[twitter-dev] Twitter API and synchronization. Please, need advice ...

2009-03-08 Thread shapper
Hello, I just finished a web site where documents are published and articles are written. I am using SQL Server and each Document ID or Article ID is a GUID. I am using ASP.NET MVC 1.0. I would like to open a twitter account where I would post the title of all documents and articles published

[twitter-dev] missing comma in status creation time not parsing with Date in IE

2009-03-08 Thread Adrian
In IE, this date won't Date.parse Sun Mar 08 09:47:49 + 2009 this will Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:58:01 + the problem is with the missing comma in the former. The former are status creation times coming from the twitter.com API, the latter are coming from the search.twitter.com API. Could

[twitter-dev] Re: Displaying timeline for only two specific users

2009-03-08 Thread Nicolas Steenhout
Thanks Chad, I'll have a look at that. Nic

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API and synchronization. Please, need advice ...

2009-03-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I just finished a web site where documents are published and articles are written. I am using SQL Server and each Document ID or Article ID is a GUID. I am using ASP.NET MVC 1.0. I would like to open a twitter account where I would post the title of all documents and articles published on

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API and synchronization. Please, need advice ...

2009-03-08 Thread shapper
I see ... So basically every time a document or article is created or updated on my web site I would create a twitter entry with the document or article title and the url. I will use, maybe, TinyUrl to make the url smaller ... Is this the better option or should I use other service instead of

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API and synchronization. Please, need advice ...

2009-03-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
So basically every time a document or article is created or updated on my web site I would create a twitter entry with the document or article title and the url. I will use, maybe, TinyUrl to make the url smaller ... Is this the better option or should I use other service instead of TinyUrl?

[twitter-dev] Cookie authentication

2009-03-08 Thread kilps
Hi All I know this isn't officially supported, but understand that it should work (see http://twitter.pbwiki.com/API-Docs) - and I really have to be able to login with a cookie... I am developing with php and curl - http authentication works fine and I get a cookie when I set CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR

[twitter-dev] Re: Cookie authentication

2009-03-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I know this isn't officially supported, but understand that it should work (see http://twitter.pbwiki.com/API-Docs) - and I really have to be able to login with a cookie... That documentation is probably out of date. See http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation for the

[twitter-dev] Rate limit with since_id parameter

2009-03-08 Thread Josh Perry
I wonder if it might be an acceptable compromise for twitter to not count certain requests against an authenticated user. These request should theoretically not be much if any more expensive in CPU or bandwidth than the rate limit check itself. I propose that any request with a since_id that

[twitter-dev] Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread MarcosNobre
Does anybody know is it possible to get a timeline feed with updates of a bunch of unrelated people? I mean hundreds. Thanks, Marcos

[twitter-dev] Re: Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Does anybody know is it possible to get a timeline feed with updates of a bunch of unrelated people? I mean hundreds. Sure. The public timeline, or the firehose (requires special arrangement). -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser

[twitter-dev] Re: Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Thanks Cameron, but will it work for a bunch of specific people, like a query @john OR @mary OR @jesse OR @lisa OR @onandon? Not without work. You can do that in three ways: - Get the public timeline/firehose with the API, and filter it to the people you want. - Make a user that follows

[twitter-dev] Re: Firehose Access

2009-03-08 Thread Doug Williams
Have you seen the following? http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#Whenwillthefirehosebeready Doug @dougw On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Mateusz Berezecki mateu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Josh Perry j...@6bit.com wrote: Who do we need to talk to about accessing the

[twitter-dev] Re: Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread MarcosNobre
Thanks Doug and Cameron, About the query I heard Twitter allows only 140 characters as well. Problem is: I want to set up dynamically little communities with people who join and share twitter name. One way to do is creating a new twitter account for the community and ask people to follow, or

[twitter-dev] Re: missing comma in status creation time not parsing with Date in IE

2009-03-08 Thread Doug Williams
Adrian, Date formats have been a problem in the past. Issue 206 [1], scheduled for API V2, will handle the API's normalization of dates. [1] - http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=206 Doug @dougw On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Adrian spiritpo...@gmail.com wrote: In IE, this

