Oauth, Firehose API and Twitter Parameter
Hello Alex Three quick questions. There was a lot of talk in this group about oauth support in the twitter api beta and the full firehose version. I have not seen any further updates. Any further news please? Also we have requested several times to have our application parameter changed to from twitblogs but have not had any response. I appreciate you are busy and with christmas but is there any thing we can do other than reapply again? Thanks
Few API feature additions
These are of course, up for discussion, and I'd like to know what others think: 1) The `source` field in an API call contains HTML (a link to the source). Logic says it makes things easier to implement, since we just need to directly print whatever is the text content. However, shouldn't it actually be two fields – one which contains the name of the source, and the other the actual link to it? Not everybody likes to link to competing apps :) 2) The `in_reply_to_status_id` is great, and really helps make sense of conversations. But not everybody uses it, which makes Twitter try and 'guess', and it is usually wrong. That makes for some really odd contexts sometimes. One thing Twitter could do is automatically prepend the @name when it sees an app setting the parameter, and not otherwise. I realise that it'll take people some time to get used to this, and app will have to implement it. It was just rattling around in my head and I thought I'd throw it out here to get some inputs.
Re: Few API feature additions
1) The `source` field in an API call contains HTML (a link to the source). Logic says it makes things easier to implement, since we just need to directly print whatever is the text content. However, shouldn't it actually be two fields _ one which contains the name of the source, and the other the actual link to it? Not everybody likes to link to competing apps :) Then don't print them :) Seriously, if you really don't want to print the HTML, a simple regex to drop the tags would suffice. 2) The `in_reply_to_status_id` is great, and really helps make sense of conversations. But not everybody uses it, which makes Twitter try and 'guess', and it is usually wrong. That makes for some really odd contexts sometimes. One thing Twitter could do is automatically prepend the @name when it sees an app setting the parameter, and not otherwise. I realise that it'll take people some time to get used to this, and app will have to implement it. It was just rattling around in my head and I thought I'd throw it out here to get some inputs. The other problem is that it would be an unexpected 'penalty' on tweet length, and could frustrate people who don't understand what's going on. Also, are there really that many apps that let someone make a reply to a specific tweet that *doesn't* start with @? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Funk is its own reward. -- George Clinton --
Another request for guessable profile images
I'm working on improving how FeedDemon displays Twitter status feeds (see http://flickr.com/photos/nbradbury/3145437586/ ), and I'd like to show a user's profile image next to their tweet. I see that this is available in the Atom version of the status feed but not the RSS version. I thought I could simply determine the profile image URL from the username, but apparently not - so I'll cast another vote for guessable profile images. I realize I could get the image by using the REST API to retrieve the user's timeline, but that seems like a lot of extra work (both for me and your servers) just to get the user's image. Thanks!
Web API 'statuses/update.xml' brings an error called '(417) Expectation Failed'.
Hello together! I use the web API 'statuses/update.xml' to send news about the IT to the community. Via a C#-Webrequest I send this news inserted into status tags to the update.xml. This goes very good and all my news were updated. I was getting a xml schema back after sending my twitter message. Since 3:52 PM Dec 23rd the web API 'statuses/update.xml' will brings an error called '(417) Expectation Failed'. Who knows this error and what can I do to send news over the web API again? Greetings, MacReeg
Re: Web API 'statuses/update.xml' brings an error called '(417) Expectation Failed'.
