[twitter-dev] Re: Extracting tweets of all twitter users from a particular region (say new york city).
Hi, Using geocode we can get tweets. But latitude longitudes and radius has to be specified. If we know only location Ex: princeton. Can we get tweets from a location without spcifying latitudes and longitudes. how to get tweets in such Situation. can you explain with an Example. Regards, Mahaboob Basha Shaik www.netelixir.com Making Search Work On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: well, the api wiki is down for maint, but you can use the geocode operator of the Search API to do this, yes. check http://apiwiki.twitter.com/ when it's back up. -Chad On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Swiftguy121 vikram@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Im twitter newbie. I would like to know how we can extract tweets of all twitter users from a particular region (say new york city). Is that possible using the twitter api ? Please help me out..thanks in advance!
[twitter-dev] Re: Extracting tweets of all twitter users from a particular region (say new york city).
You'll have to use some geocoding service (like google or yahoo) to translate the location into a lat/lng pair before passing it into twitter. -Chad On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Basha Shaik basha.neteli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Using geocode we can get tweets. But latitude longitudes and radius has to be specified. If we know only location Ex: princeton. Can we get tweets from a location without spcifying latitudes and longitudes. how to get tweets in such Situation. can you explain with an Example. Regards, Mahaboob Basha Shaik www.netelixir.com Making Search Work On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: well, the api wiki is down for maint, but you can use the geocode operator of the Search API to do this, yes. check http://apiwiki.twitter.com/ when it's back up. -Chad On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Swiftguy121 vikram@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Im twitter newbie. I would like to know how we can extract tweets of all twitter users from a particular region (say new york city). Is that possible using the twitter api ? Please help me out..thanks in advance!
[twitter-dev] Re: Deprecation of following and notification elements
Doug, I appreciate your taking the time to respond to my criticism. I understand where you're coming from and if I was you I would probably take the same view. I'm slow to go down the proxy route because this would require server resources and, like most Twitter clients, my app is non-commercial. Another issue with use of a proxy is that Enterprise-managed mobile devices (e.g. BlackBerry devices that use a BES) are often restricted to a white list of HTTP endpoints. It is much easier to persuade an admin to allow twitter.com:80 than proxy.dodgy.com:80. Hey, here's a cheeky suggestion for Twitter: provide free VM-based hosting for mobile proxies... Regards, Dave. On May 12, 1:14 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: David, As with any solution there are compromises (the normal big three are time, resources, quality of service) and while this change may make your particular use of the API more difficult, it is not only important but also necessary given our architecture and growth. The API provides Twitter data in a format that is consistent with our strengths. It is up to the consuming application to make the data we freely provide useful in its independent context. This decoupling of data and application allows us to focus on data delivery while the developer attends to user experience. We aim to maximize performance for board array of use-cases and while at the same time minimizing operational and maintenance costs. There are many very successful mobile applications that run a proxy to get around the resource/time trade-off that this deprecation creates. If you are mobile heavy, it is suggested you do the same. A proxy is highly recommended for iPhone apps because it insulates the application changes in the Twitter API with the App Store acceptance delay. If anyone has an open source Twitter API proxy, please start another thread so mobile developers like David do not have to reinvent the wheel. In fact, there should be a FOSS project for mobile devs to rely on -- I've got a couple ideas to contribute. Again, please start a thread (and link back here) if you have code or interest in starting a proxy project. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Dave Mc davidmccorm...@gmail.com wrote: To be blunt this is very unsatisfactory. Once again you guys are not being at all cognisant of the requirements of mobile Twitter client apps. These face much bigger problems than just the rate limit. They are constrained by physical limitations such as battery life, latency and bandwidth. And they also have to take account of carrier data charges. Every time something in your API requires an additional method call you are making life difficult for us mobile app developers who are trying to deliver a quality Twitter client to our users (who are also your users!). What annoys me too is that whenever a mobile-specific issue is raised your stock response is handle that in a proxy. Guys, that's just not good enough. The World is going mobile and the continuing development of your API needs to take account of this. Very unhappy about this! On May 11, 10:18 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Issues 419 [1] and 474 [2] are very popular, in the painful kind of way. The defects report that methods returning user objects (see users/show for an example [3]) are returning incorrect or invalid values for the following element. The fix for this inconsistency is in fact non trivial [4]. The problem lies within the interaction of the application logic, caching layer and database design. The persistent data behind following and notification values are separate from the user data in our architecture, so to keep these elements valid in cache alongside user objects adds a large amount of complexity. Developers made it obvious that these data are a priority and we want to ensure they available. We also want to guarantee they are accurate and that performance remains good. Given the problems explained above, we are going to be making a number of changes to the API so that you can rely on the following or notification data. Deprecations: The following elements are to be removed from all returned user objects returned by the API: 1) following 2) notifications This deprecation will not occur until we finish the following: Additions: To continue to provide access to this data we will be creating a new method: Issue 532 [4] outlines the need to perform a mutual following lookup. We will use a method similar to that described in this issue to deliver following, followedby, notification and pending (in the case of protected users) data with a single call. We realize this change will cause an increase in API usage for some applications. Therefore we are going to increase the default API
[twitter-dev] Re: Regex for @replies
@Doug, Is this behavour likely to remain? ( I noticed that @replies and - @replies are successful ) That is to say, I'm sure @replies will work at some point via sms, but can we rely on the fact that _...@replies do not? Is this related to there being any chance of it being an email address? Thanks, Harry On May 11, 6:26 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: In my test posts @dougw and @DOUGW worked as mentions. t...@dougw and _...@dougw were not included as mentions. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:16 AM, CaMason stasisme...@googlemail.comwrote: Thanks Doug, that's a great help. How about preceding? i.e. should t...@dougw, _...@dougw or @dougw create mentions? The main concern here obviously is email addresses. And finally, are screen names case sensitive? :) Cheers On May 11, 6:07 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: The classic definition of an @reply is any tweet that starts with @user. If you perfrom a to:user (e.g. to:dougw) query at search.twitter.com you will only get @replies. @replies were converted to mentions after we realized people didn't just @reply. Mentions are any tweet that contain @user within the text of the tweet. So @replies are a subset of mentions. Any non-alphanumeric (where alphanumeric is a-z, 0-9, or _) can terminate the username. For instance: hi @dougw, you look dapper today is a mention. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:36 AM, stasisme...@googlemail.com stasisme...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi guys, For an application I'm working on, we have a single table for 'tweets' and another for DMs. We're linking TwitterUsers to Tweets with a many:many, and a simple flag to specify if the tweet is a reply/ mention. We first pull in messages from the user_timeline feed, then the mentions feed. As such, we'd like to check if any of the messages in user_timeline feed is actually a reply. Could anybody clarify the exact rules that are used to determine whether a string is a reply/mention? i.e. preceded by start-of-string or non-word character... followed by space, comma, period or end of message... case insensitive... [not even sure if these are correct! :) ] Currently I'm using: /(?![^\W_])@%s(?![^\W_])/i with %s replaced by the user's screen name. Perhaps one of the devs could share the exact rules (or even the regex), or propose a nicer mechanism for detecting replies. (I did propose checking for replies before tweets, but these update threads are run asynchronously). Cheers
[twitter-dev] Can't Follow Any more users?
We at @plodt cannot follow any more users and our users are wondering what's going on :) Applied for a whitelist exception but haven't heard back. How should we proceed? thank you!
