[twitter-dev] Re: Search API return 402 You have been rate limited. Enhance your calm each time
1 - Hosted on GAE is probably your problem you are sharing a limited pool of IP adresses shared by many other GAE based appls using Twitter API. see here : http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/20931a508f4dd6e9 happy coding:-) Nick http://gaengine.blogspot.com/ On Apr 18, 11:49 pm, kghate kgh...@gmail.com wrote: I am writing a new application and all was going smoothly until I deployed the application and am getting a 402 on all requests! The application searches based on both geo-location and query terms. Am literally making only test api calls from the application (less than 10 every hour) and each one of it returns a 402. What could be happening? Here are some details 1. Test Application hosted on the Google App Engine 2. Using JTwitter 3. Using OAuth The first time, I thought Twitter might be having issues; but it cant be true all the time. Please help! -- 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: The thinking behind not drawing attention to Unfollows?
The intentions behind the rule is good, but what about the following list of applications (and many more) that do not respect the TOS ? http://mashable.com/2010/08/09/track-twitter-unfollowers/ happy coding :-) Nick On Apr 9, 5:05 am, Nicholas Chase nch...@earthlink.net wrote: From a user perspective, I think it's good to know that you can unfollow someone without them noticing, so you don't hurt their feelings. The last thing that Twitter wants is to be linked to hard feelings between people. But that's just my opinion. YMMV, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the reason. Nick On 4/8/2011 9:57 PM, Whonew wrote: Could someone from the Twitter staff go into some detail about why the Terms of Service stress not drawing attention to user's Unfollows? I have no particular interest in doing so; but I have been struggling to figure out why as I'm certain that many users would like to know without jumping through hoops. Thanks a lot! -- 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: Apps that Site Hack
These kind of tools do a lot of damage to twitter ecosystem. On Mar 4, 3:02 pm, Alan Hamlyn alanhamlyn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dewald, In fact you partly answered it yourself. Random login CAPTCHA's when logging in to twitter, or the occasional one if flagged based on users tweets to have once to fill one in to send a tweet. Algorithms, especially to to detect accounts that send 98%-100% links in tweets. Legal account, which I'm sure they are already doing. Algorithms like pascal mentioned, to pick up on likely spam behaviour. Improving the report spam feature on twitters website, and actively encourage other users to report spam. Stop the twitter accounts of the twitter spam software from being able to run, i.e @tweettankone and their variant accounts which are site hacking sites. Education to users, that twitter should be used for engagement not to spam links and churn followers. Change up the site code fields that send tweets, or reliant data to have 1000's of variants, so if the site changes too much, or something the site hackers rely on, the information will change too frequently. Those are a few of my ideas. Alan :) On Feb 24, 9:38 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Apart from implementing reCAPTCHA on tweet submission, follow, and unfollow, I can't see what Twitter can do to prevent that kind of abuse (can you imagine the revolt by bona fide users?). How else do you determine that it is an actual human and not a piece of automated software behind the browser on the user's desktop or laptop? The only other option is legally, and that depends on the country of residence of the owners of the software. At this point in time, it appears that anyone who is able to and have the inclination to write desktop software that bypasses the API might have carte blanche to do so. On Feb 24, 7:00 am,AlanHamlynalanhamlyn...@gmail.com wrote: Spam applications like Tweetadder, TheTweetTank and many others like it are currently hacking the website to get round oauth and basic auth restrictions - what is Twitter doing to level the playing field for serious developers who use oauth and follow Twitter guidelines? Many thanks in advance, AlanHamlyn MarketMeSuite -- 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
