[twitter-dev] How to shorten url from API?
Hello! Is there a way to get the shortened t.co url from the API? I need to shorted a url before posting tweet via API. How should I do this? Is this supported by Twitter API or do I have to use some other url shortener like bit.ly? -- 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: Get Found In Google in 5 minutes
5 Minutes is too long. I like to be found in Google in milliseconds! On Apr 23, 12:53 pm, Wildenis Creations wildeniscreati...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys just designed a formula to get found in Google in minutes! Who's interested to learn the skills -- 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: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API
Interesting idea. On Jun 11, 6:56 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Developers, As has been discussed on the list recently, OAuth and Open Source applications are a difficult combination because token secrets shouldn't be embedded in widely distributed code. We're pleased to announce that we've devised a solution to this problem. Next week, we plan to release a new extension to the Twitter API that will allow Open Source applications to obtain OAuth consumer keys and secrets for their users, without having to distribute an application secret. Approved Open Source client applications will have an easy to implement ability, through dev.twitter.com, to generate new client tokens secrets to be used specifically for each new instance of the application. While completing the process does require the end-user to complete a few extra operations, we think this is a good compromise. The source tag on tweets published by the child applications generated with this approach will be a variation on the originating application's name. For examples, if the name of the parent application was AdventureTweet and the user's screen name was @zork, then the child application's name would be AdventureTweet (zork). The work flow for these applications will be something like this: 1. You store your API Consumer Key in your application distribution (but never your secret!). 2. A user downloads/installs/checks out your open source application and runs it for the first time 3. Your application builds a URL to our key exchange endpoint, using your consumer key. Example:http://dev.twitter.com/apps/key_exchange?oauth_consumer_key=abcdefghi... 4. You send the user to that URL in whatever way makes sense in your environment. 5. That user will have to login using their Twitter credentials (if they aren't already), and then approve your application's request to replicate itself on the user's behalf. 6. The approval will require that the user agrees to our terms of service, as this process results in them having control of their own application 7. The user is presented with a string that they are asked to paste into your application. The string will contain ah API key and secret, in addition to an access token and token secret for the member: everything that's needed to get the user up and running in your application. 8. The user pastes the string into your application, which then consumes and stores it to begin performing API calls using OAuth. The string containing the keys will be x-www-form-urlencoded. To keep the string brief, it will contain abbreviated key names. An example: ck=KIyzzZUM7KvKYOpnst2aOwcs=4PQk1eH4MadmzzEZ1G1KdrWHIFC1IPxv1kXZg0G3Eat=542212-utEhFTv5GZZcc2R4w6thnApKtf1N1eKRedcFJthdeAats=FFdeOEwxOBWPPREd55dKx7AAaI8NfpK7xnibv4Yls Where: ck - consumer key, cs - consumer secret, at - access token, ats - access token secret This kind of key requisition service is new to the Twitter ecosystem, and we're going to be closely monitoring it for abuse. Once we announce its availability, we'll begin taking requests for Open Source applications that would like to offer the feature in their application. We're excited to offer this solution to the open source community. Thanks everyone! Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod
[twitter-dev] What's Twitter policy regarding porn?
