[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Hey Guys I'm Nik (@nikf) and work at Realmac Software in Brighton, England. We make a few Mac OS X applications - RapidWeaver / LittleSnapper and Socialite (previously known as Eventbox) which brings multiple social networks into one place. Whilst technically 'Support QA Manager' I also keep the ball rolling with Socialite. Socialite[1] is one of the few Twitter clients (on *any* platform I believe) to actually do OAuth using PIN entry, and as you can imagine we're itching for xAuth :) One thing I'm really looking forward to is new developer site Ryan announced in his talk at LeWeb. It'd be nice to easily and clearly know if features in the Twitter service are deactivated (like Retweets have been in the past). Cheers! Nik -- [1] http://www.realmacsoftware.com/socialite
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: disparities between bit.ly Google Analytics?
Google Analytics is javascript based which means a browser or some environment that can execute JS needs to open a page for a pageview There are many more HTTP requests for a given URL. Bots, spiders, aggregators etc. Since Bit.ly and other shorteners are doing 301 redirects, they can't really discern between the requests. Well, maybe they could with some well known agents, but it is not really feasible to detect every one out there. At least that probably accounts for much of the discrepancy.
[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth implemented, but still not seeing the from [App] in tweets
Hi Abraham, Yes, it should be automatic according to twitter api documentation, but it is not in my case. :( I'm still trying to figure out if I'm missing something/doing something wrong. So I double checked now. 1. My Twitter test account's 'connections' settings page shows my app having read and write access. 2. My statuses/update function uses only my app's oAuth consumer key and the obtained access_token/secret values to update the status on the test account. 3. Using the above function, I'm able to post status to the above account. even tried giving a 'source=' param, but that resulted in from web. One possible area to look at would be my app settings under twitter.com/apps. There, I haven't checked the Use Twitter for login option. Is this necessary to see the from [MyApp] under the source? Status updated using oAuth, but still showing from API: http://twitter.com/gochebo/status/9436736272 Thanks in Advance, -Manu. On Feb 22, 12:39 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: It should be automatic. Abraham On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 09:42, Manu manukp@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I've put together some javascript code for twitter's OAuth implementation, and gave read and write permissions to my app from a test account. After getting the access token and token secret, I tried posting a sample tweet signed as per OAuth, The message does get posted on the test account's timeline, but I'm still seeing From API under it and not From [MyApp]. Is there a parameter I'm missing here? from the update url? Any help to get this resolved is highly appreciated. Thanks, -Manu. -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate |http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud |http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Rate Limit Problem
Greetings gang, I'm running into a problem that I suspect is rate limit related. I have an hourly job scheduled to fetch details of my followers. The first call checks the rate_limit and calculates the max number of getUser calls to make this hour. For example, if my remaining calls is 149, it will make 49 calls. After about 15 calls each time, I get the following message: Uncaught exception 'TwitterException' with message 'User has been suspended.' ( I get the uncaught exception part) but any thoughts on what's going on here? Thanks in advance.
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
They call me @twittelator probably because I wrote Twittelator Pro Free, full featured iPhone twitter clients that shipped on day 1 of the AppStore 2 years ago. I got started on the iPhone 22 years ago as one of the first third party developers for Steve Job's company 'NeXT' - and we're using the same, though evolved, SDK and language (objectiveC) on the iPhone and iPad today. I'm looking forward to CHIRP and meeting you all, and I have a special connection to the Palace of Fine Arts. In 1992, John Perry Barlow and I invited a bunch of our outrageous psychedelic friends and members of the NeXT community to a rave we hosted there. I think that was the last one they let happen there, but it was quite memorable! My phone was tapped for two years after that, but it was worth it. I'd love feature parity with Twitter web - like a flag to home timeline that would include RT's. I'd like access to xAUTH like some other vendors already have, to have Apple Push Notification Service built in to twitter's device delivery options, and while I'm fantasizing, a link to our app in the ad-space! http://stone.com So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added?
Re: [twitter-dev] Introduce yourself!
Hi, I'm Roberto Etcheverry (@retcheverry) and I'm a Perl and Python developer. I'm a Linux, vi and Perl fan since I can remember :) I've been working with the API since early 2009, using the excellent Net::Twitter module from Marc Mims (@semifor). I'm the developer behind twavel.com, a travel deals site fed by tweets. Abraham Williams wrote: We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well. I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp. TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into Twitter profiles. The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to get replies to a specific status. So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added? @Abraham [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/c7cdaa0840f0de84/ [2] https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e [3] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogokloiggg [4] http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Which api url to use?
Is there a difference between using http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.format and http://api.twitter.com/statuses/update.format (without the /1/)?
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
I hear to get a link in that space you have to be sleeping with one of the team ;) On 22 Feb 2010, at 14:19, twittelator wrote: I'd love feature parity with Twitter web - like a flag to home timeline that would include RT's. I'd like access to xAUTH like some other vendors already have, to have Apple Push Notification Service built in to twitter's device delivery options, and while I'm fantasizing, a link to our app in the ad-space! http://stone.com So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [twitter-dev] Rate Limit Problem
Hi, Are you sure thats not the user you're requesting being suspended rather that you? Have you checked your HTTP response to see how many API calls you have left? Scott. On 22 Feb 2010, at 13:23, jtrigsby wrote: Greetings gang, I'm running into a problem that I suspect is rate limit related. I have an hourly job scheduled to fetch details of my followers. The first call checks the rate_limit and calculates the max number of getUser calls to make this hour. For example, if my remaining calls is 149, it will make 49 calls. After about 15 calls each time, I get the following message: Uncaught exception 'TwitterException' with message 'User has been suspended.' ( I get the uncaught exception part) but any thoughts on what's going on here? Thanks in advance. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
I heard the ante's been up'd to a train. --ab On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Scott Wilcox sc...@tig.gr wrote: I hear to get a link in that space you have to be sleeping with one of the team ;) On 22 Feb 2010, at 14:19, twittelator wrote: I'd love feature parity with Twitter web - like a flag to home timeline that would include RT's. I'd like access to xAUTH like some other vendors already have, to have Apple Push Notification Service built in to twitter's device delivery options, and while I'm fantasizing, a link to our app in the ad-space! http://stone.com So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added?