[twitter-dev] Re: Regex for @replies
It looks like they're simply applying this regex as a test: (?![\w])@username(?![\w]) Thus, if a character on either side is not (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _) then it is a mention. any 'word' character (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _) on either side of '@screenname' causes the mention to fail. (I hope I got the regex explanation correct!). -Craig On May 12, 12:33 pm, hjb ha...@heatonmoor.com wrote: @Doug, Is this behavour likely to remain? ( I noticed that @replies and - @replies are successful ) That is to say, I'm sure @replies will work at some point via sms, but can we rely on the fact that _...@replies do not? Is this related to there being any chance of it being an email address? Thanks, Harry On May 11, 6:26 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: In my test posts @dougw and @DOUGW worked as mentions. t...@dougw and _...@dougw were not included as mentions. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:16 AM, CaMason stasisme...@googlemail.comwrote: Thanks Doug, that's a great help. How about preceding? i.e. should t...@dougw, _...@dougw or @dougw create mentions? The main concern here obviously is email addresses. And finally, are screen names case sensitive? :) Cheers On May 11, 6:07 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: The classic definition of an @reply is any tweet that starts with @user. If you perfrom a to:user (e.g. to:dougw) query at search.twitter.com you will only get @replies. @replies were converted to mentions after we realized people didn't just @reply. Mentions are any tweet that contain @user within the text of the tweet. So @replies are a subset of mentions. Any non-alphanumeric (where alphanumeric is a-z, 0-9, or _) can terminate the username. For instance: hi @dougw, you look dapper today is a mention. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:36 AM, stasisme...@googlemail.com stasisme...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi guys, For an application I'm working on, we have a single table for 'tweets' and another for DMs. We're linking TwitterUsers to Tweets with a many:many, and a simple flag to specify if the tweet is a reply/ mention. We first pull in messages from the user_timeline feed, then the mentions feed. As such, we'd like to check if any of the messages in user_timeline feed is actually a reply. Could anybody clarify the exact rules that are used to determine whether a string is a reply/mention? i.e. preceded by start-of-string or non-word character... followed by space, comma, period or end of message... case insensitive... [not even sure if these are correct! :) ] Currently I'm using: /(?![^\W_])@%s(?![^\W_])/i with %s replaced by the user's screen name. Perhaps one of the devs could share the exact rules (or even the regex), or propose a nicer mechanism for detecting replies. (I did propose checking for replies before tweets, but these update threads are run asynchronously). Cheers
[twitter-dev] Re: API Lock Out time for User Rate Limit
I presume its the reset time specified in the rate limit query? So max is one hour...? Yes. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- I'm a dyslexic amateur orthinologist. I just love word-botching. ---
[twitter-dev] Re: API Lock Out time for User Rate Limit
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-account%C2%A0rate_limit_status On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 23:09, markdsievers mark.siev...@gmail.com wrote: I presume its the reset time specified in the rate limit query? So max is one hour...? On May 12, 1:55 pm, Mark Sievers mark.siev...@gmail.com wrote: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting The above page doesnt document what the effect is on the user if the User Rate limit of 100 reqs/ph is exceeded. From what I remember its an hour, but am having trouble finding this documented anywhere. Cheers M -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Can't Follow Any more users?
Ok, thanks. It's been a couple of days but i'll give it a few more. On May 12, 9:21 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: You can wait. @dougw clears out the whitelisting queue regularly. Or you can try to get more followers. That will increase the number you can follow. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:42, m1keb mbuk...@gmail.com wrote: We at @plodt cannot follow any more users and our users are wondering what's going on :) Applied for a whitelist exception but haven't heard back. How should we proceed? thank you! -- Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Send @replies/mentions via SMS?
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Derek Gathright drg...@gmail.com wrote: If you (or anyone else) is still looking for something, I have a bot that I wrote a while back at twitter.com/dmreply. Just request to follow, I'll approve, and then it will automatically forward any @replies to you via a DM. Your account has to be public as it uses Twitter Search to retrieve the tweets. Simple, requires no authentication info, unfollow at anytime to turn off the service. That's how I started, but then I realized that people I have blocked would be sent, and I have a (very) few followers whose updates are protected, and I wouldn't see there. Of course as soon as I finished this, I realized that what would be *better* for my use would actually be email notification of 'mentions', so that's what I'm working on now. The nice thing is that you're not bound to 140 characters in email, so I can also include what the message was in_reply_to (I have a few followers who @reply HOURS later and I often have no idea what they are referring to), and hopefully even a link to @reply back to them, including a proper in_reply_to also. I remembered trying to do it back in the Track days, but tracking @derek failed miserably as it dropped the @ and I instantly got swamped with tweets mentioning derek. Yeah, I'm thinking about using the search API for a roll my own track functionality too. TjL
[twitter-dev] [OAuth] GET parameters
Hi! I do following request: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?since_id=1773396714count=20 When I include GET parameters (since_id, count) into OAuth signature calculation I am getting HTTP 401 error. However when I do NOT include GET parameters into OAuth signature calculation request succeeds. So I guess, you are just excluding GET parameters from OAuth signature calculation on your side. AFAIS, this is against OAuth spec. Is there any plans for fixing this? As on option you may support both variants for some time to not break old clients instantly. Or I am just missing something? Thank you. -- Best regards, Dmitriy V'jukov
[twitter-dev] Re: Send @replies/mentions via SMS?
Yeah, I'm thinking about using the search API for a roll my own track functionality too. Rebuilding Track is a fun little project. I've done it various ways, but the problem I always run into is the scalability once I publicize it. Early versions of my Twitter client (Tweenky) had the ability to track queries and have them delivered via SMS, email, DM, and XMPP. Having those delivery options on a per query basis made it very powerful as some things you care little about, but still wish to track (hourly aggregate by email). Other things have high priority and I want to be notified right away (via SMS). So, if you feel like building your own Track, consider various delivery methods per query, as well as keeping in mind the scalability if publicly launching it, cause it's easy to do up until that point. Most of my Twitter stuff is just private little projects, for that reason. Tweenky ( new.tweenky.com) being the exception, because now it's all written in Javascript and doesn't use any server-side code, eliminating the scalability issue. =) Good luck. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:53 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Derek Gathright drg...@gmail.com wrote: If you (or anyone else) is still looking for something, I have a bot that I wrote a while back at twitter.com/dmreply. Just request to follow, I'll approve, and then it will automatically forward any @replies to you via a DM. Your account has to be public as it uses Twitter Search to retrieve the tweets. Simple, requires no authentication info, unfollow at anytime to turn off the service. That's how I started, but then I realized that people I have blocked would be sent, and I have a (very) few followers whose updates are protected, and I wouldn't see there. Of course as soon as I finished this, I realized that what would be *better* for my use would actually be email notification of 'mentions', so that's what I'm working on now. The nice thing is that you're not bound to 140 characters in email, so I can also include what the message was in_reply_to (I have a few followers who @reply HOURS later and I often have no idea what they are referring to), and hopefully even a link to @reply back to them, including a proper in_reply_to also. I remembered trying to do it back in the Track days, but tracking @derek failed miserably as it dropped the @ and I instantly got swamped with tweets mentioning derek. Yeah, I'm thinking about using the search API for a roll my own track functionality too. TjL
[twitter-dev] Re: Send @replies/mentions via SMS?
