Umm, how do we discover new people?
@chad
You just wanted to link to my typo :)
@all:
This is not an API issue so the discussion is somewhat off topic here. This
option's fate was a Twitter.com product decision and was axed by the product
folks, not the API team. @ev has said that he hears the small but vocal
minority of users that
Yeah, lots of protest out there, just watch the 'Links to this post:'
below the Twitter blog post. There also is a hashtag to protest
against this decision: #fixreplies . It is already in the 'Trending
Topics' sidebar.
Let's see how this evolves...
Jack
On May 13, 7:19 am, Chad Etzel
I just tried posting from another server and it worked just fine!
*grrr*
So I guess that means there's something going on with my server and
the cURL install, maybe? Can someone try pointing me in the right
direction to see if I can get this corrected? (No sense in having a
development server if
Hi,
The recent @replies issue is a big problem for applications.
I think either the user needs to be given control, or API access needs
to be more flexible.
There are a multitude of apps that act like an echo of a set of users.
That is a really hard problem to solve if you aren't following the
Hi all,
Just a quick heads up. Our status id is fast approaching the
maximum unsigned integer value. Based on all of the feedback on
scaling I've received from this list I'm assuming everyone will be
fine. One thing to check is your table definitions … no amount of
interpreted language will
Make that *signed* integer. Writing too many emails at once, sorry.
On May 13, 7:38 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi all,
Just a quick heads up. Our status id is fast approaching the
maximum unsigned integer value. Based on all of the feedback on
scaling I've received from
I'm assuming this is just a friendly warning to developers... and that
the status IDs will continue to monotonically increase past (2^31 -
1), i.e. not rollover?
-Chad
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
Make that *signed* integer. Writing too many emails at
When you say integer what are you referring to? I'm _assuming_ 32-bit
integers, not 64-bit integers, because ILP-32 is so commonplace.
When you're about to breach the 2^64 in your ID space, please give us a
heads-up around 2^63 so we can upgrade our systems. :)
On 5/13/09 10:40 AM, Matt
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
Make that *signed* integer. Writing too many emails at once, sorry.
That would be the MySQL (and any 32-bit OS) maximum signed integer, or
2,147,483,647,
I'm assuming. So if we're using an unsigned INT in our tables, we're
Hi Nick,
As mentioned to Dossy (probably still wending its way thought
Google Groups) I did mean 32-bit signed integers. Unsigned ints in
MySQL will be fine but the rails default is int(10) if I recall which
would be a problem. As mentioned to Chad (Google Groups seems to be
slow
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
When we breach 2^64 I'm not telling anyone … it seems to
create more work for me when I send out friendly warnings :)
Well, if you *did* send out a warning at 2^64, it would mean either:
a) you have found the fountain of
Have you not heard, we're tweeting from space these days. Birth rate
changes are now considered optional.
No Humans Required™
— Matt
On May 13, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Andrew Badera wrote:
or e) Twitter becomes even more massively popular while the world also
undergoes a birth rate
So does this mean soon we will soon be able to use source=space and have it
look like we built our own rocket?
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 23:50, Arik Fraimovich arik...@gmail.com wrote:
You guys rock ! :)
On May 13, 2:10 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:
Wait, no really...
I have
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ can be reached in office,where IE PROXY
is needed .but it cann't be reached at home(direct internet
coonnection),where i cann't use the proxy.Is there any access
restriction to access the API site .
PS: the http://twitter.com/ can be reached both office and home
On May 12, 10:40 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi there,
The parameters should be required for the OAuth signature. Can
you please provide the request and response headers for an example?
Hi Matt,
Forget about that nonsense, the fault was on my side. Now works as
Has anyone noticed that the Oauth Sign in for users is again constantly
asking to allow / deny even though the account has already granted access?
I know this was the case before, but then it started detecting. And now
it's back to this. Anyone else experiencing this?
Jason.
