[twitter-dev] Re: Additional attribute in share link
Looks like a 13-digit timestamp - e.g. Python millis() On May 23, 10:09 pm, Tony House tonyho...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking through the FAQ for the tweet button and am not seeing one of the attributes listed. On the page, the different examples have an underscore and equal and a 13 digit number (e.g.http://twitter.com/share?_=1306165040196). It looks like the first 10 digits could be a unix timestamp, but I'm not 100% sure about that. It also means the three digits at the end (196) are something else. I couldn't find anything in FAQ, so I'm hoping someone can help. What is this number? Thanks. Tony -- 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] Java client for Twitter as a student assignment
I am teaching a course in client GUI Java programming in the fall. In the past I had my students write an email or calendar application. I am thinking of having them write a Twitter program this time around. I would appreciate any suggestions anyone could provide. I am experimenting with Twitter4J but I am open to any suggestions. If you have taught such a subject in a course I would love to hear from you. -- 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] Re: Twitter group API
er, there might be.. For Group substitute list. Maximum is 500 followers/list. If they are following you, you can message them. Where's the problem? On Mar 15, 9:25 pm, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: No, there's not. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Richard fireston...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if there is program available to create several groups using one Twitter account and allowing you to message each of those groups individually? For example - Twitter.com/username Group 1 (100 followers) Group 2 (56 followers) Group 3 (77 followers) I would like to send separate messages to each of those groups. Please let me know if you know of any way to do this via API or a 3rd party program. Thank you. -- 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] Re: How to send tweets from multiple accounts without having to login
You will have stored the tokens for those accounts that you control and on behalf of which you want to send Tweets. You no longer need to authenticate via Twitter, just be logged in to your own system. You can use a form that includes a SELECT tag allowing the choice of account to use when tweeting. Bear in mind that consistently tweeting the same tweets from multiple accounts is probably not a very good idea. As an aside, re-reading the TOS, I wonder whether this pattern on a public web site - whereby a user is enabled to send Tweets without passing the Connect with Twitter step - requires display of the end user's Twitter identity, including visible display of the end user's avatar, Twitter user name, and the Twitter bird mark. (Rules III.3) On Mar 16, 8:12 am, Laddi satinderhundal1...@gmail.com wrote: HI, I have registered application onhttp://dev.twitter.com/. Now please tell how to send tweets from multiple accounts without having to login. Thanks satinder singh hundal -- 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: Recurring Tweets
Similarly, I have noticed that an exact duplicate tweet is no longer systematically rejected. Our CMS was set up to tweet new content items when they are first viewed by a visitor. If two visitors view the same new item at nearly the same time, two tweets are sent. Until recently, one would be rejected. Now, both are published and we have to delete the duplicate to avoid looking stupid. This behaviour seems to have changed 1-2 months ago. On Mar 7, 4:17 pm, Tammy Fennell tammykahnfenn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi There, I was just scanning the twitter automation rule and it doesn't say anything about reoccuring scheduled tweets. I swear it used to say it was banned, but has Twitter ammended this now for certain business use? Hope so, it's great functionality when used right! Best, Tammy -- 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: Bigger avatar images for users/profile_image/twitter ?
Avatars come in three sizes: mini = 24x24 normal = 48x48 bigger = 73x73 reasonably_small = 128x128 http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1_mini.jpg http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1_normal.jpg http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1_bigger.jpg http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1_reasonably_small.jpg The original seems to be available at http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1.jpg -- 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: Recurring Tweets
1537, I'm not sure you're going to get an official response since the twitter team will be wanting to prevent abuse. Basically I was talking about two or more consecutive tweets with char- for-char the same content. But I believe the guidelines referred to above warn that near-identical tweets too, if repeated too soon or too often, could be caught by an anti-spam algorithm. And even if some perfect formula allowed such tweets to get through, they could be viewed as spam. More and more I see the same messages repeated after a few hours or the next day. I'm free to unfollow or reply, but basically I think it means I am spending too much time on Twitter... Ken On Mar 7, 8:22 pm, 1537 News 1537n...@gmail.com wrote: What is considered an Exact Duplicate Tweet? On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Similarly, I have noticed that an exact duplicate tweet is no longer systematically rejected. -- 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: POSTs to :user/:list_id/create_all returning HTTP status 404 for all requests
Mistakes are a fact of life, no excuses necessary. What is hard to understand is not being able to change a few characters in the documentation, while developers continue to fall into this silly trap. Is the doc generated from the code? Doesn't look like it. Of course, this documentation bug - and the FAQ about getting a user's email address, which could also be laid to rest by improving the doc - keeps this list alive, so I shouldn't complain. On Mar 3, 7:24 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: There's obviously no good excuse I can tell you for the documentation being wrong. In this case, the old resource was never deprecated and never existed -- the documentation was wrong from the beginning. We're very aware of documentation bugs and are actively working towards allowing their modification with more fluidity than we have today. Thanks for your patience while we get there. @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer Advocate On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:21 AM, sferik sfe...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, February 28, 2011 8:05:09 AM UTC-8, Taylor Singletary wrote: It's a documentation error at the moment, the proper path is: POST :user/:list_id/members/create_all When was the old resource deprecated? Were there any other resources that changed at the same time? I try to pay close attention to the Twitter API Announcements list, but don't recall seeing anything about this. Could you direct me to the relevant post? I'm disappointed that the documentation is not keeping up with the API. If anything, the documentation should be coming ahead of changes, not trailing them. -- 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] Re: display user's profile image - definitive answer?
A couple of months ago, the consensus seemed to be to use tweetimag.es with user id, like so: http://img.tweetimag.es/i/8970972_o Ken On Feb 17, 1:16 pm, del del1...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi All, New to the forum, apologies if I'm covering old ground. I've done a search but can't find a definitive answer: I'm trying to develop a simple page that will display the last 25 of my twitter feed. All I want to display is each user's profile image (thumbnail) and their tweet. While I am new to this, this seems like a basic development task. When I access my twitter's json file... http://api.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/xxxUserdIdxxx.json?coun... ... I do indeed get the information I need - except the user.profile_image_url is MY profile image?? So I have 25 tweets from different users (correct) all displaying my profile image next to them (incorrect). Why am I not getting each user's profile image? I know I can check the user's profile image viahttp://api.twitter.com/version/users/profile_image/:screen_name.format but as that is not the recommended solution due to rate limits what should I do? Thanks in advance, Del -- 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: Data-expanded-url attribute
I have a possibly related problem. We also use an inhouse shortener that returns a 301 redirect, but Twitterbot misinterprets the shortened URLs. The usual search engine bots follow the redirect correctly, as far as I can tell. Each tweet results in a frenzy of 404s from API users who have received the incorrect URL. Mousing over the shortened URL on Twitter.com shows the incorrect URL in the title tooltip. Fortunately for now, it seems we are not subject to t.co wrapping so the original, correct short URLs can be clicked by Twitter.com users. The incorrectly interpreted URL is always the same. We've set it up to redirect to our home page so all is not lost. Any ideas what could be going on here? Thanks, Ken On Feb 14, 2:04 am, ctrand ctr...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas on this one guys? On Feb 10, 4:06 pm, ctrand ctr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a bunch of shortened urls which are resolved/redirected to full urls by my webapp. e.g. http://dealush.com/sale/2wml resolves to http://dealush.com/shopping-sales/2wml/sydney-sale-8-off-at-catwalk-w... When I tweet the short URL, sometimes the data-expanded-url attribute is populated for the url and when I mouseover it I can see the full url. However sometimes it is not populated, and there is no data- expanded-url attribute at all! I am wondering if anyone can shed some light onto why it would be so. I am also thinking that this is affecting the counters on my tweet buttons, as tweets that do have an URL with the data-expanded-url attribute give a +1 for the counter, and those that do not have a data- expanded-url don't. Does something need to happen for the data-expanded-url value to populate? Or perhaps there something wrong with some of my URLS? Note: THe example URL above does have a data-expanded-url value. Thanks in advance, Carl PS - Please let me know if you need any additional information from me and it will be forthcoming! -- 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: Media Partnerships and Oembed for Twitter's Detail Panel
Ashley, While waiting for native support from Twitter, have you checked out the embed.ly Parrotfish plugin ( http://labs.embed.ly/ ) ? Grooveshark is one of 160-plus OEmbed-compliant media partners supported by the plugin. Tweets bearing supported URLs are marked in the timeline and yes, you'll see Grooveshark content in your Twitter right pane. Don't know how many people are using it. Ken On Feb 1, 9:38 pm, Ashley Sarver asarv...@gmail.com wrote: The purpose of this is to find out a way to use twitter's oembed for listen.grooveshark.com links, and embed the media player of a specific song when the link is posted. How long does requesting permission for a media partnership take, and has anyone had problems requesting a partnership? Has anyone atempted to use oembed on twitter, or began working with oembed? -- 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: Media Partnerships and Oembed for Twitter's Detail Panel
I just re-enabled the Parrotfish plugin and it's pretty amazing. It's pulling content from my own website and from just about any URL mentioned in a Tweet. Goes way beyond the advertised performance. On Feb 2, 1:26 pm, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Some Twitter applications (including my own) use embed.ly to display content. Tom On 2/2/11 1:25 PM, Ken D. wrote: Ashley, While waiting for native support from Twitter, have you checked out the embed.ly Parrotfish plugin (http://labs.embed.ly/) ? Grooveshark is one of 160-plus OEmbed-compliant media partners supported by the plugin. Tweets bearing supported URLs are marked in the timeline and yes, you'll see Grooveshark content in your Twitter right pane. Don't know how many people are using it. Ken On Feb 1, 9:38 pm, Ashley Sarverasarv...@gmail.com wrote: The purpose of this is to find out a way to use twitter's oembed for listen.grooveshark.com links, and embed the media player of a specific song when the link is posted. How long does requesting permission for a media partnership take, and has anyone had problems requesting a partnership? Has anyone atempted to use oembed on twitter, or began working with oembed? -- 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: statuses missing geo /
Add Location to your tweets does not actually add a location - good point, and you are probably not the first to think so. It only enables your account to accept location information. It is still up to you to send the geo data. On Nov 9, 12:23 pm, Andrew Cross. Gna success@gmail.com wrote: I am succeeded in integrating the twitter with my web application and access the twitter futures. Now, I need your help to get the following in the list of my statuses. geo / coordinates / place / at the below of the user tags of the tweet status list. I have enabled the Tweet Location Add Location to your tweets checked to TRUE. May I know, do I need to make any other settings to be set in order to get the elements filled with the right information. Thanking You Regards, Gna Andrew Cross -- 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: #newtwitter direct message UI
Good points. The order is not random - it's the same each time - just baffling and useless. Perhaps we are meant to delete read messages? A useful 3rd party app might archive and delete them, leaving only new messages on Twitter and helping to resolve the rogue app reading dms issue. On Nov 5, 1:18 am, Jef Poskanzer jef.poskan...@gmail.com wrote: The #newtwitter direct message UI sucks. - There's no indication on the main UI that you have an unread message. If you miss the email notification you will never notice the message. - On the DM page, there's no indication of which conversations have unread messages, or even the most recent messages. The conversations are presented in random order. - When a conversation is displayed, again there is no indication of which messages are unread or which is the most recent. Again they are displayed in random order. So. Are there plans to improve it? Has anyone written their own improved version? Anyone want to collaborate on writing one? --- Jef -- 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: #newtwitter direct message UI
Oh great. I just got my first email spam purporting to be a Twitter DM notification. On Nov 5, 9:19 am, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Good points. The order is not random - it's the same each time - just baffling and useless. Perhaps we are meant to delete read messages? A useful 3rd party app might archive and delete them, leaving only new messages on Twitter and helping to resolve the rogue app reading dms issue. On Nov 5, 1:18 am, Jef Poskanzer jef.poskan...@gmail.com wrote: The #newtwitter direct message UI sucks. - There's no indication on the main UI that you have an unread message. If you miss the email notification you will never notice the message. - On the DM page, there's no indication of which conversations have unread messages, or even the most recent messages. The conversations are presented in random order. - When a conversation is displayed, again there is no indication of which messages are unread or which is the most recent. Again they are displayed in random order. So. Are there plans to improve it? Has anyone written their own improved version? Anyone want to collaborate on writing one? --- Jef -- 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: Posting to tweeter directly via JS?