and doesn't use any server-side code Well, let me clarify, uses *very little* server-side code. (before someone corrects me) On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Derek Gathright drg...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I'm thinking about using the search API for a roll my own track functionality too. Rebuilding Track is a fun little project. I've done it various ways, but the problem I always run into is the scalability once I publicize it. Early versions of my Twitter client (Tweenky) had the ability to track queries and have them delivered via SMS, email, DM, and XMPP. Having those delivery options on a per query basis made it very powerful as some things you care little about, but still wish to track (hourly aggregate by email). Other things have high priority and I want to be notified right away (via SMS). So, if you feel like building your own Track, consider various delivery methods per query, as well as keeping in mind the scalability if publicly launching it, cause it's easy to do up until that point. Most of my Twitter stuff is just private little projects, for that reason. Tweenky ( new.tweenky.com) being the exception, because now it's all written in Javascript and doesn't use any server-side code, eliminating the scalability issue. =) Good luck. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:53 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Derek Gathright drg...@gmail.com wrote: If you (or anyone else) is still looking for something, I have a bot that I wrote a while back at twitter.com/dmreply. Just request to follow, I'll approve, and then it will automatically forward any @replies to you via a DM. Your account has to be public as it uses Twitter Search to retrieve the tweets. Simple, requires no authentication info, unfollow at anytime to turn off the service. That's how I started, but then I realized that people I have blocked would be sent, and I have a (very) few followers whose updates are protected, and I wouldn't see there. Of course as soon as I finished this, I realized that what would be *better* for my use would actually be email notification of 'mentions', so that's what I'm working on now. The nice thing is that you're not bound to 140 characters in email, so I can also include what the message was in_reply_to (I have a few followers who @reply HOURS later and I often have no idea what they are referring to), and hopefully even a link to @reply back to them, including a proper in_reply_to also. I remembered trying to do it back in the Track days, but tracking @derek failed miserably as it dropped the @ and I instantly got swamped with tweets mentioning derek. Yeah, I'm thinking about using the search API for a roll my own track functionality too. TjL
[twitter-dev] Re: [OAuth] GET parameters
Yeah it should include all GET parameters in the signature calculations. Otherwise a man in the middle could modify the query and access the protected data they want. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Dmitriy Vyukov dvyu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I do following request: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?since_id=1773396714count=20 When I include GET parameters (since_id, count) into OAuth signature calculation I am getting HTTP 401 error. However when I do NOT include GET parameters into OAuth signature calculation request succeeds. So I guess, you are just excluding GET parameters from OAuth signature calculation on your side. AFAIS, this is against OAuth spec. Is there any plans for fixing this? As on option you may support both variants for some time to not break old clients instantly. Or I am just missing something? Thank you. -- Best regards, Dmitriy V'jukov
[twitter-dev] Re: [OAuth] GET parameters
Hi there, The parameters should be required for the OAuth signature. Can you please provide the request and response headers for an example? Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On May 12, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Dmitriy Vyukov wrote: Hi! I do following request: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?since_id=1773396714count=20 When I include GET parameters (since_id, count) into OAuth signature calculation I am getting HTTP 401 error. However when I do NOT include GET parameters into OAuth signature calculation request succeeds. So I guess, you are just excluding GET parameters from OAuth signature calculation on your side. AFAIS, this is against OAuth spec. Is there any plans for fixing this? As on option you may support both variants for some time to not break old clients instantly. Or I am just missing something? Thank you. -- Best regards, Dmitriy V'jukov
[twitter-dev] Bad Celebrity Search Results
Hi, I'm doing a project that deals specifically with P Diddy (twitter.com/ iamdiddy). When I do a search, no tweets newer than May 6th show up. However, looking at his timeline, more recent tweets exist. This isn't a problem with my tweets (twitter.com/robseward). Also, it appears search is not returning accurate results for other celebrities online. Does anyone know what's going on here? Is the problem isolated to users with a high number of followers or is it something non celebrity- related. Some examples below: P Diddy: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aiamdiddy http://twitter.com/iamdiddy Ashton Kutcher: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aaplusk http://twitter.com/aplusk Shaq: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from=THE_REAL_SHAQ twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ Me (not a celebrity. Accurate search results). http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+from%3Arobseward twitter.com/robseward Rob
[twitter-dev] Re: Can't Follow Any more users?
I clear out the whitelist queue daily (save weekends and the occasional day). If you have not heard back then please contact us directly [1] because it means there was a problem with our mailer. Also, please take the time to read the copy above the form you filled out to request whitelisting [2]. It contains the answer to your question. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Support 2. http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.comwrote: my experience was that, even after whitelisting, until I had 1,800 followers, I could not follow more than 2,000 On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:55 AM, m1keb mbuk...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, thanks. It's been a couple of days but i'll give it a few more. On May 12, 9:21 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: You can wait. @dougw clears out the whitelisting queue regularly. Or you can try to get more followers. That will increase the number you can follow. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:42, m1keb mbuk...@gmail.com wrote: We at @plodt cannot follow any more users and our users are wondering what's going on :) Applied for a whitelist exception but haven't heard back. How should we proceed? thank you! -- Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States -- Peter M. Denton www.twibs.com i...@twibs.com Twibs makes Top 20 apps on Twitter - http://tinyurl.com/bopu6c
[twitter-dev] statuses user_timeline only returning profile info
Hi Folks, I'm having trouble getting statuses/user_timeline to return anything other than profile info (I want to retrieve tweets, both from 'my' user and from one of their friends). Is that evidence I'm getting the auth stuff wrong? It should be possible to return tweets from this method call, right? Cheers, Tim.
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting id for last status
Sadly I need more clarification...and possibly a code example. Using PHP, I know that I can successfully get a feed of a user's latest statuses using this code: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this-Username:$this- Password); $xml = curl_exec($ch); $data = simplexml_load_string($xml); However, when I send an update, the same code, with the addition of a line for CURLOPT_POST, returns nothing for me: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this-Username:$this- Password); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); $xml = curl_exec($ch); $data = simplexml_load_string($xml); I must be missing something here, right? So what am I not doing right? Thanks! On May 9, 3:57 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: When you post a newstatusupdate, the return value/information should contain the newidof the update. -Chad
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting id for last status
Hello, This does not directly answer your question, but I think it will help you with many things. I would suggest using the class twitterPHP ( http://twitter.slawcup.com/twitter.class.phps) and execute cURL through the class, that way you wont have many cURL calls. Just a suggestion. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote: Sadly I need more clarification...and possibly a code example. Using PHP, I know that I can successfully get a feed of a user's latest statuses using this code: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this-Username:$this- Password); $xml = curl_exec($ch); $data = simplexml_load_string($xml); However, when I send an update, the same code, with the addition of a line for CURLOPT_POST, returns nothing for me: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this-Username:$this- Password); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); $xml = curl_exec($ch); $data = simplexml_load_string($xml); I must be missing something here, right? So what am I not doing right? Thanks! On May 9, 3:57 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: When you post a newstatusupdate, the return value/information should contain the newidof the update. -Chad -- Peter M. Denton www.twibs.com i...@twibs.com Twibs makes Top 20 apps on Twitter - http://tinyurl.com/bopu6c
[twitter-dev] Sometimes Old Search Results
I am using the following search query in my app but 9/10 times it returns results that are 40+ minutes old. Every once and a while it will return results up to the second. I am only making the request once a minute (via a cron job) and double checking that the next tweet I'm about to display has a time-stamp greater than the one I'm about to post. But this throws the whole thing out of whack when my first request pulls tweets from 20-30 seconds ago and then the next one pulls requests 20-30 MINTUES ago. I'm absolutely beside myself as to why this is happening as I get the same results (sometimes old, sometimes new) when I do the request in my browser and just look at the returned xml. Here is the query I'm using: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?ors=relax+swim+summer+vacation+concert+drink+refreshinglang=encount=45 I've also tried using rpp=45 and since_id=last_ID_pulled but neither have produced results that are any more consistent. -Joel
