[twitter-dev] Re: tool to let you know when twitter name is available
Hi Doug I tried the process suggested by you and this is the reply that I got: Hi Vinayak Joshi, You can change your user name at any time here: http://admin.twitter.com/account/settings Your messages, replies and content will not be affected, but we do recommend that that you let your followers know about the name change with a tweet. Twitter is not currently releasing inactive user names. Unless your user name issue involves Terms of Service violations, you'll have to wait until all inactive user names are released. We're working on a better long term solution for this, and we should have more news soon. * If your user name request concerns impersonation, trademark infringement, copyright, or another Terms of Service violation, please submit a request to the Terms of Service group via the web form. Be sure to pick the right item from the drop down box for expedited help. Keep in mind that if there is no content and no intent to mislead, there is most likely no infringement. If you're unable to use our web form, please send your request to te...@twitter.com for help from our Terms of Service group. Thanks! Twitter Support What do we do now? Regards Vinayak On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Idle and deleted are the same in our process. So nine months of inactivity (deletion, suspension, or date of last login/tweet) is required before we release a screen name. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, sull sullele...@gmail.com wrote: 9 months? wow. What about reported spammers/squatters? Do you look at analytics of signups to see if automated software was involved? Do you cross-check email domains used? So an account that has been sitting idle since 2007 with a single post that might get deleted at some point will get an additional 9 months to reclaim it and sit on it for another x months/years? On Jun 24, 2:36 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: No, we do not delete the ID in the system. We will release the screen_name after a 9 month grace period (to allow the user to reclaim the screen_name) before recycling it to the public. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:13 AM, TechRavingMad techraving...@gmail.comwrote: When you do delete, do you just delete the username and leave the ID as deleted status? I guess basically what I'm asking is that you don't recycle user ID's do you?
[twitter-dev] search ban reversal?
Hey, I have a app that posts to twitter with a hash tag. I didn't realise you actually banned (removed) these accounts from search. My question is this, if I remove the hashtags will the results start to show up in the results again or do you have to remove it? I was about to built an ajax widget using the search api but can't do this if there are no search results for it. This is not spam and is valid use of the hashtag. Let me know what I can do as this app is being released on Monday next week. Kind Regards Darren
[twitter-dev] Re: search ban reversal?
sorry bit more info, looking at this there are others using the same hashtags in everypost and they are coming up in the results? The hashtag is #startup and the acccount is startupticker Also if there is a limit/rules can we have it documented on the wiki please, I didn't find anything on it there. Kind Regards Darren On Jun 25, 10:33 am, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: Hey, I have a app that posts to twitter with a hash tag. I didn't realise you actually banned (removed) these accounts from search. My question is this, if I remove the hashtags will the results start to show up in the results again or do you have to remove it? I was about to built an ajax widget using the search api but can't do this if there are no search results for it. This is not spam and is valid use of the hashtag. Let me know what I can do as this app is being released on Monday next week. Kind Regards Darren
[twitter-dev] Re: search ban reversal?
http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/42646 On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 04:38, Ninjamonkdar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: sorry bit more info, looking at this there are others using the same hashtags in everypost and they are coming up in the results? The hashtag is #startup and the acccount is startupticker Also if there is a limit/rules can we have it documented on the wiki please, I didn't find anything on it there. Kind Regards Darren On Jun 25, 10:33 am, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: Hey, I have a app that posts to twitter with a hash tag. I didn't realise you actually banned (removed) these accounts from search. My question is this, if I remove the hashtags will the results start to show up in the results again or do you have to remove it? I was about to built an ajax widget using the search api but can't do this if there are no search results for it. This is not spam and is valid use of the hashtag. Let me know what I can do as this app is being released on Monday next week. Kind Regards Darren -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] A new Twitter library for Python (Tango)
Hey all, I've been working on a Twitter library for Python in my spare time. It's the first library I've written in full for the language, so I'm sure there's quite a few things that could be improved, but I think I've gotten it to a point where I can throw it out there and see if anyone's interested in it. It covers the REST API and the Search API at the moment. I'm working on OAuth support, and I haven't had time to look at the Streaming API stuff in-depth yet, but I'd like to hit that at some point as well. There's still a lot of other small pieces that I want to add which would respect the API more, but it's usable in its current state. There's an experimental build for Python 3k as well, if anyone's into that sort of thing. I wouldn't consider either of these fully production-ready yet, but feel free to use it however you want. I'd really appreciate it if anyone could check it out at the following link and critique it. http://github.com/ryanmcgrath/tango/tree/master It's somewhat inspired by Python-Twitter (http://code.google.com/p/ python-twitter/), but I'd say it's a little more simplistic overall. It requires people to be familiar with the Twitter API itself, so you can't just blindly use the library. I consider this a good thing, but some others might not. ;)
[twitter-dev] Help with Desktop Application (?)
Hi, Using the new OAuth Implementation, users need not put his/her login credentials to your application. If ever i would want my application to be able to post status updates on a user's behalf, what do i need to do? If i set the Desktop Application to the type of application at http://twitter.com/oauth_clients, and i allow my application to access my account using the http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize; link, Twitter returns a 6 digit PIN. How do i use that PIN in order to post tweets on behalf of my users? Thanks -Lance Lim
[twitter-dev] Need Twitter Developer to help me New York City
After a disastrous experience using Rentacoder, I am going local to build a prototype and am seeking a developer based in new york city who is experienced in interfacing with twitter. I am looking for an individual who will provide the technical vision to my product vision. Someone who is well-versed in new and emerging web technologies and standards - and an excellent collaborator. If this resonates with you, let’s talk. send me a a few words about yourself, your projects and passions. Thanks JF
[twitter-dev] issue with simple xml load file + twitter search API
Hello I am tring to do a Api call using simple xml and twitter search API. Whwn I am trying to do so i am gettng the following errors Message: simplexml_load_file(http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q= %40southwestair) [function.simplexml-load-file]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Message: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity http://search.twitter.com/ search.atom?q=%40southwestair here is the code that I am using for $brand = southwestair; $searchUrl = http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40.$brand; $results = simplexml_load_file($searchUrl); $entry = $results-entry; //$result = $this-twitter-search($brand); $count = 0; print_r($entry); I am using Amazone aws server, PHP 5.2 version, in my server, allow_url_fopen is ON But its working in my local machine giving the results. Could please look in to this issu, let me know whats wrong with me thanks j0ban http://phpqa.blogspot.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Help with Desktop Application (?)
That PIN can be used to get an access token that should be saved and allows you to act as that user. Read more: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-FAQ And: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Authentication (Desktop Clients part) Abraham On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 03:27, lanlimlan.lim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Using the new OAuth Implementation, users need not put his/her login credentials to your application. If ever i would want my application to be able to post status updates on a user's behalf, what do i need to do? If i set the Desktop Application to the type of application at http://twitter.com/oauth_clients, and i allow my application to access my account using the http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize; link, Twitter returns a 6 digit PIN. How do i use that PIN in order to post tweets on behalf of my users? Thanks -Lance Lim -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: issue with simple xml load file + twitter search API
Hi
Please add
ini_set('allow_url_fopen','On');
in beginning of script.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:12 PM, jey jey jobanj...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello
I am tring to do a Api call using simple xml and twitter search API.
Whwn I am trying to do so i am gettng the following errors
Message: simplexml_load_file(http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=
%40southwestairhttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%0A%40southwestair)
[function.simplexml-load-file]: failed to open
stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Message: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: I/O
warning : failed to load external entity http://search.twitter.com/
search.atom?q=%40southwestairhttp://search.twitter.com/%0Asearch.atom?q=%40southwestair
here is the code that I am using for
$brand = southwestair;
$searchUrl = http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40
.$brand;
$results = simplexml_load_file($searchUrl);
$entry = $results-entry;
//$result = $this-twitter-search($brand);
$count = 0;
print_r($entry);
I am using Amazone aws server, PHP 5.2 version, in my server,
allow_url_fopen is ON
But its working in my local machine giving the results.
Could please look in to this issu, let me know whats wrong with me
thanks
j0ban
http://phpqa.blogspot.com
--
Regards
Mandakini
[twitter-dev] Re: Need Twitter Developer to help me New York City
Why twitter ? There is a subsequent number of options. Watch out that site where I added the last message (bob saint clar). http://mashable.com/2007/07/25/open-source-social-platforms/?dsq=11452830#comment-11452830 Why twitter and not facebook, or other ? Why that choice ? Is it what your body is telling you, or did that choice come from a structured analysis. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124571709339739367.html Thank you for your reply. Bob
[twitter-dev] Re: search ban reversal?
ok that was next to useless and the ticket was closed without the person actually paying attention to what I wrote. Any suggestions? is there a developer support system? Kind Regards Darren On Jun 25, 1:20 pm, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: ta, I have put a ticket in. On Jun 25, 1:07 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: http://help.twitter.com/requests/portal/new On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 06:58, Ninjamonkdar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: cool thanks for the link, should be on the api page too. Now how do I get myself unbanned? Cheers Darren On Jun 25, 12:34 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/42646 On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 04:38, Ninjamonkdar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: sorry bit more info, looking at this there are others using the same hashtags in everypost and they are coming up in the results? The hashtag is #startup and the acccount is startupticker Also if there is a limit/rules can we have it documented on the wiki please, I didn't find anything on it there. Kind Regards Darren On Jun 25, 10:33 am, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: Hey, I have a app that posts to twitter with a hash tag. I didn't realise you actually banned (removed) these accounts from search. My question is this, if I remove the hashtags will the results start to show up in the results again or do you have to remove it? I was about to built an ajax widget using the search api but can't do this if there are no search results for it. This is not spam and is valid use of the hashtag. Let me know what I can do as this app is being released on Monday next week. Kind Regards Darren -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: issue with simple xml load file + twitter search API
Hi there, If you're accessing search.twitter.com from AWS please set the User-Agent header to something meaningful, like the name of your website or service. Without a User-Agent you will see 400s when accessing from AWS. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:42 PM, jey jey wrote: Hello I am tring to do a Api call using simple xml and twitter search API. Whwn I am trying to do so i am gettng the following errors Message: simplexml_load_file(http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q= %40southwestair) [function.simplexml-load-file]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Message: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity http://search.twitter.com/ search.atom?q=%40southwestair here is the code that I am using for $brand = southwestair; $searchUrl = http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40.$brand; $results = simplexml_load_file($searchUrl); $entry = $results-entry; //$result = $this-twitter-search($brand); $count = 0; print_r($entry); I am using Amazone aws server, PHP 5.2 version, in my server, allow_url_fopen is ON But its working in my local machine giving the results. Could please look in to this issu, let me know whats wrong with me thanks j0ban http://phpqa.blogspot.com
[twitter-dev] Whoa there error after Oauth authorization.
We're testing an app and have seen some strange behavior after OAuthing. The user goes through the norma OAuth process just fine, closes our tab and then just opens up a new tab to www.twitter.com. Once they login they're redirected to http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize, which shows an error. Anybody else seen this?
[twitter-dev] Re: search ban reversal?
