Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Follow Button
Hi Zazie, On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Zazie Lavender zazielaven...@gmail.com wrote: This is great, but I worry that this might easily be abused. The code for a follow button seems written in a way that allows the user to redress the link however they please. I see the main intent url as being easily extracted for no-js users; but this means someone could take that URL, redress it as a link someone would WANT to click on and fool people into clicking such a button to boost their own follower counts. We have anti-CSRF protection to prevent the follow endpoint being used outside of the button. We also have malware detection in place so we can quickly shut down abusive sites. Thanks, -- Dan Webb Technical Lead, Twitter For Websites d...@twitter.com / @danwrong -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Search API vs Phoenix search (speed of indexing)
Hi, I am developing a browser-based client side app that is making use of the search API. I have noticed for certain terms, in the documented API it is very slow to index new tweets : e.g. right now the term 'Glazers' is trending in the UK, and the most recent tweet for that search term is six minutes old. If I do the exact same search in new twitter (using the undocumented phoenix search - i.e: http://twitter.com/phoenix_search.phoenix?...;), the most recent term is 53 seconds old (and there are many more newer than the most recent one returned from the search API) So for this search term, phoenix is well ahead of the documented API. The weird thing is for many other search terms they are returning results at the same speed (e.g. George Harrison right now) Is this a (known ? ) bug? Have twitter deliberately given themselves a superior API? Any advice would be much appreciated. Aside: I know I could use the streaming API, but I am trying to write this client side, and the streaming API does not yet support web sockets, so I don't think this is an option right now. I know of the flash plugin ( http://mehack.com/twitter-streaming-api-from-javascript-with-a ) but that is only for proofs of concept right now, and there is no way of using oauth. Cheers Dan -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Getting Started
Does anyone have a working example of using the jtwitter library using callbacks? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter OAuth PHP - Submit tweets without user login?
This example finally made sense of the whole thing and now I am up and running. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Getting Started
Hello, I am just getting started developing some proofs-of-concept for my company. One major snag is that I am of course behind a firewall. The OAuth API expects a URL that is available to twitter.com. I can't really do much more unless I start opening some ports (frowned upon). What solutions have other developers in the same position used? I also would like to avoid any user interaction with twitter (should be completely opaque). From reading the documentation it would appear that the XAuth is better suited to my use case. What experience have people had with this? Thanks for your time... -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] twurl with streaming API?
Matt, Thanks for the --no-ssl trick, much appreciated! That was staring me right in the face with the --help output and I still managed not to see it. No worries, I'm only trying to use twurl for a test. We do use twitter4j for live firehose access. Thanks, Dan On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hi Dan, The Track/Sample Streaming API doesn't support SSL which twurl enables by default. You need to instruct twurl to not use SSL when making requests. For example: twurl --no-ssl -t -H stream.twitter.com /1/statuses/sample.json This is ok for testing and debugging but you want to look at something like twitter4j or phirehose as a programatic way to consume the Streaming API. Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 12:42 AM, dcheckoway dchecko...@gmail.com wrote: After authorizing with twurl I tried this: $ twurl -t -H stream.twitter.com /1/statuses/sample.json opening connection to stream.twitter.com... ...and it just sits there. Anybody know if there's a way to use twurl with the streaming API? I can use curl no problem with basic auth, but that's pretty lame and short-lived. It would be nice if twurl supported the streaming API. If it does, can you clue me in? Thanks, Dan -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] 4294967295
Cool, I appreciate the response. I forgot to mention, although you guys probably know this by now...originally it was just the firehose on which we saw those funky values, but lately we've been seeing them in the wild as well. Thanks again, Taylor. Dan On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: It's going to be a little bit of time before we can totally prevent these values from occurring. Right now, you should probably just consider this value as unknown rather than necessarily null, 0, or otherwise. The team responsible for the low level component causing the bug has a fix planned, but it can't be applied until a few more dependencies are resolved. Thanks, Taylor On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.comwrote: I just wanted to follow up on this, because the issue continues to happen, and it gets more and more interesting. We've now been seeing user.listed_count coming back as 4294967293 on occasion. So just to recap, we have now seen these values in the user.listed_count field: 4294967295 (a.k.a. unsigned -1) 4294967294 (a.k.a. unsigned -2) 4294967293 (a.k.a. unsigned -3) twitter4j has worked around this issue no problem, but I'm more than just a bit curious what these values represent. Should -1 and -2 and -3 be treated to mean anything other than we don't know what the listed count is? What happens if/when -4 starts popping out? I realize this is pretty low priority, but it's still a bug... Thanks, Dan On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.comwrote: Check this out...today sometime between 4:01:43 AM PST and 4:01:53 AM PST (sorry for the ambiguity, those are our every 10 sec logging timestamps for other stuff), we saw the unsigned equivalent of -2 (4294967294) being sent by twitter in user.listed_count... Exception in thread Twitter Stream Handling Thread[Receiving stream] java.lang .NumberFormatException: For input string: 4294967294 at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException. java:48) at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:459) at java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Integer.java:553) at twitter4j.internal.util.ParseUtil.getInt(ParseUtil.java:120) at twitter4j.UserJSONImpl.init(UserJSONImpl.java:103) at twitter4j.UserJSONImpl.init(UserJSONImpl.java:86) at twitter4j.StatusJSONImpl.init(StatusJSONImpl.java:101) at twitter4j.StatusJSONImpl.init(StatusJSONImpl.java:84) at twitter4j.StatusJSONImpl.init(StatusJSONImpl.java:118) at twitter4j.StatusJSONImpl.init(StatusJSONImpl.java:84) at twitter4j.StatusStreamImpl.handleNextElement(StatusStreamImpl.java:116) at twitter4j.StatusStreamImpl.next(StatusStreamImpl.java:89) at twitter4j.TwitterStream$StreamHandlingThread.run(TwitterStream.java:529) Any idea what's going on and/or when it might be fixed? Thanks, Dan On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks! This is being looked into. I'll update when I have news. Taylor On Tuesday, December 14, 2010, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, you bet. Twitter4j isn't logging a timestamp when it happens, but here are a handful of timestamps for unrelated stuff that got logged no more than 10 seconds *prior* to the 4294967295 error popping out...so they're fairly close: Dec 14, 2010 12:34:11 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:13:07 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:22:48 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:27:22 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:29:48 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:33:36 PM PST Based on the twitter4j stack trace, I can tell you that it was *always* user.listed_count that had the funky value: Exception in thread Twitter Stream Handling Thread[Receiving stream] java.lang .NumberFormatException: For input string: 4294967295 at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException. java:48) at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:459) at java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Integer.java:553) at twitter4j.internal.util.ParseUtil.getInt(ParseUtil.java:120) at twitter4j.UserJSONImpl.init(UserJSONImpl.java:103) Thanks, Dan On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Understandable, Dan. Can you tell me the last time an event like this happened? Taylor On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.com wrote: I know this is the weenie answer, but I haven't been able to track a specific offending JSON object down yet, since it only seems to happen on the firehose, and we're using twitter4j to process that. If we were able to connect to the firehose more than once at a time, I could easily write a tool to detect and highlight the issue. Short of that, I'll try watching the sample stream for a while to see
Re: [twitter-dev] 4294967295