[twitter-dev] Re: Sometimes Old Search Results
Hi there, This is a server side problem we're working on. Some of the servers are lagging and we're trying to fix it as fast as we can. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On May 12, 2009, at 12:41 PM, jgillman wrote: I am using the following search query in my app but 9/10 times it returns results that are 40+ minutes old. Every once and a while it will return results up to the second. I am only making the request once a minute (via a cron job) and double checking that the next tweet I'm about to display has a time-stamp greater than the one I'm about to post. But this throws the whole thing out of whack when my first request pulls tweets from 20-30 seconds ago and then the next one pulls requests 20-30 MINTUES ago. I'm absolutely beside myself as to why this is happening as I get the same results (sometimes old, sometimes new) when I do the request in my browser and just look at the returned xml. Here is the query I'm using: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?ors=relax+swim+summer+vacation+concert+drink+refreshinglang=encount=45 I've also tried using rpp=45 and since_id=last_ID_pulled but neither have produced results that are any more consistent. -Joel
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting id for last status
What do you get if you add: var_dump($data); On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:05, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote: Sadly I need more clarification...and possibly a code example. Using PHP, I know that I can successfully get a feed of a user's latest statuses using this code: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this-Username:$this- Password); $xml = curl_exec($ch); $data = simplexml_load_string($xml); However, when I send an update, the same code, with the addition of a line for CURLOPT_POST, returns nothing for me: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this-Username:$this- Password); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); $xml = curl_exec($ch); $data = simplexml_load_string($xml); I must be missing something here, right? So what am I not doing right? Thanks! On May 9, 3:57 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: When you post a newstatusupdate, the return value/information should contain the newidof the update. -Chad -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting id for last status
A var_dump($data) produces:
bool(false)
If I add:
$Headers = curl_getinfo($ch);
var_dump($Headers);
A var_dump($Headers) produces:
array(19) {
[url]=
string(59) http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=testing
+1+2+3
[http_code]=
int(0)
[header_size]=
int(0)
[request_size]=
int(218)
[filetime]=
int(-1)
[ssl_verify_result]=
int(0)
[redirect_count]=
int(0)
[total_time]=
float(0.122609)
[namelookup_time]=
float(1.8E-5)
[connect_time]=
float(0.122528)
[pretransfer_time]=
float(0.122531)
[size_upload]=
float(0)
[size_download]=
float(0)
[speed_download]=
float(0)
[speed_upload]=
float(0)
[download_content_length]=
float(0)
[upload_content_length]=
float(-1)
[starttransfer_time]=
float(0.122605)
[redirect_time]=
float(0)
On May 12, 4:06 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
What do you get if you add:
var_dump($data);
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:05, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
Sadly I need more clarification...and possibly a code example.
Using PHP, I know that I can successfully get a feed of a user's
latest statuses using this code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this-Username:$this-
Password);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
However, when I send an update, the same code, with the addition of a
line for CURLOPT_POST, returns nothing for me:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this-Username:$this-
Password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
I must be missing something here, right? So what am I not doing right?
Thanks!
On May 9, 3:57 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
When you post a newstatusupdate, the return value/information should
contain the newidof the update.
-Chad
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[twitter-dev] Re: Getting id for last status
Can you verify that the update is actually getting posted to twitter.com and
var_dump(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE))
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 15:19, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
A var_dump($data) produces:
bool(false)
If I add:
$Headers = curl_getinfo($ch);
var_dump($Headers);
A var_dump($Headers) produces:
array(19) {
[url]=
string(59) http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=testing
+1+2+3
[http_code]=
int(0)
[header_size]=
int(0)
[request_size]=
int(218)
[filetime]=
int(-1)
[ssl_verify_result]=
int(0)
[redirect_count]=
int(0)
[total_time]=
float(0.122609)
[namelookup_time]=
float(1.8E-5)
[connect_time]=
float(0.122528)
[pretransfer_time]=
float(0.122531)
[size_upload]=
float(0)
[size_download]=
float(0)
[speed_download]=
float(0)
[speed_upload]=
float(0)
[download_content_length]=
float(0)
[upload_content_length]=
float(-1)
[starttransfer_time]=
float(0.122605)
[redirect_time]=
float(0)
On May 12, 4:06 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
What do you get if you add:
var_dump($data);
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:05, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
Sadly I need more clarification...and possibly a code example.
Using PHP, I know that I can successfully get a feed of a user's
latest statuses using this code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
However, when I send an update, the same code, with the addition of a
line for CURLOPT_POST, returns nothing for me:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
I must be missing something here, right? So what am I not doing right?
Thanks!
On May 9, 3:57 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
When you post a newstatusupdate, the return value/information should
contain the newidof the update.
-Chad
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[twitter-dev] Re: Getting id for last status
That returned:
int(0)
I also checked the Twitter account and I see the new status updated.
On May 12, 4:35 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you verify that the update is actually getting posted to twitter.com and
var_dump(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE))
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 15:19, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
A var_dump($data) produces:
bool(false)
If I add:
$Headers = curl_getinfo($ch);
var_dump($Headers);
A var_dump($Headers) produces:
array(19) {
[url]=
string(59) http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=testing
+1+2+3
[http_code]=
int(0)
[header_size]=
int(0)
[request_size]=
int(218)
[filetime]=
int(-1)
[ssl_verify_result]=
int(0)
[redirect_count]=
int(0)
[total_time]=
float(0.122609)
[namelookup_time]=
float(1.8E-5)
[connect_time]=
float(0.122528)
[pretransfer_time]=
float(0.122531)
[size_upload]=
float(0)
[size_download]=
float(0)
[speed_download]=
float(0)
[speed_upload]=
float(0)
[download_content_length]=
float(0)
[upload_content_length]=
float(-1)
[starttransfer_time]=
float(0.122605)
[redirect_time]=
float(0)
On May 12, 4:06 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
What do you get if you add:
var_dump($data);
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:05, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
Sadly I need more clarification...and possibly a code example.
Using PHP, I know that I can successfully get a feed of a user's
latest statuses using this code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
However, when I send an update, the same code, with the addition of a
line for CURLOPT_POST, returns nothing for me:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
I must be missing something here, right? So what am I not doing right?
Thanks!
On May 9, 3:57 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
When you post a newstatusupdate, the return value/information should
contain the newidof the update.
-Chad
--
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Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham
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[twitter-dev] Re: Sometimes Old Search Results
Thanks Matt! I wasn't sure if I was just going crazy from looking at code all day or not.
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting id for last status
Well this leads me to believe that the var_dumps are somehow getting called
on a curl request other then the one posting the status update.
CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE should only return int(200) when an update is successful.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 15:49, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
That returned:
int(0)
I also checked the Twitter account and I see the new status updated.
On May 12, 4:35 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you verify that the update is actually getting posted to twitter.comand
var_dump(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE))
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 15:19, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
A var_dump($data) produces:
bool(false)
If I add:
$Headers = curl_getinfo($ch);
var_dump($Headers);
A var_dump($Headers) produces:
array(19) {
[url]=
string(59) http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=testing
+1+2+3
[http_code]=
int(0)
[header_size]=
int(0)
[request_size]=
int(218)
[filetime]=
int(-1)
[ssl_verify_result]=
int(0)
[redirect_count]=
int(0)
[total_time]=
float(0.122609)
[namelookup_time]=
float(1.8E-5)
[connect_time]=
float(0.122528)
[pretransfer_time]=
float(0.122531)
[size_upload]=
float(0)
[size_download]=
float(0)
[speed_download]=
float(0)
[speed_upload]=
float(0)
[download_content_length]=
float(0)
[upload_content_length]=
float(-1)
[starttransfer_time]=
float(0.122605)
[redirect_time]=
float(0)
On May 12, 4:06 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
What do you get if you add:
var_dump($data);
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:05, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
Sadly I need more clarification...and possibly a code example.
