[twitter-dev] Re: wating for whitelist confirmation for over a week

2010-08-01 Thread Adam Wride
Ok - I'll check back in a few weeks.

Any way to confirm that my submission was received?

On Jul 28, 5:55 pm, Taylor Singletary 
wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> We're processing requests again but have a considerable queue backed up.
>
> Taylor
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Adam Wride  wrote:
> > Any word on the whitelist requests?
>
> > On Jul 12, 2:49 pm, David  wrote:
> > > Hey hkimscll,
>
> > > I think you just need to be patient - you'll get an email when they
> > > approve your request.
>
> > > From the API Announce List:
>
> > > Ryan Sarver  Jul 07 07:18AM -0700 ^
>
> > > I wanted to email everyone and give notice that we are going to be
> > > holding
> > > off on approving any additional whitelist requests until after the
> > > World Cup
> > > is over. We actually paused this last week, so if you haven't gotten a
> > > response, this is why. It will take us a while to get through the
> > > backlog
> > > after the World Cup, so please be patient and don't reapply as it just
> > > makes
> > > it more difficult to suss through the requests.
>
> > > Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> > > Best, Ryan
>
> > > On Jul 11, 8:47 am,hkimscil wrote:
>
> > > > I have been waiting for being whitelisted over a week period. Should I
> > > > write Twitter about the confirmation? Is there anyway to check the
> > > > status of my request?
>
> > > > Thanks!


[twitter-dev] Re: Open-source, distributed PHP app and consumer secret

2010-08-01 Thread Tom
I've thought about this a lot myself as well, and haven't really came
up with a proper solution either.

- You can try encoding all of your code with zend encoder and hope
that nobody decodes it.
- You can use your own server as a service which sends all requests to
twitter. (This would be my solution)
- You can simply not care at all about the keys - after all, there is
(imo) no real threat in exposing them to customers.
- You can let them use the new Twitter extension for open source
twitter clients - although I am not sure whether it's ready yet.

Tom


On Aug 1, 1:49 am, Michael Babcock  wrote:
> So, I think the solution has to be that the user downloads my app,
> installs it on their site, then registers my app as their own app with
> dev.twitter. After which, they will receive their own key & secret
> pair. They will then input their key & secret pair into my app which
> is living on their site, stored in some configuration file or database
> settings table.
>
> This way I don't distribute my secret. They will have to store their
> own key & secret pair, but this wouldn't be different than a site with
> its own proprietary solution. The only stick point is that I will not
> get any branding rights on their posts/tweets, as they will have
> registered the app as their own and will be in control of the post
> branding.
>
> The other option is to host a tweet service somewhere in the cloud. My
> app, installed on their site, would point to the service and they
> would have to grant permission to the service to make the tweets to
> their accounts. I like this second solution because it seems cleaner
> for the end user to set up and get running. However, this would mean
> that I would then be responsible for maintaining a service. And
> frankly, that sounds like a drag on resources.
>
> These two are the best solutions I can figure given the circumstances.
> Normally, I would wait for Twitter to get this sorted, however, I
> don't want to risk disappointing my user base when the August 16th
> deadline rolls around.
>
> Does these solutions sound viable or am I all wet?
>
> Pros, cons, alternatives?
>
> Thx.
>
> On Jul 27, 7:18 am, Decklin Foster  wrote:
>
> > Excerpts from Michael Babcock's message of Mon Jul 26 19:28:15 -0400 2010:
>
> > > So, I after spending the day looking through documentation,
> > > developer's discussion and testing various OAuth code bits, it is my
> > > understanding that there is no secure OAuth solution for open-source
> > > PHP developers. But, the August 16th deadline is still looming.
>
> > I am also concerned about this. Here is the response I got from support:
>
> > "we're continuing to experiment with this feature, and have not made it
> > available further. I apologize for the delay and inconvenience, but keep
> > an eye on our developer talk group for future announcements."
>
> > I have been watching this list for about a month (prior to checking with
> > support) in case the feature is discussed here before being announced.
> > @twitterapi, could we get some clarification on whether or not something
> > will be ready before the August 16 deadline?


