Re: Twitter Users Pictures
2009/1/7 Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com: Yes, but once you have the url, why store the actual .png locally? Sure, if a user changes their profile image you may have a broken link, but you can update profile info every hour or so, thus making it a non-issue. I don't think Twitter would see it as a non-issue if your service has more than a few users and you start requesting their details every hour. A better option is to attempt to download their avatar and only request their profile and update it if you get a 404. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/
Total updates
Is there a way to fetch the total updates a user did throught the twitter API? I just need the number? No other messages required! Hope somebody can help me out! Thnx!
Re: Displaying public user data / tweet this buttons only when user is authenticated - popup issues
On Jan 7, 7:30 am, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: I intend to address this shortly. It's not the API's intended behavior. cool. Despite my concerns here, thanks a lot for this whole exchange, Damon and Chad! This is once again proof that the browser security model is simply broken and we do need sandboxing of instances and tabs. I for one don't use Twitter or Facebook in the browser, but instead in Air apps.
Re: @oauth_now
Can we just open a support ticket somewhere (like on Google Code) and have everyone post the votes for OAuth to that rather than flooding the discussion lists please? (Yeah I know I'm just adding to it). On Jan 6, 3:37 pm, Nicole Simon nee...@gmail.com wrote: I thought some of you might be interested:http://pleasetwitterimplementoauthnow.com/ Please follow the user @oauth_now http://twitter.com/oauth_now to show your support for a better, more secure Twitter! Once you follow @oauth_nowhttp://twitter.com/oauth_nowyou will get exactly two direct messages from the user @oauth_now http://twitter.com/oauth_now. One message asks you to retweet this message http://tinyurl.com/safertwitter and the second message will be sent out once Twitter finally has implemented OAuth for every Twitter user. Nicole --http://twitter.com/NicoleSimon//http://mit140zeichen.de/http://crueltobekind.org//http://beissholz.de skype: nicole.simon / mailto:nee...@gmail.com phone: +49 451 899 75 03 / mobile: +49 179 499 7076
Re: @oauth_now
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=2 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 04:20, Michael Lee michael.lloyd@gmail.comwrote: Can we just open a support ticket somewhere (like on Google Code) and have everyone post the votes for OAuth to that rather than flooding the discussion lists please? (Yeah I know I'm just adding to it). On Jan 6, 3:37 pm, Nicole Simon nee...@gmail.com wrote: I thought some of you might be interested: http://pleasetwitterimplementoauthnow.com/ Please follow the user @oauth_now http://twitter.com/oauth_now to show your support for a better, more secure Twitter! Once you follow @oauth_nowhttp://twitter.com/oauth_nowyou will get exactly two direct messages from the user @oauth_now http://twitter.com/oauth_now. One message asks you to retweet this message http://tinyurl.com/safertwitter and the second message will be sent out once Twitter finally has implemented OAuth for every Twitter user. Nicole -- http://twitter.com/NicoleSimon//http://mit140zeichen.de/http://crueltobekind.org//http://beissholz.de skype: nicole.simon / mailto:nee...@gmail.com phone: +49 451 899 75 03 / mobile: +49 179 499 7076 -- | Abraham Williams | Web Developer | http://abrah.am | Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org | Micro-email: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38822 | This email is: [] blogable [x] ask first [] private
Re: Total updates
Is there a way to fetch the total updates a user did throught the twitter API? I just need the number? No other messages required! Look at the users/show method. The total updates are part of the fields. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- LOADSTANDARD DISCLAIMER,8,1 --
Re: Expect Header Issue for .NET developers
Hi,
thanxs for replying, i have tried as per you mention.
But no success, still getting (417) error.
Vivek Shrivastav
Invitratech India
On Jan 6, 7:01 pm, Maxfield Pool maxfield.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Try moving your System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false
higher in your method before you create your WebRequest object, that should
help.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Vivek vivek.shrivas...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
We are getting same (417) error back in our website.
code:
public string ExecutePostCommand(string url, string userName, string
password, string data)
{
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(userName) !string.IsNullOrEmpty
(password))
{
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName,
password);
request.ContentType = application/x-www-form-urlencoded;
request.Method = POST;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(TwitterClient))
{
request.Headers.Add(X-Twitter-Client,
TwitterClient);
}
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(TwitterClientVersion))
{
request.Headers.Add(X-Twitter-Version,
TwitterClientVersion);
}
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(TwitterClientUrl))
{
request.Headers.Add(X-Twitter-URL,
TwitterClientUrl);
}
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Source))
{
data += source= + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(Source);
}
byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
requestStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue =
false;
using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader
(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
return reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
}
}
return null;
}
Please help me out,
Thanxs
Vivek Shrivastav
On Jan 2, 1:06 am, Joint Contact i...@arbutusinc.com wrote:
Thanks for posting this information. We've applied these changes and
our application is back to normal.
Regards;
-Wayne
On Dec 23 2008, 8:31 pm, JakeS jakesteven...@gmail.com wrote:
Looks like twitter is updating something and their servers are
returning error 417 for a lot of requests. I looked into it and found
that .NET automatically includes an Expect header containing 100-
continue on every request unless you specifically tell it not to.
