[twitter-dev] Re: Authentication required for Twitter REST API Method: trends available
Thank Raffi
Can it have a coming soon tag too it like the ReTweet documents.
However I notice that home_timeline still has coming soon and that has
been available for sometime.
On Nov 9, 10:33 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote:
hi all
.
i really do apologise if it wasn't clear -- the API isn't open yet.
the docs are there to give you all a heads up on what the endpoints
will look like. we expect to launch within a month.
Dear Twitter API peeps,
The API doccos for Twitter REST API Method: trends
available (https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Twitter%20REST%20API
%20Method:%20trends%20available) say that no authentication is
required, but I think it is:
$ curlhttp://api.twitter.com/1/trends/available.json
{request:/1/trends/available.json,error:Could not
authenticate you.}
Cheers
Nic
--
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API
hi raffi, this is great. +1 on being about to query trends by lat, lng, radius (or using a bounding box spatial query) this might help what i am doing with GeoMeme - http://www.geome.me which currently uses the Yahoo Term Extraction API to work out trending topics at *any* lat / lng position. keen to hear your thoughts on GeoMeme if you are willing / able. keep up the geo! cheers, bob On Nov 10, 9:13 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: We've heard from lots of users that trending topics, as seen on the twitter.com homepage and on search.twitter.com, are a fun way to figure out what's going on in the Twitter-verse at this very instant. The one feature request that we've heard over and over, however, is what's going on where I am?. To answer that, we wanted to give you all a heads up regarding the new Trends API that we're launching. This API will open up trending information that is specific to a number of locations around the world. At a high level, there will be two new endpoints: * an endpoint to give a listing of all locations that trends are available for, and * an endpoint to actually allow you to query by a specific location. We're using Yahoo!'s Where on Earth IDs (WOEIDs) to name each location that we have information for -- we're doing so because those IDs give not only language-agnostic, but also permanent, stable, and unique identifiers for geographic locations. For example, San Francisco has a permanent and unique WOEID of 2487956, London has 44418, and the Earth has WOEID 1. You can find out more about those IDs athttp://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/ . The EXAMPLES section at the bottom of the documentation's landing page shows an example of how to find out the WOEID of a specific place. To start reading through the documentation, check out: https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-trends-avai...https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-trends-loca... It should be noted that at launch, unlike the trends that are available by the search API, these localized trends will not be rolled up into daily and weekly trends. Those rollups may come in a future release. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: Authentication required for Twitter REST API Method: trends available
whoops! good catch! i had a [COMING SOON] on the index page of the
wiki, but not on the individual pages. corrected!
Thank Raffi
Can it have a coming soon tag too it like the ReTweet documents.
However I notice that home_timeline still has coming soon and that has
been available for sometime.
hi all
i really do apologise if it wasn't clear -- the API isn't open yet.
the docs are there to give you all a heads up on what the endpoints
will look like. we expect to launch within a month.
Dear Twitter API peeps,
The API doccos for Twitter REST API Method: trends
available (https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Twitter%20REST%20API
%20Method:%20trends%20available) say that no authentication is
required, but I think it is:
$ curlhttp://api.twitter.com/1/trends/available.json
{request:/1/trends/available.json,error:Could not
authenticate you.}
Cheers
Nic
--
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: Blocking vs non-blocking list creation: list streams are different
I''m not sure if it's related or not... but I had a very similar problem with following users for non-list based items. In fact, even when I would add new users synchronously, I had to put a sleep in there of a few seconds. If I didn't sleep between follow calls, the account would reflect that I had been following the users, but I would never receive their status in my stream. (For example, the account on the website would say I was following 10 people, but I'd only ever get the status for 2) If I put a sleep of a few seconds, everything worked perfectly. So, it seems like the list-based following might suffer from the same issue as the non-list based following. I know it doesn't help solve your issue, but maybe others have noticed a similar problem and twitter can look into it. On Nov 10, 12:20 am, Eric Gilbert eegilb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm developing an app that builds a few lists. Since it seems the only way to add users to lists is one id per call (please let me know if I'm mistaken), I experimented with populating the lists asynchronously. Both seem to build the list fine, and of course async is much faster. Here's the strange thing: although the lists created with each method have the same membership list, the lists streams are not the same. (Sync seems to be doing the right thing, but I haven't verified this rigorously.) For example, see http://twitter.com/eegilbert/right vshttp://twitter.com/eegilbert/notsoright Strange. Cheers, Eric
[twitter-dev] Re: Time zone support
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Emrah e...@ekanet.net wrote: That's the main point of my suggestion! It helps avoiding the need of making calculation to know at what time a Tweet has been posted according to the poster's timezone. It doesn't make sense to see that Jeff said Good morning at 12:30 even though it was 06:30 for him... Of course for a personal timeline I will need to have the 13:30 information, but I would appreciate to have a mention of Jeff's timezone somewhere. For now, I must calculate each post's timestamp, whether it comes from India, Switzerland, New-York or Australia... If tweets all start having variable timezones, it is just another thing that has to be calculated around to get times into the local timezone for end users. I am not going to repeat myself... I still believe this feature would emphasize the international impact of Twitter and improve the user experience. What do you think? I think it's solving a problem that doesn't exist. It doesn't bother me to see my friends in Australia talking about going to bed when it's morning for me. And how are you going to decide whether or not it's a pertinent message? If my mom posts Not feeling well, going to bed at 9pm, are you going to show that message if I'm in another timezone? Or if a friend posts Great night, just getting to bed at 4am their time? Good morning! I slept 18 hours! Seriously, I don't see a) why this is a problem or b) even if you accept that it is a problem, how you'd implement a solution. Now if you could find a way to filter out political message or pro-Yankees posts, THAT would solve a real world problem :-) TjL
[twitter-dev] can't follow - js broken
I've been getting the following when trying to follow another user for the last couple of days.. $.metadata is undefined [Break on this error] $.metadata.setType(attr,data);var LI...wrong. Please try again!)).show()}}))};lists.js...257546991 (line 1) twttr is not defined [Break on this error] twttr.form_authenticity_token = 'a... 3677c17c35b33e3f21ce57c831f556b90bd16';\ndaniel15 (line 747) initializePage is not defined [Break on this error] initializePage();\n
[twitter-dev] Count for statuses from a list appears to do nothing
Specifying different count on the request appears to send back the same file: ryanb...@fp:mocra-web (master)$ wget http://api.twitter.com/1/drnic/ lists/mocra/statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=100 --2009-11-10 11:13:41-- http://api.twitter.com/1/drnic/lists/mocra/statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=100 Resolving api.twitter.com... 128.121.146.109 Connecting to api.twitter.com|128.121.146.109|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 24800 (24K) [application/json] Saving to: `statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=100' 100% [==] 24,800 --.-K/s in 0.02s 2009-11-10 11:13:42 (1.56 MB/s) - `statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter ()count=100' saved [24800/24800] ryanb...@fp:mocra-web (master)$ wget http://api.twitter.com/1/drnic/ lists/mocra/statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=5 --2009-11-10 11:13:51-- http://api.twitter.com/1/drnic/lists/mocra/statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=5 Resolving api.twitter.com... 128.121.146.109 Connecting to api.twitter.com|128.121.146.109|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 24800 (24K) [application/json] Saving to: `statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=5' 100% [==] 24,800 --.-K/s in 0.02s 2009-11-10 11:13:51 (1.37 MB/s) - `statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter ()count=5' saved [24800/24800] ryanb...@fp:mocra-web (master)$ Even though the API here says you can specify one: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-GET-list-statuses?SearchFor=%3AListsp=5 What gives?
