Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Chirp on Justin.tv

2010-04-19 Thread Doug Williams
The videos are preserved at http://justin.tv/twitterchirp/all. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:41 PM, 46Bit wrote: > Just to check - if we're unable to watch the live stream I presume > saved videos will be available afterwards? > > On Apr 13, 8:06 pm, Doug Williams

Re: [twitter-dev] Chirp on Justin.tv

2010-04-13 Thread Doug Williams
For completeness sake, the URL below will host the video on the Chirp site: http://chirp.twitter.com/live.html <http://chirp.twitter.com/live.html>Thanks, Doug On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Doug Williams wrote: > Dewald, > This will be public (no access code needed) f

Re: [twitter-dev] Chirp on Justin.tv

2010-04-13 Thread Doug Williams
Dewald, This will be public (no access code needed) for the event. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > I notice that the Chirp channel is set to a private channel. > http://www.justin.tv/twitterchirp > > Is it going to be made public on Wednesday, or else,

[twitter-dev] Details on the Chirp Hack Day Showcase

2010-04-08 Thread Doug Williams
Hi all -- The Hack Day at Chirp is a remarkable opportunity for the Twitter Platform. It is the first time that the ecosystem and Twitter's extended team will meet under one roof. We are excited to collaborate at such a deep level; answering questions face-to-face while updating the Twitter team on

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Chirp is coming to San Francisco April 14 and 15

2010-04-06 Thread Doug Williams
Jonathan, Lead the way! I'll happily point to any any efforts you are doing around coordination with the @Chirp account, etc... Thanks, Doug On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 15:06, Jonathan Strauss < > jonat...@snowballfact

[twitter-dev] Chirp is coming to San Francisco April 14 and 15

2010-04-05 Thread Doug Williams
Hi all -- With only nine days left until Biz's opening speech, Chirp -- Twitter's first conference for developers -- is fast approaching! The two day event will be in San Francisco on April 14th and 15th. You can image how excited we are to have a conversation with everyone from the ecosystem in th

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: @twitterapi meetup @ Twitter HQ

2010-03-01 Thread Doug Williams
We're going to use moderator to drive some of the discussion tonight. Ask and vote for questions here: http://bit.ly/bhRx7L Thanks, Doug On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jaanus wrote: > On Feb 27, 1:00 am, "Orian Marx (@orian)" wrote: > > If TwitterHQ isn't opposed I'm sure there's someone wh

[twitter-dev] Do you want to work at Twitter?

2009-10-21 Thread Doug Williams
t the best platform on the web, please apply: http://bit.ly/Twitter_Platform. The work here is fast and dynamic, and we don't always know where the road will lead. Which is what makes it fun. We look forward to hearing from you and all of your ideas to make the Platform great. Thanks, Doug Williams http://twitter.com/dougw

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread Doug Williams
> > [1] > http://status.twitter.com/post/163603406/working-on-unexpected-downtime > > > > > Thanks, > > > Doug > > > > > On Aug 15, 11:08 am, Doug Williams wrote: > > > > > > Hi all --If you have been monitoring our status blog [1]

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter, Auto-Follow Question

2009-08-15 Thread Doug Williams
Hi -- Auto following is discouraged. However if your app relies on the user following your account, you should clearly state well ahead of the auto follow action what relationship changes will occur to the user's account. Thanks, Doug Sent from my mobile. On Aug 15, 2009, at 12:07 PM, b

[twitter-dev] Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread Doug Williams
Hi all --If you have been monitoring our status blog [1] or been to Twitter.com today you have noticed that we are once again experiencing problems due to external causes. The issues causing the downtime require that we once again take measures to bring the site back online. The first step our ope

[twitter-dev] Re: Pagination limit for REST API(3200)

2009-08-03 Thread Doug Williams
Hi there -- Check out #6 in the Things Every Developer Should Know article [1]. 1. https://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know Thanks, Doug On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, dp wrote: > > When the REST API limit for using count/page reaches 3200 for a > particular user accoun

[twitter-dev] Introducing Chad Etzel, Twitter Platform Support

2009-07-31 Thread Doug Williams
Hi all -- We are excited to announce that Chad Etzel has joined our team part-time to support the developer community. He is the one man show behind TweetGrid [1] amongst other projects [2]. We reached out to Chad to join our team after his continual and valuable participation in the community made

[twitter-dev] Re: OAUTH: Basic Auth is simpler/more reliable/more secure/better received than OAuth!?

