[twitter-dev] POST geo/place : place is not in a whitelisted container

[Clay Graham]

When trying to add a new place called "Dishoom" contained within
Covent Garden, London whose id is: af9c4064cc79391a I received the
following error:

{"errors":[{"code":41,"message":"Invalid geo argument: place is not in
a whitelisted container"}]}

Can anyone give me insight into this error? Do I have to get my app
whitelisted in order to save places?

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting#whitelisting does not
mention anything about the Geo api.

Clay
http://ratecred.com

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: What's the status of OAuth2 API?

[Andrew W. Donoho]

On Aug 16, 2010, at 14:39 , Taylor Singletary wrote:

> Little bit of devil's advocate for the community on this topic though:
>   - Do you think that when a user authorizes your site to use @Anywhere that 
> there is any implicit authorization that you should be able to exchange those 
> tokens for long-lasting OAuth 1.0A REST tokens without explicitly indicating 
> that you would do that?




Taylor,

I would be very careful here. Twitter could easily walk into the 
privacy nightmare that is Facebook. 

In my opinion, you should let the user experience drive login and 
permissions issues. Users want to get done what they want to get done. Extra 
logins or permissions dialogs, á la Facebook, just cloud the issue. That said, 
@Anywhere's user experience is so different from a REST app (server or client), 
that there is little user perceived overlap. Hence, there should NOT be a 
connection between the two worlds. To look at it another way, long lived tokens 
are easily abused and should not be handed out often. I doubt you want to make 
@Anywhere links become vectors for impersonation and fraud. Twitter should make 
it easy to connect with all electronic media but it shouldn't, IMO, be a 
worldwide long-lived sign-on service.



Anon,
Andrew

Andrew W. Donoho
Donoho Design Group, L.L.C.
a...@ddg.com, +1 (512) 750-7596

"We did not come to fear the future. 
We came here to shape it."

-- President Barack Obama, Sept. 2009

[twitter-dev] Help with Oauth & update status

[Claudia]

Hi all

I'm just getting versed in Oauth, and was hoping someone might have
some help or example code to keep me moving on this. I'm creating this
web experience using a single twitter account, and hashtags and @ user
mentions to distinguish users who are updating. So - for updating
status, I need to authenticate the single user of the account in the
background of the web app so that statuses can be successfully posted.
I'm using jSON and Javascript//jQuery and would love it if anyone
could point me toward help or samples of something similar.

Thank you!
Claudia

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweet Button w/ Shortening for WordPress

[Jonathan Strauss]

Thanks for the heads-up Ed! I just fixed that issue and uploaded version 0.2.1 
to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/. It can 
sometimes take a few minutes to process, but you should get an alert in your WP 
admin when the new version is live.

-jonathan

-- 
Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:04 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> Looks great!! It doesn't seem to be putting the button on pages, though - 
> just posts. I check the box, hit the "Save" button, and it comes back 
> unchecked.
> -- 
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb
> 
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
> 
> 
> Quoting Jonathan Strauss :
> 
>> Adds a fully configurable official Twitter tweet button to your self-
>> hosted WordPress blog. You can set it up to use awe.sm, bit.ly,
>> tinyurl, su.pr, or digg to shorten the links shared through the tweet
>> button.
>> 
>> Features:
>> * Choose the placement of the button on your posts: top; bottom; top &
>> bottom; or manual
>> * Choose the type of Twitter tweet button you want: vertical count;
>> horizontal count; or no count
>> * Optionally use awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, digg.com, or tinyurl to
>> shorten the links shared through the tweet button (default is
>> Twitter's t.co)
>> * Specify the via Twitter username to be included at the end of the
>> tweet and in the recommended users to follow screen after the tweet
>> * Optionally add the author of a given post to the recommended users
>> to follow screen after the tweet (requires the author to enter their
>> Twitter username in their WP profile)
>> * Disable the button on Pages
>> 
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/
>> 
>> Enjoy!
>> -jonathan
>> 
>> --
>> Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
>> http://snowballfactory.com
>> 
>> Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
>> A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
>> Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me
>> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweet Button w/ Shortening for WordPress

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I install my plugins manually ;-) - it's now live and tweeting from  
pages! Thanks!

--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos


Quoting Jonathan Strauss :

Thanks for the heads-up Ed! I just fixed that issue and uploaded   
version 0.2.1 to   
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/.   
It can sometimes take a few minutes to process, but you should get   
an alert in your WP admin when the new version is live.


-jonathan

--
Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:04 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

Looks great!! It doesn't seem to be putting the button on pages,   
though - just posts. I check the box, hit the "Save" button, and it  
 comes back unchecked.

--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos


Quoting Jonathan Strauss :


Adds a fully configurable official Twitter tweet button to your self-
hosted WordPress blog. You can set it up to use awe.sm, bit.ly,
tinyurl, su.pr, or digg to shorten the links shared through the tweet
button.

Features:
* Choose the placement of the button on your posts: top; bottom; top &
bottom; or manual
* Choose the type of Twitter tweet button you want: vertical count;
horizontal count; or no count
* Optionally use awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, digg.com, or tinyurl to
shorten the links shared through the tweet button (default is
Twitter's t.co)
* Specify the via Twitter username to be included at the end of the
tweet and in the recommended users to follow screen after the tweet
* Optionally add the author of a given post to the recommended users
to follow screen after the tweet (requires the author to enter their
Twitter username in their WP profile)
* Disable the button on Pages

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/

Enjoy!
-jonathan

--
Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweet Button w/ Shortening for WordPress

[Jonathan Strauss]

I'm not sure if my reply failed or is pending, but version 0.2.1,
which fixes this issue, is now live at
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/

Thanks Ed!

-jonathan

--
Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
http://snowballfactory.com
Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

On Aug 16, 2:04 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky"  wrote:
> Looks great!! It doesn't seem to be putting the button on pages,  
> though - just posts. I check the box, hit the "Save" button, and it  
> comes back unchecked.
> --
> M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb
>
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
>
> Quoting Jonathan Strauss :
>
>
>
> > Adds a fully configurable official Twitter tweet button to your self-
> > hosted WordPress blog. You can set it up to use awe.sm, bit.ly,
> > tinyurl, su.pr, or digg to shorten the links shared through the tweet
> > button.
>
> > Features:
> > * Choose the placement of the button on your posts: top; bottom; top &
> > bottom; or manual
> > * Choose the type of Twitter tweet button you want: vertical count;
> > horizontal count; or no count
> > * Optionally use awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, digg.com, or tinyurl to
> > shorten the links shared through the tweet button (default is
> > Twitter's t.co)
> > * Specify the via Twitter username to be included at the end of the
> > tweet and in the recommended users to follow screen after the tweet
> > * Optionally add the author of a given post to the recommended users
> > to follow screen after the tweet (requires the author to enter their
> > Twitter username in their WP profile)
> > * Disable the button on Pages
>
> >http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/
>
> > Enjoy!
> > -jonathan
>
> > --
> > Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
> >http://snowballfactory.com
>
> > Campaign tracking for social media -http://awe.sm
> > A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter -http://tweetpo.st
> > Sharecount button for Facebook -http://www.fbshare.me

[twitter-dev] 404 and statuses/friends_timeline.xml

[nyj2005]

Hi all,

I started receiving a 404 error when calling
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/friends_timeline.xml from my
website. I have a php cron script that runs every 5 minutes and it had
worked fine for months until just a few days ago when I noticed that
the twitter feed stopped being updated. I tried running the script
manually and saw the 404 response. The same script runs just fine from
my local machine.

Here's the response I get on my website:

Array
(
[url] => http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?count=100
[content_type] => text/html; charset=UTF-8
[http_code] => 404
[header_size] => 200
[request_size] => 150
[filetime] => -1
[ssl_verify_result] => 0
[redirect_count] => 0
[total_time] => 0.065588
[namelookup_time] => 0.002289
[connect_time] => 0.032684
[pretransfer_time] => 0.032689
[size_upload] => 0
[size_download] => 498
[speed_download] => 7592
[speed_upload] => 0
[download_content_length] => 498
[upload_content_length] => -1
[starttransfer_time] => 0.065525
[redirect_time] => 0
)

Thanks

[twitter-dev] Is something broken in signon?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I'm getting some strange messages - Twitter thinks I'm trying to sign  
in too often and is shutting me out. Is that on Twitter's end, or do I  
have some rogue process on my workstation?


I think I killed everything - I was testing some open source clients  
but they're supposedly all shut down.


--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos

Re: [twitter-dev] Mombo.com API

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

What are the licensing terms for using the API? How can I make money with it?
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos


Quoting Peter Denton :


Hey everyone,
I work on a project called Mombo.com which does sentiment analysis on
box-office movies.

We have an API but wanted to know if other developers would be interested in
consuming the data. It would allow you to do things like show lists of
popular movies, get the scores of independent movies, etc.

