[twitter-dev] Re: DDoS update: Friday 8PM PDT
Awesome! Thanks for the update! Glad your on the Twitter team. On Aug 7, 11:20 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hello all, Here is the state of things as we know them: - The DDoS attack is still ongoing, and the intensity has not decreased at all. Because of this, interaction with the site and with the API will continue to be shaky due to the defenses that have been put in place by our Ops team. At this point, removing any of those defenses is not an option. - Whitelisted IPs that have a restricted rate-limit is a *known issue,* and we are still working on restoring increased rate-limiting. - OAuth funkiness is a *known issue* which seems to be exacerbated by the whole DDoS thing. - Automatic blacklisting of valid or innocent IPs is a *known issue* and a result of the DDoS defenses. These blacklistings are temporary, though the amount of time they stick is variant upon the number of requests being made. The best thing to do to avoid this is throttle back your requests. We know that this may not be an option for everyone, but if you can, it will help. - Keep respecting 302's as you get them. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT. PLEASE READ IT TWICE: *There is no ETA on fixing any of this* *There is no ETA on fixing any of this* I know that sounds harsh and cold, but if you want us to be perfectly honest with you, that's the truth. Things will continue to be rocky as long as this attack continues. They may get worse, they may get better. That should not be read as we don't care about fixing it or we're not going to fix it until everything blows over but instead as we can't promise when things will be back to normal, but in the meantime we are working on fixing is ASAP. Ops is going to be working around the clock this weekend. We will also be monitoring the situation and giving out new information as we have it. Please remain patient with us. As much as you want it to be fixed, we want it to be fixed more. Some of my personal apps are completely borked as well. We're all going to have to ride this out together. Communications may be slowed over the weekend, but please know that we are not ignoring the situation. Thanks, -Chad
[twitter-dev] Re: Revoke/Destroy Access Method?
alright thanks! On Jun 8, 8:25 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I would just say delete the access tokens from your database and call it good. If they care that much they can figure the connections page on their own. On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 18:21, fastest963 fastest...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry about the late reply... I mean if the user revokes access from my site, not knowing that he/ she should go through yours? Or should I just direct users to the connections page to revoke access directly from your site? On Jun 5, 8:22 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Why would you need to destroy the access keys? They stop working once the user revokes access. I guess you could delete them from your database. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 06:44, fastest963 fastest...@gmail.com wrote: So user deletes his/her twitter access from my site, as in she says I don't want to give this app access anymore so on my site she clicks remove twitter access/account. Is there a method I can call to destroy the access keys I received and automatically revoke access to my application? I know for Facebook, it is a rule, you MUST destroy the keys and disconnect the user if they cancel access, but I don't see this anywhere on Twitters documentation. Thanks, @fastest963 -- Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. -- Abraham Williams | Community |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Revoke/Destroy Access Method?
Sorry about the late reply... I mean if the user revokes access from my site, not knowing that he/ she should go through yours? Or should I just direct users to the connections page to revoke access directly from your site? On Jun 5, 8:22 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Why would you need to destroy the access keys? They stop working once the user revokes access. I guess you could delete them from your database. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 06:44, fastest963 fastest...@gmail.com wrote: So user deletes his/her twitter access from my site, as in she says I don't want to give this app access anymore so on my site she clicks remove twitter access/account. Is there a method I can call to destroy the access keys I received and automatically revoke access to my application? I know for Facebook, it is a rule, you MUST destroy the keys and disconnect the user if they cancel access, but I don't see this anywhere on Twitters documentation. Thanks, @fastest963 -- Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Revoke/Destroy Access Method?
So user deletes his/her twitter access from my site, as in she says I don't want to give this app access anymore so on my site she clicks remove twitter access/account. Is there a method I can call to destroy the access keys I received and automatically revoke access to my application? I know for Facebook, it is a rule, you MUST destroy the keys and disconnect the user if they cancel access, but I don't see this anywhere on Twitters documentation. Thanks, @fastest963
[twitter-dev] Re: request_token gives Failed to validate oauth signature and token
I'm getting the same thing. Looks like Twitter is having some problems updating its OAuth applications with any new registrations or consumer keys. On May 31, 4:00 pm, kollynews kollyn...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to run a sample application (http://github.com/abraham/ twitteroauth) but i am getting 401 error during request_token phase. It says Failed to validate oauth signature and token. Can anybody help me in this. this is what i am accessing: https://twitter.com/oauth/request_token?oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce... anything wrong in the headers ?
