Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API

2010-04-24 Thread John Kalucki
adrift.local:/tmp curl -v -x -d @foo -d @bar stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.xml -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 5:27 AM, epomqo wenzi0...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sirs, Hello! My name is Xiaowen, I have been playing with Twitter

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-24 Thread John Meyer
On 4/24/2010 3:44 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: hi tom! i will be sending more info about it - we've been working with yfrog, tweetphoto, and twitpic to get their services migrated - they are either finished or are nearly there. if there are others that you would like the @twitterapi team

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-24 Thread John Meyer
On 4/24/2010 5:05 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: if there any applications / service providers that you would like the @twitterapi team to talk to - let me know. or, have the application / service provider come to us. i really want to make this transition as easy as possible. I'll probably be

Re: [twitter-dev] one application authentication

2010-04-25 Thread John Meyer
On 4/25/2010 8:50 AM, Abava wrote: For the upcoming basic auth shutdown: What if I have own application that requests data from my own twitter account. What is an easiest way for the authentication in this case? It is the only one application that works with this account. And it works with this

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] User Streams Preview Open To All Developers

2010-04-25 Thread John Kalucki
. If the rules fire, you get the same event as everyone else who is party to the event. There are also use cases beyond user streams that require completeness. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:18 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@comcast.net

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-26 Thread John Meyer
On 4/26/2010 9:09 AM, Dean Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Meyer Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 10:48 AM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re

Re: FW: #959889 Twitter Support: update on FW: [twitter-dev] Re: My applications were Suspended

2010-04-26 Thread John Meyer
On 4/26/2010 12:04 PM, Dean Collins wrote: Hmmm really? Breaks the rules by encouraging people to have more than one account - Please explain how/why? How is my app any different from any other successful twitter app? Oh you're right. An app touted on its ability to make multi-fold calls

Re: [twitter-dev] RE: FW Twitter Support

2010-04-26 Thread John Meyer
On 4/26/2010 1:18 PM, Andrew Badera wrote: Though I've disagreed with Dean's use and means of promoting of his app since Day One, I hardly think his message rises to the level of threat. I think there's enough misinformation, disinformation, irritation and anger floating around this list these

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] User Streams Preview Open To All Developers

2010-04-26 Thread John Kalucki
Currently we deliver these to user streams. We'll probably conditional them, default off, before we go to beta. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:32 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@comcast.net wrote: On 04/25/2010 08:40 PM, John Kalucki wrote: The user endpoint is very similar to the filter endpoint

Re: [twitter-dev] RE: FW Twitter Support

2010-04-26 Thread John Meyer
On 4/26/2010 1:37 PM, Dean Collins wrote: John, Nope, Dossy is pretty much on the money, I don't care about the money and I'd prefer to see people using it rather than let it die. Basically I'm a little over twitter and their amateur approaches to certain things. I'd be the first person

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-26 Thread John Meyer
On 4/26/2010 2:15 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: just to be clear - what xAuth is used for is to do a username/password exchange for an oauth access token / secret (for a given application). from then on out, that access token and secret is used to sign all requests in an oauth manner. So in

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: detecting hashtag spam

2010-04-26 Thread John Meyer
On 4/26/2010 3:22 PM, kprobe wrote: Hello Raffi. The hashtag is #dottel and the culprit account is @teldomaintel (JLouisBiz ThetaBiz). He's been at it for a long time, stopped after we complained, then started up again in a different manner. We reported him for spam several times. The timeline

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-26 Thread John Meyer
On 4/26/2010 4:23 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: honestly, i wouldn't plan on it. the spirit of oAuth is that the user's credentials never even pass through a web application. Now I'm confused. Is xAuth going to be a method unto itself of authenticating for the long-term, or is this the way

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-26 Thread John Meyer
On 4/26/2010 4:55 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: let's step back. oAuth is the general framework that we want everybody to use. applications no longer have to store usernames and passwords, which is a good thing. normally, to get access tokens, applications send users through the oAuth workflow

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/26/2010 8:59 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On 04/26/2010 05:16 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: xAuth is a method for which to exchange usernames and passwords for those tokens, without send the user through the workflow. this is for two reasons: 1. mobile/desktop application authors have

