[twitter-dev] Re: sending DM to all followers?

2009-04-15 Thread Jesse Stay
Please, if you do this, provide an opt-out so those that don't want to receive the mass dms don't have to receive them. I wish more apps would do this, for both mass-dm and auto-dm. @Jesse On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Alex aybarb...@gmail.com wrote: I understand the negative implications

[twitter-dev] Re: How to add an open source project into wiki?

2009-04-15 Thread Gary Zhao
Could you add my project into the open source project list? http://code.google.com/p/twitterbeis/ Thanks Gary On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: 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

[twitter-dev] Re: Update API (with OAuth) failed on Unicode tweet

2009-04-15 Thread Mario Menti
This issue [1] is marked fixed, but for some reason I still have problems with some characters: I have a status update that contains \xc2\xa0 (which I believe is Unicode representation of nbsp;), and trying to update the status with this always results in error 401. If I remove the \xc2\xa0 the

[twitter-dev] easiest way to get a text file of tweets

2009-04-15 Thread Bill
Hi. Can any suggest the easiest way to get a text file of say 2000 tweets that contain the word 'Japan' in them? Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Could we delete the direct message with simple return?

2009-04-15 Thread Liu Huadong
As we know the return of delete inbox item will return the direct message, For mobile phone, it is really waste the time, Could Twitter API just return a simple xml to show the operator. such as xml result_response 0 /result_response to indicator successfully Regards Huadong

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating icon for OAuth applications

2009-04-15 Thread null
hi Guan I have encounter this problem,but dont have solution for that 在2009-04-15,Guan Yang g...@yang.dk 写道: I have trouble updating the icon for my OAuth applications. I tried several different GIF and PNG files, much smaller than 700k and always get the error message: Your application was

[twitter-dev] Re: sending DM to all followers?

2009-04-15 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 4/15/09 5:31 AM, Jesse Stay wrote: Please, if you do this, provide an opt-out so those that don't want to receive the mass dms don't have to receive them. I wish more apps would do this, for both mass-dm and auto-dm. Opt-out = unfollow. Twitter's already provided the mechanism. -- Dossy

[twitter-dev] Re: easiest way to get a text file of tweets

2009-04-15 Thread Bill Claster
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/1df7a2d9898d93e4# On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Bill william...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Can any suggest the easiest way to get a text file of say 2000 tweets that contain the word 'Japan' in them? Thanks. --

[twitter-dev] Re: easiest way to get a text file of tweets

2009-04-15 Thread Abraham Williams
Not quite what you are looking but http://tweetbook.in/oauth lets you export to pdf. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:14, Bill william...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Can any suggest the easiest way to get a text file of say 2000 tweets that contain the word 'Japan' in them? Thanks. -- Abraham

[twitter-dev] Re: easiest way to get a text file of tweets

2009-04-15 Thread Bill
Hi Thanks very much. Actually though it seems that they only can make a pdf with my own tweets. I was hoping to get just tweets that contain the word 'japan' but thanks anyway. On Apr 15, 9:58 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Not quite what you are looking

[twitter-dev] Objective-C/Cocoa open source Twitter client

2009-04-15 Thread Nick Toumpelis
Hi, Just wanted to let everyone know that I've released my (beta) Obj-C/ Cocoa twitter client (Canary) as open source here: http://github.com/macsphere/canary , under an MIT-style license. It is a fully-fledged client, with multi-user support, multiple timelines, filters, TwitPic support,

[twitter-dev] Re: easiest way to get a text file of tweets

2009-04-15 Thread Matt Sanford
You could use http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=japan and a small bit of scripting. Look in those results for a link rel=next for the next page. That will let you page your way back to ~1500 tweets. Thanks; — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford On Apr 15, 2009, at 06:14 AM, Bill wrote: Hi

[twitter-dev] Re: Update API (with OAuth) failed on Unicode tweet

2009-04-15 Thread Guan Yang
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:35, Mario Menti mme...@gmail.com wrote: This issue [1] is marked fixed, but for some reason I still have problems with some characters: I have a status update that contains \xc2\xa0 (which I believe is Unicode representation of nbsp;), and trying to update the

[twitter-dev] Re: Objective-C/Cocoa open source Twitter client

2009-04-15 Thread Chad Etzel
Awesome! I've been trying to learn Cocoa slowly but surely, and this will help a great deal. Thanks! -Chad On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Nick Toumpelis nicktoumpe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just wanted to let everyone know that I've released my (beta) Obj-C/Cocoa twitter client (Canary) as

[twitter-dev] Re: Objective-C/Cocoa open source Twitter client

2009-04-15 Thread Doug Williams
Nick, Thanks for sharing! Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome! I've been trying to learn Cocoa slowly but surely, and this will help a great deal. Thanks! -Chad On Wed, Apr 15, 2009

