[twitter-dev] Re: Abuse of multiple accounts

to reveal any secrets on how to circumvent our analysis. If you feel that someone is a spammer, please dm or @reply @spam (e.g. @spam @WealthWizz http://twitter.com/WealthWizz) to help in The Fight Against Crime (tm). Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw

[twitter-dev] Re: Abuse of multiple accounts

incidents of spam or abuse that you want to report, you can always send an @reply to @dougw and I can take care of them on my own. Cheers, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri

[twitter-dev] Re: Planned site maintenance Friday, May 8th 2PM-3PM PST and Monday, May 11th Noon-1PM PST

Eric, I was right next to Alex when he made the fix for Issue 300 and I remember seeing it deployed. I'll check into it. Thanks, Doug Doug Williams | Platform Support | Twitter, Inc. 539 Bryant St. Suite 402, San Francisco, CA

[twitter-dev] Re: Planned site maintenance Friday, May 8th 2PM-3PM PST and Monday, May 11th Noon-1PM PST

. 3) The downtime today was to increase capacity, which does not exactly translate to performance. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Eric

[twitter-dev] Re: Public Timeline Frozen (Again)

This is the second report I am seeing. I'll open a ticket. Given that it is the weekend it may take a few hours to restart. I'll update this thread with any information. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:31 AM

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Terms Of Service change - multiple simultaneous logins discouraged

Jesse, We will announce this to the announce list when we feel it is ready for a larger audience. John is a Twitter employee and is developing the streaming service. Be sure to give him a thanks if you use his stuff. Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw

[twitter-dev] Re: xml feed for data mining is not fresh

The timeline is currently stuck and will be fixed shortly. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:06 PM, AJ cano...@gmail.com wrote: problem with data mining xml feed: the first call to api returns a fresh feed

[twitter-dev] Re: Unable to set source parameter while submitting tweets

Do you have the source parameter Altertunes registered with Twitter? Thanks, Doug Doug Williams | Platform Support | Twitter, Inc. 539 Bryant St. Suite 402, San Francisco, CA 94107 http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, May 10, 2009

[twitter-dev] Re: Public Timeline Frozen (Again)

This should be fixed. The database the public timeline service was pointing to went down. This problem has been fixed and a permanent/dynamic solution was put in place to ensure this doesn't happen again. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun

[twitter-dev] Re: xml feed for data mining is not fresh

This should be fixed. The database the public timeline service was pointing to went down. This problem has been fixed and a permanent/dynamic solution was put in place to ensure this doesn't happen again. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun

[twitter-dev] Re: Regex for @replies

within the text of the tweet. So @replies are a subset of mentions. Any non-alphanumeric (where alphanumeric is a-z, 0-9, or _) can terminate the username. For instance: hi @dougw, you look dapper today is a mention. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw

[twitter-dev] Re: all replies by friends

There is a setting to change this behavior: http://help.twitter.com/forums/23786/entries/14595 Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused now. I just pulled my

[twitter-dev] Deprecation of following and notification elements

=419 2. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=474 3. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show 4. http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug_large.htm 5. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=532 Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams

[twitter-dev] Re: Notifications info vague/wrong

Please see the recent message on following and notification deprecation: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_frm/thread/42ba883b9f8e3c6e Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:27 PM, TjL luo

[twitter-dev] Re: all replies by friends

does not translate to value in the product. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM, voorwiel voorw...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I'm familiar with the setting. Somehow the setting does not have any effect

[twitter-dev] Re: all replies by friends

) to close the loop. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw Wait, did the default not used to be Show all @ replies (it is the first option in the dropdown box)? Did that change? Personally, I like seeing all of them as it leads me to follow new and interesting

[twitter-dev] Re: Deprecation of following and notification elements

the wheel. In fact, there should be a FOSS project for mobile devs to rely on -- I've got a couple ideas to contribute. Again, please start a thread (and link back here) if you have code or interest in starting a proxy project. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http

[twitter-dev] API Changes for May 11, 2009

and notification elements will be moved to their own method in the near future. See announcement: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/42ba883b9f8e3c6e?tvc=2 Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw

[twitter-dev] Re: Can't Follow Any more users?

]. It contains the answer to your question. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Support 2. http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.comwrote: my

[twitter-dev] Planned site maintenance May 13, 2009 at Noon Pacific

The maintenance originally scheduled for Monday May 11 has been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 13, at Noon Pacific. Follow the status blog for details: http://status.twitter.com/post/106892554/planned-maintenance-on-wednesday-noon-pacific Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support

[twitter-dev] Re: Regex for @replies

Harry, There is nothing on the product roadmap that would lead to me believe any of the findings here will change. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:33 AM, hjb ha...@heatonmoor.com wrote: @Doug, Is this behavour

[twitter-dev] Re: Source request - no wait, listen...

