[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth still working for everyone.?
I am using this library on all my sites: https://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async, all of which are now broken and fail to let anyone log in. Any way this can be rolled back until all the various oAuth libraries people are using are brought up to date? Lee On Dec 2, 5:35 pm, Dave-twiends i...@davesumter.com wrote: Thanks Taylor, yip unfortunately I wrote my oauth code about 18 months ago, before most of the libraries were out, so there could be anything wrong. It's probably not 100% spec compliant, which is probably why it broke. I've tracked down the issue to the access_token exchange part of the process. The access token's that I have from before are still working, just can't get new ones. I've noticed I'm not passing oauth_verifier back in the request, which could be causing the issue.. Will let you guys know how I get on... Thanks for the pointers Dave On Dec 2, 9:57 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: We've corrected a number of long-standing OAuth-related bug fixes -- mainly in areas where we more liberal than we should have been when verifying signatures. Here are a few things to verify: * Verify that you are using your consumer key where the consumer key is supposed to go. Compare this to what you see for you app on dev.twitter.com * Likewise, verify that you are using your consumer secret where it is supposed to go. Compare this to what you see for you app on dev.twitter.com * Laugh at the obviousness and absurdity of a check like that. Cry a little because we already know some people were doing the wrong thing here, especially on end points that didn't require authentication. * Verify that your timestamps are in range * If you're sending a request to a resource that doesn't require authentication but you're including OAuth credentials: - we used to just give you a free pass even if the credentials were incorrect. Hey, it doesn't require auth, so why bother checking? - now we check this. if you pass us an OAuth header or anything that looks like an OAuth-based request, we will check it for validity, even if it's a resource that doesn't require auth. We haven't changed anything about our actual core signature validation code -- what was a valid signature before should be a valid one now. We're just checking the validity in more use cases than we were previously, and checking other validity points we were flexible with previously. Taylor On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Twitlonger stu...@abovetheinternet.orgwrote: I'm seeing a lot of invalid/expired token errors. On Dec 2, 9:21 pm, Dave-twiends i...@davesumter.com wrote: I noticed I've just started getting 401's for all my oAuth requests. Seems to be happening on more than one site for me.. My application keys and status still look good.. Just wondering if anyone else is having an issue..? -- 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: oAuth still working for everyone.?
The open source library I was using omitted oauth_verifier, which apparently was not required for oauth to work previously. Thanks to Dave Taylor for pointing this out. Lee On Dec 2, 6:09 pm, Dave-twiends i...@davesumter.com wrote: Thanks, I'm up again, looks like it was just oauth_verifier that I was missing... Phew.. I'll take some time this week to read the spec in detail and make sure I'm not missing anything else.. Thanks Dave On Dec 2, 10:59 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Folks, We're going to rollback a subset of these changes for now. Before we give this another try, we'll let everyone know the specific pain points and give some time to adjust to them. In the meantime, those who experienced trouble today will want to verify that their libraries are doing the right thing in regard to the bullet points I posted above. Also useful is making sure that you don't send additional headers related to basic auth in an OAuth request, that you're using the proper, versioned api-subdomain end points, etc. Dave: It's pretty crucial that you send an oauth_verifier on the access token step. It's not valid OAuth 1.0a without it. Sorry about the mess folks. We should never have let these bugs persist for so long. Taylor On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Waiting doesn't help solve the issue. The spec hasn't changed, the API is just a bit more watching for the mistakes which some developers tend to make. I'd recommend diving into the code and fixing the errors, instead of asking the Twitter API team to accept your broken OAuth implementations. :-) Tom On 12/2/10 11:42 PM, LeeS - @semel wrote: I am using this library on all my sites: https://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async, all of which are now broken and fail to let anyone log in. Any way this can be rolled back until all the various oAuth libraries people are using are brought up to date? Lee On Dec 2, 5:35 pm, Dave-twiendsi...