[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

2009-05-28 Thread Christian Heilmann
Brendan O'Connor wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Nancy M nmira...@gmail.com mailto:nmira...@gmail.com wrote: I do like the maps, but 50% error -- you would not possibly get on an airplane with that kind of error rate, would you? And I don't think I'd want to make

[twitter-dev] Twitter4J 2.0.6 released

2009-05-28 Thread Yusuke Yamamoto
Hi all, Twitter4J 2.0.6 is available for download. http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/index.html#download It is(or will be) available at the Maven central repository. http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/net/homeip/yusuke/twitter4j/ Snapshot builds can be found at:

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets

2009-05-28 Thread Bjoern
Reading this discussion reminded me of the flickr API. Might be another good way to find geo locations? Perhaps using it in combination with Placemaker could help reduce the error rate. I think with flickr you can only search for specific words, but on the other hand you can find locations for

[twitter-dev] Changing callback url

2009-05-28 Thread Avi
I am working on oauth twitter login for my application. I was getting few bugs so I shifted my development work on my test server. Now I was trying to change callback url in my application settings and was getting error - his page is no longer valid. It looks like someone already used the

[twitter-dev] Re: Changing callback url

2009-05-28 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, That error comes up if you try to make a request to /oauth/ authorize with a request token that has already been used. Are you calling /oauth/request_token before this to get a new request token? Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On May 28, 2009, at 6:28

[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?

2009-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
hmm... Chrome sometimes shows the xml but mostly just a 404 error -- the latter is confusing as to what's going on... Anyway, why are there so many? Admittedly I'm plowing through hundreds of thousands of users, but it *seems* like a lot of them are 'suspended'... What is the lifetime of a

[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?

2009-05-28 Thread Doug Williams
It will remain permanently unless it is reinstated. There are so many because people want to make money the easy way -- through spam. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?

2009-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I seem to be picking these up from the social graph... are they ever elided from there?

[twitter-dev] Re: WWDC Twitter developer meetup at Twitter HQ: RSVP!

2009-05-28 Thread feesta
I'd like to join. Wednesday at 5pm sounds good. -Jeff On May 26, 2:29 pm, twittelator and...@stone.com wrote: I'd like to throw out: Wednesday June 10th at 5 PM at Twitter HQ because: 1. classes are over by then 2. monday folks are too buzzed 3. tuesday is usually awards and pizza 4.

[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?

2009-05-28 Thread Doug Williams
No, we do not remove suspended users from your following or followers lists. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to be picking these up from the social

[twitter-dev] Possible to retrieve registration date?

2009-05-28 Thread lwbotha
Hey, I am a researcher interested in the growth of Twitter and as such would very much like to: 1. Be able to obtain the date at which a user joined the network. Is this information available through the API (I couldn't find it in the python-twitter documentation).? 2. Obtain the friend list

[twitter-dev] Re: WWDC Twitter developer meetup at Twitter HQ: RSVP!

2009-05-28 Thread Pablo Lopez
Count me in too!! On May 21, 5:18 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, There's great crossover between Twitter API developers and Mac/iPhone developers. Andrew Stone, developer of Twittelator Pro, suggested that we all get together during WWDC and coordinate around the Apple Push

[twitter-dev] Re: Possible to retrieve registration date?

2009-05-28 Thread Abraham Williams
2009/5/28 lwbotha lwbo...@gmail.com Hey, I am a researcher interested in the growth of Twitter and as such would very much like to: 1. Be able to obtain the date at which a user joined the network. Is this information available through the API (I couldn't find it in the python-twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property

2009-05-28 Thread MPS
Sure, someone could develop a service for classifying twitter accounts, but that's less than ideal for a number of reasons: - introduces yet another 3rd party service that developers have to deal with - multiple account classification systems would result in less meaningful data - Twitter is the

[twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property

2009-05-28 Thread Abraham Williams
http://wefollow.com/ is an example of mass numbers of twitter users classifying themselves. Yes the data is not as deep as if twitter itself provided the classification but it helps keept twitter.com clean and simple. I don't think this adds as much value you think it will but I could be proven

[twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property

2009-05-28 Thread Doug Williams
Well thought out and logical Peter. This is exactly how we think about it internally. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.comwrote: I agree with the fact that it would be a good

[twitter-dev] OAuth Desktop Application Changes - Incompatibility Alert

2009-05-28 Thread Matt Sanford
Hello, One of the things we've been saying about OAuth all along is that we'll be improving the desktop application experience. Well, the time is here for the first re-visit. As part of out changes for OAuth version 1.0a [1] I have been looking at how this is going to work and there

[twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property

2009-05-28 Thread Michael Pelz-Sherman
I really like the idea of companies paying a premium to use Twitter for advertising. :-) What would motivate corporations to do that though, since they can do it for free today? Seems to me that one way or another, you end up having to somehow create a distinction between personal and

[twitter-dev] Re: geocode doesnt include non-geocoded locations? (web)

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Latko
You could use Yahoo GeoPlanet to try to make sense of some of that garbage: http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/ They have over 8 million place names in their woeID DB. I'm against forcing users to set a proper location. For example, I spend half my time in Tokyo and don't want

[twitter-dev] Re: WWDC Twitter developer meetup at Twitter HQ: RSVP!

2009-05-28 Thread Damon Clinkscales
Hey Alex/Matt/Doug when you think this can be decided? Can Wed. at 5pm work for the meetup? Thanks, -damon On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Pablo Lopez pablitolo...@gmail.com wrote: Count me in too!! On May 21, 5:18 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, There's great crossover

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Desktop Application Changes - Incompatibility Alert

2009-05-28 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com writes: 2. If your application is registered as a desktop application there will be a PIN the user must enter in your application Details: In the current code desktop applications end in a dead- end page. This new flow will give the user a PIN that they

[twitter-dev] Re: WWDC Twitter developer meetup at Twitter HQ: RSVP!

2009-05-28 Thread Alex Payne
Yup! Wednesday, 5pm. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 16:08, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: Hey Alex/Matt/Doug when you think this can be decided?  Can Wed. at 5pm work for the meetup? Thanks, -damon On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Pablo Lopez pablitolo...@gmail.com wrote: Count me

[twitter-dev] Re: search.rss

2009-05-28 Thread davidzimm
I am migrating my app from rss to atom and realized something- a problem I thought was limited to rss occurs with atom as well. Here's the problem: sometimes, even within a matter of minutes, a feed loses the latest item and then gets it back. This is supremely annoying. I thought switching to

[twitter-dev] APIs to receive and send SMS messages to users?

2009-05-28 Thread kiran
I'm building an interactive SMS app and looking for simple HTTP APIs to send messages to and receive messages from users. - Does twitter support such APIs to interact with twitter users (i didn't find any documentation on these)? - If not, where can i find free APIs that don't charge per

[twitter-dev] Authentication problem

2009-05-28 Thread yuva
Hi friends.. I am developing twitter Desktop Application based on QT asoftware... I am using open source twitter library(twitLib) ,which is avaiable in google code...http://code.google.com/p/twitlib/ I am sending the username and password to twitter server if i get status value 200 means

[twitter-dev] Re: APIs to receive and send SMS messages to users?

2009-05-28 Thread Abraham Williams
Twitter does not provide direct SMS interaction with users. You could use direct messages but the user may not have SMS notifications turned on. If you check out Wikipedia they have a list of gateways for email to SMS. For example you send an email to phonenumber@sms.att.net (not actually ATT's

[twitter-dev] Re: Authentication problem

2009-05-28 Thread Abraham Williams
2009/5/28 yuva yuvaraj...@gmail.com when i try to get the server status value ,it is giving 6 digit value..like 243592... Can you explain what you mean by this? Also it sounds like you would be better off asking the maintainer of twitlib for help as it is probably an issue specific to that