۔ the above Unicode character is the closest I could find to a dot, without being a dot... On Nov 5, 11:15 am, Damien thequietdr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am in need of developing a JS manner of making a tweeter post that is slightly different from what Twitter already offers (I mean the Tweet button). THe post I need to make comes under this form: Please visit A.BBB using very long URL here If I use the Tweet button, the very long URL is shortened (ok) but the company name which is close to an URL form is also rewritened as a short URL (wrong). I need to have the company name left alone somehow, yet keeping the current form A.BBB in plain text (or as a URL, but not shortened) as well as the shortened long URL. Is there a way to tell twitter to not forcibly shorten an URL that's not in full URL format? Or at least mark the first one to be skipped from shortening? (I could do this if I would manually shorten the long URL, but I cannot do that in my production system, I still need Twitter to handle that). I need a JS-only solution and until now nothing I tried works. Thanks! -- 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: Posting to tweeter directly via JS?
cool, that seems to have worked. Just that it's a funny character to work with: #1748; - try and you'll see Anyway it probably defeats the URL parsing. On Nov 5, 5:11 pm, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: ۔ the above Unicode character is the closest I could find to a dot, without being a dot... On Nov 5, 11:15 am, Damien thequietdr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am in need of developing a JS manner of making a tweeter post that is slightly different from what Twitter already offers (I mean the Tweet button). THe post I need to make comes under this form: Please visit A.BBB using very long URL here If I use the Tweet button, the very long URL is shortened (ok) but the company name which is close to an URL form is also rewritened as a short URL (wrong). I need to have the company name left alone somehow, yet keeping the current form A.BBB in plain text (or as a URL, but not shortened) as well as the shortened long URL. Is there a way to tell twitter to not forcibly shorten an URL that's not in full URL format? Or at least mark the first one to be skipped from shortening? (I could do this if I would manually shorten the long URL, but I cannot do that in my production system, I still need Twitter to handle that). I need a JS-only solution and until now nothing I tried works. Thanks! -- 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: Posting to tweeter directly via JS?
Try tweeting this: http://not-a-url۔com On Nov 5, 11:15 am, Damien thequietdr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am in need of developing a JS manner of making a tweeter post that is slightly different from what Twitter already offers (I mean the Tweet button). THe post I need to make comes under this form: Please visit A.BBB using very long URL here If I use the Tweet button, the very long URL is shortened (ok) but the company name which is close to an URL form is also rewritened as a short URL (wrong). I need to have the company name left alone somehow, yet keeping the current form A.BBB in plain text (or as a URL, but not shortened) as well as the shortened long URL. Is there a way to tell twitter to not forcibly shorten an URL that's not in full URL format? Or at least mark the first one to be skipped from shortening? (I could do this if I would manually shorten the long URL, but I cannot do that in my production system, I still need Twitter to handle that). I need a JS-only solution and until now nothing I tried works. Thanks! -- 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: Upload image with a tweet
OK, I tested it for you. Post a tweet containing the URL of a Flickr image, you get the preview. Post a tweet containing the URL of your avatar on Twitter, no preview. Keep searching, you find somewhere it's been mentioned the media partners or some such. On Nov 4, 3:20 pm, fxbois fxb...@gmail.com wrote: Any Twitter developper have a clue about this ... I ve searched a lot on the web have found nothing On Nov 3, 6:27 pm, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't it have to do with *where* the image is hosted? I thought Twitter had a list of recognized rich content websites, à la embed.ly. On 3 Nov, 18:09, Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com wrote: YOU NEED TO HOST THE IMAGE SOMEWHERE ELSE. Once you upload it somewhere else and have a link to it, there is your preview. Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkisshttp://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ -- edward.png 3KViewDownload On Nov 3, 2010, at 4:20 AM, fxbois wrote: Hi thanks for your response. I've tried to include in a tweet the url of an image but I don't have the image preview when I click on the tweet and I don't have the little picto (top right corner) that shows that the tweet includes an image. I there anything I miss ? Isn't there any hidden param to the publish method ? On Nov 2, 7:30 pm, Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com wrote: No, because it needs to be hosted somewhere else. It's just a shortened link to the pic. You can roll your own. Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkisshttp://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ -- edward.png 3KViewDownload On Nov 2, 2010, at 6:12 AM, fxbois wrote: Hi, is there any API that can be used to insert an image in a tweet. I know that I can use external services like twitpic but I would prefer to use an internal twitter API if it exists. Thanks in advance Fx -- 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] Re: About catching Twitter user status
you're right, it's pretty hard to find this information. It's way down in 4th position of a Google search for Twitter API : http://dev.twitter.com/doc On Nov 4, 4:44 am, ESN ihsuanli...@gmail.com wrote: HI, I am beginner of using twitter api. If I want to collect user status from Twitter, what approach should I take? How to use java to collect all users status, if I want to use the jsp / java with Twitter API. Thank you -- 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: Suggestion for new feature ..
Favorite On Nov 4, 10:17 pm, Ronak Kumar Samantray ronak@gmail.com wrote: It would be super-cool to have this feature. Many a times i just skip the tweet for future reference, it would cool if i could mark it somehow.. Ronak Kumar Samantray Hyderabad Mobile : +91-9347290267 040-66933916 On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com wrote: borat, check out hootsuite. this is a list for dev not end-users. Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkiss http://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/ http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ -- On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Alexandre E. Knorst wrote: Hi Guys !! I´m use Twitter for a short time. Sometimes I see important tweets attached with movies and URL links, but, don´t have time for read on this moment. It´s possible mark that tweet for read later ??? And .. other important feauture will be score for ranking tweets. Thanks, -- 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] Re: Upload image with a tweet
Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't it have to do with *where* the image is hosted? I thought Twitter had a list of recognized rich content websites, à la embed.ly. On 3 Nov, 18:09, Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com wrote: YOU NEED TO HOST THE IMAGE SOMEWHERE ELSE. Once you upload it somewhere else and have a link to it, there is your preview. Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkisshttp://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ -- edward.png 3KViewDownload On Nov 3, 2010, at 4:20 AM, fxbois wrote: Hi thanks for your response. I've tried to include in a tweet the url of an image but I don't have the image preview when I click on the tweet and I don't have the little picto (top right corner) that shows that the tweet includes an image. I there anything I miss ? Isn't there any hidden param to the publish method ? On Nov 2, 7:30 pm, Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com wrote: No, because it needs to be hosted somewhere else. It's just a shortened link to the pic. You can roll your own. Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkisshttp://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ -- edward.png 3KViewDownload On Nov 2, 2010, at 6:12 AM, fxbois wrote: Hi, is there any API that can be used to insert an image in a tweet. I know that I can use external services like twitpic but I would prefer to use an internal twitter API if it exists. Thanks in advance Fx -- 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] Re: How to display lists from multiple users in an app
If you own a private list and want to share the content, you just use your own credentials (My Access Token) to fetch it. Real-time or cached, whatever works for you. There is no 'logged in' - each API call is authenticated. How could a user break into your account? A single web page can display content retrieved from different accounts - yours and the user's, for example. On 3 Nov, 18:46, Adam Nason apna...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter limits each user account to 20 lists. I have three accounts with different purposes but need the 60 lists across these three accounts to be displayed on one page on my website. Each list link needs to be clickable to the status updates from that list (in that same page likely using ajax). They are private lists (created for viewing only in the app) and I would like to keep them that way though I will take them public if absolutely necessary. I'm just the content manager asking this on behalf of the developer so I know little about oAuth but this is how it has been explained to me: When you request an access token you send Twitter a current timestamp and that timestamp is used to make a signature_basestring. With that signature, you sign every request you send to Twitter. It's a bit tricky not to enter login/pass manually when Twitter asks you to do that. And then there is my concern about the security of my accounts if they are logged into on a public, live webpage (warranted/ unwarranted? not sure). The developer mentioned that even if we take the lists public, we would still need to use oauth/logins to retrieve status updates from the lists. What he proposed is doing the oauth/logins process behind the scenes periodically during the day (based on cron.php timer) and displaying cached messages to users of the app. My preference is to display in real-time assuming that I can get the other two accounts whitelisted. Only one of the accounts is whitelisted for 20,000 requests (per hour?). So the advice I'm seeking is a bit open-ended as to how proceed from here. Private/public lists? Display real-time vs display cached version? Security concerns? The developer is still pretty new to the API so we're hoping someone can toss us a bone here. Thanks! -- 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: How to display lists from multiple users in an app
I should add you must not use your credentials to display tweets from protected accounts that your account has access to. On 3 Nov, 23:21, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: If you own a private list and want to share the content, you just use your own credentials (My Access Token) to fetch it. Real-time or cached, whatever works for you. There is no 'logged in' - each API call is authenticated. How could a user break into your account? A single web page can display content retrieved from different accounts - yours and the user's, for example. On 3 Nov, 18:46, Adam Nason apna...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter limits each user account to 20 lists. I have three accounts with different purposes but need the 60 lists across these three accounts to be displayed on one page on my website. Each list link needs to be clickable to the status updates from that list (in that same page likely using ajax). They are private lists (created for viewing only in the app) and I would like to keep them that way though I will take them public if absolutely necessary. I'm just the content manager asking this on behalf of the developer so I know little about oAuth but this is how it has been explained to me: When you request an access token you send Twitter a current timestamp and that timestamp is used to make a signature_basestring. With that signature, you sign every request you send to Twitter. It's a bit tricky not to enter login/pass manually when Twitter asks you to do that. And then there is my concern about the security of my accounts if they are logged into on a public, live webpage (warranted/ unwarranted? not sure). The developer mentioned that even if we take the lists public, we would still need to use oauth/logins to retrieve status updates from the lists. What he proposed is doing the oauth/logins process behind the scenes periodically during the day (based on cron.php timer) and displaying cached messages to users of the app. My preference is to display in real-time assuming that I can get the other two accounts whitelisted. Only one of the accounts is whitelisted for 20,000 requests (per hour?). So the advice I'm seeking is a bit open-ended as to how proceed from here. Private/public lists? Display real-time vs display cached version? Security concerns? The developer is still pretty new to the API so we're hoping someone can toss us a bone here. Thanks! -- 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: Copying or Importing Twitter Lists
Don't know of any public tool, but as you suggest it won't be hard to make one. If you were planning to use the list /create_all method, see this thread first: https://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/8668d4b94d7e0043/eaa833e422b3f4d1 On Nov 2, 7:54 pm, Quy quyten...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a tool out there that allows me to copy a Twitter List? For example, I've created a new account and wanted to migrate my Twitter Lists over to this new account or I want to copy an existing public Twitter List and edit it to my liking. I'm thinking of creating a simple tool using the Twitter API but will this hit any rate limiting if this is a public tool? Quy -- 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: Creating a list without description silently fails (on website as wel as using API
In my app, the list names are quite descriptive, so until this gets fixed - and I think it will be - I send description=name which makes some sense as the originally input name is transformed (loss of capitals and special characters) and does not appear in the Twitter UI anyway. On Oct 6, 1:06 am, Bert Lagaisse bert.lagai...@virtual-remote.com wrote: Posted ;-) I hadn't run my unittests for my upcoming WP7 twitter client in two weeks. Just ran them again and discovered this feature ;-) I now force the user to enter a description ;-) greets Bert Lagaissewww.virtual-remote.com/twozaic -- 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: user details
Just a wild guess. Try this: import oauth.oauth as oauth On Oct 6, 2:22 pm, ashwin morey ashwinmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have a python file and I am running it through command line. But it keeps giving error here CONSUMER = oauth.OAuthConsumer(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'OAuthConsumer' whereas it works when trying to run it through web application. thanks ashy -- 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: Creating a list without description silently fails (on website as wel as using API
Nice find! This is recent, a day or two. There is confusion elsewhere in the doc regarding optional parameters, For example, in DELETE :user/lists/:id, id is said to be optional. If this also fails in the Twitter UI there is hope that it will be fixed soon. For now Bert, this bug is yours: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry Ken On Oct 5, 10:08 pm, Bert Lagaisse bert.lagai...@virtual-remote.com wrote: Whenever I create a list, using the twitter.com website, or using the api, and I dont' give a description (which is marked optional in the api), then the list is not created. However, there is no error message. This bug can only have been introduced in the last weeks I think. Any one else with this problem ? -- 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: add list members
Cool. You could visit the tracker page for this issue, http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1884 and star the issue to help get it fixed sooner. This has got to be one of the easiest Twitter bugs to fix. Ken On Oct 3, 6:08 pm, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Damon, Mea culpa! There's an error in the create_all documentation. I should know since I filed the bug... Try:http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list/members/create_all.format Afaik,http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list/members.xmlis correct for adding a single user. Ken Hey Ken, That was it exactly. The create_all works perfectly now. Thanks! /damon -- 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: add list members