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Hey folks, I'm Mike Champion, a Ruby/Rails developer outside Boston working at oneforty.com. I've worked with the Twitter API for a couple years off on, working on a friend recommendation site called whoshouldifollow.com (trying to help the on-ramp problem) and wrote a Twitter integration for a mobile photo sharing service called SnapMyLife, and a couple other unpublished/half-finished projects. One of the things we've been playing with at oneforty is how to measure which apps are being used in the wild. We monitor the garden hose (and other sources) to see which apps are posting, but would love to find better ways to know what (non-posting) apps people are using. So having a more structured source parameter would go a long way (which Raffi has been great about). Open to talking with anyone who has thoughts on this area. And I'm excited to see the rumors of having an Sign Up API (http:// www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_rolls_out_new_api_citysearch_first_to_impl.php) which would be great for a site like ours. Finally, I'm interested in figuring out how I can help the Twitter dev community more. Would be curious if Raffi and other Twitter folks have a wishlist that they would like to see the community do. I'll be at Chirp in April and would love to meet other twitter devs, and any in the Boston area before then. Cheers, -mike On Feb 22, 11:23 am, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: I heard the ante's been up'd to a train. --ab On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Scott Wilcox sc...@tig.gr wrote: I hear to get a link in that space you have to be sleeping with one of the team ;) On 22 Feb 2010, at 14:19, twittelator wrote: I'd love feature parity with Twitter web - like a flag to home timeline that would include RT's. I'd like access to xAUTH like some other vendors already have, to have Apple Push Notification Service built in to twitter's device delivery options, and while I'm fantasizing, a link to our app in the ad-space! http://stone.com So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added?
Re: [twitter-dev] Which api url to use?
I *believe* Twitter is moving to versioning the API(which is what the /1/ means..it's version 1). So I would use the URL with the /1/, since the other way be deprecated in the future. Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.comwrote: Is there a difference between using http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.format and http://api.twitter.com/statuses/update.format (without the /1/)?
Re: [twitter-dev] Which api url to use?
yeah - please use the /1 URLs. if api.twitter.com works without /1, then that's inadvertent, and we'll probably fix that. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Ryan Alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: I *believe* Twitter is moving to versioning the API(which is what the /1/ means..it's version 1). So I would use the URL with the /1/, since the other way be deprecated in the future. Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.comwrote: Is there a difference between using http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.format and http://api.twitter.com/statuses/update.format (without the /1/)? -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
Re: [twitter-dev] Which api url to use?
Raffi, Just so you know, http://twitter.com/statuses/update.format; also works. That's what I have been using in my app until today(moved to the versioning). Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: yeah - please use the /1 URLs. if api.twitter.com works without /1, then that's inadvertent, and we'll probably fix that. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Ryan Alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: I *believe* Twitter is moving to versioning the API(which is what the /1/ means..it's version 1). So I would use the URL with the /1/, since the other way be deprecated in the future. Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.comwrote: Is there a difference between using http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.format and http://api.twitter.com/statuses/update.format (without the /1/)? -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
Re: [twitter-dev] Which api url to use?
hi ryan. yup - those are the original update methods, right? like http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json we haven't set a deprecation date for those yet - but developers should plan on it. please start to migrate to the api.twitter.com/1/ URLs. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Ryan Alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: Raffi, Just so you know, http://twitter.com/statuses/update.format; also works. That's what I have been using in my app until today(moved to the versioning). Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.comwrote: yeah - please use the /1 URLs. if api.twitter.com works without /1, then that's inadvertent, and we'll probably fix that. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Ryan Alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: I *believe* Twitter is moving to versioning the API(which is what the /1/ means..it's version 1). So I would use the URL with the /1/, since the other way be deprecated in the future. Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.comwrote: Is there a difference between using http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.format and http://api.twitter.com/statuses/update.format (without the /1/)? -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
Re: [twitter-dev] Which api url to use?
Yes, those are the ones I am talking about. Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi ryan. yup - those are the original update methods, right? like http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json we haven't set a deprecation date for those yet - but developers should plan on it. please start to migrate to the api.twitter.com/1/ URLs. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Ryan Alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: Raffi, Just so you know, http://twitter.com/statuses/update.format; also works. That's what I have been using in my app until today(moved to the versioning). Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.comwrote: yeah - please use the /1 URLs. if api.twitter.com works without /1, then that's inadvertent, and we'll probably fix that. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Ryan Alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: I *believe* Twitter is moving to versioning the API(which is what the /1/ means..it's version 1). So I would use the URL with the /1/, since the other way be deprecated in the future. Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a difference between using http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.format and http://api.twitter.com/statuses/update.format (without the /1/)? -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
[twitter-dev] Using Twitter in Flash (and ONLY Flash (AS3))
Hi there! I've been trying to develop a widget to use Twitter on a Flash-based device my company has just released to market in Brazil. To provide you with an overview of the product, it is very similar do iPad (touchscreen) though it doesn't have an embedded browser and runs ONLY ON FLASH, it means, THERE'S NOTHING THAN FLASH RUNNING IN IT. Well, here's where all my problems lie. First, in order to be able to retrieve a users protected tweets I'm supposed to have this user logged in (authenticated). As I don't have a browser in the device, it's impossible to user OAuth (please please, correct me whenever I may be making a mistake), so I tried the http:// user:passw...@api.twitter.com/*whatever*.xml syntax ... got the following error when testing the project in Flash: Error #2044: Unhandled ioError:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error. It's probably because I'm trying to submit a browser command through Flash Player (or something like that). Well, It seems I can't go further in my application development without solving this issue so I REALLYY NEEEDD HELP! DESPERATELY! DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT CAN BE DONE TO SOLVE THAT??? Any help is welcome, though I'm answering some probable questions in advance: - can I use a bridge like a PHP script? No. My company isn't paying anything to have a PHP server to have this Twitter App running, and as it is intended to a costumer device, I can't use an open server to host the script. - can I use AIR or Flex? No. The device supports ONLY AND ONLY Flash (AS3). - can't you use OAuth? No, as I said, there's no browser in the device. Then, I hope some God blessed creature can help me! Thanks in advance. Gislaine.
[twitter-dev] OAuth with Twitter
I had a few questions I was hoping someone could help answer for me: 1. Does Twitter support https:// on all of its API calls? 2. If so, is it possible to use PLAIN_TEXT signatures in OAuth? 3. Does a simple end-user iPhone app need to provide a full 3-legged OAuth request, or can the 2-legged OAuth variant be used as referenced in the OAuth specification (i.e. Application wishing to use OAuth as an alternative to HTTP ‘Basic’, should use the the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret to hold the username and password, and leave the Token and Token Secret empty.? Thanks!