Wait, no really... I have a NASA contact that worked with us to make tweets flow from space. I'll ping him and see if we can get a source parameter patched into the update logic. Yay geeks! Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, May 12, 2009

[twitter-dev] Re: all replies by friends

This setting is set to be removed momentarily. Watch blog.twitter.com for notes about the deprecation when the deploy happens. You heard it here first. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Doug Williams d

[twitter-dev] Re: all replies by friends

, check 'em out. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Sarah Isaacson sarahisaac...@gmail.comwrote: I'm wondering what the justification is for removing the option for filtering replies? Surely with the way that you

[twitter-dev] Re: replies blog post clarification...

Non-confirmed @replies will still be seen by all. Confirmed @replies, or those with in_reply_to_status_id set, will only be seen by mutual followers. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Steve Brunton sbrun

[twitter-dev] Re: replies blog post clarification...

This change is not owned by the API team. If you test this, please report back. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Riddle me this, what happens in this scenario: I'm

[twitter-dev] Re: It looks like timelines and search are stuck

Ops guys are on it, fixing a problem with back end machines. Thanks for the report. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Hayes Davis ha...@appozite.com wrote: Guys, I don't see any notice on the status blog

[twitter-dev] Re: Timelines/search frozen?

Repairs are finished. Things should be on their way back to normal once the queues empty. Thanks, Doug -- Sent from my mobile device. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Looks like there are some problems on the back end right now. Ops guys

[twitter-dev] Re: Data mining feed stuck with old results

, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Ianiv Schweber ian...@gmail.com wrote: Our data mining feed is stuck with items from about 20 hours ago: created_atWed May 13 18:59:26 + 2009/created_at Search and other timelines

[twitter-dev] Re: Data mining feed stuck with old results

s/to have this taken care fixed/to have this fixed/; Woops, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: We've were notified of this late yesterday (there is a Google Code issue). I've opened

[twitter-dev] Re: API Changes for May 11, 2009

Can you open an issue for this so we can track it? I'll take a look today. Thanks, Doug On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:34 AM, rlamfink randylf...@comcast.net wrote: Using the blocks/blocking API, the page parameter has no effect. I always get the first page, no matter what page number is in the

[twitter-dev] Re: oAUTH - can it be done without interaction with a core browser?

David, That is our intention, as mentioned in past discussion and documented on the FAQ: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#WhenwillTwittersupportOAuthhttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:21 AM

[twitter-dev] Unscheduled downtime

Please see the status blog: http://status.twitter.com/post/107824532/unplanned-downtime Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw

[twitter-dev] Re: Data Mining timeline is empty

This was report and is being tracked by issue 582: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=582 Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:28 PM, elversatile elversat...@gmail.com wrote: I have Data Mining public

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting When A Friendship Began

That value is the date that the account was created as you determined. There is no way to determine programmatically when the account was followed. That is not something we expose in the API. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, May 15, 2009

[twitter-dev] Re: How can I get the overall number of tweets mentioning a certain topic?

Here is the closed issue [1] for a conversation API which would make this possible. In short, our current stance is this will not be available in the API until it is available on twitter.com. 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 Thanks, Doug -- Do you follow me?

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers count via api not consistent with real data

This is a known issue: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=580 Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:58 AM, alon alon.car...@gmail.com wrote: I filed abug on this but im wondering if someone else

[twitter-dev] Re: Anti Spam

is hiring. If you think you have what it takes, please apply: http://twitter.com/jobs Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:14 PM, sillyt...@googlemail.com sillyt...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm working as part of the #twumpet

[twitter-dev] Re: is there a REST API method for getting follower requests?

There is currently no way to receive this data through the API. As the issue you liked to above states, this is on the distant roadmap. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Lien Tran lientra...@gmail.com wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: How its possible to get my tweets via the API in reall time almost to my site?