Hello! I have to know this: first off all, there are lots of tweets out there that send links to porn images and stuff like that. Is this allowed? Second, if this is allowed, then can I develop an app that aggregates such tweets (that have links to porn images?) as well as sending out tweets that will include links to porn images? -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac
While this is bad news to handful of iPhone based app developers, it's a great news for millions of iphone users who will be able to get Twitter app for free. On Apr 12, 2:46 pm, Eric Woodward e...@nambu.com wrote: Ryan, Thanks for clarifying, finally, at least. Rebranded Twitter or not, Tweetie as owned and developed by Twitter basically reinforces and confirms everything that we posted on the Nambu blog this morning: Twitter will take anything significant built around Twitter for itself, 100%. Twitter is now officially developing native applications on three platforms: iPhone OS, OSX and Blackberry, all free. Simply brutal. But I am not nearly affected as the iPhone developers. They should be rightfully livid that Twitter moved to wipe them out and take all advertising revenue (iAd and other stuff) on the iPhone and iPad for themselves rather than share it, as almost all other platforms do. Pretty sad. Make no mistake, Twitter for iPhone will take all significant market share, and there is nothing any of the developers there that have done great work can do about it. If you do not see this, you do not understand the basics of business. Making Tweetie free is pretty brutal as well, but only because Twitter is doing it. Everyone else should be put on notice that you will be next, as we have been. Mr. Wilson and Twitter, with these moves, and have basically told everyone of competence that they must accept their development efforts as only ending up as a nice lifestyle business. Anything more, and Twitter will move to take it from you, simple as that. --ejw Eric Woodward Email: e...@nambuc.om On Apr 12, 10:39 am, Michael Macasek mich...@oneforty.com wrote: Ryan, Great news thanks for the update! Jesse, Well said. On Apr 12, 10:40 am, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: One more from me. People have been asking for specific details around Tweetie for Mac and I wanted to make sure we clearly message our plans as we know it. To be clear, Tweetie for the iPhone and it's developer, Loren Brichter, were the focus of our acquisition, but as part of the deal we also got Tweetie for Mac. Loren had been hard at work on a new version of Tweetie for Mac that he was going to release soon. Our plan is to still release the new version and it will continue to be called Tweetie (not renamed to Twitter). We will also discontinue the paid version. Hope that's clear. Please let me know if you have any questions. Best, Ryan -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
[twitter-dev] How to add my app to app wiki?
Hello! I recently built by first Twitter app. http://qod.tw Is it possible to add it to Twitter apps wiki here: http://twitter.pbworks.com/Apps I don't see any ways to submit your app, so does anybody know who to contact about it? Thanks. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.
[twitter-dev] Is this legit Twitter API?
Yesterday I noticed a javascript prompt on one Tumblr blog asking for Twitter username/password I thought it was some kind of new phishing scam, I even wanted to report it to Twitter. Now I just saw the link sent from @twitterapi account and it also does the same thing - asking for username/password http://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.xml?user_id=12863272,3191321,9160152,8285392,795649,15266205 What is this? Is this legit? I thought we have come a long way with oAuth so no app should even ask for user's Twitter username/password. If this is a legit javascript based API from Twitter, then it stinks
[twitter-dev] cannot add status to favories with API
Hello!
I want to add a status to another user's favories but apparantly the
api cannot do that.
I want to add message created by one user to favorites of another
user.
When doing it from api it refuses to add favorite probably because the
status id was not created by the same user to whom I want to add this
favorite.
I am looking at instructions here
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-favorites%C2%A0create
It does not let you specify the username of status creator.
I am using this url with a POST method:
http://api.twitter.com/1/favorites/create/2147483647.json
The status 2147483647 was created by different user (not the same user
to whom I want to add this to favorite)
but then getting this error 404 with this message:
{request:/1/favorites/create/2147483647.json,error:Not found}
How can I change the request in order for this to work?
[twitter-dev] Re: cannot add status to favories with API
Hah, apparently PHP doesn't understand integers larger than
2147483647,
so when casting larger number to integer, it automatically becomes
2147483647
This is something new, but that's how it is: in php $status =
'10279397649'; $status = (int)$status;
php chokes on any number larger than 2147483647 and instead of
throwing an error in quietly returns
the largest integer in it knows, 2147483647
I did not expect this from a fairly new version of php 5.2.9
On Mar 10, 4:27 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
There is no status with that
ID:https://api.twitter.com/statuses/show/2147483647.xml
Abraham
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:41, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello!
I want to add a status to another user's favories but apparantly the
api cannot do that.
I want to add message created by one user to favorites of another
user.
When doing it from api it refuses to add favorite probably because the
status id was not created by the same user to whom I want to add this
favorite.
I am looking at instructions here
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-favorites%C2%A0...
It does not let you specify the username of status creator.
I am using this url with a POST method:
http://api.twitter.com/1/favorites/create/2147483647.json
The status 2147483647 was created by different user (not the same user
to whom I want to add this to favorite)
but then getting this error 404 with this message:
{request:/1/favorites/create/2147483647.json,error:Not found}
How can I change the request in order for this to work?
