[twitter-dev] Lists question

2011-07-11 Thread alex
Greetings, I am new to twitter API dev and have a task to implement. I would like to display the timelines from several twitter users and hashes w/ o having to authenticate. Is there a way to do that in one request? Thanks, --alex -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https

Re: [twitter-dev] http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js without gzip

2011-05-20 Thread Alex Feinberg
or a company whose widgets are on a non-trivial fraction of web pages on the internet, that's a lot of users who could be seeing faster downloads, and a lot of bandwidth Twitter is paying for which they probably don't need to be. My $0.02, -Alex On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:37 AM, cfa

Re: [twitter-dev] search api limit

2011-05-19 Thread Alex Feinberg
instead of Twitter. Other than changing what URL they hit for data, you wouldn't have to change the show-interesting-graphics code at all, since the master would be serving up the exact same data the slaves would've gotten from Twitter directly. Best of luck, -Alex On Thu, May 19, 2011 at

Re: [twitter-dev] Encrypting/masking certain keywords while tweeting on Twitter site

2011-05-18 Thread Alex Feinberg
user base, they may think an obnoxious tweet-delete-retweet cycle is worth it to protect their data? Good luck, -Alex On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:08 AM, jigneshbh wrote: > Hello, > > I need one help regarding encryption or masking certain keywords when > a user accidently keys in sen

[twitter-dev] Bad Word Filter

2011-03-22 Thread Alex Beckman
e. Does anyone have advice on how to create a CUSTOMIZED twitter widget that has bad word filtering and doesn't expose the filter upon click? We tried TidyTweet, and could not achieve the needed level of custom look and feel. Thanks! Alex -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http:

[twitter-dev] Lifecycle of a Site Streams Connection

2011-02-12 Thread Alex McLintock
very 10 minutes), and then eventually (eg every hour/every day) consolidate these back into single site stream connections? Feel free to say "rtfm" if you can also point to the specific part of the manual I've missed :-) Alex -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://d

Re: [twitter-dev] twitter ideas for multiple users....or does this exist?

2011-02-08 Thread Alex McLintock
. Feel free to ask for more details off list. Alex -- 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 Change your membership to this grou

[twitter-dev] API Privacy Policy

2011-02-01 Thread Alex Shkor
Hello. I need proof to customer, that's impossible get email adresses of users through Tweeter API. Would you give me a link to this string in documentation? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/

[twitter-dev] Re: Low Volume App Search API Rate Limitations and Alternative Options

2011-01-25 Thread Alex Popescu
wait: 0:26:24 2011-01-25 23:20:16.054580 still must wait: 0:26:24 Please note that requests logged as "still must wait" where not launched. They were just acknowledging the retry after. Basically in over 1.5 hour I haven't been able to make any request. :- alex On Jan

[twitter-dev] Low Volume App Search API Rate Limitations and Alternative Options

2011-01-24 Thread Alex Popescu
ing in this area). While little, this app is quite essential for me. Please advise how should I proceed. Many thanks in advance, :- alex -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracke

[twitter-dev] Cell phone tower information

2010-12-16 Thread Alex
Hi, If tweet is posted from a cell phone. Is there a cell phone tag information when I search it using twitter Stream API? Thanks -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http

[twitter-dev] "Could not authenticate with OAuth" error

2010-12-10 Thread Alex Nikolaev
Good day everyone. Problem: I can't perform "http://api.twitter.com/1/account/ verify_credentials.xml" after getting access token and access token secret via OAuth. I'm getting "401 Unauthorized" error with message "Could not authenticate with OAuth". I've triple-checked all the params, read docs

[twitter-dev] Dose Twitter Stream API support proxy server?