So for any .NET devs having trouble, you can set
System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false before making
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NetBeans and Twitter
pIf anyone is interested, I have recently posted a couple of articles about creating a desktop Java application for Twitter using the NetBeans open-source IDE. They are tutorial-flavored articles and make heavy use of the new strongTwitter RESTful SaaS/strong gizmo in NetBeans. The project is called Canary (too cute I know, tweet tweet). You can find the Canary articles at the following links:/p ul lia href='http://hulles.supersized.org/archives/15-The-Canary- Project.html'The Canary Project/a/li lia href='http://hulles.supersized.org/archives/16-Canary-II- Feather-Straightening-and-Cage-Gilding.html'Canary II: Feather- Straightening and Cage Gilding/a/li lia href='http://hulles.supersized.org/archives/17-Canary-III-Its- Not-A-Turkey-Yet.html'Canary III: It's Not A Turkey Yet/a/li /ul pLinks to the Java source code and a runnable jar file are included at the end of each article. I have also recently created a Google Code project for Canary at a href='http://code.google.com/p/ canary/'http://code.google.com/p/canary//a. If you're interested in participating please let me know. I intend to update the code for NetBeans 6.5 Any Day Now./p pAnd speaking of NetBeans 6.5 and the Twitter RESTful SaaS gizmo, I recently posted a a href='http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi? id=155882'bug report/a to NetBeans about their gizmo breaking when it gets nilclasses back from Twitter in NetBeans 6.5. The problem doesn't seem to have exactly sunk in for them yet, but you can find an article and a workaround for it in a post called, appropriately, a href='http://hulles.supersized.org/archives/21-NB-6.5-Twitter-SaaS- Bug.html'NB 6.5 Twitter SaaS Bug/a/p pHopefully this message editor supports HTML markup, otherwise there'll be a lot of garbage in this post! - Hulles/p
Why App devs have to be careful about what their colleagues do
I am adding these notes because I believe every App Dev should strongly consider the implications their app has on the whole ecosystem of apps - and what their colleagus are doing. All it takes is one app to be really stupid to challenge whatever you are doing and create a really bad mood. Want another, not directly app related example? http://www.mytweetspace.com/ this site first got on my radar because I scan Twitter Apps for writing about them. It used a picture of Chris Messina for advertisement on the top - of course without asking him and I am pretty sure the others at the top are some users they did not ask either. Given that I would bet that in the same way most of their offered pictures are not licenced either. Why is this relevant? Well, look how they are playing it: http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/55002 Re: Displaying public user data / tweet this buttons only when user is authenticated - popup issues On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: I intend to address this shortly. It's not the API's intended behavior. Of course it is not. You go for the 'oh would'nt it be cool' first and have to implement the I can't believe people would do this' later. Thankfully most 'security people' have a sense of honor and most bad guys do not have the intelligence to make use of these tools. You learn to anticipate what bad people can do and try to be one up with them. As for normal people there is only two ways to make them use security: Restrict their access - which is what I bet most people on this list do with everybody they have to 'support' - and scare the shit out of them. I'd love to have Chad post the proof of concept after this has been fixed - the work is done and it would be a good example to give to others developping apps Nicole -- Suche Beta-Tester für Experiment: Journalisten suchen Blogger - http://bloxpert.de/ Kontakt: http://twitter.com/NicoleSimon // http://mit140zeichen.de/ http://crueltobekind.org // http://beissholz.de skype: nicole.simon / mailto:nee...@gmail.com phone: +49 451 899 75 03 / mobile: +49 179 499 7076
Re: IP ranges from The Planet will be blocked
A little off-topic: Have Twitter detected abuse coming from Amazon EC2 IP address ranges? I'm not building a Twitter app, but I'm very curious to know what the reputation of Amazon's IP blocks is like. I imagine Amazon have plenty of EC2 instances running code written by evildoers. I wonder what they're like at reacting to reports of abuse etc. This also includes people using them for SMTP (of course). Terry
Re: IP ranges from The Planet will be blocked
If you are worried about losing your twitter capability at The Planet, then you should consider moving over to Rackspace. We moved all of our servers and clients servers (in excess of 50 servers) to Rackspace and have been using them since 2003 and always get great support - fanatical support. Their account teams and their solution partners make the migration process simple and always go above and beyond. You won’t have to worry about losing your Twitter capabilities again. On Jan 6, 1:52 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: I've put our operations staff in touch with someone from The Planet. We'll see what happens! On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 08:35, KHazard khaz...@gmail.com wrote: After coming across this thread, I've been investigating the abuse reports on The Planet's side. We located a complaint sent yesterday but were unable to locate any other complaints from the address sending the complaint or any other twitter.com email ... The complaint was responded to with a thorough, non-canned response requesting evidence and we haven't had any additional responses to investigate any further. If you have a chance, can you follow up with the abuse deparment's response to your initial report? On Jan 6, 10:13 am, zbowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Is block at a routing level that you or is it going to be an API level? What I'm wondering is if read only access to my updates will still work. I have features of my various blogs that update to twitter but more importantly they show my twitter status. Also a few of my development tools I've written for Twitter I host at The Planet. I'm not really setup to move at the moment. Been with The Planet for 4 years (my servers up times is are at 2.5 years now). The only problem I ever have is that someone outright blocks the IP range. The Planet gives benefit of the doubt to its customers usually and that is because of their uptime guarantee policy because if they pull everything that has an abuse claim and it turns out to false (and in many cases hard to prove) then they would have to pay for the downtime. A lot of customers are hosting their own shared or VPS hosting solutions at The Planet, so many times the violators are customers of customers so it takes time to trickle down. Before the EV1 and The Planet merger (to create the new The Planet), I was with the old The Planet. In that system, the second there was an abuse claim, I got an email and their support engineer called me. That system is still in place but they no longer call, they just email apparently (but its been years since I got an abuse claim). You have a few days before they take action. In fully managed servers, they may login and try to resolve it if you allow them and post change of management procedures. I'm curious though. The rate of issues maybe directly correlated to the size of The Planet. They have over 8 data centers in Houston and Dallas (I've visited 3 of them here in Dallas when I used to have a private rack). I would estimate they have well in excess of 200,000 servers guessing from the size of the data centers I seen. They pretty much own 2 floors at the Infomart here in Dallas (http://www.infomartusa.com) and when they grew out of that, they built a huge build across the street. I don't know. A single customer like me doesn't have a lot of weight to push an organization like this and I don't want my access to Twitter to get yanked. Can you whitelist my range? 