Not trying to self-promote here as much as just generally interested to see
if other developers would like to consume.

Thanks
Peter

--
Peter Denton
Co-Founder, Product Marketing
www.mombo.com
cell: (206) 427-3866
twitter @Mombo_movies
twitter - personal: @petermdenton

[twitter-dev] Mombo.com API

[Peter Denton]

Hey everyone,
I work on a project called Mombo.com which does sentiment analysis on
box-office movies.

We have an API but wanted to know if other developers would be interested in
consuming the data. It would allow you to do things like show lists of
popular movies, get the scores of independent movies, etc.

Not trying to self-promote here as much as just generally interested to see
if other developers would like to consume.

Thanks
Peter

-- 
Peter Denton
Co-Founder, Product Marketing
www.mombo.com
cell: (206) 427-3866
twitter @Mombo_movies
twitter - personal: @petermdenton

Re: [twitter-dev] oauth friends_timeline request

[Tom van der Woerdt]

On 8/16/10 10:34 PM, rustbucket wrote:
> I'm in the middle of creating a twitter app using appcelerator, which
> means I'm limited to javascript. Luckily I've managed to get
> everything up and running using the oauth libraries available on
> google code but I'm stuck on what is probably an obvious and newbish
> problem, I have no clue how to structure a request string using the
> tokens I'm storing post authentication. If I were doing this using
> basic authentication the request would look like this:
> 
> httpClient.open('GET','http://twitterName:twitterp...@api.twitter.com/
> 1/statuses/friends_timeline/username.json?count=3');
> 
> Given the above, where do the oauth_token and oauth_token_secret
> values figure? I realize this question is a bit vague in terms of
> concrete code but I'm pretty good at interpretation, if someone has a
> verbose example of what I'm trying to do in php or vbscript or
> something I can probably translate to what appcelerator/twitter
> requires.
> 
> Thanks again, r.

With the above, you would make a Base String, in your case :
baseString = method + '&' + urlencode(url) + '&' + urlencode(body)
method = GET
url = http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/friends_timeline/username.json
body = oauth_* and count=3, sorted in alphabetical order

You would then take the HMAC-SHA1 hash of this base string (using your
oauth secret and that of the user) which is your signature.

When you have the signature, you put all the values in the
Authorization: header and do the actual request.

Sounds simple. It is, but it may take some coding :-)

Tom

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweet Button w/ Shortening for WordPress

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Looks great!! It doesn't seem to be putting the button on pages,  
though - just posts. I check the box, hit the "Save" button, and it  
comes back unchecked.

--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos


Quoting Jonathan Strauss :


Adds a fully configurable official Twitter tweet button to your self-
hosted WordPress blog. You can set it up to use awe.sm, bit.ly,
tinyurl, su.pr, or digg to shorten the links shared through the tweet
button.

Features:
* Choose the placement of the button on your posts: top; bottom; top &
bottom; or manual
* Choose the type of Twitter tweet button you want: vertical count;
horizontal count; or no count
* Optionally use awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, digg.com, or tinyurl to
shorten the links shared through the tweet button (default is
Twitter's t.co)
* Specify the via Twitter username to be included at the end of the
tweet and in the recommended users to follow screen after the tweet
* Optionally add the author of a given post to the recommended users
to follow screen after the tweet (requires the author to enter their
Twitter username in their WP profile)
* Disable the button on Pages

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/

Enjoy!
-jonathan

--
Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

[twitter-dev] Re: What's the status of OAuth2 API?

[D. Smith]

A user can specifically authorize to join the site, like maybe have a
"Signin with Twitter" button that would use JS Api to set the access
token cookie.
Right now when Anywhere UI displays the authorization prompt it really
looks like user is authorizing the Application to get access to his
account information.
The application is then even shown on my "Connections" page in Twitter
settings just like any other application that I have authorized using
normal OAuth.

Basically it would be up to Twitter developers to make sure that the
message on that UI popup explains that they are authorizing the
application
to access Twitter on their behalf.

Right now if a user authorizes my app via Anywhere I can still get
pretty much his account details via JS and then post it to my server
in the background or even stuff all the data into cookie and pass it
to server that way.

The only difference right now is that my server cannot post to Twitter
using user's credentials, but that's not a good practice to post to
Twitter without user knowledge even if an app has the necessary oAuth
credentials.



On Aug 16, 3:39 pm, Taylor Singletary 
wrote:
> We'll have a means to exchange @Anywhere access tokens for OAuth 1.0 access
> tokens soon.
>
> Little bit of devil's advocate for the community on this topic though:
>   - Do you think that when a user authorizes your site to use @Anywhere that
> there is any implicit authorization that you should be able to exchange
> those tokens for long-lasting OAuth 1.0A REST tokens without explicitly
> indicating that you would do that?
>
> Taylor
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:36 PM, D. Smith  wrote:
> > All I say is that if the 'twitter_anywhere_identity' cookie contained
> > some type of token which could then be used on server side to get
> > actual oauth token, that would be super cool.
>
> > That's exactly how Facebook does it in their JS API, I love it, it's
> > much easier to use to the OAuth1
>
> > On Aug 16, 3:29 pm, Taylor Singletary 
> > wrote:
> > > Hi there,
>
> > > @Anywhere does use some elements of OAuth2 for its authentication process
> > > but we've yet to announce any timeline for any other support of OAuth2.
> > > OAuth2 is a gaggle of authentication methods rolled into one, and we've
> > yet
> > > to decide which profiles we'll support.
>
> > > Taylor
>
> > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:22 PM, D. Smith 
> > wrote:
> > > > Hello!
> > > > I looked at Twitter Anywhere API and it says the API will set the
> > > > cookie 'twitter_anywhere_identity' under my sites' domain.
> > > > This sounds like how the Facebook JS API is doing the OAuth2
> > > > authentication where I then read the value of that cookie on the
> > > > server side and then request data from facebook using that access
> > > > token.
>
> > > > Is this something that will be available soon on Twitter? I am using
> > > > the OAuth right now but I find that cookie based OAuth2 is much easier
> > > > to work with.
>
> > > > Do you already have this in beta? I would like to try it.

[twitter-dev] Hovercards and Chrome / Chromium browser reloads?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I run Chrome and Chromium (6.0 - bleeding edge) on openSUSE Linux.  
I've noticed something - when I do a saved search, hovercards don't  
show up when I mouse over a name. But if I do a browser reload, they  
*do* show up! I have tried this on Firefox and probably won't - it's  
not a big deal. But I just thought I'd mention it.


--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos

[twitter-dev] oauth friends_timeline request

[rustbucket]

I'm in the middle of creating a twitter app using appcelerator, which
means I'm limited to javascript. Luckily I've managed to get
everything up and running using the oauth libraries available on
google code but I'm stuck on what is probably an obvious and newbish
problem, I have no clue how to structure a request string using the
tokens I'm storing post authentication. If I were doing this using
basic authentication the request would look like this:

httpClient.open('GET','http://twitterName:twitterp...@api.twitter.com/
1/statuses/friends_timeline/username.json?count=3');

Given the above, where do the oauth_token and oauth_token_secret
values figure? I realize this question is a bit vague in terms of
concrete code but I'm pretty good at interpretation, if someone has a
verbose example of what I'm trying to do in php or vbscript or
something I can probably translate to what appcelerator/twitter
requires.

Thanks again, r.

[twitter-dev] Twurl installation problem

[Quy]

I have installed Twurl and want to use it to authorize for single
access token usage but when I try to run "twurl authorize" to test I
get these errors:


% twurl authorize
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/twurl-0.6.1/lib/twurl/cli.rb:31:in
`dispatch': undefined method `dispatch' for
Twurl::AuthorizationController:Class (NoMethodError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/twurl-0.6.1/lib/twurl/
cli.rb:14:in `run'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/twurl-0.6.1/bin/twurl:
4:in `'
from /usr/local/bin/twurl:19:in `load'
from /usr/local/bin/twurl:19:in `'

Any idea how to fix this? I've followed the instructions at
http://github.com/marcel/twurl/blob/master/INSTALL

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Quy

[twitter-dev] Tweet Button w/ Shortening for WordPress

[Jonathan Strauss]

Adds a fully configurable official Twitter tweet button to your self-
hosted WordPress blog. You can set it up to use awe.sm, bit.ly,
tinyurl, su.pr, or digg to shorten the links shared through the tweet
button.

Features:
* Choose the placement of the button on your posts: top; bottom; top &
bottom; or manual
* Choose the type of Twitter tweet button you want: vertical count;
horizontal count; or no count
* Optionally use awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, digg.com, or tinyurl to
shorten the links shared through the tweet button (default is
Twitter's t.co)
* Specify the via Twitter username to be included at the end of the
tweet and in the recommended users to follow screen after the tweet
* Optionally add the author of a given post to the recommended users
to follow screen after the tweet (requires the author to enter their
Twitter username in their WP profile)
* Disable the button on Pages

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/

Enjoy!
-jonathan

--
Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
http://snowballfactory.com

Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API (filter) and retweets, JSON Output

[Joe]

Mark - thanks - somewhere my data model folks missed this.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: What's the status of OAuth2 API?

[Tom van der Woerdt]

I don't think that the user even knows that he/she is using @Anywhere
and not some homemade feature of the website he/she is visiting.

Also, you can do a *lot* with @Anywhere and it doesn't really change
very much when changing that to OAuth.

I don't think that the user would care, as long as the tokens are used
properly.

Tom


On 8/16/10 9:39 PM, Taylor Singletary wrote:
> We'll have a means to exchange @Anywhere access tokens for OAuth 1.0
> access tokens soon. 
> 
> Little bit of devil's advocate for the community on this topic though:
>   - Do you think that when a user authorizes your site to use @Anywhere
> that there is any implicit authorization that you should be able to
> exchange those tokens for long-lasting OAuth 1.0A REST tokens without
> explicitly indicating that you would do that?
> 
> Taylor
> 
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:36 PM, D. Smith  > wrote:
> 
> All I say is that if the 'twitter_anywhere_identity' cookie contained
> some type of token which could then be used on server side to get
> actual oauth token, that would be super cool.
> 
> That's exactly how Facebook does it in their JS API, I love it, it's
> much easier to use to the OAuth1
> 
> 
> On Aug 16, 3:29 pm, Taylor Singletary  >
> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > @Anywhere does use some elements of OAuth2 for its authentication
> process
> > but we've yet to announce any timeline for any other support of
> OAuth2.
> > OAuth2 is a gaggle of authentication methods rolled into one, and
> we've yet
> > to decide which profiles we'll support.
> >
> > Taylor
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:22 PM, D. Smith  > wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > > I looked at Twitter Anywhere API and it says the API will set the
> > > cookie 'twitter_anywhere_identity' under my sites' domain.
> > > This sounds like how the Facebook JS API is doing the OAuth2
> > > authentication where I then read the value of that cookie on the
> > > server side and then request data from facebook using that access
> > > token.
> >
> > > Is this something that will be available soon on Twitter? I am using
> > > the OAuth right now but I find that cookie based OAuth2 is much
> easier
> > > to work with.
> >
> > > Do you already have this in beta? I would like to try it.
> 
> 

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: What's the status of OAuth2 API?

[Taylor Singletary]

We'll have a means to exchange @Anywhere access tokens for OAuth 1.0 access
tokens soon.

Little bit of devil's advocate for the community on this topic though:
  - Do you think that when a user authorizes your site to use @Anywhere that
there is any implicit authorization that you should be able to exchange
those tokens for long-lasting OAuth 1.0A REST tokens without explicitly
indicating that you would do that?

Taylor

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:36 PM, D. Smith  wrote:

> All I say is that if the 'twitter_anywhere_identity' cookie contained
> some type of token which could then be used on server side to get
> actual oauth token, that would be super cool.
>
> That's exactly how Facebook does it in their JS API, I love it, it's
> much easier to use to the OAuth1
>
>
> On Aug 16, 3:29 pm, Taylor Singletary 
> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > @Anywhere does use some elements of OAuth2 for its authentication process
> > but we've yet to announce any timeline for any other support of OAuth2.
> > OAuth2 is a gaggle of authentication methods rolled into one, and we've
> yet
> > to decide which profiles we'll support.
> >
> > Taylor
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:22 PM, D. Smith 
> wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > > I looked at Twitter Anywhere API and it says the API will set the
> > > cookie 'twitter_anywhere_identity' under my sites' domain.
> > > This sounds like how the Facebook JS API is doing the OAuth2
> > > authentication where I then read the value of that cookie on the
> > > server side and then request data from facebook using that access
> > > token.
> >
> > > Is this something that will be available soon on Twitter? I am using
> > > the OAuth right now but I find that cookie based OAuth2 is much easier
> > > to work with.
> >
> > > Do you already have this in beta? I would like to try it.
>

[twitter-dev] Re: What's the status of OAuth2 API?

[D. Smith]

All I say is that if the 'twitter_anywhere_identity' cookie contained
some type of token which could then be used on server side to get
actual oauth token, that would be super cool.

That's exactly how Facebook does it in their JS API, I love it, it's
much easier to use to the OAuth1


On Aug 16, 3:29 pm, Taylor Singletary 
wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> @Anywhere does use some elements of OAuth2 for its authentication process
> but we've yet to announce any timeline for any other support of OAuth2.
> OAuth2 is a gaggle of authentication methods rolled into one, and we've yet
> to decide which profiles we'll support.
>
> Taylor
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:22 PM, D. Smith  wrote:
> > Hello!
> > I looked at Twitter Anywhere API and it says the API will set the
> > cookie 'twitter_anywhere_identity' under my sites' domain.
> > This sounds like how the Facebook JS API is doing the OAuth2
> > authentication where I then read the value of that cookie on the
> > server side and then request data from facebook using that access
> > token.
>
> > Is this something that will be available soon on Twitter? I am using
> > the OAuth right now but I find that cookie based OAuth2 is much easier
> > to work with.
>
> > Do you already have this in beta? I would like to try it.

Re: [twitter-dev] What's the status of OAuth2 API?

[Taylor Singletary]

Hi there,

@Anywhere does use some elements of OAuth2 for its authentication process
but we've yet to announce any timeline for any other support of OAuth2.
OAuth2 is a gaggle of authentication methods rolled into one, and we've yet
to decide which profiles we'll support.

Taylor

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:22 PM, D. Smith  wrote:

> Hello!
> I looked at Twitter Anywhere API and it says the API will set the
> cookie 'twitter_anywhere_identity' under my sites' domain.
> This sounds like how the Facebook JS API is doing the OAuth2
> authentication where I then read the value of that cookie on the
> server side and then request data from facebook using that access
> token.
>
> Is this something that will be available soon on Twitter? I am using
> the OAuth right now but I find that cookie based OAuth2 is much easier
> to work with.
>
> Do you already have this in beta? I would like to try it.
>
>
>

[twitter-dev] What's the status of OAuth2 API?

[D. Smith]

Hello!
I looked at Twitter Anywhere API and it says the API will set the
cookie 'twitter_anywhere_identity' under my sites' domain.
This sounds like how the Facebook JS API is doing the OAuth2
authentication where I then read the value of that cookie on the
server side and then request data from facebook using that access
token.

Is this something that will be available soon on Twitter? I am using
the OAuth right now but I find that cookie based OAuth2 is much easier
to work with.

Do you already have this in beta? I would like to try it.

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API limits

[Matt Harris]

Hi Thiago,

We allow each account to have one standing connection to the streaming API.
Multiple connections receive the same stream of Tweets so connecting
multiple times would not give access to any more Tweets. If you need more to
have more track keywords you can contact us explaining your use case so the
team can make a decision and if necessary grant you higher access.

You can read more about access and rate limiting on the streaming API in our
developer documentation:
  http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_concepts#access-rate-limiting

Hope that helps,
Matt

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Tom van der Woerdt  wrote:

> On 8/16/10 4:38 PM, Thiago Souza wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know that it's possible to track up to 200 keywords per account,
> > but how many accounts per IP is allowed?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Thiago Souza
>
> Hi Thiago,
>
> I don't think that Twitter will give you these numbers. Just don't
> create more connections than necessary, and if you need more track
> keywords, you should consider asking Twitter for an upgrade of your
> account.
>
> Tom
>



-- 


Matt Harris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Source Android/Twitter Application

[Abraham Williams]

I've been asking about the Twitter for Android code for months. I guess
priorities have changed.