Using PHP, I know that I can successfully get a feed of a user's
latest statuses using this code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
However, when I send an update, the same code, with the addition of
a
line for CURLOPT_POST, returns nothing for me:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
I must be missing something here, right? So what am I not doing
right?
Thanks!
On May 9, 3:57 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
When you post a newstatusupdate, the return value/information
should
contain the newidof the update.
-Chad
--
Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com
Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham
Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org
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[twitter-dev] Re: Getting id for last status
Thank you. I'm not even sure what to do with that. I'm looking at this
class and there are no other curl requests getting executed but the
ones I posted. (Obviously that must not be the case since we *know*
that a successful updated returns 200, but right now I'm just not
seeing it where this class would be going to execute another curl
command.)
I'm going to take a break and see what I can see when I next pick this
up.
On May 12, 5:36 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Well this leads me to believe that the var_dumps are somehow getting called
on a curl request other then the one posting the status update.
CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE should only return int(200) when an update is successful.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 15:49, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
That returned:
int(0)
I also checked the Twitter account and I see the new status updated.
On May 12, 4:35 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you verify that the update is actually getting posted to
twitter.comand
var_dump(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE))
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 15:19, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
A var_dump($data) produces:
bool(false)
If I add:
$Headers = curl_getinfo($ch);
var_dump($Headers);
A var_dump($Headers) produces:
array(19) {
[url]=
string(59) http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=testing
+1+2+3
[http_code]=
int(0)
[header_size]=
int(0)
[request_size]=
int(218)
[filetime]=
int(-1)
[ssl_verify_result]=
int(0)
[redirect_count]=
int(0)
[total_time]=
float(0.122609)
[namelookup_time]=
float(1.8E-5)
[connect_time]=
float(0.122528)
[pretransfer_time]=
float(0.122531)
[size_upload]=
float(0)
[size_download]=
float(0)
[speed_download]=
float(0)
[speed_upload]=
float(0)
[download_content_length]=
float(0)
[upload_content_length]=
float(-1)
[starttransfer_time]=
float(0.122605)
[redirect_time]=
float(0)
On May 12, 4:06 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
What do you get if you add:
var_dump($data);
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:05, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
Sadly I need more clarification...and possibly a code example.
Using PHP, I know that I can successfully get a feed of a user's
latest statuses using this code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
However, when I send an update, the same code, with the addition of
a
line for CURLOPT_POST, returns nothing for me:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
I must be missing something here, right? So what am I not doing
right?
Thanks!
On May 9, 3:57 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
When you post a newstatusupdate, the return value/information
should
contain the newidof the update.
-Chad
--
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Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham
Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org
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[twitter-dev] Re: Getting id for last status
I just have to double check this but are you absolutely certain the status
is getting posted? If you are posting with the same text as the previous
status it gets discarded. Double check the timestamp of the last post.
Sorry. Had to ask the is it plugged in question.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 17:01, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you. I'm not even sure what to do with that. I'm looking at this
class and there are no other curl requests getting executed but the
ones I posted. (Obviously that must not be the case since we *know*
that a successful updated returns 200, but right now I'm just not
seeing it where this class would be going to execute another curl
command.)
I'm going to take a break and see what I can see when I next pick this
up.
On May 12, 5:36 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Well this leads me to believe that the var_dumps are somehow getting
called
on a curl request other then the one posting the status update.
CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE should only return int(200) when an update is
successful.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 15:49, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
That returned:
int(0)
I also checked the Twitter account and I see the new status updated.
On May 12, 4:35 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you verify that the update is actually getting posted to
twitter.comand
var_dump(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE))
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 15:19, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
A var_dump($data) produces:
bool(false)
If I add:
$Headers = curl_getinfo($ch);
var_dump($Headers);
A var_dump($Headers) produces:
array(19) {
[url]=
string(59) http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=testing
+1+2+3
[http_code]=
int(0)
[header_size]=
int(0)
[request_size]=
int(218)
[filetime]=
int(-1)
[ssl_verify_result]=
int(0)
[redirect_count]=
int(0)
[total_time]=
float(0.122609)
[namelookup_time]=
float(1.8E-5)
[connect_time]=
float(0.122528)
[pretransfer_time]=
float(0.122531)
[size_upload]=
float(0)
[size_download]=
float(0)
[speed_download]=
float(0)
[speed_upload]=
float(0)
[download_content_length]=
float(0)
[upload_content_length]=
float(-1)
[starttransfer_time]=
float(0.122605)
[redirect_time]=
float(0)
On May 12, 4:06 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
What do you get if you add:
var_dump($data);
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:05, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com
wrote:
Sadly I need more clarification...and possibly a code example.
Using PHP, I know that I can successfully get a feed of a
user's
latest statuses using this code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
However, when I send an update, the same code, with the
addition of
a
line for CURLOPT_POST, returns nothing for me:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
I must be missing something here, right? So what am I not doing
right?
Thanks!
On May 9, 3:57 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
When you post a newstatusupdate, the return value/information
should
contain the newidof the update.
-Chad
--
Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com
Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham
Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org
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[twitter-dev] Planned site maintenance May 13, 2009 at Noon Pacific
The maintenance originally scheduled for Monday May 11 has been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 13, at Noon Pacific. Follow the status blog for details: http://status.twitter.com/post/106892554/planned-maintenance-on-wednesday-noon-pacific Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw
[twitter-dev] Source request - no wait, listen...
I know this may be goofy, but I think it would be awesome... You (twitter) should make a rule that when @Astro_Mike posts, it should say: xx minutes ago from SPACE! zomg that would rock. -Chad
[twitter-dev] Re: Regex for @replies
ericdoesdot...@gmail.com wrote: Such a regular expression is used in the Twitter client that I am related to development. This regular expression. It is the one of .NET Framework2.0 and VisualBasic.NET2005. Dim id As New Regex(@[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)
[twitter-dev] Re: Regex for @replies
Harry, There is nothing on the product roadmap that would lead to me believe any of the findings here will change. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:33 AM, hjb ha...@heatonmoor.com wrote: @Doug, Is this behavour likely to remain? ( I noticed that @replies and - @replies are successful ) That is to say, I'm sure @replies will work at some point via sms, but can we rely on the fact that _...@replies do not? Is this related to there being any chance of it being an email address? Thanks, Harry On May 11, 6:26 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: In my test posts @dougw and @DOUGW worked as mentions. t...@dougw and _...@dougw were not included as mentions. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:16 AM, CaMason stasisme...@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks Doug, that's a great help. How about preceding? i.e. should t...@dougw, _...@dougw or @dougw create mentions? The main concern here obviously is email addresses. And finally, are screen names case sensitive? :) Cheers On May 11, 6:07 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: The classic definition of an @reply is any tweet that starts with @user. If you perfrom a to:user (e.g. to:dougw) query at search.twitter.comyou will only get @replies. @replies were converted to mentions after we realized people didn't just @reply. Mentions are any tweet that contain @user within the text of the tweet. So @replies are a subset of mentions. Any non-alphanumeric (where alphanumeric is a-z, 0-9, or _) can terminate the username. For instance: hi @dougw, you look dapper today is a mention. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:36 AM, stasisme...@googlemail.com stasisme...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi guys, For an application I'm working on, we have a single table for 'tweets' and another for DMs. We're linking TwitterUsers to Tweets with a many:many, and a simple flag to specify if the tweet is a reply/ mention. We first pull in messages from the user_timeline feed, then the mentions feed. As such, we'd like to check if any of the messages in user_timeline feed is actually a reply. Could anybody clarify the exact rules that are used to determine whether a string is a reply/mention? i.e. preceded by start-of-string or non-word character... followed by space, comma, period or end of message... case insensitive... [not even sure if these are correct! :) ] Currently I'm using: /(?![^\W_])@%s(?![^\W_])/i with %s replaced by the user's screen name. Perhaps one of the devs could share the exact rules (or even the regex), or propose a nicer mechanism for detecting replies. (I did propose checking for replies before tweets, but these update threads are run asynchronously). Cheers
[twitter-dev] Re: Source request - no wait, listen...
