Simply a user show.
http://twitter.com/users/show/ccfcrule.xml is still returning the same
data as earlier.
On Apr 1, 10:23 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
From what method calls?
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 19:23, Damon P. Cortesi d.lifehac...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure if it's
On Apr 1, 10:15 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Adrian spiritpo...@gmail.com wrote:
As of right right now:http://twitter.com/users/show/bob.xml
has about twice the amount of information as say:
http://twitter.com/users/show/WeezerOfficial.xml
Hi There, I wanted to find out which users I have blocked and give
them a 2nd chance but I cannot find an api method that lists blocked
users for an authed account.
Any pointers?
Kind Regards
Darren
I use the Twitter API to post article titles followed by a link to the
article, and sometimes a repeat of the domain name if I think Twitter
is going to tinyurl me. Generaly Twitter converts URLs with characters
it doesn't like [^A-Za-z0-9.:/], or URLs in tweets that are too long,
to tinyurls.
I've Googled around a bit, and haven't found anything that talks about
this issue, so I humbly submit my problem to the Twitter wizards.
Here's the problem - when I call the API function
update_profile_image, the upload succeeds, and Twitter returns status
code 200. If I go to my actual profile
I'm using the public timeline feed (for data mining) and frequently
see xml paring error like this:
org.jdom.input.JDOMParseException: Error on line 3016: An invalid XML
character (Unicode: 0x1) was found in the element content of the
document.
the error comes from building JDom document in the
Hi All,
Does anybody have idea why this url:
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=offer OR book OR read since:
2008-04-02 from:nyankov
Give me:
The page you were looking for doesn't exist.
You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.
Any help and advice will be
On Apr 1, 5:49 pm, Clint Shryock cts...@gmail.com wrote:
The lag wasn't nearly as noticeable when the update_profile_image was first
offered, but has since as you noted become considerable.
As a work around my app, which updates profile images from a local source,
uses the local source to
I'm having the same issue here. The /users/show method is now
returning the basic user element for some users. Weird.
Jochem
On Apr 2, 8:10 am, Damon P. Cortesi d.lifehac...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 1, 10:15 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Adrian
I am facing the same issue too with the API http://twitter.com/users/
show/id.xml.
Now the big problem is that in some cases following fields are
missing:
friends_count
created_at
favourites_count
utc_offset
time_zone
profile_background_image_url
statuses_count
Due to this my application
I am new to twitter. I am trying twitter search API to get last one month's
data(
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=51.500152%2C-0.126236%2C15milang=enq=+movie+since%3A2009-03-03+until%3A2009-03-30+near%3Alondon+within%3A15mi).
Unfortunately I get only fifteen
pages :(. Has anybody
Give this a try:
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=book+OR+read+OR+offer+from%3Anyankov+since%3A2009-04-01
-Chris Thomson
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:59 AM, nyankov nikola.yan...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Does anybody have idea why this url:
There isn't a way to do that currently, but there's a ticket open for it:
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=9
-Chris Thomson
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote:
Hi There, I wanted to find out which users I have blocked and give
them
Is there any way to supply my own URL of the image which is hosted on a
third party server?
No.
--
personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- I must confess, I was born at a
thanks I have added my vote and comments there.
Cheers
Darren
On Apr 2, 1:39 pm, Chris Thomson chri...@chris24.ca wrote:
There isn't a way to do that currently, but there's a ticket open for
it:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=9
-Chris Thomson
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at
On 4/1/09 8:34 PM, Alex Payne wrote:
* Feature (REST API): We now return the same representation of User
objects throughout the API. This representation contains all of the
attributes we make available via the API.
Sweet jeebus! It's Christmas, all over again!
Thanks, Twitter gnomes.
--
On Apr 2, 4:04 am, binit binit.th...@gmail.com wrote:
Due to this my application buzzom.com has broken down.
Is there an alternate way of getting these fields for a particular
user?
Please suggest.
In some cases, even though /users/show does not have the full user
object,
Twitter never tinyurls my links from API, tinyurls them only from web
interface. Sometimes I even use it as a 'feature' - post link from API if I
don't want it to be auto-tinyurled!
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:20 AM, bcballard bcball...@gmail.com wrote:
I use the Twitter API to post article
Do you know how many actual tweets you are getting? The Twitter Search API
doesn't explicitly say so, but the way I'm reading it seems to only return
up to 1500 tweets.
_cts
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Seema Nagar nagar.se...@gmail.com wrote:
I am new to twitter. I am trying twitter
Can you please give some pointer to how
to
use local source to represent the new avatar?
My application (a desktop application) allows a user to select a file on the
hard drive and upload it to Twitter. This application also displays the
users current Twitter avatar. When the application
On Mar 26, 10:45 pm, colboy col...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm certainly using credentials. I'm using Tweetdeck and it says I've
over my API limit. My application can't do any gets, as expected, but
when I do account/rate_limit_status it says I have 91 remaining as
shown here, which is the XML I
Yep fixed now - properly takes the app's name for the 'from' field
now.
On Apr 1, 6:40 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:
Ahmed,
This is a confirmed bug. The good news is Matt and Alex tag-teamed it and
have the fix readied for deploy.
Cheers,
Doug Williams
Twitter API
As the subject line implies, I need to know how to programmatically
determine the sex of a profile owner with the API. Is this supported,
in any way at all? Not the sex of the person logged in as the app, but
the owners of the profiles in a search, for example.
Hi there,
Twitter never asks for gender so without some sophisticated AI
there's no way to know.
Thanks;
— Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
On Apr 2, 2009, at 09:28 AM, kazvor...@gmail.com wrote:
As the subject line implies, I need to know how to programmatically
determine the sex of a
Of course it's supported. Just cast Sexus Magicus Level 12, and poof, that
information will magically be created from nothing, out of nowhere.
If you can't record that information within Twitter, then how could the API
provide it?
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:28 AM, kazvor...@gmail.com
Hi there,
Can you try and record the new X-RateLimit-* headers on your
request? We added those because there have been many reports of
incorrect rate limiting that turned out to be incorrect credentials on
rate_limit_status. This is especially common from web browsers; since
Search only supports since_id:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search%20API%20Documentation#Search
2009/4/2 nyankov nikola.yan...@gmail.com
Actualy the url is
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=offer+OR+book+OR+read+since%3A2009-01-01+from%3Anyankov
and what I found is that if I change
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote:
Of course it's supported. Just cast Sexus Magicus Level 12, and poof, that
information will magically be created from nothing, out of nowhere.
Lol. +1 Insightful
--
Scott Elcomb
http://www.psema4.com/
Hi there,
There is a since:-MM-DD operator but unfortunately the
operators are documented on a different page [1]. Another historical
thing, I'll try and find some time to move that stuff over to the API
doc [2]. The reason for your error is that the since: date you
provided is
http://www.beardorbra.com/
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:18, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote:
That would be an interesting challenge.
Now this would only work with active users and for English users but
you could mine out probability index of gender using other data around
the user.
That's a known (and terrible!) issue:
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=394
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 20:22, Gary Zhao garyz...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json to retrieve my
latest tweets (without any parameters, specify username and
Just let us know what you'd like to add. Unfortunately, we haven't
been able to run the wiki in the open due to PBwiki's lack of spam
protection.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 19:51, Gary Zhao garyz...@gmail.com wrote:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Libraries and
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Open-source
Chris,
If you include more detail about your application and your request then we
can provide more specific help. That method should work with as a GET
request.
A lot of other developers have seen the HTTP 401 error you described. Try
searching for invalid oauth request [1] to see if anything
Bought! :-)
Now I just need to cast Time Magicus Level 20 to find the time to develop it.
Zac Bowling
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
http://www.beardorbra.com/
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:18, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote:
That would be an
TinyURL was running quite slow, so we temporarily disabled our
automatic shortening of long URLs.
We're currently working on a project to make the shortening of URLs
more consistent and predictable. We know it's currently kind of a
guessing game as to what will be shortened, and we want to fix
Does the Search API support SSL? https://search.twitter.com/search.json
... is a no-go.
Does the Search API support SSL?
No.
--
personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- I think you underestimate the sneakiness.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Damon P. Cortesi d.lifehac...@gmail.comwrote:
On Apr 1, 10:15 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Adrian spiritpo...@gmail.com wrote:
As of right right now:http://twitter.com/users/show/bob.xml
has about twice the
The loss of fields (issue 409) is the result of the caching issue described
above. You should see these fields reappear as the cache user objects
expire.
Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM, binit binit.th...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks a
I actually ran this experiment already for a dating app concept, using
some established research on gender detection based on writing
(against at least 10-20 tweets) combined with a database of female
names for user names. I also tried running this on an ANN but that
wasn't fruitful and required
Following up: if you can point us to a status (by ID) that has this
unwanted control character, we'll track down the source of the issue.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 23:48, AJ cano...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using the public timeline feed (for data mining) and frequently
see xml paring error like
Everything in search is public and there is no authentication so it is not
really needed.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 13:06, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote:
Does the Search API support SSL?
No.
--
personal:
http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
But what if I don't want a man-in-the-middle to know I'm secretly
searching for Britney Spears from my cube?
...oh crap.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Everything in search is public and there is no authentication so it is not
really needed.
On
Can you try and record the new X-RateLimit-* headers on your
request? We added those because there have been many reports of
incorrect rate limiting that turned out to be incorrect credentials on
rate_limit_status.
I will try this and post back my results. Thanks.
we're back to using magic then are we?;)
_cts
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote:
Bought! :-)
Now I just need to cast Time Magicus Level 20 to find the time to develop
it.
Zac Bowling
Just got a report from one of my users that a message he posted
through our app made it through to his Twitter timeline twice. Looking
at our server logs, I can see that when he posted, we got a timeout
from Twitter and successfully tried to repost. My guess is that the
timed-out post
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
But what if I don't want a man-in-the-middle to know I'm secretly
searching for Britney Spears from my cube?
...oh crap.
Welcome to the internet? Despite any attempts to obfuscate, there are
always way to determine the
Define on the net.
If I'm ssh(-2)'d to my server at home, tunneling my HTTP content, forwarding
all DNS requests to the SOCKS proxy Putty presents, how are anyone but
myself and the SSH server going to know exactly what content I just pulled?
(Obviously everything in front of the SSH server is
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Scott Elcomb pse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
But what if I don't want a man-in-the-middle to know I'm secretly
searching for Britney Spears from my cube?
...oh crap.
Welcome to the internet?
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote:
Define on the net.
If I'm ssh(-2)'d to my server at home, tunneling my HTTP content, forwarding
all DNS requests to the SOCKS proxy Putty presents, how are anyone but
myself and the SSH server going to know exactly what
Like I said, out-of-scope.
As I alluded to, and Chad stated: SSL is safe between target server and
client.
All other data is out of scope to this convo.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Scott Elcomb pse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Scott Elcomb pse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
But what if I don't want a man-in-the-middle to know I'm secretly
searching for
The reason in my case is that I'm making an AJAX request from a page
that is secure, and I don't want a browser security warning to be
displayed to users.
On Apr 2, 2:31 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Scott Elcomb pse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr
You can proxy requests through your servers.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 15:34, ncooper ncoo...@convio.com wrote:
The reason in my case is that I'm making an AJAX request from a page
that is secure, and I don't want a browser security warning to be
displayed to users.
On Apr 2, 2:31 pm, Chad
Josh,
Timestamps are all based on UTC [1]. If you want to adjust the data in your
client to be representative of the user's registered timezone, you should
use the utc_offset [2] to transformation the timestamp accordingly.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
2.
Can the Twitter user's ID please be included in the Search API results?
Looking at the Atom feed, you get this:
author
namerwm6f9 (Ross Murker)/name
urihttp://twitter.com/rwm6f9/uri
/author
First, it would be nice if the name and screen_name were separated,
although this is
Gotcha, thx. I suppose I'm looking for a way to get the timezone from
the utc_offset to take into account DST. Know of any way to do that?
On Apr 2, 1:55 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:
Josh,
Timestamps are all based on UTC [1]. If you want to adjust the data in your
client to be
Is there really someone who hasn't heard of Issue 214, yet?
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=214
had to,
-Chad
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote:
Can the Twitter user's ID please be included in the Search API results?
Looking at the
Martin,
I'm not seeing the problem with statuses/replies.json you are reporting. For
which account are you missing data?
Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Martin Dufort martin.duf...@gmail.comwrote:
And is this available now via the
If your application tries to update the status of the same account within a
short period of time, Twitter will ignore the update. As the statuses/update
method returns the status object, in the case where the message was ignored,
the previously successful update (with the same) text will be
On 4/2/09 5:34 PM, Chad Etzel wrote:
Is there really someone who hasn't heard of Issue 214, yet?
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=214
I don't know if anyone's reviewed issue #214, but the Search API's Atom
response doesn't even include a from_user_id node in the
From comment #10 by mzsanford:
The fix is the next API. In the mean time I'm going to remove the elements to
prevent confusion.
They've been intentionally baleeted.
-Chad
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote:
On 4/2/09 5:34 PM, Chad Etzel wrote:
Is there
That's what I was expecting to see. However, I have a user who's
update made it to his timeline twice. I see that we sent the request
twice, 5 seconds apart, because the first one didn't complete. The
second request returned successful.
The user's timeline is protected, but the messages
Doug,
I second Mike's suggestion to codify RTs. I have clients who want to
track RTs for two scenarios:
1. To find their brand influencers, as to who did the rts as they are
their brand advocates. It would be helpful to get to this in a quick
ap - track rts by person, how many rts of same
The API is not able to support retweets as a feature until the main
Twitter.com site offers some notion of retweets as a feature. As evidenced
by the recent shift from @replies to mentions, Twitter does listen to the
users' behavior to drive site changes. We obviously recognize the large
number of
On 4/2/09 6:10 PM, Chad Etzel wrote:
From comment #10 by mzsanford:
The fix is the next API. In the mean time I'm going to remove the elements to
prevent confusion.
They've been intentionally baleeted.
Aha. OK, well, I'm just using the Search API to get ID's now, and am
using
With the new layout with the #sidey search bar the http://twitter.com/home
page forwards to http://twitter.com/timeline/home
This breaks those links that are pre-filling the tweet by linking to /
home
So before this would work:
http://twitter.com/home?status=hello+world
But on the new @home
Issue 413 [1] explains that this is a general site issue but from developers
you need to know where we are going. The
http://twitter.com/timeline/homeURL will be the address moving
forward, so please develop against that.
Both of the errors you mentioned, pre-filled update box and the
s/from developers/for developers/;
Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:
Issue 413 [1] explains that this is a general site issue but from
developers you need to know where we are going. The
I noticed this because I've got some code that checks the utc_offset
and noticed that it was missing.
For my hahlo account verify_credentials is returning this (appears to
be missing colours, utc_offset, fav counts etc etc):
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
user
id7097682/id
This is related to the caching changes that came as a result of
yesterday's push [1]. It shouldn't be a problem for active users, and
will be fully fixed after less active users expire from the cache.
1.
Jeffery,
This is valid criticism. This bug came as a surprise to us as well. We
otherwise would have given developers fair warning. Unfortunately there is
no easy fix, and like a bad heart-break, time may be the only answer.
In short, the problem is with the user data cache. To get the extended
For a few days, the users/show method offered look up based on a
user's email address. So short-lived was its documented availability
that we removed it without much fanfare. This thread [1] has mention
of this deprecation.
Recently, there has been quite a bit of discussion on this feature's
There is an article on SQL Server Magazine's web site about it
called , Tweet-SQL Lets You Update Your Twitter Account Using T-SQL ,
here is a link http://www.sqlmag.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=101753;
On Mar 27, 9:50 pm, Dataluxe cr...@mailtoad.com wrote:
Has anyone integrated SQL 2005
Hi Matt,
I have tried to use language parameter of twitter search and find the
result is very unreliable. For example:
http://search.twitter.com/search?lang=allq=tweetjobsearch returns 10
results (all in english), but
http://search.twitter.com/search?lang=enq=tweetjobsearch only returns
3.
I
Thank you for the clarity and for putting greater detail on the
deprecation of user/show (find by email). I completely agree to
Twitter wanting to protect its user's privacy. I'd like to think that
the value created by whitelisted applications is far greater than the
pain being caused by
Hi matt,
Thank You
What is Pagination? Does it mean that I cannot use max_id for searching
tweets. What does next_url and prev_url fields mean. I did not find next_url
and prev_url in documentation. how can these two urls be used with max_id.
Please explain with example if possible.
Regards,
Id is nothing but the tweet id. take the tweet id of the 100th tweet in 15th
page?
Regards,
Mahaboob Basha Shaik
www.netelixir.com
Making Search Work
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Seema Nagar nagar.se...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks a lot. Can you tell which is this parameter id of the
Basha,
Pagination is defined well here [1].
The next_url and prev_url fields give your client HTTP URIs to move
forward and backward through the result set. You can use them to page
through search results.
I have some work to do on the search docs and I'll add field
definitions then as well.
79 matches
Mail list logo
