[twitter-dev] Feature Request: Publicly Mark Tweets That You Like (i.e. digg a tweet)
First off I'm sorry if this has been requested previously (I'm sure it has somewhere), I searched around the group and couldn't spot anything related. The feature is pretty straightforward on the surface. If I see a tweet that I like, then I can publicly mark it as such. This then opens up a whole lot of great features including: 1) A feed of the most popular tweets on Twitter at any given time 2) A feed of what tweets my friends are liking at the moment, filtering out some of the noise. 2,a) This also exposes me to other people who my friends may follow and I would be interested in. 3) If I want to get feedback on something (be I an individual, charity, or business) I can do so easily by asking my followers to like a tweet if they agree with it. I admit another reason why I'd like to see this in place is the constant duplicate retweets I, and I expect everyone else, gets in their timeline. Generally you follow groups of people with similar interests so retweeting of the same tweet is common. This feature would allow your friends to rate tweets meaning duplication is only in the rating and not pushed up into your feed. Not that this would or should kill retweeting, but it may just minimize the need for it. Also rating has less of a barrier than retweeting. Nobody likes a retweet-manic! Keep up the great work with the API guys (and girls?). Mike
[twitter-dev] Re: What does following in user information do?
Can't star it, do I need some kind of access to do so? On Apr 23, 11:19 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Please star Issue 419 [1] so you will be notified when the fix is shipped. 1.http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=419 Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Carlos carlosju...@gmail.com wrote: Still not working from the results I'm seeing. Has this issue been re- opened? On Apr 19, 9:07 pm, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: On 4/19/09 11:34 AM, Arnaud wrote: And thank you for the update. Unfortunately, it still doesn't seem to be fixed. I still receive a lot of incorrect followingvalues(INT and NULL instead of BOOL) using the statuses/followers method. +1 ... users/show method returning empty following/ node instead of boolean true/false. Can Matt re-open issue #157, or should we create a new issue to track this? -- 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] How to deal with user data?
I'am just thinking about how to deal with user data. Do the twitter client developers only navigate through the database entries provided by twitter or do u save something in your own databases? I'am just thinking about storing DMs in our own database to provide faster pagination and searching (fulltext search with sphinx) ... How do u handle this topic? Thanx Jochen
[twitter-dev] Search if a user profile exists based on his email id / name
Hi ALL, Is it possible to know if a user (profile) exists based on email id . I would need only info if user exists or not. Also appreciate if any one will guide me with example. Thank you, Kanthi Kiran N
[twitter-dev] Re: What does following in user information do?
Can't star it, do I need some kind of access to do so? Yes, you need to be signed in with a Google account. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- The only abnormality is the inability to love. -- Anais Nin
[twitter-dev] Re: Best practices
From my reading of the documentation, the best way to read DMs is by email. The direct messages come to you as an email with a particular header that you can identify and parse. I have been working with emails (not as direct messages, but when I get a new follower) and I'd have to recommend them. Working with these emails has been particularly helpful as I debug problems because I can save them as long as I need to. In fact, I don't think I have deleted them yet.
[twitter-dev] Re: Search if a user profile exists based on his email id / name
Is it possible to know if a user (profile) exists based on email id . No. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- DON'T PANIC! ---
[twitter-dev] API issues with statuses/user_timeline - help needed.
I am attempting to retrieve the oldest replies to a specific user from a specificy status id. Sample Data: status_id: 1005 status_id: 1004 status_id: 1003 status_id: 1002 status_id: 1001 status_id: 1000 When accessing the API with statuses/user_timeline and a since_id of 1000 and count of 2 the newest status_ids, 1005 and 1004, are returned. What is the best way to retrieve the oldest status_ids - 1001 and 1002? My application will receive many hundreds of thousands replies on an ongoing basis where it is only necessary to retrieve of few of the oldest replies since a particular status_id. Is there a way to do this without attempting to iterate through EVERY status? There doesn't seem to be a page count value returned.