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 5:52 AM, Eoin wrote: Hi, This is probably a basic question - but what is the best option if you have written an integration for a web-based application that is installed on multiple sites? The URL is going to change per installation (and won't be publicly accessible), and I would

Re: [twitter-dev] API Tracking inaccuracy

2010-04-27 Thread John Kalucki
. These are not logical ANDs. So, if a user in your following file tweets without geodata, you'll get a tweet without geodata. The only known issues with track are around non-space-separated languages, such as Chinese, Japanese and, I think, Arabic, language representations. -John Kalucki http

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: API Tracking inaccuracy

2010-04-27 Thread John Kalucki
You can't do logical ANDs between predicate types. The assumption is that you can do post processing on your end to further filter your results. We over deliver, you de-duplication, reorder and filter. Streaming results are not display-ready. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 10:59 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On 04/27/2010 04:53 AM, John Meyer wrote: On 4/26/2010 8:59 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yeah ... but I *like* having the browser involved. Which is fine. However, there are other people who don't like getting the browser involved

[twitter-dev] Chirp Streaming API Slides -- Streaming API Architecture Thinking In Streams

2010-04-27 Thread John Kalucki
I've posted the slides from my two #chirp talks on the Streaming API on slideshare.net: Twitter Streaming API Architecture: http://bit.ly/chirpstreamarch Thinking In Streams: http://bit.ly/chirpthinkstream2 -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 11:35 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: ours might, but as you know about Open Source, the whole point is that people can choose and some may choose to use certain calls that require authentication. And what does charging money have to do with anything? I presume that we are

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Chirp Streaming API Slides -- Streaming API Architecture Thinking In Streams

2010-04-27 Thread John Adams
On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Jonathon Hill wrote: Awesome! I've been looking forward to it. Any word on the other's slides? I was told they would all be posted after @chirp. Many slides from Chirp are on www.slideshare.net Mine's here:

[twitter-dev] TwitterVB now supports xAuth

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
http://twittervb.codeplex.com Thanks to the Twitter team and Duane for all the help implementing this just as I was about to give up on it.

[twitter-dev] To Raffi or Taylor re: xAuth

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On the xAuth page you say Storage of Twitter usernames and passwords is forbidden. Now given that you don't want applications needlessly querying the system and you've encouraged caching of information that isn't likely to change overtime (such as a username, screenname, etc), would I be

Re: [twitter-dev] To Raffi or Taylor re: xAuth

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 4:38 PM, Taylor Singletary wrote: The twitter screen name is less of a concern, yes John. But a Twitter username can take an email address also, which isn't information otherwise provided by the API and is personally identifiable and especially dangerous when stored in conjunction

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 5:53 PM, Julio Biason wrote: se it's open source it doesn't mean you can't charge for it. So I'm guessing that's what John Meyer asked what open source have to with money. Actually what I was asking is what did money have to do with the way that our applications authenticate

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 8:29 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On 04/27/2010 05:00 PM, John Meyer wrote: On 4/27/2010 5:53 PM, Julio Biason wrote: se it's open source it doesn't mean you can't charge for it. So I'm guessing that's what John Meyer asked what open source have to with money. Actually

[twitter-dev] TwitterVB

2010-04-28 Thread John Meyer
with the C#/.NET group. John Meyer TwitterVB

Re: [twitter-dev] address book

2010-04-28 Thread John Meyer
On 4/28/2010 6:10 AM, satish wrote: Hi , Is there any api or methods available to display the address book or contacts of twitter account.? my website is implemented in java,j2ee and . my task is to display the twitter address book(i.e mail ids) of twitter user in my website ... is there any

Re: [twitter-dev] Really, You're not going to suspend @julianperretta?

2010-04-28 Thread John Meyer
On 4/28/2010 7:50 AM, TJ Luoma wrote: He's been plagiarizing people for weeks, and has been reported for spam by dozens of people that I know about. Spam I understand, but are you actually trying to report plagarism on a bloody tweet? Are you kidding me? We're you planning on selling that

Re: [twitter-dev] Really, You're not going to suspend @julianperretta?

