[twitter-dev] Re: Proper protocol for displaying user's avatar in an app
I would be curious to see the details of the request and response from Firebug, Wireshark or similar. I have never received anything other than an image as a response. Since a browser is making the request for the photo, it should cache it.
[twitter-dev] Re: Add a retweet button on the Twitter apps definition box!
Nice idea, but, for many reasons, Twitter couldn’t “retweet” something that isn’t a tweet at all.
[twitter-dev] Re: api.twitter.com not returning compressed data
Jason, I’m glad you mentioned this, because we had neglected to ask for compressed data in TalkingPuffin. For others wanting to do this (in Java/Scala): import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream conn.setRequestProperty(Accept-Encoding, gzip) ... val is = conn.getInputStream val ce = conn.getHeaderField(Content-Encoding) XML.load(if (ce == gzip) new GZIPInputStream(is) else is)
[twitter-dev] /statuses/retweeted_to_me.xml?count=200 yields HTTP 500
BY ME: http://twitter.com/statuses/retweeted_by_me.xml?count=200 works just fine. TO ME: /statuses/retweeted_to_me.xml?count=10 works fine. User dcbriccetti
[twitter-dev] Re: List API : statuses timeline and count parameter
I pointed this out on Oct 24th. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_frm/thread/de91a4569fb10e5d/f8fabf89447a85c9?lnk=gstq=briccetti#f8fabf89447a85c9 Glad you have spotted the trouble.
[twitter-dev] Re: Lists API for Subscriptions
I like your scripts. Thanks. I like to see other people’s Twitter code.
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists: /user/list/members.xml returning only 20 at a time
Cursoring is working, but it seems wrong to get just 20 at a time. GET /abdur/research/members.xml?cursor=-1 GET /abdur/research/members.xml?cursor=1316585587587157646 yields the same as GET /abdur/research/members.xml?count=200cursor=-1 GET /abdur/research/members.xml?count=200cursor=1316585587587157646
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists: /user/list/members.xml returning only 20 at a time
Indeed. I know every little bit helps when massively scaling, but, speaking generally, I dislike scrolling through small chunks. Like in the Twitter Web site just now, looking at lists, I have to scroll in small chunks to see who’s in a list. (Other than that Twitter’s Web site support for lists looks great.)
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter connection giving a 502 Bad Gateway error
I’ve learned that wrapping every Twitter Web service call with retry logic is essential. http://github.com/dcbriccetti/talking-puffin/blob/master/twitter-api/src/main/scala/org/talkingpuffin/twitter/Http.scala http://github.com/dcbriccetti/talking-puffin/blob/master/twitter-api/src/main/scala/org/talkingpuffin/twitter/HttpRunner.scala
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription
I doubt I will follow many (or any) lists. But I will scour them periodically for individuals to follow.
[twitter-dev] Re: No Cursor Data Returned
I also recommend using Wireshark, tcpdump or the like to get an authoritative picture of what’s happening. And if there is indeed a bug, the output serves as clear proof.
[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation
By the way, I changed this code to do ten or fifteen of these at a time, using multiple threads, and it’s much, much faster.
[twitter-dev] Twitter Lists: /user/list/members.xml returning only 20 at a time
How can I retrieve more than 20 at a time? ?cursor=-1count=200 has no effect
[twitter-dev] Welcome the the Twitter Development Talk
Welcome the the Twitter Development Talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Welcome the the Twitter Development Talk
I meant to send that to list owner. Sorry.
[twitter-dev] Re: Nero 9 - FULL Version - [Precracked] 51MB ONLY!
Google group admins can actually DELETE spam, too, which would be nice.
