Re: [twitter-dev] Trying to get rid of twitter spammers

2010-11-27 Thread Furkan Kuru
The text in these spam tweets are not easy to recognize. They do not repeat. They are mixed of different words and they contain a link. They seem to be sent via web. The ranking and discarding some mentions will not completely resolve the problem. Because our mention data and trending words data

[twitter-dev] Re: Geocoded searches broken

2010-11-27 Thread bitrace
I can also confirm the same problem across multiple twitter clients. It also looks like any seaches including filter:links also return zero results. On Nov 27, 4:28 am, Hrishikesh Bakshi bakshi.hrishik...@gmail.com wrote: I am facing the same issue. I tried from different IP addresses just to

Re: [twitter-dev] Error creating tweets by API

2010-11-27 Thread Luis Victor Quintas
I discovered ... When I had the words And you? equivalent to And you? in Portuguese, he returned the error 400. Now that I have drawn is functioning normally, not strange? Regards, Luís Victor Quintas 2010/11/27 Andy Matsubara andymatsub...@gmail.com Twitter returns error when you submit

Re: [twitter-dev] Trying to get rid of twitter spammers

2010-11-27 Thread Adam Green
All of your sample spam tweets are from suspended accounts, yet the tweets were only sent yesterday. That means that the spammers behavior was so aggressive that they were suspended quickly by a Twitter algorithm. I doubt that a human at Twitter read your email and went through each tweet

Re: [twitter-dev] Trying to get rid of twitter spammers

2010-11-27 Thread Edward Hotchkiss
empty url? resolve if the user clicks i'm sure there is backend code running, the only purpose of even returning a 200 On Nov 27, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Adam Green wrote: All of your sample spam tweets are from suspended accounts, yet the tweets were only sent yesterday. That means that the

Re: [twitter-dev] Trying to get rid of twitter spammers

2010-11-27 Thread Furkan Kuru
Most of the tweets here are spams: http://twitturk.com/tweet/search?q=lol On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Adam Green 140...@gmail.com wrote: All of your sample spam tweets are from suspended accounts, yet the tweets were only sent yesterday. That means that the spammers behavior was so

Re: [twitter-dev] Trying to get rid of twitter spammers

2010-11-27 Thread Adam Green
The URLs again return a code of 200 and nothing in the content. What happens when you try getting one of the URLs with cURL? I'm curious if it behaves differently for an IP in Turkey. On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Furkan Kuru furkank...@gmail.com wrote: Most of the tweets here are spams:

Re: [twitter-dev] Trying to get rid of twitter spammers

2010-11-27 Thread Furkan Kuru
It returns a redirection to amazon.com product page Example: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041E16RC?ie=UTF8tag=iphone403d-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=B0041E16RC On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Adam Green 140...@gmail.com wrote: The URLs again return a code of 200

Re: [twitter-dev] Trying to get rid of twitter spammers

2010-11-27 Thread Adam Green
Now you know that it does resolve differently in different countries. You could set up an account with a webhost in the US, and have a script there that you can call with URLs in tweets from new users. If the URL resolves to a blank page, blacklist that user. There are plenty of good hosts that

[twitter-dev] Re: Where can I find the updated rate limit after OAuth?

2010-11-27 Thread m36tb6ll
Yes.. I was expecting 350 oauthenticated calls per hour but was not able to find it after OAuth. It is still giving me the 150 rate limit. Thanks. On Nov 27, 5:06 am, Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com wrote: it's 150 requests for flat file data per hour and 350 oauthenticated calls

[twitter-dev] Re: How to fetch all followers of a random user of twitter?