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Hi, On that note, I'd be willing to help the community out more too. Scott. On 22 Feb 2010, at 17:03, Mike Champion wrote: Hey folks, I'm Mike Champion, a Ruby/Rails developer outside Boston working at oneforty.com. I've worked with the Twitter API for a couple years off on, working on a friend recommendation site called whoshouldifollow.com (trying to help the on-ramp problem) and wrote a Twitter integration for a mobile photo sharing service called SnapMyLife, and a couple other unpublished/half-finished projects. One of the things we've been playing with at oneforty is how to measure which apps are being used in the wild. We monitor the garden hose (and other sources) to see which apps are posting, but would love to find better ways to know what (non-posting) apps people are using. So having a more structured source parameter would go a long way (which Raffi has been great about). Open to talking with anyone who has thoughts on this area. And I'm excited to see the rumors of having an Sign Up API (http:// www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_rolls_out_new_api_citysearch_first_to_impl.php) which would be great for a site like ours. Finally, I'm interested in figuring out how I can help the Twitter dev community more. Would be curious if Raffi and other Twitter folks have a wishlist that they would like to see the community do. I'll be at Chirp in April and would love to meet other twitter devs, and any in the Boston area before then. Cheers, -mike On Feb 22, 11:23 am, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: I heard the ante's been up'd to a train. --ab On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Scott Wilcox sc...@tig.gr wrote: I hear to get a link in that space you have to be sleeping with one of the team ;) On 22 Feb 2010, at 14:19, twittelator wrote: I'd love feature parity with Twitter web - like a flag to home timeline that would include RT's. I'd like access to xAUTH like some other vendors already have, to have Apple Push Notification Service built in to twitter's device delivery options, and while I'm fantasizing, a link to our app in the ad-space! http://stone.com So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[twitter-dev] Re: Suspension whilst testing Oauth...
I can't find a ticket under your email address. Can you please reply with the number? You can do so privately, if you want. Brian On Feb 20, 3:06 pm, Drclohite drcloh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys I am toward the end of writing an AIR application using FLEX. I have bought signature certificates, I have the site URL etc. I have tried to add the application to my own twitter account and it has been suspended. The only task of the application right now is to test the Oauth process, which it passed and then would not tweet. Then when I looked a bit deeper I found the application was suspended. I emailed Twitter and have been given a ticket number and although the ticket does not seem to exist I have had some really fast replies - thank you. It seems that your team is making judgements on me because of my company name, which is historic, not what the application does. Can someone point me in the right direction. Have I taken it down the wrong development route here? I started hand coding original microprocessors back in the 80s. I have written a lot of software over the years. I consider myself competent but fallible to bloomers from time to time!
[twitter-dev] Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
A number of developers have reported abandoned connection issues on the Streaming API starting, perhaps, about two weeks ago. The symptoms include a long-established TCP connection to stream.twitter.com going quiet, with the connection mysteriously held open for perhaps hours afterward. After sorting through a lot of conflicting data and chasing a few wild geese, I finally reproduced this problem at Feb 22 15:55 UTC (7:55am PST). I'd imagine that a number of streams were abandoned at this time. If you had a correlative experience within a minute or so of 15:55 UTC, please respond to this message. We currently suspect an infrequent hardware load balancer issue, perhaps related to a recent configuration change. The appearance is that the load balancer is, for whatever reason, dropping valid connections, closing the connection to the Streaming API servers, but not sending a TCP FIN or TCP RST to the client. This is bad. We're treating this as a critical production issue and working through the details with network operations. I'll follow up as we learn more. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
[twitter-dev] Re: disparities between bit.ly Google Analytics?
The official Bit.ly Answer: What you're seeing are total decodes, as opposed to total click- throughs measured by JavaScript on the page. Decodes can be caused by bots, and by applications, like browser plug-ins, which expand the underlying url without causing a click-through. If you download a browser plug-in that automatically expands short urls, for instance, it looks a lot like a human user to an analytics program. Absent JavaScript on the page, it's hard to distinguish between a decode and an intentional click-through. At the end of the day, Bit.ly complements rather than replaces JavaScript-based analytics utililties like Google Analytics or Chartbeat. You should probably read the following articles when you get a sec: http://searchengineland.com/how-twitter-might-send-far-more-traffic-than-you-think-21482 http://searchengineland.com/is-twitter-sending-you-500-to-1600-more-traffic-than-you-might-think-22696 Rex Bit.ly Community Mgr. On Feb 21, 8:36 pm, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else seeing dramatic disparities between what bit.ly reports and what Google Analytics reports in terms of clicks? We're seeing like 10:1 over reporting from bit.ly ... if Google Analytics is right. -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com GV: 202-642-1717
Re: [twitter-dev] Which api url to use?
i'm bound to forget this in about an hour. is this old/new versioned/not listed somewhere in the API docs? On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Ryan Alford wrote: Yes, those are the ones I am talking about. Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi ryan. yup - those are the original update methods, right? like http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json we haven't set a deprecation date for those yet - but developers should plan on it. please start to migrate to the api.twitter.com/1/ URLs. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Ryan Alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Raffi, Just so you know, http://twitter.com/statuses/update.format; also works. That's what I have been using in my app until today(moved to the versioning). Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: yeah - please use the /1 URLs. if api.twitter.com works without /1, then that's inadvertent, and we'll probably fix that. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Ryan Alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: I *believe* Twitter is moving to versioning the API(which is what the /1/ means..it's version 1). So I would use the URL with the /1/, since the other way be deprecated in the future. Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a difference between using http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.format and http://api.twitter.com/statuses/update.format (without the /1/)? -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit Problem
Wow, I hadn't thought of that. I'll check that out! Thanks. On Feb 23, 9:45 am, Scott Wilcox sc...@tig.gr wrote: Hi, Are you sure thats not the user you're requesting being suspended rather that you? Have you checked your HTTP response to see how many API calls you have left? Scott. On 22 Feb 2010, at 13:23, jtrigsby wrote: Greetings gang, I'm running into a problem that I suspect is rate limit related. I have an hourly job scheduled to fetch details of my followers. The first call checks the rate_limit and calculates the max number of getUser calls to make this hour. For example, if my remaining calls is 149, it will make 49 calls. After about 15 calls each time, I get the following message: Uncaught exception 'TwitterException' with message 'User has been suspended.' ( I get the uncaught exception part) but any thoughts on what's going on here? Thanks in advance. smime.p7s 4KViewDownload
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
I'm I think this could be the problem I've been having. My connection to the streaming API stays connected and works fine initially, but often over time the new tweets stop streaming in, but the connection is still active. I have to stop and restart the process. I've been using the streaming API since September and this only started happening this month. On Feb 22, 10:51 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: A number of developers have reported abandoned connection issues on the Streaming API starting, perhaps, about two weeks ago. The symptoms include a long-established TCP connection to stream.twitter.com going quiet, with the connection mysteriously held open for perhaps hours afterward. After sorting through a lot of conflicting data and chasing a few wild geese, I finally reproduced this problem at Feb 22 15:55 UTC (7:55am PST). I'd imagine that a number of streams were abandoned at this time. If you had a correlative experience within a minute or so of 15:55 UTC, please respond to this message. We currently suspect an infrequent hardware load balancer issue, perhaps related to a recent configuration change. The appearance is that the load balancer is, for whatever reason, dropping valid connections, closing the connection to the Streaming API servers, but not sending a TCP FIN or TCP RST to the client. This is bad. We're treating this as a critical production issue and working through the details with network operations. I'll follow up as we learn more. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
Re: [twitter-dev] Which api url to use?