[twitter-dev] Re: Blocking vs non-blocking list creation: list streams are different
Yes. On Nov 10, 12:30 am, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Does creating the same list twice via sync'ed methods result in duplicate streams? Sent from my iPhone On 10/11/2009, at 7:20 PM, Eric Gilbert eegilb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm developing an app that builds a few lists. Since it seems the only way to add users to lists is one id per call (please let me know if I'm mistaken), I experimented with populating the lists asynchronously. Both seem to build the list fine, and of course async is much faster. Here's the strange thing: although the lists created with each method have the same membership list, the lists streams are not the same. (Sync seems to be doing the right thing, but I haven't verified this rigorously.) For example, see http://twitter.com/eegilbert/right vs http://twitter.com/eegilbert/notsoright Strange. Cheers, Eric
[twitter-dev] Re: Blocking vs non-blocking list creation: list streams are different
hi i have created 2 twitter in gmail account and yahoo account but i need same user name wat can i do. how it save same user name. Cheers, Eric
[twitter-dev] Why is my app showing 1 user no matter how many users sign up ?
I've successfully retrieved the access token secret. But no matter how many users authorize the app, the admin page shows only 1 user. Am I doing something wrong ? Thanks Gavin
[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API
Have you considered embedding some explanation field for each trend the way Brizzly does it, or would you rather let such clients handle this? I imagine the real problem for Twitter would be curating trend explanations. On Nov 9, 4:13 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: We've heard from lots of users that trending topics, as seen on the twitter.com homepage and on search.twitter.com, are a fun way to figure out what's going on in the Twitter-verse at this very instant. The one feature request that we've heard over and over, however, is what's going on where I am?. To answer that, we wanted to give you all a heads up regarding the new Trends API that we're launching. This API will open up trending information that is specific to a number of locations around the world. At a high level, there will be two new endpoints: * an endpoint to give a listing of all locations that trends are available for, and * an endpoint to actually allow you to query by a specific location. We're using Yahoo!'s Where on Earth IDs (WOEIDs) to name each location that we have information for -- we're doing so because those IDs give not only language-agnostic, but also permanent, stable, and unique identifiers for geographic locations. For example, San Francisco has a permanent and unique WOEID of2487956, London has 44418, and the Earth has WOEID 1. You can find out more about those IDs athttp://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/ . The EXAMPLES section at the bottom of the documentation's landing page shows an example of how to find out the WOEID of a specific place. To start reading through the documentation, check out: https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-trends-avai...https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-trends-loca... It should be noted that at launch, unlike the trends that are available by the search API, these localized trends will not be rolled up into daily and weekly trends. Those rollups may come in a future release. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API
by trend explanations, do you mean http://whatthetrend.com/? Have you considered embedding some explanation field for each trend the way Brizzly does it, or would you rather let such clients handle this? I imagine the real problem for Twitter would be curating trend explanations. We've heard from lots of users that trending topics, as seen on the twitter.com homepage and on search.twitter.com, are a fun way to figure out what's going on in the Twitter-verse at this very instant. The one feature request that we've heard over and over, however, is what's going on where I am?. To answer that, we wanted to give you all a heads up regarding the new Trends API that we're launching. This API will open up trending information that is specific to a number of locations around the world. At a high level, there will be two new endpoints: * an endpoint to give a listing of all locations that trends are available for, and * an endpoint to actually allow you to query by a specific location. We're using Yahoo!'s Where on Earth IDs (WOEIDs) to name each location that we have information for -- we're doing so because those IDs give not only language-agnostic, but also permanent, stable, and unique identifiers for geographic locations. For example, San Francisco has a permanent and unique WOEID of2487956, London has 44418, and the Earth has WOEID 1. You can find out more about those IDs athttp://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/ . The EXAMPLES section at the bottom of the documentation's landing page shows an example of how to find out the WOEID of a specific place. To start reading through the documentation, check out: https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-trends-avai...https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-trends-loca ... It should be noted that at launch, unlike the trends that are available by the search API, these localized trends will not be rolled up into daily and weekly trends. Those rollups may come in a future release. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: Why is my app showing 1 user no matter how many users sign up ?
Yes, you must be doing something wrong. But its not related to twitter api. Its related to you application logic. -- A K M Mokaddim http://talk.cmyweb.net http://twitter.com/shiplu Stop Top Posting !! বাংলিশ লেখার চাইতে বাংলা লেখা অনেক ভাল
[twitter-dev] Updates not being indexed?
I have a userid that automatically places messages for campaigns and initiatives - political stuff, House Senate, health care reform, etc. http://twitter.com/ProgressivePST Last night I rounded up links for all 435 House seats and began populating their hashtags. #MA08 is represented by Michael Capuano http://www.house.gov/capuano/ #CA18 is represented by Dennis Cardoza http://www.house.gov/cardoza/ #MO03 is represented by John Carnahan http://carnahan.house.gov/@repcarnahan The updates seem to flow based on inspection of the userid's link, but neither hashtags nor @ messages appear in public search. Am I doing something wrong? Is the userid tagged as spam? I'd really like to hear from someone at Twitter about this ... -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser
[twitter-dev] Re: Updates not being indexed?
Looks like that account is no longer in the search index. You can test that by searching for from:ProgressivePST http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3AProgressivePST This probably happened because of the amount of automated tweets containing links that you have. On Nov 10, 10:41 am, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: I have a userid that automatically places messages for campaigns and initiatives - political stuff, House Senate, health care reform, etc. http://twitter.com/ProgressivePST Last night I rounded up links for all 435 House seats and began populating their hashtags. #MA08 is represented by Michael Capuanohttp://www.house.gov/capuano/ #CA18 is represented by Dennis Cardozahttp://www.house.gov/cardoza/ #MO03 is represented by John Carnahanhttp://carnahan.house.gov/@repcarnahan The updates seem to flow based on inspection of the userid's link, but neither hashtags nor @ messages appear in public search. Am I doing something wrong? Is the userid tagged as spam? I'd really like to hear from someone at Twitter about this ... -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser
[twitter-dev] Re: Updates not being indexed?
I've been kind of slinking along in development mode and I'm not terribly slick with Twitter. I'm now at a point where there is going to be a LOT of attention on this - how does one ask/register/apologize/grovel to be able to do a higher volume of messaging? I've been digging for tech support and right now the low resistance path seems to be scooting into Boston, knocking on the door at Spark Capital, and asking for Bijan Sabet. I hope there's an easier method :-) On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, natefanaro natefan...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like that account is no longer in the search index. You can test that by searching for from:ProgressivePST http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3AProgressivePST This probably happened because of the amount of automated tweets containing links that you have. On Nov 10, 10:41 am, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: I have a userid that automatically places messages for campaigns and initiatives - political stuff, House Senate, health care reform, etc. http://twitter.com/ProgressivePST Last night I rounded up links for all 435 House seats and began populating their hashtags. #MA08 is represented by Michael Capuanohttp://www.house.gov/capuano/ #CA18 is represented by Dennis Cardozahttp://www.house.gov/cardoza/ #MO03 is represented by John Carnahanhttp:// carnahan.house.gov/@repcarnahan The updates seem to flow based on inspection of the userid's link, but neither hashtags nor @ messages appear in public search. Am I doing something wrong? Is the userid tagged as spam? I'd really like to hear from someone at Twitter about this ... -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API leaving alpha status?
thanks! we're moving forward :) On 6 Nov., 15:19, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody knows when it will happen, but it should happen soon. We've been working on operational, monitoring and capacity issues to make the transition. The majority of the issues are settled, so we're getting close. In the mean time, however, there is a lot of monitoring and operational infrastructure already in place, and, so far, the Streaming API has been a very reliable and low latency service. If you are planning a service-to-service integration, you should just move forward with your plans. If you are planning a Twitter-to-many-clients system, you must first discuss your plans with us. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Nov 6, 1:45 am, Christian hu...@hubel-media.de wrote: does anybody know when the twitter streaming API will leave alpha status?