2009-07-31 Thread Doug Williams
working now? > Jesse > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Doug Williams wrote: > >> Jesse, >> That is not true. With the Sign in with Twitter flow (not the standard >> OAuth flow which is also available) -- If the user is logged in and has >> previously a

[twitter-dev] Re: OAUTH: Basic Auth is simpler/more reliable/more secure/better received than OAuth!?

2009-07-31 Thread Doug Williams
ove to a >>> better Auth system than OAuth? With Facebook Connect I just have to click >>> once, and if the user is already logged in and approved my app, they never >>> see the Facebook login box again. Where as with Twitter there are 3 points >>> of potential

[twitter-dev] Re: Follow up

2009-07-31 Thread Doug Williams
Thanks for the kind words, from the Twitter team. Cheers, Doug On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:52 PM, MRWILLAN wrote: > > I like to take this time to personally THANK Twitter Development for > the work your doing and fixing in the line of spam follow up and > tactical problems, I know there must be

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: since_id is now unreliable

2009-07-30 Thread Doug Williams
o being consistent... > > Thanks! > > Brooks > > > > > On Jul 21, 3:45 pm, Doug Williams wrote: > > Chad,Your assessment is spot on. > > > > At the heart of search there are a number of data stores that accept > queries > > (reads) while at the same t

[twitter-dev] Re: Where did Advanced Search go?

2009-07-30 Thread Doug Williams
You can access advanced search here: http://search.twitter.com/advanced Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Vincent Nguyen wrote: > Yes, me too! Dunno where it went?? > > 2009/7/30 Joseph > >> >> From twitter.com. I'm pretty sure it was there a couple of days ago. >> Am I not caffeine

[twitter-dev] Re: Logging Out of Twitter Through API

2009-07-29 Thread Doug Williams
The account/end_session method does not log the user out of Twitter.com. It simply invalidates the session token that is created with the current API session. There is no method that will log a user out of Twitter.com. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Stuart wrote: > > 2009/7/29 G

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

2009-07-29 Thread Doug Williams
> mean rolling back the fix so as not to affect multiple, successful, > authorized logins? I'm hopeful that "this approach" means that our > apps will not be affected yet again by changing to a new auth > approach. > > I appreciate you all keeping this thread infor

[twitter-dev] Re: OAUTH: Basic Auth is simpler/more reliable/more secure/better received than OAuth!?

2009-07-29 Thread Doug Williams
Well said, Duane. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Duane Roelands wrote: > > First, let me state from the start that I am no fan of OAuth, > Twitter's implementation of it, or the way that they've behaved with > regard to it. Now, with all that being said. > > If your website expect

[twitter-dev] Re: Help with my rate limit issue?

2009-07-28 Thread Doug Williams
You can also take a look at the public /follow method of the Streaming API: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:23 PM, chinaski007 wrote: > > > There is no direct way to do this, no. But you might be able to > accomplish the same thing

[twitter-dev] Re: Status Id question

2009-07-28 Thread Doug Williams
Guna,Check into the in_reply_to_status_id parameter for the statuses/update method [1]: in_reply_to_status_id. Optional. The ID of an existing status that the update is in reply to. - Note: This parameter will be ignored unless the author of the tweet this parameter references is mentioned

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
If you are using a client library, please specify the library and version. There is a chance that you are all running into the same library-based incompatibility and could work together (or with the maintainer) to determine the fix. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Doug Williams

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
Please use the OAuth playground [1] to test your signatures against the expected result. I am working to gather specifics to help your debug process (i.e. what changed?) in the mean time. 1. http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/ Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:29 PM, winrich wrot

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter: What did you change in OAuth?