[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation
Bulk add would be great. Here’s a log from doing individual adds. Notice there were many over capacity errors. And that it took about a minute 42 to add about 60 users. If I could do all in one request, perhaps that would help reduce the over capacity errors. I’m enjoying lists. Thanks for the feature. 00:19:04,692 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=52061552 00:19:05,291 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=19757713 ... 00:19:28,647 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=31206658 00:19:28,802 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=7401782 00:19:37,686 TwitterException - Code: 503, Title: Twitter / Over capacity 00:19:37,687 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=12173192 00:19:43,698 TwitterException - Code: 503, Title: Twitter / Over capacity 00:19:43,699 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=6562002 00:19:44,803 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=45456164 ... 00:19:49,219 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=17334287 00:19:56,129 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=45966787 00:20:01,698 TwitterException - Code: 503, Title: Twitter / Over capacity 00:20:01,698 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=17779075 00:20:02,341 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=8858812 ... 00:20:17,320 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=19044984 00:20:17,734 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=648533 00:20:23,526 TwitterException - Code: 503, Title: Twitter / Over capacity 00:20:23,526 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=19142351 00:20:24,144 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=10759032 ... 00:20:42,440 dcbriccetti POST http://api.twitter.com/1/dcbriccetti/scala/members.xml id=19418890
[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation
Multiple identical list create requests result in multiple lists, differing in slug/url/full name. Perhaps it should ignore, or return an error? $ curl -u dcbriccetti -d name=Scala http://twitter.com/dcbriccetti/lists.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? list id29926/id nameScala/name full_name@dcbriccetti/scala-2/full_name slugscala-2/slug ... $ curl -u dcbriccetti -d name=Scala http://twitter.com/dcbriccetti/lists.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? list id29927/id nameScala/name full_name@dcbriccetti/scala-3/full_name slugscala-3/slug ...
[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation
Once Twitter posted details of the API in this public forum, that opened the door to our discussing lists publicly (if it wasn’t open already). And I’ve been doing so. I even made a video showing TalkingPuffin all of Robert Scoble’s lists at once on a big screen: http://twitter.com/dcbriccetti/scala Simply enabling the Lists feature for many users and putting a little message on the Web page saying, “please don’t blog about it” is not a good approach. I’m not complaining, just explaining why I feel fine about talking about it. If I enter into an agreement with someone, I honor it, of course.
[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation
Sorry, that video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUVDP5sX2rA Copy/paste error.
[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation
Thanks, Marcel. I’ve started playing with this and it is working nicely so far. It would be nice to have a list count included in the user object so one doesn’t have to make a separate call for each user to see if that user has lists. Or something else that solves the same problem.
[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation
If anyone’s interested, here’s the commit for TalkingPuffin for preliminary support for displaying lists: http://github.com/dcbriccetti/talking-puffin/commit/ea86bfb523d7aea98df6ebae52893c16f53fa542 A picture of the feature: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcbriccetti/4015781495/
[twitter-dev] Re: Laying the foundation for API versioning
DELETE http://twitter.com/friendships/destroy/USER.xml works, but DELETE http://api.twitter.com/1/friendships/destroy/USER.xml fails with You don't have permission to access /1/friendships/destroy/USER.xmlon this server.
[twitter-dev] Re: Serial or Parallel? Does it make a difference for the API?
Alex Payne told me several months ago at a Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts meeting that parallel operations are fine.
[twitter-dev] Use HTTP response headers for rate limit info
Sigh. I wrote a polling solution to fetch the rate limit info before discovering that the info is in the headers of every HTTP response. If you’re interested, here’s a commit to TalkingPuffin where I removed the polling and used the headers instead: http://github.com/dcbriccetti/talking-puffin/commit/237a204721c7141967c8065b45b53d5489ef7b83 http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting
[twitter-dev] Re: Noise-tweet regex repository
Nalin, I appreciate the ideas. Remember, you can’t DM somebody who isn’t following you. I want to maintain a fairly complete collection of filters for the common “noise tweets,” and use it in TalkingPuffin under user control, and invite other application developers to use it as well. Maybe as these ideas evolve it will be useful to categorize the filters, to help end users choose which ones they want in place. For me personally, Twitter is a much nicer experience when I can have fine control over what subset of tweets I see from the people I follow. I have alternatives to unfollowing users when they get “noisy.”
[twitter-dev] Re: Picture overlapping
It sounds like you need to get the developer of your Twitter client in here so we can help him.
