" wrote:
> I suspect Google's priorities have changed, as have Twitter's. Tim
> Bray is very accessible in social m
Hello,
I'm not having success with the following code, I get a "Sorry, page
doesn't exist!" webpage. I am using the OAuth v0.4.1 gem. Your help and
guidance is very appreciated, thanks!
If I type the following out in IRB, it seems to work, but of course I
can't redirect from the shell.
c
Hi Developers,
Basic authentication is being deprecated beginning on August 16th. After
August 31st, API clients will no longer be able to identify themselves using
only a login and password when accessing the Twitter REST API.
For those that just like to skim, here are the basics:
- Basic Aut
Is there no one from Twitter proper who has a position regarding this?
On Aug 13, 2:12 pm, TheGuru wrote:
> Add that to the list of even more reasons why this is an issue.
>
> However, even stating oh well, tell them to use their cell phones,
> obviously isn't a solution of any degree. Smart Pho
On 8/13/10 11:58 PM, Gurpartap Singh wrote:
> Will talk in points:
>
> # An existing OAuth app which already has xAuth access, works
> perfectly in the implementation.
>
> # Created a new OAuth app with Twitter. Got xAuth access for it
> through email.
>
> # Replaced the implementation's API key
Will talk in points:
# An existing OAuth app which already has xAuth access, works
perfectly in the implementation.
# Created a new OAuth app with Twitter. Got xAuth access for it
through email.
# Replaced the implementation's API keys to the new OAuth app's API
keys.
# Getting 401 error on OAu
Think of the mathematics coordinate system of X, Y [ longitude,
latitude ]
On Aug 13, 9:55 am, Dan wrote:
> Why is it that in most of the API, geo-co-ordinates are represented as
> lat,long?
>
> e.g.http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/21059379505.json
>
> ...geo":{"type":"Point","coordinate
I suspect Google's priorities have changed, as have Twitter's. Tim
Bray is very accessible in social media - I recommend talking directly
to him. ;-)
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
Now that I finally have an Android handset, I'm interested in this as well.
"Clay Graham" wrote:
>When the Google/Twitter application for android came out last May it
>was widely announced that this application was going to be made open
>source as an example to developers how to use best practic
When the Google/Twitter application for android came out last May it
was widely announced that this application was going to be made open
source as an example to developers how to use best practices and
patterns when developing applications for android, as well as OAuth.
http://android-developers.
Currently you can see who is following you with a Twitter account. Is
there going to be a way to see what people are following you via SMS
Fast Follow. Any form of Analytics, whether it is the phone number,
number of followers, mobile carrier, etc. etc.
On 8/13/10 10:38 PM, Jerry Thompson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Getting a weird JS dialog box in Firefox/Win after adding the tweet
> buttons from Twitter today. Does the error code "1281727137826" mean
> anything in particular? I cannot reproduce this problem in FF/Mac,
> Safari/Mac. But I received a
Consider this your official reply :
http://twitter.com/episod/status/21093220762
As far as I know, Twitter implements proper cache control. I haven't
seen the issue anymore, so I guess it's fine :-)
Tom
On 8/13/10 10:40 PM, Jerry Thompson wrote:
> Would be great if there was an official respons
Would be great if there was an official response from Twitter on
this. If the problem is fixed and its a user cache problem persisting
the error, could a simple fix be to add a random number to the JS URL?
On Aug 13, 3:32 pm, Clint Ecker wrote:
> I had some people reporting it on Ars Technica, b
Hi All,
Getting a weird JS dialog box in Firefox/Win after adding the tweet
buttons from Twitter today. Does the error code "1281727137826" mean
anything in particular? I cannot reproduce this problem in FF/Mac,
Safari/Mac. But I received a number of emails about it and they all
seem to have FF
As early as Monday, I'm getting reports of extra history states logged
in IE from my users. I've run my code that uses @anywhere with and
without anywhere.js on the page and have confirmed that 2 extra
history entries are being created by including the platform, and then
one new state is being logg
I had some people reporting it on Ars Technica, but it appears to have
been fixed now. If it's still happening its likely users have the
JavaScript cached and they need to clear their browser's cache.
That being said, we have a lot of very unhappy readers right now ;(
Clint
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010
On 8/13/10 9:24 PM, Peter Denton wrote:
> Hello,
> seeing tons of reports about alerts happening because of the share
> button. i.e. it alerts every variable.