I just wanted to follow up on this, because the issue continues to happen, and it gets more and more interesting. We've now been seeing user.listed_count coming back as 4294967293 on occasion. So just to recap, we have now seen these values in the user.listed_count field: 4294967295 (a.k.a. unsigned -1) 4294967294 (a.k.a. unsigned -2) 4294967293 (a.k.a. unsigned -3) twitter4j has worked around this issue no problem, but I'm more than just a bit curious what these values represent. Should -1 and -2 and -3 be treated to mean anything other than we don't know what the listed count is? What happens if/when -4 starts popping out? I realize this is pretty low priority, but it's still a bug... Thanks, Dan On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.com wrote: Check this out...today sometime between 4:01:43 AM PST and 4:01:53 AM PST (sorry for the ambiguity, those are our every 10 sec logging timestamps for other stuff), we saw the unsigned equivalent of -2 (4294967294) being sent by twitter in user.listed_count... Exception in thread Twitter Stream Handling Thread[Receiving stream] java.lang .NumberFormatException: For input string: 4294967294 at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException. java:48) at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:459) at java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Integer.java:553) at twitter4j.internal.util.ParseUtil.getInt(ParseUtil.java:120) at twitter4j.UserJSONImpl.init(UserJSONImpl.java:103) at twitter4j.UserJSONImpl.init(UserJSONImpl.java:86) at twitter4j.StatusJSONImpl.init(StatusJSONImpl.java:101) at twitter4j.StatusJSONImpl.init(StatusJSONImpl.java:84) at twitter4j.StatusJSONImpl.init(StatusJSONImpl.java:118) at twitter4j.StatusJSONImpl.init(StatusJSONImpl.java:84) at twitter4j.StatusStreamImpl.handleNextElement(StatusStreamImpl.java:116) at twitter4j.StatusStreamImpl.next(StatusStreamImpl.java:89) at twitter4j.TwitterStream$StreamHandlingThread.run(TwitterStream.java:529) Any idea what's going on and/or when it might be fixed? Thanks, Dan On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks! This is being looked into. I'll update when I have news. Taylor On Tuesday, December 14, 2010, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, you bet. Twitter4j isn't logging a timestamp when it happens, but here are a handful of timestamps for unrelated stuff that got logged no more than 10 seconds *prior* to the 4294967295 error popping out...so they're fairly close: Dec 14, 2010 12:34:11 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:13:07 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:22:48 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:27:22 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:29:48 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:33:36 PM PST Based on the twitter4j stack trace, I can tell you that it was *always* user.listed_count that had the funky value: Exception in thread Twitter Stream Handling Thread[Receiving stream] java.lang .NumberFormatException: For input string: 4294967295 at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException. java:48) at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:459) at java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Integer.java:553) at twitter4j.internal.util.ParseUtil.getInt(ParseUtil.java:120) at twitter4j.UserJSONImpl.init(UserJSONImpl.java:103) Thanks, Dan On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Understandable, Dan. Can you tell me the last time an event like this happened? Taylor On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.com wrote: I know this is the weenie answer, but I haven't been able to track a specific offending JSON object down yet, since it only seems to happen on the firehose, and we're using twitter4j to process that. If we were able to connect to the firehose more than once at a time, I could easily write a tool to detect and highlight the issue. Short of that, I'll try watching the sample stream for a while to see if the same issue pops up there. Will report any findings... Thanks, Dan On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Dan, Do you continue to see events like this happening? Can you provide a recent example in as-provided JSON or XML? Thanks, Taylor On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody else seeing user.listed_count occasionally coming back as 4294967295? That value just happens to equate to: 1 + (2 * Integer.MAX_VALUE) Sure looks like an unsigned version of -1 to me... Anyway, it's breaking twitter4j.TwitterStream stuff. I've mentioned that separately on the twitter4j list, but I wanted to raise the issue here since the root cause is twitter sending the weird
Re: [twitter-dev] firehose exception: the end of stream has been reached
Thanks for the responses. That's unfortunately not the case. We've gone
massively concurrent with this (we've wrapped our own concurrent queueing
around twitter4j, which it looks like Yusuke has just updated to add his own
concurrent approach to this...thx), and falling behind on the stream is
definitely not the problem.
Bandwidth is not the problem.
I still don't understand why, right after reconnecting to the twitter
firehose, the stream just plain ends. It's not happening after some time of
possibly falling behind...it happens right away.
To clarify, this is NOT an issue all the time. And since I posted this the
other day, the problem has gone away as mysteriously as it arrived. But it
does happen from time to time. When everything else on my app's end is
steady-state, the flying fickle finger of blame points to twitter... :-)
Thanks,
Dan
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote:
Hey Dan,
If you fall too far behind when receiving the stream we will disconnect
you. Check the timestamp of the Tweets being received to the time on your
computer. If the times are drifting further apart you are falling behind.
The most common reasons for falling behind are:
1. You are attempting to process the stream in the same code that consumes
them - instead of running a queuing system.
2. Your connection is being used by other processes reducing your available
bandwidth.
As Tom suggested, run through the Streaming Documentation linked to from
http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api and make sure you implement the
suggestions.
Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.comwrote:
Our app is using twitter4j 2.1.9-SNAPSHOT against the twitter firehose,
and lately we are having problems with the stream just ending out of the
blue. It happens several times a day lately with no rhyme or reason.
Here's an example of what we see:
Stream closed.TwitterException{exceptionCode=[a3652dee-000a1c7a
a3652dee-000a1c35], statusCode=-1, retryAfter=0, rateLimitStatus=null,
version=2.1.9-SNAPSHOT}
at
twitter4j.AbstractStreamImplementation.handleNextElement(AbstractStreamImplementation.java:149)
at twitter4j.StatusStreamImpl.next(StatusStreamImpl.java:74)
at
twitter4j.TwitterStream$TwitterStreamConsumer.run(TwitterStream.java:687)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: the end of the stream has been reached
at
twitter4j.AbstractStreamImplementation.handleNextElement(AbstractStreamImplementation.java:80)
... 2 more
We call cleanUp and then reconnect to the firehose, and then the same
thing happens again. Eventually we get temporarily rate limited due to the
reconnect attempts.
I'm wondering if anybody else out there has seen this issue on the
firehose, or if anybody has a suggestion on how to avoid or work around it?
Is the likely cause on twitter's side, or could something on the client side
be causing this?
Thanks,
Dan
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Re: [twitter-dev] 4294967295
Check this out...today sometime between 4:01:43 AM PST and 4:01:53 AM PST (sorry for the ambiguity, those are our every 10 sec logging timestamps for other stuff), we saw the unsigned equivalent of -2 (4294967294) being sent by twitter in user.listed_count... Exception in thread Twitter Stream Handling Thread[Receiving stream] java.lang .NumberFormatException: For input string: 4294967294 at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException. java:48) at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:459) at java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Integer.java:553) at twitter4j.internal.util.ParseUtil.getInt(ParseUtil.java:120) at twitter4j.UserJSONImpl.init(UserJSONImpl.java:103) at twitter4j.UserJSONImpl.init(UserJSONImpl.java:86) at twitter4j.StatusJSONImpl.init(StatusJSONImpl.java:101) at twitter4j.StatusJSONImpl.init(StatusJSONImpl.java:84) at twitter4j.StatusJSONImpl.init(StatusJSONImpl.java:118) at twitter4j.StatusJSONImpl.init(StatusJSONImpl.java:84) at twitter4j.StatusStreamImpl.handleNextElement(StatusStreamImpl.java:116) at twitter4j.StatusStreamImpl.next(StatusStreamImpl.java:89) at twitter4j.TwitterStream$StreamHandlingThread.run(TwitterStream.java:529) Any idea what's going on and/or when it might be fixed? Thanks, Dan On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks! This is being looked into. I'll update when I have news. Taylor On Tuesday, December 14, 2010, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, you bet. Twitter4j isn't logging a timestamp when it happens, but here are a handful of timestamps for unrelated stuff that got logged no more than 10 seconds *prior* to the 4294967295 error popping out...so they're fairly close: Dec 14, 2010 12:34:11 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:13:07 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:22:48 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:27:22 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:29:48 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:33:36 PM PST Based on the twitter4j stack trace, I can tell you that it was *always* user.listed_count that had the funky value: Exception in thread Twitter Stream Handling Thread[Receiving stream] java.lang .NumberFormatException: For input string: 4294967295 at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException. java:48) at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:459) at java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Integer.java:553) at twitter4j.internal.util.ParseUtil.getInt(ParseUtil.java:120) at twitter4j.UserJSONImpl.init(UserJSONImpl.java:103) Thanks, Dan On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Understandable, Dan. Can you tell me the last time an event like this happened? Taylor On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.com wrote: I know this is the weenie answer, but I haven't been able to track a specific offending JSON object down yet, since it only seems to happen on the firehose, and we're using twitter4j to process that. If we were able to connect to the firehose more than once at a time, I could easily write a tool to detect and highlight the issue. Short of that, I'll try watching the sample stream for a while to see if the same issue pops up there. Will report any findings... Thanks, Dan On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Dan, Do you continue to see events like this happening? Can you provide a recent example in as-provided JSON or XML? Thanks, Taylor On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody else seeing user.listed_count occasionally coming back as 4294967295? That value just happens to equate to: 1 + (2 * Integer.MAX_VALUE) Sure looks like an unsigned version of -1 to me... Anyway, it's breaking twitter4j.TwitterStream stuff. I've mentioned that separately on the twitter4j list, but I wanted to raise the issue here since the root cause is twitter sending the weird value. Thanks, Dan -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi
[twitter-dev] firehose exception: the end of stream has been reached
Our app is using twitter4j 2.1.9-SNAPSHOT against the twitter firehose, and
lately we are having problems with the stream just ending out of the
blue. It happens several times a day lately with no rhyme or reason.