the API wiki docs were painstakingly converted to use the api.twitter.com/1endpoint. if you spot a place we missed, feel free to pass it along! thanks! On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Isaiah Carew isa...@mac.com wrote: i'm bound to forget this in about an hour. is this old/new versioned/not listed somewhere in the API docs? On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Ryan Alford wrote: Yes, those are the ones I am talking about. Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.comwrote: hi ryan. yup - those are the original update methods, right? like http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json we haven't set a deprecation date for those yet - but developers should plan on it. please start to migrate to the api.twitter.com/1/ URLs. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Ryan Alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: Raffi, Just so you know, http://twitter.com/statuses/update.format; also works. That's what I have been using in my app until today(moved to the versioning). Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.comwrote: yeah - please use the /1 URLs. if api.twitter.com works without /1, then that's inadvertent, and we'll probably fix that. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Ryan Alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: I *believe* Twitter is moving to versioning the API(which is what the /1/ means..it's version 1). So I would use the URL with the /1/, since the other way be deprecated in the future. Ryan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a difference between using http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.format and http://api.twitter.com/statuses/update.format (without the /1/)? -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
Re: [twitter-dev] Which api url to use?
Its actually listed on all of the twitter api method pages, except for the OAuth methods. Ryan Sent from my DROID On Feb 22, 2010 1:58 PM, Isaiah Carew isa...@mac.com wrote: i'm bound to forget this in about an hour. is this old/new versioned/not listed somewhere in the API docs? On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Ryan Alford wrote: Yes, those are the ones I am talking about. ...
Re: [twitter-dev] Which api url to use?
The documentation for the 4 OAuth methods do not show the versioning URL. I didn't know if they were moved over or not. Ryan Sent from my DROID On Feb 22, 2010 2:08 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: the API wiki docs were painstakingly converted to use the api.twitter.com/1endpoint. if you spot a place we missed, feel free to pass it along! thanks! On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Isaiah Carew isa...@mac.com wrote: i'm bound to forget thi...
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Hi folks, I'm Damon Cortesi (@dacort) and have been addicted to building Twitter apps for the past two years now. I wrote my first Twitter app in 2007. It was a perl script that downloaded your tweets and inserted them into an iWork Numbers template to graph your timeline and top replies[1]. That script eventually became TweetStats.com. Over the course of the past two years, I've probably built some 20-30 different Twitter apps - some released, some not. A couple of the other main ones I work on are TweepSearch.com, TwitterAvatar.appspot.com and rowfeeder.com. I used to do security consulting full-time, mostly in the web app and payment card data security spaces. This whole Twitter app stuff was just a hobby that kept me up late on the weekends. After a stint last summer as a Twitter Entrepreneur in Residence at a VC up here in Seattle, I finally realized I wanted to build social media apps full- time and started a new company[2] to do so just last month. I'd love any features that let us access more data, specifically my full timeline would be awesome to be able to access again. :) Damon [1] http://dcortesi.com/2007/12/27/twitter-stats/ [2] http://untitledstartup.com On Feb 19, 12:20 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well. I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp. TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into Twitter profiles. The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to get replies to a specific status. So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added? @Abraham [1]http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... [2]https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e [3]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo... [4]http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate |http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud |http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
Hey John, +1 on experiencing that issue this morning. Let me know if there's any way I can help. dpc On Feb 22, 10:51 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: A number of developers have reported abandoned connection issues on the Streaming API starting, perhaps, about two weeks ago. The symptoms include a long-established TCP connection to stream.twitter.com going quiet, with the connection mysteriously held open for perhaps hours afterward. After sorting through a lot of conflicting data and chasing a few wild geese, I finally reproduced this problem at Feb 22 15:55 UTC (7:55am PST). I'd imagine that a number of streams were abandoned at this time. If you had a correlative experience within a minute or so of 15:55 UTC, please respond to this message. We currently suspect an infrequent hardware load balancer issue, perhaps related to a recent configuration change. The appearance is that the load balancer is, for whatever reason, dropping valid connections, closing the connection to the Streaming API servers, but not sending a TCP FIN or TCP RST to the client. This is bad. We're treating this as a critical production issue and working through the details with network operations. I'll follow up as we learn more. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
* John Kalucki j...@twitter.com [100222 10:51]: If you had a correlative experience within a minute or so of 15:55 UTC, please respond to this message. Indeed, I did. From the application log: 2010/02/22 07:56:14 9481340618: RT @whitehouse: The Presi... 2010/02/22 07:57:14 timeout 2010/02/22 07:57:14 Waiting 0 seconds before reconnecting... 2010/02/22 07:57:14 connecting -Marc
Re: [twitter-dev] Which api url to use?
the docs wiki pages list the end-point URLs such as: http://search.twitter.com/search.format and http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.format but it doesn't say much about the 1 being a version number, or about why some endpoints (e.g. search) have a different base URL than others, or why they were recently changed, or if/when we should change our apps, or if the old endpoints are depreciated. or more than likely, it probably does say all those things, i just missed it and was hoping the list could help me locate the docs. thanks, isaiah On Feb 22, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Ryan Alford wrote: Its actually listed on all of the twitter api method pages, except for the OAuth methods. Ryan Sent from my DROID On Feb 22, 2010 1:58 PM, Isaiah Carew isa...@mac.com wrote: i'm bound to forget this in about an hour. is this old/new versioned/not listed somewhere in the API docs? On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Ryan Alford wrote: Yes, those are the ones I am talking about. ...
