Re: [twitter-dev] Incorrect signature while getting home tweets

2010-10-19 Thread Georgooty varghese
Thank u twitter..Thank u very much. Now the issue was resolved Regards, George On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: When using headers, you need to wrap each value in quotes. The authorization header should contain only oauth_* parameters,

Re: [twitter-dev] status destroy / caching in NewTwitter.

2010-10-19 Thread Pradeep Senanayake
HI, Tom, What I just want to know is, how to get access tokens dynamically, using https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token url. I went through the documentation but I cant understand. Pls give me a clue. Thanks in advance. Pradeep. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Tom Monaghan

[twitter-dev] Re: Cross-domain policy file

2010-10-19 Thread Orian Marx (@orian)
Zeh, thanks for taking the time to bring this issue to light again and to present so many examples of other significant APIs that do not have restrictive crossdomain policies. As you note, this issue has been brought to Twitter's attention several times over the last few years but to no avail.

[twitter-dev] Unauthorized 401 error

2010-10-19 Thread Andrew Cross. Gna
I did the following 1. Registered an application 2. Got the required details from the application registration with Twitter i.e. consumer Key and the secret 3. Implemented oAuthBase.cs class available in the google code storage. The authorization done at the first time successfuly and worked

Re: [twitter-dev] [twitcurl Lib] Direct Message signbase string

2010-10-19 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Looks like there's a '?' in the URL part. Shouldn't be there. Tom On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:24 AM, balbari csle...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using twitcurl library. When you send a direct message an error occurs. Error Message : errorIncorrect signature/error When I send a message signbase

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitcurl Lib] Direct Message signbase string

2010-10-19 Thread balbari
at the end of URL part should I remove a '?' ? BAD == POSThttp%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fdirect_messages%2Fnew.xml%3F GOOD == POSThttp%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fdirect_messages%2Fnew.xml GOOD case right? On 10월19일, 오후5시15분, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Looks like there's a '?' in the URL

[twitter-dev] Authentication error

2010-10-19 Thread j2me
Sorry for duplicate post, but since the previous post was old I think nobody caught eyes. My previous post was here http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/3723503993279c5e/d1d9278f754030e8?lnk=gstq=login+error#d1d9278f754030e8 My problem was, I could not

[twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread jon
Hi, Will user ids be generated by snowflake in the near future? Is it safe to parse and store them as signed 64bit integers? Thanks. On Oct 18, 8:34 pm, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks to @gotwalt for spotting the missing commas. Fixed JSON sample ... [   {    

[twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread jon
Hi, You wrote that the IDs are unsigned 64 bit ints, but the IdWorker is pumping out java Longs which are signed. I'm assuming that was a typo, but please clarify. http://github.com/twitter/snowflake/blob/master/src/main/scala/com/twitter/service/snowflake/IdWorker.scala Thanks, - Jon On Oct

[twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread Detroitpro
Out of curiosity; what advantage is there of including both the int and the string? Why not only offer the string and put the parsing on the client side? Thanks, @detroitpro On Oct 18, 8:34 pm, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks to @gotwalt for spotting the missing commas.

[twitter-dev] Twitter API Expertise?

2010-10-19 Thread Zubin Wadia
Working on an interesting private communications service with my team and would like some help with Twitter OAuth + API implementation. If any of you are interested in lending a hand (in exchange for compensation ofcourse) please send me an email zwadia at gmail dot com... Cheers, Zubin. --

[twitter-dev] Re: Displaying custom media in the right pane

2010-10-19 Thread Paul M. Watson
contentpartnersh...@twitter.com This email bounced for me yesterday. I have tried part...@twitter.com instead (no bounce but no reply yet neither.) cheers, Paul -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi

[twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread Reivax
Hi In the case where an id is null (as in in_reply_to_status_id:null ) what will the value of in_reply_to_status_id_str be ? Thanks Xavier On 19 oct, 02:34, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks to @gotwalt for spotting the missing commas. Fixed JSON sample ... [   {    

[twitter-dev] Facing 401 Error while getting RequestToken using Twitterizer

2010-10-19 Thread Amer
Hi, I am facing 401 error on very very first step of getting Request Token. I am using Twitterizer for using API. I am also pasting code here with my original consumer key: TwitterAPIKey =Ye4PF8qX9mqX1wZ4Nt5g TwitterConsumerKey=Ye4PF8qX9mqX1wZ4Nt5g TwitterConsumerSecretKey=Ye4PF8qX9mqX1wZ4Nt5g