@davesumter.com wrote: Thanks Taylor, yip unfortunately I wrote my oauth code about 18 months ago, before most of the libraries were out, so there could be anything wrong. It's probably not 100% spec compliant, which is probably why it broke. I've tracked down the issue to the access_token exchange part of the process. The access token's that I have from before are still working, just can't get new ones. I've noticed I'm not passing oauth_verifier back in the request, which could be causing the issue.. Will let you guys know how I get on... Thanks for the pointers Dave On Dec 2, 9:57 pm, Taylor Singletarytaylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: We've corrected a number of long-standing OAuth-related bug fixes -- mainly in areas where we more liberal than we should have been when verifying signatures. Here are a few things to verify: * Verify that you are using your consumer key where the consumer key is supposed to go. Compare this to what you see for you app on dev.twitter.com * Likewise, verify that you are using your consumer secret where it is supposed to go. Compare this to what you see for you app on dev.twitter.com * Laugh at the obviousness and absurdity of a check like that. Cry a little because we already know some people were doing the wrong thing here, especially on end points that didn't require authentication. * Verify that your timestamps are in range * If you're sending a request to a resource that doesn't require authentication but you're including OAuth credentials: - we used to just give you a free pass even if the credentials were incorrect. Hey, it doesn't require auth, so why bother checking? - now we check this. if you pass us an OAuth header or anything that looks like an OAuth-based request, we will check it for validity, even if it's a resource that doesn't require auth. We haven't changed anything about our actual core signature validation code -- what was a valid signature before should be a valid one now. We're just checking the validity in more use cases than we were previously, and checking other validity points we were flexible with previously. Taylor On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Twitlongerstu...@abovetheinternet.org wrote: I'm seeing a lot of invalid/expired token errors. On Dec 2, 9:21 pm, Dave-twiendsi...@davesumter.com wrote: I noticed I've just started getting 401's for all my oAuth requests. Seems to be happening on more than one site for me.. My application keys and status still look good.. Just wondering if anyone else is having an issue..? -- 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
[twitter-dev] @anywhere fails if ShareThis on the page?
I get this Javascript error when trying to use @anywhere on the same page as a ShareThis widget. Error: Permission denied for [name of my site[ to get property Window.document from http://wd.sharethis.com. Source File: http://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js?id=[my api key]v=1 Line: 1
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Natural Language Processing Projects
If you're new to NLP, I recommend getting a book like Natural Language Processing with Python, using the Python Twitter API, and writing a Bayesian spam classifier. If you're less new, I've been working in sentiment classification for a while now and it's a lot of fun. Also things like automatically grouping tweeters by topic, or scanning someone's tweets to see if you should follow them, can be cool projects. j On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Bryan k0...@dbbear.com wrote: Google: Latent Semantic Analysis, Latent Relational Analysis, and Vector Space Model Check out the book: Algorithms of the Intelligent Web from Manning: http://www.manning.com/marmanis/ I've blogged a bit about some of the things I applied to Twitter at: http://skimmeragent.blogspot.com/ Good luck. Bryan
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Hello folks. I'm Jen. Just moved to SF from Scotland where I ran a data intelligence startup which dug into Twitter sentiment analysis (see festbuzz.com for an example). I'm consulting, writing, speaking and doing a day job at a Silicon Valley tech co. for now, but I have a list as long as my arm of Twitter NLP stuff to play with. I'm going to chime in on the consensus for get replies to a specific tweet. Would certainly help with the anaphora resolution stuff I'm working on. j On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:54 AM, alexro arodyg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm Alex. London-based. Currently working on a conversation tracking application. My tools are .Net specific, thanks Mayo for LinqToTwitter library! Thanks to all of you for providing great advice! On Feb 21, 11:03 