You could try emailing a...@twitter.com. I don't know if they will be able to help you though. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:15, Ninjamonkdar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: ok that was next to useless and the ticket was closed without the person actually paying attention to what I wrote. Any suggestions? is there a developer support system? Kind Regards Darren On Jun 25, 1:20 pm, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: ta, I have put a ticket in. On Jun 25, 1:07 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: http://help.twitter.com/requests/portal/new On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 06:58, Ninjamonkdar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: cool thanks for the link, should be on the api page too. Now how do I get myself unbanned? Cheers Darren On Jun 25, 12:34 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/42646 On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 04:38, Ninjamonkdar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: sorry bit more info, looking at this there are others using the same hashtags in everypost and they are coming up in the results? The hashtag is #startup and the acccount is startupticker Also if there is a limit/rules can we have it documented on the wiki please, I didn't find anything on it there. Kind Regards Darren On Jun 25, 10:33 am, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: Hey, I have a app that posts to twitter with a hash tag. I didn't realise you actually banned (removed) these accounts from search. My question is this, if I remove the hashtags will the results start to show up in the results again or do you have to remove it? I was about to built an ajax widget using the search api but can't do this if there are no search results for it. This is not spam and is valid use of the hashtag. Let me know what I can do as this app is being released on Monday next week. Kind Regards Darren -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Need Twitter Developer to help me New York City
hi Bob Thanks for your links. Here are my answers: Twitter is - I think - the best vehicle for what I want to achieve, users generated sitcoms. Here's the definition that I have set on www.twitter.com/twitcom - For a given location and a given time slot, a *selected* small number of people (the Cast) will be exchanging. - The content will mostly be text (ie line of 140 char) but can include images (fed ie through TwitPic). - It is a real time exchange but would ideally been prepared - These events are scheduled The platform is Twitcom.com for each episode. Twitter ' followers' can comment as the episode evolve but the comments are not part of teh sitcom exchange. Each twitcom episode is sponsored for the duration for its duration. (commercial breaks would break the momentum) I take your point that inputs could come from other social platforms ie Facebook, YouTube but it complexify something that is rather simple (?) Voila in short the project. Let me know your thoughts On another note, your profile lists the email * gest...@fiduciairegenerale.com* gest...@fiduciairegenerale.com so you might spreak french (?) thanks http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jean-francois-gagn%C3%A9/0/3b5/585 Jean-Francois On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Admin_Gen gest...@fiduciairegenerale.comwrote: Why twitter ? There is a subsequent number of options. Watch out that site where I added the last message (bob saint clar). http://mashable.com/2007/07/25/open-source-social-platforms/?dsq=11452830#comment-11452830 Why twitter and not facebook, or other ? Why that choice ? Is it what your body is telling you, or did that choice come from a structured analysis. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124571709339739367.html Thank you for your reply. Bob
[twitter-dev] Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
Apologies for the double post. I was using the wrong google account before. http://www.aponetworks.com/dumpurge/index.html Take a look at the source code here. PLEASE! I keep getting an 401 unauthorised when I try to access anything on twitter. Please help - I've followed all the tutorials - this really should be working and it is not... Is there a time delay between when you reecive your application tokens / secret to when they become active? Kind regards, Obrzut
[twitter-dev] Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
Hi, http://www.aponetworks.com/dumpurge/index.html This is a link to the source code so far. It has my Keys / Tokens I received from Twitter in it. I customised a C# Class into a VB.NET class of my own. I also imported the standard C# OAuth DLL into the program to use. I still get an 401 Unauthorised when using this source code and I am really unsure why!? I cannot even view pages that do not require authorisation! Haha. This sucks - OAuth sucks - How am I supposed to view a simple xml page on twitter? I have followed all the tutorials to the letter and even copied loads of custom Twitter API code into my program and it STILL DOES NOT WORK! I am going out my box on this one guys. Srsly, some one take a look at the files and offer some help!
[twitter-dev] Re: Following/Follower delay
Randy, We're still working on the fix and this is currently the top priority of the services team. It's a pretty extensive code deployment so it is taking some time. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:27 AM, RandyC bioscienceupda...@gmail.com wrote: After about 14 hours since the fix was issued (http:// status.twitter.com/post/129574488/update-on-follower-following- problems) I still have a number of accounts that appear out of synch. Is the fix still working its way through the system or should we begin to report accounts that still don't match between their social graph id lists and what the web based view of the account is reporting? Thanks.
[twitter-dev] Re: tool to let you know when twitter name is available
From that message, our policy of releasing screen names has clearly changed. Do you have a trademark you are attempting to claim? Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Vinayak Joshi vinayak.jo...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Doug I tried the process suggested by you and this is the reply that I got: Hi Vinayak Joshi, You can change your user name at any time here: http://admin.twitter.com/account/settings Your messages, replies and content will not be affected, but we do recommend that that you let your followers know about the name change with a tweet. Twitter is not currently releasing inactive user names. Unless your user name issue involves Terms of Service violations, you'll have to wait until all inactive user names are released. We're working on a better long term solution for this, and we should have more news soon. * If your user name request concerns impersonation, trademark infringement, copyright, or another Terms of Service violation, please submit a request to the Terms of Service group via the web form. Be sure to pick the right item from the drop down box for expedited help. Keep in mind that if there is no content and no intent to mislead, there is most likely no infringement. If you're unable to use our web form, please send your request to te...@twitter.com for help from our Terms of Service group. Thanks! Twitter Support What do we do now? Regards Vinayak On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Idle and deleted are the same in our process. So nine months of inactivity (deletion, suspension, or date of last login/tweet) is required before we release a screen name. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, sull sullele...@gmail.com wrote: 9 months? wow. What about reported spammers/squatters? Do you look at analytics of signups to see if automated software was involved? Do you cross-check email domains used? So an account that has been sitting idle since 2007 with a single post that might get deleted at some point will get an additional 9 months to reclaim it and sit on it for another x months/years? On Jun 24, 2:36 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: No, we do not delete the ID in the system. We will release the screen_name after a 9 month grace period (to allow the user to reclaim the screen_name) before recycling it to the public. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:13 AM, TechRavingMad techraving...@gmail.comwrote: When you do delete, do you just delete the username and leave the ID as deleted status? I guess basically what I'm asking is that you don't recycle user ID's do you?
[twitter-dev] Re: A new Twitter library for Python (Tango)
I'll add it to the libraries section today. Thanks for contributing! Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: great work, I am playing with it now. I am going to see if it works with GAE. you should get it added here http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Libraries On Jun 25, 7:51 am, Ryan McGrath ryan.mcgra...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I've been working on a Twitter library for Python in my spare time. It's the first library I've written in full for the language, so I'm sure there's quite a few things that could be improved, but I think I've gotten it to a point where I can throw it out there and see if anyone's interested in it. It covers the REST API and the Search API at the moment. I'm working on OAuth support, and I haven't had time to look at the Streaming API stuff in-depth yet, but I'd like to hit that at some point as well. There's still a lot of other small pieces that I want to add which would respect the API more, but it's usable in its current state. There's an experimental build for Python 3k as well, if anyone's into that sort of thing. I wouldn't consider either of these fully production-ready yet, but feel free to use it however you want. I'd really appreciate it if anyone could check it out at the following link and critique it. http://github.com/ryanmcgrath/tango/tree/master It's somewhat inspired by Python-Twitter (http://code.google.com/p/ python-twitter/), but I'd say it's a little more simplistic overall. It requires people to be familiar with the Twitter API itself, so you can't just blindly use the library. I consider this a good thing, but some others might not. ;)
[twitter-dev] Search API: reliable link to web status
I've been browsing the archives and I believe I know the answer to this, but want to confirm. I'm about to start using the Search API to, obviously, collect tweets and then store summaries of them grouped by matching terms. That will give us some overview stats to display for users which we'd like for them to be able to drill into to see individual tweets. At that point we would like to make them status and the username clickable to take the user to the original status message on the twitter.com . The issue I'm seeing is that I can't reliably create that link because: 1) users can change their screen names 2) there's no way to link directly to a tweet using it's status id I also would rather not start over-using the normal API just to recheck usernames to see if they've changed, especially since my experience is that that's generally infrequent and eventually I'm going to have a lot of cached user data. Am I missing something? Assuming not, and since I also imagine that click-throughs from my site will be low, my current plan is to link to my site w/ the status id, look it up in real-time, and redirect to the actualy twitter.com status message. Anyone have thoughts on that? Additionally, since I may be in a position to provide that as a service, would that be something whitelist-able if we made it publicly available?
[twitter-dev] web608 : architecture management abraham
Hi Abraham, I had the chance to visit web608. I like the design, there is something like the Benetton brand (that entry on the right-hand side for the feedback postings with pop-in action linked. that is prophetic !). Architecture. I try to understand the process and principle map of web608. - connection : the USER is glad to get connected using twitter or facebook. - content flow in : do you get the content only through direct posting, or do you get entries thanks to an entry flows. - content organization and database structure : that main one, I did not understand how we create a hierarchy. - content flow out : I see you are using Addthis.com to publish the content on third party websites. - video content ? : getting problem with http://web608.org/news/2009/06/20/drupalcampla-video-archive-oop-magic - USER auto-recognition : that one might work using http://oauth.net/ Thank you Abraham for reply, Robert Saint Clar Bob
[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: reliable link to web status
With one call to the statuses/show method [1] you could have all of the information you need to construct the permanent URL. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0show Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:31 AM, jesse je...@mailchimp.com wrote: I've been browsing the archives and I believe I know the answer to this, but want to confirm. I'm about to start using the Search API to, obviously, collect tweets and then store summaries of them grouped by matching terms. That will give us some overview stats to display for users which we'd like for them to be able to drill into to see individual tweets. At that point we would like to make them status and the username clickable to take the user to the original status message on the twitter.com . The issue I'm seeing is that I can't reliably create that link because: 1) users can change their screen names 2) there's no way to link directly to a tweet using it's status id I also would rather not start over-using the normal API just to recheck usernames to see if they've changed, especially since my experience is that that's generally infrequent and eventually I'm going to have a lot of cached user data. Am I missing something? Assuming not, and since I also imagine that click-throughs from my site will be low, my current plan is to link to my site w/ the status id, look it up in real-time, and redirect to the actualy twitter.com status message. Anyone have thoughts on that? Additionally, since I may be in a position to provide that as a service, would that be something whitelist-able if we made it publicly available?
[twitter-dev] Re: web608 : architecture management abraham
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:33, Admin_Gengest...@fiduciairegenerale.com wrote: Hi Abraham, I had the chance to visit web608. I like the design, there is something like the Benetton brand (that entry on the right-hand side for the feedback postings with pop-in action linked. that is prophetic !). The feedback tab is provided by http://uservoice.com. A startup by a friend of mine. Architecture. I try to understand the process and principle map of web608. - connection : the USER is glad to get connected using twitter or facebook. I've had a few people complement the Facebook Connect integration. I just checked and about 50% of users use one of FBConnect, OpenID, or Sign in with Twitter. One click log in is wonderful. Currently there is no way to bring your twitter friends with you but FBConnect lets you invite your Facebook friends. - content flow in : do you get the content only through direct posting, or do you get entries thanks to an entry flows. Most content is posted manually. Users who wish to can have their Twitter feed auto pulled into: http://web608.org/twitter-stream. Pretty soon events will auto-generated from Meetup.com ical feeds. - content organization and database structure : that main one, I did not understand how we create a hierarchy. The database is completely handled by Drupal. If by hierarchy you are referencing the groups that is handled by a Drupal module called Organic Groups. - content flow out : I see you are using Addthis.com to publish the content on third party websites. Based on AddThis's analytics nobody ever uses it. When users create new content they have a choice to automatically tweet it and new comments can be posted back to Facebook. - video content ? : getting problem with http://web608.org/news/2009/06/20/drupalcampla-video-archive-oop-magic The Video was deleted from blip.tv and upload in a different location for some reason. I updated the post. :-/ - USER auto-recognition : that one might work using http://oauth.net/ Web608 has no auto-recognition beyond what FBConnect and SiwT provide. Thank you Abraham for reply, Robert Saint Clar Bob The entire site is Drupal and while still rough around the edges is coming together nicely. I'm not quite sure if those are the answers you were looking for or not Abraham -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Failed to validate oauth signature and token
Hi, I am trying to follow the instructions of how to authenticate using oauth, but for some reason, when i try to get request_token, I get failed to validate signature and token. I am not sure what I am missing, can someone please take a second look at the following and let me know is missing? URL thats constructed: GEThttp://twitter.com/oauth/ request_tokenoauth_consumer_key=Xz2BKOKObTzpLrMXxJo2wwoauth_nonce=blabla123oauth_signature_method=HMAC- SHA1oauth_token=oauth_timestamp=1245887955090oauth_version=1.0 URL after encoding and adding oauth_signature http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Foauth%2Frequest_token%3Foauth_consumer_key %3DXz2BKOKObTzpLrMXxJo2ww%26oauth_nonce %3Dblabla123%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_token%3D %26oauth_timestamp%3D1245887955090%26oauth_version %3D1.0%26oauth_signature%3D6odQgPJ5o%2FAuOIw0gt8CknlHIcc%3D Failed to validate oauth signature and token
[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: reliable link to web status
Thanks for the quick reply, Doug. From that I would create: http://twitter.com/dougw/status/1472669360 if you change your screen name, that link is going to break. If it didn't, I'd be fine with the Search API since it include screen_names and status ids. Or am I being obtuse and missing something in the status/show call's return value that is permanently linkable? On Jun 25, 11:54 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: With one call to the statuses/show method [1] you could have all of the information you need to construct the permanent URL. 1.http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0show Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:31 AM, jesse je...@mailchimp.com wrote: I've been browsing the archives and I believe I know the answer to this, but want to confirm. I'm about to start using the Search API to, obviously, collect tweets and then store summaries of them grouped by matching terms. That will give us some overview stats to display for users which we'd like for them to be able to drill into to see individual tweets. At that point we would like to make them status and the username clickable to take the user to the original status message on the twitter.com . The issue I'm seeing is that I can't reliably create that link because: 1) users can change their screen names 2) there's no way to link directly to a tweet using it's status id I also would rather not start over-using the normal API just to recheck usernames to see if they've changed, especially since my experience is that that's generally infrequent and eventually I'm going to have a lot of cached user data. Am I missing something? Assuming not, and since I also imagine that click-throughs from my site will be low, my current plan is to link to my site w/ the status id, look it up in real-time, and redirect to the actualy twitter.com status message. Anyone have thoughts on that? Additionally, since I may be in a position to provide that as a service, would that be something whitelist-able if we made it publicly available?