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Because a lot of Twitter applications (including my own) would go crazy immediately. Tom On 10/19/10 6:09 AM, Detroitpro wrote: Out of curiosity; what advantage is there of including both the int and the string? Why not only offer the string and put the parsing on the client side? Thanks,

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Probably null as well. Tom On 10/19/10 11:49 AM, Reivax wrote: Hi In the case where an id is null (as in in_reply_to_status_id:null ) what will the value of in_reply_to_status_id_str be ? Thanks Xavier On 19 oct, 02:34, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks to

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitcurl Lib] Direct Message signbase string

2010-10-19 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Yes, you should. An easy way to test your Base String is to paste it into the validation box at http://quonos.nl/oauthTester/. Tom On 10/19/10 2:03 PM, balbari wrote: at the end of URL part should I remove a '?' ? BAD == POSThttp%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fdirect_messages%2Fnew.xml%3F GOOD ==

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread Dan Checkoway
I'm also patiently awaiting a response from twitter about this. Are the ids sane for 64-bit *signed* long? Dan On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:08 PM, jon jonhoff...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, You wrote that the IDs are unsigned 64 bit ints, but the IdWorker is pumping out java Longs which are signed.

Re: [twitter-dev] Maximum username length

2010-10-19 Thread Taylor Singletary
15 characters is the current limit. 20 was at one time the limit. All numbers is allowed. Spaces are not allowed. This regular expression should help you validate: /\A[a-zA-Z0-9_]*\z/ Taylor On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Gonzalo Larralde gonzalolarra...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 11,

[twitter-dev] Re: Cross-domain policy file

2010-10-19 Thread zeh fernando
Thanks for the support Orian. I really want to understand why Twitter is blocking that kind of cross-domain requests, as I believe it just makes things more difficult, without really blocking what one would consider a security issue. On Oct 19, 3:10 am, Orian Marx (@orian) or...@orianmarx.com

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitcurl Lib] Direct Message signbase string

2010-10-19 Thread Matt Harris
You should also update the hostname to as you are using the wrong one. The API should be accesses through: http://api.twitter.com/1 Making your request: http://api.twitter.com/1/direct_messages/new.xml Best, @themattharris On Oct 19, 2010, at 6:05, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu

[twitter-dev] Site Streams API + Ouath in Python

2010-10-19 Thread Ethan
Has anyone implemented the Site Streams beta in Python using the oauth authentication? All examples I've seen rely on plain auth, not oauth, and tweepy doesn't work for oauth for Streaming. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:

[twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread Craig Hockenberry
This approach feels wrong to me. The red flag is the duplication of data within the payload: in 30+ years of professional development, I've never seen that work out well. The root of the problem is that you've chosen to deliver data in a format (JSON) that can't support integers with a value

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread Hayes Davis
I did some investigation into the snowflake algorithm recently and yes, it's safe for 64bit signed longs. Even if Twitter moved away from using scala/java longs internally (which are definitely signed), you'd still have something like 65 years from now before the algorithm rolled past the 2^63-1

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
I wouldn't blame this on JSON, because it's not JSON that has the problems, but JavaScript. All of my Objective-C apps that communicate use JSON as well, and they don't have the limitation. The issue does not apply to XML either - there's no type specification in XML. As far as I know, this issue

Re: [twitter-dev] Remembering Authorization in Database

2010-10-19 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Just save the OAuth Tokens. Simple as that :-) Tom On 10/19/10 5:26 PM, ATLChris wrote: Hello, I am developing a website (a.com) that will allow people to connect their existing account (on a.com) to their Twitter account. My site will use the Twitter API to scan peoples twitter friends

[twitter-dev] Re: Change Background Image Not Working . Any help is appreciated

2010-10-19 Thread x.charles.z
Thanks a lot Matt. It worked. The two things I missed while trying to upload the background image using your excellent library. 1) include filename={thefilename.jpg} element in the parameter array 2) add the 'use' = 'true' element in the parameter array. Here is my final code $params = array(

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
With all due respect, the root of the problem is that computer scientists think in terms of abstract machines with infinitely-wide registers, infinitely many addressable RAM cells, etc., and business people think in terms of human populations and their tweet rates growing geometrically for

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
You normally don't need all 53 bits - but as snowflake simply skips a few IDs every now and then, you get a lot more IDs. Chance of it actually reaching 53 bits? I'd say that it happens at the end of November... Friday the 26th? Tom On 10/19/10 8:04 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: With all

[twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread Craig Hockenberry
This still gives you some API legacy that you need to maintain, but it's a much cleaner approach than what is currently being proposed. -ch On Oct 19, 10:39 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: I wouldn't blame this on JSON, because it's not JSON that has the problems, but JavaScript.