>
> Anyone else seeing this?
Yes - I just noticed it at well. You are not the only one.
Tom
Hello,
seeing tons of reports about alerts happening because of the share button.
i.e. it alerts every variable.
Anyone else seeing this?
Add that to the list of even more reasons why this is an issue.
However, even stating oh well, tell them to use their cell phones,
obviously isn't a solution of any degree. Smart Phone penetration in
the US, for example, is still less than 20%...
On Aug 13, 9:43 am, earth2marsh wrote:
> At leas
I am finding that POI level results are pretty good in the US but I
usually cant get anything below the neighborhood level for POIs
internationally, even in big cites such as Rome. Is there a place I
can go to to understand what POI support is available from geo/search?
http://ratecred.com
Clay Gr
IHMO the discussion of international politics and social media should
take place in a wider forum, such as Twitter itself, and not be
limited to oAuth vs. basic authentication. ;-) There was a keynote
speech at Open Source Bridge 2010 by Danny O'Brien about this - see
http://opensourcebridg
Do you know if there is a way to drop the "on Twitter" after the
username in the @Anywhere Follow Buttons?
I feel the leading Twitter "t" logo is sufficient for the targeted
audience coming to my site.
I would also like to set a standard width is possible.
On 8/13/10 8:08 PM, Matt Trinneer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm curious to understand how the transition to OAuth will take place
> for whitelisted accounts. Currently I have 2 streaming accounts,
> which if I understand correctly will not be impacted at all, and a
> whitelisted basic auth access (20k/
Hello,
I'm curious to understand how the transition to OAuth will take place
for whitelisted accounts. Currently I have 2 streaming accounts,
which if I understand correctly will not be impacted at all, and a
whitelisted basic auth access (20k/hour) for a specific set of IPs.
I've read that the
I'd like a way to add this to my google site(s), but google is trying
to
"protect" me from the referenced .js - any way around this?
On Aug 12, 10:28 am, themattharris wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make it easy for your users
> to share your website with the
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:41 AM, alex wrote:
> Accept: */*
> Connection: close
> User-Agent: OAuth gem v0.3.4.1
> Authorization: abcdefgh
> Host: api.twitter.com
>
> how to send the above header to api.twitter.com through PHP ?
http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php ?
--
Julio Biason
Twi
sorry if this has been asked, and did not see on the documentation.
Can we see a global views of shares from our account? i.e. if Ive set up the
via paramter, can I then see counts for that account?
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:49 AM, James Jones wrote:
> why when I click on the count it will send
Hi Developers,
Today we're going to do a brief exercise with turning basic authentication
off for 5 to 10 minutes at 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern. This is to simulate
the effect that the deprecation of basic auth will have -- both on
applications and our own servers. This is the first of such tests w
Facebook's JS SDK allows us to do something like the Tweet Button...
pre-populate the status message, use our Application Id, etc. We'd
love to use the tweet button like this too but its missing some
functionality that we need. The FB JS SDK gives us a javascript
callback that let's us know that a
If we are listening to the stream api/filter using track and getting
JSON output, I cannot see anywhere that I can determine if something
is a retweet except explicitly checking the text of the tweet.
Am I missing something or should I simultansously be listing to the
retweet stream and try to cro
why when I click on the count it will send me to the search for both the
url of the page and the base url?
On 13/08/10 9:12 AM, artesea wrote:
Anyone else getting the count to work? Had several people press the
button and it still shows zero, and when clicking on the zero it takes
me to the sea
Why is it that in most of the API, geo-co-ordinates are represented as
lat,long?
e.g. http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/21059379505.json
...geo":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[44.6994873,-73.4529124]}...
(like most of the world does it)
but in the places API it is long,lat?
e.g.
http://ap
Hi, folks-
Yes indeed, t.co links will be unwrapped in the stream, so bit.ly pro
users will still be able to use custom domains, along with bit.ly's
analytics features.
We put a post up on our blog explaining how publishers can continue to
use bit.ly pro domains with the Tweet Button:
http://blo
At least "people at work" have the potential to use phones to access
Twitter…
I'm worried about users like those in China behind The Great Firewall.
Currently, they can interact with Twitter by using proxies and http
basic auth. But OAuth requires access to twitter.com (or some sort of
mediation).
Yes, I understand that, and this wasn't the point for the development
of the app, but it was a bonus (unintended) side affect, that, quite
frankly, Twitter benefits from, in terms of usage statistics, volume,
etc.
