[twitter-dev] Re: A new permission level

2011-05-18 Thread James Peter
Thanks Matt, Two important implementation questions that aren't 100% clear from that announcement or any supporting docs at this point; 1) "we are also restricting this permission to the OAuth /authorize web flow only" To be clear, does this include using the OAuth "/authenticate" method as well

[twitter-dev] "Over the limit for this type of request, please wait a while and try again"

2010-10-05 Thread James Peter
Hi folks, Our service has been down for over 3 days now due to broken API calls. Still waiting on any information from Twitter about what's going on, but still in the dark. About 3 days ago we started receiving messages (incorrectly in the new error structure) saying "Over the limit for this typ

[twitter-dev] Twitter API intermittent "Connection reset by peer"

2010-09-09 Thread James Peter
I'm getting some very strange intermittent errors when connecting to the API. It's completely take down our app. It looks like connections are getting reset intermittently. See a transcript below - the first attempt it works fine, then second two the connection resets. Sometimes it just hangs for m

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-26 Thread James Peter
The more I think about this situation, the less I like it. At first I was happy that the service I work on was not banned by this ToS change. Even though we use twitter data for monetisation, we don't insert data into timelines. However, when I look at the services that have now been banned, I ca