[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Developer Nest: London - Live Stream Tomorrow
Full details of the live stream now available at: http://twitterdevelopernest.com/2009/03/london-launch-live-video-stream/ Jon. On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: Hi Everyone, We're going to try and live stream the massively over subscribed Twitter Developer Nest event tomorrow evening from London, UK. Please keep an eye on http://twitter.com/devnest for a link from around 18:30 GMT tomorrow. We'll be using the tag #devnest throughout the evening. If you'd like to put a question forward for @dougw, who will be participating via video link, please use the tag #devnestQ I include the full schedule below. We hope to be releasing details of the next event in the next few days, it will likely be at the end of April. Best, @JonMarkwell - 6 - SCHEDULE - 18:45 Welcome 18:50 Nick Halstead (@nickhalstead) - http://tweetmeme.com 19:10 Sam Sethi (@ssethi) - http://twitblogs.com 19:30 Doug Williams (@dougw) - http://twitter.com - Twitter API QA 20:00 Break - Networking 20:25 Graeme Sutherland (@grasuth) - http://nodestone.com - You Are a Neuron 20:40 Show Tell - Tell us something interesting in 140 seconds or less. Open participation, sign up on evening. 21:00 Close - -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development support Twitter Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Providing a nice place to work in the heart of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Helping people make a difference with technology - http://inuda.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/JonMarkwell -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development support Twitter Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Providing a nice place to work in the heart of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Helping people make a difference with technology - http://inuda.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/JonMarkwell
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Please also include me: Twitter id:webjay Company:webcom.dk Email:ja...@webcom.dk
[twitter-dev] How do I create a search engine
Hey how do I create a search engine like this http://www.twitterjobsearch.com/ that searches twitter ?
[twitter-dev] Re: Background Image Problem
care to be more specific? On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:16 PM, ctmtcolumbus whe...@ctmt.com wrote: I am also having the same problem. Did anyone else get this fixed?
[twitter-dev] Re: Profile Images with no file extension
On 23.03.2009 15:17, Shannon Whitley wrote: I just discovered that there are profile images with no file extension. This is an example: http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70479542/eliteblogger_logo Is this something that we should expect? I have been using the extension to determine the content-type. Why don't you use the Content-type to determine the content-type? S3 correctly sends a Content-type: image/png header. -Matt
[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?
Any news from the Service Team? I'd really like to get the counters right in an upcoming release... -ch On Mar 6, 12:18 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: I'm taking this email to our Service Team, the folks who work on the back-end of the service. The whole message body changing as it moves from cache to backing store thing is totally unacceptable. Answers soon. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 09:43, Craig Hockenberry craig.hockenbe...@gmail.com wrote: Some discussion about this thread popped up on Twitter yesterday: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/ thread/44be91d5ec5850fa Alex states that it's 140 bytes per tweet. So, of course, Loren Brichter and I tried to prove that. With the following results: 1) 140 characters that including ones that include HTML entities: http://twitter.com/gnitset/status/1286202252 At the time of posting, this tweet showed up on the site and in feeds with all 140 characters. After a few hours, the was converted to lt;, increasing the count per character from one to four bytes and decreasing the tweet length from 140 characters to 69. (You can see this truncation at the end of the tweet: the is from lt;) Presumably, this happens as tweets in the memcache are written though to the backing store. I also see a lot of Twitter clients that don't realize how special the lt; and gt; entities are. It took me a LONG time to figure out what was going on here. 2) 140 Unicode _multi-byte_ characters: http://twitter.com/atebits/ status/1286199010 What's curious is that Loren's example with 140 characters uses the Unicode 27A1 glyph. It uses 3 bytes in UTF-8. Why didn't it get truncated? This seems to contradict Alex's statement in the thread mentioned above. As people start to use things like Emoji, tinyarro.ws and generally figure out that Unicode (UTF-8) is a valid type of data on Twitter, our clients should adapt and display more accurate characters remaining counts. I can count bytes instead of characters, but I'm not sure if I should or not. No one likes a truncated tweet: we need an explicit statement on how to count and submit multi-byte characters and entities. -ch -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Twitter4r (add friend problem)