[twitter-dev] Re: Feature Request: Publicly Mark Tweets That You Like (i.e. digg a tweet)
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote: You're basically asking something along the lines of a favourites-driven site. There isn't a lot out there on it, but among other things look at favrd and similar services. There's also FriendFeed which lets you upvote your friends' lifestreams, including tweets. One of the things I'm working on at the moment is automatically parsing tweets to replicate this behaviour (e.g. a RT is an upvote, and the duplicate messages get removed). Will keep you posted, Mike. However, I'm not doing the whole 'people vote other tweets up/down manually' thing; it's such a jump to get that level of user interaction frequently enough to be meaningful. -J -- Jennie Lees Founder, Affect Labs jen...@affectlabs.com http://twitter.com/jennielees
[twitter-dev] Question on Whitelisting
Recently my ip address and username were added to the whitelist. My assumptions at that time were that all requests coming the application (on this particular server) would be included in this pool of 20,000 regardless of whether they are authenticated or not. When I do the get limit API call, for my user it says 20,000 but if I do it for a logged in user it still says 100. Will all this get worked out on Twitter's side? We would like to have our users (only certain users) send DM's to their followers and the limit of 100 per hour may get in the way. Like I asked above, will twitter look at the ip address of the request when it comes in or the authenticated user?
[twitter-dev] Re: Question on Whitelisting
Like I asked above, will twitter look at the ip address of the request when it comes in or the authenticated user? Unauthenticated: IP Authenticated: user -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Sometimes Dilbert is so true, it's scary. -- Mike Jacobs ---
[twitter-dev] Re: following rate limit and json problem
Also, I have noticed that json returns a very incorrect # of friends, different from what xml returns. Json returns 1024 for my account, while xml return the correct number, 375? Could that be the problem? Which method are you querying? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- A battle avoided cannot be lost. -- Sun Tzu
[twitter-dev] Re: Built Twitter login+tweet
If you are good with PHP, you can use my Twitter class. It is very simple it works well. You will need knowledge of parsing XML. It is written in PHP4. http://www.jdrobert.com/page-6-Twitter_Class.php On Apr 24, 2:38 pm, @LiveCrunch ilovetoar...@gmail.com wrote: Looking for twitter login+tweet code / widget or whever so I can embed that with page. Any suggestions if that's duable to find? Or do I really need to roll up my sleeves and spend a lot of time reading about api and stuff :) , not big into API , just pure php dev here.
[twitter-dev] Re: Question on Whitelisting
Thank you very much for your help! On Apr 25, 9:44 am, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Like I asked above, will twitter look at the ip address of the request when it comes in or the authenticated user? Unauthenticated: IP Authenticated: user -- personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com -- Sometimes Dilbert is so true, it's scary. -- Mike Jacobs ---
[twitter-dev] Re: following rate limit and json problem
http://twitter.com/users/show/0.xml?screen_name=fluentnews and http://twitter.com/users/show/0.json?screen_name=fluentnews I have also used the /account/verify_credentials.json call, to get the number of friends, but that seems to exhibit the same problem. The json query result has changed since I asked the question, and it appears to be more correct now, but still doesn't match the xml result. The xml result matches twitter web page, but the json results appear to be somewhat stale. I am using the twitter ruby gem, which uses json. Also, in the meantime following started working again. The page I quoted below says there is no time component to follow limiting, just the friend/follow ratio and not until you reach 2000 friends (I was in the low 1000s, although I may have made more than 2000 follow requests over time). I want to do the right thing, but it really depends on knowing what the actual rules are. :) -Mark On Apr 25, 10:45 am, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Also, I have noticed that json returns a very incorrect # of friends, different from what xml returns. Json returns 1024 for my account, while xml return the correct number, 375? Could that be the problem? Which method are you querying? -- personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com -- A battle avoided cannot be lost. -- Sun Tzu
[twitter-dev] Re: following rate limit and json problem
Ah, it looks like there are new following limits not explained in the docs: http://www.livecrunch.com/2009/04/24/new-twitter-following-1000-per-day-limit/ That doesn't answer the json problem, but tells me a lot. On Apr 25, 10:26 am, Mark mcor...@gmail.com wrote: I sent in a support request, but I was hoping that someone could help me with a following problem in the API I am being returned an error when following people through the API:http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/14959 However, I am following less people (375) than are following me (560). It appears there shouldn't be a follow control placed on the account. What might the problem be? Also, I have noticed that json returns a very incorrect # of friends, different from what xml returns. Json returns 1024 for my account, while xml return the correct number, 375? Could that be the problem?
[twitter-dev] Didn't someone do a Show all followers and last tweet?