2010-04-28 Thread John Meyer
On 4/28/2010 8:21 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: On 4/28/10 10:18 AM, John Meyer wrote: Spam I understand, but are you actually trying to report plagarism on a bloody tweet? Are you kidding me? We're you planning on selling that bit of wisdom somewhere? Spinning it off for a book deal? You mean

Re: [twitter-dev] Policy restrictions on what we can do with Streaming sample and filter endpoints?

2010-04-28 Thread John Kalucki
Basically, you cannot resyndicate the data. You can't make the raw data available to others via an API or other bulk means. Summaries of the data are fine, as is display of the data. But you can't be a pass-through to other third-parties. -John On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:56 PM, M. Edward (Ed

Re: [twitter-dev] twitter oauth

2010-04-28 Thread John Meyer
On 4/28/2010 4:15 PM, nav wrote: hello one questionn ,, i can have a oauth authentication in web browse and app desktop the same time ... why the methos are diferents thanks in advance The methods are different because the targets are different. With a web application, you are sending the

Re: [twitter-dev] Duplicate Statuses in Public Timeline

2010-04-29 Thread John Kalucki
timeline isn't used much anymore and regressions could theoretically and regrettably, exist for a bit without anyone noticing. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:54 AM, mattarnold1977 matt.arnold.1...@gmail.com wrote: This is the third

Re: [twitter-dev] 413 errors from streaming api

2010-04-29 Thread John Kalucki
. URL params are useful for prototyping and general hackery, but the length is limited. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Paul Tarjan ptar...@gmail.com wrote: I'm connecting to the streaming API with many userids in the filter

Re: [twitter-dev] App Opportunity: OAuthcalypse

2010-04-30 Thread John Jawed
http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pecl/oauth/trunk/examples/twitter/ On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Lil Peck lilp...@gmail.com wrote: If Twitter doesn't come up with a way for those of us who use PHP curl or ASP xhttp to automatically post status updates from our sites, then this could be a nice

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: About update limits

2010-05-01 Thread John Kalucki
to make public. This issue has been aired before, at length, on this list. Please save your emails, as there's little chance that rhetoric will persuade the abuse people to go against data that show that the current policy is, unfortunately, the best policy. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki

Re: [twitter-dev] Tons of Connection Refused

2010-05-02 Thread John Kalucki
Did this happen to start at 10pm PST / 05:00 UTC? On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting tons of connection refused errors. What's going on? The API status is till giving a 100% up indicator.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Upcoming changes to userstream preview

2010-05-03 Thread John Kalucki
) and overall uptime (lower at first). We haven't decided if we're going to dedup connections between cluster types yet. A very small number of test accounts per developer: don't worry about it. -John On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:38 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.com wrote: 1. What's

Re: [twitter-dev] Search API or Streaming API?

2010-05-03 Thread John Kalucki
currently does not allow standing connections to the Streaming API. Also, you'll need considerably more resources than GAE to build a search engine. You'll need dozens of cores and hundreds of spindles just to get started. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc

Re: [twitter-dev] Drastic drop in Streaming API bandwidth usage..

2010-05-04 Thread John Kalucki
Since you didn't provide your account name, we can only speculate as to your problem. You probably are getting caught up in anti-abuse measures and being thrown off the service. Are you seeing a higher rate of 401s and disconnects? -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Search API or Streaming API?

2010-05-04 Thread John Kalucki
Note that from GAE, your search rate will be throttled significantly, as you are sharing the Search API with every other GAE project on a single IP. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:34 AM, nischalshetty nischalshett...@gmail.com

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to show top 20 twiits of the day

2010-05-05 Thread John Kalucki
If you wish to show tweets from many users, it may best to use the follow parameter on the Streaming API and store them on your servers. This way your traffic is proportional to the celebrity tweet velocity, and not to your site's visitor velocity. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth support and reformatted DMs live on user streams

2010-05-05 Thread John Kalucki
We should probably just burp the whole user object out at connection start. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Hydrated message support in earlybird! http://github.com/zbowling/earlybird/ OAuth in query string doesn't work  and only HMAC-SHA1 signature

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth support and reformatted DMs live on user streams