Hi all, I'm working on a project and I'm using Twitter4R library, I'm trying this: twitter = Twitter::Client.new(:login = 'some_user', :password = 'sompass') twitter.friend(:add, 'other_user') and I get this error: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.3.0/lib/twitter/client/base.rb:34:in `raise_rest_error': Bad Request (Twitter::RESTError) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.3.0/lib/twitter/client/base.rb:39:in `handle_rest_response' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.3.0/lib/twitter/client/base.rb:13:in `http_connect' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:543:in `start' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.3.0/lib/twitter/client/base.rb:9:in `http_connect' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.3.0/lib/twitter/client/friendship.rb:32:in `friend' from twitter4r-add-friend.rb:12 Is this error related with that?: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=354 Versions: Linux Debian 2.6.22-1-k7 #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 14:02:09 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i486-linux] twitter4r (0.3.0) Regards. -- Es imposible afinar un l\xE1piz con una cuchilla desafilada. Es igualmente in\xFAtil tratar de hacerlo con diez. (Edsger Dijkstra) +-+ Gastón Ramos http://gastonramos.com.ar/ GNU/Linux Counter user #450312 Always code as if the person who will maintain your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live. (Alan Braggins) +-+ Gast\xF3n Ramos http://gastonramos.com.ar/ GNU/Linux Counter user #450312
[twitter-dev] Re: How do I create a search engine
And a full tube of Make My Logo Bigger cream: http://makemylogobiggercream.com/ On 3/24/09 9:31 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: Magic. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Faisal Ahmed fais...@gmail.com mailto:fais...@gmail.com wrote: Hey how do I create a search engine like this http://www.twitterjobsearch.com/ that searches twitter ? -- Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on. (p. 70)
[twitter-dev] Re: Handling deleted messages when caching locally
I've added a feature request that I see as being able to fix this: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list?thanks=379 It would be a call to return a list of all status ids for a user. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:51, JakeS jakesteven...@gmail.com wrote: My application caches the user's timelines locally, fetching only new items using the since_id parameter (so it can be nice to twitter's servers). However, I'm getting some complaints from users who delete items using the website. The items remain in my application's cache. Of course it seems perfectly logical to me. If they clear their cache, the full list is fetched again and the deleted items are gone. Anyone have any ideas on a better way to handle this situation? Is there some way to fetch a list of deleted status ids? -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Chicago Illinois United States.
[twitter-dev] OAuth log in/out behavior
I have been encountering this scenario lately (especially with testing OAuth apps with test accounts). Say I am logged into the twitter website under my normal @jazzychad account. I use the site and navigate around, etc.. Now I open another tab and go to log into an OAuth enabed site. I click the link to authenticate. The authentication page knows I am already logged into the main twitter website as @jazzychad, but I want to authenticate using my separate test account instead. I click the link to let me authenticate as somebody else, type in my user/pass and click Allow. I am taken back to the OAuth app and I'm now authenticated. Now I go back to my twitter website tab and click to go somewhere else. Instead of going to my desired page, I find I am now logged out and presented with the Login screen. Obviously this is happening because I authenticated with another account during my OAuth trip. I am wondering if this is something that can be avoided, or if this is a scenario that would affect so few users that it's not really worth worrying about and will just cause a minor annoyance for those actively using multiple accounts -Chad
[twitter-dev] Re: Invalid oAuth Request
Yeah Jamie, anything is possible. I've beat my head against a brick wall quite a few times dealing with OAuth Twitter. A small Perl script I wrote was working perfectly and suddenly it stopped. it's now giving me a 401, just like you when nothing has changed. I suspect, Twitter is still making changes somewhere up in the cloud and it's causing periodic weirdness and breaking perfectly working code. Try the GET like Abraham said. On Mar 23, 4:51 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Just for kicks try a GET instead of a POST. On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 15:18, Jamie Rumbelow ja...@jamierumbelow.netwrote: Can anyone give me a hand? Jamie Rumbelow Designer / Developer / Writer / Speaker http://www.jamierumbelow.net| +44 (0)7956 363875 | jamie (at) jamierumbelow (dot) net -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cameron Kaiser Sent: 21 March 2009 20:27 To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Invalid oAuth Request I'm having a little trouble with oAuth - I'm getting an Invalid OAuth Request with a HTTP 401. I'm sure the signature is correct, and all I'm trying to do is get a request token. Has anyone had this problem before and if so how did you fix it? Code and/or output is always helpful. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com -- If there was a hole, I would jump into it. -- Gackt Camui -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG -www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.20/2013 - Release Date: 03/20/09 19:01:00 -- Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Madison Wisconsin United States.