I've been trying without success to find a Twitter 3rd party app that I thought I saw awhile ago: Put in your username and it shows all your followers on one page with their icon and their latest update. Anyone know what it's called? I need to start bookmarking these Twitter services. TjL
[twitter-dev] Re: Didn't someone do a Show all followers and last tweet?
Have you checked the Twitter Fan Wiki list of apps http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps - h On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 09:51, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying without success to find a Twitter 3rd party app that I thought I saw awhile ago: Put in your username and it shows all your followers on one page with their icon and their latest update. Anyone know what it's called? I need to start bookmarking these Twitter services. TjL
[twitter-dev] Advanced Search Date Range
Hi, I've been trying to dig up some older tweets by date range (from last year) and the results keep coming up empty. I found this post from Matt here - http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/e4cec438a1c8bbc5 - The reason for your error is that the since: date you provided is older than the data currently available. We plan to improve the error messaging when we merge the search and main APIs, so hopefully things will be clearer after that. We try to keep as much search data on hand as we can but we're currently limited on disk space. As the rate of tweets increases we need more and more disk to keep old data on hand. We've ordered more disks and await them eagerly. Once those are installed the date range for searches can start growing again. Sorry for the confusing error messaging. So, currently, are only the past 7 days or so indexed? And would there be an ETA as to when all the archived tweets are finally made available or are you folks still fighting the happy problem of just trying to not get swamped right now? :-) Thanks! E.
[twitter-dev] Problem with update status using Air and Flex 3
Hi
I am happily able to connect to the twitter REST api and get my
friends timeline loaded with no problem so I know that I am getting
the relevant authorization sent with no problems. I have tried other
API calls and all with no problem except when I try to update my
status.
Here is a sample of the code operating on mx:HTTPService
id=tweetiepie /
private function sendTweet(e:MouseEvent): void {
var encoder : Base64Encoder = new
Base64Encoder();
var theMessage : Text = new Text();
theMessage.text = escape(Spring has definitely
sprung);
encoder.encode(xx:xx); // this is
the uid and
password hardcoded for the sake of my tests
tweetiepie.headers[Authorization] = Basic
+ encoder.toString
();
tweetiepie.method=POST;
tweetiepie.url=http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=; +
theMessage.text;
tweetiepie.send();
}
This fails with a message of
[RPC Fault faultString=HTTP request error
faultCode=Server.Error.Request faultDetail=Error: [IOErrorEvent
type=ioError bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text=Error
#2032: Stream Error. URL:
http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=Spring%20has%20definitely%20sprung;
errorID=2032]. URL:
http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=Spring%20has%20definitely%20sprung;]
[twitter-dev] Re: Question on Whitelisting
On Apr 25, 10:44 am, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Like I asked above, will twitter look at the ip address of the request when it comes in or the authenticated user? Unauthenticated: IP Authenticated: user You sure about that? I got quite a different answer on that subject yesterday from Doug Williams: Your application's IP-based whitelisting will apply to all calls originating from the IP address. This includes unauthenticated and authenticated methods, regardless of user. Additionally, your application's authenticated calls made on behalf of a user will not count toward their 100 credits elsewhere. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/f6f332065a3cd2ba?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Question on Whitelisting
Like I asked above, will twitter look at the ip address of the request when it comes in or the authenticated user? Unauthenticated: IP Authenticated: user You sure about that? I got quite a different answer on that subject yesterday from Doug Williams: Your application's IP-based whitelisting will apply to all calls originating from the IP address. This includes unauthenticated and authenticated methods, regardless of user. Additionally, your application's authenticated calls made on behalf of a user will not count toward their 100 credits elsewhere. This has changed and I stand corrected; it is documented also on http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Man who live in glass house dress in basement. -
[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth is BACK!
User information could be sent together with the OAuth access token and secret (when exchanging the request token for an access token). At that point the user's identity has been firmly established. HTTPS could be used here, to keep the user information private and credible. On Apr 23, 2:38 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, I totally forgot about that change. Since the oauth callback is unsigned it was too easy to forge that data. I'm trying to find a good way to include it but right now calling verify_credentials is the best work around. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter API Developer On Apr 23, 2009, at 02:31 PM, mikehar wrote: However, the callback no longer contains the user info. Why did this change? You can get the user info by calling account/ verify_credentials.format.