Here's an example of what we see:
Stream closed.TwitterException{exceptionCode=[a3652dee-000a1c7a
a3652dee-000a1c35], statusCode=-1, retryAfter=0, rateLimitStatus=null,
version=2.1.9-SNAPSHOT}
at
twitter4j.AbstractStreamImplementation.handleNextElement(AbstractStreamImplementation.java:149)
at twitter4j.StatusStreamImpl.next(StatusStreamImpl.java:74)
at
twitter4j.TwitterStream$TwitterStreamConsumer.run(TwitterStream.java:687)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: the end of the stream has been reached
at
twitter4j.AbstractStreamImplementation.handleNextElement(AbstractStreamImplementation.java:80)
... 2 more
We call cleanUp and then reconnect to the firehose, and then the same thing
happens again. Eventually we get temporarily rate limited due to the
reconnect attempts.
I'm wondering if anybody else out there has seen this issue on the firehose,
or if anybody has a suggestion on how to avoid or work around it? Is the
likely cause on twitter's side, or could something on the client side be
causing this?
Thanks,
Dan
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[twitter-dev] 4294967295
Anybody else seeing user.listed_count occasionally coming back as 4294967295? That value just happens to equate to: 1 + (2 * Integer.MAX_VALUE) Sure looks like an unsigned version of -1 to me... Anyway, it's breaking twitter4j.TwitterStream stuff. I've mentioned that separately on the twitter4j list, but I wanted to raise the issue here since the root cause is twitter sending the weird value. Thanks, Dan -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] 4294967295
Yeah, you bet. Twitter4j isn't logging a timestamp when it happens, but here are a handful of timestamps for unrelated stuff that got logged no more than 10 seconds *prior* to the 4294967295 error popping out...so they're fairly close: Dec 14, 2010 12:34:11 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:13:07 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:22:48 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:27:22 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:29:48 PM PST Dec 14, 2010 1:33:36 PM PST Based on the twitter4j stack trace, I can tell you that it was *always* user.listed_count that had the funky value: Exception in thread Twitter Stream Handling Thread[Receiving stream] java.lang .NumberFormatException: For input string: 4294967295 at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException. java:48) at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:459) at java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Integer.java:553) at twitter4j.internal.util.ParseUtil.getInt(ParseUtil.java:120) at twitter4j.UserJSONImpl.init(UserJSONImpl.java:103) Thanks, Dan On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Understandable, Dan. Can you tell me the last time an event like this happened? Taylor On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.com wrote: I know this is the weenie answer, but I haven't been able to track a specific offending JSON object down yet, since it only seems to happen on the firehose, and we're using twitter4j to process that. If we were able to connect to the firehose more than once at a time, I could easily write a tool to detect and highlight the issue. Short of that, I'll try watching the sample stream for a while to see if the same issue pops up there. Will report any findings... Thanks, Dan On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Dan, Do you continue to see events like this happening? Can you provide a recent example in as-provided JSON or XML? Thanks, Taylor On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Dan Checkoway dchecko...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody else seeing user.listed_count occasionally coming back as 4294967295? That value just happens to equate to: 1 + (2 * Integer.MAX_VALUE) Sure looks like an unsigned version of -1 to me... Anyway, it's breaking twitter4j.TwitterStream stuff. I've mentioned that separately on the twitter4j list, but I wanted to raise the issue here since the root cause is twitter sending the weird value. Thanks, Dan -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Company Whitelisting
Hi - I work at Qwest Communications and all access to the public internet for our 40K + employees goes through a small number of proxy servers. So when attempting to access rate-limited resources, we are already at our limit most of the time. As part of our website I'm trying to include a rate-limited resource(RSS) for one of our lists, and in the past several days I've only been able to successfully access the RSS about 3 times. For performance reasons - we'd prefer to cache our RSS server side rather than connecting client side (where rate limiting would likely not apply for external clients). Is there anyway I can get our whole company whitelisted for a much larger request limit? You may think we can use a non rate limited resource like the filter api or something for my specific needs - but that still leaves us the problem that we cannot access our own RSS or any other RSS from anywhere inside the Qwest Intranet without a HTTP400 95% of the time. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter streaming API using oauth with tracks that have spaces?
Taylor, Thanks for your response. The crux might be Normalizing spaces to %20, and avoiding + is also a best practice. tweetstream4j uses Apache's HttpClient 4.0 (see http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/index.html). I believe if a request has application/x-www-form-urlencoded params, HttpClient URL-encodes (i.e. space = +), and one can't percent-encode beforehand because the param will be double-encoded, e.g. foo%20bar = foo %2520bar instead of foo bar. One also can't avoid the HttpClient URL encoding by using a different type of param, because then the params are not labeled application/x-www-form-urlencoded. I wouldn't be surprised if twitter4j and tweepy were in a similar sort of bind, though I have not verified. Can you elaborate on why avoiding + is so important? I would hate to have to patch Apache's HttpClient. Also, do you know of any Java or Python library that gets this right? On Nov 10, 8:56 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Think of it this way.. a valid POST body already must contain application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoded values for the body to be valid. Normalizing spaces to %20, and avoiding + is also a best practice. OAuth kicks in after you've already constructed a valid POST body. Here's an example of tracking a term with a space character in it: twitter api == POST Body track=twitter%20api == signature_base_string POSThttp%3A%2F%2Fstream.twitter.com %2F1%2Fstatuses%2Ffilter.jsonoauth_consumer_key%3Dri8JxYK2ddwSV5xIUfNNvQ%26oauth_nonce%3DQKWqIP8eEedgOPk5ujopscNxqeoafDNC0r6TZyLFM%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1289400791%26oauth_token%3D819797-torCkTs0XK7H2Y2i1ee5iofqkMC4p7aayeEXRTmlw%26oauth_version%3D1.0%26track%3Dtwitter%2520api == Authorization Header Authorization: OAuth oauth_nonce=QKWqIP8eEedgOPk5ujopscNxqeoafDNC0r6TZyLFM, oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1, oauth_timestamp=1289400791, oauth_consumer_key=ri8JxYK2ddwSV5xIUfNNvQ, oauth_token=819797-torCkTs0XK7H2Y2i1ee5iofqkMC4p7aayeEXRTmlw, oauth_signature=jaEvelmcrQOkHdWADBvwZsQeGiQ%3D, oauth_version=1.0 Taylor On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Ciaran ciar...@gmail.com wrote: Try ui-encoding them first, my understanding of the Twitter OAuth signature validation is that it is non-standard (although there appears to be debate about this) I suspect if you encode them first before signing the url it will start to work -cj. On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:11 PM, dan dfran...@gmail.com wrote: I've been having trouble connecting to the streaming API using oauth if my tracks have spaces. I get 401s (unauthorized). In all cases, the same code works if the tracks don't have spaces. In Java: tried twitter4j (http://twitter4j.org/jira/browse/TFJ-420) and tweetstream4j (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4129622/ connecting-to-twitter-streaming-api-with-tracks-with-spaces-using- apache-httpclie) In Python: tried tweepy (https://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy/ issues#issue/64) The Twitter example using curl (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/ streaming_api_methods#track) works with tracks that have spaces, but it's basic auth. I am wondering if some oauth encoding versus POST param encoding is not working out. Can someone point me to a code example in Java or Python that is known to work connecting to the Twitter streaming API using oauth that has spaces in its tracks? Thanks in advance. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Twitter streaming API using oauth with tracks that have spaces?
I've been having trouble connecting to the streaming API using oauth if my tracks have spaces. I get 401s (unauthorized). In all cases, the same code works if the tracks don't have spaces. In Java: tried twitter4j (http://twitter4j.org/jira/browse/TFJ-420) and tweetstream4j (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4129622/ connecting-to-twitter-streaming-api-with-tracks-with-spaces-using- apache-httpclie) In Python: tried tweepy (https://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy/ issues#issue/64) The Twitter example using curl (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/ streaming_api_methods#track) works with tracks that have spaces, but it's basic auth. I am wondering if some oauth encoding versus POST param encoding is not working out. Can someone point me to a code example in Java or Python that is known to work connecting to the Twitter streaming API using oauth that has spaces in its tracks? Thanks in advance. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information
I'm also patiently awaiting a response from twitter about this. Are the ids
sane for 64-bit *signed* long?
Dan
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:08 PM, jon jonhoff...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
You wrote that the IDs are unsigned 64 bit ints, but the IdWorker is
pumping out java Longs which are signed. I'm assuming that was a
typo, but please clarify.
http://github.com/twitter/snowflake/blob/master/src/main/scala/com/twitter/service/snowflake/IdWorker.scala
Thanks,
- Jon
On Oct 18, 8:19 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote:
Last week you may remember Twitter planned to enable the new Status ID
generator - 'Snowflake' but didn't. The purpose of this email is to
explain
the reason why this didn't happen, what we are doing about it, and what
the
new release plan is.