[twitter-dev] Whitelisting with multiple IPs
Hi, right now our website needs multiple web servers, so we went ahead and requested whitelisting for multiple IPs. But my question is, is that 2 limit per IP or it's aggregated per website even if it runs on multiple servers (IPs). Thanks in advance
[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisting with multiple IPs
Rate limiting is IP specific. Therefore, you should find that you have 2 calls per individual IP. Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:15 PM, bbc beier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, right now our website needs multiple web servers, so we went ahead and requested whitelisting for multiple IPs. But my question is, is that 2 limit per IP or it's aggregated per website even if it runs on multiple servers (IPs). Thanks in advance
[twitter-dev] Posts from HootSuite not displaying in Search timeline
I am one of the developers of HootSuite and if you take for example the user: stejules, in his main timeline: http://twitter.com/stejules there are many posts that have originated from the web app HootSuite, however, those posts are not displaying when you search 'from:stejules': http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Astejules+ None of the posts from HootSuite appear in the Search timeline. I am curious as to what is happening here, as this is probably not the only user that this occurs with. Thanks in advance, Paul
[twitter-dev] Re: Posts from HootSuite not displaying in Search timeline
Looking at the Search Results, the most recent tweet was 23 days ago. This suggests that it's not HootSuite's problem, but that his account was probably flagged and is currently being prevented from being added to the search index. *I do not work for or speak for twitter, but this sort of situation has popped up before, so I'm speaking on experience. Best bet is to have the user send supp...@twitter.com an email asking why he's not listed in search results and if they could please re-instate him. -Chad On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Paul paul...@gmail.com wrote: I am one of the developers of HootSuite and if you take for example the user: stejules, in his main timeline: http://twitter.com/stejules there are many posts that have originated from the web app HootSuite, however, those posts are not displaying when you search 'from:stejules': http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Astejules+ None of the posts from HootSuite appear in the Search timeline. I am curious as to what is happening here, as this is probably not the only user that this occurs with. Thanks in advance, Paul
[twitter-dev] 400 Bad Request from Twitter Search Feed
I am getting 400 Bad Request from Twitter Search Feed while loading it via Google Ajax Feed API. Actually it looks like each second request is finished with 400 code
[twitter-dev] Re: Posts from HootSuite not displaying in Search timeline
Ah, good to know. Thanks for pointing that out. I will keep an eye out to ensure it is not occurring with other users. Paul On Mar 24, 1:09 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Looking at the Search Results, the most recent tweet was 23 days ago. This suggests that it's not HootSuite's problem, but that his account was probably flagged and is currently being prevented from being added to the search index. *I do not work for or speak for twitter, but this sort of situation has popped up before, so I'm speaking on experience. Best bet is to have the user send supp...@twitter.com an email asking why he's not listed in search results and if they could please re-instate him. -Chad On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Paul paul...@gmail.com wrote: I am one of the developers of HootSuite and if you take for example the user: stejules, in his main timeline: http://twitter.com/stejules there are many posts that have originated from the web app HootSuite, however, those posts are not displaying when you search 'from:stejules': http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Astejules+ None of the posts from HootSuite appear in the Search timeline. I am curious as to what is happening here, as this is probably not the only user that this occurs with. Thanks in advance, Paul
[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisting with multiple IPs
Thanks for the quick answer. One more question, our service (HootSuite.com) allow users to check their friends timelines, replies, DMs... since all of these are authenticated requests, what we've been assuming (and it seems have been working that way) was that, the first 100 requests uses the user's limit, and if it goes over 100, it'll start using our web server's limit. Is this actually the way Twitter API is supposed to work? and in the future as well? Thanks again! On Mar 24, 12:27 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Rate limiting is IP specific. Therefore, you should find that you have 2 calls per individual IP. Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:15 PM, bbc beier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, right now our website needs multiple web servers, so we went ahead and requested whitelisting for multiple IPs. But my question is, is that 2 limit per IP or it's aggregated per website even if it runs on multiple servers (IPs). Thanks in advance- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
[twitter-dev] Re: A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?