[twitter-dev] Re: Updates not being indexed?
It's not really an issue with volume. You are way below the hourly limit of the number of tweets allowed. Once you hit that limit you'll know. The api will return an error stating you're over your allowed status updates for the hour. From what I can tell not being indexed by search only affects search. If someone is following or if you mention someone you they will still see your tweets. I can't speak for Twitter as to why they leave accounts out of search. It could either be related to reducing how much data the search service goes through or trying to lessen spammy tweets. You might be able to email the team at a...@twitter.com to get back in the search index. If you are only using search to track your sent tweets you could store tweet data in your own database. On Nov 10, 11:11 am, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: I've been kind of slinking along in development mode and I'm not terribly slick with Twitter. I'm now at a point where there is going to be a LOT of attention on this - how does one ask/register/apologize/grovel to be able to do a higher volume of messaging? I've been digging for tech support and right now the low resistance path seems to be scooting into Boston, knocking on the door at Spark Capital, and asking for Bijan Sabet. I hope there's an easier method :-) On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, natefanaro natefan...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like that account is no longer in the search index. You can test that by searching for from:ProgressivePST http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3AProgressivePST This probably happened because of the amount of automated tweets containing links that you have. On Nov 10, 10:41 am, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: I have a userid that automatically places messages for campaigns and initiatives - political stuff, House Senate, health care reform, etc. http://twitter.com/ProgressivePST Last night I rounded up links for all 435 House seats and began populating their hashtags. #MA08 is represented by Michael Capuanohttp://www.house.gov/capuano/ #CA18 is represented by Dennis Cardozahttp://www.house.gov/cardoza/ #MO03 is represented by John Carnahanhttp:// carnahan.house.gov/@repcarnahan The updates seem to flow based on inspection of the userid's link, but neither hashtags nor @ messages appear in public search. Am I doing something wrong? Is the userid tagged as spam? I'd really like to hear from someone at Twitter about this ... -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser
[twitter-dev] Re: Updates not being indexed?
We've got information sources for all 435 House districts and we're trying to make their respective hashtags a known information source for residents. Not being available in search pretty much makes this whole concept a dead end ... we actually don't want followers on the userid that publishes this information - it's way too noisy to follow. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:38 AM, natefanaro natefan...@gmail.com wrote: It's not really an issue with volume. You are way below the hourly limit of the number of tweets allowed. Once you hit that limit you'll know. The api will return an error stating you're over your allowed status updates for the hour. From what I can tell not being indexed by search only affects search. If someone is following or if you mention someone you they will still see your tweets. I can't speak for Twitter as to why they leave accounts out of search. It could either be related to reducing how much data the search service goes through or trying to lessen spammy tweets. You might be able to email the team at a...@twitter.com to get back in the search index. If you are only using search to track your sent tweets you could store tweet data in your own database. On Nov 10, 11:11 am, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: I've been kind of slinking along in development mode and I'm not terribly slick with Twitter. I'm now at a point where there is going to be a LOT of attention on this - how does one ask/register/apologize/grovel to be able to do a higher volume of messaging? I've been digging for tech support and right now the low resistance path seems to be scooting into Boston, knocking on the door at Spark Capital, and asking for Bijan Sabet. I hope there's an easier method :-) On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, natefanaro natefan...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like that account is no longer in the search index. You can test that by searching for from:ProgressivePST http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3AProgressivePST This probably happened because of the amount of automated tweets containing links that you have. On Nov 10, 10:41 am, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: I have a userid that automatically places messages for campaigns and initiatives - political stuff, House Senate, health care reform, etc. http://twitter.com/ProgressivePST Last night I rounded up links for all 435 House seats and began populating their hashtags. #MA08 is represented by Michael Capuanohttp://www.house.gov/capuano/ #CA18 is represented by Dennis Cardozahttp://www.house.gov/cardoza/ #MO03 is represented by John Carnahanhttp:// carnahan.house.gov/@repcarnahan The updates seem to flow based on inspection of the userid's link, but neither hashtags nor @ messages appear in public search. Am I doing something wrong? Is the userid tagged as spam? I'd really like to hear from someone at Twitter about this ... -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser
[twitter-dev] Re: api.twitter.com not returning compressed data
Jason, I’m glad you mentioned this, because we had neglected to ask for compressed data in TalkingPuffin. For others wanting to do this (in Java/Scala): import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream conn.setRequestProperty(Accept-Encoding, gzip) ... val is = conn.getInputStream val ce = conn.getHeaderField(Content-Encoding) XML.load(if (ce == gzip) new GZIPInputStream(is) else is)
[twitter-dev] Re: can FOLLOW, but can't LEAVE
Cameron Marcel, My app accessing the api also failed on the 8th or 9th. All is ok now. On Nov 9, 4:35 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Could it be an API issue then? The commands are being posted through statuses/update.json.
[twitter-dev] Background Uploading not working
There seems to be a problem with uploading backgrounds via the API the last couple days. I've noticed this before, but more so recently. After trying to upload a new background via the API, the URL for the background will be updated with the right file name, but the URL it refers to will give the standard Amazon S3 access denied error message. Twitter... please fix this! -- Kyle Mulka http://twilk.com
[twitter-dev] direct messages to lists
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oQUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQk+PgCfemGcdxyqZZrg1tNsxTWhna39 gdAAoLJZHsM8yIqxzpHMp3XlYue2ODpz =ARYR -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[twitter-dev] Re: can FOLLOW, but can't LEAVE
Cameron Marcel, My app accessing the api also failed on the 8th or 9th. All is ok now. Interesting. Must have been a temporary glitch then. I'll check myself when I get a free minute. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Of course, what I really want is total world domination. -- Linus Torvalds -
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Not wild about this, because people don't subscribe to lists, the list subscribes to them. I'd hate to receive DMs from someone who added me to @spammer/spammy_spam, for example; I didn't ask for that. Unless what you're asking is to send DMs to people who *follow* that list? I'm not wild about that either, since I may have no interest in the actual person who made the list, but I'm less opposed to that than the former. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- The less we know, the better we feel. -- David Bowie, Miracle Goodnight --
[twitter-dev] Re: Updates not being indexed?