Damon, Mea culpa! There's an error in the create_all documentation. I should know since I filed the bug... Try: http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list/members/create_all.format Afaik, http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list/members.xml is correct for adding a single user. Ken On Oct 3, 3:41 pm, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Hey Damon, The URL you cite is that of the documentation page. The correct URL (for create_all) is: http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list/create_all.xml with parameter user_id=:ids or screen_name=:screen_names The example is: http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapidocs/firemen/create_all.xml?user_i... Try that.. Hey Ken, Yeah, I was just including those URLs to let you know which methods I was talking about in the documentation. The call being generated by the client lib (Grackle, in this case) should look as you describe, afaik. But there must be something amiss with it. Thanks, /damon -- 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: Comparing Friendship
Interesting! - thanks for sharing. As they say, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. I've just been followed by someone selling business cards. They are following 51,000 and are followed by 54,000. Well, I doubt they are reading many of those tweets, they are too busy selling business cards. Their own stream consists of recycled aphorisms and I doubt many people are reading that. Funnily, three people we follow also follow them, but this can only be due to auto-following. It's all meaningless, and worse, it's a waste of resources. When Twitter is having capacity issues I can't help but think of that. It's also too bad when one's following list is just a mirror of one's followers, because following lists can be a great source of new accounts to follow. The list of accounts we follow is likely to interest our followers, and we now make it available as a Twitter list that can be followed. My observation is that carefully curated followings are the best lists on Twitter. We'll soon be releasing our tool that lets anyone grab a following and make a followable list from it. Of course, the following has to be less than 500, but that's about the maximum number of accounts I could follow... On Sep 30, 5:19 pm, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: It's important to unfollow someone who unfollowed you. I must emphasize here that I am not talking about unfollowing someone who is not following me, but only those who used to follow me, then unfollowed. In this case it's very important to unfollow them right away. This is important because otherwise the schemers that follow you, then get a follow-back and then unfollow you win. Remember kids: if you don't auto unfollow-back that the terrorists will win. And that's not a good thing. Also if you want to follow over 2000 people you must keep you following/followers ratio really tight and that's why I would need to unfollow people who are not following me back. It's really simple. There are good ways to follow and read messages from many thousands of people. One way is to separate them by lists and then read lists instead of your main timeline. second way is to you other third party clients that lets you filter by keywords and stuff like that. I want to follow people with common interests and that common interest happens to be I am interested in following people who follow back When I follow someone I basically giving that person a chance to sell me something. I say, fine, but you give me a chance to sell you something too. I may still follow a few accounts that are so important to me that I will follow them even though I know they don't follow back, but that's just a handful of people. On Sep 28, 12:03 pm, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Hey Rick, It's the second time in a week that someone brings up the autofollow/ unfollow question (see also:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/b7b1dfbf6...) and I would love to understand the follow economy once and for all. First of all, you say that if someone is following you, you will follow back, but if they are not following, you will unfollow. If you are not yet following them, do you mean that you would block them? What is the use case for auto-following, and why would it be so important to unfollow users who do not follow back? Is there a cost? Are those users' tweets less interesting if they aren't following you? I mean, we can't all be followed by Justin Bieber! Personally, I'm over that... If one succeeds in building up an account that follows and is followed back by thousands of users - as seems to be the goal - does one ever actually visit the account? It can't possibly make any sense to access such an account via twitter.com. Are there tools that can render such an account usable or meaningful? Finally, why the pretense of following if one will never actually read the users' tweets? Does Twitter have in mind to adapt the system to this reality? This is not a rant, I sincerely want to know! On Sep 28, 4:34 pm, Rick Stuivenberg rickstuivenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What are the oauth functions to check if somebody is following me or not? I am currently making a script to check up if a user is following me, and if so, following them back, and if not, unfollow the user. Can somebody give me a point in the direction what oauth functions I need? btw; I am using twitteroauth. Rick -- 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: add list members
Hey Damon, The URL you cite is that of the documentation page. The correct URL (for create_all) is: http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list/create_all.xml with parameter user_id=:ids or screen_name=:screen_names The example is: http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapidocs/firemen/create_all.xml?user_id=783214,6253282 Try that.. On Oct 2, 8:16 pm, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: I've tried both create_all.xml and members.xml to add multiple or just one member to a list. The list is owned by me and exists. http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/:user/:list_id/create_all orhttp://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/:user/:list_id/members When the call goes through, the response is a normal #newtwitter web page instead of an API response. Is this a known issue? thanks, /damon -- 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: List-related weirdnesses
I resolved this problem by adding a few seconds of sleep after creating a list and populating it. The problem did not appear when I first tested my code, but it was morning European time and Twitter may not have been too busy. In the process of finding this out, I seem to have created some corrupt lists that cannot be edited or deleted. May I ask someone from Twitter to kindly contact me to help get these lists removed from my account! Thanks! Ken On Sep 29, 9:33 pm, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: I am creating private lists and then adding members with the create_all method. 1.) Creating a list via the API is no problem. Then I post to create_all with batches of 20-90 user ids. Only rarely have I been able to add more than a single batch, even with a few seconds of sleep, but occasionally it has succeeded. 2.) Viewing the result on 'old' twitter.com,http://twitter.com/#list/[account]/[list-name] will show a timeline (eg a batch of 20 users successfully added) and a link, Following: 0. On the list page itself,http://twitter.com/[account]/[list-name], no tweets are shown, only the Find people to add to your list: search box. 3.) And... I am unable to delete these lists, using either the API or manually on Twitter.com. Oh, and one more thing: If I try to add (via API) a list named mylist twice and I already have say 12 lists, the second mylist will not be called mylist-2, but mylist-13! Are these known issues? I am working on a project where lists are important, so any advice will be appreciated. Cheers! -- 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: List-related weirdnesses
Hey Taylor, These lists are zombies. Through Twitter.com, I have failed to change the status from private to public, change the name or add a member. When I select a member to add from the find people search, then user-actions list-menu button, it appears to have worked: the Your lists: list-name tag appears below the selected user. But the action has actually failed - the list page shows no members. Attempting to add a member via the API, I get an XML list element with member_count0/member_count. Attempting to delete the list via the API returns the same list... undead! Ken On Sep 30, 10:30 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Ken, Lists really are a sometimes embarrassing corner of the API, not going to mince words there. What is the type of failure you're getting when deleting the lists via the API? A lingering bug around is that lists without users often cannot be deleted correctly. If you're still having this problem, can you try adding a user to a list you haven't been able to delete and then try the deletion? Your batch creation problems do seem to be more availability-bound than anything else. As for the seemingly-chaotic naming convention of duplicately named lists: yes, it boggles the mind. Best to just make sure you check the names of lists a member already has before attempting to create a new one at this time. Taylor On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: I resolved this problem by adding a few seconds of sleep after creating a list and populating it. The problem did not appear when I first tested my code, but it was morning European time and Twitter may not have been too busy. In the process of finding this out, I seem to have created some corrupt lists that cannot be edited or deleted. May I ask someone from Twitter to kindly contact me to help get these lists removed from my account! Thanks! Ken On Sep 29, 9:33 pm, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: I am creating private lists and then adding members with the create_all method. 1.) Creating a list via the API is no problem. Then I post to create_all with batches of 20-90 user ids. Only rarely have I been able to add more than a single batch, even with a few seconds of sleep, but occasionally it has succeeded. 2.) Viewing the result on 'old' twitter.com,http://twitter.com/#list/[account]/[list-name] will show a timeline (eg a batch of 20 users successfully added) and a link, Following: 0. On the list page itself,http://twitter.com/[account]/[list-name], no tweets are shown, only the Find people to add to your list: search box. 3.) And... I am unable to delete these lists, using either the API or manually on Twitter.com. Oh, and one more thing: If I try to add (via API) a list named mylist twice and I already have say 12 lists, the second mylist will not be called mylist-2, but mylist-13! Are these known issues? I am working on a project where lists are important, so any advice will be appreciated. Cheers! -- 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] Re: List-related weirdnesses
Zut alors... Would it not be preferable to create an issue in the tracker as API- related? I'd be interested in learning what happened. And maybe I can get some help removing those lists... So far my research indicates that to kill a zombie you need to destroy its brain... HTH Ken On Sep 30, 11:29 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Ken, Bizarre. While I expect a certain amount of List bugginess on a daily basis, this is a bit more severe than usual. And also outside of where I can help you to any level of satisfaction. Hate to pass the buck, but please re-summarize the issues that lead to this zombie state, along with the specific lists in a support ticket athttp://bit.ly/twicket Blargh, Taylor On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Hey Taylor, These lists are zombies. Through Twitter.com, I have failed to change the status from private to public, change the name or add a member. When I select a member to add from the find people search, then user-actions list-menu button, it appears to have worked: the Your lists: list-name tag appears below the selected user. But the action has actually failed - the list page shows no members. Attempting to add a member via the API, I get an XML list element with member_count0/member_count. Attempting to delete the list via the API returns the same list... undead! Ken On Sep 30, 10:30 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Ken, Lists really are a sometimes embarrassing corner of the API, not going to mince words there. What is the type of failure you're getting when deleting the lists via the API? A lingering bug around is that lists without users often cannot be deleted correctly. If you're still having this problem, can you try adding a user to a list you haven't been able to delete and then try the deletion? Your batch creation problems do seem to be more availability-bound than anything else. As for the seemingly-chaotic naming convention of duplicately named lists: yes, it boggles the mind. Best to just make sure you check the names of lists a member already has before attempting to create a new one at this time. Taylor On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: I resolved this problem by adding a few seconds of sleep after creating a list and populating it. The problem did not appear when I first tested my code, but it was morning European time and Twitter may not have been too busy. In the process of finding this out, I seem to have created some corrupt lists that cannot be edited or deleted. May I ask someone from Twitter to kindly contact me to help get these lists removed from my account! Thanks! Ken On Sep 29, 9:33 pm, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: I am creating private lists and then adding members with the create_all method. 1.) Creating a list via the API is no problem. Then I post to create_all with batches of 20-90 user ids. Only rarely have I been able to add more than a single batch, even with a few seconds of sleep, but occasionally it has succeeded. 2.) Viewing the result on 'old' twitter.com,http://twitter.com/#list/[account]/[list-name] will show a timeline (eg a batch of 20 users successfully added) and a link, Following: 0. On the list page itself,http://twitter.com/[account]/[list-name], no tweets are shown, only the Find people to add to your list: search box. 3.) And... I am unable to delete these lists, using either the API or manually on Twitter.com. Oh, and one more thing: If I try to add (via API) a list named mylist twice and I already have say 12 lists, the second mylist will not be called mylist-2, but mylist-13! Are these known issues? I am working on a project where lists are important, so any advice will be appreciated. Cheers! -- 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] List-related weirdnesses
I am creating private lists and then adding members with the create_all method. 1.) Creating a list via the API is no problem. Then I post to create_all with batches of 20-90 user ids. Only rarely have I been able to add more than a single batch, even with a few seconds of sleep, but occasionally it has succeeded. 2.) Viewing the result on 'old' twitter.com, http://twitter.com/#list/[account]/[list-name] will show a timeline (eg a batch of 20 users successfully added) and a link, Following: 0. On the list page itself, http://twitter.com/[account]/[list-name], no tweets are shown, only the Find people to add to your list: search box. 3.) And... I am unable to delete these lists, using either the API or manually on Twitter.com. Oh, and one more thing: If I try to add (via API) a list named mylist twice and I already have say 12 lists, the second mylist will not be called mylist-2, but mylist-13! Are these known issues? I am working on a project where lists are important, so any advice will be appreciated. Cheers! -- 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: Comparing Friendship
Hey Rick, It's the second time in a week that someone brings up the autofollow/ unfollow question (see also: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/b7b1dfbf6500ab83) and I would love to understand the follow economy once and for all. First of all, you say that if someone is following you, you will follow back, but if they are not following, you will unfollow. If you are not yet following them, do you mean that you would block them? What is the use case for auto-following, and why would it be so important to unfollow users who do not follow back? Is there a cost? Are those users' tweets less interesting if they aren't following you? I mean, we can't all be followed by Justin Bieber! Personally, I'm over that... If one succeeds in building up an account that follows and is followed back by thousands of users - as seems to be the goal - does one ever actually visit the account? It can't possibly make any sense to access such an account via twitter.com. Are there tools that can render such an account usable or meaningful? Finally, why the pretense of following if one will never actually read the users' tweets? Does Twitter have in mind to adapt the system to this reality? This is not a rant, I sincerely want to know! On Sep 28, 4:34 pm, Rick Stuivenberg rickstuivenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What are the oauth functions to check if somebody is following me or not? I am currently making a script to check up if a user is following me, and if so, following them back, and if not, unfollow the user. Can somebody give me a point in the direction what oauth functions I need? btw; I am using twitteroauth. Rick -- 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: Auto tweet implementation
Yes. This is a FAQ. Until Twitter staff update the group FAQ, search the group archives for My Access Token. -- 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?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: list api create_all method not working
Finally, after discovering this thread, I added /members/ to the
create_all endpoint and was able to add 98 members to a list. As
twitter would say, 'Yay'...
