[twitter-dev] Re: DDoS update: Friday 8PM PDT

2009-08-07 Thread fastest963
Awesome! Thanks for the update! Glad your on the Twitter team. On Aug 7, 11:20 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: > Hello all, > > Here is the state of things as we know them: > > - The DDoS attack is still ongoing, and the intensity has not > decreased at all. Because of this, interaction with the site and

[twitter-dev] Re: Revoke/Destroy Access Method?

2009-06-09 Thread fastest963
alright thanks! On Jun 8, 8:25 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would just say delete the access tokens from your database and call it > good. If they care that much they can figure the connections page on their > own. > > > > > > On Mon,

[twitter-dev] Re: Revoke/Destroy Access Method?

2009-06-08 Thread fastest963
gt; wrote: > Why would you need to destroy the access keys? They stop working once the > user revokes access. I guess you could delete them from your database. > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 06:44, fastest963 wrote: > > > So user deletes his/her twitter access from my site, as in s

[twitter-dev] Revoke/Destroy Access Method?

2009-06-05 Thread fastest963
ication? I know for Facebook, it is a rule, you MUST destroy the keys and disconnect the user if they cancel access, but I don't see this anywhere on Twitters documentation. Thanks, @fastest963

[twitter-dev] Re: request_token gives "Failed to validate oauth signature and token"

2009-05-31 Thread fastest963
Ok never mind that last post. Just 2 mins ago, my keys started working. So just hold on, it looks like they are fixing it. On May 31, 10:17 pm, fastest963 wrote: > I'm getting the same thing. Looks like Twitter is having some problems > updating its OAuth applications with any new re

[twitter-dev] Re: request_token gives "Failed to validate oauth signature and token"

2009-05-31 Thread fastest963
I'm getting the same thing. Looks like Twitter is having some problems updating its OAuth applications with any new registrations or consumer keys. On May 31, 4:00 pm, kollynews wrote: > I am trying to run a sample application (http://github.com/abraham/ > twitteroauth) but i am getting 401 erro

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread fastest963
You know me: Name: James Hartig (@fastest963) Company: isociale.com email: fastest...@gmail.com PHP, MySQL, AJAX, HTML, JS On Feb 23, 1:33 pm, Alex Payne wrote: > There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post > their contact info in this thread (Twitt

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread fastest963
You know me: Name: James Hartig Company: isociale.com email: fastest...@gmail.com PHP, MySQL, AJAX, HTML, JS On Feb 23, 7:56 pm, "Westley Annis" wrote: > Username: WestleyAnnis > url:http://www.da-parish.com > email: west...@da-parish.com > Technology: PHP > > > > -Original Message- > >

Re: PHP / Curl API failures

2009-02-04 Thread fastest963
try increasing your connecttimeout On Feb 3, 8:48 am, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > On Sunday (1 Feb 2009) I embedded the following code in my website > > (with appropraite variables set correctly): > > [...] > > > Which worked fine up until Monday morning (02 Feb 2009, 10:00 GMT > > ish). It then f

Re: Call for OAuth beta participants

2009-01-25 Thread fastest963
@Alex I would recomend emailing him at a...@twitter.com. However your idea sounds pretty awesome though. I'm working on site that is a social profile, and connects all of the social sites in one easy place. It's pretty intriguing! I can't wait to start using OAuth.

Re: Dumping, Storing, and Displaying XML data with PHP and MySQL

2009-01-09 Thread fastest963
Do: -- //connect to database (code) $query = sprintf("INSERT INTO TABLE+NAME (`time`, `body`, `favorited`, `name`, `description`, `avatar`, `url`, `twitterid`) VALUES ('%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s')",

Re: Source of Direct Messages

2009-01-06 Thread fastest963
Apps should get an API-key or something and then if they wanted their source name included then they would have to use their API-key and it would do a lookup key -> name from there? That would only apply for apps that want their name as the source. Also, if that could be implemented, an optional,

Re: Maximum allowed tweets per minute

2009-01-05 Thread fastest963
When you hit the rate limit, you should get some sort of HTTP error, and not a valid return (at least thats what I was lead to believe). As far as a "tweet" limit, there isn't a limit, but your followers might get angry and annoyed and unfollow you. I don't know what your purpose is though. If y

Re: Listings for completed Twitter Apps

2009-01-05 Thread fastest963
When using the twitter section, append the URL after the user has entered his/her status. This way you won't need "Edit your status but please do not change the address in it ", and it will be more user- friendly. Just append the URL via JS before submitting to Twitter and add a little note: "The