It's been my experience that a user not showing up in FROM:username searches in the search.twitter.com system are missing because they were previously suspended or otherwise disabled on Twitter. A screen name being restored on Twitter doesn't seem to translate into it being restored in the search system. So if your screen name has ever been owned by someone else, or banned as a spam account, I'm guessing it never got removed from the search system blacklist. On Nov 10, 11:52 am, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: We've got information sources for all 435 House districts and we're trying to make their respective hashtags a known information source for residents. Not being available in search pretty much makes this whole concept a dead end ... we actually don't want followers on the userid that publishes this information - it's way too noisy to follow. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:38 AM, natefanaro natefan...@gmail.com wrote: It's not really an issue with volume. You are way below the hourly limit of the number of tweets allowed. Once you hit that limit you'll know. The api will return an error stating you're over your allowed status updates for the hour. From what I can tell not being indexed by search only affects search. If someone is following or if you mention someone you they will still see your tweets. I can't speak for Twitter as to why they leave accounts out of search. It could either be related to reducing how much data the search service goes through or trying to lessen spammy tweets. You might be able to email the team at a...@twitter.com to get back in the search index. If you are only using search to track your sent tweets you could store tweet data in your own database. On Nov 10, 11:11 am, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: I've been kind of slinking along in development mode and I'm not terribly slick with Twitter. I'm now at a point where there is going to be a LOT of attention on this - how does one ask/register/apologize/grovel to be able to do a higher volume of messaging? I've been digging for tech support and right now the low resistance path seems to be scooting into Boston, knocking on the door at Spark Capital, and asking for Bijan Sabet. I hope there's an easier method :-) On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, natefanaro natefan...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like that account is no longer in the search index. You can test that by searching for from:ProgressivePST http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3AProgressivePST This probably happened because of the amount of automated tweets containing links that you have. On Nov 10, 10:41 am, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: I have a userid that automatically places messages for campaigns and initiatives - political stuff, House Senate, health care reform, etc. http://twitter.com/ProgressivePST Last night I rounded up links for all 435 House seats and began populating their hashtags. #MA08 is represented by Michael Capuanohttp://www.house.gov/capuano/ #CA18 is represented by Dennis Cardozahttp://www.house.gov/cardoza/ #MO03 is represented by John Carnahanhttp:// carnahan.house.gov/@repcarnahan The updates seem to flow based on inspection of the userid's link, but neither hashtags nor @ messages appear in public search. Am I doing something wrong? Is the userid tagged as spam? I'd really like to hear from someone at Twitter about this ... -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Kaiser wrote: have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). Not wild about this, because people don't subscribe to lists, Well, they do, however that is somewhat beside the point here. I'd hate to receive DMs from someone who added me to @spammer/spammy_spam, for example; I propose no such thing. Maybe I was a bit unclear. Unless what you're asking is to send DMs to people who *follow* that list? No. Let's drop the direct message name, and call it directed tweet instead, not to confuse concepts. What I mean is that a tweet directed to a list (by a member of that list) will show up (a) in the tweet timeline of that list, (b) and hence also in the friends_timeline of the followers of the list, (c) but NOT in the user_timeline of the poster. It differs from a regular tweet in point (c) only. It is a mechanism to narrow the audience, not widen it, so there is no spamming opportunity. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5qXUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQmt4ACfaH8Ebj9MpGEoTVlENSWzPogb FfsAn0CCnwToWdwPYbZep6MYo/wraxqO =LjdT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
What I mean is that a tweet directed to a list (by a member of that list) will show up (a) in the tweet timeline of that list, (b) and hence also in the friends_timeline of the followers of the list, (c) but NOT in the user_timeline of the poster. It differs from a regular tweet in point (c) only. It is a mechanism to narrow the audience, not widen it, so there is no spamming opportunity. The thing I'm not getting is that I don't decide what lists I'm a member of; I get added to them by the owner of that list. If @spammymcspammer adds me to @spammymcspammer/spammy_spam, then anyone on that list can then start sending me messages *unless* you also have the proviso that you must follow the list to receive such 'directed tweets'. Is that what you're proposing? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- yankee hotel foxtrot. yankee hotel foxtrot. yankee hotel foxtrot. konec. ---
[twitter-dev] Re: Count for statuses from a list appears to do nothing
You can use the per_page parameter for this. I'll update the documentation. Should probably support count as well as an alias. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Ryan Bigg radarliste...@gmail.com wrote: Specifying different count on the request appears to send back the same file: ryanb...@fp:mocra-web (master)$ wget http://api.twitter.com/1/drnic/ lists/mocra/statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=100 --2009-11-10 11:13:41-- http://api.twitter.com/1/drnic/lists/mocra/statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=100 Resolving api.twitter.com... 128.121.146.109 Connecting to api.twitter.com|128.121.146.109|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 24800 (24K) [application/json] Saving to: `statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=100' 100% [==] 24,800 --.-K/s in 0.02s 2009-11-10 11:13:42 (1.56 MB/s) - `statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter ()count=100' saved [24800/24800] ryanb...@fp:mocra-web (master)$ wget http://api.twitter.com/1/drnic/ lists/mocra/statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=5 --2009-11-10 11:13:51-- http://api.twitter.com/1/drnic/lists/mocra/statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=5 Resolving api.twitter.com... 128.121.146.109 Connecting to api.twitter.com|128.121.146.109|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 24800 (24K) [application/json] Saving to: `statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=5' 100% [==] 24,800 --.-K/s in 0.02s 2009-11-10 11:13:51 (1.37 MB/s) - `statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter ()count=5' saved [24800/24800] ryanb...@fp:mocra-web (master)$ Even though the API here says you can specify one: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-GET-list-statuses?SearchFor=%3AListsp=5 What gives? -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: 500 ISE on List API Update?
Yes we've been made aware of this. It should be noted that the update sticks despite the 500 response. It's on our todo list of things to investigate. Thanks for reporting it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Aaron Brazell emmenset...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to be getting 500 Internal Server Errors on the List API for updating a list. Can anyone verify? Aaron Brazell CEO, Emmense Technologies Lead Editor, Technosailor.com Author, The WordPress Bible e: aa...@technosailor.com b: http://technosailor.com t: http://twitter.com/technosailor p: 443-455-1056Aaron Brazell web:: www.technosailor.com phone:: 410-608-6620 skype:: technosailor twitter:: @technosailor -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] 500 ISE on List API Update?
I seem to be getting 500 Internal Server Errors on the List API for updating a list. Can anyone verify? Aaron Brazell CEO, Emmense Technologies Lead Editor, Technosailor.com Author, The WordPress Bible e: aa...@technosailor.com b: http://technosailor.com t: http://twitter.com/technosailor p: 443-455-1056Aaron Brazell web:: www.technosailor.com phone:: 410-608-6620 skype:: technosailor twitter:: @technosailor
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. The rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Marcus Better mar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oQUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQk+PgCfemGcdxyqZZrg1tNsxTWhna39 gdAAoLJZHsM8yIqxzpHMp3XlYue2ODpz =ARYR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: 500 ISE on List API Update?
