[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter recripocal follow feature

2009-08-29 Thread Philip Plante
This is how Facebook friends works, I am not sure it would work well within the Twitter community. On Aug 29, 2:41 pm, StuffDone wrote: > Is there or can there be a recripocal option in Twitter that does one > or both of the following. > > 1) When clicking to follow, places a stipulation on acce

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

2009-07-17 Thread Philip Plante
Good luck, thanks for the help on the list. On Jul 17, 10:49 pm, Karthik Murugan wrote: > Good Luck Matt!! > > On Jul 18, 2:18 am, Matt Sanford wrote: > > > > > Hi everybody*, > > >      Starting next week I'm not going to be responding to mails on the   > > dev list or working on Google Code i

[twitter-dev] Re: Security Best Practices

2009-07-01 Thread Philip Plante
I do not feel you've made a mountain out of a mole hill here. This topic has been on my mind since I first encountered oAuth. I haven't seen any open source apps use oAuth yet. We have an open source application called Application X. The potential risk is that Application X becomes widely adop

[twitter-dev] Re: User id range

2009-07-01 Thread Philip Plante
You should use an unsigned 64 bit int for status and user ids to be safe. IDs will never be negative, so a signed value is wasted space. On Jul 1, 6:28 am, DWRoelands wrote: > If you're asking what data type should you use to store these value, > I'm using the .NET Int64 type in my library.  Th

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving data from the Twitter API

2009-06-30 Thread Philip Plante
You can cache the user's profile data so API lookups are kept to a minimum. Though the profile image should be hotlinked using whatever value is stored int he profile_image_url attribute of the user object returned from Twitter. By using S3 as a central source Twitter is able to help alleviate i

[twitter-dev] Re: Reg gardenhose feed

2009-06-26 Thread Philip Plante
You should not experience this if you are using json_decode in php (http://us3.php.net/json_decode). Are you using a custom written parser? On Jun 26, 2:00 am, Arunachalam wrote: > Thank for your input. Iam currently using php JSON praser to decode the name > value pair, > The problem which im

[twitter-dev] Re: New idea for twitter development

2009-06-22 Thread Philip Plante
What about using www.cotweet.com? On Jun 21, 11:26 pm, Mandakini kumari wrote: > Hi > > Thanks can you give me detail how to do it ? > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:04 PM, M1Sh0u wrote: > > > HI, I'm Mihai Matei, WEB Developer from Romania > > > I have a new idea that could be implemented

[twitter-dev] Re: Callback URL Changed to Yahoo authorize link

2009-06-12 Thread Philip Plante
My apps both appear to be fine. On Jun 12, 7:56 pm, Jesse Stay wrote: > My Callback URL on Twitter for my App's OAuth Settings recently changed > tohttp://yahoo.com/authenticate_twitterout of the blue. Did Twitter update > something inadvertently? I only report it here in case other developers

[twitter-dev] Re: How does the "trends" method in search API work?

2009-06-09 Thread Philip Plante
Are you trying to improve the results that Twitter already provides? If so then you would need a large statistically significant sample in order to extract this data. On Jun 8, 12:18 am, zvn wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a master student in Taiwan. I want to do some work to improve the > trends API inhtt

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id -> screen_name resolution.

2009-05-31 Thread Philip Plante
aspect. *crosses fingers* On May 31, 5:57 pm, Stuart wrote: > 2009/5/31 Philip Plante : > > > > > I would like to hear a response from Twitter on the sharing of this > > data.  My db has about 2 million active users, and I have another db > > with 6 mill

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id -> screen_name resolution.

2009-05-31 Thread Philip Plante
I would like to hear a response from Twitter on the sharing of this data. My db has about 2 million active users, and I have another db with 6 million or so I would gladly share. Previously I think the response from Twitter is that they cannot provide this as a bulk translation due to the demand

[twitter-dev] Re: urls in tweets

2009-05-31 Thread Philip Plante
Dependent on language and libraries available you should try making a HEAD request for each of the URLs you extract. This would return only the headers of the endpoint, and inside this list you should get the mime-type of the content. There are a ton of video mime-types but it should be easy to