70.86.83.50-70.86.83.63 Thanks Zac Bowlinghttp://zbowling.com/ On Jan 5, 6:17 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Unfortunately, no, not until we hear back from The Planet. On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 14:21, zbowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: NOOO... :-) My 3 servers are at The Planet. They are the worlds largest managed hosting provider so its a significant chunk of the internet so I'm sure there will be an outcry. Can you whitelist my range? 70.86.83.50-70.86.83.63 Zac Bowling http://zbowling.com/ On Jan 5, 4:05 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Our operations team has informed me that we'll soon be blacklisting IPs originating at hosting provider The Planet (http://www.theplanet.com/). We've attempted to resolve a number of abuse complaints with them over a long period of time and have not received an acceptable response. If your service or application is hosted at The Planet, please be aware that this will impact your ability to talk directly to the Twitter API. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: IP ranges from The Planet will be blocked
If you like Rackspace, and don't need direct server access I strong recommend their sister company MOSSO as well (http://www.mosso.com/). We recently moved over to them to get cloud hosting and with over 60 sites have never had a better experience. I can give a few down sides to MOSSO that Rackspace fixes but this is simply due to the access levels you have at Rackspace over MOSSO (IE: You can't install ffMpeg on a MOSSO server). - Jeremy On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:26 AM, mservice adwords...@sisintl.com wrote: If you are worried about losing your twitter capability at The Planet, then you should consider moving over to Rackspace. We moved all of our servers and clients servers (in excess of 50 servers) to Rackspace and have been using them since 2003 and always get great support - fanatical support. Their account teams and their solution partners make the migration process simple and always go above and beyond. You won't have to worry about losing your Twitter capabilities again. On Jan 6, 1:52 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: I've put our operations staff in touch with someone from The Planet. We'll see what happens! On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 08:35, KHazard khaz...@gmail.com wrote: After coming across this thread, I've been investigating the abuse reports on The Planet's side. We located a complaint sent yesterday but were unable to locate any other complaints from the address sending the complaint or any other twitter.com email ... The complaint was responded to with a thorough, non-canned response requesting evidence and we haven't had any additional responses to investigate any further. If you have a chance, can you follow up with the abuse deparment's response to your initial report? On Jan 6, 10:13 am, zbowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Is block at a routing level that you or is it going to be an API level? What I'm wondering is if read only access to my updates will still work. I have features of my various blogs that update to twitter but more importantly they show my twitter status. Also a few of my development tools I've written for Twitter I host at The Planet. I'm not really setup to move at the moment. Been with The Planet for 4 years (my servers up times is are at 2.5 years now). The only problem I ever have is that someone outright blocks the IP range. The Planet gives benefit of the doubt to its customers usually and that is because of their uptime guarantee policy because if they pull everything that has an abuse claim and it turns out to false (and in many cases hard to prove) then they would have to pay for the downtime. A lot of customers are hosting their own shared or VPS hosting solutions at The Planet, so many times the violators are customers of customers so it takes time to trickle down. Before the EV1 and The Planet merger (to create the new The Planet), I was with the old The Planet. In that system, the second there was an abuse claim, I got an email and their support engineer called me. That system is still in place but they no longer call, they just email apparently (but its been years since I got an abuse claim). You have a few days before they take action. In fully managed servers, they may login and try to resolve it if you allow them and post change of management procedures. I'm curious though. The rate of issues maybe directly correlated to the size of The Planet. They have over 8 data centers in Houston and Dallas (I've visited 3 of them here in Dallas when I used to have a private rack). I would estimate they have well in excess of 200,000 servers guessing from the size of the data centers I seen. They pretty much own 2 floors at the Infomart here in Dallas ( http://www.infomartusa.com) and when they grew out of that, they built a huge build across the street. I don't know. A single customer like me doesn't have a lot of weight to push an organization like this and I don't want my access to Twitter to get yanked. Can you whitelist my range? 70.86.83.50-70.86.83.63 Thanks Zac Bowlinghttp://zbowling.com/ On Jan 5, 6:17 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Unfortunately, no, not until we hear back from The Planet. On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 14:21, zbowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: NOOO... :-) My 3 servers are at The Planet. They are the worlds largest managed hosting provider so its a significant chunk of the internet so I'm sure there will be an outcry. Can you whitelist my range? 70.86.83.50-70.86.83.63 Zac Bowling http://zbowling.com/ On Jan 5, 4:05 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Our operations team has informed me that we'll soon be blacklisting IPs originating at hosting provider The Planet (http://www.theplanet.com/). We've attempted to resolve a number of abuse complaints with
Re: IP ranges from The Planet will be blocked
Amazon's EC2 IP ranges are essentially unusable for SMTP since they have been blacklisted. I have to use another host to handle outbound SMTP traffic. As for traffic to Twitter, most likely you'd want to use an elastic IP address to get whitelisted. Sincerely, Anthony Eden On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Terry Jones terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote: A little off-topic: Have Twitter detected abuse coming from Amazon EC2 IP address ranges? I'm not building a Twitter app, but I'm very curious to know what the reputation of Amazon's IP blocks is like. I imagine Amazon have plenty of EC2 instances running code written by evildoers. I wonder what they're like at reacting to reports of abuse etc. This also includes people using them for SMTP (of course). Terry -- GMU/IT d- s: a32 C++()$ UL@ P--- L+(++) !E W+++$ !N o? K? w--- !O M++ V PS+ PE Y PGP t+ !5 X- R tv b++ DI+ D++ G- e++ h r+++ y** http://anthony.mp
twitter keyword tracking?