So what is Snowflake?
--
Snowflake is a service we will be using to generate unique Tweet IDs.
These
Tweet IDs are unique 64bit unsigned integers, which, instead of being
sequential like the current IDs, are based on time. The full ID is
composed
of a timestamp, a worker number, and a sequence number.
The problem
-
Before launch it came to our attention that some programming languages
such
as Javascript cannot support numbers with 53bits. This can be easily
examined by running a command similar to: (90071992547409921).toString()
in
your browsers console or by running the following JSON snippet through
your
JSON parser.
{id: 10765432100123456789, id_str: 10765432100123456789}
In affected JSON parsers the ID will not be converted successfully and
will
lose accuracy. In some parsers there may even be an exception.
The solution
To allow javascript and JSON parsers to read the IDs we need to include a
string version of any ID when responding in the JSON format. What this
means
is Status, User, Direct Message and Saved Search IDs in the Twitter API
will
now be returned as an integer and a string in JSON responses. This will
apply to the main Twitter API, the Streaming API and the Search API.
For example, a status object will now contain an id and an id_str. The
following JSON representation of a status object shows the two versions
of
the ID fields for each data point.
[
{
coordinates: null,
truncated: false,
created_at: Thu Oct 14 22:20:15 + 2010,
favorited: false,
entities: {
urls: [
],
hashtags: [
],
user_mentions: [
{
name: Matt Harris,
id: 777925,
id_str: 777925,
indices: [
0,
14
],
screen_name: themattharris
}
]
},
text: @themattharris hey how are things?,
annotations: null,
contributors: [
{
id: 819797,
id_str: 819797,
screen_name: episod
}
],
id: 12738165059,
id_str: 12738165059,
retweet_count: 0,
geo: null,
retweeted: false,
in_reply_to_user_id: 777925,
in_reply_to_user_id_str: 777925,
in_reply_to_screen_name: themattharris,
user: {
id: 6253282
id_str: 6253282
},
source: web,
place: null,
in_reply_to_status_id: 12738040524
in_reply_to_status_id_str: 12738040524
}
]
What should you do - RIGHT NOW
--
The first thing you should do is attempt to decode the JSON snippet above
using your production code parser. Observe the output to confirm the ID
has
not lost accuracy.
What you do next depends on what happens:
* If your code converts the ID successfully without losing accuracy you
are
OK but should consider converting to the _str versions of IDs as soon as
possible.
* If your code has lost accuracy, convert your code to using the _str
version immediately. If you do not do this your code will be unable to
interact with the Twitter API reliably.
* In some language parsers, the JSON may throw an exception when reading
the
ID value. If this happens in your parser you will need to ‘pre-parse’ the
data, removing or replacing ID parameters with their _str versions.
Summary
-
1) If you develop in Javascript, know that you will have to update your
code
to read the string version instead of the integer version.
2) If you use a JSON decoder, validate that the example JSON, above,
decodes
without throwing exceptions. If exceptions are thrown, you will need to
pre-parse the data. Please let us know the name, version, and language of
the parser which throws the exception so we can investigate.
Timeline
---
by 22nd October 2010 (Friday): String versions of ID numbers will start
appearing in the API responses
4th November 2010 (Thursday) : Snowflake will be turned on but at ~41bit
[twitter-dev] Search API - Show From user but not @replies
Is it possible using a search query to show tweets from a user but not include their @ replies? I can see that it's possible to negate a query (such as @user) but not possible to use a wildcard (to negate all @users) so how could you do this? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Create a favorite
Im very much a newbie to PHP and the Twitter API.
Im trying to create a form button to set a tweet as a favorite.
I have OAuth working to post status updates and i've tried to amend
the status update code to set a tweet to be a favorite.
Wonder if anyone could help me:
$qtweet = A Twitter ID
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$qtweet = $_REQUEST['fav'];
$connection-post('favorites/create', array('id' = $qtweet));
echo div style='padding-bottom: 5px; color: #0099FF;'Favorite
Created./div;
}
form id=fav method='post' action='index.php'
input style=width: 346px; name=fav id=fav /textarea
input type='submit' value='Tweet This!' name='submit' id='submit' /
/form
--
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API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi
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[twitter-dev] Lat,long, vs long/lat
Why is it that in most of the API, geo-co-ordinates are represented as
lat,long?
e.g. http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/21059379505.json
...geo:{type:Point,coordinates:[44.6994873,-73.4529124]}...
(like most of the world does it)
but in the places API it is long,lat?
e.g.
http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/881e03b2b43d3810.json
{geometry:{type:Point,coordinates:[-73.452852,44.698943]}...
This is very confusing!
Cheers
Dan
[twitter-dev] Using Search API to get a list of replies to specific tweet
Hello everyone, I was wondering if it is possible to use the Search API to get a list of tweets that are in reply to a specific tweet. For example, is there any way to send a tweet ID to the Search API, and then retrieve all tweets that are in reply to this specific ID? Thank you.
[twitter-dev] Do i need to create an app
Hi all really sorry about bothering you with this, i just have a quick question to ask. i currently have a CMS that i have coded from scratch within this i have included a twitter intergration so when one of our people using the CMS adds an article it will post it directly to our twitter profile, it currently doing this via a PHP class that i had found, using the username and password directly to post to twitter. the question is would i have to change this to OAuth, and would i need to create an application for it? as it isnt really an application as such is it? im kind of lost with this, should i create an app and then recode the way the CMS works to post to twitter using OAuth? im assuming i would need to create a callback page etc to get the authorization details that i would need is this correct? any help would be most appreciated thanks Dan
[twitter-dev] direct_message/new to multiple users
is it possible to DM multiple user ids by specifying comma separated user_id parameter? e.g. user_id=123,125,234,345 etc etc?
[twitter-dev] Re: direct_message/new to multiple users
thanks for the info. I just wanted to check :) On May 19, 4:24 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Dan, This is not possible. DMs really aren't meant as a platform for sending the same message to multiple users. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Dan d...@danielprocter.com wrote: is it possible to DM multiple user ids by specifying comma separated user_id parameter? e.g. user_id=123,125,234,345 etc etc?
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: alert() in anywhere.js
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Steve C st...@twitpic.com wrote: We just rolled out @anywhere yesterday and some of our users are experiencing similar issues. http://twitpic.com/1p00d6 We rolled out a fix at the weekend that we fixed all the browsers that we test under but there are obviously still some browsers getting the issue. I think we'll use console.info to display these message instead of an alert. We wanted to let developers know that they needed a clientID in the most noticable way but to avoid unintended annoyance of users we'll move to console.log. Thanks, -- Dan Webb Front-end Engineer, Platform d...@twitter.com / @danwrong +1 415 425 5631
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: alert() in anywhere.js
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Dan Webb d...@twitter.com wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Steve C st...@twitpic.com wrote: Just wondering...does TwitPic have a bug or misconfiguration or is this an @anywhere bug? Javascript errors at startup time (in these cases by browser bugs in certain browsers that we don't support) are causing the initialization to terminate early leaving the client ID unset. We're going to ensure that unsupport browsers fail silently rather than triggering this alert. ETA for fix is within the hour. -- Dan Webb Front-end Engineer, Platform d...@twitter.com / @danwrong +1 415 425 5631
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: alert() in anywhere.js
This does sound like a regression of some kind. We'll get this fixed ASAP. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:41 PM, JohnB johnfakor...@yahoo.com wrote: Are we really talking about incorrect installations here? Twitter's own @Anywhere documentation page (http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere/ begin) is throwing this same error in older browsers, including Chrome 3.0.195. -- Dan Webb Front-end Engineer, Platform d...@twitter.com / @danwrong +1 415 425 5631
Re: [twitter-dev] @anywhere in Safari4/Mac - wont work
It looks to me like your hovercards are not finding a screen name rather than it being a browser issue. The Unsafe javascript attempt is a warning and does not effect operation. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Felix Kunsmann fe...@kunsmann.eu wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use @anywhere hovercards in my Blog (Link below). It seems that Safari is blocking all requests to Twitter, so is there a way to fix that (or to duplicate hovercard functionality)? -- Dan Webb Front-end Engineer, Platform d...@twitter.com / @danwrong +1 415 425 5631
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Verify user connect with @anywhere?
Shortly we'll be providing the logged in user's id along with a signature that will allow you to verify it is genuine. Stay tuned. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think it is officially supported as a public API but you can pull the twttr_anywhere cookie which contains an access token. https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.xml?oauth_access_token=xyz Abraham -- Dan Webb Front-end Engineer, Platform d...@twitter.com / @danwrong +1 415 425 5631
[twitter-dev] GET list memberships paging is broken?