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[twitter-dev] Which api url to use?
Is there a difference between using http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.format and http://api.twitter.com/statuses/update.format (without the /1/)?
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API and ETags - No 304s?
I noticed this too, also noticed that Twitter sends no-cache header and expiration far in the past, which is just another way to tell browser not to cache anything. You can find my recent post here under subject Why do you sent no- cache headers I don't know why they sending Etag then, looks like it's half- implemented, maybe they are still working on implementing the correct way to deal with conditional requests. Since they probably don't store static files, it requires some extra programming to parse the conditional requests and then decide if to return 304 Not modified or an actual 200 response. On Feb 21, 9:31 pm, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, The Twitter API returns ETags, that seem to change when the content changes and otherwise not. It doesn't seem to return 304's when the same ETag is sent back to it though. Has anyone seen it send 304s? I'm making calls against the method to retrieve favorited tweets. Tim.
[twitter-dev] Re: disparities between bit.ly Google Analytics?
I would stick with Google Analytics. I think they take out all the requests by search bots and all duplicate requests and report actual legit requests by users. Who knows how bit.ly does their click tracking, I sure don't On Feb 21, 9:36 pm, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else seeing dramatic disparities between what bit.ly reports and what Google Analytics reports in terms of clicks? We're seeing like 10:1 over reporting from bit.ly ... if Google Analytics is right. -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com GV: 202-642-1717
[twitter-dev] Why do you sent no-cache headers?
Hello Twitter dev team! I am wondering, why don't you take advantage of Cache control headers when processing requests for user's profiles? For example, a url of profile (which does not require api key or any type of authentication and can be used by anyone) http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?user_id=52146756 It has this header: Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post- check=0 So a browser or server cannot cache this, but why? It looks like you do report the Last-Modified header and even the Etag So it would be much more efficient if you would just reply with a 304 Not modified header if request contains the If-Modified-Since value Do you support conditional requests with If-Modified-Since and with If- None-Match headers?
[twitter-dev] Re: The XML for user settings would be helpful
How can it be counted if no api key is used? Do you mean its counted against the ip address? On Feb 19, 12:06 pm, alexro arodyg...@gmail.com wrote: Dmitri, I believe such request still counts against your usage limit. Just to remember to stay within the boundaries :) On Feb 18, 10:15 pm, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to bother you, but I found out that this feature is already available Turns out I can easily get user's profile as json or xml without using oAuth or API Very simple, like this: http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show/MythBusters.json This is just great! On Feb 18, 3:36 pm, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote: I just though of something that would be very helpful to developers: what if there was a url to get xml or json of user's profile, background image, color settings and avatar. I mean similar to regular RSS feed, only for the current user's settings. This way we don't even need to use API if we want to generate a page that looks like user's own twitter page. And because it would be static files, they could be served from Twitter very fast and make use last-modified and etag headers. Currently if I want to style a page to mimin user's twitter page, I have to access thehttps://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.json and for that I have to use oAuth call. But this is an overkill. Why do I even need to have user's token and secret just to get his latest profile that is basically available on his twitter page, I just don't want to to and scrape it from the actual twitter page. Why not give us the url to get these settings as json or xml the same way we can get the RSS for user's latest messages without having to use API
[twitter-dev] Re: Forum API on twitter
Sounds like an interesting idea. I also thought about writing a forum app like that because I am not satisfied with how twitter displays replies. I am sure it can be done with existing API, just a matter of writing a good app which must be fast. If you or anyone else wants to collaborate of starting an open source project like this, I am interested to work on it. I have 10 years of experience in php so can only work on php based app with heavy ajax usage. On Feb 17, 9:46 am, Bertrand Azzopardi bertrandazzopa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I would like to create a twitter application which retrieves information from a website and puts them on twitter. The idea is having a forum on the website where people can post their own comments and even reply to a posted comment. The forum must be updated both on twitter and the website irrelvant where the user entered the info. Would this be possible using any existant tools? If so would it be possible to provide me some links? I thank you in advance and hope to hear from you soon.
