[twitter-dev] Tweeting out a page

2011-06-08 Thread doug
for this. Is this a known issue, or has someone else run into something similar? Thanks, Doug -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api

[twitter-dev] Re: Which API to use / getting started question

2011-05-23 Thread Doug Hughes
Thanks for the feedback, but that's not quite what I was looking for. I'm not looking simply for a display of the user's tweets client side, but to get them server side and do stuff based on the contents of the tweet. For example (making this up), I might track the number of times a given word is

[twitter-dev] Which API to use / getting started question

2011-05-21 Thread Doug Hughes
, overall, I'm just looking for a bit of guidance out of the gate on where to start research and work. Also, if you know of any quality Ruby gems that implement the approach you suggest, I'd love to hear about them. Thanks for your help, Doug Hughes -- Twitter developer documentation and resources

[twitter-dev] whats the word on t.co? Is there something apps should do?

2011-03-28 Thread Doug
I cannot find any documentation on how to prepare for it. I use fully qualified URLs in the tweets over the REST API. Will these automatically be converted? And if so, what is the size we should assume for their length? I would hate to have to integrate another service for shortening if this

[twitter-dev] Search API: retrieve the number of times a particular URL was tweeted?

2011-03-22 Thread doug
... the number of statuses that mention that URL. Is there a way to simply retrieve _just_ the count of URL mentions? Thanks, Doug -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: retrieve the number of times a particular URL was tweeted?

2011-03-22 Thread doug
Got it. Thanks, Taylor. On Mar 22, 11:16 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Doug, We don't have a search result counting API available at this time. One approach would be to prepare ahead of time and use the Streaming API's track filter on the URL you're interested

[twitter-dev] Re: xauth help for: 'failed to validate oauth signature and token'

2010-09-27 Thread Doug
LOL thanks that was it (palm-to-face). Thanks for the suggestions folks On Sep 27, 3:38 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Hi Doug, The only thing I can think of is that you aren't sending an Authorization: header that starts with OAuth. Tom On Sep 26, 10:30 pm, Doug doug_d

[twitter-dev] xauth help for: 'failed to validate oauth signature and token'

2010-09-26 Thread Doug
Hi folks, I have been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why I keep getting 'failed to validate oauth signature and token' when requesting the access token using xauth. I did get xauth enabled, however I should point out there is nothing indicating this in the app's detail

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Streaming API access limits increased

2010-08-30 Thread Doug Tangren
I am loving the terminology. -Doug Tangren http://lessis.me On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:33 PM, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Spritzer remains at 1%. We can't increase this one at the moment due to technical reasons unrelated to capacity or policy. We'll probably leave this at 1

[twitter-dev] create a new app

2010-07-19 Thread Doug at Highground
I cannot create a new app, I get a screen that says Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing - we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon. How do I get around this error?

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 m...@46bit.com 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 d

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.htmlThanks, Doug On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Dewald, This will be public (no access code needed

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

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 jaa...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 27, 1:00 am, Orian Marx (@orian) or...@orianmarx.com wrote: If TwitterHQ isn't

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

2009-10-21 Thread Doug Williams
/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: Multiple language support for your Twitter application

2009-10-08 Thread Doug Tangren
. Its probably not that helpful for all those not actually using the web ui, but for those interested, its up on the githubs (http://github.com/softprops/bird-speak/blob/master/). -Doug Tangren http://lessis.me @softprops On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread Doug Williams
Sean,At this time we are monitoring the situation and containing issues as we see them. Let's hold off on restoration requests until things stabilize. Thanks, Doug On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Sean Callahan seancalla...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for the update Doug. Users on TweetPhoto

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

2009-08-04 Thread Doug
Will Statuses/Replies be deprecated in the future (e.g. v2 of the API?) On Jul 27, 6:56 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: 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

[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 dharmesh.par...@gmail.com wrote: When the REST API limit for using count/page reaches 3200

[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 timothywil...@gmail.com 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

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

2009-07-31 Thread Doug Williams
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 approved the app, they will be immediately redirected back to the application without ever seeing a Twitter dialog. Thanks, Doug On Fri

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

2009-07-31 Thread Doug Williams
Jesse, If it is not, then it is a defect. That is the intended functionality. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: Doug, interesting - I didn't realize that's what Sign on With Twitter did. Last I tried that wasn't working though

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

2009-07-31 Thread Doug Williams
let us know. 1. http://tweetgrid.com 2. http://jazzychad.net 3. http://twitpic.com/a99zj (@noradio and @al3x in frame) Thanks, Doug

[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 kureik...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, me too! Dunno where it went?? 2009/7/30 Joseph northwest...@gmail.com From twitter.com. I'm pretty sure it was there a couple

[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 duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote: 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

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

2009-07-29 Thread Doug Williams
. If a single IP address makes 15 attempts to access a protected resource unsuccessfully for a given user (as indicated by an HTTP 401), then the user will be locked out of authenticated resources from that IP address for 1 hour. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Ray rvizz...@testlabs.com

