[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-06 Thread Nick Halstead
Right now I prefer that the link is direct - if we wish to track (globally) then we could go via our own shortened URL which we will look into. On Mar 5, 9:34 am, Santosh Panda wrote: > Hi Nick, > Good stuff! We are ready to launch Tweetmeme popular tweets with Twitblogs. > Btw the story URL poi

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-06 Thread Nick Halstead
Only 1 in 10 tweets tends to have a link - so you would need to receive 1000 tweets in an hour (on average) to run out of requests - but I guess that is a possability, we are at very early stages but we will look at upping to maybe 200 an hour and see how it goes. On Mar 5, 9:49 pm, Ed Finkler w

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-06 Thread Nick Halstead
Hi Adam, What was the request? the error looks more like a problem with your client fetching rather than with our side - the API has had zero downtime, just check an example link e.g. http://api.tweetmeme.com/url_info?url=http://tinyurl.com/cdngq8 On Mar 5, 2:03 pm, Adam <1ju...@googlemail.com>

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-05 Thread Ed Finkler
This is a cool feature, Nick. I appreciate you opening it up to the community. One concern I have, as a desktop app developer, is that a user could probably plow through 100 reqs/hr pretty easily if they're following 1000 or more users. Now one might say "most people don't follow that many people

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-05 Thread darragh.curran
Hey, I also run a service specifically dealing with lengthening short urls (http://www.longurlplease.com), it's api has proven to be robust, easily handling 100's of thousands of api calls per day, thanks app engine ;) Right now all it does is return the long url - but I've plans, amongst other th

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-05 Thread Adam
On Mar 5, 8:30 am, Nick Halstead wrote: > We have every single short url + long url that is posted on twitter, > we take the whole firehose, there are outages at times with the > firehose so sometimes we still miss bits, but coverage is very high. Hi Nick, I'm struggling to even connect to your

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-05 Thread Santosh Panda
Hi Nick, Good stuff! We are ready to launch Tweetmeme popular tweets with Twitblogs. Btw the story URL points to the source of the story, I was under impression that user will be redirected to Tweetmeme to ready the full story? Thanks, Santosh www.Twitblogs.com Twitter :- http://twitter.com/santo

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-05 Thread Nick Halstead
We have every single short url + long url that is posted on twitter, we take the whole firehose, there are outages at times with the firehose so sometimes we still miss bits, but coverage is very high. On Mar 4, 8:51 pm, Nick Arnett wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Nick Halstead wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Sam K Sethi
We have already implmented Tweetmeme's API in our test site and will pish it live on Friday. Good job Nick. Thanks in advance Sam www.twitblogs.com/ssethi This email is: [ ] bloggable [ ] twittable [ ] ask first [X] private Sent from: Poplar Eng United Kingdom. 2009/3/4 Nick Halstead https:/

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Christian Heilmann
Nick Halstead wrote: Today we launched an API for tweetmeme, for those who havent tried it, we aggregate all the twitter URL's to rank the most popular stories. Well the upside of this is that we have massive database of all the short URL's - and where they resolve to, included in this we also g

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Nick Halstead wrote: > > > We have tried to stick very closely to the RESTful + twitter style > API > > The documentation is here -> http://www.tweetmeme.com/apidoc.php > > An example of the url fetcher -> > http://api.tweetmeme.com/url_info?url=http://is.gd/lznv >