[twitter-dev] Re: Regex to get user agent aka 'source'
I don’t know the background, but I do wish they would split that into, say, sourceName and sourceUrl. http://github.com/dcbriccetti/talking-puffin/blob/master/twitter-api/src/main/scala/org/talkingpuffin/twitter/TwitterStatus.scala
[twitter-dev] Re: Noise-tweet regex repository
A Twitter client can do an HTTP get to here: http://talkingpuffin.appspot.com/filters/noise and expect lines of plain text like this: Just joined a twibe. Visit http\://twibes\.com/.* just joined a video chat at http\://tinychat\.com.*
[twitter-dev] Re: Noise-tweet regex repository
Please submit your candidate “noise tweets”: http://bit.ly/NoiseTweets I’ll review them and add them to the repository. These should generally be messages of the type of viral advertising— some service doing something for a Twitter user and then blabbing about it through the careless or inconsiderate user’s account.
[twitter-dev] Noise-tweet regex repository
I detest tweets like these: just joined a video chat at http://xxx Make your own video chat at http://xxx #xxx just joined a twibe ... I am thinking of starting a repository of regular expressions matching noise-tweets like these, that Twitter clients could query via a Web Service, and the public could contribute to. Is this a good idea?
[twitter-dev] Re: Noise-tweet regex repository
Participating Twitter clients could have a “Noise” button to submit the tweet being read as a candidate for inclusion in the filtering.
[twitter-dev] The TalkingPuffin Twitter client open source project invites contributors
Do take a look and join us if you’re interested. We’re using the Scala language. http://TalkingPuffin.org/
[twitter-dev] Re: Show the source of the update (from [myapp]) without OAuth?
I would like to know the same. I have a recently-renamed desktop application. Twitter’s OAuth support is in beta, no? Doesn’t mean the same as Google. I would like “talkingpuffin” and “simpletwitterclient” to map to “TalkingPuffin”. Twitter, can you help? Thanks.
[twitter-dev] Re: export followers
Try this: http://simple-twitter-client.appspot.com/
[twitter-dev] Article about my experiences deploying a Twitter Web app on Google App Engine Java
Perhaps this will save time for some of you. http://briccetti.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-first-scala-web-app-on-google-app.html
[twitter-dev] Having Twitter clients support proxies for enhanced (filtered) tweet fetching
(Please let me know if this has been discussed already. I searched for “proxy” and didn’t quickly find anything related.) At different times I like to have different “filters” on my tweet viewing. When I’m in the office I can tolerate a large flow but when I’m on a mobile device I want a subset of the feed. I’ve added filtering capability to the “Simple Twitter Client” for the desktop that I’m developing. But unless I write a mobile client I can’t use those filters when I’m on the go. There are lots of nice mobile clients already. What I’d like to do is have part of my Twitter application run as a web site/service and proxy, and let people “apply” filters to their stream, through the application. Then when they’re out they can tell their mobile Twitter clients to get the status feed through my proxy, instead of twitter.com. Ideally, Twitter would let people create filter sets and activate them, and filter the feed using them. But if that’s not gonna happen right away, I’d like to see if the development community can do this. What do you think of all of this, especially the idea of Twitter client developers allowing users to set a proxy for twitter.com? Dave Briccetti http://davebsoft.com/applications/simple-twitter-client
[twitter-dev] Twitter user picture sizes
Hi. I’ve searched around for 1/2 hour or so, and haven’t found an authoritative explanation of the sizes of pictures, and how to retrieve them. It seems that profile_image_url leads to a tiny picture: http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66123958/IMG_0534_twitter500_normal.jpg But there is also a slighter bigger version: http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66123958/IMG_0534_twitter500_bigger.jpg And then a proper full-size one: http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66123958/IMG_0534_twitter500.jpg Am I correct in this? That the big version URL can be derived from that in profile_image_url by dropping the _normal from the name? Is this part of the API spec? Safe to use? Thanks.
[twitter-dev] Re: Scala and the Twitter API
You can now run it without building it yourself, via Java Web Start: http://davebsoft.com/applications/simple-twitter-client. Feedback welcome, through Twitter, email or my blog.
Re: Scala and the Twitter API
Thanks, Alex. I’ve added some simple tagging and filtering features. Here’s a demo video: http://briccetti.blogspot.com/2009/02/tagging-and-filtering-features-in-my.html