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: Yes we've been made aware of this. It should be noted that the update sticks despite the 500 response. It's on our todo list of things to investigate. Thanks for reporting it. Excellent. While we're at it, we're 404ing on the GET List ID API In case you didn't know that as well :)
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
Agreed. Working on an app for service professionals who need the ability to target their message at an opted-in group. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: There is a solid need for a Tweet to list feature - a political campaign might organize volunteers by placing them on a list and would need to hit them all at once with a message. I have a little script that does this now and it's a high value service in the eye of campaigns and initiatives. Twitter implementing this would take out an advantage we have now but I'm all in favor of it - it's a good move. As a security measure perhaps the listed folk ought to not receive a DM directed to a list unless they're following the account that listed them? Looking forward to seeing how this shapes up ... On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. The rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Marcus Better mar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oQUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQk+PgCfemGcdxyqZZrg1tNsxTWhna39 gdAAoLJZHsM8yIqxzpHMp3XlYue2ODpz =ARYR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
You have to view Twitter in its native environment - desktop/laptop AND cell phone. People who'd never give their phone number to a political campaign or ballot initiative will sign up for updates by agreeing to be on a list and they'll engage in flashmob behavior - just ask Congressman Stupak's staff what it's like being on the receiving end of a such an event - they're screaming at people, hanging up, etc, etc. Twitter is an organizational sledgehammer for politics and the internet to cell phone bridge is a key component of this. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, How would that be different from sending bulk DMs - something I have been advised in the past is not something that Twitter condones. Here's the scenario. MarketerMario has 2,000 followers. He creates four lists and adds 500 of his followers to each list. Now he can send, with four simple clicks, his tweet whitening affiliate link to all his followers. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:19 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. The rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Marcus Better mar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oQUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQk+PgCfemGcdxyqZZrg1tNsxTWhna39 gdAAoLJZHsM8yIqxzpHMp3XlYue2ODpz =ARYR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
As with all things, there will certainly be vectors for abuse. For every bad use case, there are just as many or more positive use cases. We'll certainly be thinking about many on both sides. Thanks for pointing out some of the potential hazards. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, How would that be different from sending bulk DMs - something I have been advised in the past is not something that Twitter condones. Here's the scenario. MarketerMario has 2,000 followers. He creates four lists and adds 500 of his followers to each list. Now he can send, with four simple clicks, his tweet whitening affiliate link to all his followers. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:19 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. The rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Marcus Better mar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oQUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQk+PgCfemGcdxyqZZrg1tNsxTWhna39 gdAAoLJZHsM8yIqxzpHMp3XlYue2ODpz =ARYR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: 500 ISE on List API Update?
Worksforme: mar...@albatross:~TW% master ./bin/twurl /1/noradio/lists/1416.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? list id1416/id nametall people/name full_name@noradio/tall-people/full_name slugtall-people/slug subscriber_count3/subscriber_count member_count3/member_count uri/noradio/tall-people/uri modepublic/mode user etc ... On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Aaron Brazell emmenset...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: Yes we've been made aware of this. It should be noted that the update sticks despite the 500 response. It's on our todo list of things to investigate. Thanks for reporting it. Excellent. While we're at it, we're 404ing on the GET List ID API In case you didn't know that as well :) -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Proposed changes to the local trends api
Hi fellow developers! When I saw the local trends api preview that was released yesterday I felt it wasn't really in line with the old trends api and inconsistent. So I made this drawing with my vision on the trends api, I hope you can all figure this out. If not just reply here and i'll try to explain it further. I talked about this on IRC with Raffik and he is willing to make changes that reflect this layout. And let something know if you got an even better idea. The drawing: http://twitpic.com/p0fwj
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcel Molina wrote: That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. Very nice to hear! :-) rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. I wasn't thinking of actual DMs - which could well be useful in their own right. But I wonder if the sort of directed tweets that I tried to describe would be even more useful. They would show up in my home timeline, not the DM inbox. For the sake of discussion: I follow @alextkachman/groovy-guys and would love to get Groovy news from the Groovy guys in my home timeline, but maybe not get tweets from Groovy guys about what they ate for dinner. So, clueful Groovy guys would direct Groovy news to the list. Hmm, actually any such directed tweets should also be seen by direct followers of the poster. They are presumably interested in whatever this this person tweets. So, a tweet by user X, directed to a list L, is seen in the friends_timeline of user Y if: * Y follows L, or * Y follows X. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5siAACgkQXjXn6TzcAQlLKQCbB1abIK5V2LXRVH0oDzA0yrKi NOQAoODAjpSzujC1lEMVgdXw+ZeSrJ73 =YJfc -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Kaiser wrote: The thing I'm not getting is that I don't decide what lists I'm a member of; Agreed. I get added to them by the owner of that list. If @spammymcspammer adds me to @spammymcspammer/spammy_spam, then anyone on that list can then start sending me messages No. Messages directed to a list are seen only by *followers* of that list. Exactly like normal tweets by list members. *unless* you also have the proviso that you must follow the list to receive such 'directed tweets'. Is that what you're proposing? Yes! :-) (Let me clarify again that I don't propose to use direct messages for this - that was perhaps a confusing choice of terminology. The tweets should show up on the timeline of the list. They are not protected.) Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5r1sACgkQXjXn6TzcAQl/vgCfbesb2CJUhjJ4dbSgI3htqk+0 W60An2JVOyllNLNlz01cBK/174b0c6mC =48tK -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[twitter-dev] Re: Blocking vs non-blocking list creation: list streams are different
Indeed something looks strange there. I've brought this to the attention of the team working on the lists backend. I'll let you know what they discover. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Eric Gilbert eegilb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm developing an app that builds a few lists. Since it seems the only way to add users to lists is one id per call (please let me know if I'm mistaken), I experimented with populating the lists asynchronously. Both seem to build the list fine, and of course async is much faster. Here's the strange thing: although the lists created with each method have the same membership list, the lists streams are not the same. (Sync seems to be doing the right thing, but I haven't verified this rigorously.) For example, see http://twitter.com/eegilbert/right vs http://twitter.com/eegilbert/notsoright Strange. Cheers, Eric -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
But people who are added to MarketerMario's list won't get his list broadcasts unless they follow him. That's their opt-in. If they have followed him for whatever reason and decide they do *not* want his broadcasts, they can simply unfollow him. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, You can circumvent the issue by making the receiving of a DM that is sent to a list dependent on two triggers: a) You must follow the sender of the DM; and b) You must explicitly double opt-in to receive DMs that are sent to the list. Bona fide use cases will be able to acquire the double opt-ins from interested users, while most people will simply not opt-in when MarketerMario adds them to his list. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:34 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: As with all things, there will certainly be vectors for abuse. For every bad use case, there are just as many or more positive use cases. We'll certainly be thinking about many on both sides. Thanks for pointing out some of the potential hazards. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, How would that be different from sending bulk DMs - something I have been advised in the past is not something that Twitter condones. Here's the scenario. MarketerMario has 2,000 followers. He creates four lists and adds 500 of his followers to each list. Now he can send, with four simple clicks, his tweet whitening affiliate link to all his followers. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:19 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. The rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Marcus Better mar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oQUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQk+PgCfemGcdxyqZZrg1tNsxTWhna39 gdAAoLJZHsM8yIqxzpHMp3XlYue2ODpz =ARYR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
You shouldn't have to follow someone to opt-in to receive directed messages. Lists have the potential to be a very different conversation than your public timeline. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: But people who are added to MarketerMario's list won't get his list broadcasts unless they follow him. That's their opt-in. If they have followed him for whatever reason and decide they do *not* want his broadcasts, they can simply unfollow him. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, You can circumvent the issue by making the receiving of a DM that is sent to a list dependent on two triggers: a) You must follow the sender of the DM; and b) You must explicitly double opt-in to receive DMs that are sent to the list. Bona fide use cases will be able to acquire the double opt-ins from interested users, while most people will simply not opt-in when MarketerMario adds them to his list. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:34 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: As with all things, there will certainly be vectors for abuse. For every bad use case, there are just as many or more positive use cases. We'll certainly be thinking about many on both sides. Thanks for pointing out some of the potential hazards. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, How would that be different from sending bulk DMs - something I have been advised in the past is not something that Twitter condones. Here's the scenario. MarketerMario has 2,000 followers. He creates four lists and adds 500 of his followers to each list. Now he can send, with four simple clicks, his tweet whitening affiliate link to all his followers. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:19 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. The rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Marcus Better mar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oQUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQk+PgCfemGcdxyqZZrg1tNsxTWhna39 gdAAoLJZHsM8yIqxzpHMp3XlYue2ODpz =ARYR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
