Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Early look at Annotations

not necessarily - twitterbots are easy to build. you can't rely on lack of usage by humans to kill a twitter app. Raffi Krikorian wrote: if there happens to be a rogue app, then users will stop using it. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Subscription se

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Early look at Annotations

comments inline... Dewald Pretorius wrote: Marcel, I'd strongly urge you to consider a more structured and controlled environment for annotations. agreed, but... Ideally, I think an OAuth app must register a namespace, or subscribe to an existing namespace of another app, before it can c

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Annotation details

Wow, another cool idea introduced at Chirp (was it?). Honestly, I'd just love a free (beer) geocoding service that didn't force me to use google maps. Twitter has helped me make $10 so far (woohoo!); perhaps as I make more with it I'll actually be able to afford going to Chirp! 8-))) Joseph

Re: [twitter-dev] Early look at Annotations

awesome idea! I know I can find a use for it. Some concerns, however, below... Joseph Cheek Marcel Molina wrote: the sentence Namespaces aren't intended as a way for people to claim their little slice of the tweet space. and the sentence If you want a given key to mean one thin

Re: [twitter-dev] Adding line breaks in tweets

imics the behaviour of HTML clients. bottom line: I don't think you will find a client that will honor a NL. you might be able to get a few  s in to emphasize your URL by separating it from your text, but it's iffy and (at six chars for a single blank space) expensive. Joseph Cheek j

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

t that *is* how it was announced - increase the new *maximum* status ID [emphasis mine] to 4294967296. $ echo $[ 65536 * 65536 ] 4294967296 thanks! Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Chad Etzel wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:29 PM

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

. > > -Chad > -- Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

uch more a pain in C >>>> >>> than >>> >>>> it is in PHP. I suggest Twitter leave it the way it is - it should be up >>>> >>> to >>> >>>> the end recipient to convert it in a way that works. Maybe write some >>>> >>> new >>> >>>> JSON libraries that parse it correctly? That's what open source is for. >>>> >>>> Jesse >>>> >> -- >> Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org >> Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham >> Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com >> This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. >> > > -- Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: Deleting a Retweeted Tweet

ouch! deleting tweet IDs in my messages ASAP... Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Cameron Kaiser wrote: >>> With the current way RT works (without the RT API) and at least as of >>> a month ago, making RTs a reply makes it

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 404 (The specified key does not exist) when requesting user avatar image from amazon ec2

3.twimg.com/profile_images/433197623/twigroups_avatar_normal.png > > Requesting this image from local machine, or directly from browser > goes fine. > > > > > > > > -- Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: Deleting a Retweeted Tweet

what? Every time my app submits a tweet with the reply id set, that limits the people who can see it? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Hwee-Boon Yar wrote: > On Sep 24, 2:16 pm, Josh Roesslein wrote: > >> This could be

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

To be fair to Twitter, the problem lies in PHP's json_decode() function, not the twitter API. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Chad, > > Shouldn't Twitter be providing an API that works for ever

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

x27;doze, but I've been doing Linux for a long time and I'm pretty good at it). thanks! Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com www.twitter.com/cheekdotcom | Dewald Pretorius wrote: > I've run into a serious issue and I don't know if I am overlooking > something. &

[twitter-dev] Re: Update on the Retweet API (we collapse retweets, not you & we're adding statuses/retweets)

is (having "gaps" in tweets brought about by deleted tweets) breaks the programmatic ability to follow a thread. Not sure. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Cameron Kaiser wrote: > Still, I'm sort of with Dewald and others that I

[twitter-dev] Re: How to append source parameter in curl ?

made OAuth libs available (almost any other language, actually). Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Ershad K wrote: > Thank you very much for your kind reply. > > I have registered my application in twitter and got some keys. I'm new &

[twitter-dev] Re: Will there be a Geolocation status method?

slightly off topic: does anyone know an easy (web?) method to translate location names (ie, "Atlanta, Georgia") to geodata coords and vice versa? thanks in advance Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Raffi Krikorian wrote: > >

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

also some accounts aren't indexed by search (or stream/filter, either). I created an account for testing and it's posts don't get indexed either. You could be running into that issue. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom retsoce

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

gt; On Sep 19, 7:33 am, Greg Avola wrote: > >> Do you have any documentation on how to use filter.xml in PHP? The API >> doc don't really spell it out. >> >> Can you just pass a parameter in the URL like filter.xml?track=term? >> >> On Sep 19, 9:15

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

You also need a keep-alive of greater than 30 seconds. And by default PHP funtions timeout after 30 seconds, so you'll need to change that to keep the script running indefinitely. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Jim Gilliam wrote: &g

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

curl buffers, even when called with -N. You won't get satisfactory results with curl unless you get a lot of data. Use wget instead. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: > I'd suggest trying to get this to w

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

I actually haven't done this in PHP, only in bash. The thing about stream is that you need something that returns data without buffering it. I'm sure there's a way to do this in PHP, but I haven't tried it yet. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

I ran into this problem too. I adjusted my search to use http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.xml instead - it seems to work much better. Search isn't consistent and it isn't real-time. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/mentions vs search/screenname

thanks - i'll change my client code! Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom JDG wrote: > Those will, so long as they haven't actually been suspended. As for > your other question, you would only receive mentions from protected >