2010-05-06 Thread John Kalucki
deletes a displayed tweet? You also could keep the user object that was sent with the status, if needed. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:39 AM, lqd remy.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, a couple questions/remarks on the new user

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth support and reformatted DMs live on user streams

2010-05-07 Thread John Kalucki
in the future ? Thanks Mark and John Rémy @ldq On May 6, 6:46 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: Did you adjust the timestamp in that tool?  The hosebird implementation tolerates at most a 5 minute clock skew... in other words if it receives a timestamp that is 5 minutes older (or newer

Re: [twitter-dev] I am a beginner with xauth

2010-05-08 Thread John Meyer
On 5/8/2010 2:56 AM, RoeeA wrote: Hello Guys. Can someone here direct me to a place which i can understand how to begin implementing xauth on my PHP server? I already have a twitter application ID and authorization to use XAUTH. Thanks, Roee A. http://dev.twitter.com/pages/xauth And from

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Slow response to twitter updates for a third party app

2010-05-08 Thread John Kalucki
Any chance that the timeouts are correlated with the top of the hour? -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Naveen Ayyagari nav...@getsocialscope.com wrote: We see the same huge latency and timeouts as well (our timeouts

Re: [twitter-dev] I am a beginner with xauth

2010-05-08 Thread John Meyer
on the net. Thanks, On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:28 PM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com mailto:john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/8/2010 2:56 AM, RoeeA wrote: Hello Guys. Can someone here direct me to a place which i can understand how to begin implementing xauth on my

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Slow response to twitter updates for a third party app

2010-05-09 Thread John Kalucki
are not logging tcp dumps at the moment, but I will see what I can do. I also will try to get some more data from our logs to see when this is happening the most. Thanks Ryan and John for looking into it!

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Slow response to twitter updates for a third party app

2010-05-09 Thread John Kalucki
Where are your servers located geographically? If you don't see an hourly correlation, do you see a strong time-of-day correlation or day-of-wee correlation? Can you run a ping from your servers during a period of instability and send the summary at the end of the run? On Sat, May 8, 2010 at

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Slow response to twitter updates for a third party app

2010-05-09 Thread John Kalucki
at the end of the run? If the ping times are long, a traceroute may be useful too. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:15 PM, mikawhite mikawh...@me.com wrote: john - I just scanned DM's and tweets that were slow or had no response from twitter - none were at top of hour - hth

[twitter-dev] TweetDeck and xAuth

2010-05-09 Thread John Meyer
Hey guys, I was reading TweetDeck's support blog and saw something interesting: http://support.tweetdeck.com/home After the switch-off clients will be forced to use a different system called xAuth. Using the xAuth method, clients will only send your password to Twitter once. Twitter will

Re: [twitter-dev] TweetDeck and xAuth

2010-05-09 Thread John Meyer
On 5/9/2010 9:36 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: From what I've heard, xAuth is supposed to be temporary. Is TweetDeck just wording this wrong, or have they gained permanent access to xAuth? Actually, I am under the impression, and constructed TTYtter under this assumption, that desktop apps can

Re: [twitter-dev] TweetDeck and xAuth

2010-05-09 Thread John Meyer
at 4:51 PM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com mailto:john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/9/2010 9:36 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: From what I've heard, xAuth is supposed to be temporary. Is TweetDeck just wording this wrong, or have they gained permanent

Re: [twitter-dev] Followers / Following numbers.

2010-05-10 Thread John Kalucki
Working on it. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Nigel Legg nigel.l...@gmail.com wrote: There appears to be a problem, these have disappeared??

Re: [twitter-dev] random question

2010-05-10 Thread John Meyer
On 5/10/2010 1:40 PM, derek train wreck wrote: Is it possible to have a user input their twitter status on a website and submit it from the form box and have the text in the form box sent directly to twitter? i want to do it with this site: http://www.ftwcontests.com/keane is this possible?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Someone managed to get me to follow them w/o my intervention (@johnnymatosj)

2010-05-10 Thread John Meyer
On 5/10/2010 2:31 PM, jmathai wrote: So, I knew I wasn't hallucinating. Looks like this dude knew of the 'accept username' bug before me :). Yep. On a suggestion request (for Twitter, not necessarily the API) would it be possible to e-mail people indicating that they have started following

