[twitter-dev] retween_count field type
Hello, As far as I can tell in the documentation and the API announcement, the retweet_count field is supposed to be an integer. However for popular tweets the value is 100+ which is a string. I'm working around this now by parsing an integer out of the field so 100+ becomes 100. So, I think the documentation should be updated to mark the retweet_count field as a string, or the API should be updated to only return an integer. I'd prefer the latter, understanding that it would only be an approximation. -- 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: My Tweets, Retweeted
Wow, just what I was looking for! :) Do any of you know, if it's possible to fetch retweets of a user without authorizing as him? Or are they so 'secret' that only the retweeted user should see them? :) - 2biazdk On 15 Okt., 05:31, polomasta poloma...@gmail.com wrote: ah thanks! that should do the trick :-) On Oct 14, 5:03 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Take a look athttp://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/:id/retweeted_by Taylor On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:21 PM, polomasta poloma...@gmail.com wrote: In my application I would like to show My Tweets, Retweeted with the rest of the Mentions for a user. (similar to the way they show up in your mentions column in tweetdeck) So far I haven't been able to figure out how to do this.. these tweets don't show up via user/mentions. I'm able to retrieve user/retweets_of_me but in the JSON response there is no way to tell who in fact did the retweeting. Can anyone give me a suggestion as to how to solve/implement this? (It's a rails app and I'm using the twitter gem) Here is an example of the response I get when calling user/ retweets_of_me ... I know for a fact his particular tweet has been retweeted twice by others = #Hashie::Mash contributors=nil coordinates=nil created_at=Thu Oct 14 18:35:07 + 2010 favorited=false geo=nil id=27366026129 in_reply_to_screen_name=nil in_reply_to_status_id=nil in_reply_to_user_id=nil place=nil retweet_count=0 retweeted=false source=a href=\http://twitter.com/tweetbutton\; rel=\nofollow \Tweet Button/a text=Startup Profile: Mobestream Media | launchDFWhttp://t.co/3bewuhq...@launchdfw; truncated=false user=#Hashie::Mash contributors_enabled=false created_at=Sat Mar 15 01:26:52 + 2008 description=ExpatEntrepreneur.tv, Designer Developer -- TweetSaver.com, IncaRentals.com, clkpic.com, launchDFW.com, FreshieApp.com, TweetAbout.com, Hire-Engineers.com favourites_count=39 follow_request_sent=nil followers_count=1813 following=nil friends_count=1314 geo_enabled=true id=14150637 lang=en listed_count=130 location=Lima, Perú name=Bradley Joyce notifications=nil profile_background_color=cc profile_background_image_url=http://a1.twimg.com/ profile_background_images/98444516/blj_twitter.png profile_background_tile=true profile_image_url=http://a3.twimg.com/ profile_images/421303551/bradley_normal.png profile_link_color=a15f3b profile_sidebar_border_color=FF profile_sidebar_fill_color=cc profile_text_color=507e94 profile_use_background_image=true protected=false screen_name=bradleyjoyce show_all_inline_media=false statuses_count=3248 time_zone=Central Time (US Canada) url=http:// bradleyjoyce.me utc_offset=-21600 verified=false -- 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: My Tweets, Retweeted
Hi Taylor.
Thanks for the reply!
However I'm looking for at retweets_of_user, instead of a
retweeted_by_user - if that makes sense.
I would like to fetch the retweeted tweets of a given user, not what
he has retweeted from others. :)
- 2biazdk
On 15 Okt., 16:23, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com
wrote:
I think this is what you're looking for -- it's not documented on the portal
yet and came as part of the #newtwitter upgrades:
GET /1/statuses/retweeted_by_user.{format}
Does not require authentication, unless the user is protected.
Returns the 20 most recent retweets posted by the specified user. The
user is specified using the user_id or screen_name parameters. This
method is identical to statuses/retweeted_by_me except you can choose
the user to view.