You can find the locked down code repository on Google Code:
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-for-android/

Abraham
-
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@abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 23:52, Bess  wrote:

> I have written a book chapter on how to integrate Twitter4J & OAuth
> Java lib with code example in Android last month. It has the bare
> minimal but the Twitter Java lib would support all Twitter APIs.
>
> I am not sure I could release the chapter prior before the book. If
> the book dies then I may be free to publish it.
>
> I am not quite sure if Twitter has official Android app that Twitter
> is going to open source the code.
>
> On Aug 14, 4:39 pm, Clay Graham  wrote:
> > Brad,
> >
> > The reason I am interested in it is not only because I am doing a ton
> > of Twitter work for Android, but also because that app was supposed be
> > their reference implementation for UI patterns and best practices for
> > Android. I am revising my Android app now and would love to see how
> > they did many of the things they do in that app. What I really wish is
> > someone from google or twitter would respond.
> >
> > Clay
> >
> > On Aug 13, 7:16 pm, Brad Bosley  wrote:
> >
> > > Clay,
> >
> > > I've been waiting for it too!  Hopefully they don't back out of the
> promise.
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > Brad Bosley
> >
> > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Clay Graham <
> claytan...@sightlyinc.com> wrote:
> > > > Ed,
> >
> > > > Thanks for the advice. I have emailed Tim directly, no reply. Will
> > > > keep trying. Can I be the only one who is hungry for this?
> >
> > > > Clay
>

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth authentication issuse

[Tom van der Woerdt]

On 8/16/10 6:41 PM, Jims wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> request":"/1/statuses/update.json","error":"Could not authenticate
> you.
> 
> I am trying to post a tweet to one of my accounts using oAuth, with a
> script I wrote on PERL. I'm sending the request as a POST with the
> required tokens in the header. but I keep getting this error
> 
> request":"/1/statuses/update.json","error":"Could not authenticate
> you.
> 
> Additional info:
> 
> I have the consumer key and secret, oauth token and secret, I'm
> generating the nonce myself, I'm passing a timestamp in milliseconds .
> 
> I believe I am constructing the signature in the correct order, and am
> using the consumer and oauth secrets to sign them.
> 
> Everything is url encoded.
> 
> Is there something I have to do before I can tweet, bearing in mind I
> have all the tokens
> 
> 
> 

Hi,

The error you get is the error people get when not sending the oauth
information like signature, token, etc. You should send the OAuth
information in the Authorization: header.

Also, you should pass the timestamp in seconds since the unix epoch, not
in milliseconds.

If this does not solve it, please show me one of your Base Strings.

Tom

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweeting from a CMS

[Tom van der Woerdt]

On 8/16/10 4:47 PM, stevew wrote:
> 
> Under the old basic auth, I could have a section of our web based CMS
> that could enable logged in users to tweet to our company's twitter
> account without needing to know the username and password.
> 
> However it appears to me that once twitter removes the basic
> authentication this functionality will be gone as anyone who wants to
> use a web app to post to a particular account will actually have to be
> logged into the account in question, is that correct?
> 
> Is there any official, white-hat way to accomplish this? It is a
> really useful feature!

You mean *from* your company's account? With OAuth, you don't need
username/password, because these are replaced by credentials. It's still
very much possible.

If you mean *to* your account, then you will need the credentials of the
users, like you normally would. This would be done via OAuth, or the
easy way which is called @Anywhere - simple javascript which you can put
on your website, allowing your users to Tweet from your website without
a lot of implementation work.

Just 2 options - a lot more is possible ;-)

Tom

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API limits

[Tom van der Woerdt]

On 8/16/10 4:38 PM, Thiago Souza wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know that it's possible to track up to 200 keywords per account,
> but how many accounts per IP is allowed?
> 
> Regards,
> Thiago Souza

Hi Thiago,

I don't think that Twitter will give you these numbers. Just don't
create more connections than necessary, and if you need more track
keywords, you should consider asking Twitter for an upgrade of your account.

Tom

Re: [twitter-dev] Tracking Twitter Client Statistics

[Tom van der Woerdt]

On 8/16/10 12:59 PM, VictorAlexander wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has managed to track stats for their twitter
> clients. I currently develop on the iphone platform and am almost
> finished with a twitter-related app. Does anyone know how we can track
> how many tweets have been tweeted from a specific client and how many
> users are using it? Thanks in advance!
> 
> Vicc

At http://twitter.com/apps you can see the amount of users, but you
won't be able to see how much they use it.

Tom

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can I use the Twitter API to get tweets for a specific user and timeframe?

[Tom van der Woerdt]

Actually, yes.

You can get up to 16 pages of those tweets (= 3200 tweets total).

Tom


On 8/16/10 4:18 PM, arian wrote:
> Unfortunately, no.
> 
> see this thread
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/a7802a981c2aedee/15f9705c14e7b96f?lnk=gst&q=arian#15f9705c14e7b96f
> 
> Arian
> 
> On 16 ago, 01:45, Ben H  wrote:
>> I've been doing some research into using the Twitter API, and I'm not
>> sure if I'm understanding it correctly. I want to get tweets from a
>> specific user for a specific time-frame. From what I can tell, using
>> the search function to specify a date range doesn't work because only
>> the last 7 days are kept. I could just get the tweets and work out the
>> date range with JavaScript, but the documentation states the the max
>> you can get is 200 tweets, so if the tweets from the date range I want
>> aren't in the last 200 I can't do it.
>>
>> Is there anyway I can do this?

Re: [twitter-dev] Access Token updating on App page

[Taylor Singletary]

Good point, Evan.

In the mean time -- if you go and explicitly reject your access token on
http://twitter.com/settings/connections and then re-negotiate it on the "my
token" feature on dev.twitter.com, you should be able to get around this
limitation.

Taylor

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Evan Anderson wrote:

> I've seen that read, read + write access is based on access tokens,
> and you can request new access tokens if you update your settings.
>
> However, It seems that the access tokens Twitter gives you explicitly
> on an app's settings page don't update to reflect this when you update
> your app's access settings. I was just curious if the twitter dev team
> was aware of this and any indication if they will update the access
> tokens in the future to reflect an app's access setting.
>
> Best,
> Evan Anderson
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Button Counts

[Jonathan Strauss]

I am seeing the issue with awe.sm links. It seems unlikely, but my
theory is that Twitter isn't unwrapping *all* redirect links to
attribute to the count, only those on certain domains.

See:
http://backtweets.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fextend%2Fplugins%2Ftweet-button-with-shortening%2F
vs.
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fextend%2Fplugins%2Ftweet-button-with-shortening%2F

Anyone have any info on this?


On Aug 16, 5:13 am, Tom van der Woerdt  wrote:
> On 8/16/10 2:05 PM, artesea wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On my website I have added the Twitter Button and I want it to use my
> > own customer short URL. However I'm finding it never counts the number
> > of search results.
>
> > eg:
> >http://www.libdemvoice.org/office-of-the-public-guardian-finally-star...
> > hashttp://ldv.org.uk/20680as a shortlink
>
> > I'm using data-url withhttp://ldv.org.uk/20680and continuously get
> > back 0. Click on the zero and at the moment I get 4 search results.
> > I noticed that bit.ly mentioned an undocumented data-counturl, setting
> > this to the shortlink continues to bring up 0, however using the full
> > link I get 1, but as most people tweet our shortlink already I want
> > those numbers, and those using the full link are those RSS->Tweet
> > "people" who I don't really care about.
>
> > Is there any reason why using my custom short links we aren't getting
> > back any results?
>
> I have one theory and that is that the Twitter button caches the
> numbers. Try opening a different browser - I've heard people that said
> that this works.
>
> You should also make sure that you don't generate a new shortlink for
> every tweet.
>
> Tom

[twitter-dev] OAuth authentication issuse

[Jims]

Hi guys,

request":"/1/statuses/update.json","error":"Could not authenticate
you.

I am trying to post a tweet to one of my accounts using oAuth, with a
script I wrote on PERL. I'm sending the request as a POST with the
required tokens in the header. but I keep getting this error

request":"/1/statuses/update.json","error":"Could not authenticate
you.

Additional info:

I have the consumer key and secret, oauth token and secret, I'm
generating the nonce myself, I'm passing a timestamp in milliseconds .

I believe I am constructing the signature in the correct order, and am
using the consumer and oauth secrets to sign them.

Everything is url encoded.

Is there something I have to do before I can tweet, bearing in mind I
have all the tokens

[twitter-dev] Re: New tweet button - is t.co mandatory?

[Jonathan Strauss]

I've just posted a WP plugin that makes it easy to use the tweet
button with awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, and tinyurl:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/

On Aug 13, 8:17 am, "Matt LeMay from bit.ly" 
wrote:
> Hi, folks-
>
> Yes indeed, t.co links will be unwrapped in the stream, so bit.ly pro
> users will still be able to use custom domains, along with bit.ly's
> analytics features.
>
> We put a post up on our blog explaining how publishers can continue to
> use bit.ly pro domains with the Tweet Button:
>
> http://blog.bit.ly/post/945591208/using-bit-ly-with-twitters-tweet-bu...
>
> And we are working on some additional tools and resources for
> publishers.
>
> If you have any specific questions about implementation, do not
> hesitate to contact supp...@bit.ly, or to e-mail me directly!
>
> Thanks-
> Matt LeMay
> m...@bit.ly
>
> On Aug 13, 10:06 am, Tom van der Woerdt  wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 8/13/10 5:04 AM, pthomsen wrote:
>
> > > I read in the techcrunch article, that the posting url is wrapped in
> > > t.co, but then when displayed in the stream, the url gets unwrapped
> > > again, so you should see the moxs.ie url (in my case). This doesn't
> > > happen for me. I only see the t.co url.
>
> > > Is there a whitelist of URLs that are accepted by twitter for
> > > 'unwrapping-in-the-stream'? If so, how do I get on that list?
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Per
>
> > Yesterday I noticed that t.co links were unwrapped in the search, but it
> > looks like that is no longer the case at the moment. Probably taken
> > offline for a few hours to perfect the algorithm, like Twitter usually
> > does after implementing something new (happened to Lists too).
>
> > It looked like all t.co links are unwrapped, so don't worry ;-)
>
> > Tom

[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Tweet Button

[Jonathan Strauss]

I just posted a WP plugin that uses the dataurl attribute to make the
tweet button work with awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, and tinyurl:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/

It also allows multi-author blogs to automatically add the post author
to the recommended users screen after the tweet.

