[twitter-dev] SSL and pulling profile images causing Partially Encrypted Error

2009-06-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
This is a common problem. My app is secured with an SSL certificate. But if I use the twitter API to display user profile image, it causes SSL to display exclamation point and error Connection Partially Encrypted. This sucks. But the amazon url that user profile images come from can also

[twitter-dev] Re: SSL and pulling profile images causing Partially Encrypted Error

2009-06-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
I went with a function to explode the aws image url to detect if it was http or https and reconstruct url to use https if needed. profile image still shows up and my SSL lock is clean and no error messages when viewing certificate. small detail but might be useful to someone. On Wed, Jun 24,

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Example in Mac OS X

2009-06-24 Thread Abraham Williams
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 01:11, Supportsupp...@yourhead.com wrote: Having users enter username and password in your application mostly defeats the purpose of OAuth. Some say it does not matter since you should only install trusted apps on your computer but that is a discussion that has been

[twitter-dev] My updates not apearing in the search of trend topics

2009-06-24 Thread Profulla K Sadangi
Hi, I am currently using Twitter4J API to post some status message to Twitter. Initially I could able to see my message in the search topic pannel. But since 2 day I am experiencing some isue. Even though I am posting message I am not able to see in the Search list (for ex I click iPhone trend).

[twitter-dev] Help styling twitter in message link URLs as icons instead of text

2009-06-24 Thread jefbak
I am trying to figure out what css/script would be required to take a link posted in a tweet and style it so that it shows as an icon instead. This way we can display our twitter stream on a web page with nice graphics instead of text URLs showing up in tweets that have links. Has anybody tried

[twitter-dev] Re: tool to let you know when twitter name is available

2009-06-24 Thread sull
nice. i've used http://www.changedetect.com for this in the past. will give your service a try. On Jun 24, 2:22 am, drew pushespr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I wrote a quick tool to email you when the Twitter name you want is available:http://www.tweettaker.com/ It seems Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

2009-06-24 Thread feesta
Hi all, I'm fairly new to app development and am working with Google Appengine at the moment. My app (http://www.twitwheel.com/) makes two calls to the search API for each page view. I've just added the user agent to my urlfetch calls. Do I still need to worry about the 100/hour rate limit? I've

[twitter-dev] Re: What causes suspension?

2009-06-24 Thread capt.taco
As someone who is currently suspended (@capttaco) and has been suspended for over a month, let me add some of own experience to the conversation. First, I'm not a spammer, nor have I promoted anything offensive or disingenuous. I've a software developer, that started using Twitter three years

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API since_id doesn't work with filter:links

2009-06-24 Thread Chad Etzel
Hmm, yes. I am seeing the same thing with the geocode: and source: modifiers. Is this a bug? -Chad On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Mojosaurusish...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My script polls Twitter APIs once every 15 seconds with a query like

[twitter-dev] Re: tool to let you know when twitter name is available

2009-06-24 Thread Alex Payne
Please keep in mind that we keep deleted accounts around for a while, in case users want to restore their accounts. @yourfavoriteusername might appear to be available (that is, you get a 404 when you visit it), but that doesn't mean you'll be able to sign up with it until we've given the original

[twitter-dev] Re: What causes suspension?

2009-06-24 Thread Craig Hockenberry
Thanks for the clarification, Doug. I can totally understand the trending topic abuse: I looked a trend the other day and was really surprised at the amount of crap that came up in the search. I think it's pretty important to enumerate the triggers used for suspension. It doesn't need to be the

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API since_id doesn't work with filter:links

2009-06-24 Thread Joel Strellner
We are seeing this as well. On Jun 24, 4:57 am, Mojosaurus ish...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My script polls Twitter APIs once every 15 seconds with a query likehttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=video%20filter:linksrpp=100;... Starting 2009-06-23, this API returns http 403, with the

[twitter-dev] Re: tool to let you know when twitter name is available

2009-06-24 Thread Doug Williams
No, we do not delete the ID in the system. We will release the screen_name after a 9 month grace period (to allow the user to reclaim the screen_name) before recycling it to the public. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:13 AM, TechRavingMad techraving...@gmail.comwrote: When you do

[twitter-dev] Now since_id is too recent

2009-06-24 Thread Chad Etzel
Now I'm getting this error for several searches... I remember this popping up in the past: {error:since_id too recent, poll less frequently} ...the problem seems to be subsiding now, though. weird. -Chad

[twitter-dev] Re: Favoriting broken

2009-06-24 Thread Craig Hockenberry
The issue appears to affect the website, as well. When you click on the star, it changes color, but doesn't show up in your favorites list. -ch On Jun 24, 11:25 am, Craig Hockenberry craig.hockenbe...@gmail.com wrote: FYI: We've been getting reports of favoriting not working in our app.