[twitter-dev] Re: Uploading photo w\ OAuth echo

2010-08-01 Thread Tom
The oAuth echo header is usable for any service around, because it
does not need anything specific to the service you use.

Forget about twitpic and any service you want to use at first, because
that's the second step. First, start by creating the authorization
header for the verify_credentials.json page. If you want to check
whether the request actually works, just make the actual request to
the verify_credentials.json page - it shouldn't give a 401 error.

If you have got the proper Authorization header, then go to step 2:
don't make the request to twitter, but send *exactly the same* header
to TwitPic - just not as an Authorization header but as the oAuth
header they want.

What TwitPic does with this header is simply: instead of you making
the request to Twitter, they do it. Because you have signed the
request with the information you need, TwitPic can simply execute the
request. If you send a wrong header, then TwitPic will *get* the 401
error and simply return it to you.

If you don't like text, here's a simple data scheme:
normal: client -> twitter
with echo: client -> twitpic -> twitter

Tom


On Aug 1, 8:40 am, Bondi  wrote:
> Thanks Tom !
>
> So that is what I thought - but I still can't upload the photo's.
> I've been trying mainly with twitPic and getting 401.
> I have been reading posts and discussion and I think I have it all
> right.
> My thought is that maybe it's a matter of encoding the header.
> Should I encode the whole header ? Just the values of the twitPic
> header ? Or maybe just the values for the verify credentials header ?
>
> Help would be much obliged :-)
> Roi.
>
> On Jul 31, 3:37 am, Tom  wrote:
>
> > Basically what you do in an echo is make an oAuth request to the
> > verify_credentials.json page, but you don't do the actual request -
> > instead, you take the Authorization: header and send it to Twitpic.
>
> > So, no, you don't add anything else than you would have for a normal
> > call to verify_credentials.
>
> > Tom
>
> > On Jul 29, 3:21 pm, Bondi  wrote:
>
> > > Hi.
>
> > > I also keep getting 401 from Twitpic.
>
> > > Just to make sure - do we need to add the realm to the signature
> > > calculation ? Or only to the header ?
>
> > > Thanks for the help,
> > > Roi.


[twitter-dev] Re: Can't remove saved search if no results

2010-08-01 Thread Ken
I've since found the bug submission page, but I'll just follow up here
and then post a bug.

I implemented the saved search api methods - so now it's a developer
question suitable for this list!

I was able to create saved searches for text queries and for places
(e.g. place:55da0f3350b51881)

I was able to add more than 10 saved searches to an account through
the API - using Twitter.com, there's a limit of 10.

For saved_searches/destroy.xml, according to the documentation,
supported request methods are POST and DELETE, but I got the following
response:



  /1/saved_searches/destroy.xml
  This method requires a GET.


So that's bizarre. Result of using destroy.xml with GET for any saved
search id was always Not found.

Finally, I created a saved search for a query that returns no results:
"djsalkofsj". On Twitter.com the result is "No real-time results for
djsalkofsj" and there is no "Remove this saved search" link. You can't
actually save such a search via Twitter.com, but if a user creates an
erroneous saved search through an app, or one that dies after a while,
there is no way to delete it through Twitter.com.


Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Error trying to access

2010-08-01 Thread Carla Cavalcante
I wonder why this error is appearing Something Is Technically Wrong.
Thanks for noticing-we're going to fix it up and Have things back to normal
soon.
in my home twitter

2010/8/1 Nik Fletcher 

> +1 for my account too (@nikf)
>
> -N
>
> On Aug 1, 4:12 pm, Carla Cavalcante
>  wrote:
> > I'm having the same problem as you!!
> >
> > On 31 jul, 18:47, Federico  wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Someone called Taylor previously said that there would be maintenance
> > > of twitter servers, and some user would not be able to use twitter for
> > > about 5 hours.
> > > However I have been trying to use twitter for about 21 hours and I
> > > receive "http 500 error".
> > > Also, with my twitter app for my cellphone, I can see DM and @, but I
> > > cant see twitts from the people I follow.
> > > I have tried to access with my web browser and I get "technically
> > > something is wrong".
> > > When I would be able to use twitter again?
>



-- 
*Carla Cavalcante*


Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Error trying to access

2010-08-01 Thread Carla Cavalcante
Your problem has been solved?

2010/8/1 Carla Cavalcante 

> I'm having the same problem as you!!
>
> On 31 jul, 18:47, Federico  wrote:
> > Someone called Taylor previously said that there would be maintenance
> > of twitter servers, and some user would not be able to use twitter for
> > about 5 hours.
> > However I have been trying to use twitter for about 21 hours and I
> > receive "http 500 error".
> > Also, with my twitter app for my cellphone, I can see DM and @, but I
> > cant see twitts from the people I follow.
> > I have tried to access with my web browser and I get "technically
> > something is wrong".
> > When I would be able to use twitter again?




-- 
*Carla Cavalcante*


[twitter-dev] Can't remove saved search if no results

2010-08-01 Thread Ken
I give up trying to find the bug submission page on Twitter. Here
goes.

>From Twitter.com, I saw a tweet that had been posted from The Hague
(Netherlands).
I clicked the "from" link to see the little map and access the link,
"Tweets from this place".
I clicked "Tweets from this place" and saw other tweets posted from
The Hague.
I clicked "save this search". Since I already had 10 saved searches, I
had to remove one first.
In my saved searches now appeared "The Hague, South Holland".
The next day, the name of this place (in my saved searches) had
mysteriously changed to "'s-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland".
Clicking on the link, there are no tweets from this place.
And - perhaps because there were no results - there is no link to
remove the saved search.


[twitter-dev] Re: Error trying to access

2010-08-01 Thread Nik Fletcher
+1 for my account too (@nikf)

-N

On Aug 1, 4:12 pm, Carla Cavalcante
 wrote:
> I'm having the same problem as you!!
>
> On 31 jul, 18:47, Federico  wrote:
>
>
>
> > Someone called Taylor previously said that there would be maintenance
> > of twitter servers, and some user would not be able to use twitter for
> > about 5 hours.
> > However I have been trying to use twitter for about 21 hours and I
> > receive "http 500 error".
> > Also, with my twitter app for my cellphone, I can see DM and @, but I
> > cant see twitts from the people I follow.
> > I have tried to access with my web browser and I get "technically
> > something is wrong".
> > When I would be able to use twitter again?


[twitter-dev] Getting all retwitts for a specific twitt

2010-08-01 Thread Omri
Hey,

i wonder if there is anyway to query twitter to all retwitts performed
on a specific twitt.
im looking for a method to gather up recursivly all the retwitts
originating from a specific twitt so i can line up the full
conversation from twitter.

thoughts ?

Omri


[twitter-dev] Re: Sending 1600 DMs?

2010-08-01 Thread Konpaku Kogasa
On Aug 1, 3:42 am, Vladimir Dvornik  wrote:
> Who knows what is Direct Message limits for oauth users?

It's the same. OAuth limits are different from basic auth (which is
going out soon anyways) for GETS, but POST limits are the same.

- Konpaku


[twitter-dev] Re: Error trying to access

2010-08-01 Thread Carla Cavalcante
I'm having the same problem as you!!

On 31 jul, 18:47, Federico  wrote:
> Someone called Taylor previously said that there would be maintenance
> of twitter servers, and some user would not be able to use twitter for
> about 5 hours.
> However I have been trying to use twitter for about 21 hours and I
> receive "http 500 error".
> Also, with my twitter app for my cellphone, I can see DM and @, but I
> cant see twitts from the people I follow.
> I have tried to access with my web browser and I get "technically
> something is wrong".
> When I would be able to use twitter again?