On Aug 12, 12:18 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Clint,
>
> Include a data-url attribute in the  element. It will get wrapped in a
> t.co but the user will still hit the arst.ch domain.
>
> http://twitter.com/share"; class="twitter-share-button" 
> data-url="http://arst.ch/xyz"; data-count="vertical"
> data-via="abraham">Tweet src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";>
>
> Abraham
> -
> Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate |http://abrah.am
> @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am
> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:30, Clint Ecker  wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM, themattharris
> >  wrote:
> > > Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make it easy for your users
> > > to share your website with their followers. When they click on the
> > > Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear pre-populated with a message and
> > > link chosen by you. Once they have sent a Tweet they can choose to
> > > follow accounts recommended by you. All of this happens on your
> > > website, so the user never has to leave.
>
> > Hi Matt,
>
> > I'd really like to use this on Ars Technica, but it seems to force the
> > t.co shortener on us.  We have our own shorturl system (arst.ch) and I
> > need to use that.  Can you explain how I might go about doing
> > that—I've scoured the docs and have seen no mention of custom Short
> > URLs.
>
> > Thanks!
> > Clint

[twitter-dev] Access Token updating on App page

[Evan Anderson]

I've seen that read, read + write access is based on access tokens,
and you can request new access tokens if you update your settings.

However, It seems that the access tokens Twitter gives you explicitly
on an app's settings page don't update to reflect this when you update
your app's access settings. I was just curious if the twitter dev team
was aware of this and any indication if they will update the access
tokens in the future to reflect an app's access setting.

Best,
Evan Anderson

[twitter-dev] Re: Request to improve Tweet button JS interface

[D. Smith]

Anywhere looks interesting. I'm surprised I did not know anything
about it :)
But still, adding some of the the features from Anywhere to the Tweet
button would be great!



On Aug 16, 11:37 am, Taylor Singletary 
wrote:
> Some of the features you are looking for are part of the @Anywhere arm of
> the platform:http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere
>
> Taylor
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:29 AM, D. Smith  wrote:
> > What, nobody else thinkgs it could be useful to have some sort or JS
> > based UI for the Tweet button? The Facebook JS UI is pretty good, you
> > can open the prompt and pre-fill it with a text message to be posted
> > to the wall right from your own javascript, user then just has to
> > click on "Post" button.
> > Also in Facebook UI you can have a simple one line of JS to test if
> > user is logged in to Facebook.
> > It would be great if Twitter made a simple UI for opening the "Tweet"
> > window programmatically, and also allowing to listen to onSuccess
> > (tweet posted, window closed) or onFailure events. It would also be
> > great to programmatically test if user is currently logged in to
> > Twitter (or at least has Twitter account).
>
> > Please lets get this topic going, I think it's important.
>
> > On Aug 15, 12:24 pm, Dmitri Snytkine  wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > > I have a small request about the official Tweet button.
> > > It would be great if there was some way to know when user has
> > > successfully sent a tweet via a tweet popup window and after the
> > > window is closed.
>
> > > I am sure Twitter dev team can implement this easily. The benefit to a
> > > site owner is that if I know that a user has just Tweeted about my
> > > page, I therefore know that a user has a Twitter account, then I can
> > > show some prompt to ask a user to join my site with their Twitter
> > > account, I can also show a custom message like "Thank you for sharing
> > > this page on Twtitter" as well as can do many other things, even
> > > recording some data to my database to keep track which of my
> > > registered users has shared pages.
>
> > > All I need is some sort of a callback function to be fired on closing
> > > of that window.
> > > This could be some sort of custom event that I can subscribe to or
> > > some sort of callback function.
>
> > > Does this make sense?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Request to improve Tweet button JS interface

[Taylor Singletary]

Some of the features you are looking for are part of the @Anywhere arm of
the platform: http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere

Taylor

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:29 AM, D. Smith  wrote:

> What, nobody else thinkgs it could be useful to have some sort or JS
> based UI for the Tweet button? The Facebook JS UI is pretty good, you
> can open the prompt and pre-fill it with a text message to be posted
> to the wall right from your own javascript, user then just has to
> click on "Post" button.
> Also in Facebook UI you can have a simple one line of JS to test if
> user is logged in to Facebook.
> It would be great if Twitter made a simple UI for opening the "Tweet"
> window programmatically, and also allowing to listen to onSuccess
> (tweet posted, window closed) or onFailure events. It would also be
> great to programmatically test if user is currently logged in to
> Twitter (or at least has Twitter account).
>
> Please lets get this topic going, I think it's important.
>
>
>
> On Aug 15, 12:24 pm, Dmitri Snytkine  wrote:
> > Hello!
> > I have a small request about the official Tweet button.
> > It would be great if there was some way to know when user has
> > successfully sent a tweet via a tweet popup window and after the
> > window is closed.
> >
> > I am sure Twitter dev team can implement this easily. The benefit to a
> > site owner is that if I know that a user has just Tweeted about my
> > page, I therefore know that a user has a Twitter account, then I can
> > show some prompt to ask a user to join my site with their Twitter
> > account, I can also show a custom message like "Thank you for sharing
> > this page on Twtitter" as well as can do many other things, even
> > recording some data to my database to keep track which of my
> > registered users has shared pages.
> >
> > All I need is some sort of a callback function to be fired on closing
> > of that window.
> > This could be some sort of custom event that I can subscribe to or
> > some sort of callback function.
> >
> > Does this make sense?
>

[twitter-dev] Re: Request to improve Tweet button JS interface

[D. Smith]

What, nobody else thinkgs it could be useful to have some sort or JS
based UI for the Tweet button? The Facebook JS UI is pretty good, you
can open the prompt and pre-fill it with a text message to be posted
to the wall right from your own javascript, user then just has to
click on "Post" button.
Also in Facebook UI you can have a simple one line of JS to test if
user is logged in to Facebook.
It would be great if Twitter made a simple UI for opening the "Tweet"
window programmatically, and also allowing to listen to onSuccess
(tweet posted, window closed) or onFailure events. It would also be
great to programmatically test if user is currently logged in to
Twitter (or at least has Twitter account).

Please lets get this topic going, I think it's important.



On Aug 15, 12:24 pm, Dmitri Snytkine  wrote:
> Hello!
> I have a small request about the official Tweet button.
> It would be great if there was some way to know when user has
> successfully sent a tweet via a tweet popup window and after the
> window is closed.
>
> I am sure Twitter dev team can implement this easily. The benefit to a
> site owner is that if I know that a user has just Tweeted about my
> page, I therefore know that a user has a Twitter account, then I can
> show some prompt to ask a user to join my site with their Twitter
> account, I can also show a custom message like "Thank you for sharing
> this page on Twtitter" as well as can do many other things, even
> recording some data to my database to keep track which of my
> registered users has shared pages.
>
> All I need is some sort of a callback function to be fired on closing
> of that window.
> This could be some sort of custom event that I can subscribe to or
> some sort of callback function.
>
> Does this make sense?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API & the Basic Auth Shutdown: Everything you need to know.

[Taylor Singletary]

Quick correction on some mis-typed dates in the summary section:

  - Beginning Aug 17, basic auth rate limiting will decrease by 15 requests
on each week day (10% drop per weekday)
  - Aug 16, 8am Pacific - we'll shut basic auth temporarily off for 10
minutes
  - Aug 19, 5pm Pacific - we'll shut basic auth temporarily for 10 minutes
  - On August 31th, all basic auth requests will be served with a 401 HTTP
status code.