Marcel, If that is the new line of thinking about bulk DMs by Twitter, then I am immediately going to enable the sending of bulk DMs to all the followers of a Twitter account in my service. I deactivated that feature early in the year when Doug advised me that Twitter does not condone sending bulk DMs to followers. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:51 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: But people who are added to MarketerMario's list won't get his list broadcasts unless they follow him. That's their opt-in. If they have followed him for whatever reason and decide they do *not* want his broadcasts, they can simply unfollow him. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, You can circumvent the issue by making the receiving of a DM that is sent to a list dependent on two triggers: a) You must follow the sender of the DM; and b) You must explicitly double opt-in to receive DMs that are sent to the list. Bona fide use cases will be able to acquire the double opt-ins from interested users, while most people will simply not opt-in when MarketerMario adds them to his list. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:34 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: As with all things, there will certainly be vectors for abuse. For every bad use case, there are just as many or more positive use cases. We'll certainly be thinking about many on both sides. Thanks for pointing out some of the potential hazards. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, How would that be different from sending bulk DMs - something I have been advised in the past is not something that Twitter condones. Here's the scenario. MarketerMario has 2,000 followers. He creates four lists and adds 500 of his followers to each list. Now he can send, with four simple clicks, his tweet whitening affiliate link to all his followers. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:19 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. The rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Marcus Better mar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oQUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQk+PgCfemGcdxyqZZrg1tNsxTWhna39 gdAAoLJZHsM8yIqxzpHMp3XlYue2ODpz =ARYR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
Marcel, You should talk to Jillian about this as well. I'm sure she will have a contrary opinion on the matter. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:51 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: But people who are added to MarketerMario's list won't get his list broadcasts unless they follow him. That's their opt-in. If they have followed him for whatever reason and decide they do *not* want his broadcasts, they can simply unfollow him. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, You can circumvent the issue by making the receiving of a DM that is sent to a list dependent on two triggers: a) You must follow the sender of the DM; and b) You must explicitly double opt-in to receive DMs that are sent to the list. Bona fide use cases will be able to acquire the double opt-ins from interested users, while most people will simply not opt-in when MarketerMario adds them to his list. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:34 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: As with all things, there will certainly be vectors for abuse. For every bad use case, there are just as many or more positive use cases. We'll certainly be thinking about many on both sides. Thanks for pointing out some of the potential hazards. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, How would that be different from sending bulk DMs - something I have been advised in the past is not something that Twitter condones. Here's the scenario. MarketerMario has 2,000 followers. He creates four lists and adds 500 of his followers to each list. Now he can send, with four simple clicks, his tweet whitening affiliate link to all his followers. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:19 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. The rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Marcus Better mar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oQUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQk+PgCfemGcdxyqZZrg1tNsxTWhna39 gdAAoLJZHsM8yIqxzpHMp3XlYue2ODpz =ARYR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
I'm not saying any of this is being implemented. I'm just responding in the abstract about the scenario you were proposing. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, You should talk to Jillian about this as well. I'm sure she will have a contrary opinion on the matter. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:51 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: But people who are added to MarketerMario's list won't get his list broadcasts unless they follow him. That's their opt-in. If they have followed him for whatever reason and decide they do *not* want his broadcasts, they can simply unfollow him. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, You can circumvent the issue by making the receiving of a DM that is sent to a list dependent on two triggers: a) You must follow the sender of the DM; and b) You must explicitly double opt-in to receive DMs that are sent to the list. Bona fide use cases will be able to acquire the double opt-ins from interested users, while most people will simply not opt-in when MarketerMario adds them to his list. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:34 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: As with all things, there will certainly be vectors for abuse. For every bad use case, there are just as many or more positive use cases. We'll certainly be thinking about many on both sides. Thanks for pointing out some of the potential hazards. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, How would that be different from sending bulk DMs - something I have been advised in the past is not something that Twitter condones. Here's the scenario. MarketerMario has 2,000 followers. He creates four lists and adds 500 of his followers to each list. Now he can send, with four simple clicks, his tweet whitening affiliate link to all his followers. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:19 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. The rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Marcus Better mar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oQUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQk+PgCfemGcdxyqZZrg1tNsxTWhna39 gdAAoLJZHsM8yIqxzpHMp3XlYue2ODpz =ARYR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
Understood. My statement regarding re-enabling that feature was part of a conditional if statement. For now the logic is continuing to flow via the else branch. Dewald On Nov 10, 3:23 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: I'm not saying any of this is being implemented. I'm just responding in the abstract about the scenario you were proposing. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, You should talk to Jillian about this as well. I'm sure she will have a contrary opinion on the matter. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:51 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: But people who are added to MarketerMario's list won't get his list broadcasts unless they follow him. That's their opt-in. If they have followed him for whatever reason and decide they do *not* want his broadcasts, they can simply unfollow him. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, You can circumvent the issue by making the receiving of a DM that is sent to a list dependent on two triggers: a) You must follow the sender of the DM; and b) You must explicitly double opt-in to receive DMs that are sent to the list. Bona fide use cases will be able to acquire the double opt-ins from interested users, while most people will simply not opt-in when MarketerMario adds them to his list. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:34 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: As with all things, there will certainly be vectors for abuse. For every bad use case, there are just as many or more positive use cases. We'll certainly be thinking about many on both sides. Thanks for pointing out some of the potential hazards. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, How would that be different from sending bulk DMs - something I have been advised in the past is not something that Twitter condones. Here's the scenario. MarketerMario has 2,000 followers. He creates four lists and adds 500 of his followers to each list. Now he can send, with four simple clicks, his tweet whitening affiliate link to all his followers. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:19 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. The rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Marcus Better mar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oQUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQk+PgCfemGcdxyqZZrg1tNsxTWhna39 gdAAoLJZHsM8yIqxzpHMp3XlYue2ODpz =ARYR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists
Andrew, Great idea...should be easy enough...just display all the lists and have an opt in button for each, which lets everyone know they want a mutual follow relationship for this purpose. then as people opt in, they automatically follow each user in list, and then in reverse...although opt out might be tricky on a few levels. I would love to use such a tool. Do you need a domain for that? I own MyTwibe.com and MyTwibes.com Hope all is well On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Agreed. Working on an app for service professionals who need the ability to target their message at an opted-in group. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: There is a solid need for a Tweet to list feature - a political campaign might organize volunteers by placing them on a list and would need to hit them all at once with a message. I have a little script that does this now and it's a high value service in the eye of campaigns and initiatives. Twitter implementing this would take out an advantage we have now but I'm all in favor of it - it's a good move. As a security measure perhaps the listed folk ought to not receive a DM directed to a list unless they're following the account that listed them? Looking forward to seeing how this shapes up ... On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. The rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Marcus Better mar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected interest group, without bothering your general followers. Currently the only granularity provided is whole world (tweet) and single recipient (direct message), but this would allow new use cases, for example something similar to a mailing list. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oQUACgkQXjXn6TzcAQk+PgCfemGcdxyqZZrg1tNsxTWhna39 gdAAoLJZHsM8yIqxzpHMp3XlYue2ODpz =ARYR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC
[twitter-dev] Saved search destroy method not always effective?