2010-11-17 Thread Alex
Hi, Dose Twitter Stream API support proxy server? I am trying to use Stream API, but get an error saying "403, use proxy server". How to set up the proxy sever for Stream API? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.co

[twitter-dev] Re: friends/ids JSON API

2010-10-26 Thread Alex B
/no_retweets/ids.json > - statuses/:status_id/retweeted_by/ids.json > > Thanks, > Taylor > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Alex B wrote: > > Will this be updating to the snowflake id strs workaround? Currently > > it delivers ints in an

[twitter-dev] friends/ids JSON API

2010-10-26 Thread Alex B
Will this be updating to the snowflake id strs workaround? Currently it delivers ints in an array. I'd like to propose a flag on all JSON API calls (? ids_as_strings=true) to deliver ids as strings instead of ints. This could apply to the cursor problem we saw earlier. -- Twitter developer docum

[twitter-dev] rendering user profile in iFrame

2010-10-07 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm working on a web application and would like to render a user's Twitter profile page in an iFrame. For some reason the profiles are not working, and I'm guessing you have added some type of code to prevent this from happening? Is there a reason why this is not allowed or a way I can enable

[twitter-dev] Including retweet field for search api?

2010-09-25 Thread Alex Dong
Hi there, The current search api provides "reply_to" meta info but doesn't provide any information on "tweet". Wondering what's the recommended way to get the original tweet id for a retweet. Thanks, Alex -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://d

[twitter-dev] Re: How to retrieve more recent popular tweets in search api?

2010-09-23 Thread Alex Dong
ndees can hop in and check out which new tweets they should pay attention to without spending too much time reading through tweets. Alex On Sep 24, 8:47 am, Taylor Singletary wrote: > There isn't a way for this through the Search API at this time. > > While it's not a perfect s

[twitter-dev] How to retrieve more recent popular tweets in search api?

2010-09-23 Thread Alex Dong
urs? I've tried to add a since_id but it doesn't seem to help. Thanks, Alex -- 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 C

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume and freedom of speech

2010-08-21 Thread Alex B
I've run into this issue - Twitter could solve this by allowing XAuth to be used by web clients (with a policy about not abusing it), plus allowing any developer to use XAuth. On Aug 20, 2:34 am, artesea wrote: > Nearly all the users on my dabr install are Chinese and have found it > via word of

[twitter-dev] oauth_signature

2010-08-16 Thread alex
still confused about oauth_signature. what is oauth_signature? who generate oauth_signature? If it is consumer, how to generate oauth_signature ? Im using Abraham's PHP library TwitterOAuth

[twitter-dev] Re: Send Custom Header

2010-08-14 Thread alex
thanks all

[twitter-dev] Send Custom Header

2010-08-13 Thread alex
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 ?

[twitter-dev] Best method of displaying a list of friends

2010-08-08 Thread Alex Chang
What's the best method for display a list of friends to a twitter user? In most other oauth / social network apis - they usually return an id as well as a name. What's the best way to go about showing a list of friends without getting killed by the api limit? Right now I'm using /friends/ids.json

[twitter-dev] Cannot access homepage/timeline for over 24 hours

2010-07-31 Thread Alex Popescu
it is only the fetching the timeline that seems broken. Can someone ping the support team to look into this? many thanks in advance, :- alex

[twitter-dev] Adding and removing from Lists does not appear to be working

2010-07-28 Thread Alex B
Adding and Deleting members from lists appears to be silently failing. This issue also appears to impact the Twitter web interface. Is it just me seeing this bug? Is there any information on the issue?

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter places documentation / bug??

2010-06-20 Thread Alex Korotkov
how can I easilly convert date format (in status -> created_at) to standard -mm-dd H:i:s ???

[twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread Alex B
OK, it's a little confusing naming for display URL, as that implies that is what clients should show directly to the users, as most of the time I would imagine that field should be cut for brevity. The difference between having a ping service that can help twitter track clicks and a redirect servi

[twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread Alex B
What's the algorithm for the display url? Ideally it will be a predictable length, to aid predictability in tweet display code. If the motive is really to protect us from malicious URLs, what about giving a service we can call to route links through your protective redirect servers? Then we can gi

[twitter-dev] Re: Release of PHP Twitter (with OAuth)

2010-05-18 Thread Alex Romijn
Hi Tijs, Great! Will try this out. I read on your site that accountUpdateProfileImage isn't yet implemented. When do you expect this function will be available? Alex On 18 mei, 23:34, Tijs Verkoyen wrote: > Hi all, > > I am Tijs, you may know me by the (wrapper-)class I wrote

Re: [twitter-dev] did they lift the limits on direct messages?