[twitter-dev] Re: request_token gives Failed to validate oauth signature and token
Ok never mind that last post. Just 2 mins ago, my keys started working. So just hold on, it looks like they are fixing it. On May 31, 10:17 pm, fastest963 fastest...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting the same thing. Looks like Twitter is having some problems updating its OAuth applications with any new registrations or consumer keys. On May 31, 4:00 pm, kollynews kollyn...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to run a sample application (http://github.com/abraham/ twitteroauth) but i am getting 401 error during request_token phase. It says Failed to validate oauth signature and token. Can anybody help me in this. this is what i am accessing: https://twitter.com/oauth/request_token?oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce... anything wrong in the headers ?
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
You know me: Name: James Hartig Company: isociale.com email: fastest...@gmail.com PHP, MySQL, AJAX, HTML, JS On Feb 23, 7:56 pm, Westley Annis west...@da-parish.com wrote: Username: WestleyAnnis url:http://www.da-parish.com email: west...@da-parish.com Technology: PHP -Original Message- On Feb 23, 2:33 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:00, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on such requests. -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
You know me: Name: James Hartig (@fastest963) Company: isociale.com email: fastest...@gmail.com PHP, MySQL, AJAX, HTML, JS On Feb 23, 1:33 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:00, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on such requests. -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: PHP / Curl API failures
try increasing your connecttimeout
On Feb 3, 8:48 am, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote:
On Sunday (1 Feb 2009) I embedded the following code in my website
(with appropraite variables set correctly):
[...]
Which worked fine up until Monday morning (02 Feb 2009, 10:00 GMT
ish). It then failed for about 24 hours. I started debugging it last
night and my PHP script was not getting any status code back on the
curl_exe line. Today (3 Feb) at about 08:00 it started working again
without me changing anything!
I post about 10 message an hour (no more!) so I shouldn't reach any
limits I guess. Can anyone suggest what is going on here ?
1) Connectivity?
2) Consider
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
in your PHP code or adjusting your timeout.
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Re: Call for OAuth beta participants
@Alex I would recomend emailing him at a...@twitter.com. However your idea sounds pretty awesome though. I'm working on site that is a social profile, and connects all of the social sites in one easy place. It's pretty intriguing! I can't wait to start using OAuth.
Re: Dumping, Storing, and Displaying XML data with PHP and MySQL
Do:
--
//connect to database
(code)
$query = sprintf(INSERT INTO TABLE+NAME (`time`, `body`, `favorited`,
`name`,
`description`, `avatar`, `url`, `twitterid`) VALUES ('%s', '%s', '%s',
'%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s'),
mysql_real_escape_string($xml-status-created_at),
mysql_real_escape_string($xml-status-text),
mysql_real_escape_string($xml-status-favorited),
mysql_real_escape_string($xml-status-user-name),
mysql_real_escape_string($xml-status-user-
description),
mysql_real_escape_string($xml-status-user-
profile_image_url),
mysql_real_escape_string($xml-status-user-url),
mysql_real_escape_string($xml-status-id));
mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
echo Data Inserted!;
mysql_close ();
--
Re: Source of Direct Messages
Apps should get an API-key or something and then if they wanted their source name included then they would have to use their API-key and it would do a lookup key - name from there? That would only apply for apps that want their name as the source. Also, if that could be implemented, an optional, source for DMs would be nice.
Re: Listings for completed Twitter Apps
When using the twitter section, append the URL after the user has entered his/her status. This way you won't need Edit your status but please do not change the address in it , and it will be more user- friendly. Just append the URL via JS before submitting to Twitter and add a little note: The link will be appended to the end of the status.
Re: API Changes for Dec 17, 2008
:) Sweet! When can I expect http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=180 to be fixed? Its really killing my site right now :(
Re: API Changes for Dec 17, 2008
For 183: Umm, i would prefer on public_timeline, firehose, Data mining and status/show? I collect the timezones (as you know for TwitterTrend) and as of now I have to collect the UserID then get the user/show timeline only for the time zone field, which hurts my end and gives you more load. For 180: The field just doesn't show up in data mining and public_timeline? It works fine in status/show and user_timeline. Is this on purpose? Thanks so much! -James Hartig :) http://twittertrend.net
Re: Using php api to send @replies to specific messages
For direct messages I don't think it is possible to use in_reply_to_status_id since it is a completely different id system. That would not be possible as Twitter has no relation between the two systems. You can append the id number of the tweet in your DM though like d username #1063925739 or like regarding:1063925739 or something of that extent. -James Hartig
Re: Displaying @replies or direct messages on a webpage in PHP or HTML
In the meantime, is there an example of JSON search API code? http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation http://www.twitter2html.com/ Regarding the Search API, I will write a simple script and reply with the url.