I'm having some problems getting the saved search destroy method to actually destroy a search. I'm seeing this both in curl and from Ajax calls. The following paste shows me making a call to list my searches from curl, deleting one of the searches, and then getting the list again. The search does not appear to have been deleted. http://friendpaste.com/33zXI3iZCKN23vc1NlhCeJ Anyone else seeing this? -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com Twitter:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com
[twitter-dev] .NET Class for handling Twitter Updates and Rate Checks
Not many .NET examples out there... here it is... have fun...
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
namespace Tweeter
{
public class TwitterTools
{
#region Members
#endregion
public TwitterTools()
{
this.Initialize();
}
public TwitterTools(string userName,string password)
{
this.UserName=userName;
this.Password=password;
this.Initialize();
}
private void Initialize()
{
}
public void Dispose()
{
}
#region Properties
public string UserName=null;
public string Password=null;
#endregion
#region Methods
public int Update(string message)
{
int retval=0;
string code=null;
string url=http://twitter.com/account/
rate_limit_status.xml; //gen.Get(twitterRateService);
string result=null;
try
{
result=this.Request(url + ?
,null
,GET
);
// gen.Test(result);
}
catch
{
result=null;
}
if(result==null)
retval=2;
else
{
//parse results
try
{
XmlDocument doc=new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(result);
XmlNodeList nodes=doc.SelectNodes(/hash/
remaining-hits);
int remaining=System.Convert.ToInt32
(nodes[0].InnerText);
if(remaining=0)
retval=2;
nodes=null;
doc=null;
}
catch
{
retval=2;
}
if(retval!=2)
{
StringBuilder txt=new StringBuilder();
txt.Append(status=);
txt.Append(message);
code=txt.ToString();
try
{
string ret=this.Request(http://
twitter.com/statuses/update.xml//gen.Get(twitterUpdateService)
,code);
if(ret!=null)
retval=1;
else
retval=0;
}
catch
{
retval=0;
}
}
}
return retval;
}
private string Request(string url,string code)
{
return this.Request(url,code,POST);
}
private string Request(string url,string code,string
method)
{
byte[] bytes=null;
if(code!=null)
bytes=System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes
(code);
string logon=null;
if(code==null)
logon=Basic + this.UserName + : +
this.Password;
else
logon=this.UserName + : + this.Password;
logon=System.Convert.ToBase64String
(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(logon));
//request
HttpWebRequest req=(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create
(url);
req.Timeout=1;
//req.Timeout=System.Convert.ToInt32(gen.Get
(twitterTimeout));
if(code==null)
req.Headers.Add(Authorization,logon);
else
req.Headers.Add(Authorization,Basic +
logon);
req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue=false;
if(code!=null)
{
req.ContentType=application/x-www-form-
urlencoded;
req.Method=method;
req.ContentLength=code==null ? 0 :
bytes.Length;
Stream trans=req.GetRequestStream();
[twitter-dev] Re: .NET Class for handling Twitter Updates and Rate Checks
I for one tend to prefer Google Code or Code Plex for posting lengthy
chunks of code intended for resharing ...
Also, LinqToTwitter is a pretty solid reference implementation ...
FWIW. (Not affiliated, just a user.)
∞ Andy Badera
∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice
∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private
∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:49 PM, ch...@stuffworldwide.com
ch...@stuffworldwide.com wrote:
Not many .NET examples out there... here it is... have fun...
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
namespace Tweeter
{
public class TwitterTools
{
#region Members
#endregion
public TwitterTools()
{
this.Initialize();
}
public TwitterTools(string userName,string password)
{
this.UserName=userName;
this.Password=password;
this.Initialize();
}
private void Initialize()
{
}
public void Dispose()
{
}
#region Properties
public string UserName=null;
public string Password=null;
#endregion
#region Methods
public int Update(string message)
{
int retval=0;
string code=null;
string url=http://twitter.com/account/
rate_limit_status.xml; //gen.Get(twitterRateService);
string result=null;
try
{
result=this.Request(url + ?
,null
,GET
);
// gen.Test(result);
}
catch
{
result=null;
}
if(result==null)
retval=2;
else
{
//parse results
try
{
XmlDocument doc=new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(result);
XmlNodeList nodes=doc.SelectNodes(/hash/
remaining-hits);
int remaining=System.Convert.ToInt32
(nodes[0].InnerText);
if(remaining=0)
retval=2;
nodes=null;
doc=null;
}
catch
{
retval=2;
}
if(retval!=2)
{
StringBuilder txt=new StringBuilder();
txt.Append(status=);
txt.Append(message);
code=txt.ToString();
try
{
string ret=this.Request(http://
twitter.com/statuses/update.xml//gen.Get(twitterUpdateService)
,code);
if(ret!=null)
retval=1;
else
retval=0;
}
catch
{
retval=0;
}
}
}
return retval;
}
private string Request(string url,string code)
{
return this.Request(url,code,POST);
}
private string Request(string url,string code,string
method)
{
byte[] bytes=null;
if(code!=null)
bytes=System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes
(code);
string logon=null;
if(code==null)
logon=Basic + this.UserName + : +
this.Password;
else
logon=this.UserName + : + this.Password;
logon=System.Convert.ToBase64String
(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(logon));
//request
HttpWebRequest req=(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create
(url);
req.Timeout=1;
//req.Timeout=System.Convert.ToInt32(gen.Get
(twitterTimeout));
if(code==null)
req.Headers.Add(Authorization,logon);
[twitter-dev] MGTwitterEngine - anyone added list support yet?
Hey guys, Has anyone added list support to @mattgemmell's MGTwitterEngine yet? Cheers, Tim.
[twitter-dev] Twit Search Performance
Hello, I have used topsy for twit search and we are not happy with performance. Is there any other good api for searching text in the tweets?
[twitter-dev] Re: Twit Search Performance
You can also consider the track parameter to the Streaming API method / 1/statuses/filter.format -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Nov 10, 2:53 pm, MuratMetu muratm...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I have used topsy for twit search and we are not happy with performance. Is there any other good api for searching text in the tweets?
[twitter-dev] /statuses/retweets_of_me resource does not have the retweet_status element
Marcel, et al I'm working on bringing our Retweet-commerce tools up to date with the new RTs, now that they're rolling out, and we've got an issue. /statuses/retweets_of_me is returning just the statuses, without a retweet_status element to tell me who did the retweet. Is this a doc issue, or a bug?
[twitter-dev] I need a lot of help. Would be appreciated.
So I have an idea for a Twitter web app that I think would be super useful and cool but I have zero experience in any of the required areas. I have been interested in developing web apps for a while but can find no really helpful resources anywhere. Can someone help me get started from step one (as I really have no idea about any of this)? It would be very much appreciated.