[twitter-dev] Re: Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
About the query I heard Twitter allows only 140 characters as well. Yes. Problem is: I want to set up dynamically little communities with people who join and share twitter name. One way to do is creating a new twitter account for the community and ask people to follow, or ask for his

[twitter-dev] Open source twitter job search engine

2009-03-08 Thread feedbackmine
Hello all, I developed a job search engine for twitter using two weekends, and thought someone may be interested. A few hightlights: 1. uses twitter data mining feeds to collect data 2. uses libsvm classifier and a few hardcoed twitter id to identify job posts 3. it is a rails web app and

[twitter-dev] Re: Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread Doug Williams
Marcos, Have you considered popularizing hashtags for each of these communities. You could then search on the hashtag rather than the individual users. Doug @dougw On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:13 PM, MarcosNobre nobremar...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Doug and Cameron, About the query I heard

[twitter-dev] Re: Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread MarcosNobre
That's what I'm afraid of. I'll get in line and wait for twitter groups. Thank you all. all the best Marcos @marcosnobre On Mar 8, 3:33 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: @Cameron You're right. It would work just like that. How about my solution of dynamically created twitter

[twitter-dev] API Problems whenever a [username] is a number/integer

2009-03-08 Thread RoelandP
Hi everybody, Twitter! If I request the API http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ bob.json you'll see Bob's timeline. 2 of my followers have the numbered usernames: http://twitter.com/1250 http://twitter.com/6868 If I request the API with their 'usernames':

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

2009-03-08 Thread Sean P.
I'd love to be mentioned! Count me in too! Username: @twobile URL: http://www.infinitumsoftware.com/twobile Email: spa...@infinitumsoftware.com Author of Twobile Technology: C# on Windows Mobile devices Thanks! On Feb 23, 11:33 am, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm

[twitter-dev] update_profile and the returned user information element

2009-03-08 Thread Zachary West
Hello, When POSTing an update_profile, the returned user information element doesn't actually contain the updated information; it contains the old values for the user. This doesn't seem quite right. I can understand it not being updated in other requests, caching and all, but can the response

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API and synchronization. Please, need advice ...

2009-03-08 Thread shapper
You can't make up a key and send it to Twitter to make Twitter use that as a status ID. However, once you have a status ID back, then you can use that as a key for your own purposes if you like. Can I be sure the the status ID's returned by twitter will always be different? On Mar 8, 4:30 

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

2009-03-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
IMO, trend bots should have to be registered with Twitter (they say what they are going to use their API access for, right?) and should excluded from Twitter search. How do you enforce bots registering as bots, however? -- personal:

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API and synchronization. Please, need advice ...

2009-03-08 Thread shapper
I opened my first twitter account and I am getting the feel of it. I see I can delete entries. So if I delete an article on my web site wouldn't be better to delete the tweets related to it in my twitter account? So basically I would do the following: 1. Create a table on my database named

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API and synchronization. Please, need advice ...

2009-03-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I opened my first twitter account and I am getting the feel of it. I see I can delete entries. So if I delete an article on my web site wouldn't be better to delete the tweets related to it in my twitter account? You certainly can, if you want, but my point is not to rely on this.

[twitter-dev] Various questions not on FAQ

2009-03-08 Thread Kelly Jones
I didn't see any of these on the FAQ: % It's probably easy to create a twitter-to-email bidirectional gateway. Has someone already done this? % Twitter pushes DMs to my email address, which is cool, especially since I can pipe the email to whatever I want. Can I force Twitter to push

[twitter-dev] Re: Various questions not on FAQ

2009-03-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I didn't see any of these on the FAQ: % It's probably easy to create a twitter-to-email bidirectional gateway. Has someone already done this? I suspect this would be an unspeakably bad idea when spammers find out what it is. % Twitter pushes DMs to my email address, which is cool,

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

2009-03-08 Thread TjL
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: IMO, trend bots should have to be registered with Twitter (they say what they are going to use their API access for, right?) and should excluded from Twitter search. How do you enforce bots registering as bots,