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
Duane,I will gather some specifics and post them here. We appreciate your patience. In the mean time, you can use the OAuth playground to see where your signature is failing: http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/ Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Duane Roelands wrote: > > S

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
wrote: > > Are we sure there is no further regression bug in this new fix? > > > > On Jul 27, 7:14 pm, Doug Williams wrote: > > > > > > > > > If you are still seeing errors you should check your code to ensure > that you > > > are sending th

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
hinaski007 wrote: > > Doug: > > > > Does this mean that Marcel made a fix for this? Or rather that we > > should examine our code to find the culprit? > > > > Thanks, > > Peter Bray > > > > On Jul 27, 6:24 pm, Doug Williams wrote: > &

[twitter-dev] Re: What's the difference between 'statuses/replies' and 'statuses/mentions' ?

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
statuses/replies is an alias for statues/mentions. It is completely due to history where mentions used to be called replies. Rather than break apps that relied on statuses/replies, we made an alias to ensure backward compatibility. Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Kuo Yang wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: streaming API for DM for multiple users ?

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
There is currently no Streaming API to receive DMs for a given user. If you have a great use case for this please share it here. We like to have justification for new streaming methods. If you have ideas to help augment a business case for engineering resources, we would love to know about them. T

[twitter-dev] Re: Search Posting speed

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
We index tweets very quickly, normally within a few seconds. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Green McP wrote: > > Hi, > > How quickly are Tweets available in the search results? Should I > assume a minute until it's guaranteed to show up? Five minutes? Just > wondering for an a

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
and ensure you are correctly signing requests as per the spec. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Doug Williams wrote: > Marcel is shipping a fix for this as I type. > > Thanks, > Doug > > > > > 2009/7/27 João Pereira > > Same here. >> >>

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
Marcel is shipping a fix for this as I type. Thanks, Doug 2009/7/27 João Pereira > Same here. > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:26 AM, goodtest wrote: > >> >> twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since >> 5.15 pm pst > > > > >

[twitter-dev] Re: search.twitter.com only returns 30 days of content?

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
No. We currently only return around 7 days of data with search. You can learn more about this, and the reasons behind it, in our Getting Started materials provided on apiwiki.twitter.com. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:23 PM, jms wrote: > > We recently hosted conference attendees used

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

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
monitor these forums and the API Issues and still see too many OAuth > > issues being reported to give me a level of comfort that I can safely > > switch over to OAuth. > > > > On Jul 24, 5:46 pm, Doug Williams wrote: > > > > > > > > > Well said

[twitter-dev] Re: jSon description

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
I see this is the second post for this same question. Please refrain from posting multiple times. It adds value to the list. You are running into a bug that has been discussed here in the past. The value of the following field was unreliable due to caching constraints. A few weeks ago we deprecated

[twitter-dev] Re: user is fallowing me ?

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
We've got a method for that: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friendships-show Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:39 AM, cem wrote: > w can I know from my application that the user sent the reply is > fallowing me . I fallowed myself from another account and the >

[twitter-dev] Re: Json coming data description .

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
Please see http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Return-Values Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:00 AM, cem wrote: > > Hi I am getting data from twitter in an array but I need detailed > definition of fields there for example what will the value fallowing > get if the user is fallowing me ? Is ther

[twitter-dev] Re: Problems with http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.atom

2009-07-26 Thread Doug Williams
I was unable to reproduce with a script. Is anyone else seeing this? Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 7:12 PM, TjL wrote: > > > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-friends_timeline > lists > > URL: > http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.format > > Format

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

2009-07-24 Thread Doug Williams
>>> but since it defaults to be the same as their public ID, only those >>> concerned about their service being denied would change it and >>> subsequently use it instead of their public ID to access associated >>> sites such as twitpic or twxlate. >>> &g

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?