Re: [twitter-dev] Suggestion: Search for [hashtag] but exclude people following [username] from the results

2010-08-01 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> I've been searching for the below functionality in Twitter's search
> API:
> 
> >> Search for [hashtag] but exclude people following [username] from the
> results <<
> 
> Currently it doesn't seem possible from what I can tell, but I would
> be very grateful if you do know of a way to achieve this and can share
> it with me here.

No, there is no way to do this specific action from the API. You would have
to ask for the results, either from the Search API or the Streaming API, and
then do your own filtering based on the follower list you would have already
constructed.

-- 
 personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- Generating random numbers is too important to be left to chance. ---


Re: [twitter-dev] Can i hav an Auto Response to Tweets via API.

2010-08-01 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> We can read Tweets using API. But is there anything (Method/API
> workaround) that lets me reply to Tweets by a predefined msg (viz. I'm
> on Vacation. Will Get back on Friendship Day) automatically and real
> time?

No, but any number of bots could. However, if you reply to every tweet this
way, you are likely to hit the update limit, and Twitter will probably filter
the duplicates anyhow.

-- 
 personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- Yes, but when I try to see things your way it gives me a headache. -


Re: [twitter-dev] Can you get back the ID when you tweet thru the API?

2010-08-01 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> I'm idly playing around with a Open Source ticket system that
> communicates via twitter, and was wandering if it was possible to get
> the ID of my new tweet back when I post an tweet through the API?
> 
> http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/statuses/update seems to indicate you
> can't? I'm guessing the answer will be "you can't due to how twitter
> works"?

The update method actually does return the tweet you just posted, with the
ID inside.

-- 
 personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot. -- John Philpot Curran ---


[twitter-dev] Re: Cannot access homepage/timeline for over 24 hours

2010-08-01 Thread xfreakyn
Hello.

I am also experiencing the same problem for over 24hours.
I cannot see the timeline and also unable to get in to the home page
as the robot page will appear.

And when i checked the API status, it seems that the service is
disrupted.
Please help!

Thankyou!


[twitter-dev] Re: Cannot access homepage/timeline for over 24 hours

2010-08-01 Thread xfreakyn
I am also experiencing the same problem! Please help. Thankyou!

On Aug 1, 1:31 am, Alex Popescu 
wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I know this is probably not the best place to report this issue, but I
> couldn't find any other way to contact you.
>
> For the last 24 hours I haven't been able to get on my account
> homepage. My account seems to be still activehttp://twitter.com/al3xandru,
> I can successfully log in, but when accessing the homepage I get an:
>
> Something is technically wrong.
> Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to
> normal soon.
>
> Twitter apps on my iPhone cannot connect either reporting a 500 error.
> But I can send tweets and also access @replies and dm-s. So it is only
> the fetching the timeline that seems broken.
>
> Can someone ping the support team to look into this?
>
> many thanks in advance,
>
> :- alex


[twitter-dev] Re: Getting 401 Unautherised when tryint to authenticate with oauth on favorites create and destroy.

2010-08-01 Thread Onn E
Thank you Taylor.

That solved my problem.

