[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Update, 8/9 noon PST

2009-08-09 Thread Arik Fraimovich
On Aug 9, 10:13 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: *Finally* have what we hope is good news for everyone. Everything seems to behave much better now. Thank you and the rest of the team ! -- Arik Fraimovich

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

2009-07-31 Thread Arik Fraimovich
social graphs. What is defined as large social graphs? -- Arik Fraimovich follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/arikfr

[twitter-dev] How do you store Twitter profiles in your database?

2009-05-14 Thread Arik Fraimovich
I came to the point in my application development, that I need to start caching profiles. I guess that many of you already doing such caching and can share some tips from your experience. Basically what I thought about is to store the cached profiles in a DB table. What I wasn't sure about is

[twitter-dev] Re: Send @replies/mentions via SMS?

2009-05-11 Thread Arik Fraimovich
Someone already developed an application that forwards mentions to DM (see here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Application-Ideas). When I tried it, it didn't work that good, but I think he did some changes since then. On May 11, 8:15 am, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: I've been banging my head

[twitter-dev] Re: Direct Message Emails Vulnerable?

2009-05-06 Thread Arik Fraimovich
DK was abandonded by Yahoo awhile ago, but DKIM is very stable.   Twitter runs DKIM signing and verification code on all of our mail   servers, as does Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and many other major sites. OK. Will study further and implement the necessary check. And Dale - I somehow missed

[twitter-dev] Re: Direct Message Emails Vulnerable?

2009-05-05 Thread Arik Fraimovich
I do have to question having your client verify DKIM again, though.   These activities should be dealt with inside of your MTA and not a   mail destination script hanging off of the MTA. What exactly are you   trying to protect against? A user forging an email to your MTA as   twitter? Yes -

[twitter-dev] Re: Direct Message Emails Vulnerable?

2009-05-04 Thread Arik Fraimovich
On May 4, 1:26 pm, John Adams j...@twitter.com wrote: On May 4, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Dale Cook wrote: So my question is, is there anyway to authenticate that the email is actually coming from twitter and not someone else? It's pretty easy to prove the mail was sent from us. We use  

[twitter-dev] Re: Direct Message Emails Vulnerable?

2009-05-04 Thread Arik Fraimovich
user=example@postmaster.twitter.com. If you set the address to be something random and non public, like MD5(time)@yourdomain.com, it Ah, but then your email address wouldn't be very human readable and   you'd have to change your email address all the time (if you were   using the

[twitter-dev] Re: Anyone updating email address from API?

2009-04-24 Thread Arik Fraimovich
We at Topify thought of using that method, but decided not to. It seems to be too intrusive to change someone's email that way. I prefer the user does that on his own. Actually, I think they should deprecate this method - never seen an application that uses it and don't want to stumble at one

[twitter-dev] Re: autenticating user using OAuth

2009-04-14 Thread Arik Fraimovich
On Apr 13, 10:37 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:      It is currently the case that you will get the Accept/Deny page   every time. We're working on a redirect like Zachary mentioned and   hope to have it out by the end of the week. Is this kind of usage you will encourage or is it

[twitter-dev] Email Headers for Follower Request

2009-03-13 Thread Arik Fraimovich
future? Thanks, Arik Fraimovich (@arikfr)