2010-05-12 Thread alex urdea
lor Singletary > Developer Advocate, Twitter > http://twitter.com/episod > > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:47 AM, alex wrote: > >> I'm confused: >> - here it says that there's a limit on direct messages >> >> URL: http://help.twitter.

[twitter-dev] did they lift the limits on direct messages?

2010-05-12 Thread alex
I'm confused: - here it says that there's a limit on direct messages URL: http://help.twitter.com/entries/15364 In the documentation page for this method you have : "API rate limited false": URL: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-direct_messages new Here it says

[twitter-dev] which PHP libraries will still be ok to use with OAuth (Jun 30th)

2010-05-12 Thread alex
Hi guys, Now that twitter will deprecate the the Basic Auth and OAuth will be the standard ( http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-FAQ#WhenareyougoingtoturnoffBasicAuth ) which PHP libraries in this list http://dev.twitter.com/pages/libraries#php are ok to use? (Also, which one do you consider to

[twitter-dev] Re: small update c client

2009-12-22 Thread Alex
thanx for your help, i can't use curl , it's for study purposes. it's actually started working on it's own,strange... now i can twit from my CLI :P again thanx for the response. On Dec 22, 11:35 am, shiplu wrote: > If you get 302 it'll contain a Location header. > Make request to that location

[twitter-dev] small update c client

2009-12-21 Thread Alex
Hey Guys , I'm trying to make a simple C project in Linux , to update my status on twitter . but i get a HTTP 302 found messages all the time . my code is below can u help me? char message[1000]=""; char details[100]="user:password"; char UserPass[100]; int msglen; char status[30]=

[twitter-dev] 500 Internal Server Error when trying to Update Twitter Status

2009-11-22 Thread Alex
Here's My PHP: update("yay!"); if ($success) echo "Tweet successful!"; else echo $tweet->error; ?> ||||| Thanks, Alex

[twitter-dev] Re: New behaviour for statuses/update API call for 141+ char sized messages and duplicates?

2009-10-30 Thread Alex Araujo
Of course it is a bug. On Oct 26, 4:33 pm, Kevin Menard wrote: > Thanks for the info, Dave. > > Although, the fact that the current behavior does not match the API > docs does make it a bug.  Whether that bug is in the implementation or > the docs is really what's up for grabs. > > -- > Kevin >

[twitter-dev] Re: Please Make 401 Singular In Meaning

2009-09-25 Thread Alex Payne
for me to tell where the > actual problem lies and inform the user. Is it with the user's > password, or is it because the user wanted information about a Twitter > account that does not exist? > > Dewald > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Deprecation Notice: pagination on several methods is being replaced with cursoring on October 26, 2009

2009-09-25 Thread Alex Payne
I'll pass those numbers along to our App Services team and see what they can do. On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 19:07, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > > Alex, > > Thanks for this. > > Is there any way that response times on the call could be improved? > > It takes around 4 s

[twitter-dev] Deprecation Notice: pagination on several methods is being replaced with cursoring on October 26, 2009

2009-09-24 Thread Alex Payne
That's over a month from now. Once deprecated, we'll simply ignore the "page" parameter if it's sent by a client, and you'll get the default number of items for the method you're calling. For more information, see http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation. Tha

[twitter-dev] About the oneforty application directory

2009-09-24 Thread Alex Payne
7767, anytime. oneforty Founder Laura (@Pistachio) Fitton will be at events in Fort Worth 9/25, Seattle 9/26-27, SF/bay area 9/27-30 and Boston 10/1 and would love to meet you (see http://bit.ly/tour140 for Tweetup & event info). She also wrote Twitter for Dummies. """ Check 'em out! -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Comments for the group and Twitter staff

2009-09-16 Thread Alex Payne
over bugs so we get fewer duplicates. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 13:47, zippy_monster wrote: > > On Sep 16, 1:41 pm, Alex Payne wrote: > >> One thing I have noticed, though, is developers going through our user >> support track (viahttp://help.twitter.com) rather than contacting t