[twitter-dev] OAuth: Failed to validate oauth signature and token -please help
Hi, I am trying to follow the instructions of how to authenticate using oauth, but for some reason, when i try to get request_token, I get failed to validate signature and token. I am not sure what I am missing, can someone please take a second look at the following and let me know is missing? URL thats constructed: GEThttp://twitter.com/oauth/ request_tokenoauth_consumer_key=Xz2BKOKObTzpLrMXxJo2wwoauth_nonce=blabla123oauth_signature_method=HMAC- SHA1oauth_token=oauth_timestamp=1245887955090oauth_version=1.0 URL after encoding and adding oauth_signature http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Foauth%2Frequest_token%3Foauth_consumer_key %3DXz2BKOKObTzpLrMXxJo2ww%26oauth_nonce %3Dblabla123%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_token%3D %26oauth_timestamp%3D1245887955090%26oauth_version %3D1.0%26oauth_signature%3D6odQgPJ5o%2FAuOIw0gt8CknlHIcc%3D Failed to validate oauth signature and token
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
Hi there, Sorry for the trouble, but could you include the message you're getting in the body of that 401? Without the error message it's hard to tell what the problem is or where the source of all of this suck is. Thanks for the hostile tone though … it really got my morning going. Thanks; — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford On Jun 25, 2009, at 8:09 AM, catcalls wrote: Hi, http://www.aponetworks.com/dumpurge/index.html This is a link to the source code so far. It has my Keys / Tokens I received from Twitter in it. I customised a C# Class into a VB.NET class of my own. I also imported the standard C# OAuth DLL into the program to use. I still get an 401 Unauthorised when using this source code and I am really unsure why!? I cannot even view pages that do not require authorisation! Haha. This sucks - OAuth sucks - How am I supposed to view a simple xml page on twitter? I have followed all the tutorials to the letter and even copied loads of custom Twitter API code into my program and it STILL DOES NOT WORK! I am going out my box on this one guys. Srsly, some one take a look at the files and offer some help!
[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: reliable link to web status
It would break if I changed my screen name but that is a very rare case. If your application depends deeply on these links not breaking, I'd suggest you cache status objects for a day, and refresh the cache and links daily. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:07 AM, jesse je...@mailchimp.com wrote: Thanks for the quick reply, Doug. From that I would create: http://twitter.com/dougw/status/1472669360 if you change your screen name, that link is going to break. If it didn't, I'd be fine with the Search API since it include screen_names and status ids. Or am I being obtuse and missing something in the status/show call's return value that is permanently linkable? On Jun 25, 11:54 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: With one call to the statuses/show method [1] you could have all of the information you need to construct the permanent URL. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0show Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:31 AM, jesse je...@mailchimp.com wrote: I've been browsing the archives and I believe I know the answer to this, but want to confirm. I'm about to start using the Search API to, obviously, collect tweets and then store summaries of them grouped by matching terms. That will give us some overview stats to display for users which we'd like for them to be able to drill into to see individual tweets. At that point we would like to make them status and the username clickable to take the user to the original status message on the twitter.com . The issue I'm seeing is that I can't reliably create that link because: 1) users can change their screen names 2) there's no way to link directly to a tweet using it's status id I also would rather not start over-using the normal API just to recheck usernames to see if they've changed, especially since my experience is that that's generally infrequent and eventually I'm going to have a lot of cached user data. Am I missing something? Assuming not, and since I also imagine that click-throughs from my site will be low, my current plan is to link to my site w/ the status id, look it up in real-time, and redirect to the actualy twitter.com status message. Anyone have thoughts on that? Additionally, since I may be in a position to provide that as a service, would that be something whitelist-able if we made it publicly available?
[twitter-dev] xml-type don´t show user details
Hi. When I get the details from user, there is no problem with json- format. But trying with xml, I only get the first index of the array. No infos about location, only this: stdClass Object ( [0] = SimpleXMLElement Object ( [created_at] = Thu Jun 25 13:28:31 + 2009 [id] = xxx [text] = blablabla [source] = Tweetie [truncated] = false [in_reply_to_status_id] = SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) [in_reply_to_user_id] = SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) [favorited] = false [in_reply_to_screen_name] = SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) ) ) Another question. Normally, xml-type is UTF-8 enoded?
[twitter-dev] Re: Search API since_id doesn't work with filter:links
Yes I'm seeing this also, with this query: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?lang=enshow_user=truerpp=100since=2009-06-25until=2009-06-25q=Cloud On Jun 24, 7:57 am, Mojosaurus ish...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My script polls Twitter APIs once every 15 seconds with a query likehttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=video%20filter:linksrpp=100;... Starting 2009-06-23, this API returns http 403, with the following error message. hash errorsince date or since_id is too old/error /hash Did anything change in the last 24 hours? Is this a known issue, and when is it expected to get fixed? Any leads would be much appreciated. -- thanks, Ishwar.
[twitter-dev] xml-type don´t show user details
Hi. When I get the details from user, there is no problem with json- format. But trying with xml, I only get the first index of the array. No infos about location, only this: stdClass Object ( [0] = SimpleXMLElement Object ( [created_at] = Thu Jun 25 13:28:31 + 2009 [id] = xxx [text] = blablabla [source] = Tweetie [truncated] = false [in_reply_to_status_id] = SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) [in_reply_to_user_id] = SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) [favorited] = false [in_reply_to_screen_name] = SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) ) ) Another question. Normally, xml-type is UTF-8 enoded?
[twitter-dev] Re: Whoa there error after Oauth authorization.
confirmed. this has been happening to me over the past week as well. On Jun 25, 10:51 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I do remember running into this a few days ago but assumed it was a random occurrence. I did just replicate the issue though by: Log out of twitter. Go tohttp://twitter.abrah.amand start authenticate process. Provide username:password to twitter and authorized. go tohttps://twitter.com/in a new tab and log in. You are then redirected to /oauth/authorize. You should probably add an issue to issue tracker. Abraham On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:28, mruhlinmruh...@gmail.com wrote: We're testing an app and have seen some strange behavior after OAuthing. The user goes through the norma OAuth process just fine, closes our tab and then just opens up a new tab towww.twitter.com. Once they login they're redirected tohttp://twitter.com/oauth/authorize, which shows an error. Anybody else seen this? -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
Hi Matt, I'm coding in Visual Studio 2005. I am using a HTTP REQUEST function to make the request to the server. This is basically all I get to go on is the error messages. I dunno how to incorporate Charles into VB.NET? Also, how do I go about printing out the body from VB.NET? If any one else other than Matt would like to take a look at my code it really would help. Kind regards, Obrzut On Jun 25, 5:54 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi, When you get an HTTP 401 there should be a body, Something like: Failed to validate oauth signature or token, or the more informative Invalid / expired token, or a host of other things. The 401 Unauthorized is the HTTP status line itself and is the error we use for all OAuth failures. If you're using a library to access Twitter via OAuth perhaps it is not displaying the body message be default. If that's the case I recommend adding some print statements, using a debugging proxy (such as Charles), or watching via tcpdump (or equivalent) so you can see the body. Also helpful for debugging just about any error with the API is the full request and response headers. Look at this from my perspective … right now I have even less to go on than you. I don't know your code, what request you made, and I cannot debug interactively. Thanks; — Matt Sanford ProTip: When reporting bugs try to remember that no matter how frustrated you are you're asking someone who is not sitting with you and is not in the same frame of mind. This is like shouting at the police when you called them. Therapeutic? yes. Helpful? probably not. Good matrial for the show Cops? definitely. On Jun 25, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Obrzut wrote: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. This is the exact error. I was not being hostile - just going out my wits end! *smiles* I've de-stressed by laying in bed for the past hour trying to forget about the Twitter API and OAuth. Ha! That said - shall I include the URL I am using with Parameters? Perhaps that will help, no? I'll get right on that.
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. This is the exact error. I was not being hostile - just going out my wits end! *smiles* I've de-stressed by laying in bed for the past hour trying to forget about the Twitter API and OAuth. Ha! That said - shall I include the URL I am using with Parameters? Perhaps that will help, no? I'll get right on that.
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
Hi, When you get an HTTP 401 there should be a body, Something like: Failed to validate oauth signature or token, or the more informative Invalid / expired token, or a host of other things. The 401 Unauthorized is the HTTP status line itself and is the error we use for all OAuth failures. If you're using a library to access Twitter via OAuth perhaps it is not displaying the body message be default. If that's the case I recommend adding some print statements, using a debugging proxy (such as Charles), or watching via tcpdump (or equivalent) so you can see the body. Also helpful for debugging just about any error with the API is the full request and response headers. Look at this from my perspective … right now I have even less to go on than you. I don't know your code, what request you made, and I cannot debug interactively. Thanks; — Matt Sanford ProTip: When reporting bugs try to remember that no matter how frustrated you are you're asking someone who is not sitting with you and is not in the same frame of mind. This is like shouting at the police when you called them. Therapeutic? yes. Helpful? probably not. Good matrial for the show Cops? definitely. On Jun 25, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Obrzut wrote: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. This is the exact error. I was not being hostile - just going out my wits end! *smiles* I've de-stressed by laying in bed for the past hour trying to forget about the Twitter API and OAuth. Ha! That said - shall I include the URL I am using with Parameters? Perhaps that will help, no? I'll get right on that.
[twitter-dev] Re: xml-type don´t show user details
Sorry for doublepost and thanks for the answer.
I used a lot of different user ids (always the screenname). It´s
always the same.
I used this library:
http://code.google.com/p/micromvc-php/source/browse/trunk/libraries/twitter_api.php?spec=svn6r=6
with this code:
$options = array(
'id' = 'DAVID_LYNCH',
'type' = 'xml');
require('twitter_api.php');
$twitter_api = new twitter_api($options);
$object = $twitter_api-show_user($options);
if(!$object) {
$object = $twitter_api-error();
}
print 'pre';
print_r($object);
print '/pre';
On 25 Jun., 18:42, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:
Can you include the user_id you are trying to find so we can look into this?
Also, yes, the data should be in UTF-8.
Thanks,
Doug
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Germig i...@exbeerde.de wrote:
Hi.
When I get the details from user, there is no problem with json-
format. But trying with xml, I only get the first index of the array.
No infos about location, only this:
stdClass Object
(
[0] = SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[created_at] = Thu Jun 25 13:28:31 + 2009
[id] = xxx
[text] = blablabla
[source] = Tweetie
[truncated] = false
[in_reply_to_status_id] = SimpleXMLElement Object
(
)
[in_reply_to_user_id] = SimpleXMLElement Object
(
)
[favorited] = false
[in_reply_to_screen_name] = SimpleXMLElement Object
(
)
)
)
Another question. Normally, xml-type is UTF-8 enoded?