pm, Anton Krasovsky anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, @ak1394 Anton Krasovsky, Dublin, Ireland. Author of PavoMe (twitter client for java mobiles). I've been working with twitter for about half a year, and my efforts are split between working on client application and backend server (which handles all communication between handset and Twitter servers, and is written in Erlang). So far the only twitter opensource released by me was an Erlang client library. I don't think anyone except me actually uses it. I'm looking forward to see xAuth avaiable - few users in China will appreciate not having to struggle with GFW to get their oauth tokens. http://github.com/ak1394/twerl http://pavo.me Regards, Anton On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well. I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp. TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into Twitter profiles. The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to get replies to a specific status. So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added? @Abraham [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... [2] https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e [3] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo... [4] http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate |http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud |http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Cannot create list with a specific slug, even if that slug doesn't exist in the account
In my account, there's no list named 'design': http://twitter.com/shortyawards/design results in a 404 page When I try to create one with that name, I get numbers appended to it: curl -u .. -dname=design http://api.twitter.comtyawards/lists.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? list id5397152/id namedesign/name full_name@shortyawards/design-21/full_name slugdesign-21/slug description/description subscriber_count0/subscriber_count Each time we call the API, a new list with the same slug 'design-21' is created. This happens for four specific lists in our account, but all the others are unaffected. Any ideas how to solve this problem? Lee
[twitter-dev] Undeletable list?
I seem to have created an undeletable list in one of my accounts (list id 4667928) I can't delete it via the API, and deleting the list via twitter.com also fails. Lee
[twitter-dev] Reminder: Twitter developer event tonight in SF
Link: http://realtimebooze.eventbrite.com/ The founders of Cotweet, Klout, Involver, Posterous, Twittorati, and Listimonkey will be there in addition to a few members of the Twitter API team. If you're building a business around the real time web or just tinkering with a few product ideas, please come. iPhones will be available for demoing your products. ps: This is the San Francisco event, there's one in NYC too on 12/10 http://realtimeboozenyc.eventbrite.com/
[twitter-dev] Re: Tons of 502s
Everything is down for me too. Twitter.com itself shows a fail whale. Lee
[twitter-dev] Re: Tons of 502s
I'm glad the fail whale is still around. I hadn't seen it in a while and was starting to miss it. Lee
[twitter-dev] Re: How to get the most followed users?
You've got to basically build your own database of users. That's what I did to create this page: http://listorious.com/top/followers Lee On Dec 6, 10:15 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If you want the top 1000 by followers you could parsehttp://twitterholic.com/. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 16:10, developar develo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I was just trying to know how I can ge a list of the top twitter users who have most number of followers? there is no API to do that? Regards -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project | Awesome Lists |http://twitterli.st This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
[twitter-dev] Real Time Twitter Booze -- SF 12/7, NY 12/10
Hi all, We're the cofounders of Sawhorse Media, which created Listorious, Shorty Awards, Muck Rack, Venture Maven. We're anxious to meet more folks doing Twitter development so we're getting a few together for drinks. If you're building a business around the real time web or just tinkering with a few product ideas, please come. SF - 12/7 http://realtimebooze.eventbrite.com/ NY - 12/10 http://realtimeboozenyc.eventbrite.com/ iPhones will be available for demoing your products. See you there! @semel @gregory
[twitter-dev] Lists API call not working?
I'm trying to use this call from the documentation, which previously worked - now it doesn't: http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapidocs/lists.xml I get redirected to http://api.twitter.com/lists/not_yet This seems to affect other API calls I've tried as well. Lee
[twitter-dev] Re: Lists API call not working?