[twitter-dev] Re: Comments for the group and Twitter staff

2009-09-16 Thread Alex Payne
t; > On Sep 16, 10:37 am, Alex Payne wrote: > >> Often times, we don't hear from unhappy developers until they're >> already outraged and posting on their blogs or in this group. Please: >> give us a chance to help you out first. We may not always be able to >

[twitter-dev] Re: Comments for the group and Twitter staff

2009-09-16 Thread Alex Payne
e a very small team with a very big job, but we've got the funding to add more people. Please, please, please send good people our way! Every addition to the team helps us help you. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 03:13, Fabien Penso wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Matthew Ranne

[twitter-dev] Re: Comments for the group and Twitter staff

2009-09-15 Thread Alex Payne
gt; twitter.com site. > > As far as I can tell, this would solve pretty much every problem the > API has, as there can not be a case where twitter is down, but the API > is up, or the API is down, and twitter is up. > > Twitter should be eating their own dog food :) &g

[twitter-dev] Re: Paging STILL broken

2009-09-15 Thread Alex Payne
> > nor a comment as to whether it's even being addressed. >>> >>> > I need to know that I can expect problems with the platform's basic >>> > functionality to be resolved within a reasonable time-frame. This is >>> > killing my business development efforts. If Twitter wants people to >>> > build businesses on this platform, they HAVE to support it. >>> >>> > PLEASE guys, give us something. Don't make me throw away months of >>> > work and go focus on something unrelated to Twitter. >> > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Comments for the group and Twitter staff

2009-09-15 Thread Alex Payne
or bearing with us. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:13, zippy_monster wrote: > > On Sep 15, 11:04 am, Alex Payne wrote: > >> Please understand that the denormalized lists are currently provided >> to developers on a best-effort basis. For the vast majority of Twitter >>

[twitter-dev] Re: Comments for the group and Twitter staff

2009-09-15 Thread Alex Payne
t; stable enough for me to try to produce a marketable product on my own >> > while at the same time chasing an API around. Is my opinion way off >> > the mark or are some of the other developers out there feeling the >> > same way. >> >> > I am considering restarting development on the project if the Twitter >> > API is likely to get more stable in the near future. >> >> > Thanks for tolerating my ravings >> >> > WyoKnott > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Default profile pics

2009-09-15 Thread Alex Payne
fferent colours? > Yes, that example is only one; e.g.2: > http://s.twimg.com/a/1252980779/images/default_profile_2_normal.png > > a. Can Twitter tell use how many there are of these? > b. How about a user object property "profile_image_default" (true| > false) ? > c. How a

[twitter-dev] Friends Ids API

2009-09-10 Thread Alex Popescu
Returns an array of numeric IDs for every user the specified user is following.[/q] I'd suggest rephrasing it to something like: [q]Returns the array of numeric IDs of all users following the specified user.[/q] Looking forward to hearing your comment on the first issue. Thanks in advance, ./alex

[twitter-dev] Re: Alert: "Twitpocalypse II" coming Friday, September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs!

2009-09-09 Thread Alex Payne
at it was necessary to make this change on Friday. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:13, Hwee-Boon Yar wrote: > > May I know when and where was it mentioned that it will be > artificially increased this coming Friday? > > -- > Hwee-Boon > > On Sep 10, 2:49 am, Alex Payne wrote: &g

[twitter-dev] Re: Geocoded OR search broken?

2009-09-09 Thread Alex Payne
h used to work and now doesn't: >> >> http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=40.757929%2C-73.985506%... >> >> My website (blablabra.net) does similar searches and now receives only >> 403 Forbidden errors or an empty XML/JSON with "You must enter a >> quer

[twitter-dev] Alert: "Twitpocalypse II" coming Friday, September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs!

2009-09-09 Thread Alex Payne
datastore is configured to handle integers of that size. Thanks. -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Geocoded OR search broken?