[twitter-dev] update_profile_image api issues

2009-04-15 Thread ctshryock
I have an app that posts new profile images using update_profile_image in the API. as of about 3 some weeks ago (rough guess) the images uploaded are coming up broken, though I'm still getting a success status. I dug through this group and found a curl example for testing this API feature: curl

[twitter-dev] Re: Update API (with OAuth) failed on Unicode tweet

2009-04-15 Thread Mario Menti
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Guan Yang g...@yang.dk wrote: I was able to post this here: http://twitter.com/guan/status/1525625497 The non-breaking space is right after the colon; try to save the HTML and check in a hexdump ;-) Normalized query string:

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating icon for OAuth applications

2009-04-15 Thread Doug Williams
Issue 374 [1] was supposed to fix this issue. When did you see this problem? 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=374 Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:56 AM, null zhm20070...@163.com wrote: hi Guan I have encounter this

[twitter-dev] Re: Could we delete the direct message with simple return?

2009-04-15 Thread Doug Williams
Most mobile developers will have some form of proxy to intermediate the communication between the API and edge devices if bandwidth is a problem. Some of the larger mobile applications use this technique with great success. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr

[twitter-dev] list of blocked users

2009-04-15 Thread peterhoneyman
does the twitter api allow me to retrieve the list of users that i have blocked?

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating icon for OAuth applications

2009-04-15 Thread Guan Yang
I tried again just a few seconds ago. I tested with both my applications, 1396 and 1798. Guan 2009/4/15 Doug Williams d...@twitter.com: Issue 374 [1] was supposed to fix this issue. When did you see this problem? 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=374 Doug Williams

[twitter-dev] Re: list of blocked users

2009-04-15 Thread Abraham Williams
No: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=9 On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 13:09, peterhoneyman peter.honey...@gmail.comwrote: does the twitter api allow me to retrieve the list of users that i have blocked? -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker |

[twitter-dev] Re: list of blocked users

2009-04-15 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, Not currently but it's been on the issues list for quite some time. Visit http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=9 and mark it with a star so we know you'd like to see it. Thanks; — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford On Apr 15, 2009, at 11:09 AM, peterhoneyman

[twitter-dev] Re: list of blocked users

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Payne
Not presently, but we'll be adding those methods shortly. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:09, peterhoneyman peter.honey...@gmail.com wrote: does the twitter api allow me to retrieve the list of users that i have blocked? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Objective-C/Cocoa open source Twitter client

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Payne
Very nice. Added to http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Open-source (and tweeted about - hope you get some more contributors). On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:12, Nick Toumpelis nicktoumpe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just wanted to let everyone know that I've released my (beta) Obj-C/Cocoa twitter client

[twitter-dev] Re: How to add an open source project into wiki?

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Payne
Done! On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 03:54, Gary Zhao garyz...@gmail.com wrote: Could you add my project into the open source project list? http://code.google.com/p/twitterbeis/ Thanks Gary On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Just let us know what you'd like to

[twitter-dev] Re: IP Address range

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Payne
You're probably better off writing the firewall rule by domain, if possible. Our IP ranges are going to change and grow, and they'll be hard to keep track of. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 15:12, billbarn42 billbar...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a python script that is monitoring the playlist for our

[twitter-dev] Max length of Twitter screen name?

2009-04-15 Thread Knave
Does anyone know how long a Twitter screen name can be? Trying to calculate storage space requirements.

[twitter-dev] Re: Max length of Twitter screen name?

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Payne
20 characters. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:26, Knave archkn...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how long a Twitter screen name can be?  Trying to calculate storage space requirements. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: url as an input

2009-04-15 Thread ParsePlz
Hi, could someone please post an example API request, I mean the url as input, which api request to be used. I tried with http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q= using tinyURL, bitly even plain url, then with OR operator, but I dont get much as (actually very few) backtweet results. What do

[twitter-dev] Twitter API returning truncated XML responses

2009-04-15 Thread Dossy Shiobara
Hi, Is there something actively killing the Twitter web farm? This happened once before, where XML API responses were being truncated randomly somewhere mid-response. It's going on _right now_ and has effectively shut down Twitter Karma for all its users. :-( -- Dossy Shiobara

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API returning truncated XML responses

2009-04-15 Thread Doug Williams
Dossy, More details would certainly help track down the problem. Headers, response bodies, etc.? Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: Hi, Is there something actively killing the Twitter web

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating icon for OAuth applications

2009-04-15 Thread Jake Good
I'm also having this issue: app id 1992... I've tried a PNG (7k) and a GIF (40k), including a twitter icon from the twitter account (straight download)... Jake On Apr 15, 12:21 pm, Guan Yang g...@yang.dk wrote: I tried again just a few seconds ago. I tested with both my applications, 1396

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API returning truncated XML responses