When using the GET list memberships API ( http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapi/lists/memberships.*), it looks like paging is broken. If the user is a member of 20 lists, you can never see anything beyond the first 20. I'm passing cursor=-1 (well, twitter4j is) on the first request, and I get back the first page of 20 lists, which is fine...but no matter what, I always get back: next_cursor:0, previous_cursor:0, next_cursor_str:0, previous_cursor_str:0 ...which prevents any paging beyond that first page of 20. This is the case no matter which user I've tried. What seems coincidental is that even on the twitter web site proper, only the first page of 20 is presented as well, with no way to page beyond that...for example: http://twitter.com/GamePro/lists/memberships I'm not sure if that's a related issue, or an intentional thing that has also affected the API, or what. Anyway, can twitter please fix paging on the GET list memberships API? Thanks, Dan Checkoway -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mad about lists and cursors... please help
+1 on needing this fix. Sorry for the duplicate report of this issue I slapped in another thread this morning. Thanks, Dan On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: Yes. A fix has been identified, and should be deployed in a few days Sent from mobile device On Apr 17, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Zach zcox...@gmail.com wrote: It's 10 days later and next_cursor on http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-GET-list-memberships is still always 0, even when the user is being followed by far more than 20 lists. This is completely broken and prevents 3rd party apps from discovering all lists that follow a given user. Has anyone at Twitter even looked into this? On Apr 7, 3:43 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: Eugene, we're aware of the issue and will take a look at it today. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:09 AM, eugene.man...@gmail.com eugene.man...@gmail.com wrote: I posted this issue to @twitterapi twice, but they ignored it. Dear API group, please address this question. Thank you! On Apr 6, 9:45 am, Spraycode joey.fernan...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone been able to solve this issue? This is still crippling us. Thanks! On Apr 2, 5:25 am, luisfigo rsoeg...@gmail.com wrote: Having the same problem... Triedhttp://api.twitter.com/1/avinashkaushik/lists/memberships.xml and get 0 for cursor. This guy is followed by ton of lists in fact Below is the snapshot of the end result I got... This is screwing up our app right now... . profile_background_image_url http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/79104366/twitter_backgr. .. /profile_background_image_url profile_background_tilefalse/profile_background_tile notificationsfalse/notifications geo_enabledfalse/geo_enabled verifiedfalse/verified followingfalse/following statuses_count3208/statuses_count langen/lang contributors_enabledfalse/contributors_enabled /user /list /lists next_cursor0/next_cursor previous_cursor0/previous_cursor /lists_list On Apr 1, 6:00 pm, Diego Rin Martin diego@gmail.com wrote: I think it's a API bug, even in the twitter page the paginator doesn't work as expected, sometimes appears, sometines not, and when appears it makes in a random manner. i'm getting cursor 0 from API, using int or string representation, the bug is in the API that sends the cursor 0 randomly. regards, diego. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:38 AM, jmathai jmat...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure you're using the string representation of the cursor instead of the int? The API's cursor exceeds PHP's max integer value (generally). jmathai ~ $ php -r '$x = json_decode(1); echo $x; echo \n; var_dump($x===1); var_dump($x===1.111E+52);' 1.111E+52 bool(false) bool(true) jmathai ~ $ php -r '$x = 1; echo $x; echo \n; var_dump($x===1); var_dump($x===1.111E+52);' 1.111E+52 bool(true) bool(false) On Mar 31, 2:03 am, Diego Rin Martín diego@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, this is my first post to this group, i'm a spanish developer dealing with twitter api surprises, excuse my poor english, i'will do my best to comunicate nicest. So, to the problem, I'm trying to retrieve the lists for a user, via list/membershipsget method, and passing cursor as parameter, I'm having got random results, I explain myself, sometimes I made a request (for user edans, that have a huge amount of pages to paginate) and I get one page, I pass cursor -1 and I get cursor 0, sometimes I get one page, I pass cursor -1 i get cursor 1331431515904087602, then I pass it and I get 0, sometimes I get a random number of pages, but never, never, be able to retrieve the total amount of pages. I use php twitter-async classes to comunicate with API, I thought that it could be the cause of the problem, but using direct curl (via php5- curl extension) calls I'm having the same issues. Same using json or xml. I'm always getting 200 responses, so the call finish in a correct way. any clue? I'm turning mad. Thanks in advance. diego. -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
Re: [twitter-dev] jQuery being loaded multiple times using @anywhere
Hi Matt,
At the moment there are 2 references to jQuery. We'd rather load in
our own version of JQuery rather than detecting it in partner pages so
we can be assured of the version we are running on top of. The reason
its loaded twice is that it's used both on the client and on the
server that exists in a hidden iframe. A large amount of users will
have google's jQuery cached so it doesn't slow performance too much.
That being said we will continue to tune @anywhere and removing
external dependencies will be something we'll definitely be looking
at.
Thanks,
Dan
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Matt m...@indielabs.com wrote:
We've just implemented @anywhere's hovercard feature on our website
and noticed that in addition to the initial loading of jQuery from
Google which we were already doing, by including the Twitter script it
loads jQuery 2 or 3 more times from Google. This should be fixed to
only load jQuery once if it is not already detected.
Here is the script we're using:
script src=http://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js?
id=OURAPIKEYISHEREv=1/script
script type=text/javascript
twttr.anywhere(function(twitter) {
twitter('.twitter a').hovercards({
infer: true
});
});
/script
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Re: [twitter-dev] Re: parent.twttr.anywhere._signedOutCookiePresent
Apologies for this. There was an issue with our CDN causing this
which we've now fixed. It's not related to cookies.
Thanks,
Dan
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Jon j...@jgubman.com wrote:
I was getting that same error earlier. Clearing out my cookies seemed
to fix it, but doesn't instill confidence...
On Apr 16, 2:25 pm, Craig cbernst...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
@Anywhere (just a simple install following the Getting Started
instructions) worked on my site yesterday. Today, it is dead:
platform0.twitter.com/1/javascripts/client.js:1:
Uncaught TypeError: Object function (Z,b){if(typeof Z==function)
{b=Z;Z=twttr.anywhere._config.defaultVersion}if(!
twttr.anywhere._config.clientID){return alert(To set up @anywhere,
please provide a client ID)}if(D==callback||D==headless){return }
var Y;var a=twttr.anywhere._instances;if(typeof Z===string||typeof
Z===number){Z={version:Z}}Z.version=(Z.version)?
Z.version.toString():twttr.anywhere._config.defaultVersion;Z=E({window:window},Z);if((Y=a[Z.version]))
{if(Y.contentWindow._ready){Y.contentWindow._init(b,Z)}
else{U(Y.contentWindow,b,Z)}}else{T(Z,b)}} has no method
'_signedOutCookiePresent'
Oops?
Craig
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[twitter-dev] Re: @anywhere sign in button disappearing
Hi Aral, So the connect button disappears entirely after you've connected? If you reply with steps to reproduce we can look in to it. Thanks, Dan On Apr 15, 8:48 am, Aral Balkan aralbal...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely seeing it disappear while logged into a different account. Not sure if some oAuth session is being cached or something. Aral -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
[twitter-dev] Re: twitter.User.current.data is not a function
The way to acheive this best would be:
twttr.anywhere(function(twitter)
{
if (twitter.isConnected())
{
alert(ttwitter.currentUser.data('screen_name'));
}
else
{
twitter(#connectArea).connectButton({size: large});
}
});
Thanks,
Dan
On Apr 15, 7:46 am, silentgecko rwelb...@brainpool.de wrote:
Same Problem here
On 15 Apr., 09:47, Palleas pall...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I gave a try to Anywhere connect, and I have a weird issue, even if
I'm using the official example provided on the website.
Here is what I'm doing :
twttr.anywhere(function(twitter)
{
if (twitter.isConnected)
{
alert(twitter.User.current.data(screen_name));
}
else
{
twitter(#connectArea).connectButton({size: large});
}
});
But this is what I got from firefox and Chrome :
twitter.User.current.data is not a function
[Break on this error] alert(twitter.User.current.data(screen_name));
Any hints?
