[twitter-dev] Character Encoding Error C# .NET
Hi, A few months ago, Twitter stopped accepting messages from our application that contained special language characters. We assume that the API is now very strict on character encoding. We have analyzed our code and we are following the best practices of character encoding into utf8. Just before we send the message to the API, we encode it into utf8, then place the text into the url and send it. We receive back 403 errors for any messages that contain special characters (like umlauts). We've tried everything that we can think of. Can you please send us an example of how to properly encode the message? We are using c#. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank You, Ryan Bell -- 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: Annotations Hackfest
Hey Matt, Any chance there will be a video cast of the event. Would love to attend, but in St. Louis :) Thanks, Ryan Gremln.com On May 26, 2:36 pm, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey everyone, This week the Twitter Engineering team announced they are running an annotation Hackfest. The event will be this weekend (29-30 May) at Twitter HQ (795 Folsom St. San Francisco) and is free to attend. Places are limited so if you want to attend sign up today! If you are in the Bay Area this is a great opportunity to hack with Annotations and meet other Twitter developers. I'll be around for the event so if you want to share ideas and experiences with using the APIs, or just want to have a chat, come and say hi. More details and the signup form are on the Engineering team blog:http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/05/annotations-hackfest.html Best, Matt
[twitter-dev] Re: Follower count over time
Peter, I appreciate the suggestion, but am looking to provide the functionality naively in our client as we may end up competing with their service. What I need is what gives them the ability to provide that data (if they do). We are all using the same Twitter API, but I can't figure out a way to do it. Thanks! Ryan On May 21, 3:18 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: Ryan, you might want to check out twittercounter and their api. They have some cool data around follower growth. On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Ryan Bell ryan.j.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, How do I get # of followers over time? I've seen several sites that list a graph that shows your follower count over time. ex) 4/1/10 you had 200 followes...5/1/2010 you had 247 followersand so on. I would love to add this feature to my Twitter site, but can't find the data that I would need in order to do it. Does the API provide information on any of the following? 1. # of followers at a particular time? 2. Time in which a follower began following you? If the API doesn't provide this info, then how are other sites doing this? I doubt its from checking daily as the moment you sign up with a site that has this feature, they have your follower graph over time for at least 12 months of history. Thanks in advance!!! Ryan
[twitter-dev] Follower count over time
Hi, How do I get # of followers over time? I've seen several sites that list a graph that shows your follower count over time. ex) 4/1/10 you had 200 followes...5/1/2010 you had 247 followersand so on. I would love to add this feature to my Twitter site, but can't find the data that I would need in order to do it. Does the API provide information on any of the following? 1. # of followers at a particular time? 2. Time in which a follower began following you? If the API doesn't provide this info, then how are other sites doing this? I doubt its from checking daily as the moment you sign up with a site that has this feature, they have your follower graph over time for at least 12 months of history. Thanks in advance!!! Ryan
[twitter-dev] Is it possible to recreate Twitter's followers screen?
I would like to completely recreate Twitter's followers screen. After some research, we aren't sure its possible without being inefficient with the API. We're unable to determine if a user is a following the logged in user in a bulk fashion.This information is needed in order to determine which options to include next to each follower. ex) should you show 'follow' or 'unfollow' button? Twitter returns your followers information, but does not include information as to whether you are also following that user. It seems that the only way to get this additional information is on a 1-by-1 basis by checking to see if each of your followers is being followed by you. QUESTION: Is there a better way to determine in bulk if users are being followed by you? It seems that this functionality must exist in order for an application to mimic Twitter's Followers page. Thanks in advance for any assistance, Ryan
[twitter-dev] Twitter's Followers Screen (Recreating it)
I would like to completely recreate Twitter's followers screen. After some research, we aren't sure its possible without being inefficient with the API. Are you also following your follower? This information is needed in order to determine which options to include next to each follower. ex) should you show 'follow' or 'unfollow' button? Twitter returns your followers information, but does not include information as to whether you are also following that user. It seems that the only way to get this additional information is on a 1-by-1 basis by checking to see if each of your followers is being followed by you. QUESTION: Is there a better way to determine in bulk if users are being followed by you? It seems that this functionality must exist in order for an application to mimic Twitter's Followers page. Thanks in advance for any assistance, Ryan
[twitter-dev] Searching by status id (Does it exist?)
We have a list of Twitter Status Id's and need to get the message content for all of the messages in a single xml stream. (non sequential and can be any # range) ex) 4540244431,3977530424,4544923774,4540244431,3977530424,4544923774 Options: 1. Use the Search API (or standard API) to get the messages in our list. It seems like we have looked everywhere to find an API method to let us do this. We cannot find one. Does it exist? If not, does anyone have a suggestion as to how to get around this problem? 2. Get Each Message Individually It would be very inefficient to have to call the /status/show/id.xml method for each message as their could be a hundred or more. Thank you in advance! Any help is much appreciated Ryan
[twitter-dev] Creating Groups
Twitter Groups: I am adding the ability to create custom 'groups' of twitter users to my site. My current approach seems very processor/ twitter api intensive. Can anyone make a recommendation or refer me to a link where I can find information on how I might more efficiently code this feature? Any help is appreciated. Current Approach: 1. User can put n users in a group 2. User clicks their group to view the timeline 3. Iterate through all 'n' users in the group and get the respective user's timelines 4. Merge the timelines into a collection. 5. Sort the timelines by date 6. Bind this collection to the display grid. 7. This timeline is immediately out of date of course so a click of the 'refresh' button triggers the need to do the entire process again. An example might have 80 users in the group called colleagues. I would then call Twitter 80 times to get the 80 disparate timelines. Next I would merge and sort the collection. This would have to be repeated upon each refresh or selection of a different group. Thanks in advance! Ryan