Twitter would be better off supporting gdata queries
Thanks in advance
Sam
W: www.twitblogs.com/ssethi
M: +44 7985 705075
Sent from my iPhone
On 23 Mar 2009, at 18:40, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
Thanks for the feedback.
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 20:46, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote:
If it was built and twitter charged something similar to the rate
that
Amazon's SimpleDB charges for processing power required to preform
the
query, I would gladly pay.
Zac Bowling
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com
wrote:
There was the one I mentioned in my first email that was a bridge
with
MSSQL (Tweet-SQL) but that is nothing more then a bunch of managed
(written in c#) stored procedure calls for MSSQL 2005 which maybe
what
you are thinking of. That's not really anything close to what I'm
looking for.
It doesn't even have to be SQL like but just a some kind of
structured
query language for twitter. That would be awesome.
Zac Bowling
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Abraham Williams
4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm positive that a third party was providing a tql api for their
database
of tweets and that it was announced on this list but now
searching returns
nothing. Does anybody else remember this? Maybe it was a dream...
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 15:28, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com
wrote:
I would love it if Twitter would develop an equivalent to
Facebook's
FQL, Yahoo's YQL, Amazon's SimpleDB, or Google's GQL (used for app
engine data storage).
Basically an abstracted SQL-like query engine for doing queries
and
getting back data the data you want using virtual tables of
different
data twitter serves up.
You could do something basic like:
SELECT StatusID, UserID, Text FROM StatusUpdates as S
WHERE
S.UserID in (SELECT UserID FROM SocialGraph WHERE
FollowerUseringID
= MYUSERID) and
S.StatusID LASTID
ORDER BY S.StatusID DESC
LIMIT 200
to get a basic user's following timeline or whatever. From there
you
can build on from that and get a bit more complex.
It could even build on from just query syntax to modify and
destructive
calls.
Maybe something like:
DELETE FROM StatusUpdates WHERE StatusID = 200102;
or:
INSERT INTO StatusUpdates(text,replyToStatusID,replyToUserID)
VALUES
('@johnsmith hello',123601020,235133);
or:
UPDATE StatusUpdates SET favorite = TRUE WHERE StatusID =
123601020;
You could do it where you do an HTTP get/post with a query like
above
to twitter's rest api, and the results could come back as JSON
or XML
or whatever.
Some concepts like this could be done in a local side wrapper
(like
I've seen a SQL bridge for MSSQL for twitter on here a while
back) but
it would be awesome if these were processed twitter server side.
If
done right, it can save on overhead on both twitter and from the
client side.
Like in one case I have where I'm hitting the following
timeline, I'm
missing something out of the user structure that you get back from
that, so I turn around and do another user call on user for each
tweet
to get that data. Half the data I get back in both cases don't
use on
both calls but it would be awesome to be able to get that data
in one
call.
A lot to consider around optimization and limits and a bit of
work to
build it but I think something like that would be really useful.
Zac
--
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Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org
This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
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http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?