2010-11-27 Thread m36tb6ll
Correct me if I'm wrong, using ids/followers will only give me the IDs and you would need to to fetch the other information for each of the IDs one by one. Meaning, you would need to make 5001 api requests to fetch information for 5000 followers/friends (such as # of following, # of followers, #

[twitter-dev] Re: lang=en queries to search API not working

2010-11-27 Thread kprobe
I am having the same problem with CURL to $this-searchURL = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=enq='; If I remove lang=en then I get results. Mark On Nov 26, 11:42 pm, steve ick...@gmail.com wrote: This reproduces even onhttp://search.twitter.com.  If you try to filter to en only

Re: [twitter-dev] Trying to get rid of twitter spammers

2010-11-27 Thread Furkan Kuru
Another hosting will be problematic to maintain. I have looked at a few more short urls. They redirect to very wide range of sites not just amazon. I think twitter may change the priority level of Report for spam for new opened accounts. And the number of tweets per hour. Here I write again the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to fetch all followers of a random user of twitter?

2010-11-27 Thread Edward Hotchkiss
use proxy servers and get all in approx 1 minute depending on speed. On Nov 27, 2010, at 2:28 PM, m36tb6ll wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, using ids/followers will only give me the IDs and you would need to to fetch the other information for each of the IDs one by one. Meaning, you would

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: lang=en queries to search API not working

2010-11-27 Thread Edward Hotchkiss
i think we're on api.twitter.com for atom/json searches - On Nov 27, 2010, at 2:43 PM, kprobe wrote: I am having the same problem with CURL to $this-searchURL = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=enq='; If I remove lang=en then I get results. Mark On Nov 26, 11:42 pm, steve

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Where can I find the updated rate limit after OAuth?

2010-11-27 Thread Edward Hotchkiss
? On Nov 27, 2010, at 2:17 PM, m36tb6ll wrote: Yes.. I was expecting 350 oauthenticated calls per hour but was not able to find it after OAuth. It is still giving me the 150 rate limit. Thanks. On Nov 27, 5:06 am, Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com wrote: it's 150 requests

Re: [twitter-dev] Trying to get rid of twitter spammers

2010-11-27 Thread Edward Hotchkiss
the followers are probably bots, create an account and within about 5 minutes or less you will generally have 2-3 followers that appear [real]. they iterate over ids. someone is running a dating/hookup bot net with those user accounts. On Nov 27, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Furkan Kuru wrote: Another

Re: [twitter-dev] lang=en queries to search API not working

2010-11-27 Thread CWorster
I ran into the same problem in june/july. I added the since parameter to solve the problem. Example: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=enq=thanksgivingsince=2010-11-24 Make sure the since parameter is not more then 5/6 days back in the past. Cheers P.S.: On the new API-Documentation

Re: [twitter-dev] Trying to get rid of twitter spammers

2010-11-27 Thread Adam Green
My final suggestion is to rank users by something (age of account, number of mentions/mentioners/followers/following) and cut out the bottom N%. On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Furkan Kuru furkank...@gmail.com wrote: Another hosting will be problematic to maintain. I have looked at a few more

[twitter-dev] help me plz quiry speed and geocode

2010-11-27 Thread disc31
I am a uni student, I am very new to the twitter api, i have been making an aplication in Processing to show tweets coming up on a world map in real time. im not trying to get the post its the geocodes i want, with lots of help from people here and on the processing forums i have made it so that

[twitter-dev] Search not working properly for filters

2010-11-27 Thread Hwee-Boon Yar
curl http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=test%20filter%3Alinks %20(yfrog) returns no results and there are only 3 results on the search page for the same query: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http+filter%3Alinks+%28yfrog%29 -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:

[twitter-dev] Re: lang=en queries to search API not working

2010-11-27 Thread steve
The thing that gets me is the fact their own site (http:// search.twitter.com) doesn't work when you filter things to show only en results. On Nov 27, 2:04 pm, CWorster cwors...@schlimmer.com wrote: I ran into the same problem in june/july. I added the since parameter to solve the problem.

[twitter-dev] Re: Help Getting Started with Site Streams

2010-11-27 Thread Jayrox
no one available to help me with this? On Nov 25, 9:55 am, Jayrox jay...@gmail.com wrote: I'd really like to make my own site stream library. Ive been white listed for the site stream and have been using the origional stream for a long time now. My issue is that I cannot get any response from