is tracking back in twitter yet? i put in track word and it didn't work, just posted my tweet. tweetbeep.com is down so can't use that anymore. any suggestions to track keywords throughout twitter?
Re: twitter keyword tracking?
Use search.twitter.com. -Original Message- From: charris1980 christopher.jason.har...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 07:45:09 To: Twitter Development Talktwitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: twitter keyword tracking? is tracking back in twitter yet? i put in track word and it didn't work, just posted my tweet. tweetbeep.com is down so can't use that anymore. any suggestions to track keywords throughout twitter?
Re: twitter keyword tracking?
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:45 PM, charris1980 christopher.jason.har...@gmail.com wrote: is tracking back in twitter yet? i put in track word and it didn't work, just posted my tweet. tweetbeep.com is down so can't use that anymore. any suggestions to track keywords throughout twitter? search.twitter.com feed your favourite feed2email service might need more work on higher traffic topics search api as described in the documentation I think tools like tweetdeek implement the search as well. Nicole
jquery bug or twitter bug? on api call to /users/show/[username].json
Hi,
I'm cofounder of Tipjoy - we just made payment on twitter. Check it
out: http://tipjoy.com/twitter
We have a fun project related to this that I'm working on right now.
I'm using jquery to parse the twitter account info from the API.
Disclaimer: I'm learning javascript JIT.
There is either a bug in my javascript, or the return from the twitter
API is wrong.
Here is some simplified code:
$(document).ready(function(){
var url = http://twitter.com/users/show/; + [the username] +
.json?callback=?;
$.getJSON(url,
function(data){
if( data.error ){
alert(username doesn't exist)
}
else{
alert(that username exists)
}
}
);
});
This code uses jquery's getJSON to grab the account info for a given
username.
The return for a correct username is:
({...});
That wrapping is to pass it to the callback unnamed function.
But this code doesn't work for a username that doesn't exist. The
function doesn't even get called, and the alert doesn't show up.
Putting this is a browser
http://twitter.com/users/show/someBadUsername.json?callback=?
Returns:
{request:\/users\/show\/someBadUsername.json?
callback=?,error:Not found}
Should that be wrapped in ({...}); ? Is that a bug on twitter's side?
Or is there something I'm doing wrong in jquery?
I looked at the code for this project, and it looks like they are
using jquery to access summize in the same way I'm grabbing from the
twitter api.
http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/
http://github.com/seaofclouds/tweet/tree/master/javascripts/jquery.tweet.js
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ivan
http://tipjoy.com
Re: jquery bug or twitter bug? on api call to /users/show/[username].json
Hi Ivan,
The jQuery getJSON replaces the trailing ? with a function name
like jsonp4728701093601231 [1]. To test you need to use something more
like:
$ curl 'http://twitter.com/users/show/someBadUsername.json?callback=foo'
foo({request:\/users\/show\/someBadUsername.json?
callback=foo,error:Not found})
It looks like the Twitter API is working correctly. One thing to
note is that the Twitter API is returning HTTP 404. I am pretty sure
the jQuery getJSON method is only calling your function on success
(HTTP 200). I'm not totally sure but the jQuery ajaxError event
handler may help do what you need.
Thanks;
— Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
[1] - jsonp + currentTimeMillis
On Jan 7, 2009, at 07:48 AM, Ivan wrote:
Hi,
I'm cofounder of Tipjoy - we just made payment on twitter. Check it
out: http://tipjoy.com/twitter
We have a fun project related to this that I'm working on right now.
I'm using jquery to parse the twitter account info from the API.
Disclaimer: I'm learning javascript JIT.
There is either a bug in my javascript, or the return from the twitter
API is wrong.