On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jacky  wrote:

> Thanks for a great job in transitioning...
> Incidentally, any chance of instituting having multiple aliases for a
> single user...so it is possible check timeline by checking an alias of
> a user in addition to just user id or name..I am asking because this
> has plenty of real world applications...
>
> Shob
>
> On Aug 13, 4:12 pm, Taylor Singletary 
> wrote:
> > Hi Developers,
> >
> > Basic authentication is being deprecated beginning on August 16th. After
> > August 31st, API clients will no longer be able to identify themselves
> using
> > only a login and password when accessing the Twitter REST API.
> >
> > For those that just like to skim, here are the basics:
> >
> >   - Basic Auth will be completely shut off on August 30th.
> >   - Beginning Aug 17, basic auth rate limiting will decrease by 15
> requests
> > on each week day (10% drop per weekday)
> >   - Aug 16, 8am Pacific - we'll shut basic auth temporarily off for 10
> > minutes
> >   - Aug 31, 5pm Pacific - we'll shut basic auth temporarily for 10
> minutes
> >   - On August 30th, all basic auth requests will be served with a 401
> HTTP
> > status code.
> >
> > We've discussed at length in the past why this transition is important.
> We
> > recognize that it significantly increases the difficulty of working with
> the
> > Twitter API. OAuth is not a silver bullet for security, but protects our
> > users and the platform ecosystem notably better than basic
> authentication.
> >
> > Today, non-whitelisted basic authentication GET requests are limited to
> 150
> > calls per hour. POST operations, such as tweeting, are not effected by
> this
> > limit. Basic auth apps can continue tweeting with impunity until the full
> > turn off occurs on August 31st.
> >
> > Beginning August 17th, non-whitelisted basic authentication GET requests
> > will be limited to 135 calls per hour. We will reduce the number of calls
> > per hour by 15 each week day until August 31st. This means on August 18th
> > Basic Authentication will be allowed 120 GET requests per hour, August
> 19th
> > 105 GET requests per hour and so on. The decrement will happen on each
> > Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday until August 31st.
> >
> > For whitelisted basic auth requests, the decrement will be comparative to
> > the general ramp down levels -- about 10% of your total rate limit will
> > decrement every day starting on August 16th. On August 31st, whitelisted
> > basic auth requests will cease functioning as well.
> >
> > On August 31st, all basic auth requests will be serviced a 401 HTTP
> status
> > code.
> >
> > You may have noticed that we temporarily shut basic authentication off
> today
> > for 10 minutes. We gave minimal notice today, and recognize that more
> notice
> > would have been optimal. We will be doing these integration tests a few
> more
> > times before the total deprecation date.
> >
> > The next basic auth switch-off will occur on Monday, August 16th at 8am
> > Pacific for 10 minutes. After that, we'll do another of these tests on
> > Thursday, August 19th at 5pm Pacific for another 10 minutes. We'll do
> more
> > of these after that, and we'll announce them closer to that time. As
> always,
> > follow @twitterapi to keep track in real time.
> >
> > If you haven't started transitioning your application, we recommend
> reading
> > our write up athttp://dev.twitter.com/pages/basic_to_oauthand leveraging
> > the Twitter Developer mailing list when you need assistance.
> >
> > As always, we're here to help. Let's walk into this new morning together.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Taylor Singletary
> > Developer Advocate, Twitter Platformhttp://twitter.com/episod
>

[twitter-dev] Tweeting from a CMS

[stevew]

Under the old basic auth, I could have a section of our web based CMS
that could enable logged in users to tweet to our company's twitter
account without needing to know the username and password.

However it appears to me that once twitter removes the basic
authentication this functionality will be gone as anyone who wants to
use a web app to post to a particular account will actually have to be
logged into the account in question, is that correct?

Is there any official, white-hat way to accomplish this? It is a
really useful feature!

[twitter-dev] Streaming API limits

[Thiago Souza]

Hi,

I know that it's possible to track up to 200 keywords per account, but
how many accounts per IP is allowed?

Regards,
Thiago Souza

[twitter-dev] Re: Can I use the Twitter API to get tweets for a specific user and timeframe?

[arian]

Unfortunately, no.

see this thread
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/a7802a981c2aedee/15f9705c14e7b96f?lnk=gst&q=arian#15f9705c14e7b96f

Arian

On 16 ago, 01:45, Ben H  wrote:
> I've been doing some research into using the Twitter API, and I'm not
> sure if I'm understanding it correctly. I want to get tweets from a
> specific user for a specific time-frame. From what I can tell, using
> the search function to specify a date range doesn't work because only
> the last 7 days are kept. I could just get the tweets and work out the
> date range with JavaScript, but the documentation states the the max
> you can get is 200 tweets, so if the tweets from the date range I want
> aren't in the last 200 I can't do it.
>
> Is there anyway I can do this?

[twitter-dev] User timeline doesn't include retweets...

[eric.morand]

Hi guys,

I'm having a lot of trouble displaying user timelines the same way
they are displayed on twitter.com. On twitter.com, retweets by the
user are included into the timeline. But when I rquest the user
timeline using...

https://api.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=1&page=1&user_id=xxx&include_rts=true

...retweets are not included, even though they should (http://
dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline).

I suppose the documentation is not up-to-date and include_rts doesn't
work anymore.

What is the official way to retrieve the retweets of user timelines ?


Thanks by advance,


Eric.

Re: [twitter-dev] Tracking Twitter Client Statistics

[Taylor Singletary]

Hi Victor,

Currently the best means to track these kind of statistics is likely by
maintaining them yourself. With an application on the iPhone platform, you
could utilize a local cache on the device, counting API actions and
interesting statistics, then batch push them to your own server for bulk
collection and analytics. Alternatively, you could also employ an analytics
service that supported ad-hoc data collection.

Taylor

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:59 AM, VictorAlexander <
victor.alexan...@berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has managed to track stats for their twitter
> clients. I currently develop on the iphone platform and am almost
> finished with a twitter-related app. Does anyone know how we can track
> how many tweets have been tweeted from a specific client and how many
> users are using it? Thanks in advance!
>
> Vicc
>

Re: [twitter-dev] Reading Tweets on Date

[Taylor Singletary]

Hi Anil,

There's no way to fixate the search API on a specific date in exactitude.
Instead, you could perform a query similar to the one you have in your
example here to bound the results until a certain date, then use the rpp and
page paramaters to paginate through the set iteratively, stopping when the
range steps out of the day you're focusing on. Depending on your query and
the number of tweets returned (and within the index of around ~5 days
currently of tweets), you may even get all your results in a single page.

Taylor



On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:58 AM, VIP  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How can I read the tweets on a particular date ?
>
> Ex:
>  GetMethod get = new GetMethod("http://search.twitter.com/
> search.json?")
>  get.setQueryString("&until=2010-08-15");
>
>
> Regards, Anil
>

[twitter-dev] Reading Tweets on Date

[VIP]

Hi,

How can I read the tweets on a particular date ?

Ex:
 GetMethod get = new GetMethod("http://search.twitter.com/
search.json?")
  get.setQueryString("&until=2010-08-15");


Regards, Anil

[twitter-dev] Tracking Twitter Client Statistics

[VictorAlexander]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has managed to track stats for their twitter
clients. I currently develop on the iphone platform and am almost
finished with a twitter-related app. Does anyone know how we can track
how many tweets have been tweeted from a specific client and how many
users are using it? Thanks in advance!

Vicc

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth with Rails help getting going

[Rajinder Yadav]

On 10-08-15 01:13 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:

On 8/14/10 7:21 PM, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
   

On 10-08-14 09:20 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:
 

On 8/14/10 5:22 AM, Rajinder Yadav wrote:

   

On 10-08-13 08:35 PM, Rajinder Yadav wrote:

 

Hello,

I'm not having success with the following code, I get a "Sorry, page
doesn't exist!" webpage. I am using the OAuth v0.4.1 gem.  Your help
and guidance is very appreciated, thanks!

If I type the following out in IRB, it seems to work, but of course I
can't redirect from the shell.


class HomeController<   ApplicationController

def index
   @consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new( "bLI9szbXTJQnXKA",
 "XXm41S6SYEy9uYR5oiAUxToPvQUlMd6g9A",
 { :site=>"https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token"; } )

@request_tok...@consumer.get_request_token

session[:consumer]  = @consumer
session[:request_token] = @request_token

redirect_to @request_token.authorize_url
end

end


   

Hi I found by making the following change I now see the allow/deny page.
However when I click on allow, I do not get redirected back to my
callback page?


@consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new( "bLI9szbXTJQnXKA",
 "XXm41S6SYEy9uYR5oiAUxToPvQUlMd6g9A",
 :site=>"https://twitter.com";,
 :request_token_path =>   "/oauth/request_token",
 :authorize_path =>   "/oauth/authorize",
 :access_token_path  =>   "/oauth/access_token",
 :http_method =>   :get ) )


What I am seeing in the pin page, saying:

You've successfully granted access to _TestApp!
Simply return to _TestApp and enter the following PIN to complete
the process.

How do I get Twitter to return back to my callback page on my site? My
app type is correctly set to "browser".

--

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav


 

Hi,

You should send theoauth_callback  parameter, as specified by the
documentation.

Tom

   

Hi Tom,

I have tired sending oauth_callback, made sure that my callback url
matches exactly the one specified in twitter app setting, something like
this:

redirect_to @request_token.authorize_url + "&oauth_callback=" +
CGI.escape("http://myhome.dnydns.org/callback";)

I am testing the site from home using dynamic dns setup, would this be
causing the problem?
Also in the call to OAuth::Consumer.new, should the http_method be :get
or :post ?
I've also changed :site=>"https://twitter.com"; to, :site =>
"https://api.twitter.com";
I'm still not sure what I am doing wrong and I feel like I am chasing my
tail!