2009-07-24 Thread Doug Williams
t; "http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml?count=100&page=44"; | grep >> > > > "" | wc -l >> > > > 17 >> > > > doug-williamss-macbook-pro:~ igudo$ curl -u dougw:PASSWORD >> > > > "http://twitter.com/statuses/

[twitter-dev] Re: The Gardenhose Cooperative

2009-07-23 Thread Doug Williams
What John was referring to above were the statements in the EULA which you sign to access the gardenhose which prohibit this type of redistribution. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Twittledee wrote: > > So, I actually think that this is a very interesting idea ... but I > would

[twitter-dev] Lowering rate limits for unidentified Search API traffic

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
All --Last month we sent out the following call to developers [1] to add identifying User Agents and HTTP Referrer strings to their Search API traffic. This is part of a drawn out push to incent as much of our search traffic as possible to include this identifying data. To identify your applicatio

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

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
Scott,This change will only affect Basic Auth, and will not affect OAuth applications. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Scott wrote: > > Thanks for the update Doug. Does this still apply to OAuth apps? > Also, if a user goes through an app and unsuccessfully attempts to > login

[twitter-dev] Re: Create Favourite API Not returning new status

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
Verified and accepted this defect. In the future, let's keep noise down on this list by leaving this discussion to the issue tracker itself. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Coderanger wrote: > > I recently posted this as a bug and was hoping if anyone else can > verify it: htt

[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
Joseph,I assume you mean the sentiment portion of the Search API? That is not available as structured data through an API call. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Joseph wrote: > > Is the attitude (tude) flag stored as part of a tweet? and if so, do > any of the data structures re

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Let's bring the discussion on the update to the new thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/2d68c74567bc9809 Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Doug Williams wrote: > Martin, > The change certainly went out premature

[twitter-dev] Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Devs --A change shipped last week that limited the number of times a user could access the account/verify_credentials method [1] in a given hour. This change proved hasty and short-sighted as pointed out by the subsequent discussion [2]. We apologize to any developer that was adversely affected. Gi

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: since_id is now unreliable

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Chad,Your assessment is spot on. At the heart of search there are a number of data stores that accept queries (reads) while at the same time perform writes from an indexer. Heavy load -- large numbers of queries, large number of writes or both, or both -- can cause the write replication between th

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
se my application because everyone will get suspended who uses it > then? > > Thanks, > Serge > > On Jul 20, 11:11 pm, Doug Williams wrote: >> Serge, >> Looking at the account I'm not quite sure why it was suspended. The >> records are inconclusive. I'

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
Martin, The change certainly went out prematurely which is admittedly a mistake on our end. I will have details tomorrow morning to share about our fix. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Martin Omander wrote: > > Doug, > > Thanks for letting us know about the new request limit. I

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
We are going to roll this change back and re-evaluate how we can better accomplish our goals. There are problems and shortcomings of this strategy that we need to mitigate. I will update this thread when we have a concrete plan to share. I do not have a definite date or time for the rollback but

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

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
x27;d like to work on the API, we're hiring: >>> http://static.twitter.com/jobvite_frame.html?c=q8X9VfwT&jvi=oAYcVfwp,Job. >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 22:05, Doug Williams wrote: >>> > >>> > We will certainly miss having you on the team,

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
> Support also keeps changing the status on my support thread to solved > while it clearly isn't. > > Thanks for looking in to this. > > Serge > > On Jul 20, 8:43 pm, Doug Williams wrote: >> Hard to check into your suspension without a username :) I&

[twitter-dev] Re: What is users/show time caching for profile_image_url ?

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
Kevin, Please do not bump your thread here. It adds no value and contributes noise. That said, there is an open issue for this [1]. Be sure to add a star to receive updates to the defect. The defect is due to a replication delay and typically takes less than 90 minutes for the replication to reac

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
Hard to check into your suspension without a username :) I'd take this off-list but I am hoping there is a learning opportunity here. Whitelisted accounts are able to get suspended. Whitelisting affects REST API GET requests and DM update limits only. It does not protect you from suspension, it w

[twitter-dev] Re: API Developers Alliance

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
We have discussed establishing a more formal relationship with developer representatives to help bring outside perspective and balance to our larger platform decisions. We are still a few quarters away from where we envisioned this model being viable. If Peter and others could come up with a plan

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
All, This change was thrown out on the pipeline rather quickly. We admittedly should have done a better job voicing this rollout well in advance though it was not a normal week at HQ for a number of very public and private reasons. Users are now limited to 15 calls to account/verify_credentials pe

[twitter-dev] Re: status ping?