[twitter-dev] Re: Global twitter profile image URL
I agree that having gravatar-style service for twitter avatars will be tremendously useful! Even better, if avatars are stored in .png ONLY, in which case you can just use the url without even checking with gravatar-like service. For example just put avatar.twitter.com/23423423423423.png (by twitter id) or maybe even by username.png Done! The http configuration will then have a custom directive to return a default avatar if user-specific one does not exist The png is good choice because it can be animated and support transparency. Just convert uploaded jpg or gif images to .png and they good to go. Then, a web based app can just generate a path to avatar based on username or userid and at least the default avatar will be shown. If user updates the avatar, then the current one will be shown, eliminating the need to check with API. Developers can add ?timestamp to image to disable browser caching if they want to. On Feb 17, 5:38 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I would image that implementing S3 versioning would be pretty easy and would rid your systems of a whole bunch of complexity. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... Abraham On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:51, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: probably more than a single day :P yes - we have thought about it... its low on our priority list right now, however. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Peter Kieltyka peter.kielt...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I was wondering if twitter has any plans to offer a global URL to each user's profile pic? This would be very handy for third party apps built on top of Twitter. Grabbing the profile_image_url which links directly to the S3 URL, is susceptible to change and requires a lot of effort on the dev's part to make sure its always up to date and working. Consider something like gravatar.com, but for twitter users. There is the thehttp://tweetimag.esservice, which works great, but for something so close to the infrastructure I feel this type of service should be built and supported by twitter itself. I think tweetimag.es has nailed the API as in: ie. Hopefully something like: http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_m http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_n http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_b http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_o if twitter continue's to use S3, it would be very simple to setup a CNAME for twimg.com that points to an S3 bucket and each reference to a username's profile can be down-cased and append the _SIZE. Simple. Should take about a single day to implement this :) Cheers. Peter -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate |http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud |http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Whats the best practice for caching data?
Thank you for reply. I realize this is not an easy question, gives me headache to think about the best way to implement it. The flow of login/signup in my app is probably very common: after user signsup with oauth, I get user data, pass it to createAccount() method which just records the user data into the database and if user with the same twitter id already exists it will just update the record. This is easy part, can either user REPLACE INTO (mysql only) Or test if userid exists then do insert or update. So basically on signin with Twitter I alwasy get the fresh data and update the record. But then I set the unique cookie that is tied to twitter ID and then can login user by cookie. This is where I cannot decide what to do: I can just get the record from database using this unique cookie and use it as user data. This will be the fastest way to create the viewer object but the data is not fresh. What if user has updated his profile in Twitter, then he will see an outdated description, possibly outdated links, etc. So the solution is to login by cookie this way: get record from DB based on cookie. Use the user's token, secret from that record and get the fresh data, update the record in DB. Basically a full synchronization of record in every login by cookie (in every repeat visit to site) This may add too much load to the database and network, especially if thousands of users come to the site suddenly. Maybe there is another middle ground solution - get the data from Twitter via cache system, so if record exists in cache, use it, if not, get data from Twitter API and put in cache for 24 hours. This way data will not be always fresh, but will at least be guaranteed to be not older than 24 hours. On Feb 18, 3:01 am, Dave Sherohman d...@fishtwits.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:52:28PM -0800, Dmitri Snytkine wrote: I have 2 choices: store the data in the database and put cookie in user's browser and next time user visits, I can just pull the username, name, etc from my database Or I can use user's access token/secret that I also store in database to get the fresh data from Twitter. Getting fresh data will guarantee that I have user's latest color settings, background, avatar, description But I may run over 150 requests per hour very easily. How is this usually done by other app developers? What's the best practice for synchronizing user's settings with Twitter? The way I'm doing it on FishTwits is to cache the most recent profile data for each user. So I'm basically doing your first option (store it in the database), but refreshing it with the latest fresh profile data whenever I send or retrieve a status update for the user - that information is already coming back with the status, so I can update it without having to wait for any extra requests to complete. -- Dave Sherohman
[twitter-dev] The XML for user settings would be helpful