Re: Displaying @replies or direct messages on a webpage in PHP or HTML
In the meantime, is there an example of JSON search API code? http://pastie.textmate.org/private/yzqfdabfwltlwzbuzwdmkg I have tested with a few queries. Any changes anyone else?
Re: Displaying @replies or direct messages on a webpage in PHP or HTML
Working example:
http://twittertrend.net/searchtw.php?q=fastest963
q={query}
On Dec 17, 8:40 pm, fastest963 fastest...@gmail.com wrote:
In the meantime, is there an example of JSON search API code?
http://pastie.textmate.org/private/yzqfdabfwltlwzbuzwdmkg
I have tested with a few queries. Any changes anyone else?
Re: What is returned when a protected ID is fetched with show?
Ah gotcha! so i should just just look for the 200 status code :)
Thanks!
On Dec 12, 11:00 pm, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote:
cURL is your friend.
Bad ID:
$ curl http://twitter.com/statuses/show/123456.json;
{request:\/statuses\/show\/123456.json,error:No status found
with that ID.}
Protected Update:
$ curl http://twitter.com/statuses/show/1054113093.json;
{request:\/statuses\/show\/1054113093.json,error:Sorry, you are
not authorized to see this status.}
Public Update:
$ curl http://twitter.com/statuses/show/1052591473.json;
{in_reply_to_user_id:null,text:\Why do you look askance at my
juice.\,user:{description:No ideas but in
things.,url:http:\/\/1vy.org\/,name:Evan,followers_count:1124,p
rotected:false,profile_image_url:http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/twitter_pro
duction\/profile_images\/66286904\/aquarium-fish-icon_normal.jpg,screen_n
ame:_evan,location:Russian
Hill,
California,id:761613},in_reply_to_screen_name:null,truncated:false,
favorited:false,created_at:Fri
Dec 12 02:31:44 +
2008,id:1052591473,in_reply_to_status_id:null,source:web}
-damon
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:24 PM, fastest963 fastest...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, the subject says it all, but I'm requesting a ID by /statuses/
show/123456.json and I was wondering what I can expect the output to
be if either the ID doesn't exist or if it is protected.
In other words: how can I easily check to see if it returned
correctly?
Thanks,
James Hartig
What is returned when a protected ID is fetched with show?
Well, the subject says it all, but I'm requesting a ID by /statuses/ show/123456.json and I was wondering what I can expect the output to be if either the ID doesn't exist or if it is protected. In other words: how can I easily check to see if it returned correctly? Thanks, James Hartig
Re: Incomplete list of friends being returned
I second Greg's problem, I was having this problem too, but after looking through all my users, 4 were suspended and thus didn't show up in the API.
Re: weird case: user returns blank json for users/show but works for xml
Did you just create your account? It seems that Twitter has been having some user problems and all the data is cached from 24 hours ago. It might be that the xml file updated but not the json yet? Also, I have tried a few other usernames and they all seem to return fine.
Re: Search API Rate Limiting
Ah, gotcha! You can, it will just display a browser warning. Which is not what you want :P The Terms say: We do not rate limit the search API under ordinary circumstances, however we have put measures in place to limit the abuse of our API. Try emailing, Alex Payne, or someone at Twitter about a whitelist. On Dec 7, 3:36 pm, Chad Etzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you can't do an ajax authenticated GET or POST to a 3rd-party site. I am dynamically loading the json in the clients' browser. I would rather know the rate limits so I can abide by them. -Chad On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:42 AM, fastest963 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since your doing this via AJAX and such, this may not be a good idea, but you could try passing a login to Twitter and having that login whitelisted?
TwitterTrend User Indexing Started!
Since we cannot index old data via the public timeline or the data mining feed, we opened up a way for users to submit their timeline for indexing! This is plagued by the Username/Password situation, but as soon as OAuth is released or anything else, I will fully support it! :) Also, I have had two Twitter API requests, http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=180 and http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=183 The first one is regarding the missing link to the source, in the Data mining and public timeline APIs. The links seem to work fine in the user timeline. The second one is a request for 3 new fields to be added to the Firehose/timelines, I would like them because, currently I have to request Twitter again for user information like timezone, etc. that should be included in timeline's user field. I don't understand why followers_count was included but not updates_count or following_count? If you agree/like either of the requests, please star them so they get noticed :) Thanks, James Hartig
Re: Rate limit exceeded for whitelisted app
It seems they are still restoring the database...