I filed a bug to have the documentation corrected.
Are there still problems adding lots of members, as reported earlier
in this thread? Since rate-limiting as listed as false in the doc,
would it be more reliable to just loop over :user/:list_id/members 100
times? I need to go for reliable wherever possible... That way we
could add up to the 500 members maximum. Recommended or not really?
Thanks
-Ken
On Aug 23, 9:07 pm, Jim Chevalier jcheval...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Ah-ha! I did not have /members/ in my POST URL. Thanks for pointing
that out!
This actually make it seem
likehttp://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/:user/:list_id/create_all
should be changed to state:
POSThttp://api.twitter.com/version/:user/:list_id/members/create_all.format
I also didn't realize I could/should check on $connection-http_code
so often. Thanks for pointing that out as well.
It's funny, now that you mention it, I notice the test.php file you
included in twitteroauth has that call *everywhere*.
It seems like I should rewrite my calls to be more like the
twitteroauth_row function you define in the test.php file so that I
can use the $connection-http_code results as error-checking.
I'll also have to test if setting public $retry = TRUE; in the
twitteroauth.php file helps with the 502 response that comes when
attempting to push 99 users through the create_all call...
Thanks for all the help!
-Jim
On Aug 23, 2:44 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
After each TwitterOAuth call you should check $connection-http_code to
check what the result is. 200 on success, 404 on not found, etc.
My quick findings:
Works: $connection-post('abraham/test3/members/create_all', array('user_id'
= $user_ids));
AKA: $connection-post('{$screen_name/{$list}/members/create_all',
array('user_id' = $user_ids));
But with the 99 user_ids it would usually return a 502 after adding ~60
users to the list:http://goo.gl/Zur3
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:54, Jim Chevalier jcheval...@gmail.com wrote:
hrm, back to square one then...
Abraham - the value of $users is:
2142731,14125623,15998931,19560364,16559320,17036420,14791918,16908659,5538992,14984281,20188175,14277276,111226850,14327961,20257060,94168006,107679193,54567920,18171797,8886022,16390772,69422500,171538302,818340,168929218,141333525,132534968,14124542,14408989,138293290,2039761,6752072,111896485,175801197,14912789,22907920,15099178,16583906,10870772,94269486,174521748,82002786,15395087,39407092,123734452,17193910,16362662,7762662,21514744,7596972,31563269,23147529,27440127,14337563,1528701,82497472,19251912,15292430,17005679,7192042,14600753,97484744,2023641,92086501,15447441,98735657,16950385,2023191,14411651,23111875,2900,15039436,14479810,16024218,57933102,8453452,18363508,16569530,21034443,17007607,7029452,54997124,47397228,15226527,18193201,22278762,15127641,14204449,60616288,16465359,10371312,15805506,14995035,27727035,19211127,35279958,18023868,9369722,8088412
That's 99 users, in what I believe to be the correct format.
I also ran a test with just 8088412 like this, with the same (blank)
result:
$users = 8088412;
$added = $connection-post({$user-screen_name}/lists/$listid-id/
create_all, array('user_id' = $users));
print_r($added);
Since it seems like the 'create_all' call itself that's the problem, I
decided to run another test:
$blahblah = $connection-post({$user-screen_name}/{$list-id}/
qhweoi, array('user_id' = $users));
print_r($blahblah);
This returned nothing, similar to my 'create_all' call. Since
'qhweoi' is not a valid Twitter API call, I'm wondering if either
twitteroauth just doesn't do the create_all call for lists or if my
implementation of it is broken...
Thanks everyone!
-Jim
On Aug 23, 12:56 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com
wrote:
I'm filled with misinformation today.
But after being set straight by my colleague Matt Harris, I can tell you
that the correct end point for this method is in actuality:
http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list_id/members/create_all.format
Our list methods are obviously confusing in their lack of a
distinguished,
consistent namespace.
Taylor
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com
wrote:
Jim,
What is your value for $users?
Abraham
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[twitter-dev] Retweet a listed tweet
As I work today on some features related to lists, I wonder again why, on Twitter.com, I am unable to retweet a tweet that appears on a list timeline. Only the 'Reply' option is available. I plan to implement this and I expect it to work! Any thoughts on why Twitter.com would not have designed for this? Ken -- 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?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Retweet a listed tweet
Same on Chrome... also for lists created by me and lists I follow. So what's up? You guys all on IE? On Sep 8, 3:56 pm, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: No... just to clarify, I'm talking about the Twitter.com website. I've wondered about it for some time. See:http://twitter.com/twitterapi/team. Each tweet has a 'Reply' link but no 'Retweet'. It seems to be intentional but I don't get the logic. You can retweet from search results, from the various retweets timelines - if it were a bug it would have been trivial to fix long ago. OK, wait - it seems to be a browser thing. I'm on Firefox 3.6.8 for Ubuntu and inspecting with Firebug I see that the span class=retweet- link is there but set to display:none in some css somewhere.. On Sep 8, 3:04 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Is the tweet in question from a protected user? -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: As I work today on some features related to lists, I wonder again why, on Twitter.com, I am unable to retweet a tweet that appears on a list timeline. Only the 'Reply' option is available. I plan to implement this and I expect it to work! Any thoughts on why Twitter.com would not have designed for this? Ken -- 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?hl=en -- 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?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Obtain email address after authentication
Twitter has distinguished itself as a minimally invasive social network. The API gives you the ability to replicate and build on the communication model appreciated by Twitter users. It's about brevity, it's lightweight and of course you can reach your followers inbox by direct messaging, if the user accepts email notifications. Meanwhile, verify_credentials gives you what you need to set up their account and log them in when they return. If you need a user's email address, just ask them for it. Ken -- 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?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter logout - hate to open this can of worms again
I thought I had found a solution, albeit a horrendously ugly one: redirect them to http://twitter.com/logout, but even that doesn't work. If you are looking for reliable, don't log them in with OAuth - except once, the first time, when you store their token. On Sep 3, 7:23 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: There is no pragmatic way to sign a user out of twitter.com through the API. When a user logs out of your site send them to to twitter.com so they can sign out there or to a page explaining they should sign out of twitter.com Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate |http://abrah.am @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:43, Matei mad.doroba...@gmail.com wrote: bump? On Sep 1, 10:45 am, Matei mad.doroba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I am compelled to ask because the search turned out a few post that were somewhat vague and didn't answer all my questions. I have a website widget that interacts heavily with Twitter. We use OAuth to authenticate our requests. To logout the users from our side we destroy the OAuth token. However during the initial OAuth workflow Twitter places a cookie on the browser, so if the user logs out from our site but navigates to the Twitter site they are still logged in. Closing the browser solves this, as it appears the cookie is a session cookie. Calling the account/end_session.json end point does nothing for use because the call is server side so the cookie doesn't get replaced. I am a little concerned about this behavior since the widget will be on a public site users can access from public computers. It is possible the users will log out of our widget but not close the browser window. At that point someone could navigate to twitter and still be logged in with their account. So finally my questions are: 1. Is how do I reliably log users out of Twitter? 2. Is it really necessary for Twitter to send this cookie during the OAuth workflow? The API is stateless so the cookie is really un- necessary as far as using the apis is concerned. Sorry for the lengthy post, responses are greatly appreciated! Cheers, Matei -- 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?hl=en -- 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?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter logout - hate to open this can of worms again
What is the risk of storing a token? It can't be used outside your app. This is for sites that manage users. There's no need for a registration flow, at least one that is apparent to the user. For new users, send them to Twitter for a one-time Oauth roundtrip. Upon receipt of the token, create a user in your system, assign them a password and use it to log them in. Provide them this password, and/or let them change it. That's pretty pain-free account creation. If you need to associate an existing logged-in user with their Twitter account, send them to twitter for Oauth once. When they return they'll still be logged in and you'll have the credentials for future use. On Sep 3, 6:57 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If i don't want to manage an authentication system, risk storing passwords, make users go through the paint of yet another registration flow then I might consider just using Sign in with Twitter every time someone sign into my site. Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate |http://abrah.am @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 09:47, Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 01:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: I thought I had found a solution, albeit a horrendously ugly one: redirect them tohttp://twitter.com/logout, but even that doesn't work. If you are looking for reliable, don't log them in with OAuth - except once, the first time, when you store their token. Indeed. If you already have the token, why would you make them log in? If you get a new token every time they visit your 3rd party (consumer) site, you generate a lot of authorized tokens, ALL of which are valid for the rest of eternity, or until twitter decides that it should be possible to invalidate tokens. Bernd -- Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com -- 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?hl=en -- 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?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter logout - hate to open this can of worms again
Bernd, totally. In answer to the OP, I was referring to the traditional server-based app. These may one day constitute a numeric minority of apps, but will probably remain an important use case for some time to come. Really, all bets are off when you talk about stealing of the device. When there is a risk of theft, a device (phone, car etc) needs to be disabled, turned off etc. Publishing Bob's token, credit card details or other compromising information by that criminal Alice would be bad for Bob, I'll grant you that. On Sep 3, 8:43 pm, Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:29:22 -0700 (PDT) Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: What is the risk of storing a token? It can't be used outside your app. The token being confined to use within an app is very insecure when the app runs on an end-user device. There soon will be a billion smart phones, and many of those will run twitter apps. Then suppose user Alice finds out user Bob's token (perhaps by borrowing or stealing a phone), and publishes it. User Bob now has no way to retire the token, short of disabling the app that runs on millions of phones. Or Bob can get a new twitter user name. That's not what is normally called security. OAuth as currently done with twitter only works when the app runs on a small number of secure servers. -- Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com -- 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?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Open Source CMS Module and Consumer Secret
It seems that we are talking about two categories of applications. 1.) As in the subject of this thread, open-source CMS or other multi- user, membership or blogging systems. This type of system usually has some facility for the admin user/webmaster to change settings such as admin email address, error messages, API keys, etc. It makes sense for each deployment of such a system/module to be registered as a Twitter application (even if it is not an original unique application) if only because that way, the source or via tag would be a link back to the individual deployment and not to the original developers of the software. In these cases the person installing the system can probably be counted on to have the ability and willingness to go to twitter.com and register an app, following the instructions provided by the software developers (you guys). 2.) Single-user server or open-source desktop app. I don't know all the details of Xauth, but it seems to involve some manual effort by Twitter. So apologies up front if the following already exists, has been rejected, or doesn't make sense: If the single-user server or open-source desktop app has been approved by Twitter, why not build in to the app a call to the Twitter API that would create and install the needed credentials? The callback url would be defined by the app, the other properties could be taken from the details proved by the user at install time. This could even be executed transparently during the installation. This new API endpoint would return something like what we now get using My Access Token. Ken On Aug 31, 2:30 am, John SJ Anderson geneh...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's far better developer/business practice to design *proprietary* applications that are secure and register them with Twitter using xAuth. As has been said time and time again, proprietary is not a solution for this, as any non-hosted app using OAuth can have the keys extracted from it. Additionally, some of us would like to write Free or Open Source applications, that people can use on their own machines, without requiring them to register as Twitter developers. It used to be possible to do this. sigh j. -- 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?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Open Source CMS Module and Consumer Secret
oops. really, I had thought this through but got carried away with the 'transparent installation' idea. During the installation, the user would authenticate (via the software provider or directly with twitter?) - and then be delivered the credentials. Sorry. On Aug 31, 10:58 am, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: It seems that we are talking about two categories of applications. 1.) As in the subject of this thread, open-source CMS or other multi- user, membership or blogging systems. This type of system usually has some facility for the admin user/webmaster to change settings such as admin email address, error messages, API keys, etc. It makes sense for each deployment of such a system/module to be registered as a Twitter application (even if it is not an original unique application) if only because that way, the source or via tag would be a link back to the individual deployment and not to the original developers of the software. In these cases the person installing the system can probably be counted on to have the ability and willingness to go to twitter.com and register an app, following the instructions provided by the software developers (you guys). 2.) Single-user server or open-source desktop app. I don't know all the details of Xauth, but it seems to involve some manual effort by Twitter. So apologies up front if the following already exists, has been rejected, or doesn't make sense: If the single-user server or open-source desktop app has been approved by Twitter, why not build in to the app a call to the Twitter API that would create and install the needed credentials? The callback url would be defined by the app, the other properties could be taken from the details proved by the user at install time. This could even be executed transparently during the installation. This new API endpoint would return something like what we now get using My Access Token. Ken On Aug 31, 2:30 am, John SJ Anderson geneh...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's far better developer/business practice to design *proprietary* applications that are secure and register them with Twitter using xAuth. As has been said time and time again, proprietary is not a solution for this, as any non-hosted app using OAuth can have the keys extracted from it. Additionally, some of us would like to write Free or Open Source applications, that people can use on their own machines, without requiring them to register as Twitter developers. It used to be possible to do this. sigh j. -- 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?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: How do I get which user has returned authorized my app on Twitter (oauth)?