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
WOW! Thanks! I'll try that! Just a side note - I extracted the URL and ran it thru a web browser - then it started popping open a Username / Password box? It stated; The server twitter.com at Twitter API requires a username and password. What is all this about? I ask, because, my twitter username and password do not work? When I ran the URL via the web browser object in VB.NET the document completed without any body of text. It just exited without a login prompt. Nothing. So, it seems the URL I am creating seems sound - as it created a Login prompt in google Chrome. But, I dunno what credentials I require for the login prompt? http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token?oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce=2475068oauth_timestamp=1245949941oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1oauth_consumer_key=CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qgoauth_signature=6Uq%2brP1nCHcS3WFLkPMtANO1Zso%3d This is the URL I used to access the login prompt. Any pointers? On Jun 25, 6:04 pm, Bojan Rajkovic boj...@brandeis.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Obrzut wrote: oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce=5048009oauth_timestamp=1245948327oauth_sig nature_method=HMAC- SHA1oauth_consumer_key=CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qgoauth_signature=vxFWk3JvGKdKI RYR31%2b2JC %2bh30o%3d This is an example URL I am sending. Is there anything suspect you can see just by looking at it? It really would help me out no end. Kind regards, Obrzut You need to apply a lexicographical byte ordering to the OAuth parameters--that is, sort them alphabetically. I ran into this in the beginning, and scratched my head for a while until I read the OAuth standard. Cheers, - -- Bojan Rajkovic boj...@brandeis.edu Biochemistry '10, Brandeis University PGP Signature Key ID: 0x8783D016 PGP Encryption Key ID: 0x2497B8B2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKQ647AAoJEO4IwQyHg9AWnVkP/2H5dQWnGSYXGGQV0YW6oswQ gBELIhWjHiq9lkQQbOrCUqV6hR4wycSa5hNfaW+YxQsVEuORTw1FAhiayJPRcVAH I8cgewOSgXG5CSbXfutPmfQFHZNdN3zgJMaS0sAwoyEik+nb/JePlUEkn7f9CPzb buqLAjadh0bLNdB/U2ld5FBgnAc1zQEJrGCePqfzYls3RTQm+dc6wtpzRnlKVDER hfsVh0E9OUZOIjEmaHsc7KUjoiATSB/j0LXrF+3x3BR/ISYkoLW0cJPQEscJVrG+ JbtJ3Q4H1uJpDn5iF4ENhzjZa1/v45w/zliXk8MeDixLC4jtTUE54oKZsYFjhL/v d1BMgmgTVCJq7Qj2jJNKjD/A2nriAErh/i/42850MsF9JCnff6d2kruXccdHM8Lv ExttUH9k6c0U4SBVYjjv+Np4OOwWDJvwNx3mXW5mgfLsCtMKdSDD+mm4/M9MHDxR sHo54jlWDXGYHrbAJLtCBp02UN3FTlieQ61QYniaUJcZOuzMoKkmVn4/uHMJT7SQ u+DxUMYaFEpot72IOzgFmAmeToGw1GWyeBzeZnkPq5li5Y+EyUCVKH8dxSj4omM+ qUHwvhI93cS6+mmh3L1KGsfg6uXl88xi1oP3d+k1N65nX4troGWE00VPROTbAPzk +UNJsrk9WkRuaif1le0b =M/IL -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[twitter-dev] Re: xml-type don´t show user details
Can you include the user_id you are trying to find so we can look into this? Also, yes, the data should be in UTF-8. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Germig i...@exbeerde.de wrote: Hi. When I get the details from user, there is no problem with json- format. But trying with xml, I only get the first index of the array. No infos about location, only this: stdClass Object ( [0] = SimpleXMLElement Object ( [created_at] = Thu Jun 25 13:28:31 + 2009 [id] = xxx [text] = blablabla [source] = Tweetie [truncated] = false [in_reply_to_status_id] = SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) [in_reply_to_user_id] = SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) [favorited] = false [in_reply_to_screen_name] = SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) ) ) Another question. Normally, xml-type is UTF-8 enoded?
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce=5048009oauth_timestamp=1245948327oauth_signature_method=HMAC- SHA1oauth_consumer_key=CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qgoauth_signature=vxFWk3JvGKdKIRYR31%2b2JC %2bh30o%3d This is an example URL I am sending. Is there anything suspect you can see just by looking at it? It really would help me out no end. Kind regards, Obrzut
[twitter-dev] Posting to Twitter using Gtalk
Hi We have developed a chat bot on Gtalk/Jabber using which you can post on Twitter. It uses OAuth authentication. You can test it by adding twit...@askme.im to your Gtalk/Gmail Chat contact list and chatting with it. Is there any way that one can also fetch and display tweets from people I follow in Gtalk? Regards Vinayak
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
I would recommend reading http://oauth.net/documentation/getting-started so you have a thorough understanding of how Oauth. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:17, Obrzutsa...@peyoteuk.com wrote: WOW! Thanks! I'll try that! Just a side note - I extracted the URL and ran it thru a web browser - then it started popping open a Username / Password box? It stated; The server twitter.com at Twitter API requires a username and password. What is all this about? I ask, because, my twitter username and password do not work? When I ran the URL via the web browser object in VB.NET the document completed without any body of text. It just exited without a login prompt. Nothing. So, it seems the URL I am creating seems sound - as it created a Login prompt in google Chrome. But, I dunno what credentials I require for the login prompt? http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token?oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce=2475068oauth_timestamp=1245949941oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1oauth_consumer_key=CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qgoauth_signature=6Uq%2brP1nCHcS3WFLkPMtANO1Zso%3d This is the URL I used to access the login prompt. Any pointers? On Jun 25, 6:04 pm, Bojan Rajkovic boj...@brandeis.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Obrzut wrote: oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce=5048009oauth_timestamp=1245948327oauth_sig nature_method=HMAC- SHA1oauth_consumer_key=CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qgoauth_signature=vxFWk3JvGKdKI RYR31%2b2JC %2bh30o%3d This is an example URL I am sending. Is there anything suspect you can see just by looking at it? It really would help me out no end. Kind regards, Obrzut You need to apply a lexicographical byte ordering to the OAuth parameters--that is, sort them alphabetically. I ran into this in the beginning, and scratched my head for a while until I read the OAuth standard. Cheers, - -- Bojan Rajkovic boj...@brandeis.edu Biochemistry '10, Brandeis University PGP Signature Key ID: 0x8783D016 PGP Encryption Key ID: 0x2497B8B2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKQ647AAoJEO4IwQyHg9AWnVkP/2H5dQWnGSYXGGQV0YW6oswQ gBELIhWjHiq9lkQQbOrCUqV6hR4wycSa5hNfaW+YxQsVEuORTw1FAhiayJPRcVAH I8cgewOSgXG5CSbXfutPmfQFHZNdN3zgJMaS0sAwoyEik+nb/JePlUEkn7f9CPzb buqLAjadh0bLNdB/U2ld5FBgnAc1zQEJrGCePqfzYls3RTQm+dc6wtpzRnlKVDER hfsVh0E9OUZOIjEmaHsc7KUjoiATSB/j0LXrF+3x3BR/ISYkoLW0cJPQEscJVrG+ JbtJ3Q4H1uJpDn5iF4ENhzjZa1/v45w/zliXk8MeDixLC4jtTUE54oKZsYFjhL/v d1BMgmgTVCJq7Qj2jJNKjD/A2nriAErh/i/42850MsF9JCnff6d2kruXccdHM8Lv ExttUH9k6c0U4SBVYjjv+Np4OOwWDJvwNx3mXW5mgfLsCtMKdSDD+mm4/M9MHDxR sHo54jlWDXGYHrbAJLtCBp02UN3FTlieQ61QYniaUJcZOuzMoKkmVn4/uHMJT7SQ u+DxUMYaFEpot72IOzgFmAmeToGw1GWyeBzeZnkPq5li5Y+EyUCVKH8dxSj4omM+ qUHwvhI93cS6+mmh3L1KGsfg6uXl88xi1oP3d+k1N65nX4troGWE00VPROTbAPzk +UNJsrk9WkRuaif1le0b =M/IL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
I have read that document. Like I said in my initial post - I have read the tutorials and FAQs. Furthermore - I have converted a C# Class that utilises OAuth C# Base Class to VB.NET without a hitch. It works just fine - the only problem is that it is reaching a Login prompt that is asking for credentials that I do not have. A. Williams - did you even read my last post? I find it highly ignorant of you to refer me to the guide when I have successfully authenticated the OAuth procedure. That said, will anyone who cares to read my posts reply with some thing that is relevant and makes sense? I have given all the URL's needed - the parameters I am passing to Twitters oauth page - and I am getting a LOGIN PROMPT. Read my previous posts for more information. Kind regards, Obrzut On Jun 25, 7:23 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I would recommend readinghttp://oauth.net/documentation/getting-startedso you have a thorough understanding of how Oauth. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:17, Obrzutsa...@peyoteuk.com wrote: WOW! Thanks! I'll try that! Just a side note - I extracted the URL and ran it thru a web browser - then it started popping open a Username / Password box? It stated; The server twitter.com at Twitter API requires a username and password. What is all this about? I ask, because, my twitter username and password do not work? When I ran the URL via the web browser object in VB.NET the document completed without any body of text. It just exited without a login prompt. Nothing. So, it seems the URL I am creating seems sound - as it created a Login prompt in google Chrome. But, I dunno what credentials I require for the login prompt? http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token?oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce=2... This is the URL I used to access the login prompt. Any pointers? On Jun 25, 6:04 pm, Bojan Rajkovic boj...@brandeis.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Obrzut wrote: oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce=5048009oauth_timestamp=1245948327oauth_sig nature_method=HMAC- SHA1oauth_consumer_key=CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qgoauth_signature=vxFWk3JvGKdKI RYR31%2b2JC %2bh30o%3d This is an example URL I am sending. Is there anything suspect you can see just by looking at it? It really would help me out no end. Kind regards, Obrzut You need to apply a lexicographical byte ordering to the OAuth parameters--that is, sort them alphabetically. I ran into this in the beginning, and scratched my head for a while until I read the OAuth standard. Cheers, - -- Bojan Rajkovic boj...@brandeis.edu Biochemistry '10, Brandeis University PGP Signature Key ID: 0x8783D016 PGP Encryption Key ID: 0x2497B8B2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKQ647AAoJEO4IwQyHg9AWnVkP/2H5dQWnGSYXGGQV0YW6oswQ gBELIhWjHiq9lkQQbOrCUqV6hR4wycSa5hNfaW+YxQsVEuORTw1FAhiayJPRcVAH I8cgewOSgXG5CSbXfutPmfQFHZNdN3zgJMaS0sAwoyEik+nb/JePlUEkn7f9CPzb buqLAjadh0bLNdB/U2ld5FBgnAc1zQEJrGCePqfzYls3RTQm+dc6wtpzRnlKVDER hfsVh0E9OUZOIjEmaHsc7KUjoiATSB/j0LXrF+3x3BR/ISYkoLW0cJPQEscJVrG+ JbtJ3Q4H1uJpDn5iF4ENhzjZa1/v45w/zliXk8MeDixLC4jtTUE54oKZsYFjhL/v d1BMgmgTVCJq7Qj2jJNKjD/A2nriAErh/i/42850MsF9JCnff6d2kruXccdHM8Lv ExttUH9k6c0U4SBVYjjv+Np4OOwWDJvwNx3mXW5mgfLsCtMKdSDD+mm4/M9MHDxR sHo54jlWDXGYHrbAJLtCBp02UN3FTlieQ61QYniaUJcZOuzMoKkmVn4/uHMJT7SQ u+DxUMYaFEpot72IOzgFmAmeToGw1GWyeBzeZnkPq5li5Y+EyUCVKH8dxSj4omM+ qUHwvhI93cS6+mmh3L1KGsfg6uXl88xi1oP3d+k1N65nX4troGWE00VPROTbAPzk +UNJsrk9WkRuaif1le0b =M/IL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
Hello again, The access token URL [1] should be accessed by your application to exchange a request token for an access token, not from a browser. You're seeing a login dialog because that is what browsers do with HTTP 401 (Unauthorized). Your description has been a bit confusing, is this the problem (excluding this browser thing): 1. Application gets a request token 2. Redirect the user to twitter.com/oauth/authorize … user clicks through to accept 3. User returns to your site 4. Your site called twitter.com/oauth/access_token 5. BOOM: twitter.com/oauth/access_token returns 401 Is that the flow? If so, the body of the 401 would be most helpful. If that is not the flow, please try and describe what you are doing so I can try and reproduce the error and look for bugs on our side. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev [1] - http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Obrzut wrote: I have read that document. Like I said in my initial post - I have read the tutorials and FAQs. Furthermore - I have converted a C# Class that utilises OAuth C# Base Class to VB.NET without a hitch. It works just fine - the only problem is that it is reaching a Login prompt that is asking for credentials that I do not have. A. Williams - did you even read my last post? I find it highly ignorant of you to refer me to the guide when I have successfully authenticated the OAuth procedure. That said, will anyone who cares to read my posts reply with some thing that is relevant and makes sense? I have given all the URL's needed - the parameters I am passing to Twitters oauth page - and I am getting a LOGIN PROMPT. Read my previous posts for more information. Kind regards, Obrzut On Jun 25, 7:23 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I would recommend readinghttp://oauth.net/documentation/getting-startedso you have a thorough understanding of how Oauth. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:17, Obrzutsa...@peyoteuk.com wrote: WOW! Thanks! I'll try that! Just a side note - I extracted the URL and ran it thru a web browser - then it started popping open a Username / Password box? It stated; The server twitter.com at Twitter API requires a username and password. What is all this about? I ask, because, my twitter username and password do not work? When I ran the URL via the web browser object in VB.NET the document completed without any body of text. It just exited without a login prompt. Nothing. So, it seems the URL I am creating seems sound - as it created a Login prompt in google Chrome. But, I dunno what credentials I require for the login prompt? http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token?oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce=2 ... This is the URL I used to access the login prompt. Any pointers? On Jun 25, 6:04 pm, Bojan Rajkovic boj...@brandeis.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Obrzut wrote: oauth_version =1.0oauth_nonce=5048009oauth_timestamp=1245948327oauth_sig nature_method=HMAC- SHA1 oauth_consumer_key =CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qgoauth_signature=vxFWk3JvGKdKI RYR31%2b2JC %2bh30o%3d This is an example URL I am sending. Is there anything suspect you can see just by looking at it? It really would help me out no end. Kind regards, Obrzut You need to apply a lexicographical byte ordering to the OAuth parameters--that is, sort them alphabetically. I ran into this in the beginning, and scratched my head for a while until I read the OAuth standard. Cheers, - -- Bojan Rajkovic boj...@brandeis.edu Biochemistry '10, Brandeis University PGP Signature Key ID: 0x8783D016 PGP Encryption Key ID: 0x2497B8B2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKQ647AAoJEO4IwQyHg9AWnVkP/2H5dQWnGSYXGGQV0YW6oswQ gBELIhWjHiq9lkQQbOrCUqV6hR4wycSa5hNfaW+YxQsVEuORTw1FAhiayJPRcVAH I8cgewOSgXG5CSbXfutPmfQFHZNdN3zgJMaS0sAwoyEik+nb/JePlUEkn7f9CPzb buqLAjadh0bLNdB/U2ld5FBgnAc1zQEJrGCePqfzYls3RTQm+dc6wtpzRnlKVDER hfsVh0E9OUZOIjEmaHsc7KUjoiATSB/j0LXrF+3x3BR/ISYkoLW0cJPQEscJVrG+ JbtJ3Q4H1uJpDn5iF4ENhzjZa1/v45w/zliXk8MeDixLC4jtTUE54oKZsYFjhL/v d1BMgmgTVCJq7Qj2jJNKjD/A2nriAErh/i/42850MsF9JCnff6d2kruXccdHM8Lv ExttUH9k6c0U4SBVYjjv+Np4OOwWDJvwNx3mXW5mgfLsCtMKdSDD+mm4/M9MHDxR sHo54jlWDXGYHrbAJLtCBp02UN3FTlieQ61QYniaUJcZOuzMoKkmVn4/uHMJT7SQ u+DxUMYaFEpot72IOzgFmAmeToGw1GWyeBzeZnkPq5li5Y+EyUCVKH8dxSj4omM+ qUHwvhI93cS6+mmh3L1KGsfg6uXl88xi1oP3d+k1N65nX4troGWE00VPROTbAPzk +UNJsrk9WkRuaif1le0b =M/IL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth: Failed to validate oauth signature and token -please help