Re: Racking my brain to figure out how to use users/show

2009-01-05 Thread fastest963
Just use fwrite($local, file_get_contents()); Also, use the JSON format and the json_decode, and it will make a nice array for you. Then you can use a regex to get the src from the profile_image_url. If you wanted I could write some simple code up if you can't understand what I mean? As far as a

Re: Automated postings to Twitter

2008-12-18 Thread fastest963
Yes, that's fine. I would say the best way would be http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation and http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#update On Dec 18, 5:52 am, JohnSouth wrote: > Hi > > I've seen some examples of postings that seem to be automated inputs > from an organi

Re: Request: More Helpful 'X is now following you' Emails

2008-12-18 Thread fastest963
Good idea! The block link could just be a link to http://twitter.com/blocks/confirm/{user id?} then twitter would, as I assume require that you login. Good information to show would be user followers to following ratio (as for bots).

Re: Displaying @replies or direct messages on a webpage in PHP or HTML

2008-12-17 Thread fastest963
Working example: http://twittertrend.net/searchtw.php?q=fastest963 q={query} On Dec 17, 8:40 pm, fastest963 wrote: > >In the meantime, is there an example of JSON search API code? > > http://pastie.textmate.org/private/yzqfdabfwltlwzbuzwdmkg > > I have tested with a few qu

Re: Displaying @replies or direct messages on a webpage in PHP or HTML

2008-12-17 Thread fastest963
>In the meantime, is there an example of JSON search API code? http://pastie.textmate.org/private/yzqfdabfwltlwzbuzwdmkg I have tested with a few queries. Any changes anyone else?

Re: Displaying @replies or direct messages on a webpage in PHP or HTML

2008-12-17 Thread fastest963
>In the meantime, is there an example of JSON search API code? http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation http://www.twitter2html.com/ Regarding the Search API, I will write a simple script and reply with the url.

Re: Using php api to send @replies to specific messages

2008-12-17 Thread fastest963
>For direct messages I don't think it is possible to use in_reply_to_status_id >since it is a completely different id system. That would not be possible as Twitter has no relation between the two systems. You can append the id number of the tweet in your DM though like d username #1063925739 or l

Re: API Changes for Dec 17, 2008

2008-12-17 Thread fastest963
For 183: Umm, i would prefer on public_timeline, firehose, Data mining and status/show? I collect the timezones (as you know for TwitterTrend) and as of now I have to collect the UserID then get the user/show timeline only for the "time zone" field, which hurts my end and gives you more load. For

Re: API Changes for Dec 17, 2008

2008-12-17 Thread fastest963
Sorry, I forgot you gave that to stevef, I meant 183 :) My bad...

Re: API Changes for Dec 17, 2008

2008-12-17 Thread fastest963
:) Sweet! When can I expect http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=180 to be fixed? Its really killing my site right now :(

Re: problem returning a public status

2008-12-16 Thread fastest963
http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting

Re: What is returned when a protected ID is fetched with show?

2008-12-13 Thread fastest963
s.com\/twitter_pro > duction\/profile_images\/66286904\/aquarium-fish-icon_normal.jpg","screen_n > ame":"_evan","location":"Russian > Hill, > California","id":761613},"in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"truncated":fals

What is returned when a protected ID is fetched with show?

2008-12-12 Thread fastest963
Well, the subject says it all, but I'm requesting a ID by /statuses/ show/123456.json and I was wondering what I can expect the output to be if either the ID doesn't exist or if it is protected. In other words: how can I easily check to see if it returned correctly? Thanks, James Hartig

Re: weird case: user returns blank json for users/show but works for xml

2008-12-11 Thread fastest963
Did you just create your account? It seems that Twitter has been having some user problems and all the data is cached from 24 hours ago. It might be that the xml file updated but not the json yet? Also, I have tried a few other usernames and they all seem to return fine.

Re: Incomplete list of friends being returned

2008-12-11 Thread fastest963
I second Greg's problem, I was having this problem too, but after looking through all my users, 4 were suspended and thus didn't show up in the API.

Re: Search API Rate Limiting

2008-12-08 Thread fastest963
an abide by them. > > -Chad > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:42 AM, fastest963 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since your doing this via AJAX and such, this may not be a good idea, > > but you could try passing a login to Twitter and having that login > > whitelisted?

TwitterTrend User Indexing Started!

2008-12-07 Thread fastest963
Since we cannot index old data via the public timeline or the data mining feed, we opened up a way for users to submit their timeline for indexing! This is plagued by the Username/Password situation, but as soon as OAuth is released or anything else, I will fully support it! :) Also, I have had tw

Re: Search API Rate Limiting

2008-12-07 Thread fastest963
Since your doing this via AJAX and such, this may not be a good idea, but you could try passing a login to Twitter and having that login whitelisted?