You've got the request_token, next you'll need the access_token. With that, you'll do verify_credentials. Then Bob's your uncle.. On Aug 20, 10:37 am, d.dinchev vese...@gmail.com wrote: Hello guys! I absolutely can not believe I haven't seen this in any tutorial, but follow this scenario: I have user database with user IDs. The user has identified himself on my application and he wants to allow it to use his Twitter account. I get an authorization URL, the user follows the URL and allows my application. Then he is redirected to the callback URL. OK, but in the callback url I get his request token and don't know how to understand which user actually allowed me to use his Twitter account so I can store his access token! I have one idea to send the user id in the callback url eg: example.com/?userid=1 Is there other solution to this one? Thank you so much for your support!
[twitter-dev] Re: How i can logout using oauth or rest api of twitter?
Taylor, I don't need this as much as some other developers but I think I understand why they keep asking for this. Sure, our app is not logged in. But many apps make the user log in to Twitter in order to use the app. Then, when the user is done with the app, they can't just logout and leave, we have to tell them to go to Twitter.com and logout. This is embarrassing (unprofessional) and potentially risky. If they don't understand that they are still logged in with Twitter, they may make some mistake, such as tweeting from the wrong account, and there could be privacy/security concerns about subsequent actions a user may perform while unknowingly logged in to Twitter. Let me turn the question around: why does Twitter not want this? Ken On Aug 19, 4:20 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: The REST API is (mostly) stateless. There is no logged in to log out. Are you wanting to ensure that the user has to enter their credentials in again when presented with the OAuth flow? If not, what would you be interested in doing this for? Taylor On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:50 AM, JTOne jthot...@gmail.com wrote: How i can logout using oauth or rest api of twitter?
[twitter-dev] Re: How i can logout using oauth or rest api of twitter?
Destroy session is what people are asking for. There's no way to handle this from our side at the moment. When a user leaves our site, they generally logout out first, but we can't log them out from Twitter if they logged in that way. (After initially creating an account with us through Twitter Oauth, they have the option of logging in directly to our site without logging in to Twitter.) Per Twitter app guidelines, we never perform any API action that is not directly, immediately requested by a user, so that's not the problem. The problems I see are: 1.) It's weird that we can log them in but we can't log them out. OK, we get them to log themselves in, but they can't be expected to understand that, and 2.) If we don't make sure they know they are still logged in - to Twitter, not us - then something bad might happen to them. And whose fault would that be? On Aug 19, 6:33 pm, Dave Ingram d...@dmi.me.uk wrote: On 08/19/10 17:16, Ken wrote: Taylor, I don't need this as much as some other developers but I think I understand why they keep asking for this. Sure, our app is not logged in. But many apps make the user log in to Twitter in order to use the app. Then, when the user is done with the app, they can't just logout and leave, we have to tell them to go to Twitter.com and logout. This is embarrassing (unprofessional) and potentially risky. If they don't understand that they are still logged in with Twitter, they may make some mistake, such as tweeting from the wrong account, and there could be privacy/security concerns about subsequent actions a user may perform while unknowingly logged in to Twitter. So one way to handle this from your side would be to just forget the user's OAuth tokens. Your app will still appear authorized to the user in the connections screen, which would be confusing, but your application wouldn't be able to perform any operations on their behalf. It might be useful to have a destroy credentials endpoint though, to remove your app from the connections screen. D On Aug 19, 4:20 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: The REST API is (mostly) stateless. There is no logged in to log out. Are you wanting to ensure that the user has to enter their credentials in again when presented with the OAuth flow? If not, what would you be interested in doing this for? Taylor On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:50 AM, JTOne jthot...@gmail.com wrote: How i can logout using oauth or rest api of twitter?
[twitter-dev] Re: How i can logout using oauth or rest api of twitter?
An API method allowing a user to revoke your credentials from within your app, as users can do through http://twitter.com/settings/connections - if they manage to find it. Probably would need to be a TOS requirement... On Aug 19, 6:53 pm, JTOne jthot...@gmail.com wrote: It might be useful to have a destroy credentials endpoint though, to remove your app from the connections screen. what you means? how do it?
[twitter-dev] Re: Open Source CMS Module and Consumer Secret
I am new to this thread having seen it over the past few weeks and wondered what all the fuss was about. The solution by MindcrimeNL above seems optimal, why is it a workaround? Do developers not really want their users to register their own Twitter app? It's not exactly hard to do. You just need to tell them what to put for the callback URL... For opensource systems targeted at non-technical users, don't you provide a 'control panel' where the admin user can edit their preferences such as webmaster's email etc? Just like inserting your Google maps API key, Adsense id, Amazon associates id, etc. For applications with a more technical installation, you'd just have them edit a config file. On Aug 18, 11:34 am, MindcrimeNL hostmas...@gab-ev.de wrote: Still no solution:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/58b4b54d4... After that initial message, it is apparently still not available... I've released my module by explaining in the readme how webmasters can add their own application and obtain the consumer public and secret key for their application and giving them an option to enter them in the module. I'm not really happy about this workaround... It just sucks... On Aug 1, 2:19 am, Michael Babcock mjet...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the confusion. I mean web application developers. There are quit a number of open-source web apps for twitter. Besides standalone apps, there are also, add-ons for all the various CMS solutions out there, written in PHP, Perl, etc. On Jul 27, 2:02 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: There are plenty of open source *library* developers, and plenty of applications that use open source libraries, but not all that many open source full applications. The only ones I can think of at the moment are Gwibber (Gnome), Choqok (KDE), mine (Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit), Spaz, get2gnow, and ttytter. IMHO Choqok and Gwibber are lame - I use CoTweet or Twitter.com on my desktop and mobile.twitter.com, Twitter, Twidroid, Seesmic, Touiteur and Peep on my HTC Verizon Droid Incredible. The Twitter piece of Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit is at the moment read only, and as I noted earlier the main reason I even looked at oAuth was to get the 1500 (read) API calls per hour. Given the small number of users I have at the moment, it wouldn't be all that difficult to upgrade them to oAuth and 350 calls per hour one at a time by hand - all that would be required is to license that piece of code separately. ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Michael Babcock mjet...@gmail.com: Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't Twitter risk loosing a large percentage of their third party open-source developers, by not having a solid solution for the required OAuth security changes in time for the deadline? I can only guess, but, I would think that the open-source segment would count for quite a large number of independent developers, all eager to build for and promote the Twitter vision. Michael On Jul 27, 8:59 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Folks, There are a few hold ups to rolling this out more widely, the most pressing being that we are currently unable to serve SSL content on dev.twitter.com-- there are also better solutions than this rudimentary one that we simply can't implement yet. We're also concerned with releasing (and supporting) a solution widely that we'll soon want to deprecate. Taylor On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote: I have the same question. I need to add Twitter OAuth to my widely distributed PHP based open-source CMS add-on. All the documentation says never ever distribute your consumer secret, which I understand why this would be a bad idea. Yet all of the documentation/examples I have found require that the consumer secret be hard-coded into the source. The closes thing I have found, that doesn't require the consumer secret embedded in the source, is a description of how it might work, http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... But, I cannot find any docs/examples where this scenario has actually been implemented. It does exist. While I can't speak for Twitter and whatever internal issues are slowing up its rollout, TTYtter has been a test bed for the key exchange for some time now. Most of the users have found the process painless. You can see how a sample workflow works in the documentation, or try it yourself. The app itself is open Perl.
[twitter-dev] Re: official twitter equivalent of tweetimag.es
There's also http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/:id You might call that less volatile as ids don't change. I notice on the dev page referenced by Abraham, these methods *must not be used* as image source URLs. Any plans to introduce such URLs? On Aug 16, 6:17 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/profile_image/:screen_name Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate |http://abrah.am @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 13:11, Kyle Bragger kyle.brag...@gmail.com wrote: Apologies if this has been asked before; ~45 min of searching and I couldn't find anything. I vaguely remember seeing something Twitter offered that was an official equivalent of tweetimag.es — non-volatile urls for user photos. Am I crazy?
[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume and freedom of speech
If they can't get to Twitter even once, then the point of the original argument is lost as they need to set up a Twitter account in the first place. Perhaps the OP should obtain permission from Twitter to create accounts for persons affected by censorship and then facilitate their access through his app. On Aug 14, 6:20 pm, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Simple answer: because people in china can't even get to twitter.com *once*. Tom On 8/14/10 4:37 PM, Ken wrote: Why is this an issue? A few months ago, someone from Twitter I believe suggested a pattern such as this: User starts to create an account on your site To enable the Twitter integration, you send them to Twitter.com *once* where they allow your app. You store their token and log the user in to your site with a temporary password you generate, that they can change. You might collect their email address this way. From then on, they never have to go to Twitter.com. They can interact with Twitter via your app, using your website, email, sms, etc. Of course, with the massive use of your site that you claim, it won't be long before your site is listed by Websense and the various evil governments mentioned above. On Aug 14, 1:04 am, TheGuru jsort...@gmail.com wrote: Is there no one from Twitter proper who has a position regarding this? On Aug 13, 2:12 pm, TheGuru jsort...@gmail.com wrote: Add that to the list of even more reasons why this is an issue. However, even stating oh well, tell them to use their cell phones, obviously isn't a solution of any degree. Smart Phone penetration in the US, for example, is still less than 20%... On Aug 13, 9:43 am, earth2marsh ma...@earth2marsh.com wrote: At least people at work have the potential to use phones to access Twitter I'm worried about users like those in China behind The Great Firewall. Currently, they can interact with Twitter by using proxies and http basic auth. But OAuth requires access to twitter.com (or some sort of mediation). xAuth could be a solution, but there is already a shortage of clients that support alternate endpoints, and some of those use OAuth instead of xAuth (or neither). When basic auth is shut off, who knows how many Chinese voices will fall silent or in North Korea. Or in Iran. Or in ? I'm interested in hearing what others think about this. Marsh On Aug 12, 10:31 pm, TheGuru jsort...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious to post this question to see if Twitter has fully thought out the impact of forcing OAuth onto their API applications. While it may appear to be a more secure method preferred in principle by users, the fact of the matter is that one of the main benefits of the API, is the ability for third party twitter alternatives to be created, thus allowing people to tweet during business hours, when they normally could not due to firewall / web sense restrictions, etc, that prevent them from accessing the twitter.com domain. Via basic authentication, users would never have to visit twitter.com to login and gain access to twitter functionality via api clients. By shutting this down, you are now forcing ALL potential users to login via twitter.com, many of which do not have access to this domain in their workplace environment, thus excluding them from easily using your service wholesale. This can / will, I suspect, have significant impact on twitter usage / volume, unless I am missing something and there is an alternative the does not require them to directly access the twitter.com domain to grant access.