[twitter-dev] Where to submit a bug report?

2010-10-19 Thread Joe Rattz
How do I report a bug? I am seeing what appears to be a bug right now and it is reproducbble in the Twitter Twurl. What I am seeing is a discrepancy in the latest status returned with the statuses/friends web service call. Basically, the XML interface works properly but the JSON one does not.

Re: [twitter-dev] Where to submit a bug report?

2010-10-19 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Joe, This is likely a caching sync issue. You can report bugs to http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list I personally recommend avoiding statuses/friends as it's more of a legacy method than other means of discovering the same information. I personally recommend using friends/ids and

[twitter-dev] How to create and retrieve user with anywhere

2010-10-19 Thread Matteo
Hi to all, I'm building an app where the user can login and signup through twitter anywhere. I created an web app and added the anywhere script to the page.If i click the first time without being logged in in twitter i see the login and then the allow/deny page.If i allow the app i'm redirected

[twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread twittelator
It's kind of cool that Craig has been programming professionally longer than some people on this list have even been alive! I've thought about the problem, and at least came up with a catchy name for it to go with the crises of yore: Bitpocalypse. Since Twittelator uses the JSON library YAJL,

[twitter-dev] about xauth on a application

2010-10-19 Thread paulo donizete gardinalli filho
Hi, recently i sent an email to a...@twitter.com with my app information. I want to develope a application with speech enabled for visual deficient to access twitter and other protocols, such as msn, googletalk. My application name is chatvox. Is a...@twitter.com the correct e-mail? I did not

[twitter-dev] Re: Where to submit a bug report?

2010-10-19 Thread Joe Rattz
The statuses/friends method was specifically recommended to me to work around the RateLimit problem I was having. I don't know any other way to get the statuses of approximately 60 users every minute when my app is behind a firewall (preventing OAuth authentication for each individual user). So

[twitter-dev] Re: How to test for one user following another

2010-10-19 Thread Joe Rattz
I am not doing it from the command line with Twurl. I am doing it from the Twurl Console that you provide and it doesn't work. On Oct 7, 8:06 pm, Thomas Mango tsma...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize, I was actually saying that you should specify both the source and the target. It was my

[twitter-dev] Requesting Whitelisting for Rate Limit

2010-10-19 Thread Cassie Lynn
Hello! How often should you send a request to be whitelisted? I am finding that in the span of time while I'm waiting for an answer, the nature of my project has changed drastically. So I then resend a request. Does this affect whether you will be whitelisted or not? And should I wait for a

[twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-19 Thread Matt Harris
Hey everyone, Thank you to all of you for your questions, patience and contributions to this thread. Hearing your views and knowing how you use the API helps us provide more information where there wasn't enough, and clarify details where there was ambiguity. I've collated the questions i've

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Where to submit a bug report?

2010-10-19 Thread yaemog Dodigo
Hi, I don't know any other way to get the statuses of approximately 60 users every minute when my app is behind a firewall (preventing OAuth authentication for each individual user). So I use my app's access token/secret to get my friends (and their most recent status). This sounds like

[twitter-dev] Extract a one month social graph around a topic

2010-10-19 Thread Abhi
Hi, I am new to the Twitter API world and appreciate your help. I am trying to do some sentiment analysis around few topics. The options that I think I have (although dont know if these options actually exist) 1. download last one month of tweets (related to various topic) and then run

[twitter-dev] friends list in Site Stream

2010-10-19 Thread N
Hi there, I've been playing with Site Stream for a bit, and I have a request. When a client connects to the server, it returns a series of the friend list for each users. Can you make this optional? Receiving a lot of friends data for thousands of users is a quite bit of trafic and wasteful

[twitter-dev] x.co URL no longer recognized automatically

2010-10-19 Thread kprobe
I was excited to see links via to x.co tags supported automatically with the New Twitter. ie when I post a tweet like Visit x.co/4Hangman, the site reference was automatically converted into a URL link. Today this is no longer the case. I have to supply www. or http:// which wastes space. Is

[twitter-dev] Auto Response - Reply/Follow

2010-10-19 Thread Sruthi
Dear Support, We are using Twitter oAuth API for our application. We are planning to facilitate our Users with Auto-Reply/Follow features in our website. Please can you confirm us that we are not violating any Twitter Rules by providing such auto responding service? Thanks in advance. -