All the best.
Onn


On Jul 27, 5:33 pm, Taylor Singletary 
wrote:
> Hi Onn,
>
> Our documentation 
> athttp://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/favorites/create/:idmayhave been
> unclear in the past (it may even still be unclear).
>
> You don't need to pass the id element directly as a parameter -- it's a
> "globbed" parameter from the resource URL itself -- can you try your request
> after removing the id= 19408545095 element?
>
> Thanks,
> Taylor
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Onn E  wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > We are integrating into OAuth. So far we managed to sign and work with
> > as many as 30 API functions with OAuth. We succeed on all but 2
> > functions: /favorites/create and /favorites/destroy.
> > We get response code 401 with message: Could not authenticate you.
> > Detailed below is the information regarding our signature base string
> > and the OAuth header with the signature calculated, as well as the
> > request we send to twitter and the response we get from twitter
> > (sniffed with wireshark).
> > What are we doing wrong here?
>
> > Our signature base string is as follows:
>
> > POST&http%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2F1%2Ffavorites%2Fcreate
> > %2F19408545095.xml&id%3D19408545095%26oauth_consumer_key%3D
> > %26oauth_nonce%3D1296103309843726254%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-
> > SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1280221546%26oauth_token%3DXX-
> > %26oauth_version%3D1.0
>
> > Our Header is as follows:
>
> >  OAuth oauth_signature="6IEyw61Vi1INPo3e%2FRaeu7GfP38%3D",
> > oauth_version="1.0", oauth_nonce="1296103309843726254",
> > oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",
> > oauth_consumer_key="XX", oauth_token="XX-
> > ", oauth_timestamp="1280221546"
>
> > Our request looks like this (sniffed with wireshark):
>
> > POST /1/favorites/create/19408545095.xml HTTP/1.1
> > Host: api.twitter.com
> > User-Agent: AsyncHttpClient 1.0
> > Content-Length: 302
>
> > Authorization= OAuth oauth_signature="6IEyw61Vi1INPo3e
> > %2FRaeu7GfP38%3D", oauth_version="1.0",
> > oauth_nonce="1296103309843726254", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",
> > oauth_consumer_key="X", oauth_token="XX-
> > X", oauth_timestamp="1280221546"
>
> > The response we get looks like this:
>
> > HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
> > Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:04:17 GMT
> > Server: hi
> > Status: 401 Unauthorized
> > WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Twitter API"
> > X-Runtime: 0.00346
> > Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
> > Content-Length: 156
> > Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=1800
> > Set-Cookie: k=62.219.129.78.1280221457069202; path=/; expires=Tue, 03-
> > Aug-10 09:04:17 GMT; domain=.twitter.com
> > Set-Cookie: guest_id=128022145709437051; path=/; expires=Thu, 26 Aug
> > 2010 09:04:17 GMT
> > Set-Cookie:
>
> > _twitter_sess=BAh7CDoPY3JlYXRlZF9hdGwrCMgqJRMqAToHaWQiJWYwOTYxZjdmYTMxY2Y5% 
> > 250AODhlNzI5YzRiNmIyOGJhNDI2IgpmbGFzaElDOidBY3Rpb25Db250cm9sbGVy
>
> > %250AOjpGbGFzaDo6Rmxhc2hIYXNoewAGOgpAdXNlZHsA--2aa62d945615ad137a5fe099065e 
> > 64a4bb5120b1;
> > domain=.twitter.com; path=/
> > Expires: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:34:17 GMT
> > Vary: Accept-Encoding
> > Connection: close
>
> > 
> > 
> >  /1/favorites/create/19408545095.xml
> >  Could not authenticate you.
> > 
>
> > Thanks,
> > Onn


[twitter-dev] Can you get back the ID when you tweet thru the API?

2010-08-01 Thread James
I'm idly playing around with a Open Source ticket system that
communicates via twitter, and was wandering if it was possible to get
the ID of my new tweet back when I post an tweet through the API?

http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/statuses/update seems to indicate you
can't? I'm guessing the answer will be "you can't due to how twitter
works"?

I'm left with searching through the users recent Tweets to find it,
which isn't perfect because twitter may do something like change a URL
to a bit.ly one, thus making the text change.  Does anyone have any
better work-arounds?

Thanks,
James

ps. http://elastik.sourceforge.net/ is the project, screenshots at
http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=118517



Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Sending 1600 DMs?

2010-08-01 Thread Vladimir Dvornik
Who knows what is Direct Message limits for oauth users?