[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 stut...@gmail.com wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: Status Id question

2009-07-28 Thread Doug Williams
is mentioned within the status text. Therefore, you must include @username, where username is the author of the referenced tweet, within the update. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0update Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Guna gdeivend...@gmail.com

[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 cbay...@gmail.com 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

[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 cbay...@gmail.com wrote: w can I know from my application that the user sent the reply is fallowing me . I fallowed myself from another

[twitter-dev] Re: jSon description

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
deprecated that value and will now return it as null permanently. Please use the friendships/show method [1] to access this data. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friendships-show Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:25 AM, cem cbay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi where can I get

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

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
Thanks to everyone who has contributed feedback. This approach is what we are going to take. Alex will be making this change shortly. I will update this thread when there is timeframe to share. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:52 AM, TinBlue tinb...@gmail.com wrote: What is happening

[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 justen.ste...@gmail.com wrote: We recently hosted

[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 joaomiguel.pere...@gmail.com Same here. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:26 AM, goodtest goodtest...@gmail.com wrote: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

[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 d...@twitter.com wrote: Marcel is shipping a fix for this as I type. Thanks, Doug 2009/7/27 João Pereira joaomiguel.pere...@gmail.com Same here. On Tue, Jul 28

[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 alex.m.mcpher...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, How quickly are Tweets available in the search results? Should I assume a minute until it's guaranteed to show up? Five minutes

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

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Fabien Penso fabienpe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I wonder if there is a way to use the streaming API to receive DM for a list of specific users. As far as I understand there isn't, is anyone working on this? Basicly I want to offer

[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 daras

[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 still seeing errors you should check your code to ensure that you are sending the correct signature. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:10 PM, winrich winric...@gmail.com wrote: mine broke too. i wonder though, i'm using the oauth python libraries On Jul 27, 6:35 pm

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

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
As stated above, some applications were sending invalid signatures which we were accepting as valid. This vulnerability was pointed out by a developer. Some libraries and code which may have previously worked may be broken by this security fix. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:44 PM

[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 duane.roela

[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

[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 d

[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 luo...@gmail.com wrote: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-friends_timeline lists URL: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.format

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

2009-07-24 Thread Doug Williams
://status.twitter.com). Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Karthik Muruganfermis...@gmail.com wrote: yes, each page request counts against the API limit On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote: Just as aside, does anyone know if each call to a new page

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

2009-07-24 Thread Doug Williams
or should we proceed with this as our solution? Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Joshua Perryj...@6bit.com wrote: Jim's concern is valid, fortunately OAuth is immune to brute-force attacks once the access key has been issued to an application. For this reason alone I would urge

[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, Twittledeewebs...@twittledee.com wrote: So, I actually think that this is a very interesting

[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 northwest...@gmail.com wrote: Is the attitude (tude) flag stored as part of a tweet? and if so, do any

[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 d...@coderanger.com wrote: I recently posted this as a bug and was hoping if anyone else

[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 haw...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the update Doug. Does this still apply to OAuth apps? Also, if a user goes through an app and unsuccessfully

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

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
the Search API into the future. 1. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/f7cd82f2c43a77d0 2. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting Thanks, Doug

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Serge, You can always verify the whitelisted status of your IP or user through a call to account/rate_limit_status. For instance, here are my results: doug$ curl -u dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash reset-time type

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

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
of search should continue to improve. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi API Team, A few of us have been discussing off list a funky behavior we have been noticing and now users are starting to notice. There is a problem for sites/apps

[twitter-dev] Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
will update with details and a timeline for shipping this update. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-account%C2%A0verify_credentials 2. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/b057014336ff502b Regards, Doug

[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 d...@twitter.com wrote: Martin, The change certainly went out prematurely

[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 and...@badera.us wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/18 Andrew Badera and...@badera.us: What's the best/lowest impact fashion of polling Twitter for status

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

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
, please help us update this policy and share details of your use case. Chad, et. al, I will follow up with the answer to your question (if this limit affects calls to the method with correct credentials) when I have a moment to speak with Alex. Thanks, Doug On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM

[twitter-dev] Re: API Developers Alliance

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
with a plan, a team, and the ability to organize an opinion, we would listen to more formal representation from the community. If anything, it would allow us to explore what a hybrid corporate / representative decision making process might look like. Interested, Doug On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:47 PM

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
, it will not raise your follower limits, and it will not raise your daily status update limit. That said, what is the screen name of the account getting suspended? Let's see if we can get you out of jail. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Joel Strellnerj...@twitturly.com wrote: Can

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

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
to reach the object serialized by the API. I'm still working on who actually owns this defect and will update the thread in the issue list when I learn more. 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=758 Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Kevin Dunglasdung...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
Serge, Looking at the account I'm not quite sure why it was suspended. The records are inconclusive. I've unsuspended the account. For posterity's sake I'll repeat that whitelisting will not protect you from suspension. Whitelisting raises select REST API limits. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 20