[twitter-dev] Retrieving infomation from twitter search api
Hi, I am currently using the twitter search api to retrieve tweets but
some of the tweets returned are not fully formed. I followed the link
to the actual tweet itself and it seems that when it comes across
tweets with, it gets cut off
Example: Actual tweet: Just Voted I am voting for something
Result that i see: Just Voted
Is there anyway to retrieve the full tweet? I am using Eclipse, Java
to do. Thanks!
This is how i retrieve the search result:
XMLInputFactory inputFactory = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
InputStream in = new URL(http://search.twitter.com/
search.atom?q= + search + page=1rpp=100).openStream();
XMLEventReader eventReader =
inputFactory.createXMLEventReader(in);
boolean inEntry = false;
Item currentItem = null;
while (eventReader.hasNext()) {
XMLEvent event = eventReader.nextEvent();
System.out.println(event);
if (event.isStartElement()) {
StartElement startElement = event.asStartElement();
if (event.asStartElement().getName
().getLocalPart().equals(title)) {
event = eventReader.nextEvent();
String title = event.asCharacters().getData();
if (!inEntry) {
channel.setTitle(title);//false
} else {
currentItem.setTitle(title);//true
}
continue;
}
[twitter-dev] question with twitter color design
hi,all In twitter's 'setting' we can choose 5 colors (background, text, links, sidebar, sidebar border),but i notice that links in the sidebar have a hover background color( just like white+sidebar background color ) ,which is not from the 5 colors i metioned above and not privided by the api . any idea how to calculate this color?
[twitter-dev] Re: I need a lot of help. Would be appreciated.
Depends on what you use to program. If PHP is your choice, start reading book Twitter:up and running. Nice book for twitter app. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 PM, justindclark justind.cl...@gmail.comwrote: So I have an idea for a Twitter web app that I think would be super useful and cool but I have zero experience in any of the required areas. I have been interested in developing web apps for a while but can find no really helpful resources anywhere. Can someone help me get started from step one (as I really have no idea about any of this)? It would be very much appreciated.
[twitter-dev] Re: I need a lot of help. Would be appreciated.
Do you have any of the requisite skills? You can obviously run an email client but there are a few requirements beyond that :-) Not being rude here, just noting that to design, code, probably run a database - these are non-trivial tasks. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 PM, justindclark justind.cl...@gmail.comwrote: So I have an idea for a Twitter web app that I think would be super useful and cool but I have zero experience in any of the required areas. I have been interested in developing web apps for a while but can find no really helpful resources anywhere. Can someone help me get started from step one (as I really have no idea about any of this)? It would be very much appreciated. -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser
[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API
Yes. I imagine Twitter would rather not be forced to do the legwork on offering explanations for trends. On Nov 10, 7:34 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: by trend explanations, do you meanhttp://whatthetrend.com/? Have you considered embedding some explanation field for each trend the way Brizzly does it, or would you rather let such clients handle this? I imagine the real problem for Twitter would be curating trend explanations. We've heard from lots of users that trending topics, as seen on the twitter.com homepage and on search.twitter.com, are a fun way to figure out what's going on in the Twitter-verse at this very instant. The one feature request that we've heard over and over, however, is what's going on where I am?. To answer that, we wanted to give you all a heads up regarding the new Trends API that we're launching. This API will open up trending information that is specific to a number of locations around the world. At a high level, there will be two new endpoints: * an endpoint to give a listing of all locations that trends are available for, and * an endpoint to actually allow you to query by a specific location. We're using Yahoo!'s Where on Earth IDs (WOEIDs) to name each location that we have information for -- we're doing so because those IDs give not only language-agnostic, but also permanent, stable, and unique identifiers for geographic locations. For example, San Francisco has a permanent and unique WOEID of2487956, London has 44418, and the Earth has WOEID 1. You can find out more about those IDs athttp://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/ . The EXAMPLES section at the bottom of the documentation's landing page shows an example of how to find out the WOEID of a specific place. To start reading through the documentation, check out: https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-trends-avai... ... It should be noted that at launch, unlike the trends that are available by the search API, these localized trends will not be rolled up into daily and weekly trends. Those rollups may come in a future release. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving infomation from twitter search api
I've not seen this issue. Do you have a character encoding switch or
miss somewhere?
Also, doesn't asCharacters have some depth to it? Is there an overload
or property at play here?
XMLEvent.asCharacters()
The asCharacters() method return a java.xml.stream.Characters object.
From this object you can obtain the characters themselves, as well as
see if the characters are CDATA, white space, or ignorable white
space.
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:10 PM, pipigu85 pipig...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I am currently using the twitter search api to retrieve tweets but
some of the tweets returned are not fully formed. I followed the link
to the actual tweet itself and it seems that when it comes across
tweets with , it gets cut off
Example: Actual tweet: Just Voted I am voting for something
Result that i see: Just Voted
Is there anyway to retrieve the full tweet? I am using Eclipse, Java
to do. Thanks!
This is how i retrieve the search result:
XMLInputFactory inputFactory = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
InputStream in = new URL(http://search.twitter.com/
search.atom?q= + search + page=1rpp=100).openStream();
XMLEventReader eventReader =
inputFactory.createXMLEventReader(in);
boolean inEntry = false;
Item currentItem = null;
while (eventReader.hasNext()) {
XMLEvent event = eventReader.nextEvent();
System.out.println(event);
if (event.isStartElement()) {
StartElement startElement = event.asStartElement();
if (event.asStartElement().getName
().getLocalPart().equals(title)) {
event = eventReader.nextEvent();
String title = event.asCharacters().getData();
if (!inEntry) {
channel.setTitle(title);//false
} else {
currentItem.setTitle(title);//true
}
continue;
}
[twitter-dev] Re: Blocking vs non-blocking list creation: list streams are different
Great. Thanks, Marcel. Looking forward to the answer. My guess: limit on concurrent follows as countermeasure against bots? On Nov 10, 12:41 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: Indeed something looks strange there. I've brought this to the attention of the team working on the lists backend. I'll let you know what they discover. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Eric Gilbert eegilb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm developing an app that builds a few lists. Since it seems the only way to add users to lists is one id per call (please let me know if I'm mistaken), I experimented with populating the lists asynchronously. Both seem to build the list fine, and of course async is much faster. Here's the strange thing: although the lists created with each method have the same membership list, the lists streams are not the same. (Sync seems to be doing the right thing, but I haven't verified this rigorously.) For example, see http://twitter.com/eegilbert/right vs http://twitter.com/eegilbert/notsoright Strange. Cheers, Eric -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio
[twitter-dev] Cached Imaged and The API - Nightmare
One of the tools my app offers is the ability to customize and create a avatar that can be updated from the site... the problem I am having is I have all the users cached on the site so profile image/data do not need to be requested when a persons profile is being viewed... The problem is the images are appearing on Twitter just fine but its been 8 hours since the last test I ran on 30 users and the images still have not been updated in the API data... I just ran my re-cache script and everything is still the same.. I manually verified the profile_img_url was the same in both the users/show and verify_credentials methods... Still the same images. Is there something going on today or what?
[twitter-dev] Re: question with twitter color design
yes I would also like to know how to set this unmentioned color variable. On Nov 10, 11:13 pm, 爵溪 sospar...@gmail.com wrote: hi,all In twitter's 'setting' we can choose 5 colors (background, text, links, sidebar, sidebar border),but i notice that links in the sidebar have a hover background color( just like white+sidebar background color ) ,which is not from the 5 colors i metioned above and not privided by the api . any idea how to calculate this color?