Wait, no really... I have a NASA contact that worked with us to make tweets flow from space. I'll ping him and see if we can get a source parameter patched into the update logic. Yay geeks! Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: I know this may be goofy, but I think it would be awesome... You (twitter) should make a rule that when @Astro_Mike posts, it should say: xx minutes ago from SPACE! zomg that would rock. -Chad
[twitter-dev] About the phenomenon of change line of no intention when it contributes entering
Because the following phenomenon was discovered, it reports. When the URI shortening conversion is done by the server side of Twitter when contributing, changing line that the contributor doesn't intend might enter it. Concretely, changing line enters between sentences continuously written half angle space when writing putting half angle space just behind URI and continuing sentences. This phenomenon was confirmed in both the contribution with API and the contribution from the Web interface. This phenomenon is expected to be corrected.
[twitter-dev] Re: About the phenomenon of change line of no intention when it contributes entering
2009/5/12 moz syo...@gmail.com Because the following phenomenon was discovered, it reports. Because the preceding syntax was observed to be stilted, it is wondered if human is reporting or AI. Nick
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting id for last status
Oh no worries. I appreciate you asking regardless.
I did read about the status not getting posted if it was the same, so
while I was doing these tests, I would go back to the Twitter account
and delete the duplicate status, or change the value of the status
text that I was posting.
On May 12, 6:31 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
I just have to double check this but are you absolutely certain the status
is getting posted? If you are posting with the same text as the previous
status it gets discarded. Double check the timestamp of the last post.
Sorry. Had to ask the is it plugged in question.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 17:01, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you. I'm not even sure what to do with that. I'm looking at this
class and there are no other curl requests getting executed but the
ones I posted. (Obviously that must not be the case since we *know*
that a successful updated returns 200, but right now I'm just not
seeing it where this class would be going to execute another curl
command.)
I'm going to take a break and see what I can see when I next pick this
up.
On May 12, 5:36 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Well this leads me to believe that the var_dumps are somehow getting
called
on a curl request other then the one posting the status update.
CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE should only return int(200) when an update is
successful.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 15:49, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
That returned:
int(0)
I also checked the Twitter account and I see the new status updated.
On May 12, 4:35 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you verify that the update is actually getting posted to
twitter.comand
var_dump(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE))
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 15:19, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
A var_dump($data) produces:
bool(false)
If I add:
$Headers = curl_getinfo($ch);
var_dump($Headers);
A var_dump($Headers) produces:
array(19) {
[url]=
string(59) http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=testing
+1+2+3
[http_code]=
int(0)
[header_size]=
int(0)
[request_size]=
int(218)
[filetime]=
int(-1)
[ssl_verify_result]=
int(0)
[redirect_count]=
int(0)
[total_time]=
float(0.122609)
[namelookup_time]=
float(1.8E-5)
[connect_time]=
float(0.122528)
[pretransfer_time]=
float(0.122531)
[size_upload]=
float(0)
[size_download]=
float(0)
[speed_download]=
float(0)
[speed_upload]=
float(0)
[download_content_length]=
float(0)
[upload_content_length]=
float(-1)
[starttransfer_time]=
float(0.122605)
[redirect_time]=
float(0)
On May 12, 4:06 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
What do you get if you add:
var_dump($data);
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:05, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com
wrote:
Sadly I need more clarification...and possibly a code example.
Using PHP, I know that I can successfully get a feed of a
user's
latest statuses using this code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
However, when I send an update, the same code, with the
addition of
a
line for CURLOPT_POST, returns nothing for me:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
I must be missing something here, right? So what am I not doing
right?
Thanks!
On May 9, 3:57 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
When you post a newstatusupdate, the return value/information
should
contain the newidof the update.
-Chad
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[twitter-dev] Re: About the phenomenon of change line of no intention when it contributes entering
#nationalMushrooomDay ? On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/12 moz syo...@gmail.com Because the following phenomenon was discovered, it reports. Because the preceding syntax was observed to be stilted, it is wondered if human is reporting or AI. Nick -- Peter M. Denton www.twibs.com i...@twibs.com Twibs makes Top 20 apps on Twitter - http://tinyurl.com/bopu6c
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting id for last status
was that the problem? I ran a test with that script under a few different
accounts and it was working fine. Did you try posting from another server?
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
Oh no worries. I appreciate you asking regardless.
I did read about the status not getting posted if it was the same, so
while I was doing these tests, I would go back to the Twitter account
and delete the duplicate status, or change the value of the status
text that I was posting.
On May 12, 6:31 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
I just have to double check this but are you absolutely certain the
status
is getting posted? If you are posting with the same text as the previous
status it gets discarded. Double check the timestamp of the last post.
Sorry. Had to ask the is it plugged in question.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 17:01, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you. I'm not even sure what to do with that. I'm looking at this
class and there are no other curl requests getting executed but the
ones I posted. (Obviously that must not be the case since we *know*
that a successful updated returns 200, but right now I'm just not
seeing it where this class would be going to execute another curl
command.)
I'm going to take a break and see what I can see when I next pick this
up.
On May 12, 5:36 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Well this leads me to believe that the var_dumps are somehow getting
called
on a curl request other then the one posting the status update.
CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE should only return int(200) when an update is
successful.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 15:49, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com wrote:
That returned:
int(0)
I also checked the Twitter account and I see the new status
updated.
On May 12, 4:35 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you verify that the update is actually getting posted to
twitter.comand
var_dump(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE))
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 15:19, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com
wrote:
A var_dump($data) produces:
bool(false)
If I add:
$Headers = curl_getinfo($ch);
var_dump($Headers);
A var_dump($Headers) produces:
array(19) {
[url]=
string(59)
http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=testing
+1+2+3
[http_code]=
int(0)
[header_size]=
int(0)
[request_size]=
int(218)
[filetime]=
int(-1)
[ssl_verify_result]=
int(0)
[redirect_count]=
int(0)
[total_time]=
float(0.122609)
[namelookup_time]=
float(1.8E-5)
[connect_time]=
float(0.122528)
[pretransfer_time]=
float(0.122531)
[size_upload]=
float(0)
[size_download]=
float(0)
[speed_download]=
float(0)
[speed_upload]=
float(0)
[download_content_length]=
float(0)
[upload_content_length]=
float(-1)
[starttransfer_time]=
float(0.122605)
[redirect_time]=
float(0)
On May 12, 4:06 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com
wrote:
What do you get if you add:
var_dump($data);
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:05, Yazmin ywick...@gmail.com
wrote:
Sadly I need more clarification...and possibly a code
example.