Makes sense. I hadn't found out about lists being turned off. Lee On Nov 30, 5:20 pm, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: Yep it affects the APIhttp://status.twitter.com/post/263867698/responding-to-high-error-rat... On Nov 30, 9:54 pm, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: They've turned off lists on twitter.com at the moment. I'd expect this would cause the API to stop working too.. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:36 AM, LeeS - @semel lse...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to use this call from the documentation, which previously worked - now it doesn't: http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapidocs/lists.xml I get redirected tohttp://api.twitter.com/lists/not_yet This seems to affect other API calls I've tried as well. Lee
[twitter-dev] Authorizing users for my app's API
Here's the situation: My app lets users OAuth via Twitter as their login. Simple and standard. Now, I've created an API for my app. I want other apps, say Twitter clients, to be able to use my app, as if they are one of my app's users. What's the best way to let the user authorize that app to use my app? Do I have to implement OAuth myself, and then have the user OAuth twice, once into my app and once into Twitter via my app to let my app access Twitter? That's a lot of screens for the user to go through. I'm curious how you'd handle this, and if there's a simpler solution. Lee
[twitter-dev] Turning a list's status timeline into an JS/Ajax widget
Does calling the status timeline ( '/:users/lists/:list_slug/ statuses.:format') for a list count against rate limit? What I'm thinking of is doing an Ajax widget that auto updates with new tweets from a list every few seconds, such as the Search widget Twitter provides: http://twitter.com/goodies/widget_search If the status API request is rate limited this would obviously not work as you'd run out of requests within a few moments. Is there any other better way to turn a list's statuses into a widget? Lee
[twitter-dev] Re: Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)
Does calling the status timeline for a list count against rate limit? What I'm thinking of is doing an Ajax widget that auto updates with new tweets from a list every few seconds, similar to how many people use the Search API to do this by hashtag. If the status API request is rate limited this would obviously not work.
[twitter-dev] Authenticating for my own site's API, when my site uses Twitter OAuth for logins
Let's say I have a site that uses Twitter OAuth to allow users to log in. Now, I want to add my own API on my site, which itself needs authentication. What's the best way to handle authentication for my API? I can't see how I can use Twitter OAuth because it'll direct the user to Twitter's user interface for the login, so it wouldn't be usable by a script trying to access my own site's API. Any suggestions on the best way to handle a situation like this? Am I missing something obvious here?
[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation
So far, I've observed the limits to be 20 lists per user, 500 users per list. Lee On Oct 17, 5:57 pm, Rod Begbie rodbeg...@gmail.com wrote: Some questions on lists that came from a quick hack I made this morning (http://github.com/rodbegbie/emulate-with_friends): 1) Are there any restrictions on list sizes? 2) Are there any limits to the number of lists one user can have? 3) Does each add user to list call count towards the API Limit? If so, are there any plans to add an Add in bulk method where multiple IDs can be passed with one call? Cheers, Rod. -- :: Rod Begbie ::http://groovymother.com/::
[twitter-dev] List API: Rules for converting list name - list slug
Anyone have the rules for converting the user-entered name of the list into the list slug? This would save our app an API call when creating new lists. Lee
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting sample of recent statues (not real time) for large list of specific users
Wouldn't we get a lot of irrelevant users that way? Is it possible to stream both on user id's an keywords, or is it one or the other? Regarding the count, would it be possible to access the API every 5 minutes, say, using a negative count parameter? Or better just to use the streaming feature as it's intended? The former seems easier to develop since we can just point a cron script at it and not worry about having a long-lived process that keeps the connection open. Lee On Sep 9, 2:23 am, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: At first glance, it seems that you should track on the keywords you care about with the Streaming API, and then sort by user on your client end. The count parameter allows clients to mask data loss at reconnection- time. It won't be sufficient for your purposes as the look back is only a few tens of minutes at most. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 8, 10:17 pm, LeeS lse...@gmail.com wrote: For a new project we'll need to retrieve the text of recent statuses for a large group of specific users (several thousand to start), matching a smaller list of keyword strings. Both the users and keywords will grow over time but the keyword set will probably remain at least an order of magnitude smaller than the set of users and grow more slowly Real time is not important and the statuses can be a few hours old. Is using the 'shadow' method of the Streaming API with a negative 'count' parameter the best way to do this with a minimum load on the API? If so, what's the best way to obtain the access needed? It looks like the initial base of users is going to outstrip the 'filter' method's limitation, and 'filter' doesn't allow for the use of 'count' in the default role. Thanks --Lee Semel Recent Twitter projects: http://muckrack.com -http://venturemaven.com -http://twittorati.com-http://shortyawards.com-http://shortyawards.com...
[twitter-dev] Getting sample of recent statues (not real time) for large list of specific users
For a new project we'll need to retrieve the text of recent statuses for a large group of specific users (several thousand to start), matching a smaller list of keyword strings. Both the users and keywords will grow over time but the keyword set will probably remain at least an order of magnitude smaller than the set of users and grow more slowly Real time is not important and the statuses can be a few hours old. Is using the 'shadow' method of the Streaming API with a negative 'count' parameter the best way to do this with a minimum load on the API? If so, what's the best way to obtain the access needed? It looks like the initial base of users is going to outstrip the 'filter' method's limitation, and 'filter' doesn't allow for the use of 'count' in the default role. Thanks --Lee Semel Recent Twitter projects: http://muckrack.com - http://venturemaven.com - http://twittorati.com - http://shortyawards.com - http://shortyawards.com/twitter_pro/
[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 409 on status update via API
Getting the same thing using the track function of the API. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:43 PM, briantroy brian.cosin...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry... these are HTTP 408s... On Aug 6, 1:20 pm, briantroy brian.cosin...@gmail.com wrote: This just started today. It was working fine before and early this morning. I'm send in user updates from a widget via API. My server is whitelisted and I've got a registered service. I get a HTTP 409 on every attempt to submit a status. Not sure why... You can try it here:http://briantroy.com/blog/about I know a 409 should mean timed out... but the response comes back in one second (or just really really fast). Any help appreciated... Brian Roy justSignal -- Jennie Lees Founder, Affect Labs jen...@affectlabs.com http://twitter.com/jennielees
[twitter-dev] Re: A question regarding categorization of tweets
TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com) is the obvious answer, you can group your contacts into different panels and thus not have the noisy drown out the intelligent. Pretty sure other clients do it too, to different extents - a bit of googling and trying them out won't hurt if TD's not to your liking. ;) --j On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:10 AM, haffi e haff...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if there was an app that let's you categorize the people you're following. For example, there are some people I'm following that update their status almost every minute and it's hard to see what your friends are doing unless I stop following these super tweeters. It would be nice if I could put them all in a special category called bored or something and my friends in another category to clean things up. Do you know of any apps that do this? I haven't been searching around much but I'm on a Mac if that helps.
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:02 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.comwrote: Man, it is so good to hear this from someone who's actually done it! The other point, though, is that the real thing, even traffic / social network analysis, is compute-resource intensive and requires a kind of programming knowledge that few have. So if something simple, like emoticon counting, provides *some* clues about sentiment, it may be worth doing. I'm not convinced, though, that it is worth doing. I've been working on commercialising sentiment analysis research, specifically tuned to microblogs and social media, and my investigations - both academic and talking to potential customers - lead me to believe it really is worth doing. Sentiment stuff specifically can be done far more cheaply compute-wise than full-scale semantic understanding of language. The key thing though, to any app developer or startup founder, is *not* to rely on Twitter. We've been asked this several times by investors now: what happens if Twitter fails? Develop stuff that's platform and network agnostic and revel in the fact that there's definitely a ton of interest in the space right now - despite some players being around for 10 years ;) --J
[twitter-dev] Re: Feature Request: Publicly Mark Tweets That You Like (i.e. digg a tweet)
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote: You're basically asking something along the lines of a favourites-driven site. There isn't a lot out there on it, but among other things look at favrd and similar services. There's also FriendFeed which lets you upvote your friends' lifestreams, including tweets. One of the things I'm working on at the moment is automatically parsing tweets to replicate this behaviour (e.g. a RT is an upvote, and the duplicate messages get removed). Will keep you posted, Mike. However, I'm not doing the whole 'people vote other tweets up/down manually' thing; it's such a jump to get that level of user interaction frequently enough to be meaningful. -J -- Jennie Lees Founder, Affect Labs jen...@affectlabs.com http://twitter.com/jennielees
Re: Status updates ignored, even though statuses not identical?
