Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Spurious SMS notifications
I've started getting new spurious SMS messages again. The latest set of messages started coming in yesterday evening. - h On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 21:14, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: We believe we've addressed this issue. If you see any further SMSs or tweets please let me know. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Howard Siegel hsie...@gmail.com wrote: Just got my first errant SMS message today. This one is from someone that I am following. - h On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 16:15, mccv mark.mcbr...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, thanks for the info. We have people working on this. On Dec 9, 3:51 pm, Howard Siegel hsie...@gmail.com wrote: I've been getting errant SMS messages from Twitter for a few days, though I have not received any today (as yet). I have turned on SMS only for DMs and none of these were DMs to me. I have not yet actually verified that I am following all of the folks from whom I've gotten the errant SMSes though. - h On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 15:02, Kee Hinckley naz...@somewhere.com wrote: I am receiving spurious SMS notifications for tweets sent by people I am following, but do not have notifications turned on for. These are *not* retweets, I've even asked a couple of the original senders to check and see if the item had been retweeted, and the answer was no. Furthermore, I only have my account (@nazgul) set to receive text messages for about four users, and none of them retweeted these messages. Possibly related, I have a friend who turned off *all* phone notifications over a day ago, and is still getting random new text messages from people she follows but didn't set to send her notificationqs. Examples: I confirmed that these were not retweeted by anyone for whom I get notifications (or in one case, by anyone at all). http://twitter.com/stevegarfield/status/6463021810 http://twitter.com/daddyclaxton/status/6463935419 Others I haven't had a chance to investigate, but which it seems highly unlikely were retweeted by anyone who sends me notifications. http://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/6500306267 http://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/6497224194 -- ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv
Re: [twitter-dev] Spurious SMS notifications
I've been getting errant SMS messages from Twitter for a few days, though I have not received any today (as yet). I have turned on SMS only for DMs and none of these were DMs to me. I have not yet actually verified that I am following all of the folks from whom I've gotten the errant SMSes though. - h On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 15:02, Kee Hinckley naz...@somewhere.com wrote: I am receiving spurious SMS notifications for tweets sent by people I am following, but do not have notifications turned on for. These are *not* retweets, I've even asked a couple of the original senders to check and see if the item had been retweeted, and the answer was no. Furthermore, I only have my account (@nazgul) set to receive text messages for about four users, and none of them retweeted these messages. Possibly related, I have a friend who turned off *all* phone notifications over a day ago, and is still getting random new text messages from people she follows but didn't set to send her notificationqs. Examples: I confirmed that these were not retweeted by anyone for whom I get notifications (or in one case, by anyone at all). http://twitter.com/stevegarfield/status/6463021810 http://twitter.com/daddyclaxton/status/6463935419 Others I haven't had a chance to investigate, but which it seems highly unlikely were retweeted by anyone who sends me notifications. http://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/6500306267 http://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/6497224194
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Spurious SMS notifications
Just got my first errant SMS message today. This one is from someone that I am following. - h On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 16:15, mccv mark.mcbr...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, thanks for the info. We have people working on this. On Dec 9, 3:51 pm, Howard Siegel hsie...@gmail.com wrote: I've been getting errant SMS messages from Twitter for a few days, though I have not received any today (as yet). I have turned on SMS only for DMs and none of these were DMs to me. I have not yet actually verified that I am following all of the folks from whom I've gotten the errant SMSes though. - h On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 15:02, Kee Hinckley naz...@somewhere.com wrote: I am receiving spurious SMS notifications for tweets sent by people I am following, but do not have notifications turned on for. These are *not* retweets, I've even asked a couple of the original senders to check and see if the item had been retweeted, and the answer was no. Furthermore, I only have my account (@nazgul) set to receive text messages for about four users, and none of them retweeted these messages. Possibly related, I have a friend who turned off *all* phone notifications over a day ago, and is still getting random new text messages from people she follows but didn't set to send her notificationqs. Examples: I confirmed that these were not retweeted by anyone for whom I get notifications (or in one case, by anyone at all). http://twitter.com/stevegarfield/status/6463021810 http://twitter.com/daddyclaxton/status/6463935419 Others I haven't had a chance to investigate, but which it seems highly unlikely were retweeted by anyone who sends me notifications. http://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/6500306267 http://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/6497224194
[twitter-dev] Re: Problems getting other people's friend list or follower list
It would be useful to others if you posted more information about what
the solution was.