2010/7/29, Julio Biason :
> If you need to send that many messages, put them on your public
> timeline and people that follow you will get them.
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Bess  wrote:
>> There is no way to lift this DM daily limit?
>>
>> If I build an emergency system to report accidents then official
>> twitter for police or Red Cross won't be able to receive more than 250
>> DM per day.
>>
>> If there is a major accidents that involve more than 250 injuries
>> assuming each DM per injury report, Twitter will send out "Whale"
>> error after exceeding that limit?
>>
>> On Jul 27, 10:01 pm, Mark Sievers  wrote:
>>> Right on, cheers Chris!
>>>
>>> On Jul 28, 2:53 pm, Chris Thomson  wrote:
>>>
>>> > You can only send 250 DMs from one account per
>>> > day:http://support.twitter.com/articles/15364-about-twitter-limits-update...
>>>
>>> > --
>>> > Chris Thomson
>>>
>>> > On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Mark Sievers wrote:
>>>
>>> > >http://twitter.com/blekko/status/19714365588
>>>
>>> > > Kind of curious what would happen myself. The call is not itself
>>> > > rate-
>>> > > limited, and the target must be following you (ie they have opted in)
>>> > > so this is ok, but wonder if firing off 1600 DMs in the space of a
>>> > > few
>>> > > minutes raises any red flags in the Twitter mopther ship.
>>>
>>> > >http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/direct_messages/new
>
>
>
> --
> Julio Biason 
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/juliobiason
>


[twitter-dev] Error http 500 again

2010-08-01 Thread Federico
Well my post has been deleted, but I did not care because the problem
was magically solved.
However, I have experienced the same problem again for the last 4
hours..
What is going on?


[twitter-dev] Re: Uploading photo w\ OAuth echo

2010-08-01 Thread Bondi
Thanks Tom !

So that is what I thought - but I still can't upload the photo's.
I've been trying mainly with twitPic and getting 401.
I have been reading posts and discussion and I think I have it all
right.
My thought is that maybe it's a matter of encoding the header.
Should I encode the whole header ? Just the values of the twitPic
header ? Or maybe just the values for the verify credentials header ?

Help would be much obliged :-)
Roi.

On Jul 31, 3:37 am, Tom  wrote:
> Basically what you do in an echo is make an oAuth request to the
> verify_credentials.json page, but you don't do the actual request -
> instead, you take the Authorization: header and send it to Twitpic.
>
> So, no, you don't add anything else than you would have for a normal
> call to verify_credentials.
>
> Tom
>
> On Jul 29, 3:21 pm, Bondi  wrote:
>
> > Hi.
>
> > I also keep getting 401 from Twitpic.
>
> > Just to make sure - do we need to add the realm to the signature
> > calculation ? Or only to the header ?
>
> > Thanks for the help,
> > Roi.


[twitter-dev] Suggestion: Search for [hashtag] but exclude people following [username] from the results

2010-08-01 Thread Zub
Hi,

I've been searching for the below functionality in Twitter's search
API:

>> Search for [hashtag] but exclude people following [username] from the 
>> results <<

Currently it doesn't seem possible from what I can tell, but I would
be very grateful if you do know of a way to achieve this and can share
it with me here.

If it can't be done currently, I would like to put it forward as a
suggestion to the Twitter development team.
I feel it would be a powerful tool for avoiding hastag wars.

Example (made up):

@TwitterHotCakes and @TodaysHandyCalculation have together resolved to
use different hastags, and they attempt to educate their followers
about the appropriate hashtag to use (#TwitHotC or #HandyCalc).

However, human behavior being what it is, a proportion of each group's
followers persist in using #THC in their tweets without thinking.

This suggestion enables the smart searcher, using the advanced search
options, to search for #TSW (desiring tweets about #TwitterHotCakes),
but specify that they don't want to see tweets from people who follow
@TodaysHandyCalculation. Thereby reducing the chance they will be
exposed to off topic tweets.