And, as mentioned, I'm willing to bet this wasn't thought about during
the conversio
Oops, sorry, my bad. I guess you're right :-)
Tom
On 8/13/10 4:32 PM, Otto wrote:
> On Aug 13, 8:58 am, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:
>> On 8/13/10 12:15 PM, Krot Vyacheslav wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, all!
>>> I am a newbie to twitter api, so i have a simple question. I'm making
>>> single sign on with
Nik's analysis here is correct -- t.co links will always be 20 characters.
When building a character counter in an application, you'll know that any
pasted URL comprises exactly 20 characters.
Taylor
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Nik Fletcher wrote:
> I don't know how Twitter are shortening t
On Aug 13, 8:58 am, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:
> On 8/13/10 12:15 PM, Krot Vyacheslav wrote:
>
> > Hello, all!
> > I am a newbie to twitter api, so i have a simple question. I'm making
> > single sign on with twitter on my site. Everything works fine, but one
> > thing reallly annoyes me! If the cl
And you have a valid point, but you can't expect Twitter to build their
stuff so that people can tweet while their boss does not want them to. ;-)
Tom
On 8/13/10 4:26 PM, TheGuru wrote:
> Ha, well, I'm not the one circumventing this issue at work, I'm the
> one who has an application with hundre
Ha, well, I'm not the one circumventing this issue at work, I'm the
one who has an application with hundreds of thousands of users, many
of which are now affected...
On Aug 13, 9:21 am, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:
> In that case, just get back to work and stop tweeting :-)
>
> Tom
>
> On 8/13/10 4:
In that case, just get back to work and stop tweeting :-)
Tom
On 8/13/10 4:15 PM, TheGuru wrote:
> And, just to clarify, I am referring to web based api applications,
> where are many, all if which are affected, as xAuth is NOT,
> apparently, and option in this type of setup.
>
> On Aug 13, 8:5
API is not blocked if the twitter client (web app), is making api
calls on your behalf (curl call behind the scenes). That is the crux
of the problem.
On Aug 13, 8:54 am, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:
> On 8/13/10 4:31 AM, TheGuru wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm curious to post this question to see if Twitter
And, just to clarify, I am referring to web based api applications,
where are many, all if which are affected, as xAuth is NOT,
apparently, and option in this type of setup.
On Aug 13, 8:54 am, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:
> On 8/13/10 4:31 AM, TheGuru wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm curious to post this quest
Hi James,
Can you share more about your certificate issues? Can you share some URLs
where we can investigate or if you're implementing it yourself, the
particulars of your configuration?
Thanks,
Taylor
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:30 AM, James Jones wrote:
> getting cert errors now
>
>
> On 13/08
We had some caching/rate limiting issues related to tweet counts for a
portion of yesterday but these should be relieved now. Please let us know if
you continue seeing the zero counts after a reasonable amount of time (they
won't update instantaneously).
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, artesea
On 8/13/10 5:04 AM, pthomsen wrote:
> I read in the techcrunch article, that the posting url is wrapped in
> t.co, but then when displayed in the stream, the url gets unwrapped
> again, so you should see the moxs.ie url (in my case). This doesn't
> happen for me. I only see the t.co url.
>
> Is th
If you used a Base62 algorithm, then you can simply increase the value
by one for the next url. I assume that Twitter did this for security
reasons, just like bit.ly.
Tom
On 8/13/10 3:55 PM, Nik Fletcher wrote:
> I don't know how Twitter are shortening the URLs.
>
> However. IIRC Twitter's shor
Hi OLiE,
I'm not too experienced with Android programming, so am unsure whether your
code is correct or not. But there's something you might want to check on
dev.twitter.com/apps and that's whether your application is set as "browser"
and with a default callback URL set. This is a quirk in our sys
On 8/13/10 12:41 PM, alex wrote:
> Accept: */*
> Connection: close
> User-Agent: OAuth gem v0.3.4.1
> Authorization: abcdefgh
> Host: api.twitter.com
>
> how to send the above header to api.twitter.com through PHP ?
I do not know the exact code, but you will most likely want to use cURL.
http://
On 8/13/10 12:15 PM, Krot Vyacheslav wrote:
> Hello, all!