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

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
but it should be soon. As always, thanks for your patience. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Jesse Stayjesses...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is so long as they are complaining on some of our apps they are complaining on all our apps and there's no way of telling which app caused

[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 Omandermoman...@google.com wrote: Doug, Thanks for letting us know about the new

[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 sravanthi.su...@gmail.com wrote: All the bast Matt!!! Thanks for all you r help . On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Matt Sanfordm...@twitter.com wrote: Hi everybody

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

2009-07-17 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

[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 m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Lee, The rate

[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 ticoconid...@gmail.com wrote: ... which is evidently slowing down pages that download these images and then scale them

[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

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

2009-07-14 Thread Doug Williams
Sounds like we have all we need. Thanks for the help, Martin. I'll add a link to this thread to the bug report for posterity. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Martin Omandermoman...@google.com wrote: Doug, Thanks for your prompt reply. Yes, it does sound like issue 795. I

[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 stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/13 Tom

[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 rudi.far...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Clint After I posted my questions I went out

[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 t...@siteartwork.dewrote: Hey there, when calling /favorites/create/[id].xml the response

[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: 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

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

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
403 response code. Can you specify exactly what you are doing so we can debug? 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=795 Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Martin Omander moman...@google.com wrote: Hi there, Earlier today I ran afoul of the rate limit

[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 ghil...@gmail.com wrote: Post a reply

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

2009-07-12 Thread Doug Williams
Shannon, We have decided not to proceed with static URLs. Please see the recent thread on the image host change for more information. Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Shannon Whitley shannon.whit...@gmail.com wrote: I recall seeing a post from a Twitter employee that static

[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 samir.ray...@gmail.com wrote: Are there plans

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

2009-07-10 Thread Doug Williams
with this change. Updates to come as we learn about them. Thanks for your patience, here. Twitter devs rock. Doug On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, I'm working with our ops folks now to get SSL fixed on twimg.com. No need for running proxies

[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 grant.ems...@gmail.comwrote: I thought it might be by design, but couldn't find that mentioned anywhere. I guess it is necessary to prevent apps

[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 ech...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone, I'd really like to use OAuth for my new twitter application, as I know Twitter is trying

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

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
with an HTTP 403 response. Please check your code and make any necessary updates before this change is deployed. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search Thanks, Doug

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

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
with an HTTP 403 response. Please check your code and make any necessary updates before this change is deployed. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search Thanks, Doug

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

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
if you have found an application behaving poorly. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:34 PM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: if we're going with shoulds, i think it should be both or neither. personally, i'd like it to be both, with the option that the user be able to completely hide his or her

[twitter-dev] Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
/profile_images/35240332/2929920.gif http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/35240332/2929920.gif Background images: http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_background_images/18156348/jessica_tiled.jpg.jpeg http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/18156348/jessica_tiled.jpg.jpeg Thanks, Doug

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

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
an aribitrary sub-domain (*.twimg.com). Thanks, Doug On Jul 8, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com 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

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

2009-07-07 Thread Doug Williams
-statuses-user_timeline 2. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#6Therearepaginationlimits Thanks, Doug 2009/7/6 Kaan ŞENGÜL gka...@gmail.com For example, my username is gkaans and I want all of my tweets. At first, I want to get status count by this url ( and using

[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 zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Is the @spam account monitored by a bot or a human? Zac Bowling On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jeffrey

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth company name

2009-07-06 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 ghil...@gmail.com wrote: i think

[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 dvyu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! It's

[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 petewing...@gmail.com wrote: My web app was flagged by Google two weeks ago as an attack site

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

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
Duane,Yes, you will get an empty result set if you step off the end: doug-williamss-macbook-pro:~ igudo$ curl -u dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml?count=100page=43; | grep /user | wc -l 100 doug-williamss-macbook-pro:~ igudo$ curl -u dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com

[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 gka...@gmail.com I'm working on a project that needs one person's

[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 duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote: Is a tweet with a higher status ID always newer than a tweet

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

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Williams
-spammy app or app that does not contribute to follower churn where a limits method would help? If so, please share. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Chris Latko ch...@latko.org wrote: Yes, My users are in the same predicament. They seem to hit a daily limit of 200 follows. My

[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 parameters

[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

[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 carykn...@gmail.com wrote: I am writing an application and ideally I like to use

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

2009-07-02 Thread Doug Williams
The limits have not changed. We enforce the limits within hour intervals. Could the behavior you witnessed be explained by this enforcement policy? Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Developer In London ebilliona...@gmail.comwrote: I saw on the API documentation the daily limit

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

2009-07-02 Thread Doug Williams
. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: I have noticed the same thing, and there is no predictable pattern to it. The API kicks back the limit exceeded message on numbers far below 1,000. The same goes for DMs. I've seen a person being

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