Hello there, Here are a few things you can try: * You shouldn't need the oauth_token parameter when requesting a request token, so you can remove that. * Make sure the oauth_nonce is a unique value (though we have a specific error message for that). * Also, always helpful, is letting us know what language, library and version you are using (if any). Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On Jun 25, 2009, at 8:50 AM, goodtest wrote: Hi, I am trying to follow the instructions of how to authenticate using oauth, but for some reason, when i try to get request_token, I get failed to validate signature and token. I am not sure what I am missing, can someone please take a second look at the following and let me know is missing? URL thats constructed: GEThttp://twitter.com/oauth/ request_token oauth_consumer_key = Xz2BKOKObTzpLrMXxJo2ww oauth_nonce=blabla123oauth_signature_method=HMAC- SHA1oauth_token=oauth_timestamp=1245887955090oauth_version=1.0 URL after encoding and adding oauth_signature http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Foauth%2Frequest_token%3Foauth_consumer_key %3DXz2BKOKObTzpLrMXxJo2ww%26oauth_nonce %3Dblabla123%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_token%3D %26oauth_timestamp%3D1245887955090%26oauth_version %3D1.0%26oauth_signature%3D6odQgPJ5o%2FAuOIw0gt8CknlHIcc%3D Failed to validate oauth signature and token
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
Well, Hi again Matt. Basically, it is hard to describe exactly what my app is doing because it is using third party code. Firstly, this is the URL I am trying to access; url = http://twitter.com/statuses/show/123.xml; Then, here are the URL's for authentication that my API uses; Public Const REQUEST_TOKEN As String = http://twitter.com/oauth/ request_token Public Const AUTHORISE As String = http://twitter.com/oauth/ authorize Public Const ACCESS_TOKEN As String = http://twitter.com/oauth/ access_token I am using the C# Base Class with a VB.NET adapted C# Class to interface with the C# Base Class for OAuth. That is basically everything! It generates a URL too. BUT - I just tried something: I added http://MY USERNAME:MY PASSWORD@twitter.com/etc... To the URL that asks for the Login Prompt and also changed the Nonce. I get a blank page then! Haha. You see - when I clicked CANCEL on the Login prompt - I would get the following output; hash request/oauth/access_token? oauth_version=1.0amp;oauth_nonce=9995405amp;oauth_timestamp=1245956104amp;oauth_signature_method=HMAC- SHA1amp;oauth_consumer_key=CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qgamp;oauth_signature=DaoiZKL5EMak1RyvTsGzYhlKe7Y %3d/request errorInvalid / used nonce/error /hash You see - the Nonces have been used for some reason? I changed the nonce from the original 6545405 to 9995405 and when I updated with a new nonce I got the blank page. When I tried to access the source code for you - I got the Login prompt again with the expired nonce. SO It seems the problem lies somewhere with updateing the nonces for each request? AND/OR Supplying Login Credentials? Perhaps this is what the 401 : Unauthorised error message from Visual Studio means during a Web Request? I will keep tinkering with the code by firstly adding my Twitter Username and Password to the URL as above - but also try updateing the nonce? Any ideas on how to do this? I have posted my code in the initial post. On Jun 25, 7:41 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hello again, The access token URL [1] should be accessed by your application to exchange a request token for an access token, not from a browser. You're seeing a login dialog because that is what browsers do with HTTP 401 (Unauthorized). Your description has been a bit confusing, is this the problem (excluding this browser thing): 1. Application gets a request token 2. Redirect the user to twitter.com/oauth/authorize … user clicks through to accept 3. User returns to your site 4. Your site called twitter.com/oauth/access_token 5. BOOM: twitter.com/oauth/access_token returns 401 Is that the flow? If so, the body of the 401 would be most helpful. If that is not the flow, please try and describe what you are doing so I can try and reproduce the error and look for bugs on our side. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev [1] -http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Obrzut wrote: I have read that document. Like I said in my initial post - I have read the tutorials and FAQs. Furthermore - I have converted a C# Class that utilises OAuth C# Base Class to VB.NET without a hitch. It works just fine - the only problem is that it is reaching a Login prompt that is asking for credentials that I do not have. A. Williams - did you even read my last post? I find it highly ignorant of you to refer me to the guide when I have successfully authenticated the OAuth procedure. That said, will anyone who cares to read my posts reply with some thing that is relevant and makes sense? I have given all the URL's needed - the parameters I am passing to Twitters oauth page - and I am getting a LOGIN PROMPT. Read my previous posts for more information. Kind regards, Obrzut On Jun 25, 7:23 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I would recommend readinghttp://oauth.net/documentation/getting-startedso you have a thorough understanding of how Oauth. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:17, Obrzutsa...@peyoteuk.com wrote: WOW! Thanks! I'll try that! Just a side note - I extracted the URL and ran it thru a web browser - then it started popping open a Username / Password box? It stated; The server twitter.com at Twitter API requires a username and password. What is all this about? I ask, because, my twitter username and password do not work? When I ran the URL via the web browser object in VB.NET the document completed without any body of text. It just exited without a login prompt. Nothing. So, it seems the URL I am creating seems sound - as it created a Login prompt in google Chrome. But, I dunno what credentials I require for the login prompt? http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token?oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce=2 ... This is the URL I used to access the login prompt. Any pointers? On Jun 25, 6:04 pm, Bojan Rajkovic
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
Hi again, A nonce is expected to be unique for each request, that is really it's only function. You should not need the login/password anywhere, and if the library you're using requires that it's doing something incorrectly. I'm not much of a VB programmer, but I just read through your source and from the Form1 class it looks like you're writing a desktop application, is that correct? The other thing I noticed in Form1 is that you try to call OAuth.AccessTokenGet without ever getting a request token. I think one step you're missing here is OAuth.AuthorizationLinkGet, which gets a request token and returns the URL the user's browser should be sent to. Your code from Form1 does not appear to get the URL or send the user there, unless the source on this site is incomplete or I'm mis- reading it. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On Jun 25, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Obrzut wrote: Well, Hi again Matt. Basically, it is hard to describe exactly what my app is doing because it is using third party code. Firstly, this is the URL I am trying to access; url = http://twitter.com/statuses/show/123.xml; Then, here are the URL's for authentication that my API uses; Public Const REQUEST_TOKEN As String = http://twitter.com/oauth/ request_token Public Const AUTHORISE As String = http://twitter.com/oauth/ authorize Public Const ACCESS_TOKEN As String = http://twitter.com/oauth/ access_token I am using the C# Base Class with a VB.NET adapted C# Class to interface with the C# Base Class for OAuth. That is basically everything! It generates a URL too. BUT - I just tried something: I added http://MY USERNAME:MY PASSWORD@twitter.com/etc... To the URL that asks for the Login Prompt and also changed the Nonce. I get a blank page then! Haha. You see - when I clicked CANCEL on the Login prompt - I would get the following output; hash request/oauth/access_token? oauth_version = 1.0 amp ;oauth_nonce = 9995405 amp;oauth_timestamp=1245956104amp;oauth_signature_method=HMAC- SHA1 amp ;oauth_consumer_key =CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qgamp;oauth_signature=DaoiZKL5EMak1RyvTsGzYhlKe7Y %3d/request errorInvalid / used nonce/error /hash You see - the Nonces have been used for some reason? I changed the nonce from the original 6545405 to 9995405 and when I updated with a new nonce I got the blank page. When I tried to access the source code for you - I got the Login prompt again with the expired nonce. SO It seems the problem lies somewhere with updateing the nonces for each request? AND/OR Supplying Login Credentials? Perhaps this is what the 401 : Unauthorised error message from Visual Studio means during a Web Request? I will keep tinkering with the code by firstly adding my Twitter Username and Password to the URL as above - but also try updateing the nonce? Any ideas on how to do this? I have posted my code in the initial post. On Jun 25, 7:41 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hello again, The access token URL [1] should be accessed by your application to exchange a request token for an access token, not from a browser. You're seeing a login dialog because that is what browsers do with HTTP 401 (Unauthorized). Your description has been a bit confusing, is this the problem (excluding this browser thing): 1. Application gets a request token 2. Redirect the user to twitter.com/oauth/authorize … user clicks through to accept 3. User returns to your site 4. Your site called twitter.com/oauth/access_token 5. BOOM: twitter.com/oauth/access_token returns 401 Is that the flow? If so, the body of the 401 would be most helpful. If that is not the flow, please try and describe what you are doing so I can try and reproduce the error and look for bugs on our side. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev [1] -http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Obrzut wrote: I have read that document. Like I said in my initial post - I have read the tutorials and FAQs. Furthermore - I have converted a C# Class that utilises OAuth C# Base Class to VB.NET without a hitch. It works just fine - the only problem is that it is reaching a Login prompt that is asking for credentials that I do not have. A. Williams - did you even read my last post? I find it highly ignorant of you to refer me to the guide when I have successfully authenticated the OAuth procedure. That said, will anyone who cares to read my posts reply with some thing that is relevant and makes sense? I have given all the URL's needed - the parameters I am passing to Twitters oauth page - and I am getting a LOGIN PROMPT. Read my previous posts for more information. Kind regards, Obrzut On Jun 25, 7:23 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I would recommend readinghttp://oauth.net/documentation/getting-startedso you have a thorough understanding of how Oauth. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:17,
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
Public Function WebResponseGet(ByVal web_Request As HttpWebRequest) Dim responseReader As StreamReader = Nothing Dim responseData As String = Try responseReader = New StreamReader (web_Request.GetResponse.GetResponseStream()) responseData = responseReader.ReadToEnd() Catch Throw Finally web_Request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream().Close() responseReader.Close() responseReader = Nothing End Try Return responseData End Function - This above is the final code for my VB.NET program. I think because it is retreiving the same URL twice or even three times - the nonce expires. Any one got any solutions to this problem?