Hi all,
I had come here few days back also. now again after preparing my
design. I want to write twitter application which will contain my own
feature also, for MOBILE. for the time being, just forget which mobile
I am going to use. Instead of J2ME, I will use similar framework.
From here only I
Hi,
I'm using Sign in with twitter functionality - since account/
verify_credentials request is rate limited, how can I otherwise get
info about authenticated user?
How exactly requests are limited? I.e. I got 100 users logged in in my
web app and they all display page with their
Consider this status:
http://twitter.com/primerano/status/1784283306
The JSON for this, as found at http://twitter.com/statuses/show/1784283306.json,
is below (prettified by JSONLint - which, by the way, calls it valid).
Both Crack and ActiveSupport::JSON refuse to parse it, returning the
error
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:38 AM, bnagykek...@gmail.com
bnagykek...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Let me give an other point of view. By definition an XML must contain
one and only one root document.
...Only from the point of view of the parser. If the parser is reset
upon each new status, then it
I'm trying the delimited parameter but I don't see any difference in the
feed. I find it's description in the docs a little confusing:
Indicates that statuses should be delimited in the stream. Statuses are
represented by a length, in bytes, a newline, and the status text that is
exactly length
Hi Bill,
My first guess would be the URL fields. We escape the / in the
URL which is optional [1]. I don't know either of the libraries
showing the problem very well but you might want to try without the
URL fields and see if that works to confirm.
Thanks;
– Matt Sanford /
Hi there,
There was a fix yesterday that fixed an error where the previous
logged in users information was being returned when using force_login.
When verifying that fix in production we came across the same issue
you're reporting and a fix is waiting to go out. I've also managed to
The delimited=length option causes the length, in bytes, of the next
status to be placed in the stream. You should see:
...
/status
1704
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
status
...
Whereas, without the parameter, you see:
...
/status
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
status
...
The length
Ok, so delimited=length does work. The docs say the value for delimited
must be a number, which is why I was confused.
Ianiv Schweber
ia...@blogaholics.ca
Skype: ianivs
Public Key: http://www.blogaholics.ca/ianivpubkey.asc
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:31 AM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com
Another benefit for large-scale feeds: You can get some parallelism
fairly easily. You can pipeline your parsing step by having one thread
read fully-formed statuses and pass the markup parsing and subsequent
processing off to a thread pool. This may not seem line an issue yet,
but the /firehose
The hits are charged to the user's account if you authenticate. If you don't
provide
authentication credentials then the hits are charged to your IP address.
You are limited to 100 requests per a hour. This limit applies to all API
endpoints that are rate limited.
So calling a search every 15s
Correction:
Search API uses a higher limit then the other endpoints. It is not
documented in the API, so I'm not sure what the limit would be.
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.comwrote:
The hits are charged to the
I'm building a little sidebar on a website with a twitter RSS feed,
and I'd love to be able to use the user icons with it. I do not see
this included in the feed, nor do they appear to have consistent URLs.
Is there anyway to do this?
I only found one post on the matter from two years ago in
I'm waiting on a JS expert I know to get back to his desk to tell me
whether {a:b\\} is valid JSON or not (as before, JSONLint says it
is).
I read it as valid (i.e., DOUBLEQUOTE b BACKSLASH DOUBLEQUOTE).
--
personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
I see that the product manager/APIs position is still on your site... does
that mean the position is still open? Does teasing the API team help as a
qualification?
It may get you an interview, but only so they can surreptitiously get a
photo and send it to the nice Italian men with the
Yeah, JSONLint calls it valid, and every JS person I've talked to says
it should be valid - so it seems there's a bug in ActiveSupport.
In any case, this isn't Twitter's problem. Thanks...
On May 13, 1:42 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote:
I'm waiting on a JS expert I know to
John,
this looks pretty interesting!