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Someone managed to get me to follow them w/o my intervention (@johnnymatosj)

2010-05-10 Thread John Kalucki
That's unlikely. Userstreams will tell you this in real time, FWIW. And you could always poll the REST API against a trusted source. But, the workaround is easy enough -- just unfollow the offending account... -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, May

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Slow response to twitter updates for a third party app

2010-05-10 Thread John Kalucki
We're pretty sure that this isn't a connectivity issue. At least, it's not *just* a connectivity issue. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:06 PM, mikawhite mikawh...@me.com wrote: delayed tweet:ping traceroute 64 bytes from

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Someone managed to get me to follow them w/o my intervention (@johnnymatosj)

2010-05-10 Thread John Meyer
On 5/10/2010 3:48 PM, John Kalucki wrote: That's unlikely. Userstreams will tell you this in real time, FWIW. And you could always poll the REST API against a trusted source. But, the workaround is easy enough -- just unfollow the offending account... -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Someone managed to get me to follow them w/o my intervention (@johnnymatosj)

2010-05-10 Thread John Meyer
On 5/10/2010 3:48 PM, John Kalucki wrote: That's unlikely. Userstreams will tell you this in real time, FWIW. And you could always poll the REST API against a trusted source. But, the workaround is easy enough -- just unfollow the offending account... -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Slow response to twitter updates for a third party app

2010-05-10 Thread John Kalucki
Now that we have a reasonable idea about what is transpiring, I'd venture to say that the latency distribution will be widest between about 6:30am to 10:30am PDT (13:30-17:30 UTC), and considerably less so until perhaps 5pm PDT. The balance of the day should be OK. -John Kalucki http

Re: [twitter-dev] User Streaming API development status

2010-05-11 Thread John Kalucki
: If your application is not a desktop app, it's not going to be eligible for this first beta due to capacity constraints. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Jonathon Hill jhill9...@gmail.com wrote: John, I know you guys

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Intermittent 401 Errors

2010-05-11 Thread John Kalucki
A packet trace isn't going to tell us anything that we don't already know. The API is occasionally underwater between about 13:30 and 18:30 UTC on weekdays and we're working on fixing this. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Glen, My system makes

Re: [twitter-dev] filter stream with follow predicate

2010-05-12 Thread John Kalucki
at the text that is returned. If your request is invalid, you will receive a short text message describing the problem. If you are still stuck, send your account name, time of the disconnect in UTC to api at twitter.com and we'll try to help you directly. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oauth and embedded microcontrollers

2010-05-12 Thread John Kalucki
Why not have the controller proxy through a full-featured webserver that can oAuth in to Twitter? -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:03 AM, glenn gillen gl...@rubypond.com wrote: oAuth is a big burden for microcontroller based

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Slow response to twitter updates for a third party app

2010-05-12 Thread John Kalucki
It's probably on our end. I'll post some advice. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Tjaap jdmeij...@gmail.com wrote: John, can you already tell us something about the latency issue? Is it your opinion that the many connect failures I am seeing are something on my end? Or could

[twitter-dev] Ongoing latency issue: A few observations and suggestions

2010-05-12 Thread John Kalucki
to 29 seconds, etc. The second column is the proportion.   00    0.8102   10    0.1079   20    0.0488   30    0.0289   40    0.0022   50    0.0018 In this sample, 91.81% of requests were returned in 19 seconds, and 99.58% of requests were returned within 29 seconds. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com

Re: [twitter-dev] How to obtain a Tweet ID from the API?

2010-05-12 Thread John Meyer
On 5/12/2010 8:14 PM, giustin wrote: Hi, guys! I'm student and I'm testing some scripts to the API. It is my final work from high-school. I need to search tweets by a tags or hashtags between a specified date by the user. Example: 1. the user specify the date that he wants to search tweets,

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API OAuth explanation?

2010-05-13 Thread John Kalucki
OAuth is not enabled on stream.twitter.com. You can try on chirpstream.twitter.com. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Lucas Vickers lucasvick...@gmail.com wrote: I am writing my own c++ based OAuth library.  I know there is liboauth but I like to do things myself to learn. Anyhow I am trying

Re: [twitter-dev] [OT] new ssl-cert for twitter.com?

