[twitter-dev] Re: Update on Twifficiency

2010-08-18 Thread Ben Metcalfe
: [x] public tweets [ ] send tweets [ ] read direct messages This seems more appropriate but would also deal with the issue of surprising auto-tweets when the app developer doesn't highlight it up front. What do people think? Thanks, Ben Metcalfe On Aug 18, 1:45 pm, Brian Sutorius wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: t.co issue -- querying for original url in streaming & search apis

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Metcalfe
I would love to see twitter include the original unwrapped url in a key/value in the annotation field (else otherwise it's own specific key/value in the payload). There are loads of use cases for this: from search/discovery through to reducing latency for twitter clients that want to show the orig

[twitter-dev] Re: search API - why not XML output...

2009-07-06 Thread Ben Metcalfe
Atom is XML On Jul 6, 8:03 am, Carlos wrote: > Hi, bu looking at the search API docs I see the output format is JSON > and Atom, why not X-ML?  Forgive me I haven´t tried myself to request > xml to see what I get, but hopefully the docs are obsoletea and XML is > supported best regards, Carl

[twitter-dev] Re: Using MagpieRSS Authentication with the Twitter API

2009-07-06 Thread Ben Metcalfe
Your best best, IMHO, is to follow the sample code on this wiki to request the API payload via CURL and then dump the response into the MagpieRSS parser. It's just easier that way, I find - as authentication via CURL is known to work out of the box. This will also make your code more future proo

Being kind to the API - how many requests per minute is acceptable?

2009-01-02 Thread Ben Metcalfe
I'm building a twitter authority bot that makes numerous calls to twitter to derive a given user's authority. I'm about to turn this motha' on in production, and so I'm just wondering how many calls to the API I can make per minute and without being considered harmful? I have a whitelisted userna