2009-09-08 Thread Alex Payne
eg OR near:edmonton"  (or the API equivalent) worked just fine. Now > it doesn't return anything new, and seems to return an odd set of old > results. > > You can search for them separately, as in "edmonton OR #yeg" and > "near:edmonton" but not together. &

[twitter-dev] Re: 2 week advance notice: changes to /friends/ids and /followers/ids

2009-09-08 Thread Alex Payne
. > Thanks! > Yu-Shan > > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Alex Payne wrote: >> >> Once we deprecate the page parameter, it will simply be ignored and >> the method will attempt to return the entire result set. >> >> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 15:1

[twitter-dev] Re: 200 "errors"

2009-09-05 Thread Alex
hi Ryan, any update on this issue ?

[twitter-dev] Re: Either destroy is/was failing, or my understanding of destroy is/was failing

2009-09-02 Thread Alex Payne
m/statuses/destroy/3708721364.xml > > > > > >   /statuses/destroy/3708721364.xml > >   We could not delete that status for some reason. > > > > > > > > What gives? Is this something that I’m doing wrong on my end? Momentary > server weirdness? (Though it seems to have been pretty consistent all > night.) > > > > Ted Neward > > Java, .NET, XML Services > > Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing > > http://www.tedneward.com > > > > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Track API Limit message meaning

2009-08-21 Thread Alex Popescu
seems to always be a single value 2. the "track" value seems to be growing in time 3. the "track" value doesn't seem to be a twitter message id Could you please clarify a bit the meaning of these messages? Many thanks in advance, ./alex PS: I've asked John (@jkalucki)

[twitter-dev] https on twimg.com?

2009-08-18 Thread Alex
Our app uses https during the user session and in order to prevent errors in some browsers we must make sure that all files (including images) are loading via https as well. Up until now we were just taking the profile image URL and swapping http for https in the URL, and everything worked fine.

[twitter-dev] Re: Service Update for August 17, 2009

2009-08-17 Thread Alex Payne
23 hours ago, we posted this: http://status.twitter.com/post/164410057/trouble-with-oauth-and-api-clients On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 13:35, Paul McDonald wrote: > > Alex - Is there ANY way you guys could post information to your status > page that a DDOS or issue is going on?   Somethi

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-17 Thread Alex Payne
gt;> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:39 AM, jonat...@scribblelive >> wrote: >> >> > The Twitter OAuth login is working about 50% of the time for us. >> > Sometimes we get failures making the initial request for a token. If >> > that works, and the user gets to th

[twitter-dev] Re: Issues with the API this morning?

2009-08-17 Thread Alex Payne
an wrote: >> >> > > The issue we're seeing at TweetPhoto is that no one can login to their >> > > account when using basic auth. Was informed by Twitter support that >> > > they are aware of the issue and are looking for a fix. >> >> > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Service Update for August 17, 2009

2009-08-17 Thread Alex Payne
ur environment. 5. What kind of network connection you have and from which provider, and what kind of network connectivity devices you're using. Without this information, we cannot adequately troubleshoot your issue while responding to the ongoing attack. Thanks for your consideration. -- A

[twitter-dev] Re: Uploaded new pic to Twitter and it isn't showing up

2009-08-13 Thread Alex Payne
rofile pic" it never shows up. Just has an X on it. It says it's > uploaded, but nothing is there. Only one of my pictures works... and > I'm tired of that one so I wanted to change it. Anything I'm doing > wrong?? Is this a common problem? > -- Alex Payne - P

[twitter-dev] API Changes for August 12, 2009

2009-08-13 Thread Alex Payne
A day late and a bug short... - FIXED: /account/verify_credentials no longer enforces a rate limit that's inconsistent with the rest of the API. Thanks. -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized...

2009-08-12 Thread Alex Payne
ing but > considering our code has not changed I don't want to spend a lot of > time chasing something down that is not my fault and out of my > control. > > PLEASE HELP > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: php curl api calls no returns about 90% of the time

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
s of ratelimit > spare, total failures from twitter all the time. > > A new favourite appeared today from a > http://twitter.com/friends/ids/accountname.xml > get: > > > > > I'd love to know why this is happening, anyone got any ideas? > > Thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: Timeouts and API Errors, Tuesday August 11th

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Alex Payne wrote: > >> Yes, I've just been informed that the attack has resumed, and that our > >> service provider is putting network hardware in place to counter the > attack. > >> We're trying to work wit