Example: twurl /1/statuses/retweeted_by_user.json?screen_name=twitterapi
Taylor
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Toby 2bia...@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, just what I was looking for! :)
Do any of you know, if it's possible to fetch retweets of a user
without authorizing as him? Or are they so 'secret' that only the
retweeted user should see them? :)
- 2biazdk
On 15 Okt., 05:31, polomasta poloma...@gmail.com wrote:
ah thanks! that should do the trick :-)
On Oct 14, 5:03 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com
wrote:
Take a look athttp://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/:id/retweeted_by
Taylor
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:21 PM, polomasta poloma...@gmail.com
wrote:
In my application I would like to show My Tweets, Retweeted with
the
rest of the Mentions for a user. (similar to the way they show up in
your mentions column in tweetdeck)
So far I haven't been able to figure out how to do this.. these
tweets
don't show up via user/mentions.
I'm able to retrieve user/retweets_of_me but in the JSON response
there is no way to tell who in fact did the retweeting.
Can anyone give me a suggestion as to how to solve/implement this?
(It's a rails app and I'm using the twitter gem)
Here is an example of the response I get when calling user/
retweets_of_me ... I know for a fact his particular tweet has been
retweeted twice by others
= #Hashie::Mash contributors=nil coordinates=nil created_at=Thu
Oct
14 18:35:07 + 2010 favorited=false geo=nil id=27366026129
in_reply_to_screen_name=nil in_reply_to_status_id=nil
in_reply_to_user_id=nil place=nil retweet_count=0 retweeted=false
source=a href=\http://twitter.com/tweetbutton\; rel=\nofollow
\Tweet Button/a text=Startup Profile: Mobestream Media |
launchDFWhttp://t.co/3bewuhq...@launchdfw; truncated=false
user=#Hashie::Mash contributors_enabled=false created_at=Sat Mar
15
01:26:52 + 2008 description=ExpatEntrepreneur.tv, Designer
Developer -- TweetSaver.com, IncaRentals.com, clkpic.com,
launchDFW.com, FreshieApp.com, TweetAbout.com, Hire-Engineers.com
favourites_count=39 follow_request_sent=nil followers_count=1813
following=nil friends_count=1314 geo_enabled=true id=14150637
lang=en listed_count=130 location=Lima, Perú name=Bradley
Joyce
notifications=nil profile_background_color=cc
profile_background_image_url=http://a1.twimg.com/
profile_background_images/98444516/blj_twitter.png
profile_background_tile=true profile_image_url=http://a3.twimg.com/
profile_images/421303551/bradley_normal.png
profile_link_color=a15f3b profile_sidebar_border_color=FF
profile_sidebar_fill_color=cc profile_text_color=507e94
profile_use_background_image=true protected=false
screen_name=bradleyjoyce show_all_inline_media=false
statuses_count=3248 time_zone=Central Time (US Canada)
url=http://
bradleyjoyce.me utc_offset=-21600 verified=false
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[twitter-dev] Re: Low latency streaming filter updates
John, Thanks for a quick and on the mark response. Your 10 minute window suggestion makes a lot of sense, and a maximum of 20 reconnects within that time should give us what we need for now. This approach does seem a little outside the 2 minute minimum reconnect period rule as in the API guide, but if it will not get us banned or frowned upon too much then I have no issues. Once we start making a little more noise and closer to launch, we'll consider requesting firehose access, or even better, hope that predicate changes without reconnect are ready by then! While I'm on the topic of new features, let me put my hand up for logical AND predicate support also! Regards, Toby. On Apr 7, 5:17 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Toby, This is indeed a problem. The ultimate solution, irrespective of practicality, is to arrange to take the entire firehose. Your connections are indeed limited by IP address -- additional accounts, past two, will not help much in this use case. You can, if so motivated, average your new connections over a larger period, allowing lower typical latency. Currently a 10 minute window is configured for IP limiting, but we may change that period without notice. You can connect quite a few times in a 10 minute window before getting limited by IP -- again, subject to change. If you allow, say, 20 connections in 10 minutes, at any velocity, you should stop accepting new predicates, or only update once every 30 seconds until the 10 minute window rolls over. This should allow good liveness for many modest arrival rates and temporal arrival probability distributions. We really need to support updating predicates on live streams to make this use case generally practical, short of taking the firehose. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Toby Phipps tphi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been reading a lot in the Twitter Streaming API doc and in this group about techniques to handle filter updates. I've got a good picture of the best practices, but having a hard time applying them to my particular situation. In my case, I've got a filtered stream where the filters will be updated based on the current user activities on my site. The filter updates won't happen that frequently, but when they do, they have to happen with as little latency as possible. This isn't a big problem in probably 80% of the cases where the last filter update happened more than 2 minutes ago, as I can happily disconnect and reconnect immediately and stay within the rules. However when multiple filter updates happen to arrive within the 2 minutes, that's where I have an issue. The unlucky user whose request came in just after a previous update happened gets stuck waiting the full 2 minutes before anything happens for them. They'll get bored, and walk away! The approaches to filter updates in the doc and in this group mainly talk about two concurrent streams - one primary stream with an elevated role and a second interim stream with default elevation. However, this approach works well in allowing filter changes with minimal interruption to the high-volume stream, but it does little or nothing to reduce the update latency. The worst case update latency is still 2 minutes for the poor sucker who came in just after a reconnect on the second (default elevation) stream. Some of the ideas I'm considering are: 1. Running four concurrent streams under four different Twitter accounts and spreading the overall filter criteria between them all (without predicate overlap to prevent wastage). I round-robin any filter changes across the streams, so I should be able to average 4x less latency. This seems within the rules since I'm using four different accounts, but I'm concerned that unless I originate from four different IPs that it'll be seen as a grey area and I risk being banned. 2. Bending the rules a little and bringing my minimum time before reconnect down to 30 seconds, hoping that if 80% or more of the time I respect the 2 minute minimum reconnect interval (and actually stay connected a LOT longer in most cases), I can get away with reconnecting a little more often during edge cases. 3. Running a single stream, and when filter changes are needed and I'm still within the 2 minute reconnect window, faking a stream with multiple queries until the reconnect is allowable at which time I transition to the reconnected stream. While this might be strictly within the rules, I'm convinced that the multiple query hits while waiting for the reconnect window to open would have a higher impact on Twitter than an extra reconnect within the 2 minute window every now and then. Can anyone shed some light on which of these approaches is preferable, or propose a different/better one? The goal for me is being able to adapt the stream criteria to my
[twitter-dev] Streaming API with Chinese/Japanese language track predicates
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Profile image update returns 500 Internal Server Error
I get the 500 Internal Server Error when I try to update a profile image. I am trying to do it using c# and I am not sure what is going on. Here is a network sniff of my request: No. TimeSourceDestination Protocol Info 657 2.77551410.50.50.230 128.121.146.100 HTTP POST /account/update_profile_image.xml HTTP/1.1 (JPEG JFIF image) Frame 657 (85 bytes on wire, 85 bytes captured) Ethernet II, Src: 00:21:70:6b:00:61 (00:21:70:6b:00:61), Dst: Watchgua_30:99:52 (00:90:7f:30:99:52) Destination: Watchgua_30:99:52 (00:90:7f:30:99:52) Source: 00:21:70:6b:00:61 (00:21:70:6b:00:61) Type: IP (0x0800) Internet Protocol, Src: 10.50.50.230 (10.50.50.230), Dst: 128.121.146.100 (128.121.146.100) Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: hfcs (4900), Dst Port: http (80), Seq: 28021, Ack: 26, Len: 31 [Reassembled TCP Segments (28051 bytes): #586(210), #621(129), #622 (1260), #623(1260), #627(1260), #628(1260), #629(1260), #630(1260), #632(1260), #633(1260), #634(1260), #635(1260), #636(1260), #638 (1260), #639(1260), #640(1260), #641(1260] Hypertext Transfer Protocol MIME Multipart Media Encapsulation, Type: multipart/form-data, Boundary: --8cb2dd5e785fac4 [Type: multipart/form-data] First boundary: 8cb2dd5e785fac4\r\n Encapsulated multipart part: (image/jpeg) Boundary: \r\n8cb2dd5e785fac4\r\n Encapsulated multipart part:
