[twitter-dev] Re: friends_timeline, website and replies

2009-04-05 Thread SuNcO

Uhm.. sorry but i didn't see before. There is not
in_reply_to_status_id, so i think Twitter detects the @ character and
it think is a reply, but if the  "replied_id" is not there, i think
that the in_reply_to_user_id must be empty

On 5 abr, 16:57, SuNcO  wrote:
> Before post this i do a search but didn't found this exactly
>
> If i check the friends_timeline.xml, the first two msgs are replies. I
> can see the replied_user_id, nick etc..
>
> But in web i can't. I just see the first reply
>
> You can see a screenshot here:http://sunco.codigoplus.com/twitter1.png
> (290 KB)


[twitter-dev] Re: friends_timeline, website and replies

2009-04-05 Thread Julio Biason

Twittelator probably isn't sending the "in_reply_to_status_id", so
Twitter is taking the second as a "mention" and not a proper reply.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:57 AM, SuNcO  wrote:
>
> Before post this i do a search but didn't found this exactly
>
> If i check the friends_timeline.xml, the first two msgs are replies. I
> can see the replied_user_id, nick etc..
>
> But in web i can't. I just see the first reply
>
> You can see a screenshot here: http://sunco.codigoplus.com/twitter1.png
> (290 KB)
>



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[twitter-dev] Re: friends_timeline, website and replies

2009-04-05 Thread Abraham Williams
the in_reply_to_status_id is only added if it user clicks on the "swoop" or
the application they are using supports it.

Abraham

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 18:57, SuNcO  wrote:

>
> Before post this i do a search but didn't found this exactly
>
> If i check the friends_timeline.xml, the first two msgs are replies. I
> can see the replied_user_id, nick etc..
>
> But in web i can't. I just see the first reply
>
> You can see a screenshot here: http://sunco.codigoplus.com/twitter1.png
> (290 KB)
>



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[twitter-dev] friends_timeline, website and replies

2009-04-05 Thread SuNcO

Before post this i do a search but didn't found this exactly

If i check the friends_timeline.xml, the first two msgs are replies. I
can see the replied_user_id, nick etc..

But in web i can't. I just see the first reply

You can see a screenshot here: http://sunco.codigoplus.com/twitter1.png
(290 KB)


[twitter-dev] Re: Search api - rpp not working

2009-04-05 Thread Abraham Williams
I see 10 results.

Abraham

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 14:48, Matt  wrote:

>
> Is it just me or is the rpp call not being processed correctly? Here
> is a link from the api documentation:
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=+the+%23sxsw&rpp=10
>



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[twitter-dev] Re: Statuses_count and Friends_count not being returned

2009-04-05 Thread Damon P. Cortesi

Dharmesh,

I believe this is related to the recent "big users everywhere" change.
As soon as that change went into effect I started noticing this same
problem. I'm not entirely sure why some properties (like
statuses_count) simply disappeared, but the answer seems to be "it'll
clear up by itself at some point".

See http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/ca40afc5ee5094a9
and the rest of the thread associated with that message.

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On Apr 5, 2:48 pm, Dharmesh  wrote:
> When I call users/show method of the API, the friends_count and
> statuses_count does not always return data (this used to work reliably
> until relatively recently).
>
> Example:http://twitter.com/users/show/barackobama.xml
>
> Result comes back, but the statuses_count and friends_count elements
> are missing.  Visiting the account directly on twitter.com 
> withhttp://twitter.com/barackobamashows that there are indeed friends and
> updates.
>
> I tried the JSON method as well, and it has the same issue.
>
> Anyone else experiencing this?
>
> All help is appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Dharmesh Shah
> Founder and CTO, HubSpot


[twitter-dev] Re: Search API, Multiple Hashtags

2009-04-05 Thread Matt

Thanks. Wasn't aware I could pass along operators.

On Apr 5, 2:41 pm, Chad Etzel  wrote:
> Yes, this is possible.  Have you actually tried it yet?  Make sure to
> use capital OR between the hashtags.
>
> http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23followfriday+OR+%23pawpawty+OR+...
>
> -chad
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Matt  wrote:
>
> > Is it possible with the current search api to search for multiple
> > hashtags? I'm looking to do an OR search which will look for up to 3
> > hashtags.


[twitter-dev] Statuses_count and Friends_count not being returned

2009-04-05 Thread Dharmesh

When I call users/show method of the API, the friends_count and
statuses_count does not always return data (this used to work reliably
until relatively recently).

Example: http://twitter.com/users/show/barackobama.xml

Result comes back, but the statuses_count and friends_count elements
are missing.  Visiting the account directly on twitter.com with
http://twitter.com/barackobama shows that there are indeed friends and
updates.

I tried the JSON method as well, and it has the same issue.

Anyone else experiencing this?

All help is appreciated.

Regards,
Dharmesh Shah
Founder and CTO, HubSpot


[twitter-dev] Search api - rpp not working

2009-04-05 Thread Matt

Is it just me or is the rpp call not being processed correctly? Here
is a link from the api documentation:

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=+the+%23sxsw&rpp=10


[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth authorize page "Sign Out" link inactive

2009-04-05 Thread Chad Etzel

Just to add: this has been happening for at least a couple days.  I
waited for a while to post about it in case it was just a transient
issue.

Issue 422 has been created:

http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=422

-Chad

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Confirmed with http://twitter.abrah.am/ and Firefox.
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 14:12, Chad Etzel  wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On the http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize page, clicking "Sign Out" so
>> that one can authorize a different account seems to be
>> inactive/broken.  I have tried this on several computers and browsers.
>>  The only way around it now is to log out of my web session manually
>> at twitter.com and then go back to the app and go through their login
>> links again.
>>
>> Is this a known issue? Anyone else experiencing this?
>>
>> -Chad
>
>
>
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[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth authorize page "Sign Out" link inactive

2009-04-05 Thread Abraham Williams
Confirmed with http://twitter.abrah.am/ and Firefox.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 14:12, Chad Etzel  wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> On the http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize page, clicking "Sign Out" so
> that one can authorize a different account seems to be
> inactive/broken.  I have tried this on several computers and browsers.
>  The only way around it now is to log out of my web session manually
> at twitter.com and then go back to the app and go through their login
> links again.
>
> Is this a known issue? Anyone else experiencing this?
>
> -Chad
>



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[twitter-dev] OAuth authorize page "Sign Out" link inactive

2009-04-05 Thread Chad Etzel

Hello,

On the http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize page, clicking "Sign Out" so
that one can authorize a different account seems to be
inactive/broken.  I have tried this on several computers and browsers.
 The only way around it now is to log out of my web session manually
at twitter.com and then go back to the app and go through their login
links again.

Is this a known issue? Anyone else experiencing this?

-Chad


[twitter-dev] Re: url as an input

2009-04-05 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just pretend the URL is text and search for that text using the default
> Search API call.


But if you want meaningful results, you'll want to shorten the URL with the
popular shorteners (tinyurl, bitly, etc.) and search on the shortened
versions.

Or you might be able to accomplish what you're seeking by using Twiturly.

Nick


[twitter-dev] Re: url as an input

2009-04-05 Thread Abraham Williams
Just pretend the URL is text and search for that text using the default
Search API call.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:28, ParsePlz  wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for you both on provided info.
>
> However I didnt find nay api request capable of passing an url as an
> input. Do you think it is posible or not?
>
> Thanks and Best Regards
>
> Parse
>
>
>
> On Apr 6, 12:18 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You will want to read the Search API Docs:
> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation.
> >
> > Also consider that alot of long URLs are shortened using tinyurl.com/etc
> .
> > There is another site providing an API to reverse the process but I don't
> > remember what it is.
> >
> > Abraham
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:00, ParsePlz  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > What I need is to pass a url to API and get tweets for it, process is
> > > similar to as ofwww.backtweets.com.
> >
> > > Can such be implemented ?
> >
> > > Thanks and Best Regads
> >
> > > Parse
> >
> > > On Apr 5, 11:55 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Please clarify. I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to
> > > accomplish.
> >
> > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:28, ParsePlz 
> wrote:
> >
> > > > > Hi,
> >
> > > > > Is it possible to get tweets, who-tweet? type data with a input
> URL. I
> > > > > checked twitter api documentation, but Idont see it accepts url
> > > > > anywhere that accepts url as ain input parameted.
> >
> > > > > If someone of you aware of it, please let me know.
> >
> > > > > Thanks and Best Regadrs.
> >
> > > > > B. Parse
> >
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[twitter-dev] Re: url as an input

2009-04-05 Thread Chad Etzel

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:28 PM, ParsePlz  wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for you both on provided info.
>
> However I didnt find nay api request capable of passing an url as an
> input. Do you think it is posible or not?

No, right now there are no Twitter API calls that allow passing a URL
as an input parameter.
-Chad


[twitter-dev] Re: Search API, Multiple Hashtags

2009-04-05 Thread Chad Etzel

Yes, this is possible.  Have you actually tried it yet?  Make sure to
use capital OR between the hashtags.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23followfriday+OR+%23pawpawty+OR+%23gno

-chad

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Matt  wrote:
>
> Is it possible with the current search api to search for multiple
> hashtags? I'm looking to do an OR search which will look for up to 3
> hashtags.
>


[twitter-dev] Re: retweet_of_status_id Parameter?

2009-04-05 Thread Abraham Williams
Oh I forgot to mention that the web interface could be changed from:

about 5 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to poseurtech


to:

about 5 hours ago from twitterrific retweeting poseurtech


or some other better sounding wording.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:28, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wanted to throw the idea out of Twitter adding a retweet_of_status_id
> parameter to statuses. It would be added the same was as
> in_reply_to_status_id:
>
>
> http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json?status=text+here&retweet_of_status_id=1342534
>
> A use case is following a retweet thread back to the original souce.
>
> What other use cases are there?
>
> Abraham
>
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[twitter-dev] Re: url as an input

2009-04-05 Thread ParsePlz

Hi,

Thanks for you both on provided info.

However I didnt find nay api request capable of passing an url as an
input. Do you think it is posible or not?

Thanks and Best Regards

Parse



On Apr 6, 12:18 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You will want to read the Search API 
> Docs:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation.
>
> Also consider that alot of long URLs are shortened using tinyurl.com/etc.
> There is another site providing an API to reverse the process but I don't
> remember what it is.
>
> Abraham
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:00, ParsePlz  wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > What I need is to pass a url to API and get tweets for it, process is
> > similar to as ofwww.backtweets.com.
>
> > Can such be implemented ?
>
> > Thanks and Best Regads
>
> > Parse
>
> > On Apr 5, 11:55 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Please clarify. I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to
> > accomplish.
>
> > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:28, ParsePlz  wrote:
>
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > Is it possible to get tweets, who-tweet? type data with a input URL. I
> > > > checked twitter api documentation, but Idont see it accepts url
> > > > anywhere that accepts url as ain input parameted.
>
> > > > If someone of you aware of it, please let me know.
>
> > > > Thanks and Best Regadrs.
>
> > > > B. Parse
>
> > > --
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> > > @poseurtech |http://the.hackerconundrum.com
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> > > Sent from Chicago, Illinois, United States
>
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[twitter-dev] Search API, Multiple Hashtags

2009-04-05 Thread Matt

Is it possible with the current search api to search for multiple
hashtags? I'm looking to do an OR search which will look for up to 3
hashtags.


[twitter-dev] Re: url as an input

2009-04-05 Thread Abraham Williams
Yes. I think that was it.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:21, Chris Thomson  wrote:

> Perhaps Abraham's referring to Tweetmeme?
> http://tweetmeme.com/static.php?page=api
> -Chris Thomson
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> You will want to read the Search API Docs:
>> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation.
>>
>> Also consider that alot of long URLs are shortened using tinyurl.com/etc.
>> There is another site providing an API to reverse the process but I don't
>> remember what it is.
>>
>> Abraham
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:00, ParsePlz  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What I need is to pass a url to API and get tweets for it, process is
>>> similar to as of www.backtweets.com .
>>>
>>> Can such be implemented ?
>>>
>>> Thanks and Best Regads
>>>
>>> Parse
>>>
>>> On Apr 5, 11:55 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Please clarify. I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to
>>> accomplish.
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:28, ParsePlz 
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > > Is it possible to get tweets, who-tweet? type data with a input URL.
>>> I
>>> > > checked twitter api documentation, but Idont see it accepts url
>>> > > anywhere that accepts url as ain input parameted.
>>> >
>>> > > If someone of you aware of it, please let me know.
>>> >
>>> > > Thanks and Best Regadrs.
>>> >
>>> > > B. Parse
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Abraham Williams | Hacker |http://abrah.am
>>> > @poseurtech |http://the.hackerconundrum.com
>>> > Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org
>>> > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>>> > Sent from Chicago, Illinois, United States
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>> Sent from Chicago, Illinois, United States
>>
>
>


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[twitter-dev] Re: retweet_of_status_id Parameter?

2009-04-05 Thread Chad Etzel

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What other use cases are there?


Filtering!  This would be a client-side setting/option I would expect,
but if there is a retweet_of_status_id field set (or greater than
0/null) then it would indicate a retweet.  This would help eliminate
the need for clients to do several regex type matches to determine if
it is, in fact, a retweet (I was actually implementing such regex
matching in some of my code as we speak).

However, since I think Twitter.com itself does not recognize retweets
in any form or fasion as being different than any other normal tweet
(as opposed to replies (now mentions) which it treats as special
tweets), they may not want to "acknowledge" them officially in the API
until they do so on the site.

Now that retweets are a logical subset of mentions, it may be a different story.

-Chad


[twitter-dev] retweet_of_status_id Parameter?

2009-04-05 Thread Abraham Williams
I wanted to throw the idea out of Twitter adding a retweet_of_status_id
parameter to statuses. It would be added the same was as
in_reply_to_status_id:

http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json?status=text+here&retweet_of_status_id=1342534

A use case is following a retweet thread back to the original souce.

What other use cases are there?

Abraham

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[twitter-dev] Re: url as an input

2009-04-05 Thread Chris Thomson
Perhaps Abraham's referring to Tweetmeme?
http://tweetmeme.com/static.php?page=api
-Chris Thomson


On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You will want to read the Search API Docs:
> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation.
>
> Also consider that alot of long URLs are shortened using tinyurl.com/etc.
> There is another site providing an API to reverse the process but I don't
> remember what it is.
>
> Abraham
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:00, ParsePlz  wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What I need is to pass a url to API and get tweets for it, process is
>> similar to as of www.backtweets.com .
>>
>> Can such be implemented ?
>>
>> Thanks and Best Regads
>>
>> Parse
>>
>> On Apr 5, 11:55 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Please clarify. I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to
>> accomplish.
>> >
>> > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:28, ParsePlz  wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi,
>> >
>> > > Is it possible to get tweets, who-tweet? type data with a input URL. I
>> > > checked twitter api documentation, but Idont see it accepts url
>> > > anywhere that accepts url as ain input parameted.
>> >
>> > > If someone of you aware of it, please let me know.
>> >
>> > > Thanks and Best Regadrs.
>> >
>> > > B. Parse
>> >
>> > --
>> > Abraham Williams | Hacker |http://abrah.am
>> > @poseurtech |http://the.hackerconundrum.com
>> > Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org
>> > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>> > Sent from Chicago, Illinois, United States
>>
>
>
>
> --
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>


[twitter-dev] Re: url as an input

2009-04-05 Thread Abraham Williams
You will want to read the Search API Docs:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation.

Also consider that alot of long URLs are shortened using tinyurl.com/etc.
There is another site providing an API to reverse the process but I don't
remember what it is.

Abraham

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:00, ParsePlz  wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> What I need is to pass a url to API and get tweets for it, process is
> similar to as of www.backtweets.com .
>
> Can such be implemented ?
>
> Thanks and Best Regads
>
> Parse
>
> On Apr 5, 11:55 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Please clarify. I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to
> accomplish.
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:28, ParsePlz  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > Is it possible to get tweets, who-tweet? type data with a input URL. I
> > > checked twitter api documentation, but Idont see it accepts url
> > > anywhere that accepts url as ain input parameted.
> >
> > > If someone of you aware of it, please let me know.
> >
> > > Thanks and Best Regadrs.
> >
> > > B. Parse
> >
> > --
> > Abraham Williams | Hacker |http://abrah.am
> > @poseurtech |http://the.hackerconundrum.com
> > Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org
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> > Sent from Chicago, Illinois, United States
>



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[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-04-05 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Doug Williams  wrote:

> The API is not able to support retweets as a feature until the main
> Twitter.com site offers some notion of retweets as a feature. As evidenced
> by the recent shift from @replies to mentions, Twitter does listen to the
> users' behavior to drive site changes. We obviously recognize the large
> number of users adopting retweets as a way to share good content. For now,
> though, retweets must be found through client-side parsing.
>
> Thanks to all for the lively discussion on this thread. It has been
> valuable.


I'd like to point out, if it isn't already obvious, that this is part of a
larger issue that many of us are probably expecting Twitter to someday
tackle -- another kind of trend monitoring, similar to the various counters
of explicit retweets and those that count what I call implicit retweets --
services like @twurlednews (mine) and @twitturly.

The more that people retweet, the more our timelines will be cluttered with
redundancy.  As retweeting become easier and more standardized, it is an
increasingly valuable source of intelligence, but it will also create
problems that Twitter and this community will have to/get to solve.

In other words, consider the problems and opportunities that codifying
retweets will create - I suspect that some API features will make sense to
offer at the same time, providing summary data that makes it easy for
clients to avoid all that redundancy.

Nick


[twitter-dev] Re: VB.net auh failure [403]

2009-04-05 Thread DIENECES

That's a great suggestion.  Thanks for the help. I"ll post my modified
code in case anyone else wants some VB (even though it seems to be the
black-sheep) of the twitter development family ;).

On Apr 5, 12:21 am, James Deville  wrote:
> Look at what requests you are sending with Netmon or Wireshark. With Witty
> (C# wpf app), we discovered that first an unauthenticated request is sent to
> find out what auth the server takes, then a authenticated request after
> that. This doesn't work on some of the API requests. The solution is to
> manually attach the BasicAuth header.
>
> JD
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:38 AM, DIENECES  wrote:
>
> > Any idea why I'm forbidden?
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Function writeMessage(ByVal StrPass, ByVal StrUser, ByVal StrMessage,
> > ByVal StrTo) As String
> >        Dim req As System.Net.HttpWebRequest =
> > System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("http://twitter.com/direct_messages/
> > new.xml?user= " +
> > StrTo + "&text=" + StrMessage)
> >        If Not StrUser = "" Or StrPass = "" Then
> >            req.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential
> > (StrUser, StrPass)
> >            req.Method = "POST"
> >            'req.ContentLength = 0
> >            'req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = False
> >            req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
> >            'req.PreAuthenticate = True
> >            Dim resp As HttpWebResponse = req.GetResponse()
> >            Dim sr As New System.IO.StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream
> > ())
> >            'sr.Read(req.GetResponse(), )
> >            Return sr.ReadToEnd()
> >        End If
>
> >    End Function- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


[twitter-dev] Re: Python urlopen public timeline timeout

2009-04-05 Thread Anatoliy

Thank you, I solve problem.

My problem is bad internet connection. Python can't get public
timeline at default timeout.

On 5 апр, 21:58, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not familiar with Python but it sounds like you are missing a parameter
> that Python needs.
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:39, Anatoliy  wrote:
>
> > Hello.
>
> > I'm trying to read public timeline in python:
> >   a = urllib2.urlopen("http://twitter.com/statuses/
> > public_timeline.xml ")
> > But it generates exception:
> >   urllib2.URLError: 
>
> > Browser and wget still working.
>
> > What problem I have?
>
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[twitter-dev] Re: url as an input

2009-04-05 Thread ParsePlz

Hi,

What I need is to pass a url to API and get tweets for it, process is
similar to as of www.backtweets.com .

Can such be implemented ?

Thanks and Best Regads

Parse

On Apr 5, 11:55 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please clarify. I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to accomplish.
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:28, ParsePlz  wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Is it possible to get tweets, who-tweet? type data with a input URL. I
> > checked twitter api documentation, but Idont see it accepts url
> > anywhere that accepts url as ain input parameted.
>
> > If someone of you aware of it, please let me know.
>
> > Thanks and Best Regadrs.
>
> > B. Parse
>
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[twitter-dev] Re: A way to see replies to specific tweets

2009-04-05 Thread Damon P. Cortesi

Actually, this data can be obtained pretty easily using Gnip. They
have the reply_to_status_id as part of their notification schema. I'm
pulling all of this data to maintain the client stats at
tweetstats.com/twitter_stats (shameless plug) - as an example, though,
I can see that the most replied_to status of the day was
http://twitter.com/DonnieWahlberg/status/1455076423

I'm not entirely sure how correct the Gnip data is as I've seen some
inconsistencies. But it may simply be that I haven't built in all the
necessary redundancy at this point.

It should be noted that I believe you can also create a filter on a
specific reply_to_status_id (the URL of it) and get HTTP POSTs for any
future(?) reference to it. I haven't used that feature myself, hence
the question mark.

If you'd like some more info on pulling this data on Gnip, feel free
to shoot me an email. Their team is all over on Twitter as well and
very helpful. Their docs (http://docs.google.com/Doc?
id=dpw6zj9_0fdcnttgd), however, are a little confusing. :-\

And if any devs want to collaborate on making this data more easily
accessible for the time being, also let me know. :) As mentioned, I
already pull the Gnip data, but would need to a) make the retrieval
system a bit more robust, b) index it better for this purpose and c)
put a pretty front-end on it.

dpc

On Apr 3, 1:48 pm, Chad Etzel  wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Doug Williams  wrote:
>
> > It sounds like a number of developers are
> > working on rolling their own solution though.
>
> Holy cow, what an undertaking that would be!  It sounded to me like
> there are a number of developers with apps waiting in the wings just
> dying for this feature to be rolled out...
>
> If someone figures out a 3rd-party way to make this work, then "Rats
> Off To Ya!", but I can't imagine how many API calls that would entail.
>  If the "in_reply_to_status_id" was at least added to the search
> results [1] it would be a heck of a lot easier to roll our own while
> we wait.
>
> [2]
>
> [1]http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=273
>
> [2] -Chad


[twitter-dev] Re: Rating Tweets

2009-04-05 Thread Abraham Williams
If you are suggesting that feature for twitter.com try suggesting it in the
help[1] or on GSFN[2]. This list is for API development.

If you are trying to implement that feature in your own application it would
not be hard to add a column to your database where 0 = thumbs down and 1 =
thumbs up and augment the rate of display based on those values.

Abraham

[1] http://help.twitter.com/portal
[2] http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:28, Lynda  wrote:

>
> Recommend a way to fine tune reaction to tweets. Blocking is too
> extreme. But I find the prolific clutter my view of those I follow. I
> would like to be able to "vote" with a thumbs up or a thumbs down on
> each tweet I see, not to eliminate the person forever but so the
> cumulative measures raise or lower the poster's slice of my attention.
>



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[twitter-dev] Re: Python urlopen public timeline timeout

2009-04-05 Thread Chad Etzel

Also, there was planned maintenance today if I recall, so you may have
hit the outage window.  When were you trying this?  Does it work now?

-Chad

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not familiar with Python but it sounds like you are missing a parameter
> that Python needs.
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:39, Anatoliy  wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I'm trying to read public timeline in python:
>>   a = urllib2.urlopen("http://twitter.com/statuses/
>> public_timeline.xml")
>> But it generates exception:
>>   urllib2.URLError: 
>>
>> Browser and wget still working.
>>
>> What problem I have?
>>
>
>
>
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[twitter-dev] Re: Python urlopen public timeline timeout

2009-04-05 Thread Abraham Williams
I'm not familiar with Python but it sounds like you are missing a parameter
that Python needs.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:39, Anatoliy  wrote:

>
> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to read public timeline in python:
>   a = urllib2.urlopen("http://twitter.com/statuses/
> public_timeline.xml ")
> But it generates exception:
>   urllib2.URLError: 
>
> Browser and wget still working.
>
> What problem I have?
>
>


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[twitter-dev] Re: url as an input

2009-04-05 Thread Abraham Williams
Please clarify. I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to accomplish.


On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:28, ParsePlz  wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to get tweets, who-tweet? type data with a input URL. I
> checked twitter api documentation, but Idont see it accepts url
> anywhere that accepts url as ain input parameted.
>
> If someone of you aware of it, please let me know.
>
> Thanks and Best Regadrs.
>
> B. Parse
>



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[twitter-dev] Python urlopen public timeline timeout

2009-04-05 Thread Anatoliy

Hello.

I'm trying to read public timeline in python:
   a = urllib2.urlopen("http://twitter.com/statuses/
public_timeline.xml")
But it generates exception:
   urllib2.URLError: 

Browser and wget still working.

What problem I have?



[twitter-dev] url as an input

2009-04-05 Thread ParsePlz

Hi,

Is it possible to get tweets, who-tweet? type data with a input URL. I
checked twitter api documentation, but Idont see it accepts url
anywhere that accepts url as ain input parameted.

If someone of you aware of it, please let me know.

Thanks and Best Regadrs.