- h
On 2009-11-03, lane.montgomery lane.montgom...@gmail.com wrote:
Problem solved.
On Nov 3, 7:03 am, lane.montgomery lane.montgom...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi, just signed up for the forum and posting a new topic. Gotta love
people like me, but I really need the help.
When I make a call to the API like this:
$user1results = $to-OAuthRequest('https://twitter.com/friends/
ids/'.$user1.'.json', array(), 'GET');
or this:
$user1results = $to-OAuthRequest('https://twitter.com/followers/
ids/'.$user1.'.json', array(), 'GET');
and pass the $user1 variable from a form entry, no matter what it is,
it always returns MY username's friend list or follower list.
Am I crazy, I thought you could request other people's info as long as
your account had access to that information on Twitter. But no matter
what I do, even hard-coding somebody's username in there, it still
only pulls my information.
7am and headed out to work, but I was up to 3am this morning working
on this to no avail. I really am stuck.
Let me know if you want to help me but need more code examples. I am
using the standard OAuth library linked to from twitter's apikiwi by:
Abraham Williams (abra...@abrah.am)http://abrah.amif that helps any.
Thanks to anybody for any assistance you can offer!
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Background
I don't know what the max dimensions are, but the picture will repeat horizontally and vertically (though that might be configurable, but I set my background image info a long time ago and don't remember all the details right now). - h On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 17:47, shapper mdmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I need to create a custom Twitter background. What are the dimensions for it and the allowed maximum size or the size you advice? Does the background repeats horizontal and vertically? What are the options? Thanks, Miguel
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter for a Library
You should get a verified account since they'll presumably want to be a trusted provider of information. - h On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 20:01, spyrrow hughes...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I need to set up a Twitter account for one of my clients, which is a public library. Anything I need to set up differently then what is provided on your set up account page? What would you suggest? Spyrrow
[twitter-dev] Re: Followers Friends IDs Are Seriously MESSED Up!
There have been times when a friend or follower id has been reported multiple times. Did you check to see if any of the friend or follower ids that you get back were duplicates? - h On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 20:17, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: For @dewaldp I get, via the API social graph methods with paging: Friends: 764 , Followers: 3,977. While on my web profile the numbers are: Friends: 747 , Followers: 3,911. On Sep 4, 11:56 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Not only do the social graph calls now suddenly, without any prior warning of announcement, return only 5,000 ids, it is messed up even when you do the paging as per the API documentation. Case in point. @socialoomph has 16,598 followers. If you page through the follower ids with page, you get only 12,017 entries. This is highly frustrating, and it has now completely screwed up my follower processing. It does not help that Twitter has rolled out something into production without any kind of testing, right before a weekend. Dewald
[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!
Not taking sides, here, but so far you are the only one that has reported receiving the CD letter. How do you get from 1 instance of legal action to Twitter's lawyers are shutting down the third party developer community? - h On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 20:56, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: Does Twitter inc know that their lawyers are shutting down the third party developer community?