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
Hi Matt, There is an OAuthLinkGet routine in the OAuth_Twitter Class. I am not sure if it is being used tho? That said, the code in Form1 basically implements Twitter OAuth Class - which in turn uses OAuth Class. It is a heirarchy of classes :) It should, really, be doing it properly because I only adopted the classes to VB.NET and did not write them from scratch myself. AND I am useing the official C# Base Class for OAuth - so it really should work :( But, I definitely think that is the problem - the nonces are not being updated between requests. But, when I update the nonces in the browser - I get a empty page? Is that normal? Perhaps some one here can help with the VB.Net side of things?
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
Public Function AuthorizationLinkGet() Dim ret As String = Nothing Dim response As String = OAuthWebRequest(GET, REQUEST_TOKEN, String.Empty) If (response.Length 0) Then REM response contains token and token secret. We only need the token. Dim qs As NameValueCollection = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(response) If (Not qs.Item(oauth_token) = Nothing) Then ret = AUTHORISE ?oauth_token= qs.Item (oauth_token) End If End If Return ret End Function --- This is the OAuthLinkGet function. It fails with an 401 : Unauthorised! This also calls the above offending function 'WebResponseGet' - as part of 'OAuthWebRequest'. As soon as WebResponseGet try to access the WebResponse - it gets a 401 Unauthorised. So, it seems I need to to something with this part of the class. Thanks - I really feel confident now that we have sussed out the problems?
[twitter-dev] How-To: Get a Twitter Token via VB.NET
Hi, I have been working on an program that will eventually access the Twitter site. But, I have found the very first stage of OAuth very cumbersome. Basically, I have the following code; Dim url As String = http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token; Dim xml As String = Dim OAuth As New OAuth_Twitter Dim O As New OAuth.OAuthBase Dim consumerKey As String = CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qg Dim consumerSecret As String = Sf7DGMTiK4cyU8qOuqOWX4yCNCwAdcRAlAj02cOA Dim token As String = Dim tokenSecret As String = Dim Method As String = GET Dim outURL As String = http://twitter.com/statuses/show/ 123.xml Dim querystring = Dim URI As New Uri(url) Dim nonce As String = O.GenerateNonce() Dim timeStamp As String = O.GenerateTimeStamp() REM//Generate Signature Dim sig As String = O.GenerateSignature(URI, _ consumerKey, _ consumerSecret, _ token, _ tokenSecret, _ Method, _ timeStamp, _ nonce, _ , _ querystring) querystring = oauth_signature= HttpUtility.UrlEncode (sig) Dim test As String = url ? querystring Dim UR As System.Net.WebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create (test) Dim str As System.IO.Stream = UR.GetResponse ().GetResponseStream() - The program fails at the end - where str is dimmed as a IO.Stream and a GetResponseStream() is attempted. I get a 401: Unauthorised message - and the program terminates. I think I am doing some thing wrong here, but I do not know what? Do I have to use GenerateSignature() from the OAuth class twice? How about using GenerateBaseSignature()? I am really confuzzled. Ha! Does anyone here know anything about VB.NET and OAuth implementations in this language?
[twitter-dev] Re: How-To: Get a Twitter Token via VB.NET
You probably don't want to be sharing your keys with us ... On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Obrzut sa...@peyoteuk.com wrote: Hi, I have been working on an program that will eventually access the Twitter site. But, I have found the very first stage of OAuth very cumbersome. Basically, I have the following code; Dim url As String = http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token; Dim xml As String = Dim OAuth As New OAuth_Twitter Dim O As New OAuth.OAuthBase Dim consumerKey As String = CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qg Dim consumerSecret As String = Sf7DGMTiK4cyU8qOuqOWX4yCNCwAdcRAlAj02cOA Dim token As String = Dim tokenSecret As String = Dim Method As String = GET Dim outURL As String = http://twitter.com/statuses/show/ 123.xml http://twitter.com/statuses/show/%0A123.xml Dim querystring = Dim URI As New Uri(url) Dim nonce As String = O.GenerateNonce() Dim timeStamp As String = O.GenerateTimeStamp() REM//Generate Signature Dim sig As String = O.GenerateSignature(URI, _ consumerKey, _ consumerSecret, _ token, _ tokenSecret, _ Method, _ timeStamp, _ nonce, _ , _ querystring) querystring = oauth_signature= HttpUtility.UrlEncode (sig) Dim test As String = url ? querystring Dim UR As System.Net.WebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create (test) Dim str As System.IO.Stream = UR.GetResponse ().GetResponseStream() - The program fails at the end - where str is dimmed as a IO.Stream and a GetResponseStream() is attempted. I get a 401: Unauthorised message - and the program terminates. I think I am doing some thing wrong here, but I do not know what? Do I have to use GenerateSignature() from the OAuth class twice? How about using GenerateBaseSignature()? I am really confuzzled. Ha! Does anyone here know anything about VB.NET and OAuth implementations in this language?
[twitter-dev] Re: How-To: Get a Twitter Token via VB.NET
Hi, You might want to try Shannon Whitley (blog post on VB.NET/OAuth/ Twitter at http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=681) … he seems to work with Twitter, OAuth and VB.NET. He might be reading the dev list here, not really sure. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Obrzut wrote: Hi, I have been working on an program that will eventually access the Twitter site. But, I have found the very first stage of OAuth very cumbersome. Basically, I have the following code; Dim url As String = http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token; Dim xml As String = Dim OAuth As New OAuth_Twitter Dim O As New OAuth.OAuthBase Dim consumerKey As String = CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qg Dim consumerSecret As String = Sf7DGMTiK4cyU8qOuqOWX4yCNCwAdcRAlAj02cOA Dim token As String = Dim tokenSecret As String = Dim Method As String = GET Dim outURL As String = http://twitter.com/statuses/show/ 123.xml Dim querystring = Dim URI As New Uri(url) Dim nonce As String = O.GenerateNonce() Dim timeStamp As String = O.GenerateTimeStamp() REM//Generate Signature Dim sig As String = O.GenerateSignature(URI, _ consumerKey, _ consumerSecret, _ token, _ tokenSecret, _ Method, _ timeStamp, _ nonce, _ , _ querystring) querystring = oauth_signature= HttpUtility.UrlEncode (sig) Dim test As String = url ? querystring Dim UR As System.Net.WebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create (test) Dim str As System.IO.Stream = UR.GetResponse ().GetResponseStream() - The program fails at the end - where str is dimmed as a IO.Stream and a GetResponseStream() is attempted. I get a 401: Unauthorised message - and the program terminates. I think I am doing some thing wrong here, but I do not know what? Do I have to use GenerateSignature() from the OAuth class twice? How about using GenerateBaseSignature()? I am really confuzzled. Ha! Does anyone here know anything about VB.NET and OAuth implementations in this language?
[twitter-dev] Re: How-To: Get a Twitter Token via VB.NET
Also, are your sorting your parameters alphabetically, per spec? On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Obrzut sa...@peyoteuk.com wrote: Hi, I have been working on an program that will eventually access the Twitter site. But, I have found the very first stage of OAuth very cumbersome. Basically, I have the following code; Dim url As String = http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token; Dim xml As String = Dim OAuth As New OAuth_Twitter Dim O As New OAuth.OAuthBase Dim consumerKey As String = CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qg Dim consumerSecret As String = Sf7DGMTiK4cyU8qOuqOWX4yCNCwAdcRAlAj02cOA Dim token As String = Dim tokenSecret As String = Dim Method As String = GET Dim outURL As String = http://twitter.com/statuses/show/ 123.xml http://twitter.com/statuses/show/%0A123.xml Dim querystring = Dim URI As New Uri(url) Dim nonce As String = O.GenerateNonce() Dim timeStamp As String = O.GenerateTimeStamp() REM//Generate Signature Dim sig As String = O.GenerateSignature(URI, _ consumerKey, _ consumerSecret, _ token, _ tokenSecret, _ Method, _ timeStamp, _ nonce, _ , _ querystring) querystring = oauth_signature= HttpUtility.UrlEncode (sig) Dim test As String = url ? querystring Dim UR As System.Net.WebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create (test) Dim str As System.IO.Stream = UR.GetResponse ().GetResponseStream() - The program fails at the end - where str is dimmed as a IO.Stream and a GetResponseStream() is attempted. I get a 401: Unauthorised message - and the program terminates. I think I am doing some thing wrong here, but I do not know what? Do I have to use GenerateSignature() from the OAuth class twice? How about using GenerateBaseSignature()? I am really confuzzled. Ha! Does anyone here know anything about VB.NET and OAuth implementations in this language?