Check our the /follow method in the streaming API. Include your user_id(s) in the followers list and we'll push updates to the listening point of your choice. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

Thanks for your patience guys -- we realize the benefits of predictable static URLs. It's unfortunately kind of back-burner work but we're getting to it. As most of you can tell, the image uploading logic needs a lot of love. Cheers, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http

[twitter-dev] Re: Poll: Demographics of Twitter Dev--please answer a few questions

I just sent a tweet over @twitterapi to illicit more participation. I think we all know what to expect from the responses though :) Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:47 AM, pplante pplante@gmail.com wrote: I created a Google Docs

[twitter-dev] Re: cool, relevant, worth sharing

The code counts UTF-8 characters, not bytes. So the maximum amount of data you can transmit is the maximum number of bytes you can fit into 140 UTF-8 chars. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec

[twitter-dev] Re: Search: Resolution of Since, and howto avoid pulling redundant search results

Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: What is the resolution of the 'since' operator? It appears to be by the day, but I'd sure like it to be by the minute

[twitter-dev] Re: Hey! Anyone interested in URtwitter.com

Please do not use this list as a vehicle for advertisement. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:34 AM, jadito jad.darwi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I am selling URtwitter.com reasonable price and commission hit

[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?

Check out the content of the XML returned with the error you would see: hash request/users/show.xml?user_id=41714775/request errorUser has been suspended./error /hash Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Jeffrey

[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?

It will remain permanently unless it is reinstated. There are so many because people want to make money the easy way -- through spam. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?

No, we do not remove suspended users from your following or followers lists. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to be picking these up from the social

[twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property

Well thought out and logical Peter. This is exactly how we think about it internally. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.comwrote: I agree with the fact that it would be a good

[twitter-dev] Re: Extracting tweets of all twitter users from a particular region (say new york city).

. But, there are resources allocated to the project so we're committed to delivering this in the near future. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:11 AM, 0 3 boxnumbe...@gmail.com wrote: I will have the same requirement too in the future. I

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

Please watch this thread for updates: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=634 Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:54 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: We're aware of this. Twitter developers

[twitter-dev] Re: Source showing as web

Please watch this for updates: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=634 Doug On May 31, 7:53 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: We're aware of this. Twitter developers and operations have been working quite a bit this weekend on problems related to this issue and

[twitter-dev] Re: Enable ability to block apps via Twitter or the API

Interesting idea Jesse. I'll float this idea internally tomorrow and get some feedback. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:57 PM, kylel...@gmail.com kylel...@gmail.comwrote: I completely agree with some type of blocking

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends returning 500 error

We're continuing to fight with the limits of MySQL scalability. This is contributing to problems with user related data such as social graph lists, which is resulting in 500s. Operations is working hard and focusing on the fix. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http

[twitter-dev] Re: How to count to 140: or, characters vs. bytes vs. entities, third strike

. As Abraham has indicated, we can't answer the same questions repeatedly or we'd never move forward. Our silence is normally an indication that you don't need our help and that the information is already available. Cheers, Doug Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id - screen_name resolution.

a discussion down the road when the API Terms of Service better defines our relationship with developers. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Stuart

[twitter-dev] Re: Enable ability to block apps via Twitter or the API

Floated the idea. Until we funnel everyone through OAuth (that means no Basic Auth) this really isn't possible. It's something we'll keep in our back pockets for the long-term. Great suggestion though, Jesse. Cheers, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw

[twitter-dev] Re: Enable ability to block apps via Twitter or the API

. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: No, it can't be required. Worse yet, it can be spoofed w/ basic auth, so a blocked app could just change it's source parameter and appear

[twitter-dev] Re: Incorrect Rate Limited Response Code

You are not being rate limited. You are hitting the update limits as indicated by the 403. If you look at the body of the returned data, it will tell you this error condition. I've updated the friendships_create, direct_messages/new, and statuses/update method documentation to mention that we

[twitter-dev] Re: Incorrect Rate Limited Response Code

. On Jun 3, 11:19 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: You are not being rate limited. You are hitting the update limits as indicated by the 403. If you look at the body of the returned data, it will tell you this error condition. I've updated the friendships_create, direct_messages/new

[twitter-dev] Re: Incorrect Rate Limited Response Code

this then let me know via email. On Jun 3, 12:37 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Whitelisting affects GET requests. Update limits affect POST requests. Update limits are applied on a per-user basis regardless of whitelisting status. I will update that doc to make this clear

[twitter-dev] Re: My updates are not showing in Public Timeline since 30 May,2009

Where are you expecting to see your tweets? Can you send a link? Thanks, Doug Twitter API Support On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:29 PM, cherishinglifes cherishingli...@gmail.comwrote: Help me anyone if you know the answer. I am new to Twitter and have been using it for 45 days.Since 30 May , 5

[twitter-dev] Re: Larger Users Not Returning Follower Data

What methods in particular are you referring to? The social graph methods now support paging so retrieving all of that data is now possible, where it used to throw 502s. It does however require a bit of application logic to assume when paging is necessary (e.g. large follower counts).