2010-05-13 Thread John Adams
confirm if this is a valid cert from twitter.com or if something fishy is going on? It's valid, for the next couple of weeks. -john -- John Adams Twitter Operations

Re: [twitter-dev] parsing out entities from tweets (a.k.a. parsing out hashtags is hard!)

2010-05-13 Thread John Barratt
Hi Raffi, This is all very cool I'm really looking forward to this being generally available. Not sure if this would be possible/practical or not, but it would be *really* useful if short urls in a tweet could be resolved to long urls, and those included instead, or as well. For extra

Re: [twitter-dev] Visualizing Tweets Over Time

2010-05-13 Thread John Kalucki
Grab the data via the Streaming API. Use the track parameter to collect mentions. Then, graph however you see fit. Don't use search -- it's not appropriate for automated repeated queries for data collection. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Thu, May 13

Re: [twitter-dev] Search results limitation

2010-05-14 Thread John Kalucki
timelines, and generally before Search. But, we're talking by hundreds of milliseconds or low seconds. This shouldn't matter for most applications. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Amit saksena...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am developing

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Read/Unread field?

2010-05-14 Thread John Kalucki
all sorts of interesting things. There's a whole team of folks dedicated to working on this infrastructure. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: annotations are immutable along

Re: [twitter-dev] WebSockets protocol for streaming API

2010-05-15 Thread John Kalucki
the existing Streaming API does not work for WebSockets, that might be helpful. What's missing? -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Cezar Sá Espinola ceza...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, Quick question, are there any plans

Re: [twitter-dev] WebSockets protocol for streaming API

2010-05-16 Thread John Kalucki
on that interface. I'm sure they had their reasons. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not particularly familiar with the specifics of WebSockets but here is the draft

Re: [twitter-dev] WebSockets protocol for streaming API

2010-05-16 Thread John Kalucki
for everyone. So we're initially going for the biggest efficiency win with the smallest feature set against the smallest reasonably partitionable market given the limited resources we have available. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:04 AM, M

Re: [twitter-dev] Follower count over time

2010-05-21 Thread John Meyer
On 5/21/2010 12:51 PM, Ryan Bell wrote: Hi, How do I get # of followers over time? I've seen several sites that list a graph that shows your follower count over time. ex) 4/1/10 you had 200 followes...5/1/2010 you had 247 followersand so on. I would love to add this feature to my Twitter

[twitter-dev] Stream.twitter.com lost a loadbalancer at 11:50 UTC

2010-05-24 Thread John Kalucki
are just ignored. Load balancers are wonderful, until the instant they are awful. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API OAuth explanation?

2010-05-24 Thread John Kalucki
: Hi, Is there an ETA for enabling oauth on stream.twitter.com? Thanks, Aaron On May 13, 1:11 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: OAuthis not enabled on stream.twitter.com. You can try on chirpstream.twitter.com. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Lucas Vickers lucasvick

[twitter-dev] New social events on User Streams

2010-05-24 Thread John Kalucki
User Streams now delivers unfollowing, block and unblock events from (created by) the signed-in user. This allows an application to update its state when the user makes a change on another client instance. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.

Re: [twitter-dev] Friends and followers

2010-05-25 Thread John Kalucki
Twitter has evolved quite a bit over the last 4 years. It's not always possible to evolve the API at the same pace. I wouldn't say that mutual followers are friends. They're just mutual followers. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Miles Parker milespar...@gmail.com wrote: This question is

Re: [twitter-dev] Encrypted data over Twitter

2010-05-26 Thread John Adams
an official statement, but I do think that passing encrypted traffic in public tweets would be fairly antisocial and against the spirit of the service. -john On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:09 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky-research.net wrote: Quoting bujanga buja...@gmail.com: Just curious

Re: [twitter-dev] geo enabled tweets in the twitter stream

2010-05-26 Thread John Kalucki
Most users don't geotag their tweets. If they don't opt-in, the information isn't available. -John On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:34 AM, gm gmans...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am using the twitter stream api to access the sample of public tweets. For each tweet I need to know the latitude