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
Andy, What is your goal? Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Andrew Badera wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Stuart wrote: > >> >> 2009/7/18 Andrew Badera : >> > What's the best/lowest impact fashion of polling Twitter for status if >> > you're not already performing an op

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

2009-07-19 Thread Doug Williams
We will certainly miss having you on the team, Matt. Regards, Doug On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:19 PM, surya sravanthi wrote: > > All the bast Matt!!! Thanks for all you > r help . > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Matt Sanford wrote: > > > > Hi everybody*, > > > >Starting next week I

[twitter-dev] Re: Direct Message Limit for a Game we are creating & what playspymaster does

2009-07-16 Thread Doug Williams
Abir,By default, accounts are limited to 250 direct messages a day. Whitelisted accounts are able to make 10K direct messages a day. Design for these constraints and ensure notifications are opt-in, and we are happy to support your app. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Abir wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: All updates for a user

2009-07-16 Thread Doug Williams
You can page through a user_timeline [1], up to the last 3200 tweets [2]. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-user_timeline 2. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#6Therearepaginationlimits Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:50 PM, John

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-16 Thread Doug Williams
By suspension, do you mean rate limiting [1]? 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:21 PM, sjespers wrote: > > Nothing special. It's a simple mobile Twitter app. Because I'm using > Flash Lite I use my server as a proxy between the app and the

[twitter-dev] Re: Avatar returning the same large file for mini, normal, bigger

2009-07-16 Thread Doug Williams
That looks like the result from a rather old bug (which has been closed) that allowed images to upload without resizing. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:22 PM, TCI wrote: > > ... which is evidently slowing down pages that download these images > and then scale them to their small size.

[twitter-dev] Re: Does Rate Limiting Apply to Users or Clients?

2009-07-16 Thread Doug Williams
Agreed. I will massage the copy today. Of course I'm assuming people read the documentation but it is at least a start. Again, if you have suggestions, please email a...@twitter.com. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Matt Sanford wrote: > > Hi Lee, > >The rate limit is per-acc

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messaging limits and best practices for individual services?

2009-07-16 Thread Doug Williams
Whitelisted users have a direct messaging limit of 5K messages per day. Whitelisted users do not receive and increase in public status updates, however. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:32 AM, jmathai wrote: > >> >> If you're se

[twitter-dev] Re: Rules About Making Money

2009-07-15 Thread Doug Williams
There have never been any conversations internally about shutting down services for competitive reasons. That would contradict our ethos of an open API and work against the fostering of a healthy ecosystem. The majority of our conversations center around how to stabilize the developer-base and ens

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed update doesn't return an error message?

2009-07-14 Thread Doug Williams
ers started with > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > > In other words, this is the same problem I ran into yesterday. Is > there any other data that would help troubleshoot this? > > All the best, > > /Martin > > > > On Jul 13, 5:52 pm, Doug Williams wrote: >> Martin

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed update doesn't return an error message?

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
Martin, This sounds like issue 795 [1]. When you get the 200, are you sending the same (duplicate) text as the last successful update? If so, this is the expected behavior. However, if you are sending new (non duplicate) text and you are hitting the update limit, you should be receiving a HTTP 40

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit reporting

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
Martin, That's interesting. Is there a pattern to this? Can you offer steps for recreation? It would be helpful to have full header information when this does happen so we can look to see if a specific machine that is returning incorrect information. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:26 P

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets not getting to search.twitter.com

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
Randy, Please see the help article on this very subject [1]. If this is for a developer or API related project please contact us off list so we can discuss [2]. 1. http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/42646 2. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Support Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:

[twitter-dev] Re: "favorited" always returns false in favorites/create

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
Confirmed on my end. Can you please create a new issue for this [1]. 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Thorsten Suckow-Homberg wrote: > > Hey there, > > when calling /favorites/create/[id].xml > > the response body always retur

[twitter-dev] Re: change my image ; old profile_image_url seen in response to users/show

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
This seems like a caching invalidation bug. We will be discussing it at tomorrow's team meeting and I am hopeful the fix will be coming shortly. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Rudifa wrote: > > > Thank you, Clint > > After I posted my questions I went out for a long walk. > Now

[twitter-dev] Re: make links from description clickable

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
Tom, We do not allow HTML in tweets. Only plain text. Any links sent will be automatically linked on Twitter.com but it is up to third-party clients to handle any linking within their application. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Stuart wrote: > > 2009/7/13 Tom : > > > > I'm kind

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-07-12 Thread Doug Williams
rls would be delivered sometime in June 2009. Do we have any > updates? Thanks. > > > > On May 21, 6:14 pm, Doug Williams wrote: > > Thanks for your patience guys -- we realize the benefits of predictable > > static URLs. It's unfortunately kind of back-burner wo

[twitter-dev] Re: Going all the way back -- the 3200-tweet limit is annoying / frustrating

2009-07-12 Thread Doug Williams
You can post bugs and feature requests here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list This specific issue will be moved to the V2 Roadmap but please to create one so we can track the request. Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:53 AM, JDG wrote: > Post a reply to @twitterapi for

[twitter-dev] Re: User Search API

2009-07-11 Thread Doug Williams
Samir, User search is something we would like to offer in the future through the API. The project is not highly ranking on the current overall roadmap, so there is no ship date to report. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:53 PM, SamirR wrote: > > Are there plans to implement user sear

[twitter-dev] Re: Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-10 Thread Doug Williams
All -- We are rolling back the twimg.com change because a number of issues became apparent when we moved it into production -- one being the lack of SSL support in the caching layer that many have noted. We do hope to make this change rather soon, but we have problems to fix before moving forward w

[twitter-dev] Re: is there a way to get tweets during a block of time?

2009-07-10 Thread Doug Williams
Joe, With the REST API you will need to perform parsing of data based on timestamp on the client side. We do not have facility in the API to request data since a timestamp. There was a parameter ("since") that allowed such a search but it was removed a number of months back as you see in the change

[twitter-dev] Re: Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-09 Thread Doug Williams
hu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Clint Shryock wrote: > >> I'm still having issues with the profile_image_url attribute of users/show >> updating in a timely fashion, any chance this issue be resolved with this >> update? >> +Clint >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 8,

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth pin only works first try?

2009-07-09 Thread Doug Williams
Indeed, this is by design. As Grant said, it is to prevent brute force attacks. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Grant Emsley wrote: > > I thought it might be by design, but couldn't find that mentioned > anywhere. I guess it is necessary to prevent apps guessing the pin, > thou

[twitter-dev] Re: Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
aribitrary sub-domain (*.twimg.com). Thanks, Doug On Jul 8, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Doug Williams wrote: Folks -- We are going to be moving images to a new domain (twimg.com) to streamline our image hosting and offer better performance. We hope this will have limited impact as will only change the

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
At the moment there is no internal interest in offering a programmatic URL scheme to locate user images. One of the easiest cache breaking strategies is to change the URL for the image which works across browsers, applications, etc., which is why we like the unique URLs. Additionally, we want to en

[twitter-dev] Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
Folks -- We are going to be moving images to a new domain (twimg.com) to streamline our image hosting and offer better performance. We hope this will have limited impact as will only change the image URL. Example URLs include: Profile images: http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_ima

[twitter-dev] Re: Pull email address after authentication?