[twitter-dev] Re: 302s are NOT the solution
TCP/IP is the protocol underneath HTTP, is not a web service protocol and requires a whole different method to manage and use connections. Think of it as the raw data pipe by which the HTTP protocol is used to communicate between a client program (i.e. a web broswer) and the server program (i.e. a web server). It can not be used in the way that I seem to think you are intending it to be used. - h On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 17:30, Kyle Mulka repalvigla...@yahoo.com wrote: From Wikipedia: Some upper layer protocols provide their own defense against IP spoofing. For example, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) uses sequence numbers negotiated with the remote machine to ensure that arriving packets are part of an established connection. Since the attacker normally can't see any reply packets, he has to guess the sequence number in order to hijack the connection. The poor implementation in many older operating systems and network devices, however, means that TCP sequence numbers can be predicted. This seems to say that TCP could be used instead of HTTP 302s. Is there something I'm missing for why 302s are necessary here? -- Kyle Mulka http://twilk.com On Aug 8, 10:45 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: In a simplified sense, the redirect nullifies a pernicious class of attack where the source IP address is forged. A redirect cannot be followed with a false source address. The attacks that remain are those where the source IP address is valid. You can then imagine other techniques that than can be applied against valid IP addresses. And so the problem is divided and ameliorated, but never fully solved. I'm going to push back for a second with some food for thought for developers: The API is via HTTP. HTTP is a well defined protocol. 302 redirects are a valid and well worn part of the HTTP protocol. Consider why applications are not built using fully HTTP compliant libraries. This doesn't address all the problems that we're all having, but it does address some. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Aug 8, 8:53 am, Kyle Mulka repalvigla...@yahoo.com wrote: An attacker can just as easily follow a 302 as can a legitimate API developer or user of Twitter. I don't understand why Twitter thinks this is a solution to the problem. Please stop 302ing. Thanks, -- Kyle Mulkahttp://twilk.com
[twitter-dev] Re: 302s are NOT the solution
I support them wholeheartedly and appreciate everything they've done to thwart the DDOS attack. While it is true that many of the tools used in the attack do not appear to follow the 302s right now, you can be your bottom dollar that they will very quickly be updated to do just that, perhaps even quicker than Twitter can finish recovering from the attack and put in to place measures to better survive future attacks. At best it is a stopgap to get over the current attack. - h On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 16:11, Fawkes daveha...@gmail.com wrote: They can, but apparently they don't, otherwise Twitter wouldn't have used it as a tactic. They're going through a very difficult time, we need to be patient and supportive of them! Dave http://twitter.com/DavidHaber On Aug 8, 8:53 am, Kyle Mulka repalvigla...@yahoo.com wrote: An attacker can just as easily follow a 302 as can a legitimate API developer or user of Twitter. I don't understand why Twitter thinks this is a solution to the problem. Please stop 302ing. Thanks, -- Kyle Mulkahttp://twilk.com
[twitter-dev] Re: What Twitter account is used for important announcements?
Don't know if there is an @twitterstatus account, but there is the Twitter Status Blog at http://status.twitter.com/. - h
[twitter-dev] Re: oauth redirects fail....
If this has only been happening since this morning, then it is likely this is just part of the aftermath of the DOS attack on Twitter. - h On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 15:53, yuf kyl...@gmail.com wrote: I have yet to get oAuth callbacks to work properly. After clicking Allow, I end up on a completely blank twittter.com/oauth/authorize page. If I try to look at the source, it asked if should resend. If I do, the source comes back that contains the redirect. But if I'm not looking at the source, the page just hangs for a while, and then ends up blank. What is up here? I've tried a variety of callback urls, from localhost, to the actual domain I'm using for development. Any one experience similar?
[twitter-dev] Re: Preventing Twitter from interpreting @ characters
Which will destroy the URL. ;-O - h On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:50, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: put a space after the @ sign? On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 22:11, Bradley S. O'Hearne brad.ohea...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am trying to post a URL to a Twitter status that has a @ character in it. The problem is probably obvious -- anyone know how to prevent Twitter from interpreting the @ as a username? Thanks, Brad -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: bug on more button
You only need to click on the more button once, like a hyperlink and unlike an application icon. Clicking on it twice, in rapid succession as you did, just tells the web backend that you want to load the information and then load it again. - h On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 22:00, Douglas Melo drow...@gmail.com wrote: Hello developers. I didn't find another way to talk to you that a find a bug on twitter. When you double-click on the button more to see more messages, it shows the next messages and as it ends to load them, it loads them again. It seems to call two times the method to load asynchronously the message. I think I'm helping telling 'bout this. Maybe, twitter could have a bug area...don't know..=P
[twitter-dev] Re: Adding tweets with a certain word them them to a feed on your site?
Yes, there are search widgets you can put in to the HTML for your website. There are also plugins for the various blogging engines which will add a twitter search box to a blog. - h On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:48, DougMellon douglas.mel...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know of a way I could add tweets with a certain word in them to a feed on my site? For example if there are tweets that have say #somethinghere in them. If I search twitter for #somethinghere (#somethinghere) the list of tweets comes up. Is it possible to get that list of tweets posted on my site? This may be really confusing and if so let me know and ill try to word it another way. Thanks in advance, Doug
[twitter-dev] Re: Followers with time they followed
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 23:45, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/19 niff nick.fr...@gmail.com: Hello everyone, I'm trying to pull a list of followers, including the time they started following. I'm not sure what method should be used for this. Here's what I thought about so far and didn't work. - ids.xml (obviously not) - followers.xml the more detailed one (still no info on the time) - friendship exists (still no info on the time) Anyone can help with ideas for this. Is there a method or combination of methods, or any idea, to get the time this follower started following? There is no API call that reports the time a follower relationship was created. Last I heard Twitter don't actually record it at all, if they did I'd expect it to be shown on the main website which it's not. -Stuart http://stut.net/projects/twitter/ Your followers on the twitter web site are (or at least were last time I checked) listed in descending order from the newest to the oldest follower. Do they just keep the list in order or do they keep the time of follow internally and then sort the list in reverse chronological order when needed for display? - h
[twitter-dev] Re: Should consumer token be kept secret?