Using PHP, I know that I can successfully get a feed of a
user's
latest statuses using this code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
However, when I send an update, the same code, with the
addition of
a
line for CURLOPT_POST, returns nothing for me:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
$this-Username:$this-
Password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$data = simplexml_load_string($xml);
I must be missing something here, right? So what am I not
doing
right?
Thanks!
On May 9, 3:57 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
When you post a newstatusupdate, the return
value/information
should
contain the newidof the update.
-Chad
--
Abraham
[twitter-dev] Re: all replies by friends
This setting is set to be removed momentarily. Watch blog.twitter.com for notes about the deprecation when the deploy happens. You heard it here first. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: The default is: show me: @replies to the people that I'm following. The vast majority of our users keep this default. If this setting is indeed removed this is the behavior we will use. Note: I will update the thread when/if this setting is axed (even though it's not really an API decision) to close the loop. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw Wait, did the default not used to be Show all @ replies (it is the first option in the dropdown box)? Did that change? Personally, I like seeing all of them as it leads me to follow new and interesting people... If this goes away, is everyone going to be set to only show @replies to people I follow ? -- Do you follow me? http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:43 PM, voorwiel voorw...@gmail.com wrote: OK, thanks for the heads up. On May 11, 11:30 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: We have had a debate internally (today) where we have all but decided to remove this setting in the near future. I would not create any application that relied on this. Almost all of our users leave it at the default (only show @replies to people I follow) so the cost of maintaining the setting does not translate to value in the product. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM, voorwiel voorw...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I'm familiar with the setting. Somehow the setting does not have any effect with the account I'm testing with: not when logged in to twitter.com, and not when using statuses/friends_timeline. Chad's posting made me do some tests with two other accounts: there the setting works as it should. The only difference between the accounts I can think of is that the misbehaving account is the one I used when applying for a higher rate limit (20,000). Could there be a relation? thanks, Jack On May 11, 8:38 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: There is a setting to change this behavior: http://help.twitter.com/forums/23786/entries/14595 Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused now. I just pulled my friends_timeline and it is definitely showing @replies from my friends to people I don't follow. i.e. I'm getting the firehose as it pertains to my friends_timeline are you saying you're not seeing the same thing? -Chad On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM, voorwiel voorw...@gmail.com wrote: On May 10, 12:00 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I would think that statuses/friends_timeline [1] would not be effected by @-reply settings [2]. If it is your only option is to use the search method you mentioned. The down side of this is protected accounts are not included. Indeed it isn't affected by the setting. I wonder whether it is a policy decision not to include statuses directed at non-friends in statuses/friends_timeline. I'm actually hoping that it is not in the otherwise excellent documentation simply because someone forgot to include it :) greetings, Jack
[twitter-dev] Re: About the phenomenon of change line of no intention when it contributes entering
naw, i *think* he's talking about mangled shortened URLs. i had to make my thingy adapt to these, because I noticed stuff like http://example.com/R5dEI want to show you this link ie, something drops the newline and mashes the Url together. or something like that. It's an easy cake fix on the shortened-url server end of things. And I don't think it's a twitter thingy, it's probably one of those link invader sites. Waitman On May 12, 4:39 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: #nationalMushrooomDay ? On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/12 moz syo...@gmail.com Because the following phenomenon was discovered, it reports. Because the preceding syntax was observed to be stilted, it is wondered if human is reporting or AI. Nick -- Peter M. Dentonwww.twibs.com i...@twibs.com Twibs makes Top 20 apps on Twitter -http://tinyurl.com/bopu6c
[twitter-dev] Re: About the phenomenon of change line of no intention when it contributes entering
Nick Arnett wrote: I'm sorry. I get help of the translation software because it is not good at English.
[twitter-dev] Re: About the phenomenon of change line of no intention when it contributes entering
explicious wrote: Thank you. As a result, URL is not damaged when supplementing. However, I think that it is strange that newline enters without permission. Changing line of the problem can be confirmed by seeing the HTML source by displaying the status of the problem by Web browser. sample post This doesn't contain newline: test http://status.twitter.com/post/106892554/planned-maintenance-on-wednesday-noon-pacific test Expected results: test http://bit.ly/Ixhea test It actually becomes it so: test http://bit.ly/Ixhea test
[twitter-dev] Re: About the phenomenon of change line of no intention when it contributes entering
That's actually what I thought. I hope you realize I meant it only as humor, not criticism. Nick On 5/12/09, moz syo...@gmail.com wrote: Nick Arnett wrote: I'm sorry. I get help of the translation software because it is not good at English.
[twitter-dev] Re: About the phenomenon of change line of no intention when it contributes entering
Yes, me as well. Just humor for the group from the translator service, nothing personal to you! On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: That's actually what I thought. I hope you realize I meant it only as humor, not criticism. Nick On 5/12/09, moz syo...@gmail.com wrote: Nick Arnett wrote: I'm sorry. I get help of the translation software because it is not good at English. -- Peter M. Denton www.twibs.com i...@twibs.com Twibs makes Top 20 apps on Twitter - http://tinyurl.com/bopu6c
[twitter-dev] Re: Developing Group Management Add-On for TweetDeck
Joe - It does not provide any additional functionality in the sending or receiving of Tweets. For the purpose of explaining what I'm thinking of doing, assume you have three groups: A, B C Group A: Your A-list, you always want to see what they say. Group C: High volume, little value-added people you are following. For the most part, they just add noise and lower your Signal to Noise ratio. Group B: Everyone else. As it is designed now, when you are creating Groups, you chose from the entire list of those you are following. So there's no paring down of the list as you create groups. In the application I envision, each person you follow is assigned to a group. Once assigned, they are removed from the unassigned list. This would make creating and managing groups much easier. Also, right now if you ever close a column, your group configuration is deleted - if you have a lot of contacts that would require quite a bit of work to recreate. With this application, the group configurations could be written out into a separate file, so you could restore it easily. On May 10, 3:01 pm, Joe Flesh flesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bob What functionality would the group management tool provide? Would you be able to send tweets directly to a group, for example? Isn't that functionality already in tweetdeck? I'm confused.
[twitter-dev] New Public Streaming API Resource - Follow
Note: The Streaming API is currently under a limited alpha test, details below. The /follow Streaming API resource is now publicly available. This resource streams near-real-time public updates posted by an arbitrary set of users. Streaming by user_id may be interesting to a variety of developers who wish to provide a nearly instantaneous experience without the drawbacks of continuous polling, polling rate limits, auto- following and follow limits. For example, a desktop client could simulate a user's /home timeline, minus private updates and mentions, via the /follow resource. Continuous polling would no longer be necessary or desired. Upon receipt of a new streamed message, the REST API may be periodically polled to back-fill mentions, private statuses and other updates not available via the Streaming API. This stream may also be interesting to service developers that follow their subscribers solely to receive their replies or for data mining purposes. Auto-following, following limit and rate limit hassles could be exchanged for real-time streaming subscriber updates. Currently this resource is limited to following 200 user_ids. Developers requiring considerably more followings and/or back-filling via the count parameter should consider applying for the restricted /shadow resource. Feedback is encouraged as we determine the ease-of-use, value, tuning and operational viability of this resource. With any luck, streaming might also be easier on the Twitter service. Our flock of orange whale- hoisting birds are pretty tuckered out. Important Alpha Test Note: The Streaming API (aka Hosebird) is currently under an alpha test. All developers using the Streaming API must tolerate possible unannounced and extended periods of unavailability, especially during off-hours, Pacific Time. New features, resources and policies are being deployed on very little, if any, notice. Any developer may experiment with the unrestricted resources and provide feedback via this list. Access to restricted resources is extremely limited and is only granted on a case-by-case basis after acceptance of an additional terms of service document. Documentation is available: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation.