There may of course be some small crossover, with people who follow
both tweeters being excluded from the results. I feel that this is the
lesser of two evils however, because it punishes the person using the
wrong hashtag, rather than the searcher who would otherwise have to
wade through twice as many tweets for content.

Thoughts?


[twitter-dev] Can i hav an Auto Response to Tweets via API.

2010-08-01 Thread Rishit
We can read Tweets using API. But is there anything (Method/API
workaround) that lets me reply to Tweets by a predefined msg (viz. I'm
on Vacation. Will Get back on Friendship Day) automatically and real
time?


[twitter-dev] Re: Open Source CMS Module and Consumer Secret

2010-08-01 Thread Michael Babcock
Sorry for the confusion. I mean web application developers. There are
quit a number of open-source web apps for twitter. Besides standalone
apps, there are also, add-ons for all the various CMS solutions out
there, written in PHP, Perl, etc.

On Jul 27, 2:02 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky"  wrote:
> There are plenty of open source *library* developers, and plenty of  
> applications that use open source libraries, but not all that many  
> open source full applications. The only ones I can think of at the  
> moment are Gwibber (Gnome), Choqok (KDE), mine (Social Media Analytics  
> Research Toolkit), Spaz, get2gnow, and ttytter. IMHO Choqok and  
> Gwibber are lame - I use CoTweet or Twitter.com on my desktop and  
> mobile.twitter.com, Twitter, Twidroid, Seesmic, Touiteur and Peep on  
> my HTC Verizon Droid Incredible.
>
> The Twitter piece of Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit is at the  
> moment read only, and as I noted earlier the main reason I even looked  
> at oAuth was to get the 1500 (read) API calls per hour. Given the  
> small number of users I have at the moment, it wouldn't be all that  
> difficult to "upgrade" them to oAuth and 350 calls per hour one at a  
> time by hand - all that would be required is to license that piece of  
> code separately. ;-)
> --
> M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb
>
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
>
> Quoting Michael Babcock :
>
> > Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't Twitter risk loosing a large
> > percentage of their third party open-source developers, by not having
> > a solid solution for the required OAuth security changes in time for
> > the deadline?
>
> > I can only guess, but, I would think that the open-source segment
> > would count for quite a large number of independent developers, all
> > eager to build for and promote the Twitter vision.
>
> > Michael
>
> > On Jul 27, 8:59 am, Taylor Singletary 
> > wrote:
> >> Hi Folks,
>
> >> There are a few hold ups to rolling this out more widely, the most pressing
> >> being that we are currently unable to serve SSL content on
> >> dev.twitter.com-- there are also better solutions than this
> >> rudimentary one that we simply
> >> can't implement yet. We're also concerned with releasing (and supporting) a
> >> solution widely that we'll soon want to deprecate.
>
> >> Taylor
>
> >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Cameron Kaiser 
> >> wrote:
>
> >> > > I have the same question. I need to add Twitter OAuth to my widely
> >> > > distributed PHP based open-source CMS add-on. All the documentation
> >> > > says never ever distribute your consumer secret, which I understand
> >> > > why this would be a bad idea. Yet all of the documentation/examples I
> >> > > have found require that the consumer secret be hard-coded into the
> >> > > source.
>
> >> > > The closes thing I have found, that doesn't require the consumer
> >> > > secret embedded in the source, is a description of how it might work,
>
> >> >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...
> >> > > But, I cannot find any docs/examples where this scenario has actually
> >> > > been implemented.
>
> >> > It does exist. While I can't speak for Twitter and whatever  
> >> internal issues
> >> > are slowing up its rollout, TTYtter has been a test bed for the key
> >> > exchange
> >> > for some time now. Most of the users have found the process painless. You
> >> > can
> >> > see how a sample workflow works in the documentation, or try it yourself.
> >> > The
> >> > app itself is open Perl.
>
> >> >        http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/
>
> >> > I'm sure Taylor will comment on what will be happening to roll it out to
> >> > more
> >> > potential consumers.
>
> >> > --
> >> >  personal:
> >> >http://www.cameronkaiser.com/--
> >> >  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com*
> >> > ckai...@floodgap.com
> >> > -- People are weird. -- Law & Order SVU
> >> > ---