2009-04-15 Thread Chris Thomson
I'm having this issue as well. Here's the full response (including the headers returned): http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/14675/twittercom_statuses_followers.xml.txt -Chris Thomson http://twitter.com/chris24 On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Dossy, More details

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API returning truncated XML responses

2009-04-15 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 4/15/09 4:44 PM, Doug Williams wrote: More details would certainly help track down the problem. Headers, response bodies, etc.? Here's a network trace: GET /statuses/followers.xml?page=2 HTTP/1.0 Accept: */* Host: twitter.com User-Agent: Tcl http client package 2.5.5 Authorization: Basic

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API returning truncated XML responses

2009-04-15 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 4/15/09 5:08 PM, Chris Thomson wrote: I'm having this issue as well. Here's the full response (including the headers returned): http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/14675/twittercom_statuses_followers.xml.txt Phew! I thought I was the only one ... -- Dossy Shiobara |

[twitter-dev] Re: Geocoding posts

2009-04-15 Thread djMax
I was going to parse for them. The iPhone client for example, uses GMaps links for location. So I'd parse for those and my own custom tiny-url-for-latlng system. But doesn't help obviously unless I can see them in the first place. How do things like twitturly.com do it, statistical sampling?

[twitter-dev] OAuth for site login

2009-04-15 Thread djMax
I want to use OAuth via Twitter for login to our site. The first time I get the flow, user clicks allow. But is there a method that I use given the token and secret for the next time, so that if they're already logged in they see nothing but if they're not they have to login?

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API returning truncated XML responses

2009-04-15 Thread Doug Williams
Thanks for the report Dossy, et. al. I see your problem now with the supplied output. I'll the operations folks know about this. Not an API issue but something higher up the chain. Stay tuned... Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Dossy

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth for site login

2009-04-15 Thread Abraham Williams
* Feature (OAuth): Added provisional support for Sign in via Twitter for OAuth applications. An official annoucement will follow after full support is available. » More on this to come in subsequent mails. I need to get another piece in place first.

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth for site login

2009-04-15 Thread Doug Williams
Yes, we are working on something that will make what you are asking for, djMax, a working feature. I'm writing the documentation now. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: * Feature (OAuth):

[twitter-dev] double escape

2009-04-15 Thread voorwiel
Just in case the Twitter developers missed it: right now, 'dangerous' characters such as and are being printed as amp;amp; and amp;gt; in bio's on the web site. Doesn't look very nice. Cheers!

[twitter-dev] Re: double escape

2009-04-15 Thread Chad Etzel
It's probably collateral damage in whatever fix when in regarding the worms this weekend but yes, a bit distracting. -Chad On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM, voorwiel voorw...@gmail.com wrote: Just in case the Twitter developers missed it: right now, 'dangerous' characters such as and are

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API returning truncated XML responses

2009-04-15 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 4/15/09 5:46 PM, Doug Williams wrote: Thanks for the report Dossy, et. al. I see your problem now with the supplied output. I'll the operations folks know about this. Not an API issue but something higher up the chain. Stay tuned... Thanks! If your Ops folks need any data, feel free to

[twitter-dev] Re: double escape

2009-04-15 Thread Doug Williams
Chad speaks the truth. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: It's probably collateral damage in whatever fix when in regarding the worms this weekend but yes, a bit distracting. -Chad On Wed,

[twitter-dev] Re: Request for documentation review

2009-04-15 Thread dean.j.robinson
I've had a quick look, looks good so far, nicely organised, plenty of info etc. Will go through it more closely during my lunch break and let you know if I spot anything. top work. On Apr 15, 3:35 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Ahmed and Chad, I'm rolling in all of those

[twitter-dev] since_id too recent, poll less frequently

2009-04-15 Thread Doug Williams
Cameron, Chad, and the Tweetfall duo pinged me this afternoon to let me know there is a new error cropping up from the search API. The error text is since_id too recent, poll less frequently. I found out that is a permanent addition to our error checks from the maintainers of the search code (the

[twitter-dev] Re: since_id too recent, poll less frequently

2009-04-15 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Cameron, Chad, and the Tweetfall duo pinged me this afternoon to let me know there is a new error cropping up from the search API. The error text is since_id too recent, poll less frequently. What HTTP status code is

[twitter-dev] Re: easiest way to get a text file of tweets

2009-04-15 Thread Bill
Hi. Thanks again. I see: link type=application/atom+xml rel=next href=http:// search.twitter.com/search.atom? max_id=1529989226amp;page=2amp;q=japan/ but how do I change that and what do I change it to in the url: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=japan is there some part of the url

[twitter-dev] Search result pagination bugs

2009-04-15 Thread steve
I've been using the Search API in a project and its been working very reliably. So today I decided to add support for pagination so I could pull in more results and I think I've identified a couple of bugs with the pagination code. Bug 1) The first few results of Page 2 for a query are

[twitter-dev] Read and store Twitter responses

2009-04-15 Thread CWitt
I've looked through the discussion, what I do understand is that it is acceptable to store Twitter search results in my own database. What I am wondering is how to extract this information and actually store it in my database. My first thought process thinks to write some code that does a

[twitter-dev] protect updates via API?

2009-04-15 Thread Ivan
Hi, I have an idea I'd like to write about for the Tipjoy Twitter Payments API http://tipjoy.com/APIcontest/ I'm blogging ideas as I have time to write them down here: http://tipjoys2cents.blogspot.com/ The idea deals with protected updates. The service I have in mind would benefit from an API

[twitter-dev] Re: protect updates via API?

2009-04-15 Thread Ivan Kirigin
Also, is there a way to approve follow requests to a protected account via the REST API? Ivan On Apr 15, 9:42 pm, Ivan ivan.kiri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have an idea I'd like to write about for the Tipjoy Twitter Payments APIhttp://tipjoy.com/APIcontest/ I'm blogging ideas as I have

[twitter-dev] Re: since_id too recent, poll less frequently

2009-04-15 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Cameron, Chad, and the Tweetfall duo pinged me this afternoon to let me know there is a new error cropping up from the search API. The error text is since_id too recent, poll less frequently. What HTTP status code is associated with this error? Any hint for how long to wait before

[twitter-dev] Re: protect updates via API?

2009-04-15 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Also, is there a way to approve follow requests to a protected account via the REST API? http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=8 -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com *

[twitter-dev] Re: protect updates via API?

2009-04-15 Thread Abraham Williams
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 20:42, Ivan ivan.kiri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have an idea I'd like to write about for the Tipjoy Twitter Payments API http://tipjoy.com/APIcontest/ I'm blogging ideas as I have time to write them down here: http://tipjoys2cents.blogspot.com/ The idea deals

[twitter-dev] Fast140 Dodginess and OAuth Authorization Clarity

2009-04-15 Thread Rod Begbie
Hey folks. It's been noted that the fast140.com app, posts a tweet as the authorized user. In fairness, they do disclaim this on their homepage, although users tend not to notice and are surprised to find they've spammed their friends However, they are also adding the @fast140 account to the

[twitter-dev] Re: Fast140 Dodginess and OAuth Authorization Clarity

2009-04-15 Thread Cameron Kaiser
From a user expectatins perspective, I'd suggest that the Twitter OAuth dialog also add a bullet list of what access and update your data means (like Flickr does) to prevent further surprises. I'm not sure users appreciate that an authorised app can: * Post and delete tweets in your name

[twitter-dev] Re: Fast140 Dodginess and OAuth Authorization Clarity

2009-04-15 Thread Abraham Williams
My thoughts are not having a good enough notice is bad form and users will start gravitating away from apps with bad form and better competition comes out. But yes. I think it would be good for Twitter to make an official statement and include it somewhere that that sort of misdirection is

[twitter-dev] Re: Search result pagination bugs

2009-04-15 Thread Chad Etzel
It would be helpful if you could give some example output/results where you are seeing duplicates across pages. I have spent a long long time with the Search API and haven't ever had this problem (or maybe I have and never noticed it). -Chad On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:07 PM, steve

[twitter-dev] Re: easiest way to get a text file of tweets

2009-04-15 Thread Peter Denton
?php $page_num = 1; $txtString = ; while ($page_num = 2 ) { $host = http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=japanmax_id=1529989226rpp=100page=$page_num ; $result = file_get_contents($host); $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($result); foreach

[twitter-dev] Re: Search result pagination bugs

2009-04-15 Thread stevenic
Sure... It repros for me every time in IE using the steps I outlined above. Do a query for lang=enq=http. Open the next link in a new tab of your browser and compare the ID's. So I just did this from my home PC and here's the condensed output. Notice that on Page 2 not only do I get 3 dupes

[twitter-dev] How is lang tracked for queries?

2009-04-15 Thread steve
I have a search question... How is language tracked when issuing queries via the search API? More specifically... I noticed that when the rel=next link / is returned with a set of search results, it never includes the lang=foo param. Yet... When I follow the link in my browser I get the next

[twitter-dev] Re: Search result pagination bugs

2009-04-15 Thread stevenic
Ok... So I think I know what's going on. Well I don't know what's causing the bug obviously but I think I've narrowed down where it is... I just issued the Page 1 or previous query for the above example and the ID's don't match the ID's from the original query. There are extra rows that come

[twitter-dev] Re: How is lang tracked for queries?

2009-04-15 Thread Chad Etzel
The website uses a cookie to store your most recent language selection. If no lang=foo param is specified in the API query, it uses the cookie to decide. If you do specify lang=foo then it will override the cookie. You can use lang=all to include all languages. In my apps I always specify a