[twitter-dev] Re: New social events on User Streams

2010-05-26 Thread John Kalucki
I had to remove unfollow messages until we can sort out a complicated issue. The block and unblock messages remain. Sorry for the regression -- we're trying to move quickly. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:41 PM, John Kalucki j

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: New opt-in API features available today, May 26th: entities, retweets in timelines, custom oauth_callback schemes

2010-05-27 Thread John Kalucki
Thanks to Mark, #1 has been in the Streaming API for weeks now, but we have to coordinate a deploy before you can use it. The pacing is up to the annotations people. #2 and #3 don't apply to Streaming, it seems. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Jebu Ittiachen jebu.ittiac...@gmail.comwrote: +1

Re: [twitter-dev] Window.open twitter.com doesnt work inIE6

2010-06-04 Thread John Adams
There is a fair amount of framebusting code and anti-XSRF/CSRF code designed to stop Twitter from being opened in a popup window or IFRAME. That might be what's blocking such requests. -j On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:11 AM, tweetphp zubi...@gmail.com wrote: THis simple javascript code does not

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Saerch API and Twitter Live Search Results disparity

2010-06-05 Thread John Kalucki
If you need every Tweet, you need the Streaming API. Watch for limit messages -- if you are getting them, refine your predicates, or apply for higher access. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Bess bess...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [twitter-dev] Simple Twitter App?

2010-06-06 Thread John Meyer
On 6/5/2010 3:21 PM, Iguanasan wrote: Hello, Everyone. I'm trying to figure out how to create a simple app. When someone adds a new record to my database I want to tweet that it's available to be seen - apartments for rent - so that anyone who follows my twitter feed will get a notification

Re: [twitter-dev] Questions about Twitter API

2010-06-07 Thread John Kalucki
Search has a ~20 second average indexing latency. It's not instant. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:05 AM, lu5ceh ignacio.santo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello ... had the intention to develop an application based on Twitter search ... 1) It can increase the Twitter search limit assigned to 2

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter 1500 search results

2010-06-07 Thread John Kalucki
to streaming. If you are attempting to get every tweet that matches, which is clearly the case given the questions below, transitioning to streaming is your only option, as search is already filtering for relevance and this filtering will only increase over time. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Questions about Twitter API

2010-06-07 Thread John Kalucki
You can request higher rate limits at a...@twitter.com, but if you are doing 5qps, perhaps you'd be better off moving over to streaming? -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:46 AM, lu5ceh ignacio.santo...@gmail.com wrote: About

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread John Barratt
Hi Raffi, On 9/06/10 8:57 AM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: url : http://t.co/s9gfk2d4;, display_url : http://dev.twitter.com;, indices : [23, 43] Any chance of getting the title of the resolved URL added in here too if available? Then we could display a link like : a title=Twitter Dev

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread John Barratt
www.mysite.com/evil_page and : Hey check out mysite.com/evil_page I imagine many clients will currently link these out as urls and link them up automatically? Thanks again, JB. On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM, John Barratt djo...@gmail.com mailto:djo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Raffi, On 9/06

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread John Kalucki
All links will be wrapped. It's not about length. On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Alex B alex.boswo...@gmail.com wrote: OK, it's a little confusing naming for display URL, as that implies that is what clients should show directly to the users, as most of the time I would imagine that field

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread John Kalucki
Existing url shortners will continue to work just fine. We're not going to resolve them to their final link and remove them from the chain. By redirecting all links, we can protect all users and the entire ecosystem much faster. The adoption via opt-in would be slower, and might never reach

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API

2010-06-09 Thread John Meyer
On 6/9/2010 7:00 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote: On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:13:04 -0700 M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyzn...@borasky-research.net wrote: Quoting Kenk...@cimas.ch: Not exactly spyware, but deceptive. Don't expect the public to appreciate this. How is this deceptive? Who is being deceived, and

Re: [twitter-dev] tco crawler details

2010-06-11 Thread John Adams
t.co is not a crawler; Are you referring to the URL unpacking process or something else? -john On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: If tco is to be the new three-letter agency and gatekeeper, we would like to treat it nice and whitelist its crawler. If tco

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