Here is some simplified code:
$(document).ready(function(){
var url = http://twitter.com/users/show/; + [the username] +
.json?callback=?;
$.getJSON(url,
function(data){
if( data.error ){
alert(username doesn't exist)
}
else{
alert(that username exists)
}
}
);
});
This code uses jquery's getJSON to grab the account info for a given
username.
The return for a correct username is:
({...});
That wrapping is to pass it to the callback unnamed function.
But this code doesn't work for a username that doesn't exist. The
function doesn't even get called, and the alert doesn't show up.
Putting this is a browser
http://twitter.com/users/show/someBadUsername.json?callback=?
Returns:
{request:\/users\/show\/someBadUsername.json?
callback=?,error:Not found}
Should that be wrapped in ({...}); ? Is that a bug on twitter's side?
Or is there something I'm doing wrong in jquery?
I looked at the code for this project, and it looks like they are
using jquery to access summize in the same way I'm grabbing from the
twitter api.
http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/
http://github.com/seaofclouds/tweet/tree/master/javascripts/jquery.tweet.js
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ivan
http://tipjoy.com
Re: Will we see Twitter Connect soon
No they didn't, Google is just using the Twitter API like everyone else. Google asks for your twitter name and password, which IMO is flirting with doing-evil. I think that making Twitter an OpenID provider is going too far, I would rather see Twitter be a Relying Party. Having a reliable and secure OpenID, then associating your twitter username and other details to it is the best option, IMO. It would be nice if the OpenID providers stored this info and passed it along automatically to other RPs. Also, people can change their twitter name, so it couldn't be in the OpenID. They would have to do a yahoo-ish implementation. On Jan 5, 7:02 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Twitter already partnered with Google's FriendConnect ... Thanks- - Andy Badera - and...@badera.us - (518) 641-1280 - Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Twitblogs samkse...@googlemail.com wrote: When twitter finally supports oauth what user autentication system will they use? With our application we will remove the need for username/password but that means users will need to still login to our service for authentication. Of course we could use Google Friend Connect or JanRain's RPXonline to authenticate users but then we would have to map this user account to the users twitter account via oauth. But it seems a missed opportunity to me. www.twitter.com/usernameis a RESTful address that could be an openid endpoint. The profile could support SREG. Twitter connect could be a third party authentication service for 3rd party twitter developer apps. The two are not linked oauth on its own will be great but openid (twitter connect) and oauth would be better. What do you think?
Re: twitter keyword tracking?
/shameless plug http://tweetgrid.com/ not a perfect solution for track since you have to actively watch the tweets, but still it's something. -Chad On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Nicole Simon nee...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:45 PM, charris1980 christopher.jason.har...@gmail.com wrote: is tracking back in twitter yet? i put in track word and it didn't work, just posted my tweet. tweetbeep.com is down so can't use that anymore. any suggestions to track keywords throughout twitter? search.twitter.com feed your favourite feed2email service might need more work on higher traffic topics search api as described in the documentation I think tools like tweetdeek implement the search as well. Nicole
Re: twitter keyword tracking?
cool thanks all. i'll have to look into tweetgrid as well. friend also suggested http://twilert.com/, trying this now. CH On Jan 7, 10:54 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: /shameless plug http://tweetgrid.com/ not a perfect solution for track since you have to actively watch the tweets, but still it's something. -Chad On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Nicole Simon nee...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:45 PM, charris1980 christopher.jason.har...@gmail.com wrote: is tracking back in twitter yet? i put in track word and it didn't work, just posted my tweet. tweetbeep.com is down so can't use that anymore. any suggestions to track keywords throughout twitter? search.twitter.com feed your favourite feed2email service might need more work on higher traffic topics search api as described in the documentation I think tools like tweetdeek implement the search as well. Nicole- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
Re: @oauth_now
You know, given the trouble the twitter site keeps having - I am losing faith in the Ruby platform. Slow site, constant downtime, developers that don't implement important things (my only guess is) because of the work and trouble involved with the Ruby Language. This is almost as bad as a Microsoft product.