There was just a long thread discussing these sorts of security issues. The thread title is Security Best Practices and is at http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/45550d6cebf86051# - h On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:05, Grant Emsley grant.ems...@gmail.com wrote: I'm almost ready to release a desktop app using OAuth. It's written in Perl, so anyone can read the source. Should I remove my consumer token and secret and make people get their own? Or is it safe to distribute?
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Live Event Beaming
Presumably you are going to use a hashtag for the tweets you want to display. If so, any twitter client that lets you track tweets with your hashtag in real time would work for you. - h On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 20:25, Juslin Guo juslin...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I not sure if this is the place to ask this question. May i check does anyone know of a full-screen application/flash app/web-apps that allow me to beam on a projector/led screen live updates from twitter. I have an event where we would like to let the stadium audience twitter in. Regards Juslin
[twitter-dev] Re: Followers Count doesn't add up with the actual followers
Others have also noticed that some accounts show up multiple times in the list of followers when retrieved via the API. Not sure why that happens, but it does. - h On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:37, Tim timot...@gmail.com wrote: Where are the other 200 go ? To answer your questions, chances are that these 200 accounts have been disabled (probably for being spam accounts), but I noticed there are still counted in the number of followers. Tim
[twitter-dev] Re: Sudden error while using API
Have you updated to the latest version of the framework which has been fixed for the twitpocalypse (integer overflow of the status id values)? - h On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 05:30, econn navjot econn.nav...@gmail.com wrote: hello dear, i am making an C# application to update my twitter account using Twitterizer.Framework dll. it was working perfectly for last week, but suddenly from last two days its not working and giving below error. can anyone guide me the reason for the error and way to solve it. Error Parsing Twitter Response.Twitterizer.Framework thanks in advance.
[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches
Doug, I've been having a problem seeing my own tweets in search for quite a few months, and I know my tweets were not showing up in a hashtag search at a conference I was at a few weeks ago (which made it really hard to participate in the conference's twitter conversation!). I did file a help ticket a while back and was basically put off by the response from support (essentially it said too bad, so sad) and they closed the ticket on me. I have not had the time nor patience to follow up on it, though, as I know that my tweets are getting out since people do respond to them. Would be nice if my tweets showed in searches, though. - h On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 08:20, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Please file a help ticket at http://help.twitter.com. @thecurrents tweets almost always have links that point back to the same source. This is normally indicative of spam which may explain why the account is no longer in search. The folks in support can help you take care issues like these. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Barry Hess bjh...@gmail.com wrote: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/f3859409fb05127c -- Barry Hess http://bjhess.com http://iridesco.com On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:50 AM, bjhess bjh...@gmail.com wrote: We have had some users complain about not being able to find themselves on http://followcost.com. I've dug into the code and it appears the failure is happening on queries to the search API of the form from:username. A couple example queries that return zero results: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3Athecurrent Yet clearly these users are active, and legitimate, Twitter users: http://twitter.com/1918 http://twitter.com/thecurrent But sadly, is it that these users are not being indexed at all in the search DB? I get zero results doing a simple from:username search for the same users: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3A1918 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Athecurrent These are just a couple examples. Is it common for legitimate, upstanding Twitter users to be unindexed in the search DB? -- Barry Hess http://followcost.com http://bjhess.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Didn't someone do a Show all followers and last tweet?
Have you checked the Twitter Fan Wiki list of apps http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps - h On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 09:51, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying without success to find a Twitter 3rd party app that I thought I saw awhile ago: Put in your username and it shows all your followers on one page with their icon and their latest update. Anyone know what it's called? I need to start bookmarking these Twitter services. TjL