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
I also experienced an interruption this morning at that time. Stephen
[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit Problem
That was exactly the problem! Thanks Scott... I never would have thought of that! jtrigsby On Feb 23, 9:45 am, Scott Wilcox sc...@tig.gr wrote: Hi, Are you sure thats not the user you're requesting being suspended rather that you? Have you checked your HTTP response to see how many API calls you have left? Scott. On 22 Feb 2010, at 13:23, jtrigsby wrote: Greetings gang, I'm running into a problem that I suspect is rate limit related. I have an hourly job scheduled to fetch details of my followers. The first call checks the rate_limit and calculates the max number of getUser calls to make this hour. For example, if my remaining calls is 149, it will make 49 calls. After about 15 calls each time, I get the following message: Uncaught exception 'TwitterException' with message 'User has been suspended.' ( I get the uncaught exception part) but any thoughts on what's going on here? Thanks in advance. smime.p7s 4KViewDownload
[twitter-dev] Re: Is it OK to store token in COOKIE?
An alternative is to encrypt the token secret. Keep the encrypted secret on the server and the encryption key in a cookie. - Scott On Feb 17, 9:27 am, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/17/2010 5:32 AM, Dmitri Snytkine wrote: Just wondering, is it a bad practive for a web-based app to store user's token and secret in cookies? This would of cause simplify and speed up the login, but is it a security risk? When you boil it down, everything done to increase accessibility is a security risk. I would think that if you keep your consumer key pair on the server there is little problem with this.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: disparities between bit.ly Google Analytics?
Thanks!! We see so much in the social media marketing space about measuring ROI and competing on analytics that it's difficult to get executive buy-in where we know they should be going. Real-time is where the analytics market is going - I'm really surprised Google hasn't put up something like that yet, since Woopra and Clicky already do that. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky/ A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~ Paul Erdos Quoting Rex Dixon rexduffdi...@gmail.com: The official Bit.ly Answer: What you're seeing are total decodes, as opposed to total click- throughs measured by JavaScript on the page. Decodes can be caused by bots, and by applications, like browser plug-ins, which expand the underlying url without causing a click-through. If you download a browser plug-in that automatically expands short urls, for instance, it looks a lot like a human user to an analytics program. Absent JavaScript on the page, it's hard to distinguish between a decode and an intentional click-through. At the end of the day, Bit.ly complements rather than replaces JavaScript-based analytics utililties like Google Analytics or Chartbeat. You should probably read the following articles when you get a sec: http://searchengineland.com/how-twitter-might-send-far-more-traffic-than-you-think-21482 http://searchengineland.com/is-twitter-sending-you-500-to-1600-more-traffic-than-you-might-think-22696 Rex Bit.ly Community Mgr. On Feb 21, 8:36 pm, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else seeing dramatic disparities between what bit.ly reports and what Google Analytics reports in terms of clicks? We're seeing like 10:1 over reporting from bit.ly ... if Google Analytics is right. -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com GV: 202-642-1717
Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
connection issue around 15:56 UTC, see our log below: 22-02-2010 16:55:41 - Consume rate: 13 status/sec (764 total), avg enqueueStatus(): 1.51ms, avg checkFilterPredicates(): 349.46ms (12 total) over 60 seconds. 22-02-2010 16:56:18 - Phirehose connection error occured: 22-02-2010 16:56:18 - Closing Phirehose connection. 22-02-2010 16:56:18 - Connecting to twitter stream: http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json with params: array ( 'delimit 22-02-2010 16:56:18 - Resolved host stream.twitter.com to 168.143.162.55 22-02-2010 16:56:18 - Connecting to 168.143.162.55 22-02-2010 17:01:20 - Idle timeout: No statuses received for 300 seconds. Reconnecting. 22-02-2010 17:01:20 - Closing Phirehose connection. Kim
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
Same issue here, over the past six hours more than ever. On 22 Feb 2010, at 19:13, John Kalucki wrote: One further note: A reasonable workaround for the moment is to, if your client allows iotcls, set a socket timeout of about 90 seconds on your streaming api connection. The servers currently send a newline every 30 seconds. If you stop receiving newlines for 90 seconds, your connection is probably high and dry, and you should reconnect. Please be sure to continue honoring the reconnection policies as described in the wiki, however. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:51 AM, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: A number of developers have reported abandoned connection issues on the Streaming API starting, perhaps, about two weeks ago. The symptoms include a long-established TCP connection to stream.twitter.com going quiet, with the connection mysteriously held open for perhaps hours afterward. After sorting through a lot of conflicting data and chasing a few wild geese, I finally reproduced this problem at Feb 22 15:55 UTC (7:55am PST). I'd imagine that a number of streams were abandoned at this time. If you had a correlative experience within a minute or so of 15:55 UTC, please respond to this message. We currently suspect an infrequent hardware load balancer issue, perhaps related to a recent configuration change. The appearance is that the load balancer is, for whatever reason, dropping valid connections, closing the connection to the Streaming API servers, but not sending a TCP FIN or TCP RST to the client. This is bad. We're treating this as a critical production issue and working through the details with network operations. I'll follow up as we learn more. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[twitter-dev] Re: Where is the group for end user ?
Twitter's help center for end users can be found at http://twitter.com/help/start . We have an article about not showing up in search: http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713-troubleshooting/entries/42646-i-can-t-find-my-tweets-in-twitter-search and I see that you've filed a ticket already. Our Support team should get back to you soon. Brian On Feb 20, 1:12 pm, helenecambodge cont...@lepinekong.fr wrote: I can only find this development group, I cannot find any group for end user, so I post my question here. It's now two weeks I have created a twitter account athttp://twitter.com/helenecambodgeand when I search cambodge I cannot find my tweets ! Thanks.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit Problem
No problem. :) Scott On 22 Feb 2010, at 19:18, jtrigsby wrote: That was exactly the problem! Thanks Scott... I never would have thought of that! jtrigsby On Feb 23, 9:45 am, Scott Wilcox sc...@tig.gr wrote: Hi, Are you sure thats not the user you're requesting being suspended rather that you? Have you checked your HTTP response to see how many API calls you have left? Scott. On 22 Feb 2010, at 13:23, jtrigsby wrote: Greetings gang, I'm running into a problem that I suspect is rate limit related. I have an hourly job scheduled to fetch details of my followers. The first call checks the rate_limit and calculates the max number of getUser calls to make this hour. For example, if my remaining calls is 149, it will make 49 calls. After about 15 calls each time, I get the following message: Uncaught exception 'TwitterException' with message 'User has been suspended.' ( I get the uncaught exception part) but any thoughts on what's going on here? Thanks in advance. smime.p7s 4KViewDownload smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[twitter-dev] Apache HTTP Server Stopped Working
Hello! I am dealing with an issue with the twitter OAuth PHP example by Abraham Williams. Once a allow acces to my twitter account, the browser can't redirect me to the callback URL. Firefox shows the conexion was reset error and windows (Vista Home Basic) shows me an error: Apache HTTP Server stopped working. Is there anyone having this problem too? I am trying to make this work using a local server (appserv 2.6.0). I tried this using wamp server on a windows XP desktop and had the same result. I hope somebody can help me with this issue. Thanks a lot!