Re: @oauth_now
2009/1/7 Xeoncross xeoncr...@gmail.com: You know, given the trouble the twitter site keeps having - I am losing faith in the Ruby platform. Slow site, constant downtime, developers that don't implement important things (my only guess is) because of the work and trouble involved with the Ruby Language. This is almost as bad as a Microsoft product. Bloody nora, that's a few giant leaps to make for an ignorant developer. That's all I've got to say about that. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/
Re: @oauth_now
This thread is so locked. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:54, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: And it's a horse that's been beaten and invalidated many moons ago ... Thanks- - Andy Badera - and...@badera.us - (518) 641-1280 - Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/7 Xeoncross xeoncr...@gmail.com: You know, given the trouble the twitter site keeps having - I am losing faith in the Ruby platform. Slow site, constant downtime, developers that don't implement important things (my only guess is) because of the work and trouble involved with the Ruby Language. This is almost as bad as a Microsoft product. Bloody nora, that's a few giant leaps to make for an ignorant developer. That's all I've got to say about that. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: alpha test of a new service: Tweetpass
By logging into http://tweetpass.com/api/ do you automatically store the password somewhere? If so, how is it stored? encrypted? You should really tell the users what is happening (even tho it is in alpha stage). Also, the /api/ page does not appear to have htmlbody tags? It also doesn't appear that I am able to change anything on my homepage or save it... am I missing something? or is this still in implementation phase? Logging Out did not actually log me out as I was able to return to /api/ without needing to re-enter any user/pass info... This site sounds like a good idea (until we see what Twitter's OAuth looks like), but looks like it still needs some work before it is usable? I apologize if my tone seems critical, but this seems like one of those services you have to get right the first time or risk total user abandonment. -Chad On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Brian Hendrickson br...@openmicroblogger.com wrote: Hi Twitter-dev-talk, I would appreciate your feedback on a new service I've been working on, it's called Tweetpass. I was motivated to get it working after I wrote a comment about Twitter API security on Rahsheen's blog this past weekend. http://sheenonline.biz/ -- I decided that instead of complaining I should try to make a difference of some kind. Tweetpass makes fresh, disposable Twitter passwords, which can be used at (compatible) 3rd-party Twitter services. (there are none, yet) Also, it makes it simple for the end user to delete the passwords individually, and toggle the API methods individually. It works like this: Twitter microbloggers: a) submit their nicknames at http://tweetpass.com b) look in their Replies tab and click a link c) do Basic Authentication against twitter.com d) receive Tweetpass passwords to use at (compatible) 3rd-party Twitter services e) turn API methods on/off per-password f) delete passwords anytime Developers: a) change their code to (conditionally) call the tweetpass.com API (see below) b) put the Tweetpass logo on their site Twitter API methods: twitter.com/statuses/update.json twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.json twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json twitter.com/statuses/show/ID.json twitter.com/USERNAME twitter.com/USERNAME/statuses/STATUS search.twitter.com/search?q=HASHTAG Tweetpass API methods (so far): tweetpass.com/statuses/update.json tweetpass.com/statuses/friends_timeline.json tweetpass.com/statuses/user_timeline.json tweetpass.com/statuses/show/ID.json tweetpass.com/USERNAME tweetpass.com/USERNAME/statuses/STATUS search.tweetpass.com/search?q=HASHTAG How you can help: If you're a developer who happens to use only these few API methods, you can test your service against the Tweetpass API. The simplest thing to do is search and replace twitter.com/ with tweetpass.com/ in your code. Then you can proceed to http://tweetpass.com to get your disposable passwords. Thanks for your feedback and ideas about Tweetpass. -- Brian http://tweetpass.com 503.358.7501
Re: Twitter Users Pictures
Since you get user objects 100 at a time, you would have to query about an unreasonable number of users for this to be a problem imho. Lextweet.com follows about 700 lawyers. This may grow to 2000. 20 API calls an hour is a problem for the API? I doubt it. If it is, though, I'd be more than happy to reduce the frequency. On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Stuart wrote: 2009/1/7 Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com: Yes, but once you have the url, why store the actual .png locally? Sure, if a user changes their profile image you may have a broken link, but you can update profile info every hour or so, thus making it a non- issue. I don't think Twitter would see it as a non-issue if your service has more than a few users and you start requesting their details every hour. A better option is to attempt to download their avatar and only request their profile and update it if you get a 404. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ Patrick Minton IT Director LexBlog, Inc. +1 206 697 4548
Re: Twitter Users Pictures
2009/1/7 Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com: Since you get user objects 100 at a time, you would have to query about an unreasonable number of users for this to be a problem imho. Lextweet.com follows about 700 lawyers. This may grow to 2000. 20 API calls an hour is a problem for the API? I doubt it. If it is, though, I'd be more than happy to reduce the frequency. My point was that there's no need to hit the API at all unless you get a 404 from the avatar URL. Why call the API if you don't need to? Seems like a pointless waste of resources to me. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Stuart wrote: 2009/1/7 Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com: Yes, but once you have the url, why store the actual .png locally? Sure, if a user changes their profile image you may have a broken link, but you can update profile info every hour or so, thus making it a non- issue. I don't think Twitter would see it as a non-issue if your service has more than a few users and you start requesting their details every hour. A better option is to attempt to download their avatar and only request their profile and update it if you get a 404. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ Patrick Minton IT Director LexBlog, Inc. +1 206 697 4548
Passing curl to XML
Hello everyone,
I'm working on my first Twitter-related project and am very excited to
be doing so.
What I'm trying to do is create a site that lists my
friends_timeline. With that account, I'm following a group of
individuals in a particular industry.
Right now, I've been able to use curl to display the raw XML. Now I'm
struggling to display that data the way I need to.
Here's what I have written.
blockquote
?php
// set user/pswd
$username = '123';
$password = 'abc';
// create a new curl resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, http://twitter.com/statuses/
friends_timeline/ACCOUNT+NAME.xml);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username:$password);
// execute and pass to browser
$str = curl_exec($ch);
// close curl resource
curl_close($ch);
$xml = simplexml_load_string ($str);
foreach ($xml-status as $status) {
print $status-text . \n;
}
?/blockquote
Again, this outputs the last 20 entries in friends_outline as XML
just fine, but fails at the array. The following appears immediately
afterward.
blockquote
Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]:
Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '' not found in /
projects/tweets/test/curltest.php on line 20
Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: 1
in /projects/tweets/test/curltest.php on line 20
Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: ^
in /projects/tweets/test/curltest.php on line 20
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /projects/tweets/
test/curltest.php on line 21/blockquote
I only have rudimentary PHP skills, but I'm a fairly quick study. Any
advice is appreciated!