Re: API request: twitterverse

2008-12-06 Thread fastest963
Search for a site like mine, that caches users and then you can get a more accurate estimate, however it will only be of active users (at least for mine). - James Hartig

Re: Map of users/show time_zone value to PHP's Timezone constants

2008-12-04 Thread fastest963
You mean you want to convert Twitter's Timezone list to match PHP's timezones? This would have to be done by a pre-generated list or array that would have to be matched to and converted. It shouldn't be too hard? - James Hartig

Re: Cannot POST Updates; API returns a 400.

2008-12-04 Thread fastest963
In twitter_process() comment out curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); Also, change curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); to curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); There is a problem because you are sending (if !empty($post_data)) the HTTP Method HEA

Re: Rate limit exceeded for whitelisted app

2008-12-03 Thread fastest963
It looks like IPs still work? Twittertrend is still running perfectly fine? I think whitelisted users/IPs are hitting the rate_limit but the API isn't acknowledging it? My "remaining_hits" is -36 but my API requests are still processing fine.

Re: Rate limit exceeded for whitelisted app

2008-12-03 Thread fastest963
It seems they are still restoring the database...

Difference between mobile and sms source?

2008-12-02 Thread fastest963
What is the difference between the mobile and sms source?

Re: Is SSL (TLS/https) officially supported?

2008-11-29 Thread fastest963
It's supported but depending on the platform, you may need to update your Security Certificates (if using PHP+CURL).

Re: Twitter, Push APIs and XMPP

2008-11-28 Thread fastest963
HTTP-Push? As in get? post? or something I'm new at? :P

Re: Twitter, Push APIs and XMPP

2008-11-26 Thread fastest963
As far as I know, the Firehose API would only be for retrieving data from Twitter and not sending (POST). @bham 10-15s isn't that bad? If it was over a minute then I would be concerned. As far as the latency, I can assume that it is just because of the caching that Twitter has put into place.

Re: API Limits for me to extract Direct messages

2008-11-26 Thread fastest963
You can request your account or IP to be whitelisted via: http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting Also, depending on the account, you shouldn't be required to make many requests a minute to check their direct messages. (Unless of course your user is an insane DMer) Hope that helps!

TwitterTrend Up! Happy Thanksgiving!

2008-11-26 Thread fastest963
First, I would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! My site, http://twittertrend.net is up! It is a site that indexes twitter and creates stats and trends about URLs posted on twitter. Last time I checked we had indexed 1.75 million URLs! I will be working on a way to index all of twitter'

Re: a simple workaround for lack of OAuth

2008-11-24 Thread fastest963
@Amir That is not a very relevant question. Why do you want to make multiple accounts? @al3x A better alternative would be to just create an API key for every user. Instead of entering username/password, they would enter their secret API key?

Re: update_profile_colors changes will not work when a theme is selected

2008-11-24 Thread fastest963
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/29b4e3f4a50b81ac?hl=en Maybe that can help?

Re: update_profile_colors changes will not work when a theme is selected

2008-11-24 Thread fastest963
Are you saying you are not seeing a change on screen? Could it be a cache problem?

Re: Helpful PHP Optimizations

2008-11-18 Thread fastest963
I finally ended up switching to MySQLi because it offered "ping" and reconnect options. For some reason I kept getting "MySQL Server has gone away" with PDO, even with persistent. I tried many different ways to detect that and then reconnect, but PDO just doesn't support it. I will be making the s

Re: Helpful PHP Optimizations

2008-11-17 Thread fastest963
> This actually is a slow down, You should store each tweet as a row in > the table > and not 10 tweets as 1 serialized row. You not only can't search well, > but updates, > and retrieval will be hindered. Yes, that is definitely true, however for certain circumstances (as with data that you will

Re: Fixes deployed Nov 14th

2008-11-17 Thread fastest963
Agreed! Could we get a friends count? That is also showed on the Twitter website.

Re: Scanning email for custom Twitter headers

2008-11-17 Thread fastest963
They seem to be sending fine to me. Is imap_fetchheader() returning anything? Paste what it is sending back to you. Also, you can try the following... -- // get imap_fetch header and put single lines into array $header = explode("\n", imap_fetchheader(

Re: Helpful PHP Optimizations

2008-11-17 Thread fastest963
For majority of queries, mysqli is only a fraction faster, and converting our whole script to mysqli would take a lot of work. I decided that at this time it was not worth it, as PDO is also very versatile and lightweight. For other users starting their script, I would recommend using mysqli if yo

Re: Helpful PHP Optimizations

2008-11-16 Thread fastest963
I will try the mysqli extension, I totally forgot about that! I needed a driver with a reconnect command anyways. Also, sorry about forgetting to mention prepares, I use them all the time, I just failed to mention them when I wrote the first post. I would use transactions, however most of the ins

Helpful PHP Optimizations

2008-11-15 Thread fastest963
you are storing a lot of data. Do the following: Take the ID (index), hopefully not a number, and md5 it. Then store into a specific table based on the first letter of the md5. Example: $user = "fastest963"; //store user $let = md5($user); //md5 username "SELECT * FROM".