Two questions:
1) you are requiring to send a username and password for Basic Auth - how
does that map to apps / services using OAuth, as they won't have access to a
user's passwords? (and related, how does this fit into your general roadmap
to move
One more silly question.. I still wonder how to find
friends_timeline (xml/json).
http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml
I mean, http://twitter.com/statuses/ after this URL.. how I will know
that which name (with .xml or .json) I am suppose to write?? from
where I will get those lists
Quick update …
While looking at the code that reminded me of this error I see it
had some bugs of its own. We seem to have a matter of weeks rather
than days before this change. Mobile developers and other who deride
our lack of early notice take heed … now is the time to go unsigned.
On May 13, 2009, at 2:50 AM, voorwiel wrote:
Yeah, lots of protest out there, just watch the 'Links to this post:'
below the Twitter blog post. There also is a hashtag to protest
against this decision: #fixreplies . It is already in the 'Trending
Topics' sidebar.
Let's see how this evolves...
I don't think anything has changed. You can take a look at SPIURL -
http://code.google.com/p/spiurl/
On May 13, 10:35 am, 51productions chrisgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm building a little sidebar on a website with a twitter RSS feed,
and I'd love to be able to use the user icons with it. I do
As I mentioned on Twitter: only 3% of users had opted to see replies to
users they weren't following. Given that this setting was putting the hurt
on our servers, we decided to remove it in the interest of a faster, more
reliable Twitter experience for the vast majority of users. We have,
however,
I have a couple of Amazon Cloud instances that haven't been able to
contact twitter.com after Twitter came back up this afternoon from the
database maintenance. I can reach it fine through other machines not
on the Amazon cloud. Anyone else having this trouble?
Just a simple telnet
The main API does support HTTPS.
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 16:50, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll attempt to answer these questions, but I can only do so with some
speculation and humble ignorance.
1) OAuth allows clients to authenticate with the Twitter REST API via
third-party
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:50 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote:
2) There are no immediate plans to support HTTPS, mainly because we're
not really trying to keep the data private. Also, and I am probably
totally wrong here, I don't think we use HTTPS on the main WWW site or
on the REST
I'll attempt to answer these questions, but I can only do so with some
speculation and humble ignorance.
1) OAuth allows clients to authenticate with the Twitter REST API via
third-party services. These services should not also need to interact
with the Streaming API on a per client basis.
This might help you get started: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Getting-Started
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 13:08, Omkaaraa badshaah.k...@gmail.com wrote:
One more silly question.. I still wonder how to find
friends_timeline (xml/json).
http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml
I mean,
from @biz and his post :
First, we're making a change such that any updates beginning with
@username (that are not explicitly created by clicking on the reply
icon) will be seen by everyone following that account.
for us folks that fiddle with the API. Can we read this as Tweets that
start with
Evidently Jumped the gun is the answer. It was about 20 minutes
after other machines were able to get to Twitter that the Amazon
instances were getting a response from Twitter.
On May 13, 2:30 pm, RC bioscienceupda...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a couple of Amazon Cloud instances that haven't been
I'm also curious about this phenomenon. It does seem that certain
high-profile users are indexed poorly in search. It doesn't seem to
correlate exactly with follower numbers but I've not done much in the way of
empirical analysis on that.
It's causing me some trouble on tweetreach.com as I often
Let me be the first to say THANK YOU for this advance notice. I found
and fixed some bugs in our iPhone client today because of it — and I'm
very happy to hear that we have some time to get the code approved in
the App Store.
We love to complain when the process goes awry, but it's also
Non-confirmed @replies will still be seen by all. Confirmed @replies, or
those with in_reply_to_status_id set, will only be seen by mutual followers.