Thanks in advance for the help!
--Alex
Search API screen return 404
Hello All, I'm searching for all the replies from a specified ID (1103044621) but the page is returning a 404. However if I change the since_id (up or down) everything works fine. The name I search for does not matter. If you change mrmlk to anything else I still get a 404. 404: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=enq=+to%3Amrmlksince_id=1103044621 Works fine: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=enq=+to%3Amrmlksince_id=1103044620 http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=enq=+to%3Amrmlksince_id=1103044622 Any idea what is going on, and why post 1103044621 is special. Thanks Mike
Re: when did a friendship started
No. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 15:13, Ruth yac...@gmail.com wrote: is there a way in the Api to know when a friendship created between two users? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Passing curl to XML
I think the XML parser will choke on the headers that are being
returned from your curl_exec.
Try setting this instead:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
You'll also want to set this:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
so that the XML is actually stored in $str when curl_exec returns;
Try that out,
-Chad
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:29 PM, thegreatbund...@gmail.com
thegreatbund...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm working on my first Twitter-related project and am very excited to
be doing so.
What I'm trying to do is create a site that lists my
friends_timeline. With that account, I'm following a group of
individuals in a particular industry.
Right now, I've been able to use curl to display the raw XML. Now I'm
struggling to display that data the way I need to.
Here's what I have written.
blockquote
?php
// set user/pswd
$username = '123';
$password = 'abc';
// create a new curl resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, http://twitter.com/statuses/
friends_timeline/ACCOUNT+NAME.xml);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username:$password);
// execute and pass to browser
$str = curl_exec($ch);
// close curl resource
curl_close($ch);
$xml = simplexml_load_string ($str);
foreach ($xml-status as $status) {
print $status-text . \n;
}
?/blockquote
Again, this outputs the last 20 entries in friends_outline as XML
just fine, but fails at the array. The following appears immediately
afterward.
blockquote
Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]:
Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '' not found in /
projects/tweets/test/curltest.php on line 20
Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: 1
in /projects/tweets/test/curltest.php on line 20
Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: ^
in /projects/tweets/test/curltest.php on line 20
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /projects/tweets/
test/curltest.php on line 21/blockquote
I only have rudimentary PHP skills, but I'm a fairly quick study. Any
advice is appreciated!
Thanks in advance for the help!
--Alex
Re: alpha test of a new service: Tweetpass
Hi Brian, Happy to provide feedback. A couple more questions inline, see [CBE] On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Brian Hendrickson br...@openmicroblogger.com wrote: Hi Chad, Thanks for the feedback! On Jan 7, 1:00 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: By logging intohttp://tweetpass.com/api/do you automatically store the password somewhere? If so, how is it stored? encrypted? You should really tell the users what is happening (even tho it is in alpha stage). I created this rough draft of the Tweetpass service so that developers can test the proxy API, it doesn't have much end-user-friendly documentation yet. [CBE] That may be, but I am now curious as to the fate of the twitter password I entered to your site to test it out... I am assuming it must be stored somehow to make the proxy API calls effective? So, what happens to those passwords? Also, the /api/ page does not appear to have htmlbody tags? It also doesn't appear that I am able to change anything on my homepage or save it... am I missing something? or is this still in implementation phase? That's because the first password you see is not active until you make an API call against it. The Activity box is empty, and the Host says not in use. Those will light up when you hit the API. [CBE] Ah, makes sense, tho not immediately intuitive.. I think this may be why people haven't tried out the proxy API yet, as they did not know they had to use the API first in order to make their homepage active so to speak. Is the idea, though, to limit the activity that can occur from a given host? If so, how do you limit that activity with the checkboxes? Or do they become available once you actually use that particular disposable password...? If that's the case, what's to stop the 3rd party app from abusing that password before I have a chance to go back to tweetpass and configure the usage rights? Logging Out did not actually log me out as I was able to return to /api/ without needing to re-enter any user/pass info... That appears to be affecting some browsers and not others, quitting the browser should complete the logout. Seems to be related to my latest mod_rewrite addition, fixing now... This site sounds like a good idea (until we see what Twitter's OAuth looks like), but looks like it still needs some work before it is usable? Exactly, yes. It's a rough draft to see if the idea is sound while gauging interest I apologize if my tone seems critical, but this seems like one of those services you have to get right the first time or risk total user abandonment. Totally agree with this sentiment I can see that many of you have authenticated and created disposable passwords in my database, but not many hits on the API yet. That will allow you to see the full service at work, and you could make use of that disposable password. Don't let it go to waste! :-) Thanks again Chad for sharing your ideas. [CBE] Glad to help, -Chad -- Brian -Chad On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Brian Hendrickson br...