[twitter-dev] Twitter 140 character limit break
It appears that the new twitter share link can be used to break the 140 character limit. Basically in Firefox you can do this: 1) In the URL bar enter http://twitter.com/share?url=Some over 140 character text 2) Hit enter 3) On the page resulting page click "Tweet" 4) View in web and notice the limit broken I'm not sure if clients can handle this, but it could turn into a pretty nasty annoyance for users of web if it continues. Might be a good idea to have it looked at. I'm assuming a simple check to verify it's a valid URL would suffice.
[twitter-dev] Re: About update limits
Hello Raffi, > yeah - i was mistaken. i'm just a lowly engineer :P sutorius (the brian > referenced on that e-mail, and he has posted in this forum before) knows > best in this case. Yikes, just saw that mentioned post. I'd like to help gather some ideas with a few other twitter developers, and would like to know what is stopping status updates from increased right now? The intention here is not to complain, but simply to help figure out how to improve the situation and understand better the issues that you folks know about that application developers don't. Best Regards, Chris White
[twitter-dev] Re: About update limits
Hello Raffi, > and yes - there is a whitelisting for status/updates -- please e-mail > a...@twitter to ask for it. I don't have permissions so I can't post their name, but a friend of mine sent such a request and received this response: Thank you for writing in. Sorry for any confusion, but API whitelisting does not cover the statuses/update call, as this call is a POST method. All Twitter accounts are subject to the same 1000 tweets per day limit. We also do not have a specific limit status call for remaining tweets, but I will pass this along to our engineers as a feature request. I apologize for the inconvenience that this causes to you and your team. Thanks, Brian Seems to be conflicting with the previous statement, so I'm not sure what to make of it. Best Regards, Chris White
[twitter-dev] Re: Schedule for API call rate increases with oAuth?
> I understand the very compelling reasons why Twitter wants to convert > to universal OAuth access. But let's quit spinning OAuth as this > "great new security enhancement technology" that will benefit end- > users It's not. It wasn't even meant to be. It was just meant to > help the Twitters of the world communicate end-user information among > each other without having to share their end-users' credentials. You're working on a webapp to deal with twitter timelines. You store twitter usernames and passwords. For some reason or another your site gets hacked and all usernames and passwords are compromised. In a majority of cases, users have the same password setup for other accounts. The hackers do a username search to find the user in other places and try to retrieve their data there. To combat this and be totally sure, the user now has to remember all sites where they could have used that password and get it changed. Crap. Now let's see the oAuth version. Your site gets hacked. You reset the consumer key and secret. Tada, Hackers now have useless tokens. You get to the bottom of the hacking and explain to everyone what occured and whatever data was compromised. However, you don't have to tell them that their login information was compromised, which is a really nice thing. Will people be distrustful of your app? Yes, but the fallout is a lot less painful. -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: How to show top 20 twiits of the day
If you mean the 20 most recent tweets from all users there's statuses/ public_timeline: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-public_timeline Best Regards, Chris White On Apr 26, 6:55 am, millu wrote: > Hello friends > > I have one big problem, I have to show the Top most 20 twitts on my > site just like twitter home page (not a user home page). > so question is it possible to shows the recent top most 20 result > using php and Twitter API ? > > -- > Subscription > settings:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Status Update Limit Check
Hello Taylor, > What's your bot all about? The bot is a character bot for a popular Japanese doujin (not commercially backed, a person makes the game in their spare time and usually sells them at conventions) game. Such bots are highly concentrated throughout the Japanese community, as the writing system they have can say a lot more in 140 characters than with English characters (one word can constitute 2 characters for example). Basically such bots are conversational AI bots. Given certain cues they respond in a certain way. Such responses are sometimes randomized to provide a more dynamic interaction to users. With my current twitter bot, I'm currently working on an AI based system to constitute unsupervised learning and responses based on how the user interacts with the bot. However, because of the status updates imposed, and lack of knowledge on the specific rates, I have to consider how a normal person would operate, and include events such as "going to sleep" and "heading out for a bit". If certain interactions require a larger number of status updates, I planned to have it as a kind of web app that users could continue their conversation with the character, making my worries more about the data storage requirements in the database than status update limits. Other bot creators, however, may not have such elaborate setups due to hosting costs. For them, it's important to be able to scale their both with a large number of followers by being able to throttle status updates as per the twitter requirements. These bot creators wish to stay within the guidelines that twitter provides, but armed only with the knowledge of but the daily limit and receiving HTTP error codes, there is nothing to go off of. On the point of how such bots contribute to the twitter community, because the bot acts as the character itself, it draws fans of the characters into a tighter knit community. Users can look at the bot's follower list and find users with more similiar and focused interests with ease. Such bots will usually produce random non-reply based tweets with the character's lines, giving a topic of discussion for the bot's followers. There are even some users that go so far as to follow nothing but their favorite character's bots. Best Regards, Chris White -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Status Update Limit Check
I did a search around to see if I could find a similiar thread asking what I am, but I'm having a hard time putting together the correct search keywords for this. I'm developing a twitter bot and plan to implement some features in the bot itself, and others in a web application. The bot and web application will use the same database to keep in sync. The features I plan to add would potentially increase the status update rate for my bot. If these events occur, I would transition those features to the web app instead. However, I don't see a way to check against the status update limit short of keeping track locally. It seems that the 1000 tweet limit is further broken down into some unknown number. Is there any way to check against the update limit so I know to throttle my bot and modify my code? I'd rather not keep hitting the API limit through HTTP errors and potentially get my bot in trouble. Also, I've seen a limit on duplicate content for not just the last tweet, but x tweets back as well. I normally get around this by adding randomization to my bots tweets, which has worked pretty well, but I'm curious as to why the "x tweets back" isn't clearly defined somewhere. If these questions are already answered somewhere I appologize ahead of time, Once again I tried a few search keywords and didn't come up with much. -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