[twitter-dev] Re: Open-source, distributed PHP app and consumer secret

2010-08-01 Thread Michael Babcock
So, I think the solution has to be that the user downloads my app,
installs it on their site, then registers my app as their own app with
dev.twitter. After which, they will receive their own key & secret
pair. They will then input their key & secret pair into my app which
is living on their site, stored in some configuration file or database
settings table.

This way I don't distribute my secret. They will have to store their
own key & secret pair, but this wouldn't be different than a site with
its own proprietary solution. The only stick point is that I will not
get any branding rights on their posts/tweets, as they will have
registered the app as their own and will be in control of the post
branding.

The other option is to host a tweet service somewhere in the cloud. My
app, installed on their site, would point to the service and they
would have to grant permission to the service to make the tweets to
their accounts. I like this second solution because it seems cleaner
for the end user to set up and get running. However, this would mean
that I would then be responsible for maintaining a service. And
frankly, that sounds like a drag on resources.

These two are the best solutions I can figure given the circumstances.
Normally, I would wait for Twitter to get this sorted, however, I
don't want to risk disappointing my user base when the August 16th
deadline rolls around.

Does these solutions sound viable or am I all wet?

Pros, cons, alternatives?

Thx.

On Jul 27, 7:18 am, Decklin Foster  wrote:
> Excerpts from Michael Babcock's message of Mon Jul 26 19:28:15 -0400 2010:
>
> > So, I after spending the day looking through documentation,
> > developer's discussion and testing various OAuth code bits, it is my
> > understanding that there is no secure OAuth solution for open-source
> > PHP developers. But, the August 16th deadline is still looming.
>
> I am also concerned about this. Here is the response I got from support:
>
> "we're continuing to experiment with this feature, and have not made it
> available further. I apologize for the delay and inconvenience, but keep
> an eye on our developer talk group for future announcements."
>
> I have been watching this list for about a month (prior to checking with
> support) in case the feature is discussed here before being announced.
> @twitterapi, could we get some clarification on whether or not something
> will be ready before the August 16 deadline?


[twitter-dev] Re: Cannot access homepage/timeline for over 24 hours

2010-08-01 Thread MrSiena
me too! When accessing the home I get the Message: something is
technically wrong! I don't know what I can do!
I contact you also on Twitter!

On 31 Lug, 19:31, Alex Popescu 
wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I know this is probably not the best place to report this issue, but I
> couldn't find any other way to contact you.
>
> For the last 24 hours I haven't been able to get on my account
> homepage. My account seems to be still activehttp://twitter.com/al3xandru,
> I can successfully log in, but when accessing the homepage I get an:
>
> Something is technically wrong.
> Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to
> normal soon.
>
> Twitter apps on my iPhone cannot connect either reporting a 500 error.
> But I can send tweets and also access @replies and dm-s. So it is only
> the fetching the timeline that seems broken.
>
> Can someone ping the support team to look into this?
>
> many thanks in advance,
>
> :- alex


[twitter-dev] Error trying to access

2010-08-01 Thread Federico
Someone called Taylor previously said that there would be maintenance
of twitter servers, and some user would not be able to use twitter for
about 5 hours.
However I have been trying to use twitter for about 21 hours and I
receive "http 500 error".
Also, with my twitter app for my cellphone, I can see DM and @, but I
cant see twitts from the people I follow.
I have tried to access with my web browser and I get "technically
something is wrong".
When I would be able to use twitter again?