[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the world's most extensive Twitter User Analyzer application

2009-03-06 Thread Ruth
it will be added in the next few days, its in testing right now... Ruth On 5 מרץ, 15:57, Noah noah.cof...@gmail.com wrote: It would be much more useful if I could direct link to specific stats. I found some interesting things about a user and wanted to send them a link to a specific chart,

[twitter-dev] Twitter API Function

2009-03-06 Thread pawan
Hi All, Can any one explain me how I get the perticuler user block or not for another user by the help of API. Just like we get friendship exists or not. Thanks in advance Pawan Singh

[twitter-dev] Hello Everyone!!

2009-03-06 Thread Alex
Hi! I am new to this group so I wanted to take a second and introduce myself.

[twitter-dev] Re: friends_timeline.xml?count= not working? (JSON is)

2009-03-06 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, That looks like a bug, please open a Google Code issue (http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry ) and we'll take a look. — Matt On Mar 6, 2009, at 01:05 AM, TjL wrote: is 'count' not working for friends timeline if you use XML? I read this:

[twitter-dev] Re: friends_timeline.xml?count= not working? (JSON is)

2009-03-06 Thread TjL
I'm getting weird results. Sometimes I'm getting 'count' honored, and sometimes getting 20 regardless of what I ask for. Still checking to make sure it's not pilot error before I open a bug report. Tj On Mar 6, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, That

[twitter-dev] Re: How often do users change their screen names?

2009-03-06 Thread Doug Williams
User name changes are fairly rare, but a real concern nonetheless. A cache with an expiry of a day should be sufficient to guarantee most of your cache hits are successful and valid. Doug @dougw On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:26 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Nick

[twitter-dev] Re: friends_timeline.xml?count= not working? (JSON is)

2009-03-06 Thread TjL
BAH! It was indeed pilot error. Sorry for the noise. That's what I get for coding at 4am. TjL On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:19 AM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting weird results. Sometimes I'm getting 'count' honored, and sometimes getting 20 regardless of what I ask for. Still checking

[twitter-dev] OAuth Feature: oauth_access_type added

2009-03-06 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, This is mostly for the people in the OAuth closed beta, but that is rapidly coming to an end so other may want to read this as well. One of the major changes requested was the ability for one application to have both read and read+write users [1]. This was a fundamental

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-06 Thread Burhan TANWEER
I agree with him. Search trends are not available in xml format. I will appreciate, if twitter can provide search trends in xml and so that i can update my social search engine ExploreWWW.com with search trends in real time. Thanks Burhan On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:09 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-06 Thread Doug Williams
Chad, In your experience, do trending bots have a disproportionate participation in the search results for trending topics? Have you done any analysis like that? Doug Williams @dougw On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Burhan TANWEER btanw...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with him. Search trends are

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-06 Thread TjL
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Doug Williams do...@igudo.com wrote: In your experience, do trending bots have a disproportionate participation in the search results for trending topics? Have you done any analysis like that? I'm not Chad :-) but if you click on any of the Trending Topics and

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-06 Thread Chad Etzel
Well, it's kind of a weird feedback loop. Say you are following a trending bot (many many people do, a surprising number to me). As soon as you see a tweet from your favorite trending bot, you click the link and head over to see the results Well, all the other bots are tweeting at about the

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-06 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, We've talked about this among the search folks a few times. We exclude a bunch of bots and things from influencing trends but then they still get displayed. I just opened a ticket for someone to fix that so we can exclude the trend bots using a parameter or search operator.

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter incorporated into a flash based website

2009-03-06 Thread Peter Denton
yes, the twitter api http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#update is designed to help 3rd party apps do things like this with ease. Keep in mind there is a 20,000 per hour limit. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Abi abi.golestan...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi there, Currently

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-06 Thread Nick Arnett
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, We've talked about this among the search folks a few times. We exclude a bunch of bots and things from influencing trends but then they still get displayed. I just opened a ticket for someone to fix that so we

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-06 Thread Peter Denton
I am skeptical that bot devs, (outside of the integrious Jazzy Chad), will do anything to encourage segregation, as it would probably lead to a nuking list at some point. I would say this has to be done programatically, with a secret sauce that is known to twitter only. As search is more and more

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-06 Thread Chad Etzel
I agree, most ppl probably won't abide by any guidelines that they have to 'voluntarily' follow in order to identify themselves at bots. It's pretty darn easy to tell if something is a trend bot or not... especially with the username :) Matt even said they've identified them (uh oh, i'm on some

[twitter-dev] What is 140 characters?

2009-03-06 Thread Craig Hockenberry
Some discussion about this thread popped up on Twitter yesterday: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/ thread/44be91d5ec5850fa Alex states that it's 140 bytes per tweet. So, of course, Loren Brichter and I tried to prove that. With the following results: 1)

[twitter-dev] Re: Need a list of Friends -- followers/ids.xml isn't enough

2009-03-06 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Doug Williams do...@igudo.com wrote: The second, and less API intensive method to retrieve a list of all screen names is to page and parse through a user's friends with paginated calls to the statuses/friends method I've been trying this out for the last day

[twitter-dev] Re: Need a list of Friends -- followers/ids.xml isn't enough

2009-03-06 Thread Doug Williams
Nick, Are you using a caching layer? Initialization of the cache will of course be slow since every user will need to be looked up with a users/show call, but the cache should eventually pay off after the most active users have been entered. Doug @dougw On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Nick

[twitter-dev] Re: link for to be a follower

2009-03-06 Thread Doug Williams
Devin, The friendship create method, just like the status create method, requires HTTP POST. Therefore they must be invoked through some sort of server-side script. However, since you are already sending users to Twitter to update their status, have you considered simply sending them to a user's

[twitter-dev] Re: link for to be a follower

2009-03-06 Thread Devin
Yes, that is my second option and it seems like I'm going with that. On Mar 6, 11:44 am, Doug Williams do...@igudo.com wrote: Devin, The friendship create method, just like the status create method, requires HTTP POST. Therefore they must be invoked through some sort of server-side script.

[twitter-dev] Survey: usage of since/If-Modified-Since vs since_id

2009-03-06 Thread Alex Payne
We've recently discovered some performance problems in the use of the since/If-Modified-Since parameter and HTTP header, respectively. What was originally implemented as a way for developers to help us keep our servers happy by requesting only the tweets they need has, in fact, ended up costing

[twitter-dev] Re: Need a list of Friends -- followers/ids.xml isn't enough

2009-03-06 Thread Doug Williams
Nick, Have you looked into memcached [1]? Attribute-value pair caching is what it was designed to do. Perfect for the write-through cache that is needed here. It will also handle the pesky details like resolution expiry for you, too. If you would like help, ping me offline, I can get you started.

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-06 Thread Chad Etzel
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: I created @RoboTweeters this morning.  I'll probably start feeding it screen names and ids of the ones I find, since that's quite simple. Nick Just make sure not to feed @RobotTweeters to itself... you may rip a

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API and Feeds ... using a sinceID ... please?

2009-03-06 Thread Matt Sanford
some information inline … On Mar 6, 2009, at 01:25 PM, Scott C. Lemon wrote: I'm working on our site - http://www.TopFollowFriday.com - and am currently using the search API to search for the #followfriday hashtag. All is well, and it's working ... except ... The search feed only returns

[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

[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 panda.sant...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nick, Good stuff! We are ready to launch Tweetmeme popular tweets with Twitblogs.