[twitter-dev] Re: How-To: Get a Twitter Token via VB.NET
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Obrzut wrote: Hi, I have been working on an program that will eventually access the Twitter site. But, I have found the very first stage of OAuth very cumbersome. Basically, I have the following code; Dim url As String = http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token; Dim xml As String = Dim OAuth As New OAuth_Twitter Dim O As New OAuth.OAuthBase Dim consumerKey As String = CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qg Dim consumerSecret As String = Sf7DGMTiK4cyU8qOuqOWX4yCNCwAdcRAlAj02cOA Dim token As String = Dim tokenSecret As String = Dim Method As String = GET Dim outURL As String = http://twitter.com/statuses/show/ 123.xml Dim querystring = Dim URI As New Uri(url) Dim nonce As String = O.GenerateNonce() Dim timeStamp As String = O.GenerateTimeStamp() REM//Generate Signature Dim sig As String = O.GenerateSignature(URI, _ consumerKey, _ consumerSecret, _ token, _ tokenSecret, _ Method, _ timeStamp, _ nonce, _ , _ querystring) querystring = oauth_signature= HttpUtility.UrlEncode (sig) Dim test As String = url ? querystring Dim UR As System.Net.WebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create (test) Dim str As System.IO.Stream = UR.GetResponse ().GetResponseStream() - The program fails at the end - where str is dimmed as a IO.Stream and a GetResponseStream() is attempted. I get a 401: Unauthorised message - and the program terminates. I think I am doing some thing wrong here, but I do not know what? Do I have to use GenerateSignature() from the OAuth class twice? How about using GenerateBaseSignature()? I am really confuzzled. Ha! Does anyone here know anything about VB.NET and OAuth implementations in this language? Hi again, I've written a Twitter OAUth library in C# that you can use--all you have to do is compile it as a DLL and reference it in your VB project, it should work just fine from VB (.NET is interoperable that way, no need to convert). You can download a binary package from http://code.google.com/p/twarp/downloads/list (OAuth.Twitter.zip), it contains the library + all the dependencies. Sample code on using the library, both asynchronously and synchronously (from C#, should be easily convertible to VB) is available in the http://code.google.com/p/twarp/source/browse/#svn/trunk/src/Libraries/OAuth.Twitter/Samples folder. The library requires .NET 3.0 and higher, and is also portable to Mono. :) Cheers, - -- Bojan Rajkovic boj...@brandeis.edu Biochemistry '10, Brandeis University PGP Signature Key ID: 0x8783D016 PGP Encryption Key ID: 0x2497B8B2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKQ+XpAAoJEO4IwQyHg9AWvVwP/iA8cd9ZgxWevon2tOXbMRsD Zi5942UUuH/8RVaT+OswBgTRFf764JzYzqA5Sj+tKGn8ESs0QyGoaFINSNIkOENj HSbI+g1MKQzv7fc5Woz6QBE9rELvSj/M+0E9j4FzX3kyevchEM2ImSgVWNxkINLv QuI5raoJwKIrgaYR5tel20XqhJAdBCt3MofwfoHKvUd1aOmUajlKiN0QNXEUxeON SZpwRXRryLgaDVIbqGsmWaii0Aj7lSdqCyYDZrA1+C6p+9x5a3s4JjFbQLgXm+c8 3IyZgTQBTJrRAPzGnm5/YizKNk2ycIlHI8tRmmUM2PMt8xPN6pNrOPtuNqpNZG4U OdIgjVkX74TbHQouxbxEJYfQm0ua3gWjlEoDHR+JeDRKg5D4xzt9iljx4/Jq0b8a pBIMYu+mXb/DhexIt4bjFPJCbqk/6s2ExGbWPiwwcFdXf3GF3WzGO1nx+Q4k1bDd 7fPhq2iLjJlAGcLx/yIgYTku4oqpYvWT8vwzEMlG35/pITuw6wSVZaqws9WnQghk FHP+4OOYjvmkyoTZXZhIQ2ZJXPrcFFRyf0xAJXtcRECQ1B+e/PMSQVZCzaI45NtX bztyAdGqfr9rFeFKOXkH8Gl9QXbGBbfBIdGOubx16iuWfPUoHk3rSwX2kE5Q/dPP A5d+rokbxzvQY6TZR4sf =8N+T -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
url = https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml; Dim test As String = url Dim UR As System.Net.WebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create (test) UR.Credentials = New NetworkCredential(APONetworks, password) Dim str As System.IO.Stream = UR.GetResponse ().GetResponseStream() Dim r As New System.IO.StreamReader(str) TextBox1.Text = r.ReadToEnd() r.Close() str.Close() SUSSED IT! Yeah - I cheated a lil bit - but I am now able to retrieve all the data from the page and parse it into my textbox! Ha. Now - I am making my first Twitter App!
[twitter-dev] Re: How-To: Get a Twitter Token via VB.NET
Until they discontinue basic auth... On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 16:04, Obrzut sa...@peyoteuk.com wrote: Thanks. But - I kinda sorted it here with this code snippet... url = https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml; Dim test As String = url Dim UR As System.Net.WebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create (test) UR.Credentials = New NetworkCredential(APONetworks, password) Dim str As System.IO.Stream = UR.GetResponse ().GetResponseStream() Dim r As New System.IO.StreamReader(str) TextBox1.Text = r.ReadToEnd() r.Close() str.Close() -- It now retreives the web page I request all the time! Haha! No need for external DLLs or any sort of thing. I am well pleased! I guess it's a kinda cheat - but it works :) -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues...
http://esytrader.netblog.fr/ Easytrader R.C.S : 508 347 127 27 av jean medecin 06000 Nice Mobile :+33(0) 6 87 87 04 22 +33(0) 6 14 76 48 96 Bur :+33(0) 4 89 00 16 01 MIRA Emmanuel http://www.easytrader.fr best regards Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:17:03 -0700 Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Desperate for Help! Twitter API Blues... From: sa...@peyoteuk.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com WOW! Thanks! I'll try that! Just a side note - I extracted the URL and ran it thru a web browser - then it started popping open a Username / Password box? It stated; The server twitter.com at Twitter API requires a username and password. What is all this about? I ask, because, my twitter username and password do not work? When I ran the URL via the web browser object in VB.NET the document completed without any body of text. It just exited without a login prompt. Nothing. So, it seems the URL I am creating seems sound - as it created a Login prompt in google Chrome. But, I dunno what credentials I require for the login prompt? http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token?oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce=2475068oauth_timestamp=1245949941oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1oauth_consumer_key=CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qgoauth_signature=6Uq%2brP1nCHcS3WFLkPMtANO1Zso%3d This is the URL I used to access the login prompt. Any pointers? On Jun 25, 6:04 pm, Bojan Rajkovic boj...@brandeis.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Obrzut wrote: oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce=5048009oauth_timestamp=1245948327oauth_sig nature_method=HMAC- SHA1oauth_consumer_key=CgZiTeNqGk2c0eZSdb9qgoauth_signature=vxFWk3JvGKdKI RYR31%2b2JC %2bh30o%3d This is an example URL I am sending. Is there anything suspect you can see just by looking at it? It really would help me out no end. Kind regards, Obrzut You need to apply a lexicographical byte ordering to the OAuth parameters--that is, sort them alphabetically. I ran into this in the beginning, and scratched my head for a while until I read the OAuth standard. Cheers, - -- Bojan Rajkovic boj...@brandeis.edu Biochemistry '10, Brandeis University PGP Signature Key ID: 0x8783D016 PGP Encryption Key ID: 0x2497B8B2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKQ647AAoJEO4IwQyHg9AWnVkP/2H5dQWnGSYXGGQV0YW6oswQ gBELIhWjHiq9lkQQbOrCUqV6hR4wycSa5hNfaW+YxQsVEuORTw1FAhiayJPRcVAH I8cgewOSgXG5CSbXfutPmfQFHZNdN3zgJMaS0sAwoyEik+nb/JePlUEkn7f9CPzb buqLAjadh0bLNdB/U2ld5FBgnAc1zQEJrGCePqfzYls3RTQm+dc6wtpzRnlKVDER hfsVh0E9OUZOIjEmaHsc7KUjoiATSB/j0LXrF+3x3BR/ISYkoLW0cJPQEscJVrG+ JbtJ3Q4H1uJpDn5iF4ENhzjZa1/v45w/zliXk8MeDixLC4jtTUE54oKZsYFjhL/v d1BMgmgTVCJq7Qj2jJNKjD/A2nriAErh/i/42850MsF9JCnff6d2kruXccdHM8Lv ExttUH9k6c0U4SBVYjjv+Np4OOwWDJvwNx3mXW5mgfLsCtMKdSDD+mm4/M9MHDxR sHo54jlWDXGYHrbAJLtCBp02UN3FTlieQ61QYniaUJcZOuzMoKkmVn4/uHMJT7SQ u+DxUMYaFEpot72IOzgFmAmeToGw1GWyeBzeZnkPq5li5Y+EyUCVKH8dxSj4omM+ qUHwvhI93cS6+mmh3L1KGsfg6uXl88xi1oP3d+k1N65nX4troGWE00VPROTbAPzk +UNJsrk9WkRuaif1le0b =M/IL -END PGP SIGNATURE- _ Téléphonez gratuitement à tous vos proches avec Windows Live Messenger ! Téléchargez-le maintenant ! http://www.windowslive.fr/messenger/1.asp
[twitter-dev] Re: What causes suspension?
Dave Alex, Great to hear from you guys on this forum. My account was re-instated and I'm glad to be back in the fold. I understand the plight of your company, given the explosion in interest. Its difficult to get to every support message, and given the rampant amount of spam, I understand your need to be aggressive with it. With that in mind, I have a few points: #1) I would pay money to have a direct support line. If it weren't for this forum (and in particular, a friend of mine pointing me to this thread) I would have had no other way to contact Twitter employees and explain my position. (yes, I submitted several help tickets, plus emails to suspen...@twitter.com) My twitter account is a valuable communication tool and I would gladly pay for a subscription offering no additional features other than a direct avenue for support. #2) In the past, I designed and built decision trees and other intelligent rule-based systems for the US Military. The techniques used incorporated a measure of uncertainty, is adaptive and can be tuned according to expected behavior patterns. As a mental exercise while I was suspended, I started designing a rule set that could provide better spam account detection based upon history, account details and current usage pattern. If you're interested in seeing the ideas, please DM me (@capttaco) and I'll be happy to share. #3) Finally, you don't send an email to the account informing them that their account is disabled. Nor do you provide a reason. In my particular case, it took me nearly two days to figure out it was my website that was hacked and was the cause. I understand you can't be too transparent in your process here, but some sort of notification and perhaps a high bin of possibilities would help greatly. All of this said, I love twitter as a communication tool and as a platform. I only want to see it prosper and it is in that spirit which I wrote the ideas above. Thanks, Rob Rhyne On Jun 24, 2:15 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Craig, I'll work with the support team to make sure the link gets updated and the article broadened. We appreciate your understanding here. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Craig Hockenberry craig.hockenbe...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the clarification, Doug. I can totally understand the trending topic abuse: I looked a trend the other day and was really surprised at the amount of crap that came up in the search. I think it's pretty important to enumerate the triggers used for suspension. It doesn't need to be the exact algorithm (which could be used to defeat your efforts) but rather something like what you said above. Something that we all can point users to so they can say ahh... that's why. -- which I'm sure Louie is doing right now. Anyone who's dealt with SPAM is aware of how frequently the rules change: the point is that users need to be kept apprised of how they are affected by these constant changes. I'd also suggest that you fix the link on the bottom of the http:// twitter.com/suspended page. The one that explains how to contest the suspension would be a good candidate (since that's the first thing a real person who's been suspended wants to know.) Maybe there's another link on the page that goes to a list of the suspension triggers. You could periodically update that page to reflect the current reasons for suspension. -ch On Jun 24, 10:25 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: There are both automated and manual spam fighting tools we use in house. One of the reasons for suspension is aggressively participating in multiple trending topics within a short amount of time. It appears that Mantia was flagged for this reason. If your users are suspended, it would be best to send them tohttp://help.twitter.comanddirect them to the official article [1]. Spam and abuse are not a white and black issues, they are also far from static. Both of these reasons make it difficult to give definite criteria for avoiding a net. 1.http://help.twitter.com/forums/26257/entries/15790 Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM, richardhenry richardhe...@me.com wrote: As someone who followed Louie, this is very weird to me. Nothing he did looked remotely spammy/offensive/disingenuous. #freemantia -- Richard (@richardhenry) On Jun 24, 5:43 pm, Craig Hockenberry craig.hockenbe...@gmail.com wrote: One of the guys I work with recently had his account suspended: http://mantia.me/blog/twitter-suspension/ We've been having a bit of fun with it: creating a #freemantia hash tag and even a website http://freemantia.com But at the bottom of it all, I realized that we (third-party developers) don't really know what causes an account to be suspended. And yet we all have users of our products/services who can have an account suspended. I'd like to be able to tell them
[twitter-dev] Re: A new Twitter library for Python (Tango)
Thanks! It's been a lot of fun working on it, the API seems really well done. ;) - Ryan On Jun 25, 11:31 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: I'll add it to the libraries section today. Thanks for contributing! Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: great work, I am playing with it now. I am going to see if it works with GAE. you should get it added herehttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Libraries On Jun 25, 7:51 am, Ryan McGrath ryan.mcgra...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I've been working on a Twitter library for Python in my spare time. It's the first library I've written in full for the language, so I'm sure there's quite a few things that could be improved, but I think I've gotten it to a point where I can throw it out there and see if anyone's interested in it. It covers the REST API and the Search API at the moment. I'm working on OAuth support, and I haven't had time to look at the Streaming API stuff in-depth yet, but I'd like to hit that at some point as well. There's still a lot of other small pieces that I want to add which would respect the API more, but it's usable in its current state. There's an experimental build for Python 3k as well, if anyone's into that sort of thing. I wouldn't consider either of these fully production-ready yet, but feel free to use it however you want. I'd really appreciate it if anyone could check it out at the following link and critique it. http://github.com/ryanmcgrath/tango/tree/master It's somewhat inspired by Python-Twitter (http://code.google.com/p/ python-twitter/), but I'd say it's a little more simplistic overall. It requires people to be familiar with the Twitter API itself, so you can't just blindly use the library. I consider this a good thing, but some others might not. ;)
[twitter-dev] Re: API Changes for June 25, 2009
What's the word on a rate limit increase related to the issue 474 fix? -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com Twitter:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Jun 25, 7:18 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Two features and five fixes were deployed today, 2009-06-25: * Feature (REST): Added screen_name and user_id attributes to direct_messages/new for disambiguation - Issue:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=550 - Documentation:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-direct_messages... * Feature (REST): Added new friendships/show method (issue 474, documentation) - Issue:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=474 - Documentation:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friendships-show * Fixed (REST): Partially fixed issue with tiling background images via the API - Issue:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=650 - Note: This was part one. There is a second part to complete the fix that is expected this week. The issue will be updated. * Fixed (OAuth): Added a more helpful error message when you try to use a request token in place of an access token. - Error Text: Request token must be exchanged for an access token before use * Fixed (OAuth): Improved error handling when invalid data is submitted in place of a token. - The generic HTTP 500 should now be replaced with a message that the token was not found * Fixed (REST): The JSON returned in maintenance mode now correctly contains null rather than NULL - Issue:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=703 * Fixed (Mail): Improved outbound email reliability (for apps parsing DM/friend emails) - Improved some retry logic related to transient errors such as timeouts. As always we've updated the change log athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Changelog Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev
[twitter-dev] Re: What causes suspension?