I just though of something that would be very helpful to developers: what if there was a url to get xml or json of user's profile, background image, color settings and avatar. I mean similar to regular RSS feed, only for the current user's settings. This way we don't even need to use API if we want to generate a page that looks like user's own twitter page. And because it would be static files, they could be served from Twitter very fast and make use last-modified and etag headers. Currently if I want to style a page to mimin user's twitter page, I have to access the https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.json and for that I have to use oAuth call. But this is an overkill. Why do I even need to have user's token and secret just to get his latest profile that is basically available on his twitter page, I just don't want to to and scrape it from the actual twitter page. Why not give us the url to get these settings as json or xml the same way we can get the RSS for user's latest messages without having to use API
[twitter-dev] Re: The XML for user settings would be helpful
Sorry to bother you, but I found out that this feature is already available Turns out I can easily get user's profile as json or xml without using oAuth or API Very simple, like this: http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show/MythBusters.json This is just great! On Feb 18, 3:36 pm, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote: I just though of something that would be very helpful to developers: what if there was a url to get xml or json of user's profile, background image, color settings and avatar. I mean similar to regular RSS feed, only for the current user's settings. This way we don't even need to use API if we want to generate a page that looks like user's own twitter page. And because it would be static files, they could be served from Twitter very fast and make use last-modified and etag headers. Currently if I want to style a page to mimin user's twitter page, I have to access thehttps://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.json and for that I have to use oAuth call. But this is an overkill. Why do I even need to have user's token and secret just to get his latest profile that is basically available on his twitter page, I just don't want to to and scrape it from the actual twitter page. Why not give us the url to get these settings as json or xml the same way we can get the RSS for user's latest messages without having to use API
[twitter-dev] Is it OK to store token in COOKIE?
Just wondering, is it a bad practive for a web-based app to store user's token and secret in cookies? This would of cause simplify and speed up the login, but is it a security risk?
[twitter-dev] Whats the best practice for caching data?
Hello! I am just starting developing my app. I got the oAuth thing to work using pecl oauth, which is great and was easy. Now the question: What should I do after user is logged via oAuth, and after I got array of user data from this url: https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.json I have 2 choices: store the data in the database and put cookie in user's browser and next time user visits, I can just pull the username, name, etc from my database Or I can use user's access token/secret that I also store in database to get the fresh data from Twitter. Getting fresh data will guarantee that I have user's latest color settings, background, avatar, description But I may run over 150 requests per hour very easily. How is this usually done by other app developers? What's the best practice for synchronizing user's settings with Twitter?
[twitter-dev] Looking for example to use popup window to login
Hello!. I am looking for an example of implementation of login with Twitter where when user clicks on the login with Twitter, the Twitter's Allow/Deny page is opened in a small popup window, then after user has authorized the login, that small window passes the data to the parent window (I think it's called windows.opener in javascript) and then the popup closes I've seen this setup on several sites and I like it much more than just using the same window to redirect to login screen then back to the callback url Does anymore know if a tutorial or example exists for doing this?
[twitter-dev] Is anyone using php pecl oath library?
Hello! I am trying to decide if to use PECL oauth or twitter-async from here http://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async/tree What do most php developers use for implementing login with Twitter?
[twitter-dev] Re: What is the lifespan of the OAuth token?
Thanks. By the way, how does user revoke access to an app to which they previously logged in? I mean, if I login to some website with my twitter account using 'login with Twitter', then is there an option anywhere in the twitter profile to see which websites I have authorized to access my account and is there an option to revoke that access permission per website? On Jan 28, 11:32 pm, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: I believe Twitter currently does not expire access tokens. They may become invalid in the future due to the user revoking access to your application. Otherwise it should be good still for a long time. Josh On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote: Is this the right group to ask about the OAuth implementation? I am new to OAuth, just decided to learn more and to try to add Login with twitter' to my CMS I have a question - how long is the token good for? I mean, is the token life somehow tied to a user's session or can I use a token after user has left my site, for a relatively long time? If I want to create a service like twitlater, where a user creates messages and tells the service to send them in a few days or in a month, will OAuth work for that or will the token expire before the time to send message? I mean the original user who set the 'time to send' will not be logged in at that time anymore. I'm just not sure if OAuth token will still be valid after a month. How long is it good for? Thanks.