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
It is not possible to view a user's email address. Additionally, it is not possible to perform a user lookup based on an email address. If you do not trust an application enough to not change your email address, we suggest you not use that application. As always, please email a...@twitter.com if y

[twitter-dev] /search ending service for unsupported HTTP methods after July 15, 2009

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
The documentation for the /search method [1] specifies that all queries should be performed with an HTTP GET. On or after July 15, 2009, we will begin enforcing the use of HTTP GET for all queries. Requests sent to the /search method which are not performed with an HTTP GET will be met with an HTTP

[twitter-dev] /search ending service for unsupported HTTP methods after July 15, 2009

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
The documentation for the /search method [1] specifies that all queries should be performed with an HTTP GET. On or after July 15, 2009, we will begin enforcing the use of HTTP GET for all queries. Requests sent to the /search method which are not performed with an HTTP GET will be met with an HTTP

[twitter-dev] Re: Trying very hard to use OAuth - need help!

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
Abraham Williams has a great PHP sample here that is simple and easy to use: http://twitter.abrah.am/ Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Echieo wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I'd really like to use OAuth for my new twitter application, as I know > Twitter is trying to move in that di

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Doug Williams
The replies and DMs sent to @spam are manually reviewed by our abuse support staff at the moment. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Zac Bowling wrote: > > Is the @spam account monitored by a bot or a human? > > Zac Bowling > > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jeffrey > Greenbe

[twitter-dev] Re: When requesting user updates api returns 502 error

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
but it returns 502 error. I realize that when I typed it to the > browser's adress bar, there is no problem. > > > > On Jul 7, 12:54 am, Doug Williams wrote: > > Kaan,Please provide more details about what you are doing and how you are > > trying to obtain the data. Withou

[twitter-dev] Re: Are status IDs sequential?

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
Yes they are sequential, meaning that you can and should use the last tweet a user has read as the since_id for subsequent calls. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Duane Roelands wrote: > > Is a tweet with a higher status ID always newer than a tweet with a > lower status ID? > >

[twitter-dev] Re: When requesting user updates api returns 502 error

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
Kaan,Please provide more details about what you are doing and how you are trying to obtain the data. Without any of these details, it's hard to deduce why you are getting a 502 Timeout. Thanks, Doug 2009/7/6 Kaan ŞENGÜL > > I'm working on a project that needs one person's timeline, I mean al

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
u follow me? http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Duane Roelands wrote: > > Do you ever get an empty response set? I was experimenting with the > pagination and I found that if you request page 20 (for example) for > someone who only has one page of friends, y

[twitter-dev] Re: Is there a partial blacklist?

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
Please email the API team for questions pertaining to development or application accounts [1]. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Support Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:40 AM, tweetalkr wrote: > > My web app was flagged by Google two weeks ago as an attack site > though I have never foun

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
You should either page through statuses/friends until you get an empty response set or use statuses/show to get the number of friends expected and intelligently page to the end of the list. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Dmitriy Vyukov wrote: > > Hi! > > It's unclear how I mus

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth company name

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Williams
Peter, Verification of companies is in the future for Twitter. There is no publicly released ship date to mention but it is safe to say that within the next year that this should be coming to the service. Thanks, Doug On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:47 PM, JDG wrote: > i think the only thing that wo

[twitter-dev] Re: Stream API : Tracker and Follow together

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Williams
Yes, you can use two Streaming API methods from the same IP address. As you already know, it will require two accounts when connecting simultaneously. Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Cary Knoop wrote: > > I am writing an application and ideally I like to use Tracker to > follow

[twitter-dev] Re: Taken Usernames

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Williams
Josh, Check out our help article on user names [1]. If you own the trademark, please submit a ticket through the support site and explain your situation. They have a 10 day backlog so please be patient. 1. http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/14608 Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at

[twitter-dev] Re: Need extra parameters

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Williams
Try the page parameter. Here's the documentation to get you started [1]. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-user_timeline Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ravinder Chopra < ravinderc.impi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi > > > I think i need extra param

[twitter-dev] Re: daily follow/unfollow/update limit

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Williams
ou please help me understand what I can do to add followers >> again? >> >> Thanks for your attention. >> >> On Jul 2, 8:13 am, Doug Williams wrote: >> >>> It initially seemed like you were asking about the update limit but now >>> you &

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