Rob, We are not in the business of support and have no plans to monetize our support staff :) We all understand the frustration of delays but as a developer you can always contact the API team (see http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Support) with your development oriented needs. The general support staff is with one week of the oldest ticket in the queue so it may take a little patience to have your general problems resolved. Thank you for the offer to help our team. If you are seriously interested in getting involved, please do apply to work with us. You can learn about that here [1]. As a shameless plug, the API team is in need of some engineers. Please apply! Finally, there is an internal project to add email notifications to suspensions. This should remove some of the frustration for users that find their account has been suspended. 1. http://twitter.com/jobs Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:30 AM, capt.taco capt.t...@gmail.com wrote: Dave Alex, Great to hear from you guys on this forum. My account was re-instated and I'm glad to be back in the fold. I understand the plight of your company, given the explosion in interest. Its difficult to get to every support message, and given the rampant amount of spam, I understand your need to be aggressive with it. With that in mind, I have a few points: #1) I would pay money to have a direct support line. If it weren't for this forum (and in particular, a friend of mine pointing me to this thread) I would have had no other way to contact Twitter employees and explain my position. (yes, I submitted several help tickets, plus emails to suspen...@twitter.com) My twitter account is a valuable communication tool and I would gladly pay for a subscription offering no additional features other than a direct avenue for support. #2) In the past, I designed and built decision trees and other intelligent rule-based systems for the US Military. The techniques used incorporated a measure of uncertainty, is adaptive and can be tuned according to expected behavior patterns. As a mental exercise while I was suspended, I started designing a rule set that could provide better spam account detection based upon history, account details and current usage pattern. If you're interested in seeing the ideas, please DM me (@capttaco) and I'll be happy to share. #3) Finally, you don't send an email to the account informing them that their account is disabled. Nor do you provide a reason. In my particular case, it took me nearly two days to figure out it was my website that was hacked and was the cause. I understand you can't be too transparent in your process here, but some sort of notification and perhaps a high bin of possibilities would help greatly. All of this said, I love twitter as a communication tool and as a platform. I only want to see it prosper and it is in that spirit which I wrote the ideas above. Thanks, Rob Rhyne On Jun 24, 2:15 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Craig, I'll work with the support team to make sure the link gets updated and the article broadened. We appreciate your understanding here. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Craig Hockenberry craig.hockenbe...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the clarification, Doug. I can totally understand the trending topic abuse: I looked a trend the other day and was really surprised at the amount of crap that came up in the search. I think it's pretty important to enumerate the triggers used for suspension. It doesn't need to be the exact algorithm (which could be used to defeat your efforts) but rather something like what you said above. Something that we all can point users to so they can say ahh... that's why. -- which I'm sure Louie is doing right now. Anyone who's dealt with SPAM is aware of how frequently the rules change: the point is that users need to be kept apprised of how they are affected by these constant changes. I'd also suggest that you fix the link on the bottom of the http:// twitter.com/suspended page. The one that explains how to contest the suspension would be a good candidate (since that's the first thing a real person who's been suspended wants to know.) Maybe there's another link on the page that goes to a list of the suspension triggers. You could periodically update that page to reflect the current reasons for suspension. -ch On Jun 24, 10:25 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: There are both automated and manual spam fighting tools we use in house. One of the reasons for suspension is aggressively participating in multiple trending topics within a short amount of time. It appears that Mantia was flagged for this reason. If your users are suspended, it would be best to send them tohttp://help.twitter.comanddirect them to the official article [1]. Spam and abuse are not a white and black issues,
[twitter-dev] Re: How-To: Get a Twitter Token via VB.NET
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Obrzut wrote: Hello, Sadly, your API does not work. :( odule Module1 Sub Main() Dim pin As Integer = 0 Dim OAuth As New OAuth.Twitter(Key,Secret) OAuth.Debugging = True Dim URL As String = OAuth.GetAuthorizationLink() Dim pinRead As String = String.Empty While Not (System.Int16.TryParse(pinRead, pin)) Console.WriteLine(Type in the PIN provided by Twitter and press Enter/Return.) Console.WriteLine(pinRead) pinRead = Console.ReadLine() End While If OAuth.GetAccessToken(pin) Then URL = http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml; Dim Xml As String = (OAuth.WebRequest (Global.OAuth.RequestMethod.GET, URL, String.Empty)) Console.WriteLine(Xml) End If End Sub End Module This is my code - using your API. But, no pin appears - why? It fails on the pin number. You're using the API wrong. You have to open the webpage provided by GetAuthorizationLink (), and get the PIN from there. I won't parse the page that Twitter sends back with the PIN. - -- Bojan Rajkovic boj...@brandeis.edu Biochemistry '10, Brandeis University PGP Signature Key ID: 0x8783D016 PGP Encryption Key ID: 0x2497B8B2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKRBWAAAoJEO4IwQyHg9AWfocP/ikGk7Mo4h49khsrkzYTUxOR 4POcmRSRObHDRTC7YZrvypH9NyfWgquYRj6W/Qkc5fvF8DWWyUcw3EnHBzfHjHKB aCSxqJPtTCtAgh7RjFCOjgZRJK+4xum7llq2DnBNnnNGzQPoSQdCI3eCOdkjF01K gH1mnnO4ofj/0rTDoCPyQzW2GLvUy4sMironwUX9fEyDo60f4J9LH2Cr6lAm4jRU tMJ8cfDPA6EToeallidFcc2reKeCvK0EAw2R0nAumwWH8DTk4egpHHrX34AeYCOW I/hJNgeaakZNvl8eJsuGCTlqGjkUuOSFgxNEQ1IgyPKCT2cZYz0fq8A7ricIb6kp 4s+aWFVLjSIYMAykHEna/AGkQygwv6otWOELiNjX+hGjrywNw3Q7cSbr0HASHZ58 VFH3xDnrK7d4Qecr+brFJA92T2sBkUzHuxtLOOqLPdHMPAEQFjRpxDv6qcGsNOid qWdXDTXZGkQ+eVye0whTHdpZYOroWvMCM12dwPQcphtgO99Sl+bCUNqOPomAf0xZ uSqOZosEzaaoMo8WYeeRGkQ7u+8hvU3jYF6J1Fxd//kpozJSiv/yw/jgxToZSTHQ JD4R+7rwIr+rduGnTcL1Ad5BRU9GCb5kkcWxfAB0q0jwGWl3niAKvHYFttKRUTe2 ubrdygwavcpBBDed/CVJ =IG+B -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[twitter-dev] Re: Releasing a dormat screenname
It turns out they respond very quickly. Unforunately its with an email that includes: Twitter is not currently releasing inactive user names. Unless your user name issue involves Terms of Service violations, you'll have to wait until all inactive user names are released. We're working on a better long term solution for this, and we should have more news soon. Ahh well. :) On Jun 24, 8:15 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Mark, Email usern...@twitter.com (literally 'username', not the name you want). It usually takes some time since, as you can imagine, it's a lower priority than spam and other issues. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On Jun 24, 2009, at 1:54 PM, kprobe wrote: Doug has been just talking about spammers related to acct suspensions and just gave the rules for releasing a screen name. Who do we contact @twitter to get a dormant screen name released? Mark
[twitter-dev] Re: Tags for places?
I'm trying to solve the problem you described here with twitterplaces. 1. You tweet about L:placename 2. You go to twitterplaces.com/username/placename and specify the exact address (address is guessed from google local search) 3. Other apps can request twitterplaces.com/username/placename.json to access the location address. So, a small piece of infrastructure like bit.ly - is the plan. :) Ben On Jun 21, 4:27 pm, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: Although it might be nice and easy to go for just L:NAME what happens when there are more than 1 café with the same name? How do I tell what country you are in? How do I tell the date/relevance to me etc. It's notlocationspecific but we've been using the term CHurl - to indicate a live Chat URL. Basically we setup the following for our baseball fan site (which is connected to twitter via API) http://www.livebaseballchat.com/CHurl/06-21-2009/1019/479 Made up of the following constitute parts URL/ LiveBaseballChat.com (we are going to launch 7 more so needed the name included) CHurl/ Word 06/ Month 21/ Date 09/ Year 1019/ Room number 479/ Message number Regards, Dean Collins Live Chat Concepts Inc d...@livechatconcepts.com +1-212-203-4357 New York +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial). -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of benn Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:07 PM To: Twitter Development Talk Subject: [twitter-dev]Tagsfor places? What's a good tag-type to use for when a user refers to places? I've been using $dollartags and then indexing them - eg off to $mojocoffee for MORE BEANS. Are there any standards for these already? I've seen people using L: styletags. Any other recommendations for tag semantics for places? Ben twitterplaces.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Help styling twitter in message link URLs as icons instead of text
Regular expression to find and replace the in-tweet links?? On Jun 24, 9:49 am, jefbak jef...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to figure out what css/script would be required to take a link posted in a tweet and style it so that it shows as an icon instead. This way we can display our twitter stream on a web page with nice graphics instead of text URLs showing up in tweets that have links. Has anybody tried this? I have seen an example here:http://www.oberlin.edu/
[twitter-dev] Re: Help styling twitter in message link URLs as icons instead of text
Off the top of my head there are 2 ways to do this. Add a class to each link and use CSS/JS or use JS to search the page content for links and modify them on the fly. For an example of the later check out: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/extlink/extlink.js?revision=1.4.2.7view=markup It is JS specific to Drupal so it would have to be modified but the basics should work. You could also check out the Mediawiki source code as it has this functionality as well. Abraham On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 20:43, jefbakjef...@gmail.com wrote: Regular expression to find and replace the in-tweet links?? On Jun 24, 9:49 am, jefbak jef...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to figure out what css/script would be required to take a link posted in a tweet and style it so that it shows as an icon instead. This way we can display our twitter stream on a web page with nice graphics instead of text URLs showing up in tweets that have links. Has anybody tried this? I have seen an example here:http://www.oberlin.edu/ -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Security Message Interferring On Twitter
Everytime I refresh my page on twitter or change pages or update most anything, I get a security message I have to answer. It's time consuming and it has never happened before until recently. How do I get rid of this message question on my computer as I am on Twitter? Here is how the message/question reads: -- Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely? This webpage contains content that will not be delivered using a secure HTTPS connection, which could compromise the security of the entire webpage. More Info YES NO
[twitter-dev] Re: Reg gardenhose feed
The JSON and XML markup formats do not define a fixed ordering of their fields and they also allow new fields to be added at any time. Besides consuming absurd amounts of CPU for name-value pair decoding, this decoupling of producer and consumer is nearly the entire point of these markup schemes. If you use a reasonable JSON parser, it will mask all of these issues for you. If you try to pick the text apart via other means, you will be continuously reworking as the status format evolves and as the JSON encoder capriciously reorders its output. -John Kalucki Services, Twitter. Inc. On Jun 25, 10:13 pm, Arun arunachala...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have few doubts regarding gardenhose feed. im redirecting the feed in json into flat file. also using php to decode the json format. When i went through few records, i was able to see that all records are not in same format i.e reply status message format differs from the other status format. ( few records starts with created_at field, while other records starts with favorited I want to know what are the various output record provided by gardenhose feed and their respective format and Where do i find the same. Cheers, Arunachalam
