[twitter-dev] Tweet(s) to XML or JSON

2011-03-07 Thread mahorad
Hello Gurus How can I get the XML or JSON format out of a Tweet or a bunch of Tweets? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweet(s) to XML or JSON

2011-03-07 Thread Scott Wilcox
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/show/:id Sent from my iPhone On 7 Mar 2011, at 11:56, mahorad maho...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Gurus How can I get the XML or JSON format out of a Tweet or a bunch of Tweets? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweet(s) to XML or JSON

2011-03-07 Thread mahorad
Thanks for prompt reply but I had to mention that I'm using the Search API in a web service and at the first step I need to convert the retrieved tweets to JSON or XML. my tweet search is like this: Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance(); try { Query q = new Query(args[0]);

[twitter-dev] Re: Apps that Site Hack

2011-03-07 Thread Alan Hamlyn
100% agree Alan On Mar 5, 1:54 am, nickmilon nickmi...@gmail.com wrote: These kind of tools do a lot of damage to twitter ecosystem. On Mar 4, 3:02 pm, Alan Hamlyn alanhamlyn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dewald, In fact you partly answered it yourself. Random login CAPTCHA's when logging

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: users/show and users/lookup returning *empty* responses

2011-03-07 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Dossy, Thanks for the report. We'll look into this. Taylor @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer Advocate On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: I know it's Sunday night, but ... *crickets* is this thing on? Is no one

[twitter-dev] users.show - Follower counts - equal/same entry as before (but only some of them)

2011-03-07 Thread Rockbär
Hello @all, I'm new here and I'm not quite familiar with programming for the twitter-api (I know, not the best condition^^), but I hope there is someone could help me out. Is it a bug, or what's up? I have no idea! Mostly the script works without any probs, but every two days, there appears a big

[twitter-dev] Re: Recurring Tweets

2011-03-07 Thread Ken D.
Similarly, I have noticed that an exact duplicate tweet is no longer systematically rejected. Our CMS was set up to tweet new content items when they are first viewed by a visitor. If two visitors view the same new item at nearly the same time, two tweets are sent. Until recently, one would be

[twitter-dev] About location based trends

2011-03-07 Thread ershadul.hoque
From yahoo web service I found woeid for Kuwait is 23424870 And the following link is not returning any tweets: http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/23424870.json why ? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:

[twitter-dev] Re: Bigger avatar images for users/profile_image/twitter ?

2011-03-07 Thread Ken D.
Avatars come in three sizes:         mini = 24x24         normal = 48x48         bigger = 73x73         reasonably_small = 128x128 http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1_mini.jpg http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1_normal.jpg

Re: [twitter-dev] About location based trends

2011-03-07 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Ershadul, Twitter does not yet calculate trending topics for Kuwait -- you can find the current WOEIDs we provide Local Trends for through this API call: GET http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/available.json @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer Advocate On

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Tweet(s) to XML or JSON

2011-03-07 Thread Matt Harris
Hi Mohorad, Most of the Twitter APIs support multiple response formats. The most common formats are XML and JSON but some methods also support RSS and ATOM. The response format is controlled by changing the extension of the method. For example: http://search.twitter.com/search.json will

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Recurring Tweets

2011-03-07 Thread Matt Harris
Hi to you both: Ken: The API should be rejecting the duplicates. Do you have an example where the duplicate is being allowed through? Tammy: The guidelines for automated Tweets can be found on our support site. Some helpful resources are:

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter dump where i only care about size

2011-03-07 Thread @IDisposable
So Taylor or Matt or someone, can I do this for-trailing historical export or would that be in violation of the republish rule? I don't want to bring the FailWhale down on us Marc On Mar 6, 9:43 pm, Ted Pedersen tpede...@d.umn.edu wrote: Thanks very much! I don't know the ins and outs of

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Recurring Tweets

2011-03-07 Thread 1537 News
What is considered an Exact Duplicate Tweet? On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Similarly, I have noticed that an exact duplicate tweet is no longer systematically rejected. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates

[twitter-dev] Re: Recurring Tweets

2011-03-07 Thread Ken D.
1537, I'm not sure you're going to get an official response since the twitter team will be wanting to prevent abuse. Basically I was talking about two or more consecutive tweets with char- for-char the same content. But I believe the guidelines referred to above warn that near-identical tweets

Re: [twitter-dev] twitter dump where i only care about size

2011-03-07 Thread Ted Pedersen
Greetings all, I've made a bit of progress, and have found a fairly simple to use program that is collecting tweets for me at a modest rate. I have maybe 10-20 MB after about an hour or two, so I think Tom's estimates are on target, if not a bit optimistic. :) But, what I am using is a very

[twitter-dev] twitter app to be used at a kiosk (aka public computer)

2011-03-07 Thread Chris
Hi, We are currently developing a twitter app to allow people to tweet what they experienced at a fair, from a public computer. everything works fine except that users stays logged in when using the oauth/authenticate or oauth/authorize mehods. appending the force_login=true parameter to the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Recurring Tweets

2011-03-07 Thread sheri barton
sorry but im new at this and i havnt seen any response please help me on how it works thank you sheri From: Ken D. k...@cimas.ch To: Twitter Development Talk twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, March 7, 2011 12:23:42 PM Subject: [twitter-dev]

Re: [twitter-dev] twitter app to be used at a kiosk (aka public computer)

2011-03-07 Thread Abraham Williams
The best work around I currently know of is after users logout of your site to display a prompt reminding them to logout of twitter.com too. Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | abrah.am http://abrah.amJust launched from Answerly http://answerly.com:

[twitter-dev] Stream API and UserLists

2011-03-07 Thread tmurray
I was wondering if there is a way to use the streaming API to receive tweets associated with User Lists?? If not, what is the best way to receive tweets associated with user lists? Thanks in advance for your help!! -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc

[twitter-dev] failed to validate oauth signature and token

2011-03-07 Thread Rich
I'm posting this because I couldn't find it anywhere, and I'm sure it has come up in the past. When URL encoding, use only uppercase characters for the URL codes. Granted, depending on your scripting language and how you're assembling the signature base string, this won't be an issue. However,