B. Parse


[twitter-dev] Rating Tweets

2009-04-05 Thread Lynda

Recommend a way to fine tune reaction to tweets. Blocking is too
extreme. But I find the prolific clutter my view of those I follow. I
would like to be able to "vote" with a thumbs up or a thumbs down on
each tweet I see, not to eliminate the person forever but so the
cumulative measures raise or lower the poster's slice of my attention.


[twitter-dev] Re: Currently logged in user

2009-04-05 Thread Abraham Williams
Twitter does not currently support this. It probably would be possible to
get OAuth have this functionality it would probably be a pretty ugly hack.
My guess is it would be easier to implement with OpenID.

Abraham

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 01:20, Aaron  wrote:

>
> I'm creating a service for multiple users and I don't want users to
> have reauthenticate everytime they want to use the web service.  Is it
> possible for oauth to see the currently logged in user if the user has
> already allowed a connection to the requesting web service?
>



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[twitter-dev] Re: Invalid OAuth request on posting to /statuses/update

2009-04-05 Thread HSL

If I do encode the variables, what else can give the same error?

On Mar 20, 4:06 pm, Joshua Perry  wrote:
> Are you including your url-encoded form variables in your signature
> calculation?
>
>
>
> Celso Pinto wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > I'm trying to set up a client and I want to use OAuth. The oauth
> > authorization went ok, my app shows on my settings page but when I try
> > to make an OAuth post to /statuses/update.json I get an "Invalid OAuth
> > request" response. I've tried setting the OAuth authorization header
> > (both with and without a realm) but this always fails as it apparently
> > tries to authenticate using HTTP Basic Auth. Thoughts?
>
> > Anyhow, here's a dump of the HTTP transaction (some response headers
> > omitted), am I missing something? TIA.
>
> > POSThttp://twitter.com/statuses/update.jsonHTTP/1.1
>
> > Host: twitter.com
>
> > Accept-Encoding: identity
>
> > Content-Length: 280
>
> > Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
> > oauth_nonce=21598464&oauth_timestamp=1237549916&oauth_consumer_key=zApimJxr 
> > vgM7xpJTAEFDA&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-
> > SHA1&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_token=4927481-
> > uCDTzmk9jls6Rgdzmoy6MW3CjDW7E8Hi8vJgKgxqU4&oauth_signature=lt1k8jLt22AKnZlk
> > %2BpfNsdiF5b8%3D&status=hello+from+handivi%21
>
> > HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
>
> > Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:51:57 GMT
>
> > Server: hi
>
> > Status: 401 Unauthorized
>
> > Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=300
>
> > Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
>
> > Content-Length: 21
>
> > Invalid OAuth Request


[twitter-dev] Re: API Changes for April 1, 2009

2009-04-05 Thread Martin Dufort

I'm seeing inconsitent user attributes within the *same* request for
the *same* user. One result has full attributes disclosure, and the
other one has not.

I've updated Issue 409 with my results.
Martin

On Apr 2, 8:36 pm, Doug Williams  wrote:
> Jeffery,
> This is valid criticism. This bug came as a surprise to us as well. We
> otherwise would have given developers fair warning. Unfortunately there is
> no easy fix, and like a bad heart-break, time may be the only answer.
>
> In short, the problem is with the user data cache. To get the extended
> information into that cache, the user object must either expire or be
> invalidated through some user initiated update. The expiry on the cache is
> rather long and you will find that inactive accounts will have abbreviated
> data for up to 2 weeks.
>
> This is obviously sub-optimal, as Matt would say.
>
> Doug Williams
> Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg <
>
>
>
> jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Doug,
> > Grumble: just to say it, this wasn't handled well at all.  The fact
> > that this field disappears whether due to caching or through a coding
> > error has the same result of completely breaking my app.
>
> > How long will it take for this issue to clear up? Days? How many
> > exactly?  and after X days will further requests be populated
> > correctly?
>
> > thx,
> > jeffrey
> >http://www.tweettronics.com


[twitter-dev] OT - Twitter Status Page and colors

2009-04-05 Thread TjL

I'm not sure where to mention this, but as someone with some red/green
color-blindness, the "Status per Feature" section of
http://status.twitter.com is mostly useless to me.

I would recommend changing to some method that doesn't rely on color
as the only method of conveying that information:

web features - OK
SMS - partial
user delete - OK
user restore - OK
person search - OK
pagination - partial
badges - OK
Facebook app - OK
API - OK
IM - dead

or colors that contrast better than light red/light green.

IIRC, some level of color blindness is common in about 10% of the male
population.