Helpful PHP Optimizations

2008-11-15 Thread fastest963
= "fastest963"; //store user $let = md5($user); //md5 username "SELECT * FROM".$let[0]."users WHERE `username` = '$user' "; //$let[0] is the first letter of the md5 Tables would be created like this: First make "0users" table. Then copy and make 1-F tabl

Re: invalid profile_image_url returned in JSON timeline

2008-11-15 Thread fastest963
Did you maybe copy something wrong... the first link is 64498715 and the second is 64499571 (notice the last 3 digits).

Re: statuses/replies.xml and statuses/friends.xml return "Not found"

2008-11-15 Thread fastest963
Can you provide that account name that you are using to login? It may be removed or suspended? If not then alex or someone will have to take a look because it would be a server problem. In the past however, I got this message when I tried to use an account that was suspended.

Re: Not pulling @replies in a search feed

2008-11-15 Thread fastest963
No, what you would have to do is run a REGEX or similar search for @ [username] and if it returns false then process the data. There is no way to omit results from the API standpoint.

Re: statuses/replies.xml and statuses/friends.xml return "Not found"

2008-11-14 Thread fastest963
Is that all that is sent? A 404 header and "Not Found" in the content? When did you access the APIs? I know that twitter was having some trouble yesterday with their site, is it still not working?

Re: Update status Using API.

2008-11-14 Thread fastest963
For some reason it seems it didn't post my fix, here it is again: In the process() function, change: if($this->username !== false && $this->password !== false) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this->username.':'.$this- >password); To: if($this->username !== false && $this->password !== false)

Re: Update status Using API.

2008-11-14 Thread fastest963
it seems it didn't post my fix here it is again: In the process() function, change: if($this->username !== false && $this->password !== false) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this->username.':'.$this- >password); To: if($this->username !== false && $this->password !== false) curl_setopt($ch

Re: Update status Using API.

2008-11-14 Thread fastest963
This library is not coded very accurately. I will post a fixed version within the next few days. My dev computer is currently under-repair, but when its finished (tonight?) I will work and fix this library. In the mean-time, just make the change noted in my previous post and the update() function

Re: Update status Using API.

2008-11-14 Thread fastest963
If your using: http://code.google.com/p/php-twitter/ which is what it looks like... then you need to specify $twit->username = ""; $twit->password = ""; $twit->User-Agent = ""; then call the $twit->update If that's not the correctly library, you still should have to set those somehow, either stat

Re: Retrieve Another User's Friends Timeline without Authentication?

2008-11-12 Thread fastest963
You cannot, sorry. However, you can keep track of Twitter's progress on OAuth. This method would not require any passwords.

Re: Suspended Accounts still being returned in follower data

2008-11-12 Thread fastest963
Instead of "removing" them, you should just add a field like 'status' or something similar.

Re: How to get Notifications about the updates in a third party applcaition.

2008-11-12 Thread fastest963
You can try GNIP, however I haven't used them before. Yes you should probably loop every 3-5 (maybe more, depending on how accurate you want to be) minutes or so depending on the user. This shouldn't have too much of an impact on overall performance, however as you get more and more users, you wi

Re: posting updates via js

2008-11-12 Thread fastest963
I just noticed something shouldn't the Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded This could be the problem.

Re: posting updates via js

2008-11-12 Thread fastest963
for me: http://twitter.com/fastest963/status/1003271037 Maybe Alex or other devs can shed some light on something wrong with the Headers you sent.

Retrieving old tweets?

2008-11-11 Thread fastest963
I have talked with Alex much on this topic but here's what I'm doing. I'm indexing tweets and then processing the URLs and then storing information and stats about the urls for webmasters etc. I was wondering if there was anyway I can index previous tweets (like last weeks or something). I doubt

Re: How to get Notifications about the updates in a third party applcaition.

2008-11-11 Thread fastest963
You would have to use the http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#usertimeline You can do either two things... With Database: Store the id of any ads you enter after entering (see later) Fetch the contents of http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?since_id={last id of ad} Then ge

Re: How to count users that are using my client?

2008-11-06 Thread fastest963
I'm working on a site that will do this and much more! I will keep you updated.

Re: => 0

2008-11-06 Thread fastest963
hey alex! The problem is that he happened to have post enabled. @vks comment out curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); or change it to curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0); that will fix your error :)