Thanks Alex. Let me know if there's anything I can do on my end.
Lee
On Dec 11, 3:36 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
You're not the first to report this issue, I'm afraid. This crops up
from time to time due to some low-level, complicated caching logic in
our system. We're constantly ironing out this code, but I'll
double-check the update method and see if there's any glaring issues
there.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:05, Lee Semel lse...@gmail.com wrote:
Just to clarify, here is an example of the request we are sending and
the json that's returned:
REQUEST
http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json?status=%40sixuntilme%2C+you+w...
STATUS CODE
200
RETURNED
data={in_reply_to_user_id:11676742,truncated:false,text:@HughBriss,
you were nominated by @AgingBackwards (and 5 others) for a #design
Shorty Award http:\/\/bit.ly\/SMcZ,user:{description:The best
short content creators on twitter in
2008,url:http:\/\/shortyawards.com,name:Shorty
Awards,protected:false,profile_image_url:http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/twitter_production\/profile_images\/66792558\/logo_normal.png,screen_name:shortyawards,followers_count:750,location:,id:17663756},in_reply_to_screen_name:HughBriss,favorited:false,created_at:Thu
Dec 11 16:20:11 +
2008,in_reply_to_status_id:1051493141,id:1051503605,source:web}
In the JSON, the 'text' field is a status from 2 hours ago. It
completely ignored the update.
--
Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Status updates ignored, even though statuses not identical?
You should know it also ignores updates through the Twitter site
itself. As of now, our bot's updates haven't been accepted for the
last hour, so I logged into Twitter.com and tried to make an update
manually, but that also doesn't work.
Lee
On Dec 12, 10:24 am, LeeS lse...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Alex. Let me know if there's anything I can do on my end.
Lee
On Dec 11, 3:36 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
You're not the first to report this issue, I'm afraid. This crops up
from time to time due to some low-level, complicated caching logic in
our system. We're constantly ironing out this code, but I'll
double-check the update method and see if there's any glaring issues
there.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:05, Lee Semel lse...@gmail.com wrote:
Just to clarify, here is an example of the request we are sending and
the json that's returned:
REQUEST
http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json?status=%40sixuntilme%2C+you+w...
STATUS CODE
200
RETURNED
data={in_reply_to_user_id:11676742,truncated:false,text:@HughBriss,
you were nominated by @AgingBackwards (and 5 others) for a #design
Shorty Award http:\/\/bit.ly\/SMcZ,user:{description:The best
short content creators on twitter in
2008,url:http:\/\/shortyawards.com,name:Shorty
Awards,protected:false,profile_image_url:http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/twitter_production\/profile_images\/66792558\/logo_normal.png,screen_name:shortyawards,followers_count:750,location:,id:17663756},in_reply_to_screen_name:HughBriss,favorited:false,created_at:Thu
Dec 11 16:20:11 +
2008,in_reply_to_status_id:1051493141,id:1051503605,source:web}
In the JSON, the 'text' field is a status from 2 hours ago. It
completely ignored the update.
--
Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Status updates ignored, even though statuses not identical?
I have a twitter bot running at http://twitter.com/shortyawards for the site http://shortyawards.com. I'm noticing in our logs that many of our status updates using the json API are being ignored. The 'text' field of the json response comes back with the previous status, ignoring the new status message, but no error code or message is being returned. This problem seems to come and go at different times of the day. Has anyone ever experienced this? Is this due to the rate of status updates, or is there a bug in the API? Our account has already been whitelisted so this is not due to the API rate limit.