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Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation
Dean, Basic auth sends the password essentially in the clear (encoded, but trivially so). It's really in everybody's best interest NOT to use basic auth, but to switch to something less sniffable/repeatable. For example, here's a sample credential you're passing to twitter (HTTP header) when you use basic auth: *Authorization: Basic bm9ib2R5OndoYXRldmVy * Go to http://ostermiller.org/calc/encode.html, paste bm9ib2R5OndoYXRldmVy into the box and click Decode next to Base 64. Now you have my password. Sniff some HTTP requests and you've got a whole lot of passwords. Completely non-secure. I'm not even sure why basic auth ever gained any sort of acceptance. Switching off basic auth and onto something like OAuth, any of your users who value their privacy will thank you! 1 for deprecating basic auth. Dan On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: So basically you are saying Twitter wants a chokehold to block apps they don’t like which you don’t currently have with basic auth. Considering your recent purchase of a twitter client is that really a message you want to be spreading at the moment? How about leaving it up to end users to make the decision about which clients they do and don’t use to access twitter. Restricting all clients to oauth only is hardly going to give developers warm and fuzzy feelings that with a single keystroke a client can be banned instantly across the entire ecosystem. Or am I missing something? Cheers, Dean -- *From:* twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto: twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Raffi Krikorian *Sent:* Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:59 AM *To:* twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation in my ideal world, nobody would have access to a user's password except twitter.com -- oauth provides a framework so end applications are not storing the actual password. people are notoriously bad with using the same password on lots of different sites. additionally, oauth provides twitter better visibility into the traffic coming into our system, so we can better shape traffic needs, we can provide auditing back to users on which applications are doing what actions on their behalf, etc. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Dean #39;at#39; Cognation dot Net d...@cognation.net wrote: But why is oauth better than basic for a desktop client? i understand it for the webapps but on a desktop client whats the point? Basically you are saying the desktop end user cant be trusted? Sorry but that doesn't make any sense. Please explain. Cheers, Dean On Apr 14, 1:15 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Basic auto being turned off means just that.. Desktop clients can implement xAuth as an alternative, where you do a one-time exchange of login and password for an OAuth access token and continue from there signing your requests and doing things in the OAuth way. You'd no longer, as a best practice and one that I would stress in the upmost even on a desktop client, store the login and password beyond the xAuth access token negotiation step. If the token were revoked you would then query for the login and password again and so on and so on and also and also. Obtaining permission to use xAuth for desktop clients is as easy as sending a well-identified and verbose note to a...@twitter.com. Basic auth had a good run. It's nearly time to say goodnight. Taylor On Tuesday, April 13, 2010, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: Just so I understand this, applications running on the desktop will still work correct? Basic functionality is only being turned off for web apps correct? It's not like desktop apps will have to start using oauth. Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto: twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dewald Pretorius Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:31 PM To: Twitter Development Talk Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation Could you please announce the hard turn off date somewhere on one of your Twitter blogs about a month ahead of time, so that we all have an official source to point our users to when we explain to them why we're converting everything over to OAuth? On Apr 13, 8:19 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: we have announced deprecation, and will hard turn off basic authentication in june. the exact date has not been set, but i presume it will be later in the month. Is Basic Auth going to be deprecated (as in hard switched-off) in June, or are you in June going to announce depracation, with the hard switch-off then coming a few months later? -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi
[twitter-dev] OAuth API calls not succeeding for APIs *always* requiring authentication - Incorrect Signature
I'm sure this is my fault, but I have kind of a bizarre scenario, where OAuth is working for certain APIs, but not the ones for which Requires Authorization is always true. * I am able to obtain access tokens, both through the PIN process and through xAuth. * I can successfully use these access tokens to make certain API calls using GET. These are APIs that may have different results if the user is authenticated or not (user_timeline, rate_limit_status, etc). I get the expected results for successful authentication (ie.user_timeline shows tweets for a protected user; lists/my_list/ statuses shows tweets for my private list). * However, for APIs that *always* require authentication (eg verify_credentials, mentions, myusername/lists, etc), I get a 401 with Incorrect signature I'm not sure what to do. It was my understanding that OAuth was pretty unforgiving, so I'm surprised that it seems to half work... Is this the right forum for this question? I would be grateful for any wise counsel! Dan B
[twitter-dev] Latest post missing in Restful call, present in RSS
Hi, Strange little problem here. A friend's last tweet is up on his twitter page at twitter.com/climate_threat and is present in the RSS, but on calling Twitter's RESTful API, the tweet is missing (http:// api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/climate_threat.xml). Any idea why this might be the case? Thanks.
[twitter-dev] Incorrect Retweet Responses
I'm working to integrate support for official retweets in my app, but I'm running into issues. I believe I'm getting incorrect responses from Twitter. When successful I get the correct response (info about a new tweet that is a retweet of the original tweet). However, when I ask to retweet a tweet from a private account or some other illegal action, rather than getting an error response, I get info about a retweet of this tweet: http://twitter.com/brettschulte/status/5656834480. I've tested this from two accounts (@TwittBeta, @AlternatePixel) and have gotten the same results. Also, not sure if it's any help, but looking at the incorrect response (attached below), I noticed that there is no ID for the retweet. Perhaps this has something to do with why it's getting returned? Hope this can get fixed soon. Dan - The Incorrect Response ?xml version=\1.0\ encoding=\UTF-8\? status created_at/created_at id/id textRT @brettschulte: Beer drinking this weekend. Who's in? http://bit.ly/9Kb3u/text sourcelt;a href=quot;http://apiwiki.twitter.com/quot; rel=quot;nofollowquot;gt;APIlt;/agt;/source truncatedfalse/truncated in_reply_to_status_id/in_reply_to_status_id in_reply_to_user_id/in_reply_to_user_id favoritedfalse/favorited in_reply_to_screen_name/in_reply_to_screen_name retweeted_status created_atThu Nov 12 19:09:52 + 2009/created_at id5656834480/id textBeer drinking this weekend. Who's in? http://bit.ly/9Kb3u/text sourcelt;a href=quot;http://www.tweetdeck.com/quot; rel=quot;nofollowquot;gt;TweetDecklt;/agt;/source truncatedfalse/truncated in_reply_to_status_id/in_reply_to_status_id in_reply_to_user_id/in_reply_to_user_id favoritedfalse/favorited in_reply_to_screen_name/in_reply_to_screen_name user id676203/id nameBrett Schulte/name screen_namebrettschulte/screen_name locationLos Angeles/location description#220;ber Geek/description profile_image_urlhttp://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/60304100/ JVI_0224_normal.jpg/profile_image_url urlhttp://www.brettschulte.com/url protectedfalse/protected followers_count1848/followers_count profile_background_color1A1B1F/profile_background_color profile_text_color66/profile_text_color profile_link_color2FC2EF/profile_link_color profile_sidebar_fill_color252429/profile_sidebar_fill_color profile_sidebar_border_color181A1E/ profile_sidebar_border_color friends_count417/friends_count created_atSun Jan 21 19:29:04 + 2007/created_at favourites_count4/favourites_count utc_offset-28800/utc_offset time_zonePacific Time (US amp; Canada)/time_zone profile_background_image_urlhttp://s.twimg.com/a/1257899144/ images/themes/theme9/bg.gif/profile_background_image_url profile_background_tilefalse/profile_background_tile statuses_count5964/statuses_count notificationsfalse/notifications geo_enabledfalse/geo_enabled verifiedtrue/verified followingtrue/following /user geo/ /retweeted_status user id15199539/id nameMark Milian/name screen_namemarkmilian/screen_name locationLos Angeles/location descriptionla times writer: tech + social media + politics + indie rock music/description profile_image_urlhttp://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/475986397/ DSC00397-post_normal.JPG/profile_image_url urlhttp://markmilian.com/url protectedfalse/protected followers_count2228/followers_count profile_background_color648ACE/profile_background_color profile_text_color00/profile_text_color profile_link_color346A8F/profile_link_color profile_sidebar_fill_colorFFE3AF/profile_sidebar_fill_color profile_sidebar_border_color485D6C/ profile_sidebar_border_color friends_count222/friends_count created_atSun Jun 22 18:32:07 + 2008/created_at favourites_count60/favourites_count utc_offset-28800/utc_offset time_zonePacific Time (US amp; Canada)/time_zone profile_background_image_urlhttp://a1.twimg.com/ profile_background_images/3682820/ew-t.png/ profile_background_image_url profile_background_tilefalse/profile_background_tile statuses_count1969/statuses_count notificationsfalse/notifications geo_enabledfalse/geo_enabled verifiedfalse/verified followingfalse/following /user geo/ /status
[twitter-dev] Re: Lists API
Yep, on for everyone. Just waiting and hoping for whitelisting so I can actually release the website I built around the API. Right now I can't make enough calls to keep its database fresh.
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists: /user/list/members.xml returning only 20 at a time
Hoping for an answer to this as well. The last dev post said that cursors would be added to list-of-lists functions, but they didn't mention followers-of-lists getting the treatment. It is much needed. On Oct 24, 6:18 pm, Dave Briccetti da...@davebsoft.com wrote: How can I retrieve more than 20 at a time? ?cursor=-1count=200 has no effect
[twitter-dev] Re: Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)
The update says all requests that produce a list *of lists* will have a cursor option. What about lists of members following/followed on/by a list? If I want to download the list of people following a list, members.xml currently gives only 20 users. Is there a way to ask for more, or to get the next page?