Re: Twitter, Push APIs and XMPP
HTTP-Push? As in get? post? or something I'm new at? :P
TwitterTrend Up! Happy Thanksgiving!
First, I would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! My site, http://twittertrend.net is up! It is a site that indexes twitter and creates stats and trends about URLs posted on twitter. Last time I checked we had indexed 1.75 million URLs! I will be working on a way to index all of twitter's old data. It will come as soon as the twitter devs finish their work on OAuth. I have spent a great deal of time optimizing code and getting everything to work under restrictions from BlueHost. I will be finishing up graphs and other unfinished parts of the site. For the most part we are all up and running! Feel free to comment about it below! Also, I would like to thank Twitter for their help with the service and for giving me the opportunity to use their wonderful API and their data mining feed. I would like to extend this thanks directly to Alex Payne, as he has made this project possible and I am in great debt to him! Follow @twitrend for any news! Happy Thanksgiving! -James Hartig http://jhartig.com
Re: Twitter, Push APIs and XMPP
As far as I know, the Firehose API would only be for retrieving data from Twitter and not sending (POST). @bham 10-15s isn't that bad? If it was over a minute then I would be concerned. As far as the latency, I can assume that it is just because of the caching that Twitter has put into place.
Re: update_profile_colors changes will not work when a theme is selected
Are you saying you are not seeing a change on screen? Could it be a cache problem?
Re: update_profile_colors changes will not work when a theme is selected
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/29b4e3f4a50b81ac?hl=en Maybe that can help?
Re: Helpful PHP Optimizations
I finally ended up switching to MySQLi because it offered ping and reconnect options. For some reason I kept getting MySQL Server has gone away with PDO, even with persistent. I tried many different ways to detect that and then reconnect, but PDO just doesn't support it. I will be making the switch later on today and I'm hoping to have it converted in less than an hour :)
Re: Fixes deployed Nov 14th
Agreed! Could we get a friends count? That is also showed on the Twitter website.
Re: statuses/replies.xml and statuses/friends.xml return Not found
Can you provide that account name that you are using to login? It may be removed or suspended? If not then alex or someone will have to take a look because it would be a server problem. In the past however, I got this message when I tried to use an account that was suspended.
Re: invalid profile_image_url returned in JSON timeline
Did you maybe copy something wrong... the first link is 64498715 and the second is 64499571 (notice the last 3 digits).
Re: Not pulling @replies in a search feed
No, what you would have to do is run a REGEX or similar search for @ [username] and if it returns false then process the data. There is no way to omit results from the API standpoint.
Re: Update status Using API.
This library is not coded very accurately. I will post a fixed version within the next few days. My dev computer is currently under-repair, but when its finished (tonight?) I will work and fix this library. In the mean-time, just make the change noted in my previous post and the update() function should work fine.
Re: posting updates via js
I just noticed something shouldn't the Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded This could be the problem.
Re: posting updates via js
HTTP 500 Error usually means its a server error and its not your fault, however it may have something to do with your status post data. If you could, post the return headers and/or body. Also, it may have just been a simple problem with Twitter at the time. I just tested the API and it works fine for me: http://twitter.com/fastest963/status/1003271037 Maybe Alex or other devs can shed some light on something wrong with the Headers you sent.
Re: Suspended Accounts still being returned in follower data
Instead of removing them, you should just add a field like 'status' or something similar.
Re: Retrieve Another User's Friends Timeline without Authentication?
You cannot, sorry. However, you can keep track of Twitter's progress on OAuth. This method would not require any passwords.
Retrieving old tweets?
I have talked with Alex much on this topic but here's what I'm doing. I'm indexing tweets and then processing the URLs and then storing information and stats about the urls for webmasters etc. I was wondering if there was anyway I can index previous tweets (like last weeks or something). I doubt that there is, however it would really help our service get started quickly with more accurate results! Thanks!
Re: = 0
hey alex! The problem is that he happened to have post enabled. @vks comment out curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); or change it to curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0); that will fix your error :)
Re: How to count users that are using my client?
I'm working on a site that will do this and much more! I will keep you updated.