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
John, thanks for looking into this. I experienced an interruption at the same time, 15.55 UTC. Misja On 22 feb, 19:51, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: A number of developers have reported abandoned connection issues on the Streaming API starting, perhaps, about two weeks ago. The symptoms include a long-established TCP connection to stream.twitter.com going quiet, with the connection mysteriously held open for perhaps hours afterward. After sorting through a lot of conflicting data and chasing a few wild geese, I finally reproduced this problem at Feb 22 15:55 UTC (7:55am PST). I'd imagine that a number of streams were abandoned at this time. If you had a correlative experience within a minute or so of 15:55 UTC, please respond to this message. We currently suspect an infrequent hardware load balancer issue, perhaps related to a recent configuration change. The appearance is that the load balancer is, for whatever reason, dropping valid connections, closing the connection to the Streaming API servers, but not sending a TCP FIN or TCP RST to the client. This is bad. We're treating this as a critical production issue and working through the details with network operations. I'll follow up as we learn more. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
Re: [twitter-dev] oauth/authenticate language options
Would it be possible to get a full HTTP conversation, as well as the IPs you're connecting from? We choose a language based on 1) The logged in user's language setting (which shouldn't apply here) 2) The browser's Accept-Language header 3) A guess based on IP, but *only* for the logged out home page. If we're doing this for other pages it's a bug. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:34 AM, jdangerslater jasoncsla...@gmail.comwrote: I've got OAuth implemented for all my service calls in an AIR app I'm building and everything seems to be working fine with one exception. When I request the authenticate page, for some reason the page that loads, loads in french on PCs. On Macs it loads just fine in the system's default language. Is there a parameter I can add to the request so I can specify the language? I've tried adding the optional xoauth_lang_pref but that hasn't made a difference.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
I don't believe that we've seen this issue since 15:55 UTC. If you've been seeing hangs more often, it's possible that you are experiencing another problem. Or, equally likely, there is another set of things going wrong. I've restarted the cluster twice today, but this shouldn't cause hanging -- just closed connections. -John On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Scott Wilcox sc...@tig.gr wrote: Same issue here, over the past six hours more than ever. On 22 Feb 2010, at 19:13, John Kalucki wrote: One further note: A reasonable workaround for the moment is to, if your client allows iotcls, set a socket timeout of about 90 seconds on your streaming api connection. The servers currently send a newline every 30 seconds. If you stop receiving newlines for 90 seconds, your connection is probably high and dry, and you should reconnect. Please be sure to continue honoring the reconnection policies as described in the wiki, however. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:51 AM, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: A number of developers have reported abandoned connection issues on the Streaming API starting, perhaps, about two weeks ago. The symptoms include a long-established TCP connection to stream.twitter.com going quiet, with the connection mysteriously held open for perhaps hours afterward. After sorting through a lot of conflicting data and chasing a few wild geese, I finally reproduced this problem at Feb 22 15:55 UTC (7:55am PST). I'd imagine that a number of streams were abandoned at this time. If you had a correlative experience within a minute or so of 15:55 UTC, please respond to this message. We currently suspect an infrequent hardware load balancer issue, perhaps related to a recent configuration change. The appearance is that the load balancer is, for whatever reason, dropping valid connections, closing the connection to the Streaming API servers, but not sending a TCP FIN or TCP RST to the client. This is bad. We're treating this as a critical production issue and working through the details with network operations. I'll follow up as we learn more. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
I have data from the sample stream with a gap at the time in question if you'd like it. The last tweet before the gap is status ID 9481349102 created at Mon Feb 22 15:56:27 + 2010. The first tweet after the gap is status ID 9481743502 created at Mon Feb 22 16:06:34 + 2010. I am connected to sample via the Ruby tweetstream gem. So - it's not just filter - sample is showing gaps as well. I don't know anything about the internals of tweetstream; they're on Github at http://github.com/intridea/tweetstream if you want to talk to them. On Feb 22, 2:25 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: I don't believe that we've seen this issue since 15:55 UTC. If you've been seeing hangs more often, it's possible that you are experiencing another problem. Or, equally likely, there is another set of things going wrong. I've restarted the cluster twice today, but this shouldn't cause hanging -- just closed connections. -John On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Scott Wilcox sc...@tig.gr wrote: Same issue here, over the past six hours more than ever. On 22 Feb 2010, at 19:13, John Kalucki wrote: One further note: A reasonable workaround for the moment is to, if your client allows iotcls, set a socket timeout of about 90 seconds on your streaming api connection. The servers currently send a newline every 30 seconds. If you stop receiving newlines for 90 seconds, your connection is probably high and dry, and you should reconnect. Please be sure to continue honoring the reconnection policies as described in the wiki, however. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:51 AM, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: A number of developers have reported abandoned connection issues on the Streaming API starting, perhaps, about two weeks ago. The symptoms include a long-established TCP connection to stream.twitter.com going quiet, with the connection mysteriously held open for perhaps hours afterward. After sorting through a lot of conflicting data and chasing a few wild geese, I finally reproduced this problem at Feb 22 15:55 UTC (7:55am PST). I'd imagine that a number of streams were abandoned at this time. If you had a correlative experience within a minute or so of 15:55 UTC, please respond to this message. We currently suspect an infrequent hardware load balancer issue, perhaps related to a recent configuration change. The appearance is that the load balancer is, for whatever reason, dropping valid connections, closing the connection to the Streaming API servers, but not sending a TCP FIN or TCP RST to the client. This is bad. We're treating this as a critical production issue and working through the details with network operations. I'll follow up as we learn more. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Scott Wilcox sc...@tig.gr wrote: Same issue here, over the past six hours more than ever. * John Kalucki j...@twitter.com [100222 14:25]: I don't believe that we've seen this issue since 15:55 UTC. If you've been seeing hangs more often, it's possible that you are experiencing another problem. Or, equally likely, there is another set of things going wrong. I've restarted the cluster twice today, but this shouldn't cause hanging -- just closed connections. Maybe Scott is seeing the same thing I am. This morning's 15:55 UTC event (1). Then three close connections (2,3,4). Then two timeouts (5,6) immediately following the last closed connection. (Times are in PST). 2010/02/22 07:56:14 9481340618: RT @whitehouse: The Presi... 1 2010/02/22 07:57:14 timeout 2010/02/22 07:57:14 Waiting 0 seconds before reconnecting... 2010/02/22 07:57:14 connecting -- 2010/02/22 13:47:08 9494846704: @danmartell don't spend i... 2 2010/02/22 13:47:09 AnyEvent::Handle::destroyed=HASH(0x3d12c00) 2010/02/22 13:47:09 Waiting 0 seconds before reconnecting... 2010/02/22 13:47:09 connecting -- 2010/02/22 13:49:15 ping 3 2010/02/22 13:49:23 AnyEvent::Handle::destroyed=HASH(0x43faf70) 2010/02/22 13:49:23 Waiting 0 seconds before reconnecting... 2010/02/22 13:49:23 connecting -- 2010/02/22 14:17:35 9496041457: @greenrd Homeopathy reall... 4 2010/02/22 14:17:41 AnyEvent::Handle::destroyed=HASH(0x44080b0) 2010/02/22 14:17:41 Waiting 0 seconds before reconnecting... 2010/02/22 14:17:41 connecting 5 2010/02/22 14:18:41 timeout 2010/02/22 14:18:41 Waiting 0 seconds before reconnecting... 2010/02/22 14:18:41 connecting 6 2010/02/22 14:19:41 timeout 2010/02/22 14:19:41 Waiting 0 seconds before reconnecting... 2010/02/22 14:19:41 connecting
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Great to see the variety of folks on the list. I'm the founder of the just released http://www.twavatars.com/ , your twitter avatar's little helper. I worked hard to get it to be a cool, fun and easy little tool. I'd love to get some feedback from anyone who's got the time and willingness to do so. Most fervent wishes are greater platform stability and speed in general and more bulletproof avatar architecture and handling. Me = @howardliptzin and @twavatars
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
Hi John, I've had the same setup for a while now without issue, but from 17:00GMT I started getting connections dropped, then once connected they'd just hang. I'll look into the lib and make sure its not my end. Scott. On 22 Feb 2010, at 22:25, John Kalucki wrote: I don't believe that we've seen this issue since 15:55 UTC. If you've been seeing hangs more often, it's possible that you are experiencing another problem. Or, equally likely, there is another set of things going wrong. I've restarted the cluster twice today, but this shouldn't cause hanging -- just closed connections. -John On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Scott Wilcox sc...@tig.gr wrote: Same issue here, over the past six hours more than ever. On 22 Feb 2010, at 19:13, John Kalucki wrote: One further note: A reasonable workaround for the moment is to, if your client allows iotcls, set a socket timeout of about 90 seconds on your streaming api connection. The servers currently send a newline every 30 seconds. If you stop receiving newlines for 90 seconds, your connection is probably high and dry, and you should reconnect. Please be sure to continue honoring the reconnection policies as described in the wiki, however. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:51 AM, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: A number of developers have reported abandoned connection issues on the Streaming API starting, perhaps, about two weeks ago. The symptoms include a long-established TCP connection to stream.twitter.com going quiet, with the connection mysteriously held open for perhaps hours afterward. After sorting through a lot of conflicting data and chasing a few wild geese, I finally reproduced this problem at Feb 22 15:55 UTC (7:55am PST). I'd imagine that a number of streams were abandoned at this time. If you had a correlative experience within a minute or so of 15:55 UTC, please respond to this message. We currently suspect an infrequent hardware load balancer issue, perhaps related to a recent configuration change. The appearance is that the load balancer is, for whatever reason, dropping valid connections, closing the connection to the Streaming API servers, but not sending a TCP FIN or TCP RST to the client. This is bad. We're treating this as a critical production issue and working through the details with network operations. I'll follow up as we learn more. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Hi list, I'm @ginatrapani, and I'm working on ThinkTank (http:// thinktankapp.com), an install-it-yourself webapp that archives your tweets, friends, followers, and mentions and makes curating/filtering tweet replies easier. (It also makes use of Abraham's TwitterOAuth library, so THANK YOU kind sir.) It started as a weekend project, but I just got funding by Expert Labs, a non-profit that makes tech for helping government use social media more effectively--so now it's my full-time job. In April, the White House will use ThinkTank for their Grand Challenges project. In short, they'll use Twitter and other services + ThinkTank to gather and curate public feedback about what should be our top-priority scientific and technology challenges. Exciting stuff. ThinkTank's source code is here: http://github.com/ginatrapani/thinktank Here's more about ThinkTank and Expert Labs: http://smarterware.org/5187/thinktank-is-now-at-expert-labs My top API wishlist item is retrieving all the replies to a given tweet. I'm also planning to come to Chirp, and hope to meet you all there. Best, Gina On Feb 19, 12:20 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well. I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp. TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into Twitter profiles. The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to get replies to a specific status. So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added? @Abraham [1]http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... [2]https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e [3]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo... [4]http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate |http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud |http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Hi, I'm Shannon Whitley. I prefer .NET coding, but I do a lot of work in PHP these days (thanks to WordPress and Facebook). A few of my projects are listed on http://whitleymedia.com, but my favorite is still a Twitter Excel client (that some suggested should be named Excreet). I run Chat Catcher and My Tweeple -- so, I'd love to see fewer limitations on the streaming API and more than 100 people per page in the REST API. And, I know they said they wouldn't do this, but I'd love to see Twitter create permanent urls for our profile images.