[twitter-dev] Re: heavy throttling by search.twitter.com API from GAE application
I figured out this problem; it was not related after all. I needed to set the user-agent when using curl, with the curl_setopt command (in PHP). Once I did that I did not have problems using the Search API. On Aug 29, 7:03 pm, Dan danec...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if this is related. I've been using Services_Twitter to use theSearchAPI and I keep getting the error message Unsupportedendpointsearch. I'm searching a simple 7-letter word. Anyone have any idea what that message means? Maybe this is related to something going on with Twitter'sSearchAPI?
[twitter-dev] Re: heavy throttling by search.twitter.com API from GAE application
I'm not sure if this is related. I've been using Services_Twitter to use the Search API and I keep getting the error message Unsupported endpoint search. I'm searching a simple 7-letter word. Anyone have any idea what that message means? Maybe this is related to something going on with Twitter's Search API?
[twitter-dev] Re: Invalid / used nonce
For our app, we successfully call request_token from our server. When we then call statuses/update from the client, we get a 401 'Invalid / used nonce' response. If the request_token call comes directly from the client, the update call succeeds. The nonces have been sanity checked and are definitely different for each call. GET requests to users/show succeed regardless of whether the request_token comes from the proxy server or client. Code is based on MGTwitterEngine-1.0.8-OAuth. The same code was working ok prior to the recent DoS downtime. Perhaps something has been changed on Twitter's side that might result in the 401 response? On Aug 11, 8:38 am, graceawalker grace_blo...@hotmail.com wrote: No, my nonce is definately new every time. Surely if there was something wrong with the way it was being generated it would error during requestToken/accessToken/VerifyCredentials too?? All the code ive looked through is doing it exactly the same way. Is the 'status' parameter being used just like all the oauth parameters? is an 'invalid nonce' error, definately an invalid nonce or could it be to do with the timestamp and timezones. Clutching at straws here... On Aug 11, 3:12 am, Chris Babcock cbabc...@asciiking.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:14:43 -0700 (PDT) graceawalker grace_blo...@hotmail.com wrote: I am calling and getting the whole way up to getting the access token just fine in my app (one im writing myself in c#), but when i try and call the update status URL im getting an 'Invalid/used nonce' error in my response data. Im not sure why this is, im calling the update method in the exact same way that i called request token apart from the new 'status' parameter in the query string. I call 'verify credentials' with my access token to ensure that it is working and it sends me back all of the correct data, but it is erroring when trying to update my status. Is there any obvious solution to this, or am i not supposed to be signing and organising the parameters in the same way that i did before? Im really stuck here guys and need help! Right, the nonce is a number used once. Its purpose is to prevent replay attacks. If you use the same nonce for more than one call to the API then you *should* be getting an error. Chris
[twitter-dev] Re: Invalid / used nonce
We have also been seeing similar behaviour for our iPhone app based on MGTwitterEngine-1.0.8-OAuth. If we call request_token from the client followed by statuses/update, everything works ok. However, if we send the request_token from our server, then statuses/update from the client, a 401 Invalid / used nonce is returned. GET requests to users/show work in either case. The same code was working ok prior to the recent DoS problems, so perhaps something has changed on Twitter's side? On Aug 11, 8:38 am, graceawalker grace_blo...@hotmail.com wrote: No, my nonce is definately new every time. Surely if there was something wrong with the way it was being generated it would error during requestToken/accessToken/VerifyCredentials too?? All the code ive looked through is doing it exactly the same way. Is the 'status' parameter being used just like all the oauth parameters? is an 'invalid nonce' error, definately an invalid nonce or could it be to do with the timestamp and timezones. Clutching at straws here... On Aug 11, 3:12 am, Chris Babcock cbabc...@asciiking.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:14:43 -0700 (PDT) graceawalker grace_blo...@hotmail.com wrote: I am calling and getting the whole way up to getting the access token just fine in my app (one im writing myself in c#), but when i try and call the update status URL im getting an 'Invalid/used nonce' error in my response data. Im not sure why this is, im calling the update method in the exact same way that i called request token apart from the new 'status' parameter in the query string. I call 'verify credentials' with my access token to ensure that it is working and it sends me back all of the correct data, but it is erroring when trying to update my status. Is there any obvious solution to this, or am i not supposed to be signing and organising the parameters in the same way that i did before? Im really stuck here guys and need help! Right, the nonce is a number used once. Its purpose is to prevent replay attacks. If you use the same nonce for more than one call to the API then you *should* be getting an error. Chris
[twitter-dev] Re: Question About Post Commands
My issue is the amount of time it takes to do a certain number of friendship/destroy and friendship/create calls. Right now I am using the code from the original post. Would the oAuth speed this up versus the posts that I am doing? Does anyone else know a way to speed up a larger group of API calls? Thanks, Dan
[twitter-dev] Question About Post Commands
Does anyone know if there is a way with VB.Net or C# to login to twitter, call 100 post commands, and then logout? Here is my code for making a single post command in VB.Net. As you can see every time I call this function it has to login. I would love to have an array of url's and/or data that need to be processed for the same username and password and having only one login. I have tried rearranging things several different ways with no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. --- Public Function ExecutePostCommand(ByVal url As String, ByVal username As String, ByVal password As String, _ ByVal data As String) As String Try Dim request As HttpWebRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(url) request.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = False If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(username) And Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(password) Then request.Credentials = New NetworkCredential(username, password) request.ContentType = application/x-www-form- urlencoded request.Method = POST Dim bytes As Byte() = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data) request.ContentLength = bytes.Length Dim s As Stream s = request.GetRequestStream s.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length) Dim r As HttpWebResponse r = request.GetResponse Dim sr As StreamReader sr = New StreamReader(r.GetResponseStream) Return sr.ReadToEnd Else Throw New Exception(Username or Password is Null) End If Catch ex As Exception Throw ex End Try End Function
[twitter-dev] Re: Please Help - Brand New (403) Forbidden Errors
This is Basic Auth. Dan
[twitter-dev] Re: Please Help - Brand New (403) Forbidden Errors
Here is what is happening. I am trying to create an app that runs on my desktop. It does a friendships/destroy on people that have chosen not to follow me and does a friendships/create on people who are following me that I have yet to follow. This is supposed to be similar to Twitter Karma. Because I am in the development phase, I have had to do a lot of testing. Here are the steps I take to test. 1. I login in to Twitter via IE and add pick a handful of people to follow. 2. I then go to my desktop app and click on a button and the process starts. 3. The app does what it does and then I have the perfect number of followers and friends (with the exception of followers who are no longer allowed users). By doing this it makes sure I never reach my follower limits. 4. I do it again and again and again and 5. After a while I start getting the 403 errors. So my questions are this. 1. Is there a limit to how many times I can do friendships/destroy or friendships/create? According to the API documentation, neither of these apply towards the rate limit. 2. Is there a limit to the number of times a certain username can login to Twitter in an hour, a day, etc? 3. Is there a limit to the number of times calls like this are made by a certain IP address? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[twitter-dev] Re: Please Help - Brand New (403) Forbidden Errors
Does anyone know the limit to friendship create/destroy calls per hour, per day, etc? There has to be a number out there somewhere. If I knew this number than I could have a counter that stops once the limit is reached. Thanks, Dan
[twitter-dev] follwers ids and friends ids
I am having problems with the followers ids and friends ids calls. reprosites has 6318 friends and 5960 followers. If I do a regular call with no paging I get the proper results. But if I page some wierd stuff happens. http://twitter.com/friends/ids/reprosites.xml?page=1 returns 5000 results like expected. http://twitter.com/friends/ids/reprosites.xml?page=2 returns nothing when it should at least have some results. http://twitter.com/followers/ids/reprosites.xml?page=1 returns 5000 results like expected. http://twitter.com/followers/ids/reprosites.xml?page=2 returns nothing when it should at least have some results. Could someone please let me know what I am doing wrong? Dan
[twitter-dev] Please Help - Brand New (403) Forbidden Errors
I have all of a sudden started getting The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden any time I try to destroy a friend or add a friend. This all worked fine for the past couple of days. Can anyone explain what might be happening? Thanks, Dan
[twitter-dev] #IranElection - postpone downtime?