[twitter-dev] Re: Larger Users Not Returning Follower Data

methods. I didn't realize you had paging available now. Is there some logic as to when I should expect to page and when I can just rely on the full result? Jesse On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: What methods in particular are you referring to? The social

[twitter-dev] Re: Larger Users Not Returning Follower Data

to take longer to retrieve the info. Or if you'd prefer we paginate I'll start doing that as well. Maybe a hard limit of 200K and you have to Page to get above that? Jesse On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: I've heard that list sizes greater than 150K-200K

[twitter-dev] API Changes for June 4, 2009

/issues/detail?id=605 See also: API Documentation: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw

[twitter-dev] Re: saved_search: what is position/position ?

It is for future use when we allow explicit ordering. Currently it is unused. I've added this value has been the documentation. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Yusuke yusu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for providing saved_search methods! I have one question about the return

[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches

Please file a help ticket at http://help.twitter.com. @thecurrents tweets almost always have links that point back to the same source. This is normally indicative of spam which may explain why the account is no longer in search. The folks in support can help you take care issues like these.

[twitter-dev] Re: What is current search time range limit?

right now. Is this true? This is causing a lot of problems with our app. Thanks, Joe On Apr 27, 1:33 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: From #6 on Things Every Developer Should Know [1]. Search API Limit Clients may request up to 1,500 statuses via the page and count

[twitter-dev] Re: What is current search time range limit?

, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: The index has been shortened considerably to help reduce the replication lag that is causing some search machines to fall behind. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Joe Fernandez joey.fernan...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Doug, We

[twitter-dev] Re: What is current search time range limit?

See [1] for information on replication. Sometimes there is a lag in the replication of the database across multiple machines. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_(computer_science) Thanks, Doug On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:24 AM, davidz...@yahoo.com wrote: What do you mean by replication

[twitter-dev] Re: Change the link of the source [My App]

Jony,Is this for an OAuth application or a basic auth source parameter? Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:45 AM, jonylt jon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I don't know what i'm making wrong. I have added an application with oauth interface to twitter, everything is working fine. But now i'm

[twitter-dev] Re: Strange API behavior as of this morning

Ben, This is the first report of such behavior. Can you elaborate on what you are seeing? Can you reproduce this? Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, benjackson bhjack...@gmail.com wrote: We noticed a direct message being published on the main timeline, and when deleting the post

[twitter-dev] Re: WWDC Twitter developer meetup at Twitter HQ: RSVP!

The office address is available at: https://admin.twitter.com/about#contact Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, AJ Chen cano...@gmail.com wrote: I'm coming, too. could someone provide the exact address for the meetup? thanks, -aj On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mark Paine

[twitter-dev] Re: WWDC Twitter developer meetup at Twitter HQ: RSVP!

Sorry for the repost. The correct link to the address: http://twitter.com/about#contact https://admin.twitter.com/about#contact Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, AJ Chen cano...@gmail.com wrote: I'm coming, too. could someone provide the exact address for the meetup? thanks,

[twitter-dev] Re: How's SuperChirp managing to work around DM limits

There is nothing in our system beyond normal whitelisting which increase direct messaging limits. Looking at the @SocialChirp account they are still a relatively new application and have likely not run into the messaging limits you are thinking of. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM,

[twitter-dev] Re: How's SuperChirp managing to work around DM limits

replied to): http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/b21a7a637006227a Confused :) On Jun 8, 4:49 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: There is nothing in our system beyond normal whitelisting which increase direct messaging limits. Looking

[twitter-dev] Re: Larger Users Not Returning Follower Data

, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: I've heard that list sizes greater than 150K-200K start to return timeouts at higher rates. Although I'd enjoy hearing first-hand experiences and recommendations. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote

[twitter-dev] Purposed method: friendships/show

We discussed the need to deprecate the following and notifications elements [1] a few weeks back. We have begun work on the friendships/show method as mentioned in the notice. The method is slightly out of our conventional design, so we are soliciting opinions on its fitness for general use-cases.