[twitter-dev] Re: New app for every Twitter account?
As Taylor says, you don't need a different app for each account, but actually that's the easy solution, with the added benefit that you never need to do the Oauth dance to capture any tokens. PLUS... each app gets the glory of it's own via tag. Creating an app is no more work than creating a Twitter account. The actual app is of course your same code each time. Just fill in the blanks and grab the tokens using the 'My Access Token link. Then in your publication code just substitute in the keys for that site/account. On Aug 11, 9:37 pm, Skygazer marc.bouc...@gmail.com wrote: My company has several news sites and each has one or more Twitter accounts depending on the topic. I've created a new app using OAuth and PHP to post our news stories automatically as they are published. Previously with basic authentication I would just pass the username and password etc. to get the story posted. But now I'm wondering, do I need to create a new app for every Twitter account we have? Or can I post to our accounts with the one app I created with its keys and tokens? And if I can use just the one app, how do I post to the other accounts? The app was created on our primary Twitter account. Thanks Marc PS I already have the OAuth and PHP code working for our primary Twiter account.
[twitter-dev] Re: List names - allowed characters
Thanks Taylor! Maybe this could be moved to the API documentation. I can report that once, after creating (for the first time) a list called 'Awesome', a second 'Awesome' list got the slug, 'awesome-10'. So I just considered the slug to be unpredictable. Also, I wouldn't mind knowing the rationale behind allowing same-named lists. We won't be allowing that through our app.
[twitter-dev] Re: Can we automate the user login process on twitter...
Punit, If you have regular users with accounts on your site, they only need to go through Oauth once - assuming you have a more convenient login process to offer them. The first time they authorize through Twitter, you need to capture the token and store it. Then they can log in using your less cumbersome process and, until such time as they deny access to your app - invalidating the token you have stored - they can use your app to interact with Twitter. Maybe that's what you had in mind? On Aug 8, 5:02 pm, Punit.khaire punit.kha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am develop[eing one web application to tweet posts on twitter, 1. Request token 2.Authorize user on twitter 3.Get access token from twitter 4.Post on tweitter. When I authorize user on twitter(2nd step) ,I am redirected to twitter.com to allow user to enter the Username and Password.Can we automate this process.Can I send username and password of user from my application?
[twitter-dev] List names - allowed characters
Can someone please confirm the allowed characters (and transforms) when creating new list names? We need to check whether a user already has a list with the proposed name. Unfortunately, the API doesn't return an error if the name already exists, instead naming the list, 'new-list-2', which our user must then delete.
[twitter-dev] POST :user/lists
I'd like some help as I implement and test the API methods, of which there are dozens. For example, the create list method, titled POST :user/lists on dev.twitter.com, shows the URL endpoint as: http://api.twitter.com/version/:user/lists.format I am not familiar with the notation :user but from the example I guess that means we need to insert the screen_name or id here. We don't keep screen name, only ids, so I wondered if that would work. By mistake I used a user id that was not the same as the authenticated user. Result was, the authenticated user got a new list. The user whose id was sent in the URL was unaffected. Then i tried sending one with some junk in place of the user and got this error: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/1/jdsflfj/lists.xml/request errorNot found/error /hash Why are we sending :user ? I guess my question is, in order to economize on time, what is the best source of API documentation?
[twitter-dev] Can't remove saved search if no results
I give up trying to find the bug submission page on Twitter. Here goes. From Twitter.com, I saw a tweet that had been posted from The Hague (Netherlands). I clicked the from link to see the little map and access the link, Tweets from this place. I clicked Tweets from this place and saw other tweets posted from The Hague. I clicked save this search. Since I already had 10 saved searches, I had to remove one first. In my saved searches now appeared The Hague, South Holland. The next day, the name of this place (in my saved searches) had mysteriously changed to 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland. Clicking on the link, there are no tweets from this place. And - perhaps because there were no results - there is no link to remove the saved search.
[twitter-dev] Re: Can't remove saved search if no results
I've since found the bug submission page, but I'll just follow up here and then post a bug. I implemented the saved search api methods - so now it's a developer question suitable for this list! I was able to create saved searches for text queries and for places (e.g. place:55da0f3350b51881) I was able to add more than 10 saved searches to an account through the API - using Twitter.com, there's a limit of 10. For saved_searches/destroy.xml, according to the documentation, supported request methods are POST and DELETE, but I got the following response: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/1/saved_searches/destroy.xml/request errorThis method requires a GET./error /hash So that's bizarre. Result of using destroy.xml with GET for any saved search id was always errorNot found/error. Finally, I created a saved search for a query that returns no results: djsalkofsj. On Twitter.com the result is No real-time results for djsalkofsj and there is no Remove this saved search link. You can't actually save such a search via Twitter.com, but if a user creates an erroneous saved search through an app, or one that dies after a while, there is no way to delete it through Twitter.com.
[twitter-dev] Permission denied error in Firefox when trying to add a tweet-box with @anywher
I'm just trying add a twitter's tweet box with @anywhere but I'm
getting the
following error in Firefox:
Permission denied to get property Window.jQuery from https://api.twitter.com;
It works fine for me in Chrome.
All I have on the page is the code snippet from Twitter's api tutorial
which is:
div id=tbox/div
script type=text/javascript
twttr.anywhere(function (T) {
T(#tbox).tweetBox();
});
/script
and twitter's js in the header
[twitter-dev] anchor to twitter.com/home?status authentication conerns
If I provide an anchor that that takes the user to http://twitter.com/home?status=TheirStatusMsg, I don't have to worry about oAuth or any authentication issues, right?
[twitter-dev] profile_image by id?
We have: http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id and we have: http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/[screen_name].[format] Is there a way to get the profile image by id? Thanks!
[twitter-dev] Re: profile_image by id?
[edit] by the above I mean a URL to be used as img src, not an api call.
[twitter-dev] Re: profile_image by id?
Thanks Taylor, I take your point - we don't want to add to the problem. Looking ahead of course we expect Twitter to resolve the issues that cause us all so much pain these days. Our own app is pretty useless when Twitter is whaling. We could also ignore the change of username question as an edge case, except that one of our sites gets a lot of Twitter newbies - they create a Twitter account from our page - and they will probably change their avatar at least once in the short term. When we display an activity stream aggregating many users we can't be checking them all in real time for changes. Wouldn't it be nice to have a permanent URL for a user's current image... On Jun 23, 4:25 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Looks like the profile_image endpoint takes id OR screen name.. so these are equivalent http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/819797http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/episod It's not recommended to use these directly in an IMG src tag, as that'd make your displaying the image depend on being redirected (and if Twitter is whaling, you'll get no image at all or other unexpected behavior). Instead, you should follow the redirect and use the resultant URL. Taylor On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: [edit] by the above I mean a URL to be used as img src, not an api call.
[twitter-dev] Who retweeted?
Maybe not a dev question, but I keep wanting to click on retweeted by you and one other to know who that was!
[twitter-dev] Re: Who retweeted?
To clarify, I know how to find out, I just expect that text to be clickable.
[twitter-dev] Lost without maps...
Geolocation seems to be disabled..? One of our services depends on this. Haven't seen this particular outage mentioned. Any ETA for a fix? Note to self: site must gracefully degrade when there's no Twitter...
[twitter-dev] tco crawler details
If tco is to be the new three-letter agency and gatekeeper, we would like to treat it nice and whitelist its crawler. If tco is inadvertantly blocked, what happens? I do not know if we have already been checked by tco as I have not sent or received a dm with one of our own URLs. What are the user-agent and IP addresses used by this crawler? Does it check robots.txt? And since, for some, a tco thumbsdown could be a problem, is there a (speedy) appeals process?
[twitter-dev] Re: tco crawler details
Presumably, in order to check that a URL is not malicious, it would have to be accessed and analysed by tco. In his post Raffi said, Twitter will redirect them to the original URL after first confirming with our database that that URL is not malicious. So it's not by domain, but by URL. One of our Twitter apps is built in to our CMS workflow and tweets new content that an editor has selected. Now, I guess - unless domains can be whitelisted - Twitter will have to crawl and approve the newly minted content page... before publishing the Tweet ?? On Jun 11, 12:00 pm, John Adams j...@twitter.com wrote: t.co is not a crawler; Are you referring to the URL unpacking process or something else? -john On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: If tco is to be the new three-letter agency and gatekeeper, we would like to treat it nice and whitelist its crawler. If tco is inadvertantly blocked, what happens? I do not know if we have already been checked by tco as I have not sent or received a dm with one of our own URLs. What are the user-agent and IP addresses used by this crawler? Does it check robots.txt? And since, for some, a tco thumbsdown could be a problem, is there a (speedy) appeals process?
[twitter-dev] Re: tco crawler details
Dean - I meant the IP of the crawler - we have lots of DENY ACLs in place to curb rogue bots. On Jun 11, 3:21 pm, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: Of course it is. Twitter were asked what defines a bad site on the second day but I haven't seen a reply apart from more questions about who is making the choice, eg will pornography be classed as bad, will religious free speech be classed as bad. I don't think the Twitheads thought through what it means to now offer an aol version of the web and the long term responsibilities that this entails through implicit guarantees to their users. Of course Ken you don't expect them to publish their ip address list do youotherwise some smartass would route this ip address to a clean site and everyone else to the bad content. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Inc d...@cognation.net mailto:d...@cognation.net +1-212-203-4357 New York +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial). From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Adams Sent: Friday, 11 June 2010 6:00 AM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] tco crawler details t.co is not a crawler; Are you referring to the URL unpacking process or something else? -john On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: If tco is to be the new three-letter agency and gatekeeper, we would like to treat it nice and whitelist its crawler. If tco is inadvertantly blocked, what happens? I do not know if we have already been checked by tco as I have not sent or received a dm with one of our own URLs. What are the user-agent and IP addresses used by this crawler? Does it check robots.txt? And since, for some, a tco thumbsdown could be a problem, is there a (speedy) appeals process?
[twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API
Sorry if this is pedantic, but can you point to Twitter's definition of malicious ? Obviously, viruses, phishing etc. Presumably, fraudulent or illegal would be included, but this might vary depending on the jurisdiction. Also, if a site is banned in country x, can the government of x request that Twitter disable redirection for users in its jurisdiction? Twitter might prefer this to a complete ban on Twitter itself...
[twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API
Chris, I am not worried about that or any of this, but agree that it's unfortunate to lose the choice. And it feels wrong to be obfuscating links to my own website... For apps that display tweets, I understand that the t.co link must be used and not the display link. But what does it mean, require you to check t.co and register the click ? How do we check and register ? On Jun 9, 7:03 pm, Chris Barr chrisba...@gmail.com wrote: My 2 pence: The difference with bit.ly is that I choose to use it. If I don't want to use it I'm not forced to. Additionally, what happens if the t.co service goes down? All links will be temporarily broken until the service goes back up. On Jun 9, 4:17 pm, Harshad RJ harshad...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: I don't buy the click tracking privacy argument. Twitter will have no more insight into clicks than what bit.ly or any other shortening service has, The difference being that the user who clicks the links in Twitter will have most probably logged into Twitter. Thus, Twitter can directly associate a click with a user. When clicking on bit.ly shortened URLs it is very very unlikely that the user is logged into bit.ly. That is because only people who shorten URLs need a bit.ly account (which is a very small percentage). -- Harshad RJhttp://hrj.wikidot.com
[twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API
Not exactly spyware, but deceptive. Don't expect the public to appreciate this. On Jun 9, 9:45 pm, Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com wrote: If an application wants to provide the original intent of the user, it is forced (by ToS), to present a link that doesn't go to where it says it does. That is problematic, the application acts as spyware. -- Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com
[twitter-dev] Re: API for archive tweets
For use on a web page, try a Google custom search engine (CSE) with setSiteRestriction(twitter.com). You can get older tweets - if they come up in the results. Works well for 'dated' subjects! Hint - use inurl:status On Jun 1, 12:05 pm, msr emess...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I understand the Search API gives tweets logged in about a week backwards. Do we have (undocumented) API to access tweets older than is this? Please point me to relevant links. If there is no such API, are there workarounds/third-party services that provide archive data? Google replay only goes back to Feb 11, 2010 (according to their blog). Thanks, msr
[twitter-dev] Re: Bug on dev.twitter.com login page
Hey, here's a couple of minor probs inside the dev site: - when registering a new app (on Firefox 3.6.3/Ubuntu) - the terms of service thingy shows no text, just grey background. - on the application details page, app description section, the Created by link goes to http://dev.twitter.com/[screen_name], which does not compute... On Jun 1, 2:55 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks. We'll have this fixed soon. For now, just remove the bonus subdomain. On Monday, May 31, 2010, Ernandes Jr. ernan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As soon as I enter my credentials on Twitter's dev login page and press Sign In, the website is redirecting me to http://dev.dev.twitter.com/, instead of http://dev.twitter.com/. Regards, -- Ernandes Jr. - ALL programs are poems. However, NOT all programmers are poets. -- Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod
[twitter-dev] Re: having trouble with geolocation in tweets
Worked like a charm. Thanks so much! On May 21, 2:29 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Ken, Few things I would check: #1 - is the account that you are using geo-enabled ? You can configure this option on the account settings page:http://twitter.com/settings/account #2 - I noticed that in your query here, you've specified display_coordinates=true with a question mark ahead of it. Since you already had a query parameter, you should be joining it by an ampersand (same with long) #3 - The lat, long, and display_coordinates are all more appropriately passed as POST parameters (like you are doing for status Your request, given that the user is geo-enabled, might be better executed as: curl -u username:password -d status=status_text -d lat=32.6626 -d long=-115.8471 -d display_coordinates=truehttp://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ken Hoff telefrag...@gmail.com wrote: Hey there – I've been trying to get geolocation in my tweets and it's not taking. It posts the tweet to the correct account just fine, but the tweet doesn't contain any location data. The account is geo enabled. Here's an example of my curl call: curl -u username:password -d status=status_text http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json?lat=32.6626?long=-115.8... I'm not sure what's wrong with it. Any chance anyone knows what's up?