(sorry this is a bit offtopic, but hey...) http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23IranElection Seems a lot of comments today suggesting that the planned downtime is unfortunately scheduled, given the role twitter is playing in reporting events from Iran. Can the downtime be postponed? Dan
[twitter-dev] Re: Change the link of the source [My App]
Don't know about Jony, but I haven't been able to figure out how to update my app's basic auth source param. Is there a way to do it? Trying to update twirssi to point to http://twirssi.com. Basically gave up on it, seems the only thing I can do is register a new source? Dan (@zigdon) On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 09:42, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Jony,Is this for an OAuth application or a basic auth source parameter? Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:45 AM, jonylt jon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I don't know what i'm making wrong. I have added an application with oauth interface to twitter, everything is working fine. But now i'm trying to change the link of the from [My App] without success. I've tried changing both fields in the application edition (Application Website, and Website itself) but nothing changed on the new posted tweets. Anybody can help me on this? Thanks, Jony -- Dan Boger
[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id - screen_name resolution.
On 31/5/09 13:03, Stuart wrote: Since there's clearly a lot of demand for this feature is it not possible for it to be added to the official API? I'd hesitate before building anything on top of Twitter that also relies on a third party for something so basic. Related suggestion: have common REST API for external services who can provide this information. You can probably get it from google social graph API too, for example. Dan
[twitter-dev] Re: Date-based update retrieval
The since parameter doesn't achieve what I want since it pulls in all the unneeded tweets AFTER the specified date as well. This isn't just a personal project; if I can get this to work, it would be on a multi-user scale, where each user supplies his or her twitter credentials and can then see their tweets when they click on a specific day. Manually downloading a CSV file and parsing it each and every time would be a waste of server resources. It seems like the API would be robust enough to handle a SELECT ALL TWEETS FROM $date. Is it impossible to write a script that will show me my own tweets for a given day? On Mar 28, 12:39 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: You can use the since parameter for going up to 24 hours old. Otherwise you have to just manually page back until you get what you need. On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 23:34, Dan dan.chil...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps I'm completely missing this, but if I can properly authenticate a user in a PHP script, how can I then retrieve their updates for a particular date? -- Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Madison WI United States.
[twitter-dev] Date-based update retrieval
Perhaps I'm completely missing this, but if I can properly authenticate a user in a PHP script, how can I then retrieve their updates for a particular date?
[twitter-dev] Re: paid pro accounts
On 26/3/09 14:25, Joshua Perry wrote: Not to start speculating but when Biz says Will there be opportunities for introducing customers to businesses on Twitter? it makes me nervous, because what this really means is, Will there be opportunities to get paid to let companies spam our users?. And I say this because with Twitter clients, and services like Twitpic already starting to capitalize directly from people interfacing with Twitter through their applications, I don't know how Twitter would accomplish this introduction purely by Ads on its web site. These applications and websites, for some people, are becoming the interface to Twitter and they do not have access to Ad space on these properties. Does that just leave us tweets, or texts as a reliable way for Twitter to introduce companies to users? The xyz is now following you on twitter emails are another reasonable place for financially-lubricated introductions, whether contextual (Nearby On Twitter: xyz is also following abc, a supplier of custom blahblahs to the foobar industry. Here are abc's last 3 tweets, for more, CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE NOW, etc etc) or just footer/boilerplate sponsored by links. Dan -- http://danbri.org/
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Developer Nest - An event for our community
IRC would be useful. In general, are there any twitter-dev channels floating around? (other than my #twirssi :) Dan On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:00, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Seconding that. We'd love to be telepresent, even if just via an audio stream or IRC or similar. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:34, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote: Jonathan, Are you going to stream this live or blog any of the topics/concerns/ outcomes of this event? I will be extremely interested in remotely watching the discussion. Thanks, @dougw On Feb 20, 11:53 am, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: There will be pizza and beer to wash it down... ... not sure what exactly will be on the pizza but there may be an option for pre-chewed if required. ;) Parking underneath the Nest is not recommended :). Arriving via public transport is. Only 19 out of 90 tickets remaining. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Will said Nest involve refreshments such as bug or nightcrawler (preferably pre-chewed)? Should we be aware not to park underneath the Nest? On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Jon j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: Hi Everyone I'm please to announce a new community event for people doing the things we do - developing Twitter apps. It's called the Twitter Developer Nest and the first event will be in London on the evening of 24th March. You can find out more and grab a ticket here: http://twitterdevelopernest.com/2009/02/london-launch-event/ Or follow @devnest for updates. If you are not in the UK and are interested in running an event like this in your part of the world please let me know and we'll see what we can do to help. Best wishes, Jon / @madmotive -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development support Twitter Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.comhttp://twitter.com/inuda Providing a nice place to work in the heart of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Helping people make a difference with technology -http://inuda.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter:http://twitter.com/madmotive -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development support Twitter Facebook integration specialistshttp://inuda.com Providing a nice place to work in the heart of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Helping people make a difference with technology -http://inuda.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter:http://twitter.com/madmotive -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x -- Dan Boger
Twitter trends for particular subjects, hashtags, @replies
Has anyone found a way to work the API to get this sort of functionality? We are able to determine the top 10 trends for all of twitter at any given time, but what about trends for all @replies to a particular user, or trends in posts that contain a particular hashtag?
Re: Twitter app user poaching
On 27/1/09 19:07, Chad Etzel wrote: Hi all, I have been contemplating sending this email for a long time, and finally have decided to just do it, so here goes: I understand that we are all trying to gain large user-bases for our twitter apps, and I know there are several tactics to go about doing it; but I am wondering what is everbody's opinion on the tactic I refer to as twitter app user poaching in which app devs tweet out to people right after a user mentions some other app in their tweets: @somebody hey, if you likeinsert competitor app here you should trymy app! http://link.to.my.app.com/ Obviously people are monitoring their app's brand and their competitors' brand, which is obviously a savvy business strategy in general... but somehow to me, in the twitter ecosystem, this feels kinda sleazy. I have consciously tried to avoid doing this because a) the aforementioned sleaziness, and b) i don't think my followers would appreciate a stream of constant hey check out my app tweets. Maybe I am alone here, what does everyone else think? This would not be so bad if some of the apps that have started poaching mine were brand new and not very well known yet. But at least a couple have received a lot of coverage on the big social media blogs (mashable, techcrunch, etc...). None of my apps have had such coverage (and yes, I am willing to admit I am jealous of that fact, but it is what it is), and despite that, I have had a lot of fun growing my user-base organically through twitter itself and my users' word-of-mouth recommendations. I don't really appreciate others coming in and sniping my users away. So, maybe I'm just being weak and need to grow a pair and deal with it (by either a) sucking it up, or b) engaging in poaching myself, or c) both). Maybe all is fair in love and tweets... Would love to hear about others' experiences in this area. They probably *should* try other apps, so they find one that suits them best. Hopefully yours! You can't please all the users, all of the time. Worry less about people comparing, and more about building an app that will compare well. Maybe they'll try the others, go back to yours, and then write about why they preferred it. BTW I've been having trouble with Twhirl today, and posted about it, got useful feedback from twhirl users and developers, as well as people using other apps. We all have different constraints and preferences, and exploring the different design possibilities is a healthy and natural thing... cheers, Dan -- http://danbri.org/
Re: Followings Updates not coming from AP
We are seing the exact same thing. Starting late last night, any
attempt made as follows...
https://twitter.com/users/show/{USER}.xml
... Are missing the elements for friends and status updates. Not
showing a zero. The elements are just missing from the response.
Twhirl is showing zeros for those values as well.
On Dec 10, 11:50 am, jje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Followers are coming through on our call but the Followings and
Updates are not, no error just no #'s. seewww.whatsyourtweetworth.com
and enter user name..not all info is coming through and yesterday it
was working.
thanks for the help- developer is out, but he can add more details
once he is available. I'm just trying to figure out if its on our
end.
On Dec 10, 1:36 pm, Steve Ng Ming Yeow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Jje,
Think you might need to elaborate a bit more.
We might have the same issue (and i have seen it being mentioned in some
other places), but would need more details to ascertain.
Do you get an error, or are the changes in following just not being
reflected?
M
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:23 AM, jje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just wondering if there is any discussion on the current followings
updates not coming through on our ping to the API?
Thanks
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Re: Redirect from POST?
Oh wait, I think I can use iframes. Nevermind all that. On Nov 27, 11:57 am, Dan Phiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been playing around with building a Twitter client in pure Javascript and it's actually working better than I'd expected. The only real hiccup I've encountered so far is with API calls that require the use of POST. Since I'm relying on JsonP to get off-domain, I think these POST calls require that the client browser redirect to twitter.com. I'm wondering if there could be a 'redirect' query string argument telling twitter.com to send the client back to a specified URL. Or does something like this exist and I just missed it? Or maybe this is a bad idea for some reason? Thanks in advance, -Dan