 

Hi Rajinder,

Sorry if you misunderstood my last message. You are supposed to send the
callback in your oauth_callback parameter. If you get the PIN page, then
you send "oob" - out-of-bands, as your oauth_callback.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5849#section-2.1
Section 2.1 of RFC 5849 (OAuth 1.0) specifies oauth_callback as REQUIRED
- so, you are probably already sending it (either that, or Twitter
doesn't follow the specifications).

Also, it is a part of Section 2.1 of the OAuth specification - the part
where the client talks to the server. The line you changed was Section
2.2 - the redirection part.

Tom
   

Hi Tom,

I finally figured it out, the examples for RoR using OAuth seem to be 
stale. I was peeved at what seems to be a 'simple' process has to get so 
complicated.


--
Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav

[twitter-dev] Can I use the Twitter API to get tweets for a specific user and timeframe?

[Ben H]

I've been doing some research into using the Twitter API, and I'm not
sure if I'm understanding it correctly. I want to get tweets from a
specific user for a specific time-frame. From what I can tell, using
the search function to specify a date range doesn't work because only
the last 7 days are kept. I could just get the tweets and work out the
date range with JavaScript, but the documentation states the the max
you can get is 200 tweets, so if the tweets from the date range I want
aren't in the last 200 I can't do it.

Is there anyway I can do this?

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth + Whitelisting, transition questions

[Matt Trinneer]

Thanks Taylor!

Appreciate the assistance.

On Aug 14, 12:16 pm, Taylor Singletary 
wrote:
> At this time, whitelisting applies to IP addresses and member accounts.
> OAuth and applications as entities themselves have no relation to
> whitelisting. Whitelisting currently has no relation to method of
> authorization (basic auth vs. OAuth).
>
> Short answer: Whitelisting doesn't change for you.
>
> But during the phase out of basic auth, your whitelisted requests while
> using basic auth will decrease by 10% each week day until all access will be
> denied in totality.
>
> Taylor
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Matt Trinneer wrote:
>
>
>
> > I agree Tom and am in the process of doing that.  I guess my biggest
> > question could be rephrased as:
>
> > After switching to OAuth will my extended rate limits automatically
> > apply to OAuth requests from the same user/IP?
>
> > Matt
>
> > On Aug 13, 2:50 pm, Tom van der Woerdt  wrote:
> > > On 8/13/10 8:08 PM, Matt Trinneer wrote:
>
> > > > Hello,
>
> > > > I'm curious to understand how the transition to OAuth will take place
> > > > for whitelisted accounts.  Currently I have 2 streaming accounts,
> > > > which if I understand correctly will not be impacted at all, and a
> > > > whitelisted basic auth access (20k/hour) for a specific set of IPs.
>
> > > > I've read that the Basic Auth rate limit will decrease by 10 calls a
> > > > day for 15 days until it's finally turned off for good.  Is this still
> > > > true?  If so, how the decrease apply to the extended 20k/hour rate
> > > > limit? Will it see a corresponding 6.6% (1320 call) reduction every
> > > > day during the same period?
>
> > > > Also, in order to have the extended rate limit I currently have
> > > > available to my new OAuth application, is there anything I need to
> > > > do?  Or does the fact that the new OAuth application was registered
> > > > under the same username and requests originate from ip combination
> > > > automatically transfer the limits?
>
> > > > Thanks for any insight you can offer.
>
> > > > Matt
>
> > > Hi Matt,
>
> > > I would like to point out that I think that you should stop worrying
> > > about the Basic Auth rate limiting and simply implement OAuth. It's
> > > about time that you do so anyway.
>
> > > Your extended limit is IP-based and does not care about the type you use
> > > - basic or OAuth.
>
> > > Tom

[twitter-dev] Re: What can this error be about?

[Rushikesh Bhanage]

Hi,

I see what you are saying. I am waiting for Twitter to reply on this
issue. There should be some alternate to get all this data. Otherwise
they wouldn't whitelist an account with 20,000 calls if this is the
case. Can you suggest any method where I can get all the data?

Thanks!

On Aug 16, 5:11 pm, Tom van der Woerdt  wrote:
> On 8/16/10 1:43 PM, Rushikesh Bhanage wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi there,
>
> > We have developed an app (you can seehttp://honestfollowers.com), in
> > which user can search for his honest followers.
>
> > I have successfully tested this for users having up to 5k followers. But
> > when I search with users having greater than 5k followers (like
> > 'imishant', 'ashabhosle' etc), I get below error :
>
> > Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
> > /home/rohit25/public_html/honestfollowers.com/get_data.php
> >  on line 356
>
> > Above error probably is encountered due to the foreach loop we are using
> > stops receiving data. I tried searching the same account (imishant) few
> > hours ago and the operation was crawled and executed completely. So I am
> > confused whether this is a problem from Twitter's side or not. I have
> > tested my app with many other accounts and many get executed completely
> > but some don't and those are mostly accounts with more than 15k
> > followers. Also those which displays error gets executed completely when
> > searched on different point of time. So is this a problem from Twitter's
> > side? Does Twitter API sometimes break operation if when sending huge
> > chunks of data? What solution you suggest to fetch and execute such
> > amount of data?
>
> > No doubt site is perfectly running for users having below 2k, 3k followers.
>
> > P.S: We have white listed Twitter Account!
>
> > Thank you in advance!
>
> Hi,
>
> There can be numerous reasons for a simple PHP error, but this one means
> that you don't feed an array into foreach.
>
> Which can also have numerous reasons. I think that, in your case, it may
> be because of a 500 Internal Server Error which Twitter gives every now
> and then. You should do some checks on the information you get from
> Twitter before using it. ;-) Not all API calls always work.
>
> Tom

[twitter-dev] Re: What can this error be about?

[Rushikesh Bhanage]

Hi Dean,

Thank you for trying out our app. You should check out our how it
works link (http://www.honestfollowers.com/howitworks.php). I just
went though your account and I can see you follow more than 500
people. According to us it is hard to keep up with all the updates
when someone follows that much amount of followers. Also when we check
several 100s of people who are honest followers we got to know the
maximum number a user can follow is 170. And if he is a client user
that number can be extended to 500. In your case you are exceeding the
limit which can make hard to you to follow all the updates. We are
trying to show you how many exactly honest followers you have and
those who read each and every tweet of yours. Also we have been
constantly making changes to make it perfect. I would love to hear
from you more about your experience on our site.

Thank you.

On Aug 16, 4:58 pm, "Dean Collins"  wrote:
> Lol - "deancollins   is not an Honest
> follower!"
>
> You might need a bit of an explanation on what this means as I imagine a
> lot of people are going to search their own name and have the same
> reaction I did...not honest? Wtf?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean Collins
> Cognation Inc
> d...@cognation.net
>  +1-212-203-4357   New York
> +61-2-9016-5642   (Sydney in-dial).
> +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial).
>
> 
>
> From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Rushikesh Bhanage
> Sent: Monday, 16 August 2010 7:43 AM
> To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [twitter-dev] What can this error be about?
>
> Hi there,
>
> We have developed an app (you can seehttp://honestfollowers.com), in
> which user can search for his honest followers.
>
> I have successfully tested this for users having up to 5k followers. But
> when I search with users having greater than 5k followers (like
> 'imishant', 'ashabhosle' etc), I get below error :
>
> Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
> /home/rohit25/public_html/honestfollowers.com/get_data.php on line 356
>
> Above error probably is encountered due to the foreach loop we are using
> stops receiving data. I tried searching the same account (imishant) few
> hours ago and the operation was crawled and executed completely. So I am
> confused whether this is a problem from Twitter's side or not. I have
> tested my app with many other accounts and many get executed completely
> but some don't and those are mostly accounts with more than 15k
> followers. Also those which displays error gets executed completely when
> searched on different point of time. So is this a problem from Twitter's
> side? Does Twitter API sometimes break operation if when sending huge
> chunks of data? What solution you suggest to fetch and execute such
> amount of data?
>
> No doubt site is perfectly running for users having below 2k, 3k
> followers.
>
> P.S: We have white listed Twitter Account!
>
> Thank you in advance!

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Button Counts

[Tom van der Woerdt]

On 8/16/10 2:05 PM, artesea wrote:
> On my website I have added the Twitter Button and I want it to use my
> own customer short URL. However I'm finding it never counts the number
> of search results.
> 
> eg:
> http://www.libdemvoice.org/office-of-the-public-guardian-finally-starts-to-get-some-serious-public-scrutiny-20680.html
> has http://ldv.org.uk/20680 as a shortlink
> 
> I'm using data-url with http://ldv.org.uk/20680 and continuously get
> back 0. Click on the zero and at the moment I get 4 search results.
> I noticed that bit.ly mentioned an undocumented data-counturl, setting
> this to the shortlink continues to bring up 0, however using the full
> link I get 1, but as most people tweet our shortlink already I want
> those numbers, and those using the full link are those RSS->Tweet
> "people" who I don't really care about.
> 
> Is there any reason why using my custom short links we aren't getting
> back any results?