[twitter-dev] Re: Timeouts and API Errors, Tuesday August 11th

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
te with them to eliminate it. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 13:58, Sean Callahan wrote: > > Alex, > > Did not see this post and posted a new message. Still receiving lots > of errors and no one can login on our site, tweetphoto.com, right now > along with a handful of others (that I'v

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing same login issues right now as when DDoD happened

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
aware of the downtime issue on > their status page, http://status.twitter.com, but are they aware of > the API issues (e.g., being able to login)? > > Sean > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Timeouts and API Errors, Tuesday August 11th

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
it's still ongoing. I'm seeing far more rejections per > second, and the number of backed-off retries have also increased. > > Dewald > > On Aug 11, 5:37 pm, Andrew Badera wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Alex Payne wrote: > > > Our operations s

[twitter-dev] Re: created_at format

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
> format outputted by search.json because it is easily parsed by the > DateTime object in .NET. > > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Timeouts and API Errors, Tuesday August 11th

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
Our operations staff has informed me that the attack ceased several minutes ago. Site performance should be returning to normal. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:23, Alex Payne wrote: > We're currently experiencing another wave of Distributed Denial of Service > (DDoS) attacks against

[twitter-dev] Timeouts and API Errors, Tuesday August 11th

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
ience. -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweepy -- python library

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
> Thank you for your time and hope you enjoy this library and find it useful. > > Josh > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: TwitterLand - Ruby wrapper for many Twitter-related APIs

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
in-a-single-gem-2215.html > > Thanks, > > Wynn Netherland > // @pengwynn > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: External API Team App Test Site

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
at times like these, you can > run tests and do detail logging. That will enable you to detect and > fix issues long before we start yelling at you. > > Dewald > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Format of 'favorite status' URL

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
irst way of the URL? I would > like to use link with parameters after '?' character. Why doesn't it > work in 'favorite status'? > > Mariusz > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth vs. Basic authentication strictly on iPhone

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
blish the true pros and cons > of each authentication means within the specific use case of the iPhone > only. Many of the other OAuth / Basic auth threads are somewhat overridden > with personally charged statements that I'd rather ignore them. > > Anyway, your constructive views are most appreciated. > > Regards, > > Brad > > > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Following Churn: Specific guidance needed

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Payne
ing > of bulk unfollowing that will result in account suspension? It's very > difficult to manage twitter accounts with the specter of seemingly > arbitrary account suspensions looming without having more specific > guidance on how TOS are interpreted. > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: rate limit has reverted from 20000 to 150 for my IPs...

2009-08-06 Thread Alex Payne
showing 0/150 remaining hits constantly, thus >> bringing my app to a total HALT. >> >> On Aug 6, 1:39 pm, chinaski007 wrote: >> >> >> >> > UGH!  All of my whitelisted IPs have reverted from 20k/hour limit to a >> > 150/hour limit. >> >>

[twitter-dev] Re: API Calls During DoS Attack

2009-08-06 Thread Alex Payne
> Will it help you to recover if we switched off the cron jobs? >> >> Right now most of my connections are just being refused. >> >> Do you guys at least check against the list of white listed IP >> addresses before you block an IP address in times like these? >

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-08-06 Thread Alex Payne
logies. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 02:43, Goblin wrote: > > Alex, is that *not* estimated or was it an iPhone being daft and > changing now to not? > > On Aug 5, 7:11 pm, Alex Payne wrote: >> The change did not go live yesterday due to some deploy issues. It's >> not

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-08-05 Thread Alex Payne
The change did not go live yesterday due to some deploy issues. It's not estimated to go out tomorrow. Once again, sorry for the delay. On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 07:48, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > > Alex, > > Did the change go live on Tuesday? > > I have very irate users due t

[twitter-dev] Re: 2 week advance notice: changes to /friends/ids and /followers/ids

2009-08-04 Thread Alex Payne
Once we deprecate the page parameter, it will simply be ignored and the method will attempt to return the entire result set. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 15:15, janole wrote: > > Hi Alex, > >> In two weeks, we'll be addressing this with a change in back-end >> infrastructure.