[twitter-dev] having trouble with geolocation in tweets
Hey there – I've been trying to get geolocation in my tweets and it's not taking. It posts the tweet to the correct account just fine, but the tweet doesn't contain any location data. The account is geo enabled. Here's an example of my curl call: curl -u username:password -d status=status_text http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json?lat=32.6626?long=-115.8471?display_coordinates=true I'm not sure what's wrong with it. Any chance anyone knows what's up?
[twitter-dev] Re: API call to turn on location-based tweets?
I have an issue with the text itself. You can give applications permission to tell Twitter where you are when you send a Tweet implies that the geodata refers to the user's actual location. People are - rightly or wrongly - worried about this, and many do not activate geolocation. Our simple app allows users to locate coordinates on a map and tweet from there, associating geo- metadata with the subject of their tweet. I wish Twitter would reconsider the uses of geo and adapt the settings, workflow and text accordingly, especially since the takeup for current location tweeting does not seem to be all that great. And Stephen - device-based current location geotweeting mainly works in a few English-speaking countries... On May 7, 11:50 am, Stephen Rife stephenr...@gmail.com wrote: This is great. Would be really nice if this displayed in the user's account language setting. - Steve @melobubu On 4月30日, 午前6:23, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: https://twitter.com/account/geo On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 14:17, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: there is also a mobile optimized page with just that checkbox on twitter.comthat you could use too. could be useful.. what's the URL? thanks Ken -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: API call to turn on location-based tweets?
I take back what I said about the availability of device-based tweeting. I was thinking about plain old dumb-phone SMS tweeting. And of course browsers can now do geolocation. So, yes, bring on the translations, but for those doing manual entry of arbitrary coordinates let it be clear that they are not being spied on! Also, wasn't there a way to enable geo on a tweet-by-tweet basis? On May 18, 10:07 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: On Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:17:34 pm Ken wrote: I have an issue with the text itself. You can give applications permission to tell Twitter where you are when you send a Tweet implies that the geodata refers to the user's actual location. People are - rightly or wrongly - worried about this, and many do not activate geolocation. Our simple app allows users to locate coordinates on a map and tweet from there, associating geo- metadata with the subject of their tweet. I wish Twitter would reconsider the uses of geo and adapt the settings, workflow and text accordingly, especially since the takeup for current location tweeting does not seem to be all that great. And Stephen - device-based current location geotweeting mainly works in a few English-speaking countries... On May 7, 11:50 am, Stephen Rife stephenr...@gmail.com wrote: This is great. Would be really nice if this displayed in the user's account language setting. - Steve @melobubu On 4月30日, 午前6:23, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: https://twitter.com/account/geo On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 14:17, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: there is also a mobile optimized page with just that checkbox on twitter.comthat you could use too. could be useful.. what's the URL? thanks Ken -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. I'm still testing some of this on my Android, but I've discovered that the available clients differ widely in how they tag tweets when location is fully enabled. I've had to delete tweets that I made from the Android because they had my street address embedded in them. Watch this space, as they say ... ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky/@znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~ Paul Erdős
[twitter-dev] Re: Using Oauth to tag tweets with location data from an application.
User needs to enable geotagging.. On May 17, 7:05 pm, netlatch netla...@gmail.com wrote: I am sending the data but it is not tagging the location. So I figured that Twitter was blocking it. The application can tag its own tweets fine but when it tries to tag retweets from others through the application the tweets are listed but without the location info. On May 17, 1:02 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: As long as the user is fully cognizant of the geotagging of their Tweets, yes. There's nothing special about OAuth in this case versus any other authentication means. You may want to see our Geo Best Practices for Developers guide:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/geo_dev_guidelines Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:51 AM, netlatch netla...@gmail.com wrote: Is it allowed for an application to tag tweets with location data using Oauth?
[twitter-dev] Re: nested user object bug in statuses/friends
Hi Taylor, I confirmed my apps are fully working well. Thank you for your efforts!! Br, Ken On 5月7日, 午後11:03, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Ken, We've done our best to fully purge the cache from the system -- are you still seeing the issue today? Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Ken omori.ke...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed nested user tag issue at statuses/friends API. It seems to be same as following another API's report: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... Thanks Ken
[twitter-dev] nested user object bug in statuses/friends
I noticed nested user tag issue at statuses/friends API. It seems to be same as following another API's report: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/560a544d6703f2b9 Thanks Ken
[twitter-dev] Geolocation bug?
Hey sorry to report a bug here.. (I did finally find http://twitter.com/HELP via Google, but there's no confirmation that the report was received. Upon submission of the bug report I was redirected to http://twitter.com/help/start.) Anyway, it is sort of a developer thing, concerning geolocated tweets. Some tweets that include geodata are tagged via [appname] from [neighborhood] while others are tagged via [appname] from here. (There's been a lot of weirdness in the neighborhood names, at least here in Europe.) Problem is, on Firefox under both Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7, clicking on the neighborhood links doesn't work. No response, no little map- in-a-box. The from here ones work fine. Is it only me?
[twitter-dev] Re: Geolocation bug?
Here is the error from clicking on a neighborhood link, copied from Firebug: I.geometry is null http://a1.twimg.com/a/1272477713/javascripts/geov1.js?1272481439 Line 1
[twitter-dev] Re: API call to turn on location-based tweets?
there is also a mobile optimized page with just that checkbox on twitter.com that you could use too. could be useful.. what's the URL? thanks Ken
[twitter-dev] Re: API call to turn on location-based tweets?
just what we needed! thanks On Apr 29, 11:23 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: https://twitter.com/account/geo On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 14:17, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: there is also a mobile optimized page with just that checkbox on twitter.comthat you could use too. could be useful.. what's the URL? thanks Ken -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Geolocation revisited
On Mar 22, 06:20 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: So if a user enables geolocation on Twitter, but refuses geolocation in Firefox, their location will not show when tweeting through the web? Also, any such user of a moblie device would have to disable transmission of geodata? If so, any links to the instructions for doing that on various devices? We have a geolocation best practices document around that we hand off to developers - that details a recommended UX model that makes it clear how users should be presented with the choice to geolocate. I guess you mean this page: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Geotagging-API-Best-Practices So, in short, yes - your users would need to enable geo, but disable it in the browser. cool, Geo is our app name In our case, it is not the app that risks to disclose the user's current location, unless that is the location they have deliberately chosen to associate with their tweet. It is the act of enabling geolocation in Twitter that could get them into trouble depending on the device(s) or browser(s) they subsequently use to tweet. I guess what I wish for is an API-specific geo-enable switch. Nothing to do with tracking a user's current location, nothing that creeps anyone out, nothing that requires elaborate warnings or disclaimers. that's the main reason we're doing it! It's all about context and relevancy! I am just a bit surprised to find myself alone in promoting a use case whereby arbitrary geo-metadata is manually assigned to a tweet in order to enhance its searchability and interestingness. Sure we agree on the benefits. Still, most of the discussion has focused on automated geolocation. The best practices page is all about that. But I want to tweet about the great shawarma I recently ate in Amman and pinpoint it on a map, or say, we just issued a press release on our project in Mongolia, or a social issue in a place I can't even get a visa for, and I want to locate my tweet there! This is API-only for now, not the browser- or device-based tweeting that I've seen discussed. On Mar 21, 10:04 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: The other day, when map pins and cute little maps began to appear with our tweets, we thought that was very cool indeed and we began thinking again about promoting this app. (Oddly, the geodata only shows when we are logged in - maybe that will change..?) that's a bug that is being addressed. In order for a user to geo-tweet using our app, they needed to have Enable geotagging checked in their settings. This has since been changed to Add a location to your tweets. On a support page dated 12 November 2009 (which I suspect has been updated more recently), Twitter states, Twitter won't show any location information unless you've opted-in to the feature, and have allowed your device or browser to transmit your coordinates to us, but the part about the device or browser does not seem to apply to to the use of third-party apps like ours. On the same page Twitter says that Tweet With Your Location is only available in the United States which again does not appear to apply to users of third party browser apps. (We are not in the US) a user needs to have enable geotagging on in order for them to send geotagged tweets from their account. what i would possibly do is tell your users to turn on geotagging, but also just inform them what will happen on twitter.com. the status quo hasn't really changed, except we have added some new features to twitter.com. if your users aren't in the US, then, for now, they won't see any add location stuff to tweets. they will eventually, and i think its more important to just explain to them that, by default, twitter.com won't expose precise coordinates -- but instead neighborhood information. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi 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] Geolocation revisited
When geolocation was first introduced we launched an app that was a very simple mashup of Google maps and Twitter, enabling users to attach a location of their choosing - not necessarily their actual location - to a tweet. The much-discussed privacy concerns of geolocation were not relevant to this application, which we made first of all for our own use - to geotag new, location-specific content from our website. Anyway, it seemed at the time that only users tweeting from GPS-enabled phones had to worry about revealing their true location. The other day, when map pins and cute little maps began to appear with our tweets, we thought that was very cool indeed and we began thinking again about promoting this app. (Oddly, the geodata only shows when we are logged in - maybe that will change..?) In order for a user to geo-tweet using our app, they needed to have Enable geotagging checked in their settings. This has since been changed to Add a location to your tweets. On a support page dated 12 November 2009 (which I suspect has been updated more recently), Twitter states, Twitter won't show any location information unless you've opted-in to the feature, and have allowed your device or browser to transmit your coordinates to us, but the part about the device or browser does not seem to apply to to the use of third-party apps like ours. On the same page Twitter says that Tweet With Your Location is only available in the United States which again does not appear to apply to users of third party browser apps. (We are not in the US) We just need to know what we should tell our users. They need change their settings by checking the box by Tweet Location, but _not_ allow their browser to transmit their location, right? Then they can ignore the part about 'available in US only' and _not worry_ about accidently revealing their exact location? Can we promise them that? Thanks, Ken 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.