Please see this thread in this very group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/7c67ff1a2407dee7 On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 08:52, MacReeg macr...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello together! I use the web API 'statuses/update.xml' to send news about the IT to the community. Via a C#-Webrequest I send this news inserted into status tags to the update.xml. This goes very good and all my news were updated. I was getting a xml schema back after sending my twitter message. Since 3:52 PM Dec 23rd the web API 'statuses/update.xml' will brings an error called '(417) Expectation Failed'. Who knows this error and what can I do to send news over the web API again? Greetings, MacReeg -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Another request for guessable profile images
We'll be making this change eventually. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 08:50, Nick Bradbury nick.bradb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on improving how FeedDemon displays Twitter status feeds (see http://flickr.com/photos/nbradbury/3145437586/ ), and I'd like to show a user's profile image next to their tweet. I see that this is available in the Atom version of the status feed but not the RSS version. I thought I could simply determine the profile image URL from the username, but apparently not - so I'll cast another vote for guessable profile images. I realize I could get the image by using the REST API to retrieve the user's timeline, but that seems like a lot of extra work (both for me and your servers) just to get the user's image. Thanks! -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Oauth, Firehose API and Twitter Parameter
For future reference, this Google group is not my personal email address. If you need to contact me directly, please do so at a...@twitter.com. Both OAuth and the firehose feed of public updates are in internal testing and are pending a closed beta. We'll be experimenting with both after the first of the year. You can email me off-list to request a change to your application/source parameter. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:10, Twitblogs samkse...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello Alex Three quick questions. There was a lot of talk in this group about oauth support in the twitter api beta and the full firehose version. I have not seen any further updates. Any further news please? Also we have requested several times to have our application parameter changed to from twitblogs but have not had any response. I appreciate you are busy and with christmas but is there any thing we can do other than reapply again? Thanks -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Authentication is Safe ?
Hey Guys, Alex and Matt, Let's imagine that I'm a bad person and have depevoped a very attractive application for Twitter and a lot of people like to use it. For authentication the users have to type their login and password, right? I'm able to store those logins and passwords and make bad use of them. I've read that exists the OAuth, is it already working? How does the Twitter's process of authentication works? Is it free? Best Regards
Re: Authentication is Safe ?
OAuth will be available as a private beta shortly. Even when it's deployed, OAuth does not stop a malicious website from collecting user credentials and taking action on behalf of a user. Users still must judge which sites are trustworthy. All access to the Twitter API, authenticated or unauthenticated, is presently free. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:32, Gustavo Melo pipoc...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Guys, Alex and Matt, Let's imagine that I'm a bad person and have depevoped a very attractive application for Twitter and a lot of people like to use it. For authentication the users have to type their login and password, right? I'm able to store those logins and passwords and make bad use of them. I've read that exists the OAuth, is it already working? How does the Twitter's process of authentication works? Is it free? Best Regards -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: get tweets in real time, api.
Alex, Thanks for the quick response. -Lalit On Dec 29, 8:06 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: That's not currently possible, but we're working on a solution for it. Please see previous discussions regarding the firehose in this group. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 17:00, Lalit lalitkap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am new to the twitter api, I have the following concern. I want to know if there is there a way to get all the recent tweets on twitter in real time. I am monitoring:http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.rss but it is not updated in real time. Is what I am asking for possible with the api, if so how can I do that. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Lalit -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: get tweets in real time, api.
Gnip is another solution. Zac --- Sent from my iPhone. On Dec 29, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: That's not currently possible, but we're working on a solution for it. Please see previous discussions regarding the firehose in this group. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 17:00, Lalit lalitkap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am new to the twitter api, I have the following concern. I want to know if there is there a way to get all the recent tweets on twitter in real time. I am monitoring: http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.rss but it is not updated in real time. Is what I am asking for possible with the api, if so how can I do that. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Lalit -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Search API full Tweet information
You could use JSON. Ex: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=pants On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 19:29, Peppery peppe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Just a suggestion, would it be possible to request an alternative ATOM Twitter Search feed with the full tweet details inline (as can be found from http://twitter.com/statuses/show/123.xml)? It would save my application making many requests to /show to retrieve this information. Alternatively, is there any way that I could get this information via another method? thanks. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: how can I get my @replies?
We don't currently have an API method for this. You could use the Search API, however: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 20:25, pnoeric e...@ericmueller.org wrote: I see I can use http://twitter.com/statuses/replies.format to get replies sent TO me... how can I get a list of all @replies that I've sent out? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