With a relational streaming database, you can perform relational (SQL)
queries on the public timeline or the datamining feed and get real-
time results. This isn't exactly what you are looking for, but it
might meet your needs.
I know the folks at www.sqlstream.com have set this up. I'm sure that
other vendors such as Coral8 and Streambase could also do the same.
-John
On Mar 22, 1:28 pm, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote:
I would love it if Twitter would develop an equivalent to Facebook's
FQL, Yahoo's YQL, Amazon's SimpleDB, or Google's GQL (used for app
engine data storage).
Basically an abstracted SQL-like query engine for doing queries and
getting back data the data you want using virtual tables of different
data twitter serves up.
You could do something basic like:
SELECT StatusID, UserID, Text FROM StatusUpdates as S
WHERE
S.UserID in (SELECT UserID FROM SocialGraph WHERE FollowerUseringID
= MYUSERID) and
S.StatusID LASTID
ORDER BY S.StatusID DESC
LIMIT 200
to get a basic user's following timeline or whatever. From there you
can build on from that and get a bit more complex.
It could even build on from just query syntax to modify and destructive calls.
Maybe something like:
DELETE FROM StatusUpdates WHERE StatusID = 200102;
or:
INSERT INTO StatusUpdates(text,replyToStatusID,replyToUserID) VALUES
('@johnsmith hello',123601020,235133);
or:
UPDATE StatusUpdates SET favorite = TRUE WHERE StatusID = 123601020;
You could do it where you do an HTTP get/post with a query like above
to twitter's rest api, and the results could come back as JSON or XML
or whatever.
Some concepts like this could be done in a local side wrapper (like
I've seen a SQL bridge for MSSQL for twitter on here a while back) but
it would be awesome if these were processed twitter server side. If
done right, it can save on overhead on both twitter and from the
client side.
Like in one case I have where I'm hitting the following timeline, I'm
missing something out of the user structure that you get back from
that, so I turn around and do another user call on user for each tweet
to get that data. Half the data I get back in both cases don't use on
both calls but it would be awesome to be able to get that data in one
call.
A lot to consider around optimization and limits and a bit of work to
build it but I think something like that would be really useful.
Zac
[twitter-dev] Re: Handling deleted messages when caching locally
That might work, but then I'd have to loop through every status id I have in my cache and see if it exists in the list. It'd be a lot simpler to get a list of deleted items (since XX) and simply remove them from my cache. If there's no existing way to handle it. On Mar 24, 12:28 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I've added a feature request that I see as being able to fix this:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list?thanks=379 It would be a call to return a list of all status ids for a user. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:51, JakeS jakesteven...@gmail.com wrote: My application caches the user's timelines locally, fetching only new items using the since_id parameter (so it can be nice to twitter's servers). However, I'm getting some complaints from users who delete items using the website. The items remain in my application's cache. Of course it seems perfectly logical to me. If they clear their cache, the full list is fetched again and the deleted items are gone. Anyone have any ideas on a better way to handle this situation? Is there some way to fetch a list of deleted status ids? -- Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Chicago Illinois United States.
[twitter-dev] a Python api redialer
So we all know that twitter can get over capacity at times. I
wanted a way to work around that, but also to be reasonably gentle on
the server.
This meta-wrapper will try 3 times to do the api call before giving
up. Its sort of rough and could be fleshed out with some custom
exceptions etc.
It is designed to be used with http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/
if the following gets munged, it can also be viewed here for a time:
http://dpaste.com/18789/
If you are not using it in a class - remove the reference to self.