[twitter-dev] Re: Favoriting broken

2009-06-24 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Craig, Adding and removing favorites being delayed is a known issue we're working on. Take a look at yesterday's post to http://status.twitter.com/ [1] for other things that might be affected. Keep an eye on status.twitter.com for updates. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford

[twitter-dev] Re: Favoriting broken

2009-06-24 Thread Craig Hockenberry
Ah, I hadn't seen the update to the original follower/following post. Thanks for the update! -ch On Jun 24, 12:06 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Craig,      Adding and removing favorites being delayed is a known issue   we're working on. Take a look at yesterday's post

[twitter-dev] Re: tool to let you know when twitter name is available

2009-06-24 Thread Doug Williams
Idle and deleted are the same in our process. So nine months of inactivity (deletion, suspension, or date of last login/tweet) is required before we release a screen name. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, sull sullele...@gmail.com wrote: 9 months? wow. What about reported

[twitter-dev] Re: Now since_id is too recent

2009-06-24 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Now I'm getting this error for several searches... I remember this popping up in the past: {error:since_id too recent, poll less frequently} ...the problem seems to be subsiding now, though. weird. I think this was due to search servers being out of sync/not being up to date. --

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API since_id doesn't work with filter:links

2009-06-24 Thread Cameron Kaiser
My script polls Twitter APIs once every 15 seconds with a query likehttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=video%20filter:linksrpp=100;... Starting 2009-06-23, this API returns http 403, with the following error message. hash errorsince date or since_id is too old/error /hash

[twitter-dev] Re: getting error 400 during creting follow request

2009-06-24 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi, What is the body of the response you get back? Many times the error message is informative and will let us know where to start looking for possible bugs. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On Jun 24, 2009, at 10:57 AM, ankit1234 wrote: hi, i have been

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API since_id doesn't work with filter:links

2009-06-24 Thread Chad Etzel
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Cameron Kaiserspec...@floodgap.com wrote: I believe this error occurs when the search result would generate more than one page of results and a since argument (since or since_id) is given. Certainly something like that is bound to at some point, even at 100

[twitter-dev] Friend Selector

2009-06-24 Thread Kyle Mulka
I'm wondering if anyone has built a facebook-like friend selector that would work for Twitter friends. My app could benefit from something like this where you could start typing in people's names or usernames and it would do a google suggest style dropdown to select friends. There would also be a

[twitter-dev] Releasing a dormat screenname

2009-06-24 Thread kprobe
Doug has been just talking about spammers related to acct suspensions and just gave the rules for releasing a screen name. Who do we contact @twitter to get a dormant screen name released? Mark

[twitter-dev] Share button on website

2009-06-24 Thread Kristin Gentry
What is the code/javascript to place a Share button on your website or blog? I can't find it anywhere! Thanks!

[twitter-dev] Friendships.create returns successful but does not work

2009-06-24 Thread NW
I'm trying to setup a script to follow a specified user. When I run it it returns the user's information as described in the documentation as a successful result. However, when I go to look at the user account, it's not following anyone. This is the code I'm using in php: $ch = curl_init(

[twitter-dev] Caching strategies

2009-06-24 Thread Bill Kocik
My app will have multiple users logged in accessing their Twitter accounts simultaneously. I'm using Hayes Davis' Grackle gem (http:// github.com/hayesdavis/grackle/tree/master) because I like that it's very thin wrapper atop the API - really more a set of convenience methods. I typically call

[twitter-dev] Re: Releasing a dormat screenname

2009-06-24 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Mark, Email usern...@twitter.com (literally 'username', not the name you want). It usually takes some time since, as you can imagine, it's a lower priority than spam and other issues. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On Jun 24, 2009, at 1:54 PM, kprobe wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Friendships.create returns successful but does not work

2009-06-24 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, This is a known issue and we're working on it. Check out the issues list at http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list … or more specifically issue 749 [1] which will point you over to status.twitter.com. We'll update status.twitter.com as more information becomes

[twitter-dev] Re: Friendships.create returns successful but does not work

2009-06-24 Thread NW
Ah, of course timing is everything. Would note that the request just came through (a few hours late). So it appears to be working still, just slow. Thanks!

[twitter-dev] Re: Clarification on how @ messages and PM's are handled - PLEASE HELP

2009-06-24 Thread Joel Strellner
Hi Nicholas, I don't work for twitter, but I believe that they associate ID's to messages (tweets or DMs), and then associate the ID to each of the users that it needs to go to. The message is only stored once, unlike email which is copied to each user. If a user deletes their message, all the

[twitter-dev] Re: Friend Selector

2009-06-24 Thread Steve Brunton
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Kyle Mulka kyle.mu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering if anyone has built a facebook-like friend selector that would work for Twitter friends. My app could benefit from something like this where you could start typing in people's names or usernames and it

[twitter-dev] Re: Delay after deleting friendship

2009-06-24 Thread Doug Williams
It is subject to the same delays. The social graph changes are put into a queue for write which is running behind and causing the inconsistencies. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: Doug, Is friendships/exists currently accurate? Or is

[twitter-dev] Re: Clarification on how @ messages and PM's are handled - PLEASE HELP

2009-06-24 Thread Abraham Williams
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 16:12, Nicholas Snst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I would very much appreciate the groups help on this. I work for a local city government in Florida and we are trying to look into using Twitter to help make government more transparent and engaged with our

[twitter-dev] OAuth signature generation Help (Failed to validate oauth signature and token)

2009-06-24 Thread goodtest
I am newbie. I am trying to follow the instructions on the oauth page on how to generate signature, but I must be doing something wrong, I keep getting Failed to validate oauth signature and token Here is how the base string looks before normalizing: GEThttp://twitter.com/oauth/

[twitter-dev] Re: Share button on website

2009-06-24 Thread Chris McIntosh
hey mate, check out drupal and Service Links, may find something useful there. THanks, Chris - Original Message - From: Kristin Gentry kristingen...@gmail.com To: Twitter Development Talk twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:52 PM Subject:

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth signature generation Help (Failed to validate oauth signature and token)

2009-06-24 Thread JDG
Your signature base string (the second thing you posted) looks correct (though you don't need the oauth_token part, it may be causing a problem). The third part, however ... Something's very not right there. If you're doing this as a GET request with a browser, you shouldn't be normalizing the