I have one theory and that is that the Twitter button caches the
numbers. Try opening a different browser - I've heard people that said
that this works.

You should also make sure that you don't generate a new shortlink for
every tweet.

Tom

Re: [twitter-dev] What can this error be about?

[Tom van der Woerdt]

On 8/16/10 1:43 PM, Rushikesh Bhanage wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> We have developed an app (you can see http://honestfollowers.com), in
> which user can search for his honest followers.
> 
> I have successfully tested this for users having up to 5k followers. But
> when I search with users having greater than 5k followers (like
> 'imishant', 'ashabhosle' etc), I get below error :
> 
> Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
> /home/rohit25/public_html/honestfollowers.com/get_data.php
>  on line 356
> 
> Above error probably is encountered due to the foreach loop we are using
> stops receiving data. I tried searching the same account (imishant) few
> hours ago and the operation was crawled and executed completely. So I am
> confused whether this is a problem from Twitter's side or not. I have
> tested my app with many other accounts and many get executed completely
> but some don't and those are mostly accounts with more than 15k
> followers. Also those which displays error gets executed completely when
> searched on different point of time. So is this a problem from Twitter's
> side? Does Twitter API sometimes break operation if when sending huge
> chunks of data? What solution you suggest to fetch and execute such
> amount of data?
> 
> No doubt site is perfectly running for users having below 2k, 3k followers.
> 
> P.S: We have white listed Twitter Account!
> 
> Thank you in advance!

Hi,

There can be numerous reasons for a simple PHP error, but this one means
that you don't feed an array into foreach.

Which can also have numerous reasons. I think that, in your case, it may
be because of a 500 Internal Server Error which Twitter gives every now
and then. You should do some checks on the information you get from
Twitter before using it. ;-) Not all API calls always work.

Tom

Re: [twitter-dev] oauth_signature

[Tom van der Woerdt]

On 8/16/10 12:36 PM, alex wrote:
> still confused about oauth_signature. what is oauth_signature? who
> generate oauth_signature? If it is consumer, how to generate
> oauth_signature ? Im using Abraham's PHP library TwitterOAuth

OAuth signature is a short hash created from the data you are sending to
Twitter. You generate it by generating the Base String, and taking the
HMAC-SHA1 of this, using both your consumer key and the user's key
(resource owner's key, as the RFC calls them).

I have no idea how to do this with Abraham's PHP library, but I'm sure
that it is a lot easier than the way I just described (which is already
easy).

Tom

[twitter-dev] Twitter Button Counts

[artesea]

On my website I have added the Twitter Button and I want it to use my
own customer short URL. However I'm finding it never counts the number
of search results.

eg:
http://www.libdemvoice.org/office-of-the-public-guardian-finally-starts-to-get-some-serious-public-scrutiny-20680.html
has http://ldv.org.uk/20680 as a shortlink

I'm using data-url with http://ldv.org.uk/20680 and continuously get
back 0. Click on the zero and at the moment I get 4 search results.
I noticed that bit.ly mentioned an undocumented data-counturl, setting
this to the shortlink continues to bring up 0, however using the full
link I get 1, but as most people tweet our shortlink already I want
those numbers, and those using the full link are those RSS->Tweet
"people" who I don't really care about.

Is there any reason why using my custom short links we aren't getting
back any results?

RE: [twitter-dev] What can this error be about?

[Dean Collins]

Lol - "deancollins   is not an Honest
follower!"

 

You might need a bit of an explanation on what this means as I imagine a
lot of people are going to search their own name and have the same
reaction I did...not honest? Wtf?

 

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Inc
d...@cognation.net
 +1-212-203-4357   New York
+61-2-9016-5642   (Sydney in-dial).
+44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial).



From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
[mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Rushikesh Bhanage
Sent: Monday, 16 August 2010 7:43 AM
To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
Subject: [twitter-dev] What can this error be about?

 

Hi there,

We have developed an app (you can see http://honestfollowers.com), in
which user can search for his honest followers.

I have successfully tested this for users having up to 5k followers. But
when I search with users having greater than 5k followers (like
'imishant', 'ashabhosle' etc), I get below error :

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/home/rohit25/public_html/honestfollowers.com/get_data.php on line 356

Above error probably is encountered due to the foreach loop we are using
stops receiving data. I tried searching the same account (imishant) few
hours ago and the operation was crawled and executed completely. So I am
confused whether this is a problem from Twitter's side or not. I have
tested my app with many other accounts and many get executed completely
but some don't and those are mostly accounts with more than 15k
followers. Also those which displays error gets executed completely when
searched on different point of time. So is this a problem from Twitter's
side? Does Twitter API sometimes break operation if when sending huge
chunks of data? What solution you suggest to fetch and execute such
amount of data?

No doubt site is perfectly running for users having below 2k, 3k
followers.

P.S: We have white listed Twitter Account! 

Thank you in advance!

[twitter-dev] What can this error be about?

[Rushikesh Bhanage]

Hi there,

We have developed an app (you can see http://honestfollowers.com), in which
user can search for his honest followers.

I have successfully tested this for users having up to 5k followers. But
when I search with users having greater than 5k followers (like 'imishant',
'ashabhosle' etc), I get below error :

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/home/rohit25/public_html/honestfollowers.com/get_data.php on line 356

Above error probably is encountered due to the foreach loop we are using
stops receiving data. I tried searching the same account (imishant) few
hours ago and the operation was crawled and executed completely. So I am
confused whether this is a problem from Twitter's side or not. I have tested
my app with many other accounts and many get executed completely but some
don't and those are mostly accounts with more than 15k followers. Also those
which displays error gets executed completely when searched on different
point of time. So is this a problem from Twitter's side? Does Twitter API
sometimes break operation if when sending huge chunks of data? What solution
you suggest to fetch and execute such amount of data?

No doubt site is perfectly running for users having below 2k, 3k followers.

P.S: We have white listed Twitter Account!

Thank you in advance!

[twitter-dev] oauth_signature

[alex]

still confused about oauth_signature. what is oauth_signature? who
generate oauth_signature? If it is consumer, how to generate
oauth_signature ? Im using Abraham's PHP library TwitterOAuth

[twitter-dev] Re: official twitter equivalent of tweetimag.es

[Ken]

There's also

http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/:id

You might call that less volatile as ids don't change.

I notice on the dev page referenced by Abraham, these methods *must
not be used* as image source URLs.
Any plans to introduce such URLs?


On Aug 16, 6:17 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/profile_image/:screen_name
>
> Abraham
> -
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> @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am
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>
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 13:11, Kyle Bragger  wrote:
> > Apologies if this has been asked before; ~45 min of searching and I
> > couldn't find anything.
>
> > I vaguely remember seeing something Twitter offered that was an
> > official equivalent of tweetimag.es — non-volatile urls for user
> > photos.
>
> > Am I crazy?
>
>

[twitter-dev] sorting retweets_of_me by the retweet's status ID, and not the retweeted status' ID

[escarp]

All,

In researching whether we needed to file a feature request, we noticed
a few messages here from people looking for a simpler way to see the
newest retweet first in retweets_of_me, instead of seeing results
sorted by the original status' ID. We've put in a feature request for
a retweets_of_me flag to return results by the retweet's status ID as
well as using the since_id parameter to only look for retweets with an
ID above the parameter.

If any of you who're looking for this functionality see this message,
convey your interest by starring the feature request:
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1806

Best,
escarp

[twitter-dev] Re: Return Public Timeline Tweets based on Geo Location

[Bess]

You can use Twitter Search API to filter or limit the GEO location.

within range from 1 to 1000 in units of mi or km

near:"San Francisco" within:1000mi

Twitter search string
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=37.775196,-122.419204,1000.0mi&q=+near:%22San+Francisco%22+within:1000mi

You can see it use geocode latitude and longitude, use near filter for
places and use within filter as diameter range.

You can use string to construct your search query to adjust your
search results. I have used this several times in a few mobile apps.
It works well.

On Aug 14, 2:34 pm, Tom van der Woerdt  wrote:
> On 8/14/10 11:20 PM, Mark W wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've searched for a solution, but couldn't find one.
>
> > I'm looking for a way that I can feed in a GeoLocation (Lat,Long) and
> > get the latest x tweets posted from around that area.
>
> > statuses/public_timeline doesn't support GeoLocation.
>
> > I looked at search, which can limit the returned amount by
> > GeoLocation, however, it requires a query search string, which I don't
> > have.
>
> > Any help or friendly point in the right direction is appreciated...
>
> > Thanks.
>
> > Mark
>
> The streams function of twitter can do this.
>
> http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/statuses/filter
>
> Tom