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/mentions vs search/screenname

hat search does not return statuses of protected users (even when >> authenticated, though I may be wrong and should be corrected if I am). In >> that case, yes, you could potentially receive fewer results than >> statuses/mentions. >> >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:5

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/mentions vs search/screenname

d if I am). In that case, yes, you could potentially receive > fewer results than statuses/mentions. > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:56, Joseph Cheek <mailto:jos...@cheek.com>> wrote: > > > Quick q: > > is there any time that a search for a screenname won&#x

[twitter-dev] statuses/mentions vs search/screenname

Quick q: is there any time that a search for a screenname won't return every tweet that statuses/mentions will? i can see that it would return more, but will it ever return less? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

ok. i have an account that never shows up in search results or in track.xml. i thought that might be it, but i guess not. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: > The account will be suspended. It won't work, and it

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

out of curiosity, how can you tell if your account is flagged as spammy, and what can you do about it? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: > This is taken from the Twitter Rules, not the TOS, so this isn't > expres

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

use signed 64bit ints, but i'm not sure about the db... will need to check... might be signed32... Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Nicholas Moline wrote: > And nobody thought about the significance of accelerating anything > called

[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax

are you really just opening stream.twitter.org? Normally you would want to open http://stream.twitter.org/path/to/url.xml... Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: > You can set both the track and follow parameters when us

[twitter-dev] Re: Website!

> Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org > Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham > Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. > Sent from Madison, WI, United States -- Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: Receiving Invalid 403 Errors - You cannot send messages to users who are not following you.

i believe the dm limit is 250 per day. http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Are you sending the news items to your users via DMs? > > If so, your servic

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated URL shortening

I have seen my URLs both shorted and not; it appeared to me that the gating factor was the length of the tweet - if the non-shortened version fit in 140 chars, it would leave it alone. this was just based on observation, however. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and HTTP Authentication under same Application Name?

it's not conspicuous enough. You need to enclose it in tags. 8-))) Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Raffi Krikorian wrote: > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowdoIget“fromMyApp”appendedtoupdatessentfrommyAPIapplication

[twitter-dev] whitelisting q

tes with a certain hashtag and am concerned that if there are more than 1000 updates per day with that hashtag that I will only be able to respond to the first thousand. What's the proper thing to do in that case, split it among several different accounts? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter based message board

You wrote one too? I wish I had known - I just wrote my own module for drupal auth with twitter credentials last week. www.cheek.com/downloads/Twitter_Auth I looked for a twitter auth module on drupal.org but didn't find yours. Oh well. It was a good learning experience 8-). Joseph

[twitter-dev] blocks/exists q

blocks/exists tells if i am blocking a user - is there a way to tell if a user is blocking me? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

it doesn't appear that he's scraping at all. he's just starting a process to show the user's twitter page and wants to have the user logged in already. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com @cheekdotcom Andrew Badera wrote: > Actually ... IS that PocketIE, or is that Interne

[twitter-dev] Re: get the id's of twitter users who have authenticated with OAuth?

I agree. I've seen a lot of resistance to user apps that "phone home" in the past. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com @cheekdotcom mcdade wrote: > Thanks JDG for the advice but I wrote an App, not a webapp. > > The program runs on the users computer and they auth, I rea

[twitter-dev] Re: get the id's of twitter users who have authenticated with OAuth?

This won't work for mobile/desktop apps. Any ideas for mobile/desktop app tracking? thanks! Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com @cheekdotcom JDG wrote: > they do. when you get an access token, the screen name and their ID > are returned to you along with the token. Use it. Store it. >

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22follow+me+on+twitter%22+gmail.com as an example... JDG wrote: > surely you're joking. PLEASE tell me you're joking, because my skin is > crawling. > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 08:01, Dossy Shiobara > wrote: > > > On 8/22/09 5:49 AM

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter's "Tweet" Trademark Torpedoed

looks mightily similar to twitter in color and form. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Sam Johnston wrote: > [snip] > > That's too bad for Twitter but it's great news for the rest of the > community as it's one

Re: Absurd Misunderstanding of Open Anything (Was: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth)

nor can oauth assure the provider that a desktop app is legitimate when the app authenticates itself to the provider. John Kristian wrote: > An OAuth Consumer that's deployed to users' desktops or mobile devices > can't keep a secret. One should assume its consumer key and consumer > secret will

Re: Absurd Misunderstanding of Open Anything (Was: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth)

somewhere? that could be trivially intercepted. Joseph Cheek @cheekdotcom Chris Babcock wrote: > On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:49:49 -0400 > Jason Martin wrote: > > >> On another note, how "Open Source friendly" is OAuth? I'm not sure >> if people who write

Re: Absurd Misunderstanding of Open Anything (Was: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth)

exactly. and for those who think their closed-source oauth app hides their app key and secret, have you ever run "strings" on your binary? (for those keeping score, it's basic auth: 2, oauth: 0) thanks! Joseph Cheek @cheekdotcom JDG wrote: > Which eliminates one of the b