[twitter-dev] Re: 2 week advance notice: changes to /friends/ids and /followers/ids

2009-08-04 Thread Alex Payne
It will be a hash with 'ids' as one of the elements. On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 18:26, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > > Alex, > > For non-paged calls, will the result set be  [1,2,3,...] or will it be > {ids: [1,2,3]} ? > > Dewald > > On Jul 31, 3:03 pm, Alex Payne

[twitter-dev] Re: 2 week advance notice: changes to /friends/ids and /followers/ids

2009-08-04 Thread Alex Payne
@yourhead.com > http://www.yourhead.com > > > On Jul 31, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Arik Fraimovich wrote: > > > > On Jul 31, 9:03 pm, Alex Payne wrote: > > To clarify, since several people have asked: this pending change does > > NOT mean that pagination is required. Yo

[twitter-dev] Re: 2 week advance notice: changes to /friends/ids and /followers/ids

2009-08-04 Thread Alex Payne
Graphs of more than several thousand users, following or followed by. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:09, Arik Fraimovich wrote: > > > > On Jul 31, 9:03 pm, Alex Payne wrote: >> To clarify, since several people have asked: this pending change does >> NOT mean that paginat

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-08-03 Thread Alex Payne
ne App.  We also want to encourage you to rollback >> > > > this change ASAP. >> > >> > > > When you say "This approach is what we are going to take.", do you >> > > > mean rolling back the fix so as not to affect multiple, successfu

[twitter-dev] Re: 2 week advance notice: changes to /friends/ids and /followers/ids

2009-07-31 Thread Alex Payne
To clarify, since several people have asked: this pending change does NOT mean that pagination is required. You can still attempt to retrieve all IDs in one call, but be aware that this is likely to time out or fail for users with large social graphs. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:35, Alex Payne

[twitter-dev] 2 week advance notice: changes to /friends/ids and /followers/ids

2009-07-31 Thread Alex Payne
od%3A-friends%C2%A0ids [2] http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-followers%C2%A0ids -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: encoding password

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Payne
ecting data from this one is the > only one that is giving me problem. I have checked if the supplied > username + password are correct and they are. There is one thing > though this user uses special character in his password (&-sign). I've > tried urlencoding the password and using

[twitter-dev] Re: using whitelisted account for getting multiple user statuses

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Payne
status requests using a > whitelisted account (OAuth). > > If it isn't possible, what other options do I have? > > Thanks, > BG > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: tex

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Payne
Please see http://help.twitter.com/ for questions about using Twitter over SMS. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 20:07, canpaul wrote: > > i have a metroPCS cell phone i cant get your texes whats up with that. > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Matt Sanford, signing off.

2009-07-20 Thread Alex Payne
good bye since >> > you're considered an extension of the API/Platform team. This change should >> > be fully backward compatible so I didn't see the need for 7-days notice. >> > >> > Good night, and good luck; >> >  – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford >> >     Twitter Dev >> > >> > * = Who just said "Hi, Dr. Nick." out loud? Your cube neighbor thinks >> > you're >> > crazy. > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: API Developers Alliance

2009-07-20 Thread Alex Payne
microblogging) is working on > > a name registration system, so these 140-character messages can find > > new paths The clients could then update open networks with one extra > > line of code, then bypass the Twitter API entirely, if they had to. > > > > I don't

[twitter-dev] Re: Rules About Making Money

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Payne
does anyone know the legality of using > there service to make money? And the legality of them being able to > shut off my account? Thanks. > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Following metric is null

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Payne
just how many users > he's following. > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Alex Payne wrote: > >> This is as designed. That attribute is essentially being >> deprecated. But in the Streaming API, we don't populate that field because >> we don't kno

[twitter-dev] Re: Following metric is null

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Payne
> Hi all, >Has anyone seen the "following" field from gardenhose API always > returning null? Is this as designed or is it a bug? > > Thanks, > Kris. > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed API returning "over capacity" HTML page content

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Payne
> > Thanks. I have similar code around the web calls, but had not put it > around the json parse yet. > > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

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