[twitter-dev] Re: New Public Streaming API Resource - Follow
Hi John, /follow looks very interesting. Since you're asking for feedback I'm copying the follow parameter example documentation: Example: Create a file called 'follow' that contains, exactly and excluding the quotation marks: follow=12 13 15 16 20 87. Execute: curl -d @following http://stream.twitter.com/follow.json -uAnyTwitterUser:Password.You will receive JSON updates from Jack Biz, Crystal, Ev, Krissy, but not from Jeremy, as he's a private user. I'm assuming that follow is just a POSTDATA variable in the normal case (you're just using curl's file posting ability in the example)? In the example, should the file be called following instead of follow (since you are using -d @following in the curl line)? Thanks, -Chad On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:24 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Note: The Streaming API is currently under a limited alpha test, details below. The /follow Streaming API resource is now publicly available. This resource streams near-real-time public updates posted by an arbitrary set of users. Streaming by user_id may be interesting to a variety of developers who wish to provide a nearly instantaneous experience without the drawbacks of continuous polling, polling rate limits, auto- following and follow limits. For example, a desktop client could simulate a user's /home timeline, minus private updates and mentions, via the /follow resource. Continuous polling would no longer be necessary or desired. Upon receipt of a new streamed message, the REST API may be periodically polled to back-fill mentions, private statuses and other updates not available via the Streaming API. This stream may also be interesting to service developers that follow their subscribers solely to receive their replies or for data mining purposes. Auto-following, following limit and rate limit hassles could be exchanged for real-time streaming subscriber updates. Currently this resource is limited to following 200 user_ids. Developers requiring considerably more followings and/or back-filling via the count parameter should consider applying for the restricted /shadow resource. Feedback is encouraged as we determine the ease-of-use, value, tuning and operational viability of this resource. With any luck, streaming might also be easier on the Twitter service. Our flock of orange whale- hoisting birds are pretty tuckered out. Important Alpha Test Note: The Streaming API (aka Hosebird) is currently under an alpha test. All developers using the Streaming API must tolerate possible unannounced and extended periods of unavailability, especially during off-hours, Pacific Time. New features, resources and policies are being deployed on very little, if any, notice. Any developer may experiment with the unrestricted resources and provide feedback via this list. Access to restricted resources is extremely limited and is only granted on a case-by-case basis after acceptance of an additional terms of service document. Documentation is available: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation.
[twitter-dev] Help with API to reply to a tweet
Hi folks... Im hoping someone can help me. I've read the docs and have experimented with code a bit but am having trouble creating a reply to a twitter post. My code has the user name and the post #, I just find myself guessing as to the format. I know the user must be @user referenced in the message. I know the message id must be referenced via in_reply_to_status_id however thats all the document on status updating says. If I can post a tweet from code as such: URL = http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml; Data = status=my text message here Then how does a reply look like? Is the URL the same? Where and how does in_reply_to_status_id appear in the data string? thanks VERY much! -d
[twitter-dev] Re: Help with API to reply to a tweet
URL = http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml; Data = in_reply_to_status_id=status=my text message here On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Doug doug_d...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi folks... Im hoping someone can help me. I've read the docs and have experimented with code a bit but am having trouble creating a reply to a twitter post. My code has the user name and the post #, I just find myself guessing as to the format. I know the user must be @user referenced in the message. I know the message id must be referenced via in_reply_to_status_id however thats all the document on status updating says. If I can post a tweet from code as such: URL = http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml; Data = status=my text message here Then how does a reply look like? Is the URL the same? Where and how does in_reply_to_status_id appear in the data string? thanks VERY much! -d
[twitter-dev] Streaming API's XML format
Currently the spritzer stream looks like: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? status /status \n ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? status /status \n ... I'm wondering why it contains a stream of XML documents instead of just one never ending document with the same format as the public timeline: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? statuses status.../status status.../status status.../status ... To me it seems like it would be a lot easier just passing a stream like this to a parser. Instead, with the current stream of documents one has to look out for new prologs, split the stream at that point, parse that doc, reset the parser and continue. Not an insurmountable problem, but it seems like a lot of extra work that shouldn't really be needed. Just wondering what everyone else thinks. Ianiv Schweber
[twitter-dev] Re: all replies by friends
I don't think this page http://help.twitter.com/forums/23786/entries/14595 is describing what I am seeing on my Notices tab - but I think that I am using the new interface for Twitter so maybe things are just out of sync while the new interface is rolled out for all users. There sure does seem to be a revolt in the process about the @replies changes right now, however. I took a screenshot of my interface and posted it to the Twitterstream so that they might understand that they are being converted over. hth On May 12, 7:01 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: This setting is set to be removed momentarily. Watch blog.twitter.com for notes about the deprecation when the deploy happens. You heard it here first. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: The default is: show me: @replies to the people that I'm following. The vast majority of our users keep this default. If this setting is indeed removed this is the behavior we will use. Note: I will update the thread when/if this setting is axed (even though it's not really an API decision) to close the loop. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw Wait, did the default not used to be Show all @ replies (it is the first option in the dropdown box)? Did that change? Personally, I like seeing all of them as it leads me to follow new and interesting people... If this goes away, is everyone going to be set to only show @replies to people I follow ? -- Do you follow me?http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:43 PM, voorwiel voorw...@gmail.com wrote: OK, thanks for the heads up. On May 11, 11:30 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: We have had a debate internally (today) where we have all but decided to remove this setting in the near future. I would not create any application that relied on this. Almost all of our users leave it at the default (only show @replies to people I follow) so the cost of maintaining the setting does not translate to value in the product. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM, voorwiel voorw...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I'm familiar with the setting. Somehow the setting does not have any effect with the account I'm testing with: not when logged in to twitter.com, and not when using statuses/friends_timeline. Chad's posting made me do some tests with two other accounts: there the setting works as it should. The only difference between the accounts I can think of is that the misbehaving account is the one I used when applying for a higher rate limit (20,000). Could there be a relation? thanks, Jack On May 11, 8:38 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: There is a setting to change this behavior: http://help.twitter.com/forums/23786/entries/14595 Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused now. I just pulled my friends_timeline and it is definitely showing @replies from my friends to people I don't follow. i.e. I'm getting the firehose as it pertains to my friends_timeline are you saying you're not seeing the same thing? -Chad On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM, voorwiel voorw...@gmail.com wrote: On May 10, 12:00 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I would think that statuses/friends_timeline [1] would not be effected by @-reply settings [2]. If it is your only option is to use the search method you mentioned. The down side of this is protected accounts are not included. Indeed it isn't affected by the setting. I wonder whether it is a policy decision not to include statuses directed at non-friends in statuses/friends_timeline. I'm actually hoping that it is not in the otherwise excellent documentation simply because someone forgot to include it :) greetings, Jack
[twitter-dev] Re: all replies by friends
In regard to Doug's recent tweet regarding this change: http://twitter.com/dougw/status/1781551902 As much as I hate for people to be upset with Twitter, I am partially happy to see I'm not the only one upset by this behavior change... I could *swear* that show all @replies was the default at some point (maybe a long time ago when I joined). Now my friend's timeline is just a closed loop, and for (at least) the power users and people that understood the setting, the timeline has gotten a lot less interesting to watch. I know I'm screaming into the wind... I'm just glad I'm not alone. -Chad