[twitter-dev] What is the lifespan of the OAuth token?
Is this the right group to ask about the OAuth implementation? I am new to OAuth, just decided to learn more and to try to add Login with twitter' to my CMS I have a question - how long is the token good for? I mean, is the token life somehow tied to a user's session or can I use a token after user has left my site, for a relatively long time? If I want to create a service like twitlater, where a user creates messages and tells the service to send them in a few days or in a month, will OAuth work for that or will the token expire before the time to send message? I mean the original user who set the 'time to send' will not be logged in at that time anymore. I'm just not sure if OAuth token will still be valid after a month. How long is it good for? Thanks.
[twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?
If they allow create accounts from API then this is what's going to happend: All leading online forum software will implement an option to create new twitter account for a new forum. So if you run an online forum like vbulletin, you can have 100 forums, thus 100 accounts on twitter. This means that every post make to just about every forum on the Internet will end up on twitter. This will add thousands, tens on thousands of updates per second to twitter. I don't know if they really want it. For the forum owner this may be great - more traffic to their forums, for end user also an extra way to follow his favorite forums. I am sure if Twitter allows account creation from API, all major forum and blog/CMS makers will jump right it. On Jan 26, 10:34 am, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Strictly speaking, there is an API of sorts to create accounts, but limited to certain partners. Citysearch is using it IIRC. Although it would be great for mobile clients because there isn't a nice mobile web page to create an account so it takes a PC to get started for new users. Seen a note on it on those leaked twitter docs on techcrunch a while back, so the twitter guys have been thinking about it. On Jan 26, 2010 5:01 AM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/25/2010 8:55 PM, Johnny Honestly wrote: Twitter is a messenger system. They want people to ... I'm not talking about an API registration, what I'm talking about is either a new URL or a modification of the current URL that allows the user to allow an app where if the person isn't a twitter user it will let them become one, then go back, register the app, and return.
[twitter-dev] Can new twitter account be created from API?
Hello! I am wondering if it's possible to use the API to create a brand new Twitter account? For example, I am developing a forum software, so I want to create a new twitter account when a new forum is created, so that it can be used to 'follow this forum on Twitter' feature. I know the new email address is needed per every new account, but that's not a problem, since I have a control of my domain name, I can just instantly generate a valid email address. Any thoughts on this?
[twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?
Target for abuse? How? Does Twitter allow to create an extra account just for a blog so people can follow my blog? Or do I have to use my personal account and say 'follow me on Twitter', when I really mean to follow my blog updates? I just don't see any forums to implement this yet, I am surprised at that. It seems feasible to add a feature to a forum software that would send update when a new thread is created on a forum or maybe even when new reply is made. Or is the reason this is not implemented anywhere is because this sort of thing is not allowed by Twitter? On Jan 25, 10:45 am, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I am wondering if it's possible to use the API to create a brand new Twitter account? Nope. This would be a rapid target of abuse. -- personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com -- The faster we go, the rounder we get. -- The Grateful Dead, on relativity --
[twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?
I understand. It's not against Twitter policy to have multiple accounts, it's just that you need to manually create each one and the captcha on the site will prevent robots from auto-creating one. So technically I can add a feature the forum software 'follow this forum on twitter' but the twitter account has to be created by hand. Is that about right? On Jan 25, 1:58 pm, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/25/2010 10:19 AM, Jaanus wrote: There are ways to limit abuse for account creation with API-s if they really wanted to (rate limiting, captchas etc). But notice that very few (AFAIK no) players on the web who use openID or OAuth actually let you create an account with any API. In my view, rightly so. Notice that if you use OAuth, account creation is a natural part of the flow when the user gets redirected to twitter.com. They can create an account at that point if they don't yet have one. But will it end up redirecting the person at the end of the account creation process?