RE: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
Of course, if I disable the new follower notices then the spammers have won... I guess I could use the API to create a summary report of the day's new followers, hey... I like the notices. I don't read them all, but when I do their followers/following numbers often give them away. There's good stuff too. People you know, etc, and I just checked and here's another one of these: 0 followers 0 tweets following 1 person Anyway, I no longer look at follower lists - even my own - because of all the junk. Following lists are where the value is. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:51:54 -0800 Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation From: dpr...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Honestly, I don't understand why people break their heads over who follow them. It does not make an ounce of difference if an entire army of spam bots or follower churners follow your account. They can't DM you if you don't follow back. They can @reply you whether they follow you or not. In fact, if you are stuck at a magical following limit, then those followers can enable you to follow more accounts. The only small irritation is the new follower email notification that Twitter sends out. Just disable those notifications, and you will never even know that you are followed by spammers, scammers, and churners. On Jan 28, 6:56 am, DenisioDelBoro alya...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 ÑÎ×, 06:42, Ken Dobruskin k...@cimas.ch wrote: When I am followed by a bot, or even a human who has no actual interest in my tweets but is only trying for a follow back, I regard it as an unsolicited message. This happens way too much and as a victim, I don't care if it's been done massively. Spam is spam and fake following - on whatever scale - not only uses resources but complicates analysis of the social network. Twitter has allowed the follow mechanism to be repurposed as a simple attention grabbing measure, but they tell us that the rules will evolve. It is also within their power to keep the bot armies at bay. Who's talking about bots following real people here? _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
RE: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
+1, Ed. Nice post. The humans will win! Whether every RSS feed, weather station, search query, refrigerator, etc is allowed to be turned into a twitter bot is a policy decision for Twitter. I like to think that Twitter would prefer to be an original source of unique and meaningful content and not just a dump for low grade data. First of all, there is only one form of spam - it's *unsolicited* messages sent massively. When I am followed by a bot, or even a human who has no actual interest in my tweets but is only trying for a follow back, I regard it as an unsolicited message. This happens way too much and as a victim, I don't care if it's been done massively. Spam is spam and fake following - on whatever scale - not only uses resources but complicates analysis of the social network. Twitter has allowed the follow mechanism to be repurposed as a simple attention grabbing measure, but they tell us that the rules will evolve. It is also within their power to keep the bot armies at bay. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:37:43 -0800 Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation From: zzn...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:02 AM, DenisioDelBoro alya...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, there is only one form of spam - it's *unsolicited* messages sent massively. Second of all, tell me, please, in what way creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities is a spam? I'm not talking about mentioning there random nicknames or something like that to get new followers, of course. Just pure forecast, without any links. Third of all, why do you think those RSS feeds will be useless? Maybe it's more convenient for some users to get updates with Twitter than with Google Reader. I don't see how creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities fits in with the Twitter spirit, which is humans talking to other humans over the messaging system. For example, here in Portland, we have a hashtag, #pdxtst (PDX Twitter Storm Team) where we talk about the sometimes unusual weather in this normally boring rainy place. It's people talking about the weather. We had an unexpected snowstorm a few weeks back, and Mayor Sam Adams got on Twitter and gave traffic and Tri-Met updates. I doubt very seriously if the folks in the #pdxtst chat would have appreciated some bot spewing the National Weather Service warnings or the stuff coming from the TV weather crews. Those crews were, in fact, on Twitter conversing with people! Fortunately, this all happened before the texting while driving ban went into effect. Maybe what you propose is simply annoying and not spam, but don't be too terribly surprised if you build it and see people blocking you, rather than simply not following. I unfollow bots often and block when something gets annoying enough. But Twitter isn't intended to be an aggregator! On 27 янв, 18:30, Dale Folla MeDia mogul...@gmail.com wrote: the only possible reasons someone would have to create that many accounts would be to spam in one form or another. There should be other ways to skin that cat.. You could not keep up with that many accounts unless you sent out huge amounts of useless RSS feeeds just to gain followers so you can mass dm them... On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come to mind) that have recently been blacklisted. That aside, I for one am 100% opposed to giving anyone this sort of tool. Not that certain other people on this list haven't already done so for profit, sadly. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: Hi All, Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and the official Twitter view. I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They already have a quote from an outsourcing company that can do the work and are keen to go ahead. The accounts will, for the most part, be automated but I'm encouraging them to ensure each gets at least some human participation in them on a regular basis. I'm apprehensive about this and I'm trying to disuade them from going ahead. I'm not convinced that accounts that are primarily automated, especially when set up on this scale can add that much value to the ecosystem. Their feeling is quite the opposite and they believe the audience they are working to provide for will find this extremely valuable. In addition they are confident, and have some data to back it up, that
RE: [twitter-dev] @ Message read rate for non-followers
Zero percent, and report for spam. Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:13:33 -0800 Subject: [twitter-dev] @ Message read rate for non-followers From: abstar...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Hey Guys, Do you know what % of people read @ messages if you are not a follower + targeting them based on keywords or search api's? Thanks, Abir _ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_1:092010
RE: [twitter-dev] @ Message read rate for non-followers
Further to this, I think Abir has raised a subject that gets little attention on this list, user behaviour. It is relevant as we must take it into account as we design our apps. My initial response to the OP was of course facetious. If a message arrives in my timeline I will read it, which is why spam must be dealt with mercilessly by Twitter. As another poster pointed out recently, keyword based fake @replies are a violation of Twitter TOS. As with email spam, this should apply equally to automated and manually composed messages. But it would be interesting to know more about the behaviour of different types of Twitter users and for this one would first need to establish a typology of users. I suggest two broad categories, readers and writers, and maybe a third category that would include those engaged in massive mutual following. Users who follow thousands of accounts can't possibly be reading much of their streams, and may not be writing much either. As a writer I tend to regard members of this group (those that are human) as disoriented, and focus my attention on followers who are following reasonable numbers of accounts. As for the effectiveness of 'targeting' users by keywords, I've seen a clever implementation lately whereby I was followed by an fully automated (or possibly, 'curated') account that was just amassing followers based on keyword. Checking out their website one finds thousands of similar keyword-based accounts, a big system. Evidently the intention is that you should follow them and click on a link or whatever. It was almost credible, I'll hand them that, but could not withstand any real scrutiny. Still, plenty of high quality accounts had followed them back.. What can you all say about user behaviour that you have observed? From: and...@badera.us Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:59:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] @ Message read rate for non-followers To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Ken Dobruskin k...@cimas.ch wrote: Zero percent, and report for spam. Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:13:33 -0800 Subject: [twitter-dev] @ Message read rate for non-followers From: abstar...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Hey Guys, Do you know what % of people read @ messages if you are not a follower + targeting them based on keywords or search api's? Thanks, Abir ++ to reporting as spam. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. _ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_1:092010
RE: [twitter-dev] How to monitor our brand by Streaming API
Hi, I don't know anything about Wordpress or plugins, but is there any moderation workflow built into these widgets? I just had to cringe at the silly results produced by the indiscriminate use of a twitter search feed by one colleague from a highly respectable international organisation. It's not a matter of censoring negative remarks about your brand - evidently you are prepared for that. But what happens when someone says something really, really dumb, vulgar or racist involving your searchterm? Can you handle all the world's languages? It could be a fun opportunity for spammers or competitors! Even assuming that your brandname is universally unambiguous and could only ever refer to your business, you may be in for a case of 'irrelevant automated content syndrome'. Have fun! Ken Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:31:49 -0800 Subject: [twitter-dev] How to monitor our brand by Streaming API From: cantutulma...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Dear Developers, We would like to monitor what have been tweeted about our brand and we would like to publish this up to minute tweets on our wp based blog What should be the best WP-Plugin coded by Twitter Search Streaming API ? Thank you for your help, Best Regards, _ Keep your friends updated—even when you’re not signed in. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_5:092010
RE: [twitter-dev] How to monitor our brand by Streaming API
Peter, just to expand on your remark, it should be straightforward to integrate a twitter-api search thingy into the Wordpress workflow or that of other similar CMS, to provide some control over content published on a corporate website. By all means publish the social content, just weed out the irrelevant, silly or gnarly stuff. Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:33:51 -0800 Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] How to monitor our brand by Streaming API From: petermden...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Its pretty easy to build a widget, from fetching the results, parsing them, and presenting them, twitter makes it easy to do. With all that extra time, your developers should be able to find global stop lists of words that prevent displays of harassing/vulgar/racist language and continue to add rules as you go to create a content stream that works for your company. Don't get me wrong, Ken's points are very valid, however, I personally feel if you have a company people talk about, show other people this content. 1 page of perfectly written marketing isn't going to reach me as much as 10 tweets saying, I really really love this product. (imo) Regards Peter On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Ken Dobruskin k...@cimas.ch wrote: Hi, I don't know anything about Wordpress or plugins, but is there any moderation workflow built into these widgets? I just had to cringe at the silly results produced by the indiscriminate use of a twitter search feed by one colleague from a highly respectable international organisation. It's not a matter of censoring negative remarks about your brand - evidently you are prepared for that. But what happens when someone says something really, really dumb, vulgar or racist involving your searchterm? Can you handle all the world's languages? It could be a fun opportunity for spammers or competitors! Even assuming that your brandname is universally unambiguous and could only ever refer to your business, you may be in for a case of 'irrelevant automated content syndrome'. Have fun! Ken Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:31:49 -0800 Subject: [twitter-dev] How to monitor our brand by Streaming API From: cantutulma...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Dear Developers, We would like to monitor what have been tweeted about our brand and we would like to publish this up to minute tweets on our wp based blog What should be the best WP-Plugin coded by Twitter Search Streaming API ? Thank you for your help, Best Regards, Keep your friends updated— even when you’re not signed in. _ Keep your friends updated—even when you’re not signed in. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_5:092010
RE: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation
I can't wait to hear how they plan to interest real people to follow these accounts. More keyword- (or geo-) based @ replies? save us! Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 06:03:17 -0700 From: john.l.me...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation Sounds like a swit (spam twitterer) to me. Have you told them about twitter's blacklisting policy? On 1/7/2010 5:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell wrote: Hi All, Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and the official Twitter view. I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They already have a quote from an outsourcing company that can do the work and are keen to go ahead. The accounts will, for the most part, be automated but I'm encouraging them to ensure each gets at least some human participation in them on a regular basis. I'm apprehensive about this and I'm trying to disuade them from going ahead. I'm not convinced that accounts that are primarily automated, especially when set up on this scale can add that much value to the ecosystem. Their feeling is quite the opposite and they believe the audience they are working to provide for will find this extremely valuable. In addition they are confident, and have some data to back it up, that what they are creating will bring a huge number of new real users to Twitter. What are your thoughts on this? Jon. _ Windows Live: Make it easier for your friends to see what you’re up to on Facebook. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_2:092009
RE: [twitter-dev] Twitter Developer QA on Stack Overflow
It seems like creating a stackexchange would just split the support power. +1, totally. One issue I've noticed with Stackoverflow is it is harder for new developers to participate where as the barrier for entry on Google Groups is just having an email address. Some email groups can be very tough on newbies and this can change (ie, get worse) over time as there are no posted rules/policy. In my view, stack exchange is well conceived to avoid the trap of a harsh expert user playing the troll and shutting out new users. There is also a place for rules, and if desired a meta-QA for discussion of the discussion. I agree though that it should be up to Twitter to provide this environment. Ken Abraham On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 21:40, Ken Dobruskin k...@cimas.ch wrote: Jonathan, Good points and initiative. I do not believe Twitter have the resources to recreate the success of Stack Overflow for QA purposes. Have you considered setting up a Twitter Dev QA beta site on stackexchange.com? I have, and someone probably could, but I thought I'd wait and see what the official Twitter development platform had to offer before doing that! Ken Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. -- Abraham Williams | Awesome Lists | http://awesomeli.st Project | Intersect | http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States _ Windows Live: Make it easier for your friends to see what you’re up to on Facebook. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_2:092009
RE: [twitter-dev] The remote name could not be resolved: 'twitter.com' problem
You might want to try the Twitterizer API Google group here: http://groups.google.com/group/twitterizer hth, Ken Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:53:05 -0800 Subject: [twitter-dev] The remote name could not be resolved: 'twitter.com' problem From: mr.ki...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Hi there I started to use twitterizer API for my blog. I post my tweet from my cms system. I get this error The remote name could not be resolved: 'twitter.com' In the .cs file my code goes here Twitter t = new Twitter(emrekiyak, *); t.Status.Update(textbox1.Text); and web.config configuration is that : trust level=Medium originUrl=https?://(www\.)?twitter.com/.+/ How can i solve this problem. Thank you all _ Windows Live Hotmail: Your friends can get your Facebook updates, right from Hotmail®. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_4:092009
[twitter-dev] URLification
When adding a URL surrounded by parentheses or followed by a period, these marks are included in the resulting link. Is a trailing whitespace the only workaround? It's ugly and wastes a character. _ Windows Live Hotmail: Your friends can get your Facebook updates, right from Hotmail®. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_4:092009