Thanks,
Doug
--
Doug Williams
Twitter Platform Support
http://twitter.com/dougw
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Steve Brunton
Hi, thanks to twitter's api and the api team, the data feed for data
mining is just wonderful. I have put together a real time system that
takes in the feed and does some NLP analysis on tweets using open
tools like Open Calais and openNLP. The results are freely available
on
i just found out some high-volume users aren't indexed at all. for example:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+from%3Athe_real_shaq
and it's not just the from: operators that's broken. if I search for some
text from one of his most recent tweets, nothing from him shows up.
for this tweet:
Hi Brendan,
found out how? references? or merely observed per the link? It's
curious because it might be throwing off my calculated 'coolness
vector' - I noticed the coolness vector of a tweet containing a celebs
name seemed lower than anticipiated - however it wasn't the point of
the
i wanted to get all of shaq's tweets with the search api and i couldn't :)
going through random ones on twitterholic ..
from:aplusk barely works
from:scobleizer works
from:adventuregirl works
from:timoreilly works
haven't tried the standard API for these.
bleah
Brendan
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at
Riddle me this, what happens in this scenario:
I'm following user A and user B
1. User A sends an @reply to user B.
2. User B changes his name.
3. Tweet is going to user B's old name.
Will I see the tweet?
Zac Bowling
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi all. My app, once it gets going, is mainly going to post status
updates as mentions to followers. For instance, the app, called
DummyOauthApp will post a statuses/update like '@tayknight blah blah
blah'.
So, i don't need my app to authenticate itself to oauth as tayknight,
but as itself
This change is not owned by the API team. If you test this, please report
back.
Thanks,
Doug
--
Doug Williams
Twitter Platform Support
http://twitter.com/dougw
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote:
Riddle me this, what happens in this scenario:
I'm
Updates have to come from a twitter account. Your app can not post updates
by itself. You will either have to use the OAuth flow for what ever account
you use or you could use basic auth.
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 21:50, tayknight taykni...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all. My app, once it gets going, is
I haven't gotten any tweets in over an hour, and search is frozen, too.
Individual profile pages show new tweets, and public timeline seems to have
them, too.
Am I the only one seeing this?
-- ivey
I haven't gotten any tweets in over an hour, and search is frozen, too.
Individual profile pages show new tweets, and public timeline seems to have
them, too.
Am I the only one seeing this?
No, I'm noticing it's stuck also. DMs are coming through however.
--
Guys,
I don't see any notice on the status blog or other official channels so I
figured I might as well say something. None of my account timelines have
updated in more than 45 minutes and all search queries I'm looking at are
that old as well.
Hayes
is apiwiki.twitter.com just a workplace for twitter.com api hosted
by pbworks?
so it's the problem with pbwork.com,not with twitter.com?
On May 13, 6:50 pm, Coonay fla...@gmail.com wrote:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQcan be reached in office,where IE PROXY
is needed .but it cann't be
use https://proxytea.appspot.com/ to access it if you have the problem
also
On May 13, 6:50 pm, Coonay fla...@gmail.com wrote:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQcan be reached in office,where IE PROXY
is needed .but it cann't be reached at home(direct internet
coonnection),where i cann't use the
I meant to add, I want to use oauth for this so I get the 'via
DummyOauthApp' line in the tweet.
On May 13, 9:50 pm, tayknight taykni...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all. My app, once it gets going, is mainly going to post status
updates as mentions to followers. For instance, the app, called
Ops guys are on it, fixing a problem with back end machines. Thanks for the
report.
Thanks,
Doug
--
Doug Williams
Twitter Platform Support
http://twitter.com/dougw
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Hayes Davis ha...@appozite.com wrote:
Guys,
I don't see any notice on the status blog or
Confirming the same issue. I've been observing this for the last 24
hours or so.
On May 13, 9:18 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:
Ops guys are on it, fixing a problem with back end machines. Thanks for the
report.
Thanks,
Doug
--
Doug Williams
Twitter Platform
Repairs are finished. Things should be on their way back to normal once the
queues empty.
Thanks,
Doug
--
Sent from my mobile device.
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:
Looks like there are some problems on the back end right now. Ops guys are
on it.
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