> I am a newbie to twitter api, so i have a simple question. I'm making
> single sign on with twitter on my site. Everything works fine, but one
> thing reallly annoyes me! If the client is signed in twitter and has
> already granted access
Accept: */*
Connection: close
User-Agent: OAuth gem v0.3.4.1
Authorization: abcdefgh
Host: api.twitter.com
how to send the above header to api.twitter.com through PHP ?
On 8/13/10 10:34 AM, Abhi wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> What is the best way of counting the number of tweets containing a
> phrase "The Lost World"
>
> 1. Is there an API call, I can make to retrieve this information
> or
> 2. Should I make an Search API call for the keyword at regular
> interval and sto
I don't know how Twitter are shortening the URLs.
However. IIRC Twitter's shortener is designed to always use 20
characters (I believe) so that as developers we can pass in full URLs
knowing how much space each URL will take up in a tweet and show the
character count accordingly. Matt / Taylor mig
Hello, all!
I am a newbie to twitter api, so i have a simple question. I'm making
single sign on with twitter on my site. Everything works fine, but one
thing reallly annoyes me! If the client is signed in twitter and has
already granted access to my application twitter asks him again after
redirec
On 8/13/10 4:31 AM, TheGuru wrote:
> I'm curious to post this question to see if Twitter has fully thought
> out the impact of forcing OAuth onto their API applications. While it
> may appear to be a more secure method preferred in principle by users,
> the fact of the matter is that one of the ma
Hi I was wondering what is the best way of searching for a phrase and
a KW
Example "The Lost World" and book
and what if I wanted to try different combinations where "The Lost
world" is mandatory however other keywords
"read", "reading", "book" are or
"The Lost world" and "read" OR "The Lost wor
Hi All,
What is the best way of counting the number of tweets containing a
phrase "The Lost World"
1. Is there an API call, I can make to retrieve this information
or
2. Should I make an Search API call for the keyword at regular
interval and store the tweets in my database and analyze this data.
Thank you guys for your insight.
I was in a rush so I picked simple search but I'll revert it to
stream.
Not quite clear what do you mean by saying to revert stream every hour
but I guess it's in the docs.
On Aug 13, 1:58 am, Mark McBride wrote:
> In both cases it's still probably best to use str
I'm curious to post this question to see if Twitter has fully thought
out the impact of forcing OAuth onto their API applications. While it
may appear to be a more secure method preferred in principle by users,
the fact of the matter is that one of the main benefits of the API, is
the ability for
For me the issue is usability. When I render the page on the iPhone in
a webview that takes up most of the screen LCD, the size of the
letters for the username and password input fields are "tiny". I
showed my dad who is an older guy, but still likes Twitter, and he
said he couldn't read the letter
I read in the techcrunch article, that the posting url is wrapped in
t.co, but then when displayed in the stream, the url gets unwrapped
again, so you should see the moxs.ie url (in my case). This doesn't
happen for me. I only see the t.co url.
Is there a whitelist of URLs that are accepted by twi
How long has it been since Twitter started their own t.com url
shortener? Not sure, but I don't think it's been long enough to
shorten over 3.5 trillion urls.
Well, I just noticed that the the url "shortened" by t.com was
this:http://t.co/5ywZYau
So the value is 5ywZYau
>From what I understand th
getting cert errors now
On 13/08/10 9:12 AM, artesea wrote:
Anyone else getting the count to work? Had several people press the
button and it still shows zero, and when clicking on the zero it takes
me to the search page containing their tweet, plus our autotweet
everytime we do a blog post.
Al
Anyone else getting the count to work? Had several people press the
button and it still shows zero, and when clicking on the zero it takes
me to the search page containing their tweet, plus our autotweet
everytime we do a blog post.
Also will you be counting all tweets containing the URL, or only
I've done some further testing and found that when the
'in_reply_to_screen_name' is filled I do get replies to users that I
follow. But when that field isn't set I don't get them.
And I found that the replies with in_reply_to_screen_name empty also
are not displayed on my twitter homepage
So user1
I'd like to learn more about how to use OAuth on hardware without a
browser or UI. Currently Java is being supported. What if I design a
hardware chip that must be written in C or C++, what are the options
to get hardware to post tweet
On Aug 11, 6:13 pm, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:
> On 8/12/10 3:
On 8/13/10 2:46 AM, Stan Miasnikov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have implemented the oauth for a desktop application. The
> application has been approved and I get the token back and also can
> make HTTP requests using the token. However, when I post an update
> using the app, it shows "...via API" instead
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