You call it use it basically like this:
from twitter.api import Twitter, TwitterError
twitter = Twitter('name','pw')
json = self.api_repeater(self.twitter.users.show,user_id=userid)
def api_repeater(self,api_call,**kwargs):
repeat a call to the twitter api when their servers are busy
tries = 0
while True:
try:
return api_call(**kwargs)
except TwitterError, e:
error_s = str(e.args[0]).split(':', 1)[1]
#print error_s
try:
error_dict = json.loads(error_s)
err = error_dict['error']
except:
err = str(e.args[0])
if 'Twitter is over capacity' in err:
if tries 3:
raise RuntimeError Twitter too busy
err = 'Twitter is over capacity. ' + str (tries)
tries =+ 1
print err
time.sleep(1)
else:
raise
except:
print sys.exc_info()[0]
raise
[twitter-dev] Re: a Python api redialer
This meta-wrapper will try 3 times to do the api call before giving up. Its sort of rough and could be fleshed out with some custom exceptions etc. You might also consider something like an exponential backoff instead of sleeping a second each time. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Von Herzen, moge es wieder zu Herzen gehen. -- Beethoven ---
[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?
Unfortunately, nothing definitive. We're still looking into this. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:56, Craig Hockenberry craig.hockenbe...@gmail.com wrote: Any news from the Service Team? I'd really like to get the counters right in an upcoming release... -ch On Mar 6, 12:18 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: I'm taking this email to our Service Team, the folks who work on the back-end of the service. The whole message body changing as it moves from cache to backing store thing is totally unacceptable. Answers soon. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 09:43, Craig Hockenberry craig.hockenbe...@gmail.com wrote: Some discussion about this thread popped up on Twitter yesterday: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/ thread/44be91d5ec5850fa Alex states that it's 140 bytes per tweet. So, of course, Loren Brichter and I tried to prove that. With the following results: 1) 140 characters that including ones that include HTML entities: http://twitter.com/gnitset/status/1286202252 At the time of posting, this tweet showed up on the site and in feeds with all 140 characters. After a few hours, the was converted to lt;, increasing the count per character from one to four bytes and decreasing the tweet length from 140 characters to 69. (You can see this truncation at the end of the tweet: the is from lt;) Presumably, this happens as tweets in the memcache are written though to the backing store. I also see a lot of Twitter clients that don't realize how special the lt; and gt; entities are. It took me a LONG time to figure out what was going on here. 2) 140 Unicode _multi-byte_ characters: http://twitter.com/atebits/ status/1286199010 What's curious is that Loren's example with 140 characters uses the Unicode 27A1 glyph. It uses 3 bytes in UTF-8. Why didn't it get truncated? This seems to contradict Alex's statement in the thread mentioned above. As people start to use things like Emoji, tinyarro.ws and generally figure out that Unicode (UTF-8) is a valid type of data on Twitter, our clients should adapt and display more accurate characters remaining counts. I can count bytes instead of characters, but I'm not sure if I should or not. No one likes a truncated tweet: we need an explicit statement on how to count and submit multi-byte characters and entities. -ch -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: Handling deleted messages when caching locally
I would like to see an event query. Request: user id, since (date only) Response: notification if user's profile has changed id's of deleted messages (in timeline, not just owned by user) ids or details of new followers for user ids of lost followers for user ids of details or new followings for user is of lost followings for user
[twitter-dev] A question about updating status
Hi, I am new at twitter API and using one the PHP APIs I managed to update my status but I had a question how can I change the following text: less than 5 seconds ago from web to less than 5 seconds ago from SomewhereElse I have seen other people doing this. Could you please help me out. Cheers Rahul
[twitter-dev] Re: A question about updating status
Hi, I am new at twitter API and using one the PHP APIs I managed to update my status but I had a question how can I change the following text: less than 5 seconds ago from web to less than 5 seconds ago from SomewhereElse http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowdoIget%E2%80%9CfromMyApp%E2%80%9DappendedtoupdatessentfrommyAPIapplication -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Shell scripting: the ultimate open source software.
[twitter-dev] Someone resurrected the Gigantor profile image bug
Is it my imagination, or are some profile images not being scaled down properly (again)? Example: http://twitter.com/stealing_second http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/109230522/twitter_normal.jpg - 466x371px... I'll also take this time to request some scrubbing of existing humungo profile images. Thanks, Loren