[twitter-dev] Re: Purposed method: friendships/show

at 12:32 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: We discussed the need to deprecate the following and notifications elements [1] a few weeks back. We have begun work on the friendships/show method as mentioned in the notice. The method is slightly out of our conventional design, so we

[twitter-dev] Re: Purposed method: friendships/show

-versa? Knowing that, the other 3 following/followed_by value meanings can be properly inferred. Some clarification on the page would help. -Chad On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: That makes things difficult. Permissions are now public. Thanks, Doug

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Logo on Facebook

Can you please email a...@twitter.com regarding this request. This is best handled off-list. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Chuck Lynch chucklyn...@gmail.com wrote: I have created an image that I am using to link my companies facebook page to its twitter page. The image has

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Application Usage Guidelines, Please Read

Brant,Thank you for your concern. This is something that bothers us as well. Moving applications exclusively to OAuth-based authentication will certainly help in restricting applications that abuse the service. If you find a service that you think is violating our TOS, please email

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweetingtoohard.com being treated as an OAuth Desktop app?

Keith,Let use this thread [1] and this announcement [2] to keep the discussion from fragmenting. 1. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_frm/thread/b39aa97f826e7432 2. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_frm/thread/472500cfe9e7cdb9 Thanks, Doug

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Application Usage Guidelines, Please Read

time developing it. (even if I disagree with the premise of those apps) @Jesse On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Brant,Thank you for your concern. This is something that bothers us as well. Moving applications exclusively to OAuth-based authentication

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Application Usage Guidelines, Please Read

Twitter TOS, many of us have spent countless hours and $$ trying to build businesses around Twitter. Not trying to be an alarmist, just curious what this will ultimately mean for us? Justyn On 6/9/09 8:51 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: The API TOS is currently in development

[twitter-dev] Re: Whacking The Spammers

We use blocks, DMs sent to @spam (d spam @sketchy_user), and @replies to at spam (@spam @sketchy_user) to help learn about spam accounts. All of these are used as signal in the fight against way-ward users. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: A Fresh Approach To Follower Processing

There has been discussion of pushing social graph changes through the streaming API in much the same way that Dewald has requested. At this time there is nothing to report nor a definitive decision on if it will ever be publicly available. I know Jesse's use case from an earlier thread but are

[twitter-dev] Re: A Fresh Approach To Follower Processing

It would be a subset similar to /follow or /birddog, not the entire social graph. But again, what is your use-case? Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't want to sit at the receiving end of a full follower transaction stream. I

[twitter-dev] Re: #IranElection - postpone downtime?

Dan, This is our hosting provider's downtime: http://status.twitter.com/post/124145031/maintenance-window-tonight-9-45p-pacific Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Dan Brickley dan...@danbri.org wrote: (sorry this is a bit offtopic, but hey...)

[twitter-dev] Re: get status update limit

We do not provide programmatic access to this data. We're open to an argument for including this in the API, but remember that most folks bumping against the limit are spammers. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM, ignitor34 andrew.t@gmail.com wrote: In regards to the daily

[twitter-dev] Re: Don't take twitter down for maintenance today!

For posterity's sake, I'm including a link explaining our rescheduling of this downtime: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/06/down-time-rescheduled.html Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Christian Plesner Hansen ples...@quenta.org wrote: I'm sorry to hear that but thanks for the

[twitter-dev] Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

Hi all, The Search API will begin to require a valid HTTP Referrer, or at the very least, a meaningful and unique user agent with each request. Any request not including this information will be returned a 403 Forbidden response code by our web server. This change will be effective within the

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

. At least that's how I read your announcement for this change - or am I wrong? Will you only reject requests for certain IPs that have high volume based on the Referrer/User-Agent requirement, but in general the Search API doesn't require it to be present? Marco 2009/6/17 Doug Williams d

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

at 12:33 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, The Search API will begin to require a valid HTTP Referrer, or at the very least, a meaningful and unique user agent with each request. Any request not including this information will be returned a 403 Forbidden response

[twitter-dev] Re: Delay after deleting friendship

We are working on this problem. Unfortunately there is no workaround at this time. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan jhalter...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed that after I create or delete a friendship via the API, there's a varying delay before the deleted friend

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit on Unfollows?

There is no limit to the number of unfollows. Using software to constantly churn followers in a repeated pattern of following and unfollowing will however risk suspension. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: Is it true that there is now a rate

[twitter-dev] Re: whitelist site -- horror story

Can you include the specific request you are making? Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Alan Evans alanev...@gmail.com wrote: Just a shot in the dark, but could it be caused by this?:

[twitter-dev] Re: Users not being indexed by Search

be sending these? Any new insight on what is happening? The issue seems to have been growing over the past week where almost all of my support requests for my app are about this issue... Brooks On Jun 16, 7:59 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Chad, Let's see what light the article

[twitter-dev] Re: Search beyond 7 days

Unfortunately not. We currently do not offer a method to retrieve tweets past what is available within our pagination limits [1]. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#6Therearepaginationlimits Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Ben

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