@openmicroblogger.com wrote: Hi Twitter-dev-talk, I would appreciate your feedback on a new service I've been working on, it's called Tweetpass. I was motivated to get it working after I wrote a comment about Twitter API security on Rahsheen's blog this past weekend.http://sheenonline.biz/-- I decided that instead of complaining I should try to make a difference of some kind. Tweetpass makes fresh, disposable Twitter passwords, which can be used at (compatible) 3rd-party Twitter services. (there are none, yet) Also, it makes it simple for the end user to delete the passwords individually, and toggle the API methods individually. It works like this: Twitter microbloggers: a) submit their nicknames athttp://tweetpass.com b) look in their Replies tab and click a link c) do Basic Authentication against twitter.com d) receive Tweetpass passwords to use at (compatible) 3rd-party Twitter services e) turn API methods on/off per-password f) delete passwords anytime Developers: a) change their code to (conditionally) call the tweetpass.com API (see below) b) put the Tweetpass logo on their site Twitter API methods: twitter.com/statuses/update.json twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.json twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json twitter.com/statuses/show/ID.json twitter.com/USERNAME twitter.com/USERNAME/statuses/STATUS search.twitter.com/search?q=HASHTAG Tweetpass API methods (so far): tweetpass.com/statuses/update.json tweetpass.com/statuses/friends_timeline.json tweetpass.com/statuses/user_timeline.json tweetpass.com/statuses/show/ID.json tweetpass.com/USERNAME tweetpass.com/USERNAME/statuses/STATUS search.tweetpass.com/search?q=HASHTAG How you can help: If you're a developer who happens to use only these few API methods, you can test your
International characters counted multiple times in 140 char limit
Just sent out the following tweet through the API: @gabrielemcrise acho que é um misto de pioneirismo +hype+base de usuários. E também o API, que cercou o serviço de ferramentas interessantes The international characters are being counted more than once and the tweet shows up as: @gabrielemcrise acho que é um misto de pioneirismo +hype+base de usuários. E também o API, que cercou o serviço de ferramentas inter
Re: International characters counted multiple times in 140 char limit
Yes, we count by byte. 2009/1/7 benjackson bhjack...@gmail.com: Just sent out the following tweet through the API: @gabrielemcrise acho que é um misto de pioneirismo +hype+base de usuários. E também o API, que cercou o serviço de ferramentas interessantes The international characters are being counted more than once and the tweet shows up as: @gabrielemcrise acho que é um misto de pioneirismo +hype+base de usuários. E também o API, que cercou o serviço de ferramentas inter -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: alpha test of a new service: Tweetpass
On Jan 7, 5:12 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: [CBE] That may be, but I am now curious as to the fate of the twitter password I entered to your site to test it out... mysql delete from passes where nick = 'chazzyjad'; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) I didn't mean to not-answer your encryption question! I guess I shouldn't be surprised about suspicion of a new service (and personality), given twply's recent shenanigans. But if you look at the technical aspects, it should be clear that i'm not talking about another me-too service like Twitterrank, instead it's an actual security architectural innovation for the Twitter API ecosystem. One that will allow users to try out services much more safely, and to have total control over how services use their account. [CBE] Ah, makes sense, tho not immediately intuitive.. I think this may be why people haven't tried out the proxy API yet, as they did not know they had to use the API first in order to make their homepage active so to speak. Developers also need to figure out whether their app uses Twitter API methods beyond what i've provided so far. If it is a good fit then they can try switching their API URLs to try the service. Is the idea, though, to limit the activity that can occur from a given host? If so, how do you limit that activity with the checkboxes? Or do they become available once you actually use that particular disposable password...? If that's the case, what's to stop the 3rd party app from abusing that password before I have a chance to go back to tweetpass and configure the usage rights? Yes, that's the idea, it's granular API control per-host and per- password. Right now it allows all API features (checks all the boxes) by default, I didn't want to do the opposite because it would be a usability problem, but that would be a good firewall-like setup. Ultimately you would want to set your own defaults. Also, it's not set that way right now, but I will make it possible to set the API permissions [[before]] a 3rd party uses a given password. -- Brian
Re: alpha test of a new service: Tweetpass
On Jan 7, 1:00 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: By logging intohttp://tweetpass.com/api/do you automatically store the password somewhere? If so, how is it stored? encrypted? Yes, each user's twitter password is encrypted and stored in the SQL database. It's not on dreamhost, though :-) the server is physically controlled, in a high-end co-location facility in Portland. When an API call comes in with a disposable password, the twitter password is fetched from the database and used to make the call to the twitter.com API Also, the first time a disposable password is used, it is labeled with the incoming hostname and will only be good for that host. API events for that password are visible in the control panel. -- Brian
Re: International characters counted multiple times in 140 char limit
Welcome to UTF-8. This is something I consult on all the time. The days that encoding length equaled character size length and even equaled representation length are long gone. It's something you have to break your mind of (and it doesn't help that languages like C and C++ call a byte a char. 1 character can count anywhere from 1 to 5 bytes in some cases. Basicly: U+00 to U+7F (basic Latin) = 1 byte - the graceful part of UTF-8 is that it is directly equivalent to ASCII in that range. U+80 to U+0007FF - 2 bytes U+000800 to U+00 - 3 bytes U+01 to U+10 - 4 bytes etc... See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 Zac Bowling http://zbowling.com/ On Jan 7, 7:39 pm, benjackson bhjack...@gmail.com wrote: Just sent out the following tweet through the API: @gabrielemcrise acho que é um misto de pioneirismo +hype+base de usuários. E também o API, que cercou o serviço de ferramentas interessantes The international characters are being counted more than once and the tweet shows up as: @gabrielemcrise acho que é um misto de pioneirismo +hype+base de usuários. E também o API, que cercou o serviço de ferramentas inter