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues
I experienced the problem for the last time today - in fact now yesterday - at 15:55 and after 5 minutes Phirehose reconnected. [22-Feb-2010 15:55:25] Phirehose: Consume rate: 0 status/sec (1 total), avg enqueueStatus(): 0.05ms, avg checkFilterPredicates(): 0.01ms (3 total) over 60 seconds. [22-Feb-2010 16:01:22] Phirehose: Idle timeout: No statuses received for 300 seconds. Reconnecting. Sergi On Feb 22, 7:51 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: A number of developers have reported abandoned connection issues on the Streaming API starting, perhaps, about two weeks ago. The symptoms include a long-established TCP connection to stream.twitter.com going quiet, with the connection mysteriously held open for perhaps hours afterward. After sorting through a lot of conflicting data and chasing a few wild geese, I finally reproduced this problem at Feb 22 15:55 UTC (7:55am PST). I'd imagine that a number of streams were abandoned at this time. If you had a correlative experience within a minute or so of 15:55 UTC, please respond to this message. We currently suspect an infrequent hardware load balancer issue, perhaps related to a recent configuration change. The appearance is that the load balancer is, for whatever reason, dropping valid connections, closing the connection to the Streaming API servers, but not sending a TCP FIN or TCP RST to the client. This is bad. We're treating this as a critical production issue and working through the details with network operations. I'll follow up as we learn more. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
This is awesome. Almost 40 introductions and still rolling. Maybe the @twitterapi/team will join in soon. Abraham On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 16:04, Shannon Whitley swhit...@whitleymedia.comwrote: Hi, I'm Shannon Whitley. I prefer .NET coding, but I do a lot of work in PHP these days (thanks to WordPress and Facebook). A few of my projects are listed on http://whitleymedia.com, but my favorite is still a Twitter Excel client (that some suggested should be named Excreet). I run Chat Catcher and My Tweeple -- so, I'd love to see fewer limitations on the streaming API and more than 100 people per page in the REST API. And, I know they said they wouldn't do this, but I'd love to see Twitter create permanent urls for our profile images. -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] Privacy issue: OAuth app. with read-only access can read my DMs
Currently there are no controls. It is all or nothing. I'm less concerned with applications reading DMs and more concerned with any application that has write permissions being able to delete *all* of my content and take over my account. Abraham On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 15:08, vsr rockrai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was thinking of a twitter app where a user would sign in with OAuth to verify that he is the intended user. The app would use 'read only' access type as it doesn't really need to post anything. Now with read-only access, the app can read one's tweets, mentions, protected friends' tweets most importantly direct messages. I consider Direct messages to be personal and wouldn't like some app to be able to read them. Isn't this a privacy issue? Is there some way I can control what an application can read from my account? Regards, Vinay. -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
hey guys. i'm @raffi. i was hired aboard the @twitterapi team in july of last year by @al3x and @rsarver. at the time, i was looking for a place that would really give me the chance to work on really hard problems, work with really smart people, and also allow me to really make an impact on peoples' lives. i think i'm lucky to have found that place. @twitter, and especially this team and the people on it, are great. in the last few months, i've pushed out the geotagging API, the local trends APIs, and tons of other stuff and bug fixes. i really enjoy figuring out the right way to express and capture the representation/ interaction methods of a platform. i also have fun puzzling through security problems. i love interacting with and talking to developers (and sometimes find i don't have enough time for it), and i get really excited when developers find creative and interesting ways to take our stuff and to use it in ways that we haven't thought about. what do i wish for the most on the platform? wouldn't you all like to know :P let's say, i'm generally interested in a few themes: simplicity, scalability (not just our systems, but also in our expressions and representations), and ubiquity. you can fill in the blanks. and when you do, drop us a line. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
RE: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Howdy, I'm Donald Page from Tennesse. I'm an unemployed wannabe programmer. My experience with the twitter API came after an acquaintance asked me to build him a twitter application. I built a quick and dirty app for him but his finances fel through and nothing came of it. After following the posts on this board I realized I could not spend my time chasing the ever-changing API and decided to stp the development in favor of projects I had a better chance with. D. Page
Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth with Twitter
1. Does Twitter support https:// on all of its API calls? yup. 2. If so, is it possible to use PLAIN_TEXT signatures in OAuth? nope. 3. Does a simple end-user iPhone app need to provide a full 3-legged OAuth request, or can the 2-legged OAuth variant be used as referenced in the OAuth specification (i.e. Application wishing to use OAuth as an alternative to HTTP ‘Basic’, should use the the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret to hold the username and password, and leave the Token and Token Secret empty.? search the forums for the note of xAuth - you could use that. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
[twitter-dev] Authorize page for desk-top apps
When I invoke the authorize URL with a oauth_token, the Allow/Deny page comes up. My app is a desk-top app, not a Web site. Most of the text seems to reflect this, except on the right side, where it says: Twitter takes your privacy very seriously. Please ensure that you trust this website with your information before proceeding! I think that second line should refer to app not website. Twitter folks: Is this something that can be tweaked for apps?
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Hey fellow Twitter developers, I'm Stuart Malin (@zhami). I'm developing a Mac/Cocoa desk-top app for interacting with Twitter. I've been working on it for a year now (slow pace of development). It has a unique (and rather cool, if I may say so) U/X, unlike anything out there. I am presently adapting the app for OAuth, which is starting to fall into place. I am registered for Chirp, and hope to meet some of you there. Presently I live in southeast Florida, but have called the Bay Area home for years, and so will enjoy a visit to SF. The one feature request that stands out for me now would be to have the ability to attach a single line of meta-data to a status update, and to for there to be a managed namespace for using this meta data field. Then we app/Web developers could populate that field with interesting items and we could parse for those that we want to adopt into our individual apps/Web sites. --Stu/art
Re: [twitter-dev] Apache HTTP Server Stopped Working
Is Windows Firewall running? Try both explicit exceptions as well as turning it entirely off. Also, what's your callback actually look like? Are you localhost'g it or otherwise? ∞ 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 Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Diego Alvarado daa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I am dealing with an issue with the twitter OAuth PHP example by Abraham Williams. Once a allow acces to my twitter account, the browser can't redirect me to the callback URL. Firefox shows the conexion was reset error and windows (Vista Home Basic) shows me an error: Apache HTTP Server stopped working. Is there anyone having this problem too? I am trying to make this work using a local server (appserv 2.6.0). I tried this using wamp server on a windows XP desktop and had the same result. I hope somebody can help me with this issue. Thanks a lot!
[twitter-dev] What's expected in a good User Agent?
Hi all, I'm using the search API with CURL and I know how to set a user agent. My question is, what does twitter want to see there? A unique English word name? A random string (so it's sure to be unique)? An email? Something else? Thanks for any help.
